34 TURNS OF FORTUNE.

ness, and generosity, and Christian qualities ;
he did indeed; but we have all our duties to
perform in this world; paramount things are
duties; Miss Bond, and his is a very painful
ae

“* What need of all these words to state a
simple matter. Have you seen the will?” said
Sarah Bond.

“‘T have.”

** Well, and what more is there to see, unless
Mr. Alfred Bond denies his relative’s power to
make a will?”

** Which, I believe he does not do. He says
he never made a will; that is all.”

 * But there is the will,” maintained Sarah
Bond.

‘*T am very sorry to wound you; but cannot
you understand ?”

** Speak plainly if you can, sir,” said Sarah
Bond sternly; “speak plainly if you can; I
listen.”

‘*‘ He maintains, on the part of his client, that
the will is a forgery.”

‘*¢ He maintains a falsehood, then,” exclaimed
Miss Bond, with a firm determination and dig-
nity of manner that astonished Mr. Cramp.
“If the will be forged, who is the forger? Cer-
tainly not my father; for he inherited the pro-
perty from his elder brother, who died insane.
The will is in his favour, and not in my father’s.
Besides, neither of them held any correspon-