Shadow of the Past (2011)
“He was a fashionable-looking man of some forty years, broad-shouldered and erect, with still-dark hair. He was dressed with elegance, his coat surely cut by Weston. He had been provided with an oak refectory table and a handsome but viciously uncomfortable Elizabethan straight-backed chair, both from the gun room. His clerk, sitting a few feet from him, occupied a much lowlier – but probably more comfortable – stool.
Vernon noted with apparent approval and a respectful bow the presence of L...ady Chase, whom I had not expected to attend the proceedings. Presumably these would be very short, a question of my giving evidence of finding the corpse, a brief account of our attempts to identify the man, Toone’s evidence that he met his death before he fell into the water, and then – pending other information – an adjournment.
I was indeed the first called to the witness stand, but scarcely had I begun my account than Mr Vernon interrupted me.MoreLess
Vernon noted with apparent approval and a respectful bow the presence of L...ady Chase, whom I had not expected to attend the proceedings. Presumably these would be very short, a question of my giving evidence of finding the corpse, a brief account of our attempts to identify the man, Toone’s evidence that he met his death before he fell into the water, and then – pending other information – an adjournment.
I was indeed the first called to the witness stand, but scarcely had I begun my account than Mr Vernon interrupted me.MoreLess
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