The granting of such permission involves us in the gravest responsibility.

An ill-considered decision might be productive of a serious injustice to the testator, an injustice that could never be remedied.

Hence it is incumbent upon you to weigh the evidence with the greatest care, to come to no decision without the profoundest consideration of all the facts.
"The evidence that you have heard divides itself into two parts--that relating to the circumstances of the testator's disappearance, and that relating to certain human remains.

In connection with the latter I can only express my surprise and regret that the application was not postponed until the completion of the coroner's inquest, and leave you to consider the evidence.

You will bear in mind that Doctor Summers has stated explicitly that the remains cannot be identified as those of any particular individual, but that the testator and the unknown deceased had so many points of resemblance that they might possibly be one and the same person.
"With reference to the circumstances of the disappearance, you have heard the evidence of Mr.Jellicoe to the effect that the testator has on no previous occasion gone abroad without informing him as to his proposed destination.