Bronchitis, terminating in pneumonia--there is no more doubt that this, and this only, was the malady of which he expired, than that two and two make four.

Doctor Torello's own note of the case is added here to a duplicate of my certificate, in order (as I am informed) to satisfy some English offices in which his lordship's life was insured.

The English offices must have been founded by that celebrated saint and doubter, mentioned in the New Testament, whose name was Thomas!" 'Doctor Bruno's evidence ends here.
'Reverting for a moment to our inquiries addressed to Lady Montbarry, we have to report that she can give us no information on the subject of the letter which the doctor posted at Lord Montbarry's request.

When his lordship wrote it?
what it contained?
why he kept it a secret from Lady Montbarry (and from the Baron also); and why he should write at all to the wife of his courier?
these are questions to which we find it simply impossible to obtain any replies.

It seems even useless to say that the matter is open to suspicion.