The doctor was
carefully carried out, and set in the presiding chair as coroner over
the third inquest within two days.
CHAPTER XVI.
Inquest and Consequences--Orther Lom--Coolness--Evening
Service--Mr. Pawkins and the Constable--Two Songs--Marjorie, Mr.
Biggles and the Crawfish--Coristine Falls Foul of Mr. Lamb--Mr.
Lamb Falls Foul of the Whole Company--The Captain's Couplet--Miss
Carmichael Feels it Her Duty to Comfort Mr. Lamb.
It is unnecessary to relate the details of the inquest. By various
marks, as well as by the testimony of the woman Flower and of Mr. Bangs
and his party, the remains were identified as those of Rawdon and his
wounded henchman Flower. Some of the jurymen wished to bring in a
verdict of "Died from the visitation of God," but this the Squire, who
was foreman, would not allow. He called it flat blasphemy; so it was
altered to: "Died by the explosion of illicit spirits, through a fire
kindled by the wife of the principal victim, Altamont Rawdon." Nobody
demanded the arrest of Matilda; hence the Squire and the doctor did not
feel called upon to issue a warrant for that purpose.
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