A Fair Fraud — page 237: what you’re looking at

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226 A Fair Fraud will be necessary for you to identify the corpse. Would you please step forward and tell me if you are quite certain that this is the man whom you met yesterday ?’ Soinebody turned back the sheet from off the dead man’s face. Hester shud.!ered visibly, but she gazed at it bravely and steadfastly for a few seconds in solemn silence. ‘Yes,’ she said at length, looking up at the coroner, ‘it is William Bradford, the ex-con- vict,’ and then, with a swift glance around her that seemed specially to comprise Mr Drury and his son as they stood side.by side to the right of her, ‘and I would like to say some- thing else about him if I may?’ And when the coroner signed to her to proceed. ‘He was my father,’ she added simply. GORMGIOO (Si C(O)