There seemed to me only two conceivable respects in which any objection could be raised, viz.

the competency of Jeffrey to execute a will and the possibility of undue influence having been brought to bear on him.
With reference to the first, there was the undoubted fact that Jeffrey was addicted to the opium habit, and this might, under some circumstances, interfere with a testator's competency to make a will.
But had any such circumstances existed in this case?
Had the drug habit produced such mental changes in the deceased as would destroy or weaken his judgment?
There was not a particle of evidence in favour of any such belief.

Up to the very end he had managed his own affairs, and, if his habits of life had undergone a change, they were still the habits of a perfectly sane and responsible man.
The question of undue influence was more difficult.

If it applied to any person in particular, that person could be none other than John Blackmore.

Now it was an undoubted fact that, of all Jeffrey's acquaintance, his brother John was the only one who knew that he was in residence at New Inn.