And still more the transfer of these papers vexed him.

Ducie might know what he might never know.

Steve might have it in his power to trouble Harry when he was at rest with his fore-elders.

The subject haunted and worried him; and as worries are never complete worries till they have an individuality, Steve very soon became the personal embodiment of mortifying uncertainty, and wounded _amour propre_.

For if Mrs.Sandal's suspicion were true, or even if it were not true, she was not likely to be the only one in Sandal-Side who would construe Latrigg's singular disposition of his papers in the same way.
Certainly Squire William did not feel as if the dead man had 'done well to Sandal.' Stephen was equally annoyed.