The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-04-23
Continued From Our Last Issue.


G'Long pause. Frightful pause.
Hours. Whole court holding its breath.
Pause like chunk of eternity. Silent
as that. Empty as that What the
devil was he thinking of? Had he for
gotten? Was he awake now to the
frightful places he kept getting into
and wondering If this was another and
where exactly it lay? Appalling pause.
Dashed woman somewhere in the court
goes off into Mysteries and dragged out.
He didn't hear scream OF 1t, that
poor baited chap in the box. Just stood
there. Gray as raked-out fire. Face
twitching. Awful. l tell you. awful.
Nearly went into Mysteries myself.
Humpo stopping his tongue around his
lava watching him like dog watching
~ 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 acid?'
Sabre gives his first clear, calculated
words since he had got up there.
guess he had been pulling himself to-
gether TO look for a trap. He said very
slowly, trying each word, like chap
feeling along OH thin ice; he said, Effie
ask -to-get-it-to-cl e a n
my -straw-hat-fo for Brigh-
ton
Ibid she clean your straw hat for
you?'
Mods.
"'You don't appear to be wearing
it?'
Shakes.
"Not at your house, odd Where
them?
Look here
Where then?'
Answer the question, sir, Where
is this straw hat?'
Look here Gulps. Look here
Gulps again. Look here. | lost it in
the sea at Brighton.
D "Humpo draws in his breath. Stares
at him for two solid minutes without
speaking. Then says, like one speaking
to a ghost You lost it in the sea al
Brightonr Has an inspiration. Inspired
in hell Turns like a flash to the cor
oner. I have done with this witness
sir Sits down. Plump. Court let's gc
its breath like the four winds round ;
chimney. Sabre staggers out of th'
boz Falls across into his seat.
TOO much for me. old man. | bawleC
out, people in front of me nearly jump
ing out of their skins with the start
bawled out. Mr.. Coroner, saw the wit
ness at Brighton, and he told me he'C
lost his hat in the sea-
III hi. l,I
ering an infidel in his temple, 'Wh,
are you, sir?'
I'm solicitor I'm Mr. Sabre
solicitor
''Buddha to Sabre: Have you SC
licitor In the court, Sabree
"No! No! Get away! Get olt Of it
Get away from mel
"'You have no standing in this court
sir says Buddha.
Awful. Nothing to be done.
Presently Twyning in the box. Las
witness-put up to screw down the Ii
on Sabres coffin, to polish up the argr
ment before it went to the jury. Stoo
there with the venom frothing at tn
corners OF his mouth. stood there ma
straight out Of the loins of Judas Il
CARROT, stood there making his test
mony more damning by pretending
was being dragged out of him. Told
positively damning story about meetin
, Sabre at the station on his departur
from leave a day after the girl wa
sacked. Noticed how strange his maj
ner was; noticed he didn't like bein
asked about circumstances of her iii
missal noticed his wife hadn't come
see him off. Yes, thought 1t odd. 81
bre had explained wife had a cold. bt
saw Mrs. Sabre in Tidborough very ne,
day. Yes, thought the whole thin
funny because had frequently seen 81
bre's leave. Yes. notably in the Cloi
ter tea rooms late one evening, Wei
yes, had thought their behavior od
secretive. Had he ever had occaslo
In the past. in earlier days, to remol
strate with Sabre concerning attitut
towards girl? Well, scarcely liked
say so, hated to say so, but certain
there had been such occasions. Ye
had spoken seriously to Sabre about
There ripped across the court as
said that, old man, woman's volt
from the back. It's a lie. It's
abominable lie. And YOU know it's
lle!'
"Eh? Terrific? | tell you terrif
isn't the word Silence. How dare 70
nadam! Turn out that woman! WI
10 that?
"Commotion. A woman pressed o
from the mob behind and walked
D the court like goddess, like Porti
by Jove, like Euphrosyne, Let no OF
dare to touch me, she said, a
Lady Tybar. Everyone knows me her
I've just come in. just heard, Tn
shameful business. All OF you KILN
him between you She pointed ha