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The police authorities saw the carter and were conducted by him to the corpse, which, after examination, they brought to the dead-house in Beorminster. Then all doubt came to an end, and it was officially declared during the afternoon that Jentham, the military vagabond lately resident at The Derby Winner, had been shot through the heart.
This failure vexed the chaplain, as he wished to be forearmed in his interview with Jentham, but, as there was no help for it, he was obliged to put the cart before the horse in other words, to learn what he could from the man first and settle the bribery question by a peep into the cheque-book afterwards.
'No doubt, assented the bishop, indifferently, 'although I daresay so notorious a vagrant must have possessed at least half a dozen names. It was on the tip of Cargrim's tongue to ask by what name Jentham had been known to his superior, but restrained by the knowledge of his incapacity to follow up the question, he was wise enough not to put it.
'Strikes me as I'll go and look up Mother Jael. The result of an interview with that iniquitous old beldame proved that Jentham had certainly been the guest of the gipsies on Sunday evening but had returned to Beorminster shortly after nine o'clock.
'Well, she can't spot him, said Tinkler, emphatically, 'for all she knows about Jentham is thirty years old. Cargrim could scarcely suppress a start at this unexpected information. So Miss Whichello did know something about the dead man after all; and doubtless her connection with Jentham had to do with the secret of the bishop.
For the moment I assumed that it was, that he had shot Jentham, and that the stolen money had been used by him. 'But you hadn't the shadow of a proof, Mr Baltic. 'I had the pistol with the initials, retorted the missionary, 'but, as I said, I never suspected Mr Gabriel. I only assumed his guilt for the moment to enable me to trace the actual criminal.
'George! cried Miss Arden, and burst into tears. 'Oh, George! 'Curse you both! growled Jentham, rising slowly. 'I'll be even with you for that blow, my lad. 'I'll kick you into the next field if you don't clear out, retorted George Pendle. 'Did he hurt you, Mab? 'No! no! but I was afraid. I was at Mrs Tears, and was coming home with Ellen, when that man jumped on to us. Oh! oh! oh!
It would appear although of this I am not absolutely certain that the bishop knew Jentham when he occupied a more respectable position and answered to another name! 'Memorandum, wrote down Tinkler, 'to inquire if his lordship can supply information regarding the past of the so-called Jentham.
Some suggested that the gipsies camped on Southberry Heath, who were continually fighting amongst themselves, had killed the miserable creature; others, asserting that the scamp was desperately poor, hinted at suicide induced by sheer despair; but the most generally accepted opinion was that Jentham had been killed in some drunken frolic by one or more Irish harvesters.
'I don't mean that, cried Miss Whichello, laying a finger on her sister's certificate, 'but Jentham as Bosvile married Annie in 1869. 'He married my wife in October 1870, said the bishop, breathlessly. 'Then his second marriage was a false one, said Miss Whichello, 'for in that year, in that month, my sister was still alive. Mrs Pendle was never his wife.
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