When his absence became alarming, messengers were sent to look for him, and by one of these he was found lying on the moorside, dead.

The postmortem showed that the blow he had received affected the heart, which was already diseased (he did not know that).

Of course the man who struck him cannot be discovered, and I don't know that it matters.

My father would no doubt have been glad to foresee such a death as this.

It was sudden (for that he always hoped), and it came of a protest against the thing he most hated, brutal violence." So Piers Otway wrote in a letter to John Jacks.