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Show (Continue! From Our Last Issue) "That chap: When ho was in the ! full cry and ecstasy of his hunt after Sabre, the perspiration streamed j down his face like running: oU "i'1 ! he'd flap his ureal red tonfua Iround i his jaws and mop his streaming face and chuck away his streaming mane md ait the time he'd be stooping down to Twynlnf, and while ht was ,'htooplni; and Twvnlng prompting him 'with the venom pricking und bursting j In the corm rs of his moutn. all th( Mime- he was stooping thH (hap would leave that great forefinger waggling uwny at Sabre, and Babrt clutching the bOX, and his face In B knot, and his throat in 8 lump and chocking oul Look h( re . Look here 1 I tell you .... "I was standing right across the I court at right angles to him I was w edged tight Scarcely breathe, let alone move t wrote on a bit ol paper pa-per to Sabre that 1 was here and lei hlin get up and ask for me. Sabre snatched the thlnK as if he was mad at -It and road It. and buzzed It on the floor and ground his hetl on It Just to show me, J SttPPOSet Nice! Poor devil, my gooseherry eye- went up about t.-Ti degree Hit later 1 had another shot. I well, I'll come to that In a minute " II "They pushed off the case with the ohvlou " 1 1 n - -poll' ' (I'" tor a ml so on Then the thing h i I down Then Sabre saw what W8 coming at him saw It nt i claji and never had remotely dreamt of It; saw It like a tiger coming down the itreel to di irour him; saw it like the lid of lull Slowly slipping away before I his eyes. Saw it' I was watching him. He saw It; and things age, grayness, lasting and immovable calamity I don't know what frightful things -came down on his face like, the dust of ashes settling on a polished surface. "You see. what this HumpO fbnd i was laying out for war, first that Sabre was the father of the girls child, second thit he'd deliberately put the poison In her way nnd brutally bru-tally told her he was done with her, 'and gone off and left lo r so that she ' should do what She h .id done and he I be rid of her. Yes. Yes, old man. I And he'd got a case! By the living ' Jingo, he'd got such ' a case as a Crown prosecutor only dreams about j after a good dinner and three parts of a bottle of port "Listen. Just listen and sec for yourself. Worked off the police evj- j dence and the doctor, d'you see T Then "Mr Bright!' Old man comes up into the box Stands there massive, mas-sive, bowed with grief, cheat heaving, voice coming out of It like an organ In the Dead March. Stands there like the father of Virginia thinking of Applus Claudius. "Like this, his evidence went Was father of the deceased woman (as they called her. Was employed as foreman at Fortune, East and Sa- i bre's Had seen the bodv and Identl- I fled So on. SO Oil ! "Then Hiimpo gets on M him Was i his daughter the sort of girl to meditate medi-tate taking her life'' Never! Never! dre.u rending cry that went down t" your marrow. I Was any particular individual Instrumental In-strumental in obtaining for her work which took hef from beneath his roof" There' There ' Clenched flsl and half his body over the box towards tow-ards Sabre I ' 'Look here"' bursts out old Sabre I 'Look here !' i "They shut him up. I " 'Answer the question, please Mr. Bright ' Mr Sabre led to her first going from me Mr Sabre!' "Was the situation thus obtained for the girl nearer her father's house or nearer Mr Sabres? Not a Quarter Quar-ter of an hour, not ten minutes, from Mr. Sabre s house ' "Had the witness anv knowledge as to whether this man Sabre was a ; frequent visitor at the place of the girls situation? 'Constantly. constantly, con-stantly, night after night he was Win he. indeed?" says Humpo. mightily Interested 'Was he, ln-deed? ln-deed? There was perhaps great friends of his own standing there, i one or two men chums, no doubt?' 'No one! No one!' cries the old man; No one but an old Invalid lady, night bedridden. past seventy, and rnj daughter, my daughter my Kffle 1 "Had the witness recently been shown a diary kep; by Mr Twynlng at that period" 'Yes I Yes! 'And It contained frequent reference refer-ence to Sabre's mention in the office of these visits? Yes' Yes" "Did one entry reveal the fact that on one occasion this Sabre spent an entire night there 7 Look here ' bursts out old Satire Sa-tire 'Look here ' "Can't get any farther. Yes.' groans old bright out of his heaving chest. 'Yes A nighc there "And on the very next day, the very next day, did this man Sabre rush off and enlist" 'Yes Yes.' ' Viewed In the light of the subsequent subse-quent events did t:i it sudden burst of patriotism bear anj particular Interpretation? In-terpretation? 