"Have you picked up any facts relating to the parties--any facts, I mean, of course, that it would be proper for you to mention ?" "I have learned one or two things that there is no harm in repeating.
For instance, I gather that Godfrey Bellingham--my patient--lost all his property quite suddenly about the time of the disappearance." "That is really odd," said Thorndyke.

"The opposite condition would be quite understandable, but one doesn't see exactly how this can have happened, unless there was an allowance of some sort." "No, that was what struck me.

But there seem to be some queer features in the case, and the legal position is evidently getting complicated.
There is a will, for example, which is giving trouble." "They will hardly be able to administer the will without either proof or presumption of death," Thorndyke remarked.
"Exactly.

That's one of the difficulties.

Another is that there seems to be some fatal defect in the drafting of the will itself.