"Science was not against you, Mrs. Godwin.
Ignorance was against you. And your intuition does not go contrary
to science this time, either."
It was a splendid exhibition of fine feeling which Kennedy waited
to have impressed on the Elmores, as though burning it into their
minds.
"Miriam Elmore knew that her brothers had forged a will and hidden
it. To expose them was to convict them of a crime. She kept their
secret, which was the secret of all three. She even tried to hide
the finger-prints which would have branded her brothers.
"For ptomaine poisoning had unexpectedly hastened the end of old
Mr. Godwin. Then gossip and the 'scientists' did the rest. It was
accidental, but Bradford and Lambert Elmore were willing to let
events take their course and declare genuine the forgery which
they had made so skilfully, even though it convicted an innocent
man of murder and killed his faithful wife. As soon as the courts
can be set in motion to correct an error of science by the truth
of later science, Sing Sing will lose one prisoner from the death
house and gain two forgers in his place.
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