The Chief Legatee

an unexpected

that statement of hers have got into the papers without somebody's assistance. Since she did not get it fro

immediately haili

ansom's candor and his indubitable right to consideration, he allowed himself to admit that he had seen Mrs. Ransom during the last three days and that he had every reason to believe that there was a twin sister in the case and that all Mrs. Ransom's ecce

er if he had heard her say anything about the equally astounding fact of a returned brother, and when he found that

s with him she had entirely left out all allusion to this brother. Either the man had advanced a false claim

n of the dilemma in which they found themselves, but

the day she came here. She sat in the adjoining

her-saw h

hy. They were too absurdly alike, she said. It awoke comment and it gave her th

e then; the girl is n

which Mrs. Ransom has asked

as asked you to

make a legal disposition of her property before she returned to you. She was very nervous when she

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instant appeared to waver. There was something very winsome about Roger

he. "But a client's wishes are paramount. Mrs. Ransom d

again. The lawyer eyed him out of the corner of his eye, his mouth w

it, a brother who has so inconveniently come back from the dead. You will have the

t have an immediate interview with her if only to satisfy myself that she aggravates her own danger? Why should she make a will in this underhanded way? Does she fear opposition from me? I ha

ernoon, Mr. Ransom. Have you any co

here is not a more unhappy man in New Yor

hdrew. At the foot of the stairs they were st

while as rapidly after them as the steepness of the flight allowed

none of his property but he held to it just the same. In the middle of a

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e will ever hear me say again t