"Bother it, he is coming," thought Geoffrey.
But no, the solicitor bending forward informed him that the
Attorney-General had been unavoidably detained by some important
Government matter, and had returned his brief.
"Well, we must get on as we can," Geoffrey said.
"If you continue like that we shall get on very well," whispered the
solicitors, and then Geoffrey knew that he was doing well.
"Yes, Mr. Bingham!" said his Lordship.
Then Geoffrey went on with his statement.
At lunch time it was a question whether another leader should be
briefed. Geoffrey said that so far as he was concerned he could get on
alone. He knew every point of the case, and he had got a friend to "take
a note" for him while he was speaking.
After some hesitation the solicitors decided not to brief fresh counsel
at this stage of the case, but to leave it entirely in his hands.
It would be useless to follow the details of this remarkable will suit,
which lasted two days, and attracted much attention. Geoffrey won it and
won it triumphantly. His address to the jury on the whole case was
long remembered in the courts, rising as it did to a very high level of
forensic eloquence.
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