"What do you mean by that?"
"The first thing you know, Mrs. Vernon will be making you her heir."
"If she does it will be a complete surprise to me."
"Do you deny that you are working for that end?"
"I do deny it, most emphatically. I want no more than I am entitled to."
"Bah, you talk well, Frost, but don't think I can't see through your little plot. Has my aunt changed her will lately?"
"I don't know."
"You ought to know; you have charge of her private papers."
"I haven't seen anything of a will."
"Then she must have left it with Mr. Farley, in Chicago." And Frederic Vernon breathed a long sigh of relief.