“In a sense, I suppose I was. He was very good to me.”
“You are his sole executor?”
“Yes.”
“And he left particular instructions that his papers were to be committed to your charge?”
“That is so.”
“Have you been through them?”
“Cursorily only.”
“From what you have seen or from what you know, have you formed any opinion as to who could have wished to bring about his death?”
“Absolutely no. Even now, even after what all these expert medical witnesses have said, I find it difficult to believe that Sir Garth was murdered, or even that there was an attack upon him. I know it must sound unreasonable in the face of such testimony, but I simply cannot bring myself to believe it.”
The Coroner gave an almost unnoticeable shrug of the shoulders.