"What is more, the name Gilverthwaite does not occur in our parish registers.

I have a complete index of the registers from 1580, when they began to be kept, and there is no such name in it.

I can also tell you this," he added, "I am, I think I may say, something of an authority on the parish registers of this district--I have prepared and edited several of them for publication, and I am familiar with most of them.

I do not think that name, Gilverthwaite, occurs in any of them." "What do you deduce from that, now ?" asked the solicitor.
"That whatever it was that the man was searching for--and I am sure he was searching--it was not for particulars of his father's family," answered Mr.Ridley.

"That is, of course, if his name really was what he gave it out to be--Gilverthwaite." "Precisely!" said the coroner.