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Ford acted for the defendants, Beechinor, then aged forty-eight, was torn from his stool and sent out to Rio de Janeiro as part of a commission to take the evidence of an important witness who had declined all offers to come home.
'I've told you. She had a slightly quizzical look. 'Now, as to Mark, the lawyer continued blandly, 'Mr. Beechinor explained the whole circumstances to me. Mark as good as defied his brother. 'That's nothing to do with it. 'By the way, it appears that Mark is practically engaged to be married. May I ask if the lady is yeself? She hesitated.
That sum of seven hundred pounds, which many men would dissipate in a single night, and forget the next morning that they had done so, seemed vast and almost incredible to him. 'I know you've always been very careful, said Mark politely. 'Give up this old Labour Church' again old Beechinor laid a withering emphasis on the phrase 'give up this Labour Church, and its all thine house and all.
He was impulsively and recklessly charitable, and his Saturday afternoons and Sundays were chiefly devoted to the passionate propagandism of the theories of liberty, equality, and fraternity. 'Is it true as thou'rt for marrying Sammy Mellor's daughter over at Hanbridge? Edward Beechinor asked, in the feeble, tremulous voice of one agonized by continual pain.
'No, always the same thing, Titus would answer, made proud for the moment of this phenomenon of stupendous monotony. 'I wonder how she can stand it she has a refined face, the visitor might remark; and Mary Beechinor was left alone again. The idea that her work was monotonous probably never occurred to the girl.
Everyone who knew Mary Beechinor, in her cousin's home, or at chapel, or on Titus Price's earthenware manufactory, where she worked, said or thought that 'there was something about her ... and left the phrase unachieved. She was twenty-five, and she had lived under the same roof with Edward Beechinor for seven years, since the sudden death of her parents.
Baines's voice sounded at the head of the stairs: 'Miss Beechinor, will ye kindly step up? We shall want some asseestance. She obeyed, but not instantly. In the bedroom Mr. Baines, a fountain-pen between his fine white teeth, was putting some coal on the fire. He stood up as she entered. 'Mr.
Baines; 'I'll call ye when I want ye; and he followed Mary up the stairs. Edward Beechinor lay on his back, and his sunken eyes stared glassily at the ceiling. The skin of his emaciated face, stretched tightly over the protruding bones, had lost all its crimson, and was green, white, yellow. The mouth was wide open.
Through their half-closed lids her eyes glimmered at Baines. 'Ha! Legal caution acquired from your cousin, I presume. Baines smiled at her. 'But let me assure ye, Miss Beechinor, this is a mere matter of form. A will must be signed in the presence of two witnesses, both present at the same time; and there's only yeself and me for it.
Mary looked at the dying man, whose features were writhed in pain, and shook her head. 'Tell her, he murmured with bitter despair, and sank down into the pillows, dropping the fountain-pen, which had left a stain of ink on the sheet before Baines could pick it up. 'Well, then, Miss Beechinor, if ye must know, Baines began with sarcasm, 'the will is as follows: The testator that's Mr.
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