When the attorney had finished reading the last letter he put it
carefully in his pocket. Then he took the other letter in his hand,
and stood up. "Mr. Rupert Sent Leger," he said, "please to open this
letter, and in such a way that all present may see that the
memorandum at top of the contents is given as -

"'B. To be read as clause ten of my Will.'"

St. Leger rolled up his sleeves and cuffs just as if he was going to
perform some sort of prestidigitation--it was very theatrical and
ridiculous--then, his wrists being quite bare, he opened the envelope
and took out the letter. We all saw it quite well. It was folded
with the first page outward, and on the top was written a line just
as the attorney said. In obedience to a request from the attorney,
he laid both letter and envelope on the table in front of him. The
clerk then rose up, and, after handing a piece of paper to the
attorney, went back to his seat. Mr. Trent, having written something
on the paper, asked us all who were present, even the clerk and the
shorthand man, to look at the memorandum on the letter and what was
written on the envelope, and to sign the paper, which ran:

"We the signatories of this paper hereby declare that we have seen
the sealed letter marked B and enclosed in the Will of Roger Melton
opened in the presence of us all including Mr. Edward Bingham Trent
and Sir Colin Alexander MacKelpie and we declare that the paper
therein contained was headed 'B. To be read as clause ten of my
Will' and that there were no other contents in the envelope. In
attestation of which we in the presence of each other append our