As a matter of fact, he was not in a fit condition to make any coherent statement.

It was at the coroner's inquest on the following day that certain facts came to light, which for the time being seemed to clear up the mystery surrounding Mrs.
Hazeldene's death, only to plunge that same mystery, later on, into denser gloom than before.
"The first witness at the inquest was, of course, Mr.Hazeldene himself.
I think every one's sympathy went out to the young man as he stood before the coroner and tried to throw what light he could upon the mystery.

He was well dressed, as he had been the day before, but he looked terribly ill and worried, and no doubt the fact that he had not shaved gave his face a careworn and neglected air.
"It appears that he and the deceased had been married some six years or so, and that they had always been happy in their married life.

They had no children.

Mrs.Hazeldene seemed to enjoy the best of health till lately, when she had had a slight attack of influenza, in which Dr.
Arthur Jones had attended her.