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If anything further was to be done, he himself must open out a little. "The fact is, Mr. Mason, that I have come across documents which you should have had at that trial. Round and Crook ought to have had them, only they weren't half sharp. Why, sir, Mr. Usbech had been your father's man of business for years upon years, and yet they didn't half go through his papers.
She had never witnessed but one signature in her life, and that she had done in Sir Joseph's room. The nature of the document had been explained to her. "But," as she said, "she was young and giddy then, and what went in at one year went out at another." She didn't remember Mr. Usbech signing, but he might have done so. She thought he did not.
Dockwrath had come down to Yorkshire, consisted of half a sheet of note paper, and the writing upon this covered hardly the half of it. The words which Mr. Mason read were as follows: Date of codicil. 14th July 18 . Witnesses to the instrument. John Kenneby; Bridget Bolster; Jonathan Usbech. N.B. Jonathan Usbech died before the testator. Mason and Martock. Deed of separation; dated 14th July 18 .
Usbech, with the view of ascertaining what might be the real truth as regarded that doubtful codicil. "And you found what you searched for, Mr. Dockwrath?" "I did," said Dockwrath. "Without very much delay, apparently?" "I was two or three days over the work." "But you found exactly what you wanted?" "I found what I expected to find."
"Let me understand," said the judge and then the perspiration became more visible on poor Kenneby's face; "do you mean to say that you have no memory on the matter whatever? that you simply do not remember whether Usbech did or did not sign it?" "I don't think he signed it." "But why do you think he did not, seeing that his name is there?" "I didn't see him."
She herself stated that she had never done this except in the presence of a third person. She had often done so in the presence of Mr. Usbech the attorney, as to which Mr. Usbech was not alive to testify; and she had also done so more than once in the presence of Mr. Furnival, a barrister, as to which Mr. Furnival, being alive, did testify very strongly.
It devised a sum of two thousand pounds to a certain Miriam Usbech, the daughter of one Jonathan Usbech who was himself the attorney who had attended upon Sir Joseph for the making out of this very will, and also of this very codicil.
As to that contest nothing further need now be said. It resulted in the favour of young Lucius Mason, and therefore, also, in the favour of the widow; in the favour moreover of Miriam Usbech, and thus ultimately in the favour of Mr. Samuel Dockwrath, who is now showing himself to be so signally ungrateful. Joseph Mason, however, retired from the battle nothing convinced.
That affair of the signatures, which was indeed the only point on which evidence was worth anything, he then abandoned, and tried to make her contradict herself about old Usbech. But on this subject she could say nothing. That Usbech was present she remembered well, but as to his signing the deed, or not signing it, she would not pretend to say anything.
It is not much, and perhaps after all may not be worth attention. You know the attorney in Hamworth who married Miriam Usbech?" "What, Samuel Dockwrath? Oh, yes; I know him well enough; and to tell the truth I do not think very well of him. Is he not a tenant of yours?" "Not at present."
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