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Henri Matisse Painting Inspector Craddock smiled.
"Because I can look it up myself if I want to, at Somerset House."
Against his will, Mr. Wimborne gave a crabbed little smile.
"Quite right, Inspector. I was merely protesting that the information you ask for is quite irrelevant. As to Josiah Crackenthorpe's will, there is no mystery about it. He left his very considerable fortune in trust, the income from it to be paid to his son Luther for life, and after Luther's death the capital to be divided equally between Luther's children, Edmund, Cedric, Harold, Alfred, Emma and Edith. Edmund was killed in the war, and Edith died four years ago, so that on Luther Crackenthorpe's decease the money will divided between Cedric, Harold, Alfred, Emma and Edith's son Alexander Eastley."
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And the house?"
"That will go to Luther Crackenthorpe's eldest surviving son or his issue."
"Was Edmund Crackenthorpe married?"
"No."
"So the property will actually go –?"
"To the next son - Cedric."
"Mr. Luther Crackenthorpe himself cannot dispose of it?"
"No."
"And he has no control of the capital."
"No."
"Isn't that rather unusual? I suppose," said Inspector Craddock shrewdly, “that his father didn't like him."
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