"Without doubt, he did; but allow me to call your attention to one point, Mr.Scott.

You see how little actual knowledge you have of this affair.

There are others--Mrs.
LaGrange, for instance, and the mysterious individual whom she heard conversing with Mr.Mainwaring on the night of the murder,--all of whom know as much or more than you; and while this meagre knowledge of the case might perhaps have been sufficient to bring to bear upon Mainwaring himself, personally, it would have little or no weight with those with whom we would now have to deal.

You know nothing of the terms of the will, or of the persons named as beneficiaries, whom, consequently, Hugh Mainwaring defrauded.

You have no proof that he destroyed the will.