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restored to her rights. Guided by this statement, the directors in London were contented to regard their clerk as having been unfortunate rather than guilty. For the man himself, the reader, it is hoped, will feel some compassion. He had been dragged away from London by false hopes. After so great an injury as that inflicted on him by the last change in the Squire's purpose it was hardly unnatural that the idea of retaliation should present itself to him when the opportunity came in his way. Not to do that which justice demands is so much easier to the conscience than to commit a deed which is palpably fraudulent! At the last his conscience saved him, and Mr Apjohn will perhaps be thought to have been right in declaring that much was due to him in that he had not destroyed the will. His forbearance was recompensed fully. As soon as the money could be raised on the property, the full sum of L4000 was paid to him, that having been the amount with which the Squire had intended to burden the property on behalf of his niece when he was minded to put her out of the inheritance. It may be added that, notorious as the whole affair was at Carmarthen, but little of Cousin Henry's wicked doings were known up in London. We must now go back to Hereford. By agreement between the two lawyers, no tidings of her good fortune were at once sent to Isabel. "There is so many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip," said Mr Apjohn to her father. But early in the following week Mr Brodrick himself took the news home with him. "My dear," he said to her as soon as he found himself alone with her,--having given her intimation that an announcement of great importance was to be made to her,--"it turns out that after all your Uncle Indefer did make another will." "I was always quite sure of that, papa." "How were you sure?" "He told me so, papa." "He told you so! I never heard that before." "He did,--when he was dying. What was the use of talking of it? But has it been found?" "It was concealed within a book in the library. As soon as the necessary deeds can be executed Llanfeare will be your own. It is precisely word for word the same as that which he had made before he sent for your cousin Henry." "Then Henry has not destroyed it?" "No, he did not destroy it." "Nor hid it where we could not find it?" "Nor did he hide it." "Oh, how I have wronged him;--how I have injured him!" "About that we need say nothing,
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