'Is—that all the estates, real and personal, are devised and bequeathed by the testator to his wife, Deborah Sharpe or Lindsay.'
'For life?
'No—to do with as she pleases in all time coming; the whole power of willing everything away is left in her hands, as you may read for yourself here.'
There was a silence of a minute.
'I thought such episodes—such outrages—never happened but in novels?' said Roland.
The lawyer smiled faintly and shook his head, and refolding the document, said:
'It is, of course, duly recorded.'
'And Earlshaugh will go to her heirs?'
'To Mr. Hawkey Sharpe, unless she devises otherwise.'
'A bitter satire!'