"There is still another reason why we cannot take the money.

Ralph Conway has been as much defrauded as Mabel, and his mother, as you see by her letters, is determined not to sit down quietly under the wrong.

What she means to do I have not the slightest idea, nor do I think that there is the most remote probability she will ever succeed in finding the will.
Tallboys appears to have made a most thorough search of the house, and do what she will she cannot have any opportunity of searching as he has done.

Still she clearly has something on her mind.

She intends to make some attempt or other to discover the will, which, if found, will benefit Mabel equally with her son.