Were it not for the total absence of all other suspicion, I should not for a moment entertain the thought that it could have been my uncle.

Let us leave the subject, mother.

It seems to be an unprofitable one, and my head is weary." "Are you going to give the codicil tamely up for a bad job, without further search ?" asked Lady Verner.

"That I should live--that I should _live_ to see Sibylla West's children inherit Verner's Pride!" she passionately added.
Sibylla West's children! Lionel had enough pain at his heart, just then, without that shaft.

A piercing shaft truly, and it dyed his brow fiery red.
"We have searched already in every likely or possible place that we can think of; to-morrow morning, places unlikely and impossible will be searched," he said, in answer to his mother's question.