The Clerk’s Tale
“But no one says they saw anyone along there that day. Not at the needful time or anywhere near to it. Our best hope was some workmen at the mill that day but they were at their hot dinner in a tavern up the street all the time we need someone to have seen something.“ ‘Footprints?“ Frevisse asked without much hope. Even in raw mud, shoes and boots, soft-soled as they mostly were, would hardly leave prints that mattered. ‘The bank is well grassed. All Master Gruesby found was somewhere on the far... side where a foot might have slipped and torn the grass a little. Otherwise nothing.“ Nothing seemed to be almost all there was so far but. “What else did the jurors not ask that they should have? Or not notice?” ‘The dagger wound was not the only hurt to the body.“ ‘Christopher!“ she protested. ”How could they not notice that? Or you not point it out?“ Her protest did not unsettle him. After years of his father, it would probably take more than someone’s mere protest to unsettle him, and steadily he said, “I doubt any of them had seen a man violently dead before this.MoreLess
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