5/26 But you heard my evidence in Court, to the effect that the testator appeared, to my untutored observation, to be a healthy man. I can say no more now." "If the question is of any importance," said Miss Bellingham, "I wonder they did not call his doctor and settle it definitely. My own impression is that he was--or is--rather a strong and sound man. He certainly recovered very quickly and completely after his accident." "What accident was that ?" I asked. He slipped from a high kerb and broke one of the bones of the left ankle--somebody's fracture--" "Pott's ?" "Yes, that was the name--Pott's fracture; and he broke both his knee-caps as well. |