I am just going to write to Marchmont advising him to enter a caveat." "Do you mean to say that you have discovered a flaw in the will, after all ?" "A flaw!" he exclaimed.

"My dear Jervis, that second will is a forgery." I stared at him in amazement; for his assertion sounded like nothing more or less than arrant nonsense.
"But the thing is impossible, Thorndyke," I said.

"Not only did the witnesses recognize their own signatures and the painter's greasy finger-marks, but they had both read the will and remembered its contents." "Yes; that is the interesting feature in the case.

It is a very pretty problem.

I shall give you a last chance to solve it.