Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-04-19
Continued from our last Issue

down his face like running oil. and
he'd flap his great red tongue
around his jaws and mop his
streaming face and chuck away his
streaming name: and all the time
he'd be STOPPING down to Twyning,
and while he was STOPPING and
TwypinG prompting him with the
venom pricking and bursting in the
corners of his mouth. all the time
he was STOPPING this chap would
leave that great f~orefnger waggling
away at Sabre. and Sabre clutching
the box. and his face in a knot. aud
his throat in a lump and choking
out Look here. Look here
81 was standing right across the
court at right angles to him. 1 was
wedged tight. Scarcely breathe. let
alone move. / wrote on a bit of paper
to Sabre that l was here and let
him get up and ask for me-. Sabre
snatched the thing as If he was mad
at it. and read it. and buzzed 1t on
the floor and ground his heel on 1t.
Just to show me, ! suppose. Nice!
Poor devil, my ~gooseberry eyes went
up about ten degrees. Bit later ]
had another shot. well, I'll come
to that in a minute"
They pushed off the case with
the obvious witnesses-police, doc
tor and so on. Then the thing hard
ened down. Then Sabre saw what
was coming at him-saw 1t at a clap
and never had remotely dreamt of
it; saw it like a tiger coming down
the street to devour him; saw it
like the lid of hell slowly slipping
away before his eyes,. Saw it! 1 was
watching him. He saw it: and
things-age. grayness, lasting and
immovable calamity 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 fiend
was laying out for was, first that
Sabre was the father of the girls
child, second that he'd deliberately
put the poison in her way. and bru-
tally told her he was done with her.
and gone off and left her so that she
should do what she had done and he
be rid of her, Yes. Yes, old man.
And he'd got a case! By the living
lingo, he'd got such a case as a
Crown prosecutor only dreams
about after a good dinner and three
parts of a bottle of port.
Listen. Just listen and see for
yourself. Worked off me police evil
dence and the doctor. d'you zee?
Then-'Mr. Bright Old man comes
up into the box. Stands there mas
sive, bowed with grief. chest heav-
ing, voice coming out of It like ar
organ in the Dead March. Stands
there like the father of Virginia
l. sx.l,r- ~ nxt Nc ttIttte
Like this, his evidence went: Was
father of the deceased woman Gas
they called her). Was employed as
foreman at Fortune. East and Sa-
bre's. Had seen the body and iden-
titled it. So on. so on.
Then Humpo gets on to him
Was his daughter the sort of girl
to mediate taking her life ?-Never
Never!' Great rending cry that
went down to your marrow.
Was any particular individual in
strumental in obtaining for her
work which took her from beneath
his roof?-There. There!' Clenched
fist and half his body over the box
towards Sabre.
"Look here." burst out old Sabre
Look here"
They shut him up.
Answer the question:, pledse
Mr.. Bright.-Mr. Sabre led to hel
first going from me. MI. Sabre!
"Was the situation thus obtained
for the girl nearer to fathers house
or nearer Mr.. Sabre's?-.Not a quar-.
| ter of an hour. not ten minutes
from Mr.. Sabre's house.
Had the witness any knowledge
as to whether this man Sabre was
/ frequent visitor at the place of tht
| girls situation Constantly. con
stantly. night after night he wa
there.'
"'Was he, indeed?' says Humpo
nightly interested. Was he, IN
deed? There were perhaps grea
friends of his own standing there
one or two men chums. no doubt?-
No one! No one.' cries the old man
| No one but an old invalid lady
nigh bedridden. past seventy, ant
my daughter, my daughter. m.
Ef1e.'
Had the witness recently beer
shown a diary kept by Mr.. Twyn
ming at that period ?-Yes' Yes."
And it contained frequent refer
ence to Sabre's mention in the ofic'
of these visits ?-'Yes. Yes.'
did one entry reveal the fac
i tnat on one OCCdslOh iHio cdoi'
| spent an entire night there?
"Iook here bursts out old Sa
bre. Look here
Cant get any farther. Yes.
groans old Bright out of his heav'
ing chest. Yes. A night there
"And on the very next day. tn
very next day, did this man Sabre
rush off + enlist Yes. Yes
Viewed in the light of the sub
sequent events, did that sudder
burst Of patriotism bear any par
ticular Interpretation ?-'Runnint
away from it, heaves the old man
Running away from it,
Look here from Sabre again
| Look here Same result.
$50 this Humpo chap went on
| piling it up from old Bright like
| that, old man; and all the time get
ting deeper and getting worse, o.
course. Sabre getting the girl into
| his own house after the old lady'i
| death removes the girl from the
neighborhood; curious suddenness
fof the girls dismissal during Sa'
bre's leave; girl going straight u
| Sabre Immediately able to wall
| after birth of child, and so on
Blacker and blacker, worse anc
worse.
And then Humpo ends. "A fina'
question, Mr.. Bright. and I can re-
lease you from the painful. the pitt
able ordeal it has been my sad duty
to infiict upon you. A final cues
ton: Have you in your W MIND
lsuspicions of the identity of this un-
happy woman's b~etrayer? Old maj
cannot speak for emotion. Only
mods. hands at his breast ike a
prophet about to tear his raiment
| Only mods