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Whether or not Mr Jellicoe was surprised to see us, it is impossible to say His countenance (which served the ordinary purposes of a face, inasans of special sense, with the inlets to the alimentary and respiratory tracts) was, as an apparatus for the expression of the eht-reader it would have been about as helpful as the face carved upon the handle of an uested, perhaps, by a certain rese his open note-book and pencil, and having saluted us with a stiff bow and an old-fashioned flourish of his hat, shook hands rheumatically and waited for us to speak

"This is an unexpected pleasure, Mr Jellicoe," said Miss Bellinghaood of you to say so," he replied

"And quite a coincidence--that we should all happen to come here on the same day"

"A coincidence, certainly," he admitted; "and if we had all happened not to come--which must have occurred frequently--that also would have been a coincidence"

"I suppose it would," said she, "but I hope we are not interrupting you"

"Thank you, no I had just finished when I had the pleasure of perceiving you"

"You were ine," said I It was an iht for thehi, perhaps, to Stevens versus the Parish Council?"

"I think Doctor Berkeley was referring to the case of h with a suspicious di about the corners of her mouth

"Indeed," said Mr Jellicoe "There is a case, is there; a suit?"

"I s instituted by Mr Hurst"

"Oh, but that was merely an application to the Court, and is, moreover, finished and done with At least, so I understand I speak, of course, subject to correction; I a for Mr Hurst, you will be pleased to remember As a matter of fact," he continued, after a brief pause, "I was just refreshingof the inscriptions on these stones, especially that of your grandfather, Francis Bellingham It has occurred toof the coroner's jury that your uncle is deceased, it would be proper and decorous that soround is closed, therea newan inscription to one already existing Hence these investigations For if the inscription on your grandfather's stone had set forth that 'here rests the body of Francis Bellingham,' it would have been ham, son of the above' Fortunately the inscription wasthe fact that this monument is 'sacred to theitself as to the whereabouts of the re you?"