"He was never visited by anybody claiming to be a relation?"
"Not during the ten years I knew him."
"Do you think he had property—money—to leave to anybody?"
Miss Pett began to toy with the fur boa which depended from her thin neck.
"Well—yes, he said he had," she replied hesitatingly.
"Did you ever hear him say what would become of it at his death?"
Miss Pett looked round the court and smiled a little.
"Well," she answered, still more hesitatingly, "he—he always said that as he'd no relations of his own, he'd leave it to me."
Brereton leaned a little closer across the table towards the witness-box and dropped his voice.
"Do you know if Mr. Kitely ever made a will?" he asked.