He took it for various reasons--I never quite understood--and I know a good deal of property came to him.

But his original name--my name--was Sparling." "Sparling!" A pause.

"And have you any Sparling relations." "No.

They all died out--I think--but I know so little!--when I was small.

However, I have a box of Sparling papers which I have never examined.