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His host and cousin, Edward Briscoe, was his co-executor in a kinsman's will, and in the settlement of the estate the policy of granting a certain power of attorney necessitated a conference more confidential than could be safely compassed by correspondence.
I saw a completed manuscript. You are my co-executor and trustee. You took it away. That's all I know. Will that do for you?" "Yes. And I'll give you a receipt. Whatever happens, you're not responsible. I can burn the damned thing if I like. Do anything I choose. But you've seen the outside of it."
But she could not stop to think about it. Sir Wilfrid, however, followed Lady Coryston into the drawing-room. "What have you been doing?" he asked her, smiling, taking the liberty of an old friend and co-executor. "I think I guess!" She looked at him somberly. "She won't marry him! But not a word to Arthur, please not a word! till I give you leave. I have gone through a great deal."
The will contained certain substantial legacies to servants the amount to that old handmaid Martha being so great as to produce a fit of fainting, after which the old handmaid declared that if ever there was, by any chance, an angel of light upon the earth, it was her late mistress; and yet Martha had had her troubles with her mistress; and there was a legacy of two hundred pounds to the gentleman who was called upon to act as co-executor with Captain Aylmer.
Woods insists on Peyton taking joint charge of the quest for the orphan's fortune. "Hardin is responsible under his trusteeship. You can't force Peyton on him as co-executor. He has concealed the will. A suit now would warn the villain and endanger the child's life. Take the certified copy of the transfer to Paris.
The two volumes of reminiscences at once appeared, including sketches of Irving and Jeffrey, with the memoir of Mrs. Carlyle. But even before the publication of these volumes, which came out early in March, a question, which was ominous of future trouble, arose out of copyright and title to profits. A fortnight after Carlyle's death Froude's co-executor, Mr.
Therefore the provisions of clause two have been duly carried out and therefore Godfrey Bellingham is the principal beneficiary under the will, and the co-executor, in accordance with the wishes of the testator. Is that quite clear?" "Perfectly," said Dr. Norbury; "and a most astonishing coincidence but, my dear young lady, had you not better sit down? You are looking very ill."
"You see, Jellicoe naturally refuses to move in the matter alone. He says he must have the support of the other executor. But Hurst is not at present the other executor; neither am I. But the two of us together are the co-executor, since the duty devolves upon one or other of us, in any case." "It's a complicated position," I said.
"But I rather understood that Mr. Hurst was the co-executor," said Dr. Norbury. "He is surely, as matters stand," said Jervis. "Not at all," replied Thorndyke. "He was as matters stood; but he is not now. You are forgetting the conditions of clause two.
But Hurst is not at present the other executor; neither am I. But the two of us together are the co-executor, since the duty devolves upon one or other of us, in any case." "It's a complicated position," I said. "It is; and the complication has elicited a very curious proposal from Hurst.
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