to some third person, whose
name I have my own reasons for not mentioning in my will. That is
a Secret Trust.

"If I am right in my own persuasion that such a document as I
here describe is at this moment in Admiral Bartram's possession
-- a persuasion based, in the first instance, on the
extraordinary words that I have quoted to you; and, in the second
instance, on purely legal considerations with which it is
needless to incumber my letter -- if I am right in this opinion,
the discovery of the Secret Trust would be, in all probability, a
most important discovery to your interests. I will not 
you with technical reasons, or with references to my experience
in these matters, which only a professional man could understand.
I will merely say that I don't give up your cause as utterly
lost, until the conviction now impressed on my own mind is proved
to be wrong.

"I can add no more, while this important question still remains
involved in doubt; neither can I suggest any means of solving
that doubt. If the existence of the Trust was proved, and if the
nature of the stipulations contained in it was made known to me,
I could then say positively what the legal chances were of your
being able