He positively refuses to identify himself as Philip Henley, and all our efforts to gain him a pardon have failed." "But what have I to do with all this ?" I questioned, beginning to have a faint glimmer of the truth.
"Wait, and I will explain fully.

Don't interrupt until I am done.
Here was a peculiar situation.

The administrators are all old personal friends of the testator, anxious to have the estate retained in the family.

How could this be accomplished?
Neale laid the case before me.

I can see but one feasible method--illegal, to be sure, and yet justifiable under the circumstances.