"Never heard tell of him!" "And you've never heard of your brother's having been seen in Liverpool of late ?" he went on.

"Never heard that he called to see any old friends at all?
For we know, as you have seen in the papers, Mrs.Hanson, that he was certainly in Liverpool, and bought clothes and linen there, within this last three months." "He never came near me, sir," she said.

"And I never heard word of his being there from anybody." There was a bit of a silence then, and at last the woman put the question which, it was evident, she was anxious to have answered definitely.
"Do you think there's a will, mister ?" she asked.

"For, if not, the lawyer I went to said what there was would come to me--and I could do with it." "We've seen nothing of any will," answered Mr.Lindsey.

"And I should say there is none, and on satisfactory proof of your being next-of-kin, you'll get all he left.