The only one personally interested in the suppression of the codicil was Frederick Massingbird; and he, hundreds of miles away, could neither have secured it nor sent his ghost to secure it.

In a less degree, Mrs.Verner and Dr.West were interested; the one in her son, the other in that son's wife.

But the doctor was not an inmate of Verner's Pride; and Mrs.Tynn could have testified that she had been present in the room and never left it during each of the doctor's professional visits, subsequent to the drawing out of the codicil.

As for Mrs.Verner, she had not been out of her bed.

Mr.
Verner, at the last, had gone off suddenly, without pain, and there had been no time to call his wife.