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She wore a thick black veil, and grey waterproof cloak, when she left him, and her luggage was two boxes, one of plain deal, with black japanned clamps, the other sewn up in canvas. Joseph Chinney, porter at the Carriford Road Station, deposed that he saw Mrs. Manston, dressed as the last witness had described, get out of a second-class carriage on the night of the twenty-eighth.
He was a man noisy with his associates stolid and taciturn with strangers. 'Is it true that he is Chinney, the railway-porter? 'That's the man, sir. The maids and men sitting under the cows were all attentively listening to this discourse, milking irregularly, and softly directing the jets against the sides of the pail.
He wished he was dead, he said, and he's almost out of his mind wi' wishen it so much. That was before Mr. Raunham came. 'Who is he? said Owen. 'Joseph Chinney, one of the railway-porters; he used to be night-porter. 'Ah the man who was ill this afternoon; by the way, he was told to come to the Old House for something, but he hasn't been.
The writers, with scarcely an exception, dwelt forcibly upon a feature which had at first escaped the observation of the villagers, including Mr. Raunham that if the announcement of the man Chinney were true, it seemed extremely probable that Mrs.
The first thing he did the next morning was to call at Knapwater House; where he found that Miss Aldclyffe was not well enough to see him. She had been ailing from slight internal haemorrhage ever since the confession of the porter Chinney.
The most abandoned roue could not, at that particular crisis, have taken such a reckless step for the mere pleasure of a new companion. Owen had seen that difficulty about the motive; Cytherea had not. 'Unfortunately for us, the rector resumed, 'no more evidence is to be obtained from the porter, Chinney. I suppose you know what became of him?
'Don't think there is meant anything unfriendly by my coming here, said Owen earnestly; 'but listen to this, and think if I could do otherwise than come. He took from his pocket the confession of Chinney the porter, as hastily written out by the vicar, and read it aloud.
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