Gypsy Aaros Boswell is arrested for beating up tanker driver John Webb. Greville Carnforth gets him out on bail but Boswell wants to be free to roam but is not wanted. When he shoots a policeman Carnforth has to get him to surrender.
Miss Railton changes her Will, leaving her money to charity. When she dies, Carnforth acts executor and discovers she held £62,000 in shares. Her brother, a judge, insists the money was given to him but Carnforth believes it is fraudulent.
Lady Mary is keen to stage a play about witchcraft. Dr. Helen Rheinman struggles to convince psychosomatic Ann Pollock that she can walk. She learns Ann is obsessed with witch Martha Webb and talks of a mysterious masked man.
Greville Carnforth represents George Hale at the Inquest of his wife Elizabeth Joan. The verdict concludes it was an accidental overdose. However George, later, gets drunk and confesses that he committed the perfect crime.
Landowner Col. Douglas has called in Greville Carnforth to deal with Norman Coniston, who he has a long standing feud. Douglas is an off-comer who is driving the locals away. Carnforth is stuck because he also represents Coniston.
Adam Burton is an accomplished artist who is deaf and dumb. His mother Nancy lives, in Raven House, on the Carnforth Estate, paying a peppercorn rent. Carnforth represents her and starts to think that Adam maybe his half-brother.