He stopped at the door, and said: "I'll give you a hint.

The coroner can cut the inquest down to the barest necessary limits, if he has got all the facts clear beforehand.
If he has got to explore in the dark, he'll ask questions here and questions there, and you never know, nor does he, what he's going to drag out to light in the end.

But let him have it all clear and straight first! There's only one character I know of, more free from regulations and limitations and red-tape than a coroner, and that's the police-sergeant who runs the coroner.

Goodday to you." A telegram was brought to Martin Hillyard whilst McKerrel was yet speaking; and Hillyard read it with relief.

Mario Escobar had been taken that morning as he was leaving the hotel for the morning train to London.