"No doubt. A will was proved,—a will that was very genuine if no subsequent will be found. But, as you have been told repeatedly, the proving of that will amounts to nothing if a subsequent one be forthcoming. The great question is this; Does a subsequent will exist?"
"How am I to know anything about it?"
"Nobody says you do."
"I suppose you wouldn't come here and bring my uncle Brodrick down on me,—giving me no notice, but coming into my house just when I am at breakfast, without saying a word to any one,—unless you thought so. I don't see what right you have to be here at all!"
He was trying to pluck up his spirit in order that he might get rid of them. Why, oh! why had he not destroyed that document when, on the previous night, it had been brought out from its hiding-place, purposely in order that it might be burned?
"It is common, Mr Jones, for one gentleman to call upon another when there is business to be done," said Mr Apjohn.
"But not common to come to a gentleman's house and accuse him of making away with a will."
"Nobody has done that," said Mr Brodrick.
"It is very like it."
"Will you allow us to search again? Two of my clerks will be here just now, and will go through the house with us, if you will permit it."