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Strangest of all is it that, though they allege that my father
would not permit them to let the property, they should never produce this will
from which one could have learned the truth, and that having destroyed so
important a piece of evidence, they should expect you to believe them on their
mere word. It was their duty on the contrary, as soon as my father died, to call
in a number of witnesses and to bid them seal the will, so that, in case any
dispute should arise, it would have been possible to refer to the writing
itself, and so learn the whole truth.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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