"Well, your uncle gave me the idea that I should find a good-for-nothing hack-writer, a dweller in some obscure garret." "If that is the case, what under the sun did he send you up here for ?" The merriment went out of the old man's face and his eyes became grave.
"Of that anon.

Let me proceed with my business and read the will to you.

You will find it rather a remarkable document." I settled back in my chair in a waiting attitude.

To tell the truth, I was somewhat confused by all this preamble.

To his son my uncle left the bulk of his property, which amounted to more than a million.