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"The thing is no forgery," Stern said in a deep voice. "It is a copy of a will--the original being in the possession of a respectable firm of solicitors--by which all the money Ronald Braybrooke died possessed of becomes absolutely the property of Ailsa Lefroy. In other words, Ailsa Lefroy gets everything, and your claim is worth nothing. In other words, again, Ailsa Lefroy is a great heiress, and you are a pauper.
This very house belongs to her. The thing is, what are you going to do next?"