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The Light That Failed

CHAPTER XIV
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It must be signed, I suppose, but it needn't be witnessed.

Now an inch lower--why did I never learn to use a type-writer?
--"This is the last will and testament of me, Richard Heldar.

I am in sound bodily and mental health, and there is no previous will to revoke."-- That's all right.

Damn the pen! Whereabouts on the paper was I?
--"I leave everything that I possess in the world, including four thousand pounds, and two thousand seven hundred and twenty eight pounds held for me"-- oh, I can't get this straight.' He tore off half the sheet and began again with the caution about the handwriting.

Then: 'I leave all the money I possess in the world to'-- here followed Maisie's name, and the names of the two banks that held the money.
'It mayn't be quite regular, but no one has a shadow of a right to dispute it, and I've given Maisie's address.


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