He is your legal adviser, and one in whom the highest
confidence may be reposed. The will should be at once placed in his
hands for examination."
"And go upon record?"
"Better leave all to his superior legal judgment. But," as the
thought occurred to me, "who are named as the executors of this
will?"
"I did not examine as to that, being too much interested in the
provisions of the writing," she replied.
"May I see the document?"
"Blanche, dear, you will find it in the right-hand drawer of the
secretary, in our room;" and Mrs. Montgomery handed a key to her
daughter, who left the apartment in which we were sitting. She came
back in a few minutes, and handed me a paper, which, on examination,
I found to be written throughout, and evidently by the hand of
Captain Allen. It was dated San Juan de Porto Rico, January 10,
1820, and was witnessed by two signatures--the names Spanish. The
executors were Judge Bigelow and Squire Floyd. There was an
important sentence at the conclusion of the will. It was in these
words:--"In case my wife, in dying, should leave no relatives, then
every thing shall revert to my own right heirs, should any be
living.
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