CHAPTER FOURTEENThe post-mortem examination on the body of Sir Raymond Ramillies was performed and an examination of certain organs was rushed through, the Richmond Laboratories performing in twenty-four hours a task over which the public analyst might have been expected to take three weeks.
After the reports had been made Dr Harvey Buxton-Coltness saw no reason to withdraw the certificate which he had given, and the funeral took place on the fifth day, Messrs Huxley and Coyne, the big furnishing and warehouse people, making an excellent job of the arrangements.
The details in the box headed “Cause of Death” in the registrar’s oblong black book read “Cardiac failure due to myocardial degeneration. Other conditions present: chronic nephritis,” and meant, in much plainer English, that Sir
