The Hidden Man
“But I was feeling baffled, and wringing my brains to understand what I had just discovered at the House of Correction.
Before leaving town through Friary Bar I had diverted down Marsh Lane, intending to take the chance of reuniting the late Jackson with his errant shoe. The Porter took me straight to the locked cell in which Jackson reposed, turned the key and left me to it. I found that the corpse-washers Mary and Dolly had been in, and now Jackson lay under a plain sheet, awaiting his next ap...pointment – the viewing by tomorrow’s inquest jury. The clothes bag lay on the floor nearby and this I emptied until I came to the single shoe, to which the one I had with me was the pair. Except that, when I put them side by side, I saw at once that it wasn’t.
The shoes were much alike in style, but the one that had been on Jackson’s left foot was a clumsy, much scuffed and dented object, with worn-down heel and thinned sole. The shoe I had found at the Stone was a less exhausted and more refined thing, with some fancy stitching here and there, though it was by no means new.MoreLess
Before leaving town through Friary Bar I had diverted down Marsh Lane, intending to take the chance of reuniting the late Jackson with his errant shoe. The Porter took me straight to the locked cell in which Jackson reposed, turned the key and left me to it. I found that the corpse-washers Mary and Dolly had been in, and now Jackson lay under a plain sheet, awaiting his next ap...pointment – the viewing by tomorrow’s inquest jury. The clothes bag lay on the floor nearby and this I emptied until I came to the single shoe, to which the one I had with me was the pair. Except that, when I put them side by side, I saw at once that it wasn’t.
The shoes were much alike in style, but the one that had been on Jackson’s left foot was a clumsy, much scuffed and dented object, with worn-down heel and thinned sole. The shoe I had found at the Stone was a less exhausted and more refined thing, with some fancy stitching here and there, though it was by no means new.MoreLess
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