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I suppose my days have been involved in as tragic circumstances as most. It is fair that the truth of them should be set down _en grande tenue_ by the one whom, after all, it most concerns. Not that for my own sake I desire for them more publicity, God knows, than they have received; but there is the question of the moral heirloom. The sensational Skene claim before the Lords of Common Pleas will be in the memory of a generation now passing: it is for the benefit of the generation to come, and the many thence ensuing, that I clothe these legal bones in the nerves and flesh of living actualities. There is such necessary omission and distortion in all trials of equity, that the plainest of their stories is grown a "Russian Scandal" before the senior counsel who engineered it has gone to his long home on the Bench. And this was an intricate story, which it is now my purpose, for the sake of myself and my own, to detail in full.
As to that story, it will be recalled that a Mr Richard Gaskett was, legally, its protagonist. Very well: I am that person.