A Fair Fraud — page 227: what you’re looking at

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216 A Fair Fraud ee economy. He was evidently very poor, and since his death only a few shillings had been found upon him. He had not, indeed, ap- parently, had enough to pay his account to her, which was owing; but only yesterday morning the poor gentleman—‘Oh, yes, sir, he was a gentleman, plainly, but gone down in the world like!’ she put in quickly—he had told her that he expected to receive a large sum of money that was owing to him on the following day, and he had promised her to settle up every- thing he owed her the moment his remittances arrived ; after which she understood him to say that he should very probably go away. abroad. Then followed the evidence relating to the unknown man’s death, of which one of the gamekeepers had been an eye-witness ; he had, in fact, shouted to Mr Joseph Grigson, ‘ For God's sake, sir, don’t fire that way; there’s a .man behind that tree!’ but his cry had come too late—the gun went off, and the man fell stone dead. At this point Mr Joseph Grigson sobbed convulsively. Afterwards the whole party adjourned to the coachhouse, to see the remains, and to identify them as far as possible, but only one of those present had any doubt at all that the unfortunate stranger’s name was not William Hicks, And that one man could not speak of his doubts. At that moment, when the coroner and the GORMGIOO (Si C(O) i