Mr.Trent, having written something on the paper, asked us all who were present, even the clerk and the shorthand man, to look at the memorandum on the letter and what was written on the envelope, and to sign the paper, which ran: "We the signatories of this paper hereby declare that we have seen the sealed letter marked B and enclosed in the Will of Roger Melton opened in the presence of us all including Mr.Edward Bingham Trent and Sir Colin Alexander MacKelpie and we declare that the paper therein contained was headed 'B.

To be read as clause ten of my Will' and that there were no other contents in the envelope.

In attestation of which we in the presence of each other append our signatures." The attorney motioned to my father to begin.

Father is a cautious man, and he asked for a magnifying-glass, which was shortly brought to him by a clerk for whom the clerk in the room called.

Father examined the envelope all over very carefully, and also the memorandum at top of the paper.