h the letter to Dr Tamplin, and towards evening he ca

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not bring yourself to certify death as result of the accident? I consider it a mistake to admit the possibility of such a thing, so d-d damaging to the profession. And

st night and broke me a leg and two ribs. I'm too heavy for that kind of thing and he's a -- fool! But it was very dark and we're neither of us as young a

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prise him. But he had to make allowances for the old man's age and easy-goingness, and his lack of detailed knowledge of all the circumstan

situation, for, as deputy-coroner, he would have to call a jury himself,

inquest for ten o'clock the next morning, at the Hall; and to relieve Elinor as much as possible, he gave

ob was knocking on his front door, with half

t now?" he asked, fr

s you better come up

t's wrong

on't Mollie. She think

hard underfoot with frost that lay like snow, and white and gay with hedge-row lacery of spiders' webs in fe

has had a stroke?" asked the Doctor.

er bed all day an' all night without speakin' a word, Mollie says,-eatin' noth'n, and dr

worn out with n

h' house is a deal quieter wi'out him. But who's

Someone will turn up to

on who 'tis. Why not

ut," with a shake of the head, "I'll have other work to

, where she lay just as she had sunk down on th

spered Mollie impressively. "I covered her up, but she took no notice. A

llie," he whispered back. "And I'll see if I can induce her to take it. You did

hopeless despair. But Wulfrey's quick glance had caught the flutter of her heavy lids, and the gl

I have made it all right, Elinor.

d looked up into his face with all the ter

ething now, and then you had better lie still. Get some sleep if you can or you wil

. "You are quite sure they will

are so foolish as to t

errible in the dark. It was terrible ... terrible--" and sh

the necessary arrangements. There will hav

she sh

sent, so you will just lie still. It will not take long

" she murmured, with a f

haps she believed he had, after all, forsworn himself for her sake, and refrained from questioning him lest it should

with her deftly

in later on," and he went away to prepare the house