However, he was not well enough to be troubled, certainly not well enough to be moved.

Alec strode over to Cooper's farm alone, and took a last look at the old man where he lay in a rough shed, and gave his evidence about the death before the coroner.
What few belongings the old man had were taken from the Harmon house by the coroner before Harkness left, but no writing was found upon them.

A description of the body was advertised in the Monday's papers, but no claim came quickly.

Natural law is imperious, seeking to gather earth's children back to their mother's breast, and when three warm days were past, all of him that bore earthly image and superscription was given back to earth in a corner of the village cemetery.

An Adventist minister, who sometimes preached in Chellaston, came to hold such service as he thought suitable over the grave, and Alec Trenholme was one of the very few who stood, hat in hand, to see the simple rite.
They were not in the old graveyard by the river, but in a new cemetery that had been opened on a slope above the village.