A Fair Fraud — page 226: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XVI NayLor was off to town before most of th. inhabitants of Crookthorpe Hall had risen from their beds. He had said his good-byes over night, and no one but the butler speeded his departure. Some hours later the inquest on the dead man was held in the library. There were present at it the master of the house and his son, the two Grigsons, Mr and Mrs Watson from the farm, and _ several labourers, gamekeepers and servants who were able to give evidence conc rning the dead man and the manner in which he came by his death. As far as the man himself was concerned, there was little enough that was known of him. | He had given his name to the Watsons as William Hicks, and had mentioned that he came from London. He had been just upon a week at the farm, but Mrs Watson could not say from what motives he had come in mid- winter to take up his abode at their out-of-the- world dwelling. She supposed it was from 215 CCOLLVUC JOO