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"Let us hope that to-morrow will open more
light upon it. Are you on the wing too, doctor? Then we'll go out
together."


CHAPTER VII.
THE REVELATION AT THE INQUEST.

To say that Deerham was rudely disturbed from its equanimity; that petty
animosities, whether concerning Mr. Roy and the Dawsons or other
contending spirits, were lost sight of, hushed to rest in the absorbing
calamity which had overtaken Rachel; to say that occupations were
partially suspended, that there ensued a glorious interim of idleness,
for the female portion of it--of conferences in gutters and collectings
in houses; to say that Rachel was sincerely mourned, old Frost
sympathised with, and the supposed assailant vigorously sought after,
would be sufficient to indicate that public curiosity was excited to a
high pitch; but all this was as nothing compared to the excitement that
was to ensue upon the evidence given at the coroner's inquest.
In the absence of any certain data to go upon, Deerham had been content
to take uncertain data, and to come to its own conclusions.


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