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George Jarnock, and the Rector had stood for a couple of minutes, talking, whilst old Bellett the butler went 'round, putting out the candles. "Suddenly, the Rector remembered that he had left his small prayer book on the Communion table in the morning; he turned, and asked the butler to get it for him before he blew out the chancel candles.
You see, the Rector's turning to speak to Bellett had naturally caused both Sir Alfred Jarnock and his son to glance in the direction of the butler, and it was at this identical instant and whilst all three were looking at him, that the old butler was stabbed there, full in the candlelight, before their eyes. "I took the opportunity to call early upon the Rector, after I had questioned Mr.
Happily for him he was able to read, and as capable as ever of writing, as he shewed me, by putting into my hands an account of his present situation, drawn up by himself: and I am informed that he spent his time to the very last, in writing upon some of the most abstruse subjects.” This gentleman died about four years after the accident, when the body was examined by Dr. Bellett and Mons.
He pictured to me the whole affair Bellett, up at the chancel gate, going for the prayer book, and absolutely alone; and then the blow, out of the Void, he described it; and the force prodigious the old man being driven headlong into the body of the Chapel.
And old Bellett himself knew that no living person had touched him.... 'Out of the Void, the Rector had described the inhumanly brutal attack. 'Out of the Void! A strange feeling it gives one eh? "And this is the thing that I had been called in to bottom! "After considerable thought, I decided on a plan of action.
Bellett offers the following explanation of these changes. “I conceive, that, by this accident, the head being violently bent to the right, the nervous membranes on the left were excessively stretched and irritated; that this cause extended by degrees to the spinal marrow, which being thereby compressed, brought on the paralytic symptoms, not only of the left arm, but at last in some measure also of the right.
I stooped over it and pointed. There, driven right through the thick steel breastplate, was the 'waeful dagger. "Good God!" said young Jarnock again. "Good God! It's the dagger! The thing's been stabbed, same as Bellett!" "Yes," I replied, and saw him glance swiftly toward the entrance of the Chapel. But I will do him the justice to say that he never budged an inch.
"The poor old fellow could not talk much, and I soon left him; but what he had told me was sufficient to make it unmistakable that no living person had been within yards of him when he was attacked; and, as I knew, this fact was verified by three capable and responsible witnesses, independent of Bellett himself. "The thing now was to search the Chapel, which is small and extremely old.
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