About noon
As for myself , it added a profound respect for the character and moral qualities of Ursula Malbone , to the love and admiration I bore her already , the fruits of her beauty , wit , heart , and other attractions . The two expected deaths had now taken place , and it only remained to dispose of the legal questions connected with the events which had caused them , inter the bodies , and return to the Nest . I saw that one of the cabins was prepared for the reception of Ursula and Lowiny , the latter still clinging to us , while the body of Chainbearer was laid out in a coffin that had been made by the same hands , and at the same time , as that of Thousandacres . About noon , the coroner arrived , not ` Squire Newcome , but another , for whom he had himself sent ; and a jury was immediately collected from among the members of the posse . The proceedings were of no great length . I told my story , or as much of it as was necessary , from beginning to end , and others gave their testimony as to the proceedings at different periods in the events . The finding was , in the case of Chainbearer , `` murder by the hand of some person unknown ; '' and in that of Thousandacres , `` accidental death . ''