A very unpleasant experience for Lydia Munce was the necessary inquest. She had been through one forensic ordeal, and had been subjected to a gruelling cross-examination by an insulting, bullying lawyer, and she hated the law ever afterwards. Fortunately for her, and because she didn't tell a word more than she was compelled to, the inquest was soon disposed of, and within a few hours the subject thereof was buried in the Glen beside his cousin Reuben, Jim Jack, to his utter disgust, performing the office of grave-digger.
Lydia had tactfully avoided all complications. She said the furnished cave was the camp of Wolgen, the gin, and she had been in the habit of going there with the little boy, whom she was looking after for a friend, when Ellis Rhea crept in and murderously attacked her. She also omitted any mention of Rod Bunker. Rory Borrn and Joseph Eagle corroborated her statement that the shooting was accidental. They had been exploring the caves when they came upon the pair quarrelling.
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