John Munting confirmed Mr. Lathom’s evidence in every particular.
A rustle of sympathy went round the little court when the widow, Mrs. Margaret Harrison, appeared in the box. Fashionably but quietly dressed in a black face-cloth costume and closely-fitting cloche hat, Mrs. Harrison gave her evidence in a voice so subdued as to be scarcely audible.
She declared that her husband had greatly looked forward to this country holiday. On such occasions he was accustomed to go to The Shack by himself, or with a male friend. She never accompanied him to The Shack. On previous holidays he had frequently taken as his companion his son by an earlier marriage, Mr. Paul Harrison, a civil engineer, now absent in Central Africa. She had always understood that the deceased cooked for himself at The Shack, and made experiments with unconventional foodstuffs.