There was no reason to suppose that the report contained all the essential facts, and I merely considered it speculatively as a study in probabilities.

But I did decide that that was the only probable conclusion from the facts that were given.
"Nearly two years passed before I heard anything more of the case.

Then it was brought to my notice by my friend, Doctor Berkeley, and I became acquainted with certain new facts, which I will consider in the order in which they became known to me.
"The first new light on the case came from the will.

As soon as I had read that document I felt convinced that there was something wrong.

The testator's evident intention was that his brother should inherit the property, whereas the construction of the will was such as almost certainly to defeat that intention.