name was carefully excluded--dashed his fist down upon the
table, so that the ink leaped up out of the inkstand that stood
before the lawyer, and fell in sundry blots upon the document. But
no one said anything. There was blotting-paper at hand, and Mr.
Stickatit soon proceeded.

In its fifth proviso, the old man mentioned his nephew George. "I
wish it to be understood," he said, "that I love my nephew, George
Bertram, and appreciate his honour, honesty, and truth." Sir Lionel
once more took heart of grace, and thought that it might still be
all right. And George himself felt pleased; more pleased than he had
thought it possible that he should have been at the reading of that
will. "But," continued the will, "I am not minded, as he is himself
aware, to put my money into his hands for his own purposes." It then
went on to say, that a further sum of four thousand pounds was given
to him as a token of affection.

Sir Lionel drew a long breath. After all, five thousand pounds was
the whole sum total that was rescued out of the fire. What was five
thousand pounds? How much could he expect to get from such a sum as
that? Perhaps, after all, he had better take Miss Baker. But then her
pittance was only for her life. How he did hate his departed brother
at that moment!

Poor Pritchett wheezed and sighed again. "Ah!" said he to himself.
"Half a million of money gone; clean gone! But he never would take my
advice!"

But George felt now that he did not care who looked at him, who
commiserated him. The will was all right. He did not at that moment
wish it to be other than that the old man had made it. After all
their quarrels, all their hot words and perverse thoughts towards
each other, it was clear to him now that his uncle had, at any rate,
appreciated him. He could hear the remainder of it quite unmoved.

There were some other legacies to various people in the City, none of
them being considerable in amount. Five hundred pounds to one, one
thousand pounds to another, fifty pounds to a third, and so on. And
then came the body of the will--the very will indeed.

And so Mr. George Bertram willed, that after the payment of all
his just debts, and of the legacies above recapitulated, his whole
property should be given to his executors, and by them expended
in building and endowing a college and alms-house, to be called
"The Bertram College," for the education of the children of
London fishmongers, and for the maintenance of