"Was there any special occasion for the visit you allude to?"
"I think there was, sir. He had just lost heavily in International Mail, and evidently came in to talk about business. At any rate, he did talk about it, as he had never done before."
"Can you give us the drift or substance of his conversation and statements?"
"Well, sir, he assured me that he had not been shaken by his losses, said that he kept his manufacturing business entirely separate from his speculations, gave me a history of the manner in which my brother's inventions had come into his hands, and, finally, showed me a little account book, in which he had recorded his profits from manufactures under what he called the Benedict Patents."
"Did you read this book, Mrs. Dillingham?"
"I did, sir."
"Every word?"
"Every word."
"Did you hear me serve a notice on the defendant's counsel to produce this book in Court?"
"I did, sir."