The fortune was to be theirs
conjointly and indivisibly, and should one of them die, to devolve
to the survivor, who in his turn was to make such arrangements as he
thought best to insure its being applied, after his death, in
accordance with the testator's views. He expressed the hope that his
two heirs would use the income derived from the property in
alleviating the misery inseparable from human existence, of which
throughout life they must be witnesses. Dorfling's only near
relative was herself very wealthy and generous-minded, and did not
dispute the will, it was accordingly proved.
Wilhelm declared from the first that he understood nothing of the
management of a fortune, of business papers, and so forth, and
wanted to hand over the administration of the whole to Schrotter.
Schrotter, however, would not hear of it, and after vying with one
another in generous self-disparagement and mutual confidence, they
finally agreed that Schrotter, being a practical man, and conversant
with the ways of business and the world, should take the management
of the fortune upon himself, but that Wilhelm should receive a
monthly sum of fifteen hundred marks out of the income to apply as
he thought best to the relief of the needy.
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