Here is the letter from the solicitors giving the facts as far as they are known at present.

On the shelves there you will find Casper, Taylor, Guy and Ferrier, and the other authorities on medical jurisprudence, and I will put out one or two other books that you may find useful.

I want you to extract and make classified notes of everything that may bear on such a case as the present one may turn out to be.

We must go prepared to meet any contingency that may arise.

This is my invariable practice, and even if the case turns out to be quite simple, the labour is never wasted, for it represents so much experience gained." "Casper and Taylor are pretty old, aren't they ?" I objected.
"So is suicide," he retorted drily.