“Never.”
“Nor men walking on the downs?”
“I never saw anybody from leaving Greycloister to returning to it.”
“Do you know anything whatever of the circumstances of Guy Markenmore’s death?”
“Nothing!”
“On your oath. You are innocent of any share in it?”
“Absolutely innocent!”
Walkinshaw sat down, and as nobody else showed any intention of questioning Harborough, he presently walked away from the witness-box. The Coroner glanced round the officials at the table.
“This would seem a convenient stage for adjourning the enquiry,” he said. “But I understand there is a witness here who has volunteered information, of what nature nobody seems to know, and I think we had better hear what he has to say. Call Charles Grimsdale.”