Chapter 79

“I wish you to bear especially in mind that I have spoken of a very unusual degree of activity as requisite to success in so hazardous and so difficult a feat. It is my design to show you, first, that the thing might possibly have been accomplished—but, secondly and _chiefly_, I wish to impress upon your understanding the very _extraordinary_—the almost praeternatural character of the agility which could have accomplished it. “You will say, no doubt, using the language of the law, that ‘to make out my case’ I shoul…