So he reasoned, standing on the brink of the terrible discovery which
was soon to reveal to him that Natalie was the wife of another man.
"Richard!"
"Mr. Turlington!"
He started, and roused his attention to present things. Sir Joseph on
one side, and the lawyer on the other, were both appealing to him, and
both regarding him with looks of amazement.
"Have you done with the settlement?" he asked.
"My dear Richard, we have done with it long since," replied Sir Joseph.
"Have you really not heard what I have been saying for the last quarter
of an hour to good Mr. Dicas here? What _can_ you have been thinking
of?"
Turlington did not attempt to answer the question. "Am I interested," he
asked, "in what you have been saying to Mr. Dicas?"
"You shall judge for yourself," answered Sir Joseph, mysteriously; "I
have been giving Mr. Dicas his instructions for making my Will. I wish
the Will and the Marriage-Settlement to be executed at the same time.
Read the instructions, Mr. Dicas."
Sir Joseph's contemplated Will proved to have two merits--it was simple
and it was short.
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