It doesn't seem any use to speculate about it." "Exactly.

Either these bones are the remains of John Bellingham or they are not.

There will be no doubt on the subject when all the bones are assembled--if ever they are.

And the settlement of that question will probably throw light on the further question: Who deposited them in the places in which they were found?
But to return to your observations: did you gather nothing from the other bones?
From the complete state of the neck vertebrae, for instance ?" "Well, it did strike me as rather odd that the fellow should have gone to the trouble of separating the atlas from the skull.

He must have been pretty handy with the scalpel to have done it as cleanly as he seems to have done; but I don't see why he should have gone about the business in the most inconvenient way." "You notice the uniformity of method.