After all, though you are one of those confounded novelists, you've done what you could for me.

Let some one fetch a solicitor--I'll alter it--I'll alter it!" I instantly hurried out to fetch a lawyer, but it was Saturday afternoon, the offices were closed, and some time passed before I had caught my man.

I told him as we hastened back some of the facts of the case, and he brought his writing materials into the sick room and took down from the Major's own lips the words which would have the effect of dividing the old man's possessions between his two sons.

Dr.Mackrill was now present; he stood on one side of the bed, his fingers on the dying man's pulse.

On the other side stood Derrick, a degree paler and graver than usual, but revealing little of his real feelings.
"Word it as briefly as you can," said the doctor.
And the lawyer scribbled away as though for his life, while the rest of us waited in a wretched hushed state of tension.