'This,' he said, 'is my will.

I want you to witness my signature.

Would you mind doing so, and can you find another respectable person to act as the second witness ?' Now it happened that a nephew of the porter's, a painter by trade, was at work in the Inn.

The porter went out and fetched him into the lodge and the two men agreed to witness the signature.

'You had better read the will,' said Mr.Jeffrey.