South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-04-17
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three o'clock. and I walked right
into the middle of the development
that has pretty we'll let the roof
down on him.
He was in the lobby. No one
else there. Only a man who'd just
1 been speaking TO him and who left
him and went out as l came in.
Sabre had two papers in his
hands He was staring at them and
you'd ha' thought from his face he
was staring at a ghost. They were
divorce papers. The citation and
/ petition papers that have to be serv-
ed personally. Divorce papers. His
wife had instituted divorce pro-
/ ceedings against him. Naming the
girl. Effie.
yes, you can whistle. He was
I knocked out. 1 got him up to his
I room. 1t was pretty awful. He sat
on the bed with the papers in his
hand, gibbering Just gibbering,
Vas his wife mad? Was she crazy?
He 10 be guilty Of a thing like that?
He capable Of a beastly thing like
| that?. A vile, hideous, sordid intri-
que with a girl employed in his own
house? Efiie. His wife TO believe
that? An unspeakable, beastly thing
like that? He tried TO show me with
his fingers the words on the paper.
His fingers shaking all over the
thing 'Hapgood, Hapgood, do you
see this vile, obscene word here? I
guilty of that? My wife, Mable think
me capable of that? Adultery, Adult
terer. My Cod my God. adulterer!
The word make me sick. The very
word is like poison in my mouth.
And I am to swallow it. It is 10 be
me, my name, my title, my brand.
Adulterer! Adulterer'
II tell you, old man I tell
I managed to get MIN talking
about the practical side Of It, That
is 1 managed 10 make him listen
while I talked
Next morning-that's this morn
ing. you understandable was a lit
tie more normal, able to realize
things a bit. 1 mean: in a panic few
CT TO be off and state at the Reg
istrar's that he was going to defend
the action; but normal enough for
me to see IL was all right for him
TO go straight on home Immediately
after and tell the girl what she had
to do and al that I told him. by
the way. that it would pretty we'll
have 70 come out now, ultimately.
who the child's father was: the girl
would practically have 10 give that
up in the end to clear him. You
know, I told him that in the cab
going along down. He ground his
hear him. He said he'd kill the
chap If he could ever discover him:
ground his teeth and said he'd kill
him, now-after this.
Wei. he got through his bust
ness 1bout twelve-Then a thing
happened Can't think now what il
meant We were waiting for a cab
near the Law Court a cab was
just pulling in when a man came up
and touched Sabre and said, Mr.
Sabre? Sabre said, Yes and the
chap said very civrIIy. Might
speak 10 you a minute, sir?'
Suddenly someone showed past
me and there was old Sabre getting
into the sab with this chap who
had come UP TO him. 1 said, Hullol
Hullo. are you OFF,
He turned round on me a face
gray as ashes. absolutely dead gray
I'd never seen such a color in a
mans face. He said. Yes. I'm off.
and sort of fell over his stick into
The cab. The man, who was already
in. righted him on 10 the seat and
said, 'Paddington' 70 the driver who
was at the door. shutting II. I said.
through the window, Sabre, Old
man. are you iu2'
He put his head toward me and
said in the most extraordinary voice
speaking between his cunched teeth
as though he was keeping himself
from yelling out. he said. II you
love me. Hapgood. get right away
out OF IL from me and let he alone.
This man happens 70 live al It'd
borough I know him. We're going
down together
Il said. Sabre
He clinched his teeth so they
were all bare with his lips con.
tracing He said. Let me alone
Let me alone. Let me alone
And they pushed of.
Il tell YOU what I'm going 20 do.
I'm going down there tomorrow. I'm
frightened about him"
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