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"No, not at all," replied Miss Bellinghato the British Museum and just looked in here on our way"

"Ha," said Mr Jellicoe, "now, I happen to be going to the Museum too, to see Doctor Norbury I suppose that is another coincidence?"

"Certainly it is," Miss Bellinghaether?" and the old cureon actually said "yes"--confound him!

We returned to the Gray's Inn Road, where, as there was now room for us to walk abreast, I proceeded to inde the conversation back to the subject of the , Mr Jellicoe, in Mr John Bellinghaht die suddenly?"

The lawyer looked at me suspiciously for a few reatly interested in John Bellingham and his affairs"

"I am My friends are deeply concerned in them, and the case itself is of more than common interest fro of this particular question?"

"Surely it is obvious," said I "If aman is known to have suffered from soeneration, likely to produce sudden death, that fact will surely be highly material to the question as to whether he is probably dead or alive"

"No doubt you are right," said Mr Jellicoe "I have little knowledge of ht As to the question itself, I aham's lawyer, not his doctor His health is a matter that lies outside my jurisdiction 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 iham, "I wonder they did not call his doctor and settle it definitely My own i and sound man He certainly recovered very quickly and completely after his accident"

"What accident was that?" I asked

"Oh, hasn'twith us He slipped froh 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 Sir Morgan Bennet had to perform an operation, or he would have been a cripple for life As it was, he was about again in a feeeks, apparently none the worse excepting for a slight weakness of the left ankle"