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responsibilities, and the lawyer, who was
heartily delighted at the way in which

things had turned out, hurried the affair on
with an expedition that in his profession

was little short of miraculous. Fairbrass
was taken once or twice to his office, and

amongst other things, marvelled greatly at

his expressing a doubt as to the real
meaning of some of the clauses in the will

which he had himself drawn. ‘ Surely,’ the

boy thought, 1 he must have known what
my grandfather wanted, and what he him­

self meant when he wrote it down ? 1 But
this did not always seem to be the case, and

on one or two points other opinions, at

considerable cost, had to be taken. Luckily,
respecting the clause that chiefly affected

Fairbrass there was no doubt. He was the
sole heir to the estates, and, in due course,

he was supposed to have taken due pos­

session of them.
Of course, it was understood that his

father should have the entire management
of his affairs and control the expenditure of