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With
a
satisfied
and
expressive
countenance
,
Sir
Ernest
observed
:
“
I
have
nothing
more
to
ask
you
,
Mr
.
Cavendish
.
”
This
bit
of
cross
-
examination
had
caused
great
excitement
in
court
.
The
heads
of
the
many
fashionably
attired
women
present
were
busily
laid
together
,
and
their
whispers
became
so
loud
that
the
judge
angrily
threatened
to
have
the
court
cleared
if
there
was
not
immediate
silence
.
There
was
little
more
evidence
.
The
hand
-
writing
experts
were
called
upon
for
their
opinion
of
the
signature
of
“
Alfred
Inglethorp
”
in
the
chemist
’
s
poison
register
.
They
all
declared
unanimously
that
it
was
certainly
not
his
hand
-
writing
,
and
gave
it
as
their
view
that
it
might
be
that
of
the
prisoner
disguised
.
Cross
-
examined
,
they
admitted
that
it
might
be
the
prisoner
’
s
hand
-
writing
cleverly
counterfeited
.
Sir
Ernest
Heavywether
’
s
speech
in
opening
the
case
for
the
defence
was
not
a
long
one
,
but
it
was
backed
by
the
full
force
of
his
emphatic
manner
.
Never
,
he
said
,
in
the
course
of
his
long
experience
,
had
he
known
a
charge
of
murder
rest
on
slighter
evidence
.
Not
only
was
it
entirely
circumstantial
,
but
the
greater
part
of
it
was
practically
unproved
.
Let
them
take
the
testimony
they
had
heard
and
sift
it
impartially
.
The
strychnine
had
been
found
in
a
drawer
in
the
prisoner
’
s
room
.
That
drawer
was
an
unlocked
one
,
as
he
had
pointed
out
,
and
he
submitted
that
there
was
no
evidence
to
prove
that
it
was
the
prisoner
who
had
concealed
the
poison
there
.
It
was
,
in
fact
,
a
wicked
and
malicious
attempt
on
the
part
of
some
third
person
to
fix
the
crime
on
the
prisoner
.
The
prosecution
had
been
unable
to
produce
a
shred
of
evidence
in
support
of
their
contention
that
it
was
the
prisoner
who
ordered
the
black
beard
from
Parkson
’
s
.
The
quarrel
which
had
taken
place
between
prisoner
and
his
stepmother
was
freely
admitted
,
but
both
it
and
his
financial
embarrassments
had
been
grossly
exaggerated
.
His
learned
friend
—
Sir
Ernest
nodded
carelessly
at
Mr
.
Philips
—
had
stated
that
if
the
prisoner
were
an
innocent
man
,
he
would
have
come
forward
at
the
inquest
to
explain
that
it
was
he
,
and
not
Mr
.
Inglethorp
,
who
had
been
the
participator
in
the
quarrel
.
He
thought
the
facts
had
been
misrepresented
.
What
had
actually
occurred
was
this
.
The
prisoner
,
returning
to
the
house
on
Tuesday
evening
,
had
been
authoritatively
told
that
there
had
been
a
violent
quarrel
between
Mr
.
and
Mrs
.
Inglethorp
.
No
suspicion
had
entered
the
prisoner
’
s
head
that
anyone
could
possibly
have
mistaken
his
voice
for
that
of
Mr
.
Inglethorp
.
He
naturally
concluded
that
his
stepmother
had
had
two
quarrels
.
The
prosecution
averred
that
on
Monday
,
July
16th
,
the
prisoner
had
entered
the
chemist
’
s
shop
in
the
village
,
disguised
as
Mr
.
Inglethorp
.
The
prisoner
,
on
the
contrary
,
was
at
that
time
at
a
lonely
spot
called
Marston
’
s
Spinney
,
where
he
had
been
summoned
by
an
anonymous
note
,
couched
in
blackmailing
terms
,
and
threatening
to
reveal
certain
matters
to
his
wife
unless
he
complied
with
its
demands
.
The
prisoner
had
,
accordingly
,
gone
to
the
appointed
spot
,
and
after
waiting
there
vainly
for
half
an
hour
had
returned
home
.
Unfortunately
,
he
had
met
with
no
one
on
the
way
there
or
back
who
could
vouch
for
the
truth
of
his
story
,
but
luckily
he
had
kept
the
note
,
and
it
would
be
produced
as
evidence
.
As
for
the
statement
relating
to
the
destruction
of
the
will
,
the
prisoner
had
formerly
practised
at
the
Bar
,
and
was
perfectly
well
aware
that
the
will
made
in
his
favour
a
year
before
was
automatically
revoked
by
his
stepmother
’
s
remarriage
.
