But he knew that he had offended his father mortally, and that his father meant to cut him off with a shilling.

He knew that Mr.Wethered had been sent for, that Wethered left the house soon after four o'clock.
"And here the cleverness of the man comes in.

Having lain in wait for Wethered and knocked him on the back of the head with a stick, he could not very well make that will disappear altogether.

There remained the faint chance of some other witnesses knowing that Mr.Brooks had made a fresh will, Mr.Wethered's partner, his clerk, or one of the confidential servants in the house.

Therefore _a_ will must be discovered after the old man's death.
"Now, Murray Brooks was not an expert forger, it takes years of training to become that.