Lionel did not open it.

In his high honour, he deemed that, before opening, it should be laid before Mrs.Verner.It had been found in her house; it concerned her son.

"I think it will be better that Mrs.
Verner should open this, Tynn," he quietly said.
"You won't get me into a mess, sir, for bringing it out to you first ?" Lionel turned his honest eyes upon her, smiling then.

"Can't you trust me better than that?
You have known me long enough." "So I have, Mr.Lionel.The mystery is, how it could ever have got into that shirt-drawer!" she continued.

"I can declare that for a good week before my master died, up to the very day that the codicil was looked for, the shirt-drawer was never unlocked, nor the key of it out of my pocket." She turned to go back to Verner's Pride, Lionel intending to follow her at once.