“Then you will observe that the remarkable change in Mr. Jeffrey’s habits coincides in the most singular way with the same events. The cancer must have been detectable as early as September of last year; about the time, in fact, at which Mrs. Wilson made her will. Mr. Jeffrey went to the inn at the beginning of October. From that time his habits were totally changed, and I can demonstrate to you that a change⁠—not a gradual, but an abrupt change⁠—took place in the character of his signature.

“In short, the whole of this peculiar set of circumstances⁠—the change in Jeffrey’s habits, the change in his signature, and the execution of his strange will⁠—came into existence about the time when Mrs. Wilson was first known to be suffering from cancer.

“This struck me as a very suggestive fact.