Why could not the will have been signed in New York?
But he was not inquisitive in those days.

He had taken her for what she seemed--an untrammeled, gay-hearted girl, ready to love and be his happy wife and lifelong companion; and he had been contented to keep all conversation along natural lines and do no probing.
And now,--this brother whom all had thought dead, come to life with menace in his acts and conversation! Also a sister,--but this sister he had no belief in.

The coincidence was too startlingly out of nature for him to accept a brother and a sister too.

A brother or a sister; but not both.

Not even Mr.Harper's assurances should influence his credulity to this extent.