I am not an expert, but I cannot detect any difference greater than maybe existed between two signatures of the same person." "Then I suppose there is nothing to be done at present.

I expect to have a hard time with Mr.Manning, Mr.Ferret." "How has he treated you in the past, Frank ?" asked the lawyer.
"I have had nothing to complain of; but then he was not master of the estate.

Now it is difficult, and I think his treatment of me will be different." "You may be right.

You remember what I said, Frank ?" "That I should regard you as a friend?
I won't forget it, Mr.Ferret." One by one the company left the house, and Frank was alone.
Left alone and unsustained by sympathy, he felt more bitterly than before the totally unexpected change in his circumstances.
Up to the last hour he had regarded himself as the heir of the estate.
Now he was only a dependent of a man whom he heartily disliked.
Could it be that this misfortune had come to him through the agency of his mother?
"I will not believe it!" he exclaimed, energetically..