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Updated: May 29, 2025
On the day following the opening of our story, Jasper, who still felt annoyed at the prospect of more trouble than profit in the matter of his executorship, made a formal call upon the widow of his old friend. The servant, to whom he gave his name, stated that Mrs. Elder was so ill as not to be able to leave her room. "I will call again, then, in a few days," said he.
"I'm mighty glad to hear it. Mighty glad. Is there anything else you can tell me?" "No. Our next move, provided you decide to accept the trust, the executorship, and the rest, is to get together you and Graves, if he is well enough; you and I if he is not and begin a careful examination of the stocks, bonds, assets, and debts of the estate. This must be done first of all."
It had indeed the disadvantage of being left under the executorship of a lawyer, who represented it to be in a very involved and disorderly state: for, with respect to my mother, though she had immediate possession, she declared that, agreeably to the intention of the rector, her own subsistence excepted, she held it only for my use.
That afternoon Captain Oliphant sent a polite message to his co-trustee requesting the favour of an interview. Mr Armstrong found him in an unusually balmy frame of mind, anxious to go into the executorship accounts. Everything was square and exact. The rents and other receipts were all in order, and the amount duly paid into the bank.
When, however, they sat at breakfast served in the English style Sir Hugh opened a letter which lay upon his plate, and at once announced his intention of returning to London. "I have to see Hughes, my solicitor, over Aunt Mary's affairs," he explained suddenly to Blanche. "That executorship is always an infernal nuisance."
Peacefully, after this, he sank away, and, like a weary child falling into slumber, slept that sleep from which the awakening is in another world. How Leonard Jasper received the announcement of his executorship has been seen.
"Really," exclaimed Mr. Hawkes; "I should much prefer to resign from my executorship." "Nonsense. In the interests of all parties, we must act together and endeavour to carry out the dead man's wishes." The lawyer considered a moment and then in a somewhat mollified tone, said: "Very well, Sir Gerald. If you think it is necessary, why then by all means, I shall concur in your views."
"To compliance with such a request I not only cannot demur, but perhaps it may free me from some responsibility which I might have thought the letters devolved upon my executorship. I am sure they did not concern the honour of any woman of any family, for in that case I must have burned them." "Ah, Marquis, shake hands there!
"I believe," she said, firmly, "that I am prepared for the final issue of this matter, whatever it may be. I shall still require legal advice, Mr. Wallingford." The young man bowed assent. "And, as Judge Bigelow is one of the executors " "I do not think, madam," said Wallingford, interrupting her, "that the fact of his executorship will make him any the less a safe adviser for you.
They could hardly make out what had become of it, in such utter confusion were all the accounts, both personal and official. Mr. Johnson was hardly restrained by his compassion for the orphan from throwing up the executorship in disgust. Mr. Ness roused himself from his scholarlike abstraction to labour at the examination of books, parchments, and papers, for Ellinor's sake.
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