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72. This was the state of things when the letters in Exhibit X series were written. The first was written in November or December 1892, that is, just before the High Court judgment in O.S. No. 14 of 1888 and the other letters after that event and between it and the death of Narayya (17) in 1895. The series is obviously incomplete and one at least is mutilated. As the letters were produced by Mulraz, the son-in-law of Rangayya (11), after Papamma Row's death, there is ground for the contention that only such parts as seemed to support Rangayya's case have been produced. Beading the series as it stands, however, the impression it produces on our minds is that Venkateswara in the interest of his master Rangayya, suggested to Papamma Row all kinds of reasons why the will might be impeached in the hope that in the discussion she might he entrapped into making admissions or giving information which might enable him at a later date to impugn the will, and with a view also to make himself indispensable to her as an adviser, and to increase her desire to keep on good terms with Rangayya lest he should attack Narayya's adoption, and this we find was, in fact, the result of the correspondence. There is not in it any admission, so far as we can see, that the will is forged. No doubt, Venkateswara after giving various reasons in prior letters as to why the will might be attacked as a forgery, boldly states in Exhibit X (c). "It is known everywhere that the will is a forgery. You may perhaps ask if several forged documents are not being upheld. That is not the case with this will, because there are many written proofs to show that the will is a forgery," and he then goes on to show that the decisions of the Courts in suits in which it had been held to be genuine would not prevent its being again contested. In reply to this Papamma Row writes "This will cannot be set aside on the ground of being a forgery because several acts have been done under the will for a long time and why will it hereafter be so easily held to be a forgery?. The number of persons who make wills when in good senses are only a fraction; all the wills are generally written after. I wish to hear reasons to say that this will is such a forgery." We cannot agree with the District Judge that these words "can only be read as an admission that the will, was forged to her knowledge." It seems to us to be a denial of the suggested forgery, coupled with a statement of reasons why the will could never be held to be a forgery. She contrasts this will with concocted wills, and wants him to state why this genuine will should be regarded as a forgery like them. In his reply Exhibit X (e) Venkteswara Row reiterates his reason for thinking that the will could be contested, and in doing so,* goes far beyond the truth as when he tells her that the original of the will had "not hitherto been filed in any public office. It has remained with you for the last thirty years." It had certainly been filed in the High Court in the Curator Proceedings in 1888 and in the Subordinate Judge's Court in O.S. No. 14 of 1888, and it is also certain that it was filed in the Tanuku Suit in 1881. He suggests to her that she should win over all the reversioners, and he points out that Rangayya (11) and his brother were beginning to think about their rights in the estate and how they could best further them in the event of her death. In her reply she says. "All the matters stated therein seem to be true. That is no more than that his arguments seemed to her to be true, and she placed on him the responsibility for defending her cause. It was after this and in consequence of the doubts raised by Venkateswara Row that the opinion of Mr. Spring Branson, the Advocate General, was obtained as to the best way of protecting the adoption against attack. These questions were drawn up Venkateswara Row, Mr. Spring Branson very properly advised against a re-adoption which was only suggested to him, evidently by Venkateswara Row, since it would only serve to throw doubt in the fact and on the validity of the adoption already made. When doubts as to the validity of the adoption were urged on Papamma Row we can see nothing unnatural or suspicious in her taking legal advice in regard to them, and the best way to cure defects if such existed.