I would very much rather he should never know I have written; but I have been urged to do it by some things that have happened lately.
"Some time ago Maurice, speaking to me of Mr.Beresford's will, told me that there had been a little difficulty in tracing one of the persons named as legatees.

This was a cousin of Mr.Beresford's, with whom he seems to have had very little acquaintance, and no recent intercourse whatever; although, except Lady Dighton, she was the nearest relative he had.

The lawyers discovered, while Maurice was in Canada, that this lady herself was dead.

Her marriage had been unfortunate, and she had a spendthrift son, to whom, as his mother's heir, the money left by Mr.
Beresford passed; but it appeared that she had also a daughter, who was in unhappy circumstances, being dependent on some relation of her father.

Maurice, very naturally and properly, thought that, as head of the family, it was his duty to arrange something for this lady's comfort; and accordingly, being in London, where she lives, he called on her.