I think that if no record can be found of any such interment within the boundary of those two parishes, that fact will be taken by the Court as proof that no such interment has taken place, and that therefore the body must have been deposited elsewhere.

Such a decision would constitute George Hurst the co-executor and residuary legatee." "That is cheerful for your friends, Berkeley," Jervis remarked, "for we may take it as pretty certain that the body has not been deposited in any of the places named." "Yes," I agreed gloomily, "I'm afraid there is very little doubt of that.

But what an ass the fellow must have been to make such a to-do about his beastly carcass?
What the deuce could it have mattered to him where it was dumped, when he had done with it ?" Thorndyke chuckled softly.

"Thus the irreverent youth of to-day," said he.

"But yours is hardly a fair comment, Berkeley.