The police have taken him to the mortuary at Dumfries, and the detectives are up there now looking at the spot, they say.

So that, on considering the two clauses, we see that the wishes of the testator could only be carried out in the unlikely event of his dying in one of the burial-places mentioned, or his body being conveyed immediately after death to a public mortuary in one of the said parishes.

In the woman lying there in a public mortuary before him, Mr. Hazeldene had recognized his wife.