What a task was that.

The writer evidently did not know of the second will, or suspect that after all Maxfield was his own.

No one knew of that document but Roger and Armstrong.

For a moment there returned to the boy's mind the words of his father's letter-- "If after reading the papers you choose to destroy them, no one will blame you; no one will know--you will do no one an injury.

You are free to act as you choose." And Armstrong, the only other being who had seen the papers, had urged him to avail himself of the permission thus accorded.