His first act was to take a folded paper from a private drawer, and glance his eye carelessly over it.

This was the will in favour of Lord Bluewater: It was expressed in very concise terms, filling only the first side of a page.

This will he copied, _verbatim et literatim_, leaving blanks for the name of the legatee, and appointing Sir Gervaise Oakes his executor, as in the will already executed.

When finished in this manner, he set about filling up the blanks.

For a passing instant, he felt tempted to insert the name of the Pretender; but, smiling at his own folly, he wrote that of "Mildred Dutton, daughter of Francis Dutton, a master in His Majesty's Navy," in all the places that it was requisite so to do.
Then he affixed the seal, and, folding all the upper part of the sheet over, so as to conceal the contents, he rang a little silver bell, which always stood at his elbow.