It behoved her now to travel up to London, interview proctors, and prove the will, executed (as the reader will remember) on the eve of that fatal First of May and confided to Lawyer Chinn's keeping.

The town having subscribed for and purchased a pair of silver candelabra as a homecoming gift, the Mayor and Mayoress had no sooner returned and been welcomed with firing off cannon and pealing of bells than a day was fixed and a public meeting called for the presentation--a ceremony performed by the Vicar in brief but felicitous terms.

The Doctor made a suitable speech of acknowledgment, and then, after waiting until the applause had subsided, lifted a hand.
"My friends," he said, "before we disperse I am charged to tell you that my wife and I contemplate another journey, and almost immediately.

You may think how sad that errand is for us when I tell you that we go to prove the late Major Hymen's will.

But I dare to hope you will understand that our feelings are not wholly tinged with gloom when you hear the provisions of that document, which I will now ask my friend Mr.Chinn to read aloud to you." And this is the substance of what Lawyer Chinn read: To his kinswoman Miss Martha Hymen, the Major left a life interest in the sum of five thousand pounds, invested in Government stock.
To his faithful servant Scipio Johnston the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds.