The Washington times., 1920-05-02

his arrest. But at the same time
he did not deem it 10 suffice for
the immediate serving OF the war
rant He proposed 10 keep Il ready
for use In case Of need.
And. OF course, We knew that the
future held I'm store a further very
painful trial-the coroner's inquest
This was to be held on the Monday
the day OF which ] am now writ
ing being saturday-st the White
Hart. in tho sillage. But II would
be necessary. we were told. for the
corpse to be seen. as a matter OF
legal form, by the coroner and his
jury. and for this purpose they
would come TO the house and TO
my Aunt Ends room, where her
poor little body was now laid out
decently ON the bed.
What ] resented q great deal
more than this visit of inspection.
though In itself It seemed rather
an outrage ON the peace OF death
was that the tragedy and many
family affairs that ! would far
rather had been kept secret, would
be given up TO the curious gossip
Of the public and would become the
common talk OF the village. 10 be
sure. this was q trivial thing In
ccmparison with the actual tragedy
itself. but still It all helped TO- add
. sordidness which Increased the
pain.
OF course Crisp. in these interro-
cations through which hs- put us,
had none Of the authority Of a cor
oner or Of q Judge. We were not
under oath In our examination. He
had no power to compel MS to an
swer II we did not wish or to check
any food of talk under which truth
might hide itself away as behind .
smoke cloud. He could not punish
US for contempt Of court.
The power to extract answers
from the unwilling is one which, I
know, he much wished that he had
when he was putting his questions
to the reluctant Grainger-there
was one question in particular
which he longed to ask bi hut
thought that he would get
answer, so refrained-but
came to the interrogation
next witness, Celeste, ] a.
sure that what he most e
would have desired was the -
power to check an excess OF elk
Celeste's tongue normally required
only very slight encouragement to
start 1t running to incalculable
lengths, and she now appeared to
be SO excited over this terrible
thing which had happened to her
mistress that she was even more
voluble than usual.
had never been able to make
out whether Celeste was fond of
my aunt. AS rule the servants
did not love Aunt Enid. They did
her bidding, because she spoke to
them sharply and had no. consider.
ations for their feelings. treating
them, in fact, as ! have observed
that people who have lived some
time in India and have been used
to ordering their Hindu servants
about do deal with English ser.
wants when they come home; and,
in consequence, have much diff
Guilty in keeping them. But our
servants stayed, partly because
Aunt Enid did not really take the
wife's usual share In ordering her
household, but largely also because
of the affection they one and all
felt for Uncle Ralph.
II Aunt Enid was a little too
severe and sharp. he certainly was
far too spelling and kind. He
hated to have to say a word in re-
buke to any OF them, and as q mat
ter of fact generally passed on to
me the task Of saying 1t. Not a
very pleasant task, but I felt that
/ had to take my world, and es-
pecially my Uncle Ralph, as I
found them, and on no account
would I have made any change in
the latter, even II / could.
Possibly there we're times when
] might wish him q stronger char
acter. more determined and asser-
tive, and especially I might feel
this now and then in regard to his
relations with Aunt Enid, but On
the whole any change of the kind
would have made him different
from the Uncle Ralph whom 4
knew and loved; and assuredly !
did not want him different.
But I was never quite sure on
what extent Celeste shared In the
feelings of the other Servants to-
ward their master and mistrr-s '"
'he first place she was o.
her mistress's servant.
next To nothing to do Wit