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Mr Manston deposed that in looking down the columns of Bradshaw he had mistaken the time of the train's arrival, and hence was not at the station when she came The broken watch produced was his wife's--he knew it by a scratch on the inner plate, and by other signs The bunch of keys belonged to her: two of theent to Lord Claydonfield at Chettlewood, said that Mr

Manston had pleaded as his excuse for leaving hi after their day's business had been settled, that he was going toby the last train that night

The surgeon said that the rement seemed a portion of one of the lumbar vertebrae--the other the head of the os feone that it was ied to the body of a male or female There was no moral doubt that they were a wo by fire He thought she was crushed by the fall of the west gable, which being of wood, as well as the floor, burnt after it had fallen, and consuave unimportant testimony

The coroner summed up, and the jury without hesitation found that the deceased Mrs Manston ca of the Three Tranters Inn

3 DECEMBER THE SECOND AFTERNOON When Mr Springrove ca Sun at the end of the inquiry, Manston walked by his side as far as the stile to the park, a distance of about a stone's-throw

'Ah, Mr Springrove, this is a sad affair for everybody concerned' 'Everybody,' said the old farmer, with deep sadness, ''tis quite a h each day as it breaks I think of the words, "In thethou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were ! for the fear of thine heart ith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see"' His voice became broken

'Ah--true I read Deuterono to yours,' the far; but I can co if I didn't, although my own affliction is of so sad and solemn a kind Indeed my own loss makes me more keenly alive to yours, different in nature as it is' 'What sum do you think would be required of ht six or seven hundred pounds' 'If the letter of the law is to be acted up to,' said the old itation in his voice