These facts you must hereafter relate
to your son or whoever may be fortunate enough to inherit from you.
It is the legacy which goes with this house and one which no
inheritor as yet has refused either to receive or to transmit.
Listen. You have often noted the gold filigree ball which I wear
on my watch-guard. This ball is the talisman of our house, of this
house. If, in the course of your life you find yourself in an
extremity from which no issue seems possible mind the strictness
of the injunction - an extremity from which no issue seems possible
(I have never been in such a case; the gold filigree ball has never
been opened by me)you will take this trinket from its chain, press
upon this portion of it so, and use what you will find inside, in
connection with -' Alas! it was at this point John Judson came
rushing in and those disclosures were made which lost me my father's
regard and gave to the informer my rightful inheritance, together
with the full secret of which I only got a part. But that part
must help me now to the whole. I have seen the filigree ball many
times; Veronica has it now. But its contents have never been shown
me. If I knew what they were and why the master of this secret
always left the library - "
Here the memorandum ceased with a long line straggling from the
letter y as if the writer had been surprised at his task.
Pages:
260
261
262
263
264
265
266
267
268
269
270
271
272
273
274
275
276
277
278
279
280
281
282
283
284