If
I can find no sufficient excuse to satisfy her, it will be better she
should think we have discovered nothing than that she should know the
truth. Believe me most truly yours,
"WILLIAM PENDRIL."
VI.
_From Mr. Loscombe to Mrs. Noel Vanstone._
"Lincoln's Inn, November 15th.
"DEAR MADAM--In compliance with your request, I now proceed to
communicate to you in writing what (but for the calamity which has so
recently befallen you) I should have preferred communicating by word
of mouth. Be pleased to consider this letter as strictly confidential
between yourself and me.
"I inclose, as you desire, a copy of the Will executed by your late
husband on the third of this month. There can be no question of the
genuineness of the original document. I protested, as a matter of form,
against Admiral Bartram's solicitor assuming a position of authority at
Baliol Cottage. But he took the position, nevertheless; acting as legal
representative of the sole Executor under the second Will. I am bound to
say I should have done the same myself in his place.
"The serious question follows, What can we do for the best in your
interests? The Will executed under my professional superintendence, on
the thirtieth of September last, is at present superseded and revoked
by the second and later Will, executed on the third of November.
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