On the third of November following, he expressly revokes this
will, and leaves another in its stead, in which his widow is never once
mentioned, and in which the whole residue of his estate, after payment
of one comparatively trifling legacy, is left to a friend.
"It rests entirely with you to say whether any valid reason can or can
not be produced to explain such an extraordinary proceeding as this. If
no reason can be assigned--and I know of none myself--I think we have
a point here which deserves our careful consideration; for it may be a
point which is open to attack. Pray understand that I am now appealing
to you solely as a lawyer, who is obliged to look all possible
eventualities in the face. I have no wish to intrude on your private
affairs; I have no wish to write a word which could be construed into
any indirect reflection on yourself.
"If you tell me that, so far as you know, your husband capriciously
struck you out of his will, without assignable reason or motive for
doing so, and without other obvious explanation of his conduct than that
he acted in this matter entirely under the influence of Mrs. Lecount,
I will immediately take Counsel's opinion touching the propriety of
disputing the will on this ground.
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