There were two of them just alike." Instinctively the two men sat with their eyes fixed for a minute on this comb, then, equally instinctively, they both looked up and gazed at each other long and hard.

It was the lawyer who first spoke.
"I think that we should have no further secrets between us," said he.
"Here is Mrs.Ransom's will.

There is a name mentioned in it which I do not know.

Perhaps you do." Here he laid the document on the table.
Mr.Ransom eyed it but did not take it up.

Instead, he drew a crumpled paper from his own pocket and, handing it to the lawyer, said: "First, I should like you to read the letter which she left behind for me.