Mr.Graves has examined it, and he and myself are so familiar with the handwriting of your husband that we have no hesitation in pronouncing the will genuine." "Colonel Preston must have been insane if he really made such a will." "I was his medical adviser," said Dr.Townley, quietly, "and I never detected the least sign of an unsound mind." "The fact of robbing his wife and child to enrich an Irishwoman and her son is proof enough of his insanity." "Pardon me, madam, but such bequests are made every day.

Outside of their legacies your husband left ample fortune, and there is no danger of your being impoverished." "Did you bring the will with you ?" "No.

I did not feel like incurring the risk." "I shall contest the will," said Mrs.Preston, passionately.
"I would not advise you to.

The proof of its genuineness is overwhelming.

I suppose you never saw the other will ?" Mrs.Preston, at this unexpected question, in spite of her strong nerves, turned pale, and faltered: "Of course not," she said, after a slight pause.
"Your husband asserts positively in a note to me that he made one," said the doctor, bending his eyes searchingly upon her, for he suspected the truth, and that it was distrust of his wife that led Colonel Preston to take the precaution he had done.