Edward Blackmore had two brothers who survived him, John, the elder, and Jeffrey, the younger.

Jeffrey is the testator in this case.
"Some two years ago, Jeffrey Blackmore executed a will by which he made his nephew Stephen his executor and sole legatee; and a few months later he added a codicil giving two hundred and fifty pounds to his brother John." "What was the value of the estate ?" Thorndyke asked.
"About three thousand five hundred pounds, all invested in Consols.

The testator had a pension from the Foreign Office, on which he lived, leaving his capital untouched.

Soon after having made his will, he left the rooms in Jermyn Street, where he had lived for some years, stored his furniture and went to Florence.

From thence he moved on to Rome and then to Venice and other places in Italy, and so continued to travel about until the end of last September, when it appears that he returned to England, for at the beginning of October he took a set of chambers in New Inn, which he furnished with some of the things from his old rooms.
As far as we can make out, he never communicated with any of his friends, excepting his brother, and the fact of his being in residence at New Inn or of his being in England at all became known to them only when he died." "Was this quite in accordance with his ordinary habits ?" Thorndyke asked.
"I should say not quite," Blackmore answered.