'Addressed to me?'
'Yes.'
'I never got it.'
'Why?'
'We were holding the lines in front of Ramleh at that time; the Arabs made free with the mail-bags, and lit their pipes with the contents, no doubt, in the desert beyond Ghizeh.'
'My dear sir, how lawless of them!'
'I have thought about this will at times, till I have become stupid—woolly in fact, and hated the name of it.'
'Your good father—
'Ah,' interrupted Roland, a little testily, 'I fear we only looked upon him latterly as the family banker, and he was useful in that way—very.'
'To your brother in the Guards perhaps too much so,' said the lawyer gravely.