"Most distinctly," replied Charles; "I never saw him after I left the library, at about half past eleven o'clock."
"Did you see any one else in the course of your walk?" demanded the coroner.
"Yes, several people," replied Charles Tyrrell. "I was out more than an hour, and saw a number of different persons."
"Who might they be?" the coroner demanded, "as far as you can recollect."
"In the first place, I saw the head-gardener," replied Charles, "for I went into the garden, intending to pass through it to the other side of the wood, and he was on the left hand side, at the extreme end."
"Did you pass through it?" demanded the coroner.
"I did pass through it," replied Charles Tyrrell, "but not directly. Finding the door locked on the opposite side, I turned to the gardener's house, which is near, and passed through it, there being a way from it into the wood."
The coroner looked round to the jury with a well-satisfied smile, glad to find that the young gentleman's account corresponded exactly with the gardener's.
"Pray, who else did you meet in the course of your walk," he continued.
"Oh, several people," replied Charles Tyrrell, vaguely; "I saw woodcutters, the gardener's wife, a man lopping some trees, one of the fishermen who occasionally come up to the house, and generally pass by what is called the park stile."