(Fictitious character) When the story opens, the Reverend Malcolm Earnshaw has been at St. Margaret's Church in Tanfield Hill for ten years. The living is in the gift of the Prescott family. During renovations, the thin wall sealing a crypt was accidentally breached, and the body of a dead man dressed in clothing from about thirty years before is found. Rev. Earnshaw sees a ring that he recognizes as belong to Sir Nigel Prescott. Without telling anyone else, he takes it to Sir Nigel's brother, Francis, the Bishop of London. he urges the Bishop to return with him immediately, but the Bishop puts the the trip off until the next day. Delayed tending to a dying member of his congregation, Rev. Earnshaw is not there when the Bishop arrives. Seeing in light in the crypt, Rev. Earnshaw goes down expecting to find the Bishop. The Bishop is dead, lying across the 30-year-old body of his brother.
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