I don't--now, that's the honest truth." "That does seem discouraging." "And then the worst of it is a man's friends won't stand by him.
There's Doolan, the coroner in the next county.

He found a drowned man up in the river just beyond the county line.

I ought to have had the first shy at the body by rights, for I know well enough he fell in from this county and then skeeted up with the tide.

But no; Doolan would hold the inquest; and do you believe that man actually wouldn't float the remains down the river so's I could sit on 'em after he'd got through?
Actually took 'em out and buried 'em, although I offered to go halves with him on my fees if he would pass the body down this way.

That's a positive fact.