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At the inquest on the following day, Mrs. Balfame, circumvested in crepe, sat between Mr. and Mrs. Cummack, gracefully erect, and without even a nervous flutter of the hands.
When called upon to testify, she told in a clear low voice the meagre story already known to her friends and by this time the common property of Elsinore and all that read the newspapers of the State.