He can repeat the process until he kills his victim and then get a certificate from you which will cover the murder.

It was quite an ingenious scheme--which, by the way, is characteristic of intricate crimes; your subtle criminal often plans his crime like a genius, but he generally executes it like a fool--as this man seems to have done, if we are not doing him an injustice." "How has he acted like a fool ?" "In several respects.

In the first place, he should have chosen his doctor.

A good, brisk, confident man who 'knows his own mind' is the sort of person who would have suited him; a man who would have jumped at a diagnosis and stuck to it; or else an ignorant weakling of alcoholic tendencies.

It was shockingly bad luck to run against a cautious scientific practitioner like my learned friend.