This disclosure vitally affected your brother's ambitions, and was therefore likely to influence his views regarding the disposition of his property." He shot a keen glance at his companion.

Austin laid aside his glasses and bent earnestly across the table.
"I will be frank with you," he said, "quite frank.

My brother told me a little more than a week ago that he had made a new will, and that I was his heir." "Where is this will ?" "I found it in the clock-case at Flint House last night, and I have since handed it to the lawyer who drafted it." "Your brother gave you no indication of this before ?" "No.

He told me when I came that he had summoned me to Cornwall because of the great change in the family fortunes.

As I was his only brother he desired my presence in the investigation of the final proofs and the preparation of his claim for the House of Lords.