There would be no end of appeals to the Court of Chancery; and after all manner of formulas he might obtain a decree that would lock up the property for twenty-four years.

I doubt, if the executor chose to stick to technicals, and the business got into chancery, whether Percival Nowell would live long enough to profit by his father's will." "I am glad of that," said Gilbert.

"I know the man to be a scoundrel, and I am very glad that he is unlikely to be a gainer by any misfortune that has befallen his daughter.

Had it been otherwise, I should have been inclined to think that he had had some hand in this disappearance." The lawyer looked at Mr.Fenton with a sharp inquisitive glance.
"In other words, you would imply that Percival Nowell may have made away with his daughter.

You must have a very bad opinion of human nature, Mr.
Fenton, to conceive anything so horrible." "My suspicions do not go quite so far as that," said Gilbert.