ran the meditations of Billy's dizzied brain.

"Listen! I told you I burned the other will. I started to burn it. But

I was afraid to, because I didn't know what they could do to me if I

did. So I put it away in my little handkerchief-box--and if you'd had

a

grain

of sense you'd have noticed the orris on it. And you made me

promise not to take any steps in the matter till you got well. I knew

you would. So I had already sent that second will--sent it before I

promised you--to Hunston Wyke--he's my lawyer now, you know--and I've