Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-04-27
PART FOUR
CHAPTER VI-COntinued.

was another and where exactly 1t lay :?
Appalling pause. Dashed woman, some
where in the court goes off into Mysteries
and dragged out. He didn't hear scream
of it, that poor baited chap in the box.
Just stood there Gray as q raked-out
fire. Face twitching. Awful l tell you
awful. Nearly went into mysteries my
self Humpo stopping his tongue around
his Jaws, watching him like dog watch
ing it's dinner being cut up. After about
two years, slaps in his tongue and de-
mands Come sir, for what purpose
did you buy this oxalic acidT
! Sabre gives his first clear, calculated
words since he had got mp there. guess
he had been pulling himself together to
look for a trap. He said very slowly,
| trying each word, like a chap feeling
along on thin ice; he said, Efie-asked
-me-to-get-it- stra W
hat-for-m Observation-Disclosures
Ibid she clean your straw hat FOR
your
Mods.
"'You don't appear to be wearing IT.
Shakes.
"Pray, where, then, is this straw hat
to clean which you obtained the o1alic
acid? Is itSat your house?'
Shakes.
".Not at your house! odd Where
Them
LOOK here
"'Where thenT
"LooR here
ANSWER the question, sir. Where
\ is this straw hatr
| "Iook here CUPS Look here
GuIps again. Look here, I lost is In
the sea at Brighton.
"Humpo draws In his breath. Stares
| at him for two solid minutes without
I speaking. Then says, like one speak
| ing to a ghost, You lest 1t in the sea
at Brightonl You lost 1t in the sea at
Brightonv Has an inspiration. Inspired
In hell. Turns like a fash 10 the coroner.
4 have done with this witness ,sirr Sits
down. Plump. Court let's go its breath
like four winds round a chimney. Sabre
staggers out OF the box. Falls across
into his seat.
TOO much for me old man. ] bawled
ont. people IN front Of me nearly jump
ing out Of their skins with the start,
bawled out, Mr. Coroner, l saw the wit
ness at Brighton. and he told me he'd
lost his hat in the sea
"Buddha, like a talking idol discover
ing an infdel in his temple, Who are
you. sir?'
I'm solicitor I'm Mr.. sabre's So
lioitor.
"Buddha to Sabre: Have you a solicit
tor In the court, Sabrel
".No! MOI Get awayi Get out Of It
Get away from me?
You have no standing In this court,
SIR says Buddha.
Awful Nothing TO be done.
presently Twyning In the box. Last
wltness-put up to screw down the I'D on
Sabre's coffin. to polish up the argument
before II went to the jury Stood there
with the venom frothing at the corners
e. ais ntouth stood there a Taal straight
out Of the loins OF Judas Iscariot, stood
there making his testimony more damn
ing by pretending it was being dragged
out OF him. Tod a positively damning
story about meeting Sabre at the station
ON his departure from leave day after
the girl was sacked. Noticed how strange
his manner was; noticed he didn't like
being asked about circumstances Of her
dismissal: noticed his wife hadn't come
to see him OF. Yes, thought { odd.
Sabre had explained wife had a cold. bat
saw Mrs Sabre in Tidborough very next
day. Yes, thought the whole thing funny
because had frequently seen Sabre and
the girl together during Sabres leave.
Yes, notably In the Cloister tea rooms
late one evening. Well, yes, had thought
| their behavior odd, secretlve. Had he
ever had occasion In the past, In earlier
days. to demonstrate with Saore con-
corning attitude toward girl? Well.
scarcely liked to say, hated to say So but
certainly there had been such occasions.
Yes, had spoken seriously to Sabre
about It.
There ripped across the court as he
said that, old man, a woman's voice from
the back. It's a lie. It's an abominable
IT.
"Eh? Terrible? / tell you terrific
isn't the word Silence! Now dare you,
madam! Turn out that mani Who
is thatP
"Commotion. A woman pressed out
from the mob behind and walked IN
the court like goddess, like Portia, by
Jove, like Euphrosyne. Let no one dare
to touch me- she said. L am Lady
Tybar. Every one knows me here. I'ys
just come in. Just heard. This shame
full business. All of yo1 killing him
between you She pointed a hand at
Twyning. And you l tell you before
all this court, and you may take what
steps you like, tell you that you are
a liar, an experienced and calculating
liar And she went with sehat to old
Sabre and stopped over him and touched
him with both her hands and said, Mar
k0, Marko.
Matter of fact Sabre was the first
one to speak. He threw up his arm from
where he'd been covering his face, just
as he'd thrown 1t up when I called cut
and swung her hands aside and called
out, Don't touch me. Let me alone
Leave me alone
She motioned to the man beside him,
and the chap got up as IL her motion
had been Circe's and disappeared. And
she took his place. end sat down be-
side Sabre and poor old Sabre crouched
away from her as II he was stung, and
old Buddha, reaching out for his dignity
said, You may remain there, madam,
If you do not interrupt the court
There wasn't much more to inter
rupt. Twyning had had about as much
as he wanted; he'd done what he was
out to do, anyway. The case finished
The coroner had go at the jury. They
went on. I suppose they were gone ten
minutes. Shuffled In again. Gave their
verdict. I was watching Sabre. He
took down his hands from his face and
stared with all the worlds agony In his
face, straining himself forward to hear