We have given your father's solicitor notice of this deposit, and requested his attention, but he never has deigned to attend to it; so now we will dispense with him.

You see that the seal is unbroken; you know your father's favorite seal, no doubt.

The key is nothing; it was left to my charge.

You wish that I should open this ?" Certainly I did, and the banker split the seal with an ebony-handled paper-knife, and very soon unlocked the steel-ribbed box, whose weight was chiefly of itself.

Some cotton-wool lay on the top to keep the all-penetrative dust away, and then a sheet of blue foolscap paper, partly covered with clear but crooked writing, and under that some little twists of silver paper, screwed as if there had been no time to tie them, and a packet of letters held together by a glittering bracelet.
"Poor fellow!" Mr.Shovelin said, softly, while I held my breath, and the Major had the courtesy to be silent.