'Running away from It.' heaves the old man Running away from It.' " 'Look here ' from Sabre again. 'Look here ' Same result. "So this Humpo chap went on, piling pil-ing it up from old Bright like that, ono man. and all the time getting deeper and getting worse of course. Sabre getting the girl into his Own house after the old lady's death removes re-moves the girl from the neighborhood; neighbor-hood; curious suddenness of the girl's dismissal during Sabre's leave; girl' going stiuigiu to Sabre Immediate! able to walk aft' i birth of child, and so on Blacker and blacker, worse and worse. "And then Humpo ends. A final question, Mr. Bright, and I can release re-lease you from the painful, the pitiable piti-able ordeal it has been my sad dots to inflict upon you a final question; ques-tion; "Have ou In your own mind suspicions of thv identity of this un-' happy woman's betrayer: old muni cannot speak for emotion. Only nods, hands at his breast like a prophet about to tear his raiment unly nods " 'Do you see him in this court" "Old man hurls out his arms towards to-wards Sabre Shouts. There' There!' "Wrarm-hearted and excellent 1s-carlot 1s-carlot leaps up and leads him tottering tot-tering from the box; court seethes und groans with motion: Humpo wipes hlii streaming face. Sabre stammers stam-mers out, 'Look here Look here 1 Case goes on." "Someone bawls. Next witness. Mark Sabre.' "Court draws an enormous breath and gets Itself ready for butchery to make a Tldborouvh holidav." , CHAPTER VI I Hapgood went on: "He was distraught Ho was ap ei h-less. h-less. Ho was clean crazed "At the ver-y beginning, with the , coroner, he wouldn't USS tho w ord I'lhe deceased.' Insisted on keeping calling her Kifie. Coroner kept pulling pull-ing him up over It, and about the twentieth time pulled htm up hard Poor chap threw out hlH armn like he was throwing the word away and then hnmrncrol on the ledge. 'I i won't say deceased. 1 won't call her the deceased. Vile word. Horrtidc word ribscene, beastly, ha'etul mn1 "LOOK HERE-" I won't call her- If YV'hv should I call her the deceased?' I " 'Control yourself,- says Buddhu 'Control yourself ' ' lli; only waved and thumped again. 'I won't I won't. I knew the girl. I was fond of the girl. She was i i v trlend. She wa s fond of nc. I did more for her than anyone In this "in! her father or anyone. When she was in trouble she came to mo and I succored her. She cooked my meals for me. Wfl went through It together. I've known her for years I I've liked her for years. And now sh' s dead and you turn around and tell me to c.ill h'-r deceased Efflo. Effle! Do you hear? Effie!' "They couldn't stop hlni He was like a sick wolf then, cornered, and Buddha like u hi-, wary hoarhound glng in at him and again " What date did the deceased leave your wife's employment?' " 'In March. Look here ' " Did she leave of her own wish or was she dismissed?' " "Look here ' ' 'Was she dismissed beoauso your wife suspected you oi relations with her?' " 'Look here ' " 'Answer the question, sir." " Look here ' " 'Very well, sir Answer me this question then Is It a fact that your wife has instituted divorce proceedings proceed-ings against you"' " 'Look here ' ' Court surging with sensation at this dramatic disclosure. Humpo mopped his face, keeping the great forefinger going. " 'Is It the fact that In these proceedings pro-ceedings tho deceased woman Is named as co-respondent"' " Look here ' " 'You keep asking mc to look here, sir, but you tell mc nothing. I ask you plain questions. Have you nothing better than, "Look here?" Is It the fact that these papers were served on you at Hrlghton on the occasion of your lllKht?' 'Plight flight Look here ' Is it the fact?' Yes. Brighton, yes. But. look here-flight! flight! Holiday. I tell you. Holiday." "'Holidav" cries Humpo I thank you tor that word. We will examine it in a moment. Let me ask you to carry back your mind to the summer Of 1916 ' and ho takes the unhappy man through all the stuff he had got out of old Bright Sabre's apparently uncalled-tor Interest In the girl, first getting hgr from her father's house to the neighborhood of his own. then under his own roof and all the re-t of the unholy chain of it Then he has :i chat With Twynlng. then mops himself dry. und then hurls In again. " "Now. sir, this holiday. Did you make any preparations for It, any little purchases?' "'No. Purchases? No. Look here " 'Never mind about 'Look here " Bil No purchases? What about the oxalic acid? 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