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nursed him so carefully in his last illness, and not disinherit her in order to benefit charities in which, during his lifetime, he had never taken any active interest. A calm, tem perate piece of unaffected but convincing advocacy. The judge's summing up was certainly cruelly sarcastic, and did not spare the widow

or favor our case. The jury, without leav ing the box, found that the allegation of for gery failed, but, to my surprise, took two long hours before they found that the allegations of undue influence and incapacity had also failed. » And so ended this most remarkable case, a case literally " saved by a pancake."