He did nothing of the sort.

He was left with less than half the share that his younger brother inherited." "Now, yes; but that was a former will and--" "And that forged will was so clumsily executed, the signature so carelessly imitated, that the forgery was bound to come to light.

Did _that_ never strike you ?" "Yes, but--" "There is no but," he interrupted.

"It was all as clear as daylight to me from the very first.

The quarrel with the old man, which broke his heart, was not with his eldest son, with whom he was used to quarrelling, but with the second son whom he idolised, in whom he believed.