Why Mr.Verner ever willed it away from Lionel we could not understand." "Fred needn't take it--even if the codicil can't be found--he can give it back to Lionel by deed of gift," said practical Jan.

"_I_ should." "That my master meant Mr.Lionel to succeed, is certain," interposed Tynn, the butler.

"Nearly the last word he said to me, before the breath went out of his body, was an injunction to serve Mr.Lionel faithfully at Verner's Pride, as I had served him.

There can be no difficulty in Mr.Lionel's succeeding, when my master's intentions were made so plain." "Be quiet, Tynn," said Lionel.

"I succeed by means of legal right to Verner's Pride, or I will not succeed at all." "That's true," acquiesced the lawyer.