"Really--I think it's almost certain he'll try to influence her to take sides against me.

And my mother was very bitter when I spoke of contest.

But, as I've shown you, my case is quite apart from what they may or may not do." "Um--um," grunted Dawson.

He threw himself back in his chair; to aid him in thinking, he twisted the only remaining crown-lock of his gray-black hair, and slowly drew his thin lips from his big sallow teeth, and as slowly returned them to place.

"Obviously," he said at length, "the doctor is the crucial witness.