From that time his habits were totally changed, and I can demonstrate to you that a change--not a gradual, but an abrupt change--took place in the character of his signature.
"In short, the whole of this peculiar set of circumstances--the change in Jeffrey's habits, the change in his signature, and the execution of his strange will--came into existence about the time when Mrs.Wilson was first known to be suffering from cancer.
"This struck me as a very suggestive fact.
"Then there is the extraordinarily opportune date of Mr.Jeffrey's death.

Mrs.Wilson died on the twelfth of March.

Mr.Jeffrey was found dead on the fifteenth of March, having apparently died on the fourteenth, on which day he was seen alive.

If he had died only three days sooner, he would have predeceased Mrs.Wilson, and her property would never have devolved on him at all; while, if he had lived only a day or two longer, he would have learned of her death and would certainly have made a new will or codicil in his nephew's favour.
"Circumstances, therefore, conspired in the most singular manner in favour of John Blackmore.
"But there is yet another coincidence.

Jeffrey's body was found, by the merest chance, the day after his death.