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At Basingstoke he was informed that an old man , travelling with his brother , had been taken ill ; and that he had since died . An inquest had been held upon his remains some days before , and he had been buried by the parish . It was upon the 21st of August that Arthur Lovell visited Basingstoke . The people at the village inn told him that the old man had died at two o'clock upon the morning of the 17th , only a few hours after his brother 's desertion of him . He had never spoken after the final stroke of paralysis . There was nothing to be learned here , therefore . Death had closed the lips of this witness .