I am inclined to agree with the Attorney-General when he says that she did not make the sacrifice without a motive, which may have sprung from a keen sense of justice, and of gratitude to the plaintiff for his interference on her behalf, or from a warmer feeling.

In either case there is nothing discreditable about it--rather the reverse, in fact; and, taken by itself, there is certainly nothing here to cause me to disbelieve the evidence of Miss Smithers.
"One question only seems to me to remain.

Is there anything to show that the testator was not, at the time of the execution of the will, of a sound and disposing mind?
and is there anything in his conduct or history to render the hypothesis of his having executed his will so improbable that the Court should take the improbability into account?
As to the first point, I can find nothing.

Miss Smithers expressly swore that it was not the case; nor was her statement shaken by a very searching cross-examination.

She admitted, indeed, that shortly before death he wandered in his mind, and thought that he was surrounded by the shades of authors waiting to be revenged upon him.