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The only times the rector saw his flock was when conducting their funerals. "They all come to me in the end," he said. "They won't come to church on their feet, but they come in their black carriages." Even old Nick Bunt, now 77 and no longer angered, not long ago asked Densham to conduct the services when he should die.
Fortnight ago, alone and crippled by arthritis, Rector Densham himself died at 83. And last week his funeral was held in the church at nearby Liskeard. All his flock in Warleggon knew about it, and some pitied his lonely end. But no one came.