Juries are fools; but they are not such fools as to swallow everything--like ostriches: to let me throw dust in their eyes about so plain an issue.

Consider the facts, consider them impartially.

Yorke-Bannerman had easy access to aconitine; had whole ounces of it in his possession; he treated the uncle from whom he was to inherit; he was in temporary embarrassments--that came out at the inquest; it was known that the Admiral had just made a twenty-third will in his favour, and that the Admiral's wills were liable to alteration every time a nephew ventured upon an opinion in politics, religion, science, navigation, or the right card at whist, differing by a shade from that of the uncle.

The Admiral died of aconitine poisoning; and Sebastian observed and detailed the symptoms.

Could anything be plainer--I mean, could any combination of fortuitous circumstances"-- he blinked pleasantly again--"be more adverse to an advocate sincerely convinced of his client's innocence--as a professional duty ?" And he gazed at me comically.
The more he piled up the case against the man who I now felt sure was Hilda's father, the less did I believe him.