"Very well, sir; that is all I wish to trouble you with."
The Attorney-General sat down, but Todd's counsel rose, and said—
"Did you ever have a similar case to that of Mr. Thornhill's under your treatment?"
"Never a precisely similar one."
"But you have heard of such cases?"
"Certainly."
"They are sufficiently common, not to be positively rare and curious in the profession?"
"They are not common, but still they do occur sufficiently often to lose the character of rarity."
"Of course. You have no other means of identifying the bone, but by its having been fractured in the way you describe?"
"Certainly not."