Bosworth, Newnes & Grapewin were blindly struggling to do precisely the same thing in relation to Messrs.

Bowen & Hare.
Without seeking to further involve myself, I shall at once conduct the reader to the nearest of these law offices; he may hear something to his own interest from Bowen & Hare.

We find the partners sitting in the private room.
"Pretty badly tangled, I declare," said Mr.Hare, staring helplessly at his senior partner.
"Hopelessly," agreed Mr.Bowen, very much as if he had at first intended to groan.
Before them on the table lay the contents of a bulky envelope: a long and stupendous letter from their London correspondents and with it a copy of Taswell Skaggs's will.

The letter had come in the morning's mail, heralded by a rather vague cablegram the week before.

To be brief, Mr.Bowen recently had been named as joint executor of the will, together with Sir John Allencrombie, of London, W.C., one time neighbour of the late Mr.Skaggs.A long and exasperating cablegram had touched somewhat irresolutely upon the terms of the will, besides notifying him that one of the heirs resided in Boston.