"Most of it. There are legacies to myself, Joe Brill, and Miss Parsh. Sophy gets the rest, on conditions."
"What conditions?"
"One is that she marries me, the other that she pays two thousand a year to a man called Herbert Beauchamp."
It was the Rector's turn to be startled.
"Bless me, the same name!"
"It would appear so. Perhaps this Herbert Beauchamp is a relative of the so-called Marlow. The money is to be paid into the Occidental Bank of London for transmission to him."
"Where is he?"
"I don't know. But now that you have told me so much, I shall take the first instalment myself to the Occidental Bank and make inquiries about the man. The manager may be able in some measure to account for all this."
"I hope so, I hope so," cried the bewildered Rector, "for the mysteries seem to me to deepen."
"Meanwhile," went on Alan calmly, "I shall see Mrs. Warrender. She may know something that will be useful to us."