Rather than let in a stranger Joshua came, and silently scanned the coroner's order handed him by the undertaker:-- 'I, Henry Giles, Coroner for the Mid-Division of Outer Wessex, do hereby order the Burial of the Body now shown to the Inquest Jury as the Body of an Adult Male Person Unknown.

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Joshua Halborough got through the service in some way, and rejoined his brother Cornelius at his house.

Neither accepted an invitation to lunch at their sister's; they wished to discuss parish matters together.