"Yes, sir," said Mr. Gubb. "I signed my signature onto that document two times as requested so to do by the late deceased. He come over to my official deteckative headquarters and asked me to step across and do him the pleasure of a small favor and I done so. Yes, sir, that's my signed signature. And that's my signed signature also likewise." "Did he say anything, Mr. Gubb?" asked the Judge. "He says, 'Gubb, this is my last will and testament, and I wish you to sign your signature onto it as a witness.' So he put the paper in front of me. 'Where'll I sign it?' I says. 'Sign it right here under Mr. Bilton's name,' he says. So I signed my signature like he told me." "Yes," said the Judge, "and Mr. O'Hara blotted it with a piece of blotting-paper, did he not?" "He so done," said Mr. Gubb. "And then what?" "Then he turned the paper over," said Mr. Gubb, "and he says, 'Now, please sign this one.' So I signed it." "Under Mr. Bilton's name again?" said the Judge. "Why, no," said the paper-hanger detective. "Not under it, because it wasn't located nowhere to have an under to it. Mr. Bilton hadn't signed on that side yet." There was an instant sensation. "Bilton hadn't signed that side?" said Mr. Higgins. "Which side hadn't he signed?" "The other side from the side he had signed," said Mr. Gubb. "Did you notice which side he had not signed?" insisted Mr. Higgins. "Was it this side that mentions Mrs. Doblin, or this side that mentions Mrs. Kinsey? Which was it?" Mr. Gubb took the paper and examined it carefully. He turned it over and over. "Couldn't say," he said briefly. "In other words," said Mr. Burch, "you signed one side before Mr. Bilton signed and one side after he signed, but you don't know which?" "Yes, sir, I don't," said Mr. Gubb. "So," said Judge Mackinnon, with a smile, "you can swear you signed both these wills as witness, but you have no idea which you signed last, Mr. Gubb." "E-zactly so!" said Mr. Gubb with emphasis. "Now, just a minute," said Mr. Burch. "One of these Bilton signatures is 'M. Bilton' and the other is 'Max Bilton.' You don't recall which was on the paper when you signed, do you?" "Mr. Burch," said Mr. Gubb, "I wasn't taking no extra time to find out if a no-account feller like Mustard Bilton signed his name M. or Max or Methuselah. No, sir." "Do you know where Mustard Bilton is now?" asked Judge Mackinnon. "Don't know," said Mr. Gubb. The three lawyers consulted for a minute or two. Then the Judge turned to Gubb again. "And did Mr. O'Hara say anything more on the occasion when you signed the will?" asked the Judge. "He said, 'Thank you,'" said Mr. Gubb. "He said, 'Thank you, Sherlock Holmes.'" Higgins and Burch laughed, and even the Judge smiled, and they told Mr. Gubb he could go.