From the tremulous
character of the letters and figures in both these documents,
which when magnified is the more easily detected, I therefore
conclude that both are forgeries, and I am ready to go farther
and say that they are forgeries from the same hand.
"It usually takes a couple of weeks after infection for typhoid
to develop, a time sufficient in itself to remove suspicion from
acts which might otherwise be scrutinised very carefully if
happening immediately before the disease developed. I may add,
also, that it is well known that stout people do very poorly when
they contract typhoid, especially if they are old. Mr. Bisbee was
both stout and old. To contract typhoid was for him a virtual
death-warrant. Knowing all these facts, a certain person
purposely sought out a crafty means of introducing typhoid fever
into Mr. Bisbee's family. That person, furthermore, was
inoculated against typhoid three times during the month before
the disease was devilishly and surreptitiously introduced into
Bisbee Hall, in order to protect himself or herself should it
become necessary for that person to visit Bisbee Hall. That
person, I believe, is the one who suffered from an aneurism of
the heart, the writer, or rather the forger, of the two documents
I have shown, by one of which he or she was to profit greatly by
the death of Mr.
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