"My father has fallen in a faint," said the young master; "help me to get him up to his room before Dr.Mulligan comes." "'Mr.Percival looked very white and upset, which was only natural; and when we had got my poor master to bed, I asked if I should not go and break the news to Mr.Murray, who had gone to business an hour ago.
However, before Mr.Percival had time to give me an order the doctor came.

I thought I had seen death plainly writ in my master's face, and when I showed the doctor out an hour later, and he told me that he would be back directly, I knew that the end was near.
"'Mr.Brooks rang for me a minute or two later.

He told me to send at once for Mr.Wethered, or else for Mr.Hibbert, if Mr.Wethered could not come.

"I haven't many hours to live, John," he says to me--"my heart is broke, the doctor says my heart is broke.

A man shouldn't marry and have children, John, for they will sooner or later break his heart." I was so upset I couldn't speak; but I sent round at once for Mr.
Wethered, who came himself just about three o'clock that afternoon.
"'After he had been with my master about an hour I was called in, and Mr.Wethered said to me that Mr.Brooks wished me and one other of us servants to witness that he had signed a paper which was on a table by his bedside.