South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-04-18
@I9lI NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

The man said, eyes, perhaps you'd
better"
He was against a glass screen,
misty with breaths Of those who had
stared and peered through it. The
policeman wiped his sleeves across
the glass. There you are"
All, Now, suddenly and
with shock most terrible, his mind
made contact with that which it had
pursued. It had CROPPED as in a dark
room with outstretched hands. Now,
suddenly and with shock most ter
rible. it was as If those groring
hands had touched in the darkness
a face
All. insupportable, This was Fife.
This was Bright Efie. This was that
jolly little Ehie of the old. million
year-old days. This, This,
She lay on a slab inclined towards
the glass She was swathed about
in cerements. Only her face was
visible. Within the hollow Of her
arm reposed a little shape. all
swathed She had brought it into
the world. She had removed it from
the world that would have nothing
OF IL. She had brought a thousand
smiles into the world. but she had
given offense to the world and the
offended world had thrown back her
smiles and she now had expressed
her contrition 10 the world. This
was her contrition that she lay here
for men 70 breathe upon the glass,
and stare. and rub away. the dimness
with their sleeves. and breathe, and
stare again.
oh, insupportable calamity oh.
tragedy beyond support He thought
of her as oft and again he had seen
her-those laughing lips. those shin
ing eyes. He thought Of her alone
when he had left her. planning and
/ preparing this frightful dissolution
of her body and her soul. He thought
of her in torment OF inward fire by
that which had blistered her poor
I lips
A very terrible groan was broken
j out Of him.
They took him alons.
III
! The court was crammed In two
! thirds OF its space were crowded
/ benches At the upper end of the
I room was a dais. a echoolnlaster's
+ desk. Thanking il on one hand
/ We're forms occupied by the men
/ Sabre had seen shutting out of the
I mortuary. on the other hand a
/ second dais stood. Facing the cen
| trail dais was a Ions table at
\ which men We're seated on the side
looking towards the dais. Two men
sat also at the head of this table.
facing the jury As Sabre entered
/ they were in deep conversation with
a stunted. hunchbacked man who
sat next them at the corner.
Every face in the room turned to-
I ward the door as Sabre entered.
They might have belonged 10 a sin
sic body and they appeared 10 have
q single expire ssiou and A single
/ thought: a dark and forbidding ex-
i preston and thought dark and
hostile. There was again that MUIR
muir that had greeted him when he
stepped from the cab AZ the sight
( OF him one Of the two men az the
/ head OF the table started 70 his feet.
. a very big man. and with a very big
and massive face and terrific eyes
who started ur and raised cleuched
fists and had his Jaws working. Old
/ Bright His companion ar the head
az the table restrained him and drew
him down again. a tall. spare. dark
man with a thin mouth FIN deeply
lined face-Twynlns.
~
From a door behind the central
dais a large stout man entered and
took his seat Whispers about the
court said. Coroner" Someone
bawIed silence"
The coroner fddled with some pa
pers put pince-nez on his nose and
stared about the court. He had a
big fat face He stared about. us
the witness sabre in attendance ."
The coroner's officer said. yes.
sir"