He had come
to the house from the Waldheim end and consequently had seen
nothing of Robert Ablett, who had been a few minutes in front of
him. From this point his evidence coincided with Cayley's.
"You and the last witness reached the French windows together and
found them shut?"
"Yes."
"You pushed them in and came to the body. Of course you had no
idea whose body it was?"
"No."
"Did Mr. Cayley say anything?"
"He turned the body over, just so as to see the face, and when he
saw it, he said, 'Thank God.'"
Again the reporters wrote "Sensation."
"Did you understand what he meant by that?"
"I asked him who it was, and he said that it was Robert Ablett.
Then he explained that he was afraid at first it was the cousin
with whom he lived--Mark."
"Yes. Did he seem upset?"
"Very much so at first. Less when he found that it wasn't Mark."
There was a sudden snigger from a nervous gentleman in the crowd
at the back of the room, and the Coroner put on his glasses and
stared sternly in the direction from which it came.
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