That is, of course, what poor Jeffrey Blackmore thought.

But he was mistaken.

The effect of the change is absolutely disastrous." "Indeed!" "Yes.

As I have said, no alteration in the testator's circumstances had taken place at the time the new will was executed.

But only two days before his death, his sister, Mrs.Edmund Wilson, died; and on her will being proved it appeared that she had bequeathed to him her entire personalty, estimated at about thirty thousand pounds." "Heigho!" exclaimed Thorndyke.