He hesitated a moment, and then thrust the useless document into its enclosure and cast it aside.
"Is anything wrong ?" asked the girl in a low whisper, which was yet distinctly heard by all.
Mr.Watson seemed amazed.

Jane Merrick's deceitful trickery, discovered so soon after her death, was almost horrible for him to contemplate.

He had borne much from this erratic woman, but had never believed her capable of such an act.
So he said, in irritable tones: "Miss Merrick gave me this document a few days ago, leading me to believe it was her last will.

I had prepared it under her instruction and understood that it was properly signed.

But she has herself torn off and destroyed the signature and marked the paper 'void,' so that the will previously made is the only one that is valid." "What do you mean ?" cried Patsy, in amazement.