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“On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at Hatherley
about three in the afternoon and walked down to the Boscombe Pool, which is a
small lake formed by the spreading out of the stream which runs down the
Boscombe Valley. He had been out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross,
and he had told the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of
importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came back alive.