Mr Jones (Dumb Witness)

In the novel Dumb Witness, Mr Jones is a grocer in the town of Market Basing. Like many other townspeople, he indulged in local gossip about the will of Emily Arundell. He did not approve of the terms which left the estate to Emily's companion Wilhelmina Lawson and disinherited her relatives on the grounds that "blood is thicker than water".