"Any bills of acceptance?"
"None."
"Nothing of any value?"
"Nothing."
"Look at this visiting card which was presented to Lady Wharton on Thursday night in Bournemouth. Do you recognise it as one of Mr. Samuel Boyd's regular visiting cards?"
"It is exactly like. There are thirty or forty similar cards in a drawer in the writing table."
"You are doubtless familiar with Mr. Boyd's handwriting?"
"I was very familiar with it, but that is some time ago. I may err in my recollection of it."
"So far as your recollection serves is this letter received by Lady Wharton on the 6th of March, and dated the 5th, in his writing?"
"It cannot be his writing because on the 5th of March he was dead."