gold chain with an object attached to it. He glanced at the object and then took off his spectacles to examine it more narrowly. What's the history of this?” he asked. “Odd enough,” was the answer. “You know the yew thicket in the shrubbery: well, a year or two back we were cleaning out the old well that used to be in the clearing here, and what do you suppose we found?”
“Is it possible that you found a body?” said the visitor, with an odd feeling of nervousness.
“We did that: but what's more, in every sense of the word, we found two.”
“Good Heavens! Two? Was there anything to show how they got there? Was this thing found with them?”
“It was. Amongst the rags of the clothes that were on one of the bodies. A bad business, whatever the story of it may have been. One body had the arms tight round the other. They must have been there thirty years or more—long enough before we came to this
place. You may judge we filled the well up
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