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The Old Man in the Corner

CHAPTER XXII
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I called Pat Mooney, the head footman, and before us both Mr.Brooks put his name at the bottom of that paper.

Then Mr.Wethered give me the pen and told me to write my name as a witness, and that Pat Mooney was to do the same.

After that we were both told that we could go.' "The old butler went on to explain that he was present in his late master's room on the following day when the undertakers, who had come to lay the dead man out, found a paper underneath his pillow.

John O'Neill, who recognized the paper as the one to which he had appended his signature the day before, took it to Mr.Percival, and gave it into his hands.
"In answer to Mr.Walter Hibbert, John asserted positively that he took the paper from the undertaker's hand and went straight with it to Mr.
Percival's room.
"'He was alone,' said John; 'I gave him the paper.

He just glanced at it, and I thought he looked rather astonished, but he said nothing, and I at once left the room.' "'When you say that you recognized the paper as the one which you had seen your master sign the day before, how did you actually recognize that it was the same paper ?' asked Mr.Hibbert amidst breathless interest on the part of the spectators.


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