The servants were neither the better nor the worse for the codicil; whether it were forthcoming, or not, it made no difference to them.

Sir Rufus Hautley inquired upon this point, and the lawyer satisfied him.
"The codicil was to this effect alone," he explained.

"It changed the positions of Mr.Lionel and Mr.John Massingbird, the one for the other, as they had stood in the will.

Mr.Lionel came into the inheritance, and Mr.Frederick Massingbird to five hundred pounds only.

Mr.John was gone--as everybody knows." "These two, Mr.Lionel and Frederick Massingbird, were the only parties interested in the codicil, then ?" "The only two.