Ensued a silence. Margaret lifted the two wills, scrutinised them

closely, and then looked at the fire, interrogatively.

"It's penal servitude for quite a number of years," she said. "But,

then, he really

couldn't

tell any one, you know. No gentleman would

allow a lady to be locked up in jail. And if he knew--if he knew I

didn't and couldn't consider him a fortune-hunter, I really believe he

would--"

Whatever she believed he would do, the probability of his doing it