will. In the event that Montgomery Brewster had not, in every
particular, complied with the requirements of the will, to the
full satisfaction of the said executor, Swearengen Jones, the
estate was to be distributed among certain institutions of charity
designated in the instrument. Underlying this imperative
injunction of James Sedgwick was plainly discernible the motive
that prompted it. In almost so many words he declared that his
heir should not receive the fortune if he possessed a single penny
that had come to him, in any shape or form, from the man he hated,
Edwin Peter Brewster. While Sedgwick could not have known at the
time of his death that the banker had bequeathed one million
dollars to his grandson, it was more than apparent that he
expected the young man to be enriched liberally by his enemy. It
was to preclude any possible chance of the mingling of his fortune
with the smallest portion of Edwin P. Brewster's that James
Sedgwick, on his deathbed, put his hand to this astonishing
instrument.

There was also a clause in which he undertook to dictate the
conduct of Montgomery Brewster during the year leading up to his
twenty-sixth anniversary. He required that the young man should
give satisfactory evidence to the executor that he was capable of
managing his affairs shrewdly and wisely,--that he possessed the
ability to add to the fortune through his own enterprise; that he
should come to his twenty-sixth anniversary with a fair name and a
record free from anything worse than mild forms of dissipation;
that his habits be temperate; that he possess nothing at the end
of the year which might be regarded as a "visible or invisible
asset"; that he make no endowments; that he give sparingly to
charity; that he neither loan nor give away money, for fear that