Mary Jones

In the short story At the 'Bells and Motley, Mary Jones' is the daughter of the landlord of the Bells and Motley in Kirklington Mallet.

She gets annoyed when her father tells the guests the story about Captain Harwell's disappearance, because her beloved Stephen Grant had been questioned by the police in the case, which aroused the suspicious of the village. And she hates it that the whole story can't be put to rest. Her father wouldn't even allow her to marry Stephen. She even steps outside the pub, when her father starts the tale. She think it's more likely that the captain left by his own will than that Stephen should have done him any harm. It actually turns out she was correct. Captain Harvell's dissapearance was a smokescreen to give Eleanor Le Couteau an excuse to sell her house Ashley Grange filled with stolen loot from French castles. Mr Satterthwaite hopes to help her, and she was likely relieved when the truth came for a day and Stephen Grant was proved innoncent.