"You know it was supposed that old Sir Jasper, being a bachelor, would leave his fortune to his two nephews. But he was an oddity, and as the title must go to young Jasper by right, the old man said Maurice should have the money. He was poor, young Jasper rich, and it seemed but just, though Madame Mère was very angry when she learned how the will was made." "But Maurice didn't get the fortune. How was that?" "There was some mystery there which I shall discover in time. All went smoothly till that unlucky yachting trip, when the cousins were wrecked.