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It was twenty years before the date at which this story will be supposed to commence that the name of Orley Farm first became known to the wearers of the long robe. At that time had died an old gentleman, Sir Joseph Mason, who left behind him a landed estate in Yorkshire of considerable extent and value. This he bequeathed, in a proper way, to his eldest son, the Joseph Mason, Esq., of our date.
"Confessed her guilt," said Mrs. Smiley. "But what guilt, Mr. Kantwise?" "She forged the will," said Kantwise. "I knew that all along," said Bridget Bolster. "I'm d if I believe it," said Moulder. "You can do as you like about that," said Kantwise; "but she has. And I'll tell you what's more: she and young Mason have already left Orley Farm and given it all up into Joseph Mason's hands."
Usbech, were the three witnesses whose names appeared in the codicil. There had been no secrets between Lady Mason and her husband as to his will. She had always, she said, endeavoured to induce him to leave Orley Farm to her child from the day of the child's birth, and had at last succeeded.
I have said that Lady Mason during her married life had never asked of her husband anything for herself; but in the law proceedings which were consequent upon Sir Joseph's death, it became abundantly evident that she had asked him for much for her son, and that she had been specific in her requests, urging him to make a second heir, and to settle Orley Farm upon her own boy, Lucius.
What she had heard or read of pirates induced her to believe that mercy must necessarily be entirely banished from their hearts; and her husband, she knew full well, would sooner die than join them. Therefore, she argued in her despair, Antonio must have perished. "But mother," said Orley, in a soothing tone, "you must remember that Rosco and his men are not regular pirates.
Was it not by their fault that Orley Farm had been lost to him for the last twenty years? And yet young Round had told him, with the utmost composure, that it would be useless for him to look for any of those moneys which should have accrued to him during all those years!
The verdict had reached him before his mother's return, and on the moment of his hearing it he sat down and commenced the following letter to Mr. Furnival: Orley Farm, March , 18 . I beg to thank you, in my mother's name, for your great exertions in the late trial.
"I must say, Miriam, that Mr. Dockwrath is unreasonable," Lady Mason had said. And what could a poor wife answer? "Oh! Lady Mason, pray let it bide a time till it all comes right." But it never did come right; and the affair of those two fields created the great Orley Farm Case, which it will be our business to unravel. And now a word or two as to this Orley Farm.
When, however, Sir Joseph died, a codicil to his will, executed with due legal formalities, bequeathed Orley Farm to his youngest son, little Lucius Mason. Then commenced those legal proceedings which at last developed themselves into the great Orley Farm Case.
After they had crossed the plain, however, and begun to scale the steep sides of the hills, his tendency towards conversation could not be restrained. "Does you t'ink, Massa Orley, that hims be you fadder?" "I think so, Ebony, indeed I feel almost sure of it." Thus encouraged, the negro ranged up alongside. "An' does you t'ink hims mad?" "I hope not. I pray not; but I fear that he "
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