... with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the edge A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the woods picking ... seems, upon terms of perfect equality, as they were frequently together McCarthy had one son, a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same age, but neither of them had wives ... natural effect of removing any traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the coroner's jury." "It was a confession," I ejaculated "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence."...