If the division-of-estate plot lends Sycamore Row Shakespearean gravitas (Lang becomes Hubbard's proxy third child – a Cordelia who loves according to her bond and yet is rewarded), then the multiple-will twist is self-consciously Dickensian. But before he can represent the estate in what promises to be a gladiatorial trial by jury, Brigance must decode him, and fast. Its existence raises questions about Hubbard's "testamentary capacity" in his final months – was he out of it on Demerol? Hubbard was such an enigma that inferring any kind of motive is tricky. Just to complicate matters, there is another will – a more conventional one, that rewards the children and excludes Lang.
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