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"You needn't doubt it. There was a report a short while agone that the codicil had been found, and Matiss had got it in safe keeping. As I sat here, afore you come up, I was thinking how well it 'ud have served Mr. Verner's turn just now, if it was true." "It is not true," said Tynn. "All sorts of reports get about. The codicil has never been found, and never been heard of."
"Well," said Roy, "it was the thoughts of poor Mr. and Mrs. Verner did it. He didn't behave to me over liberal in turning me from the place I'd held so long under his uncle, but I've overgot that smart; it's past and gone. My heart bleeds for him now, and that's the truth." For Roy's heart to "bleed" for any fellow-creature was a marvel that even Tynn, unsuspicious as he was, could not take in.
Tynn, were the only persons who could have testified that the supposed codicil was nothing but a glove. From the finding of that, the story had originally got wind. "I don't know why Matiss should have spoken to you on the subject of the codicil," he remarked to Roy. "It's not much that Matiss talks, sir," was the man's answer.
Go you down to the office, and order me a cup of chocolate, and wait you and bring it up to me. That maudite drogue, that coffee, this morning, has made me as thirsty as a panthère." Phoeby, glancing across at Mrs. Tynn, turned somewhat hesitatingly to pick her way out of the room. The housekeeper, though not half understanding, contrived to make out that the morning coffee was not approved of.
"What a pity!" groaned Roy, with a deep sigh. "I'm glad I've told it you, Mr. Tynn! It's a heavy secret for a man to carry about inside of him. I must be going." "So must I," said Tynn. "Roy, are you sure there's no mistake?" he added. "It seems a tale next to impossible." "Well, now," said Roy, "I see you don't half believe me. You must wait a few days, and see what them days 'll bring forth.
The usual custom appeared somewhat reversed on this evening: while roving John would be just as likely to absent himself from dinner as not, his brother and Lionel Verner nearly always appeared at it. Mr. Verner looked surprised. "Where are they?" he cried, as he waited to say grace. "Mr. Lionel has not come in, sir," replied the butler, Tynn, who was husband to the housekeeper.
T'other day, too, I was talking of it to Lawyer Matiss, and he said what a good thing it was, that that there codicil was found." Lionel knew that a report of the turning up of the codicil had travelled to Deerham. It had never been contradicted. But he wondered to hear Roy say that Matiss had spoken of it. Matiss, himself, Tynn, and Mrs.
Lionel put the lines in his pocket, and pushed the glove toward Mrs. Verner. "I do not understand it in the least," he said. "My uncle appears to have found the glove somewhere, and he writes to say that he returns it to me. The chief matter that concerns us is" turning his eyes on the servants "that it is not the codicil!" Mrs. Tynn lifted her hands. "How one may be deceived!" she uttered. "Mr.
What will she do there until some can be got out?" "If she is with comfortable folks, they'd not turn her out," cried Jan. "I think it is sure they had not heard of it," she answered "I remarked so to Mary Tynn. The letters must have been delayed in their passage. Lionel, you will see to the sending out of the money for me." "Immediately," replied Lionel. "And when do you come home?"
He determined to waylay Tynn and make an apparent confidant of him; by these means he should, in all probability, arrive at the desired information. Roy did so; and found that there was no codicil. He carried his news to John Massingbird, advising that gentleman to go at once and put in his claim to Verner's Pride. John, elated with the news, protested he'd have one more night's fun first.
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