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convey away estates " of thousands of broad acres upon 

 the famous downland of three counties," simply to 

 hurry on a chancery lawsuit ? I think that even his 

 able and earnest advocacy will fail to arouse such a 

 belief. The truth is that the weakest point of the latest 

 defence of Darrell is the graceful negligence with which 

 his advocate avoids the main, the one, issue. We have 

 pages of farm accounts and household expenses, all 





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very interesting and creditable, but only a contemptuous 

 allusion here and there to the alleged horrible and 

 mysterious crime. 



Mr. Hall, to be plain, treats the whole accusation of 

 murder brought against Darrell as so much vindictive 

 cackle. On what grounds it is difficult to conjecture, 

 unless indeed it be that Darrell, when accused of murder 



