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The Castle Inn

CHAPTER IV
12/17

'It is not all.

Take this down and be careful.

As to the trust fund of fifty thousand pounds'-- the attorney gasped, and his eyes shone as he seized the pen anew.

'Take this down carefully, man, I say,' Sir George continued.

'As to the trust fund left by my grandfather's will to my uncle Anthony Soane or his heirs conditionally on his or their returning to their allegiance and claiming it within the space of twenty-one years from the date of his will, the interest in the meantime to be paid to me for my benefit, and the principal sum, failing such return, to become mine as fully as if it had vested in me from the beginning--' 'Ah!' said the attorney, scribbling fast, and with distended cheeks.
'I leave the said fund to go with the land.' 'To go with the land,' the lawyer repeated as he wrote the words.


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