When his will came to be examined, it was discovered that, soon after Harry Gregson's accident, Mr.Horner had left the few thousands (three, I think,) of which he was possessed, in trust for Harry's benefit, desiring his executors to see that the lad was well educated in certain things, for which Mr.Horner had thought that he had shown especial aptitude; and there was a kind of implied apology to my lady in one sentence where he stated that Harry's lameness would prevent his being ever able to gain his living by the exercise of any mere bodily faculties, "as had been wished by a lady whose wishes" he, the testator, "was bound to regard." But there was a codicil in the will, dated since Lord Ludlow's death--feebly written by Mr.Horner himself, as if in preparation only for some more formal manner of bequest: or, perhaps, only as a mere temporary arrangement till he could see a lawyer, and have a fresh will made.

In this he revoked his previous bequest to Harry Gregson.

He only left two hundred pounds to Mr Gray to be used, as that gentleman thought best, for Henry Gregson's benefit.

With this one exception, he bequeathed all the rest of his savings to my lady, with a hope that they might form a nest-egg, as it were, towards the paying off of the mortgage which had been such a grief to him during his life.

I may not repeat all this in lawyer's phrase; I heard it through Miss Galindo, and she might make mistakes.