Don't be led away by the mere formalities of the opening day of the inquest.

The coroner deliberately shut off all real evidence except as to the cause of death.

On Wednesday the situation will change, and you cannot fail to be shocked by what you hear, because you will be there." "I am given to understand that, even if I am called, my testimony will be of no importance." "Such may be the police view.

Mr.Ingerman will press for a very different estimate." "Has he told you that ?" "Yes." "So, although foreman of the jury, you have not declined to hobnob with a man who is avowedly Mr.Grant's enemy ?" "I would hobnob with worse people if, by so doing, I might serve you." Grant, "fed up," as he put it to Hart, with watching the _tete a tete_ between Doris and the chemist, sprang to his feet and went through a pantomime easy enough to follow save for one or two signs.

Doris held both hands aloft.