Can you possibly have forgotten that Sir Gilbert
Hawkesby was the judge who tried Mrs. Lorimer for the murder of her
husband?"
"Oh!" said the Major, "I had forgotten. I never took the same interest
in that case that you did, J.J."
"Well, he was. He was the very judge who summed up so strongly against
the poor woman. I suppose now it will hardly be necessary for me to
explain how his arrival at Doyle's hotel is likely to affect our plans?"
"Do you want me to invite him out in the _Spindrift_? If so, I hope to
goodness he won't be sick. I had enough of that yesterday."
"I sometimes think, Major, that you pretend to be stupid simply to
annoy me. Don't you see that sooner or later he's bound to come across
Miss King? He'll see her next Sunday in church, if he doesn't meet her
sooner. He'll recognise her at once. The trial occupied ten days, and
during the whole of that time she was standing opposite to him and he
was studying her face. He can't fail to know her again when he sees
her. Now, recollect that he believed in her guilt. I pointed out to
you at the time that he summed up dead against her--"
"I don't believe she was guilty, J.
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