He, the doctor, at first refused to put his hand to anything so unjust.

He protested that the public would cry shame, would say John Massingbird had no human right to Verner's Pride, would suspect he had obtained it by fraud, or by some sort of underhand work.

Mr.Verner replied that I--Matiss--could contradict that.

At last the doctor signed." "When was this ?" "It was the very week after John started for Australia.

I wondered why Mr.Verner should have allowed him to go, if he meant to make him his heir.