"After he had executed the codicil on the evening previous to his death, he called for his desk, and put the parchment into it.

It lay on the top of the will--this one.

I saw that much." "I can testify that the codicil was locked in the desk, and the desk was then returned to the closet, for I happened to be present," spoke up Dr.
West.

"I was one of the witnesses to the codicil, as I had been to the will.

Mr.Verner must have moved it himself to some safer place." "What place could be safer than the desk in his own bedroom ?" cried the lawyer.