“What is to-day?” he asked as I gave him the document.
“Wednesday,” I answered.
“It is too late now,” he whispered. “I have lived too long. I revoke this.” He tore the paper as he spoke.
We proved the old Will, but he had perfected his plans only too well. It was difficult to make out a case of mistaken identity for the body in the Adirondacks, and it was months before we established our rights to the insurance moneys. His estate did not realise quite $100,000, but after a close examination into his affairs I am persuaded all Josiah Bateman claimed he could accomplish was possible, and that everything he told me that night was absolutely true.
THE FINDING OF FACT.
“But their wild exultation was suddenly checked,
As the Jailer informed them with tears,
Such a verdict would not have the slightest effect,
As the pig had been dead for some years.”
LEWIS CARROLL.
“Anything on this morning, Counsellor?”