It wasn't in the original will--that was made before Kitely came to these parts.

It's in a codicil--made when I came down here a few weeks ago, on the only visit I ever paid to the old gentleman.

He desired, in case of his death, to leave you something--said you'd been very friendly to him." "Very good of him, I'm sure," said Bent with a glance of surprise.

"I'm rather astonished to hear of it, though." "Oh, it's nothing much," remarked Pett, with a laugh as he drew from the brief bag what looked like an old quarto account book, fastened by a brass clasp.

"It's a scrap-book that the old man kept--a sort of album in which he pasted up all sorts of odds and ends.