20/29 I exchanged a few words with him after the examination and was struck myself with the strangeness of his tone. Won't you see him ?" "I think that any talk is bad for him," the doctor said. "I have put a strong dose of opium in this tea, and I hope it will send him off to sleep. When he recovers I will see him." "I think, doctor," the constable said significantly, "it would be a good thing if you were to see him at once. You see, if things go against him, and between ourselves the case is a very ugly one, if you could get in the box and say that you saw him here, and that, in your opinion, his mind was shaken, and that as likely as not he had not been responsible for his actions from the time he left his mother's house, it might save his life." "That is a capital idea," Dr.Green said, "and Porson's evidence would back mine. |