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or charities as the trustees shall select Signed by hteen hundred and--, GEORGE VIBRART Duly

witnessed by ADAM PENFLEET, MARTHA TRENT"' Here Mr Grainger's voice stopped, and I remember, in the silence

that followed, the parchment crackled very loudly as he folded it

precisely and laid it on the table before hi vehemently under his breath as he

paced to and fro between me and the

"And that is all?" I inquired at last

"That," said Mr Grainger, not looking at me now, "is all"

"The Lady Sophia," murmured Sir Richard as if to "hi suddenly beforehis hand down upon my shoulder,

"oh, Peter, that settles it; you're done for, boy--a crueller

as never e!" said I to myself "Hu up and

down the rooain

"The Lady Sophia Sefton of Ca my chin

"Why, that's just it," roared the baronet; "she's a reigning

toast--most famous beauty in the country, London's entleood-by' to all your hopes of the inheritance,

Peter, and that's the devil of it"