"I read of it in 'The Times.'" "Oh, yes.

No doubt it was described.

What I meant was this.

John Lattery was my great friend, and he was a distant kind of cousin to your friend Walter Hine, and indeed co-heir with him to Joseph Hine's great fortune.
His death, I suppose, has doubled your friend's inheritance." Garratt Skinner raised himself up on his elbow.

The announcement was really news to him.
"Is that so ?" he asked.