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is that will to be found ? for if Alfred Bond pro-
ceeds, the veritable document must be produced.”

‘Why, so it can be, I suppose,” said Sarah
Bond, relapsing in some degree into agitation ;
‘it was produced when my father inherited the
property, as you know.”

‘“‘T beg your pardon, Miss Bond,” he answer-
ed; “certainly not as I know, for I had not the
honour of being your father’s legal adviser at
that time. It was my master and subsequent
partner. Ihad not the privilege of your father’s
confidence until after my colleague’s death.”

‘‘No one,” said Miss Bond, “ever had my
father’s confidence, properly so called; he was
very close in all money transactions. The will,
however, must be, I think, in Doctors’ Com-
mons! Go there immediately, Mr. Cramp;
and—stay—I will go with you; there it is, and
there are the names of the witnesses.”

‘My dear lady !” expostulated the attorney,
in the softest tones of his soft voice, ‘I have
been there already. I wished to spare a lady
.of your sensibility as much pain as possible ;
and so I went there myself, with Mr. Alfred
Bond’s man of business, whom I happened to
know; and I was grieved—cut up, I may say,
to the very,heart’s core, to hear what he said ;
and he examined the document very closely too
—very closely ; and, I assure you, spoke in
the handsomest, I may say, the very handsomest
manner of you, of your character, and useful-

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