"They think that he did make a will according to their liking, and that there has been foul play."
"Do they accuse me?"
"Practically they do. These articles in the paper are only an echo of the public voice. And that voice is becoming stronger and stronger every day because you take no steps to silence it. Have you seen yesterday's paper?"
"Yes; I saw it," said Cousin Henry, gasping for breath.
Then Mr Apjohn brought a copy of the newspaper out of his pocket, and began to read a list of questions which the editor was supposed to ask the public generally. Each question was an insult, and Cousin Henry, had he dared, would have bade the reader desist, and have turned him out of the room for his insolence in reading them.
"Has Mr Henry Jones expressed an opinion of his own as to what became of the will which the Messrs Cantor witnessed?"
"Has Mr Henry Jones consulted any friend, legal or otherwise, as to his tenure of the Llanfeare estate?"
"Has Mr Henry Jones any friend to whom he can speak in Carmarthenshire?"
"Has Mr Henry Jones inquired into the cause of his own isolation?"
"Has Mr Henry Jones any idea why we persecute him in every fresh issue of our newspaper?"