The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-05-04

her baby, dead with her.
Found deadf Found desdf Ef.
fisT And her babyf Found deadT
oh. dear God. Catch hold OF my
arm a minute. All right let m. go.
Lot mo 60. say. Can't your Pound
dsadr What d'yoa mean. found
deadf-
We'll. sir. thas's rather for the
coroner 60 cay. str. There's 90 be
an inquest tomorrow. That's what
you're wanted for"
'inquest7 inquessr- 6abre's
speech vas thick. lilo knew II was
thick. Ills tongue felt enormously
too big for bis mouth. lie could not
control u properly. lie felt that all
his limbs and members were swollen
and ponderous and out OF hls cen.
troll. Inquest Found deadr In
auestf Found deadf Goo God. cant
you tell mo sofnsthing7 You CONS up
TO me In tho street. and all the place
going round and round. and you say
to me. Found dead Can't you say
anything except Found dead'r Cant
you tell me whs, you mean. found
dcadf Ehf Can't your"
The man said. Now look here. sir.
say that's for the coronsr. Ls2s,
said best And least you sAy bsss.
STR. n you understand ma Looks a.
IL the young woman took poison.
That's all I can say. i,oohs Is II she
took poison o1Alio scid--
'-oxaiio sesdrs
Now. ses hsrA SIR Y0u-vs no
call 20 say anything % me ana I've
no call 10 say more 70 you than I've
told you 10 that your cab. sir7 DO
cause II So
They went to sns cab
III
One Of two questions r. commonly
the first words articulsted By one
knocked senseis-s In a disaster. re
covering consciousness. or recover
Ing his scattered wits. what's hap.
p.nedF" he asks, or where am IT.
In the first shock he has not known
he was hurt. lie RECEIVERS his sensea
lie then IL aware OF himself man,
eled. MANNED. delivered to tho tor.
turcrs.
III THAT my aNl1 tHEu NV lin Ast
Sabre was numb TO coherent thought.
numb 10 any realization Of the mean.
ing TO himself OF this that had be
fallen him. The root had crashed in
upon him: but hs lay stunned As
ono pinned beneath .caffoldins know.
not his agony tin the beams are bs-
Ing lifted from him. 30 stupefactiou
inhibited his senses until. on the
morrow. he was dug down TO In the
coroner's court and there awakened.
He could not think Thru ths day
and thru the nigh, his mind CROPPED
with outstretched arms az one crop.
ing In a dark room. or as blind man
tapping with a stick. lie could not
think. He could attend 90 things,
he could notice things. he could per.
form necessary actions. but Eff. Is
dead" "Efns has killed herself e
"Efne has killed herself and her
chad--now what7" In pursuit Of
these his mind could only Grops with
outsiretched hands: these. in Tn.
dark room OF his calamity. eluded his
mind. lie CROPPED and stumbled after
them. They stole and slipped away.
In the train going down to Tidbor.
ough the man who had socosted him
permitted himself TO be more com
municstive. n policeman, observing
lights burning in tho house at mid
day on Sunday. had knocked. and
getting no answer had gone In He
had found the young woman dead
on her bed. the baby dead beside her.
A tumbler was on n small table and
a bottle OF oxalic acid. salts OF lem
on. ~ they call H." said the man.
Sabre stared out of tho window.
''Effic has killed herself. Effie has
killed herself and her baby" No. he
could not fasten upon II. ''IEffie has
killed herself" That was what this
man was telling him. II circled and
spun away from him AZ from the
rushing train tho fields oircled aud
spun before his vision.
lie was able 10 attend 20 things
and to do things. At Tidborough he
took a cab and drove home. and dis.
missing II at tho gate was able 10
give normal attention to the require
uent- OF the morrow and instruct
the man 10 come out for him at baff