It was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide.

But a human body is a different matter.

There is a fierce eddy between the wharf and the house.

It seemed likely enough that the weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked away into the river." "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the room.

Would the body be dressed in a coat alone ?" "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough.