Have you acted on his advice ?" "Certainly not!" shouted the irascible lawyer.

"Do you suppose that we wish to make ourselves the laughing-stock of the courts?
The thing is impossible--ridiculously impossible!" "It can't be that, you know," I said, a little stiffly, for I was somewhat nettled by Mr.Winwood's manner, "or Thorndyke would not have written this letter.

The conclusion looks as impossible to me as it does to you; but I have complete confidence in Thorndyke.

If he says that the will is a forgery, I have no doubt that it is a forgery." "But how the deuce can it be ?" roared Winwood.

"You know the circumstances under which the will was executed." "Yes; but so does Thorndyke.