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Updated: June 26, 2025
'Dead by the visitation of God, according to the coroner, but I should call it an 'adjustment of averages. That is a felicitous phrase. I got my facts, by-the-way, from the janitor. He is rather proud of the affair Barowsky, as we may call it." "A monster, indeed!" I exclaimed, warmly. "Oh, we mustn't misjudge our good Dr. Magnus," said Indiman, indulgently.
The coroner read the statement aloud. Ten minutes later the verdict was given. The deceased, named severally, had met death by gunshot wounds, at the hands of parties unknown. It was a caustic verdict, intended for the benefit of the cattle-and horse-thieves of the Southwest. It conveyed the hint that the city of Phoenix was prompt to resent the presence of such gentry within its boundaries.
The coroner, seated at the table at the head of the room, took the usual formal evidence of identification, writing down the depositions upon separate sheets of blue foolscap.
These questions were visibly harassing him. "The night before the one the one which ended all my earthly happiness," he added in a low voice. Coroner Z. cast a glance at me. I remembered the lack of dust on the nest of little tables from which the upper one had been drawn forward to hold the candelabrum, and gently shook my head.
"It says nothing of the kind in the letter," the Coroner pointed out. "No, because Emily never could bear to put herself in the wrong. But I know her. She wanted me back. But she wasn't going to own that I'd been right. She went round about. Most people do. Don't believe in it myself." Mr. Wells smiled faintly. So, I noticed, did several of the jury.
We will summon the agent who happened to be on duty at that hour," said the coroner. And a messenger was immediately dispatched to Lone to bring the railway official in question. In the interim, several of the household servants were examined, but without bringing any new facts to light.
The two held a whispered consultation, after which the coroner returned to his desk. Britz and Ward occupied chairs at the farther end of the room, near the window. Half an hour passed, in which neither of them spoke. Presently an attendant entered and whispered to the coroner. "Bring Horace Beard over from the Tombs!" the coroner said aloud. Ward began to display signs of uneasiness.
The old frontiersman had sprung from his place and smashed his chair in twenty atoms on the table between the sheriff and the coroner. "Y'll not offend the deceased gentleman's memory? Y'll not offend his daughter here? An' the dead can't defend themselves?
"Chloroform," repeated the coroner, rather doubtfully, and it was evident that he had expected a poison and had not anticipated any result whatever from an examination of the lungs instead of the stomach to which he had confined his own work so far. "Could chloroform be discovered in the lungs or viscera after so many days?
She spoke sharply and aggressively, and so evidently in answer to Cass's unspoken indictment against her, that he was not surprised when she became more direct. "You know you were shocked when I went to fetch that Hornsby, the coroner, after we found the dead body." "Hornsby wasn't shocked," said Cass, a little viciously. "What do you mean?" she said, abruptly.
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