the hour of 10
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thundered Heriot , `` if you make any miserable whining appeal to your brother , I 'll tell Lucas to kick you . Are you ready , Lucas ? '' `` Quite , '' said the artist . A few minutes later the present head of Walkingshaw & Gilliflower had appended his signature to the following document -LRB- the unaided composition of the late senior partner in the aforesaid firm -RRB- : `` I , Andrew Walkingshaw , having the fear of this world and the next before my eyes , do hereby promise and swear that upon the morning following the above date of the month and year , at the hour of 10 a.m. , I shall formally , legally , and irrevocably settle in equal shares upon my brother and sister , Frank and Jean Walkingshaw , the whole estate , real and personal , of my revered father , except such portion of it inherited and enjoyed by my sisters Margaret Walkingshaw or Ramornie and Gertrude Walkingshaw or Donaldson , and my aunt Mary Walkingshaw . This I do for the following consideration : that through their kindness and charity my despicable , unsportsmanlike , and criminal conduct may never be revealed . I humbly and sorrowfully confess that I had my estimable father aforesaid certified as insane when I knew his brain to be considerably sounder than my own ; that I did this in order to diddle him and my younger brother and sister out of their money ; that instead of putting him under restraint , I exiled him furth of Great Britain and Ireland , so that he thereby suffered discomforts and torments for whose virulence I take his word ; that I announced his death knowing him to be alive ; and that I then in a criminal and shameful manner appropriated his estate to my own use . May all wicked and foolish men be laid by the heels as I have been , and may their relatives be as forgiving as mine !