"I have sent the doctor off already, but it's no good, he's been dead hours and hours.

But," he continued, his professional instincts coming to the surface, "what did she mean by saying, 'Oh, Ned, how could you!' She asked me, too, first about him; ain't he at home ?" "No, he ain't," the servant said, "and ain't been at home all night; there were a row between him and maister last even; they had a fight.
Maister Charlie he ran into the parlor as I was a clearing away the' tea things, hallowing out as maister was a-killing Ned.

Missis she ran in and I heard a scream, then maister he drove off, and a minute or two later Maister Ned he went out, and he ain't come back again.

When I went in with the candles I could see missis had been a crying.

That's all I know about it." "And enough too," the constable said grimly.