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All this was told to the son, to whom Falkner denounced himself as his mother's destroyer. He named the spot where the remains would be found. And now what was left to be done? Only to wait a little, while Sir Boyvill and Gerard Neville proved his words, and traced out the grave. An inquest was held, and Falkner apprehended.
I slept in Mrs. Schuyler's dressing room, as I always do when I'm here. Then when Jepson told me the the awful news, I awoke Mrs. Schuyler and told her." "Yes," said Stone. "I read all about that in the inquest report." "Now," said Fleming Stone, after he had learned all he desired from the Schuyler household, "now, if you please, I would like to go over the Van Allen house. You have the keys, Mr.
Piggott was discovered bumping up against the wharf at the gas-works in the river. People began to be scared, and there was some talk to the effect that he had been murdered and couldn't rest quietly in his grave. But the coroner was not scared. He empaneled a jury, held another inquest, collected his fees and buried the body.
I will stop with you until the inquest is over, and then you had better come over and have lunch with us." "Thank you; I cannot do so," Mark said, "though I should like to. In the first place, Millicent will come downstairs this afternoon, and I should like to be in to meet her.
He was guilty as sin, anyhow. If he didn't kill the old man, it wasn't because he didn't want to. Maybe he did. The testimony at the inquest, as I read the papers, left it that maybe the blow on the head had killed Cunningham. Anyhow, I wasn't gonna mix myself in it." Kirby said nothing. He looked out of the window of his room without seeing anything.
'I said I would send some one from here to arrange what was to be done after the inquest. Broadbent immediately undertook to go, if his master did not require him, and this was thought advisable, as his services were certainly not acceptable to Mr. Egremont.
He could prove to the satisfaction of everybody that the man who was last seen with the drowned man or was supposed to have been seen with him according to some very sketchy evidence at the inquest, which never amounted to anything was the man who pushed him off the bridge.
That's the reason I hustled away after the inquest. The story's all in, and now we'll have a good dinner if I do say it myself and then a good talk. I feel the need of a talk, Lester." "So do I," I said; "though I'm afraid talking won't help us much." "The funny thing about this case is," mused Godfrey, "that the farther we get into it the thicker it grows."
There might be nothing in it, he said to himself, over and over again; everything that seemed strange might be easily explained; the evidence of Pratt at the inquest had appeared absolutely truthful and straightforward, and yet the blunt, rough, downright question of the blacksmith, crudely voiced as it was, found a ready agreement in Collingwood's mind.
Carson." So, indeed, it was. At the inquest the policeman who had witnessed the quarrel between the rivals testified to the threats uttered by Jem; and the gun used by the murderer, and thrown away by him in his haste to escape, had been proved to be Jem's property. Jem an assassin, and because of her!
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