“Examine these signatures.”
“I am doing so.”
“If asked your opinion frankly as an outsider, would you incline to the belief that one hand had made both of these?”
“You insist on a reply?”
“I think you had better give it.”
“Then, according to my humble opinion, those letters are alike, and the chances are decidedly in favor of the same party having made both.”
“My opinion exactly—I would not swear to it but I put the chances in that way.”
Then he turned the paper over to Joe.
“What of this?” asked that worthy.
“There is nothing out of the way in it. I only had your wife write it out and sign her initials in order to compare it with the other document.”