But he said: 'This is my will,' and the two witnesses read it and have identified it." "Did they read it aloud ?" asked Stephen.
"No, they did not," replied Thorndyke.
"Can you prove substitution ?" asked Marchmont.
"I haven't asserted it," answered Thorndyke, "My position is that the will is a forgery." "But it is not," said Winwood.
"We won't argue it now," said Thorndyke.

"I ask you to note the fact that the inscription was upside down.

I also observed on the walls of the chambers some valuable Japanese colour-prints on which were recent damp-spots.

I noted that the sitting-room had a gas-stove and that the kitchen contained practically no stores or remains of food and hardly any traces of even the simplest cooking.

In the bedroom I found a large box that had contained a considerable stock of hard stearine candles, six to the pound, and that was now nearly empty.