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He sive hi else?" I asked "No

substitute,-no codicil?"

"If you know of anything of the kind it's your duty

to produce it We have exhausted the possibilities I'll

adrandfather was a peculiar hly sane and his faculties were all sound

to the last"

"He treated me a lot better than I deserved," I said,

with a heartache that I had not known often in my

irresponsible life; but I could not afford to show feeling

before Arthur Pickering

I picked up the copy of the will and examined it

It was undoubtedly authentic; it bore the certificate of

the clerk of Wabana County, Indiana The witnesses

were Tho

"Who is Bates?" I asked, pointing to the randfather's discoveries He's in

charge of the house out there, and a trustworthy fellow

He's a fair cook, aot Bates, but he had every confidence

in hirandfather dying, alone with a

servant, while I, his only kinse