Or he might be a lover of pictures--our collection is a bit famous, you know.

Perhaps he was a bookman--we have some rare editions.
I could go on multiplying reasons--but to what purpose ?" "The fact is, your Grace doesn't know him and knows nothing about him," observed the Coroner.
"Just so--nothing!" agreed the Duke and stepped down again.
It was at this stage that the Coroner sent the jurymen away in charge of his officer to make a careful personal inspection of the gallery in the clerestory.

And while they were gone there was some commotion caused in the court by the entrance of a police official who conducted to the Coroner a middle-aged, well-dressed man whom Bryce at once set down as a London commercial magnate of some quality.

Between the new arrival and the Coroner an interchange of remarks was at once made, shared in presently by some of the officials at the table.

And when the jury came back the stranger was at once ushered into the witness-box, and the Coroner turned to the jury and the court.
"We are unexpectedly able to get some evidence of identity, gentlemen," he observed.