I believe (if the case here supposed really
happens) that the money must revert to the testator's estate. In that
event the Law, dealing with it as a matter of necessity, divides it
into two equal portions. One half goes to Mr. Noel Vans tone's childless
widow, and the other half is divided among Mr. Noel Vanstone's next of
kin.
"You will no doubt discover the obvious objection to the case in our
favor, as I have here put it. You will see that it depends for its
practical realization not on one contingency, but on a series of
contingencies, which must all happen exactly as we wish them to happen.
I admit the force of the objection; but I can tell you, at the same
time, that these said contingencies are by no means so improbable as
they may look on the face of them.
"We have every reason to believe that the Trust, like the Will, was
_not_ drawn by a lawyer. That is one circumstance in our favor that is
enough of itself to cast a doubt on the soundness of all, or any, of the
remaining provisions which we may not be acquainted with. Another
chance which we may count on is to be found, as I think, in that strange
handwriting, placed under the signature on the third page of the Letter,
which you saw, but which you, unhappily, omitted to read.
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