Finally, I received copies of documents which made matters clear even to my bewildered brain.
More than that, I was sent a memorandum, written by my father, in which he gave Alan all the particulars, corroborated by extracts from registers, and explaining the reasons which actuated him in framing his will so curiously.

We were never closely knit together, as you know.

I think now that he regarded me as the living evidence of the folly of his earlier years, and perhaps my sensitive nature was quick to detect this hidden feeling." "May I ask who blackmailed you ?" Robert's face grew hard and stern.

The woman experienced a tumultuous joy as she saw it.

She had at least one defender.
"That is the hard part of my story," she murmured, in a voice broken with emotion.