"All right, I will. The paragraph is as follows: 'I desire that my elder brother, John Stairs Caruthers, shall take charge of my property in the event that the said Frederic Caruthers shall not be present when my will is opened, and that he shall be found as speedily as possible. For several years Frederic Caruthers has been my only protector, defending me from the abuse and greed of my former husband, and, further, sustaining my credit and honor by assuming the misdeeds of Mowbray, to his own discredit and danger. Had it not been for his watchful care, I would long ago have been stripped of all I have been able to accumulate, and have been in my grave at the hands of Mowbray. But of this latter I am in constant dread, and I feel such will yet be my fate. If my dead body is found with marks of violence on it, and my house robbed, it will have been the work of said Mowbray. Therefore, in the way of a tardy reward for the loyalty, care, protection, and love given me by my brother, Frederic Caruthers, I leave to him the bulk of my property, personal and real, in mining stocks, jewels, money, and the turquoise beds in New Mexico, as well as the San Fernando Ranch. I especially charge my brother John Stairs Caruthers to find his brother, and to defend him and clear his name, should it be necessary, and to put him in full possession of his property.'" As the major finished reading he looked at Ted inquiringly. "Well, what do you make of it?" he asked. "I confess it puzzles me." "I can see through it. But you have your work cut out for you, major." "In what way?" "You will find this fellow Mowbray a hard customer." "Pshaw! I am not afraid of him." "Neither am I, for that matter; but it is not he alone that is to be feared in this matter." "What do you mean?" "Just this: Mowbray evidently is an archvillain, but he could not do all his dirty work alone." "You think he has accomplices, then?" "Exactly. And of the most dangerous sort." "For instance?" "I have been thinking the matter over, and I am convinced that Mowbray has got about him the most dangerous sort of a gang to carry on his work for him. Do you know if he is a man of any particular force and cleverness?" "When I knew him, which was before I went to India, he was already beginning to practice his shady transactions in England, but he had never been directly caught at it. This led to the greatest opposition on the part of my family to his marriage to my sister." "But, in spite of it, she married him?" "Yes; she had an idea that he was abused and misrepresented, and flew to his defense by secretly marrying him. After that he got worse and bolder until he was caught not only cheating at cards, but actually stealing by means of forgery and in other ways, and they had to flee from England." "Then, of course, he is a master in crime by this time." "It would not surprise me to learn it. But you spoke of his being especially dangerous because of the men he had gathered about him?"