A little more than a year ago it had seemed as if the whole plan of his life was built upon a marriage with this woman; and now that she was free, and obviously willing to make him the master of her fortune, he recoiled from the position, unreasonably and unaccountably blind or indifferent to its advantages.
"There shall be an end of these shapeless unspoken doubts," Gilbert said to himself.

"I will see John Saltram to-day, and there shall be an explanation between us.

I will be his dupe and fool no longer.

I will get at the truth somehow." Gilbert Fenton said very little more to the lawyer, who seemed by no means sorry to get rid of him.

But at the door of the office he paused.
"You did not tell me the names of the executors to Jacob Nowell's will," he said.
"You didn't ask me the question," answered Mr.Medler curtly.