New Britain herald., 1922-04-20
Continued From Our Last Issue

Long pause FIlEHllN nd Hours, Whole court holding lis breath, Pause like chunk of cior- nifty. silent as that Empty as that What the devil was he thinking al Had he forgotten Was h. awake now to the frightfnl places he kept getting Into and wondering iC this WIS an- other and where exactly |, lay Ap- pallnc pause. Dashed woman some. where in the court goes of Into hys- terics and dragged out, lie didn't hear a scream of II, that poor haitrd chap in the box, Just stood tharc. Gray as a rakcd-oat fire, Face 'wifching, Aw- ful l tell you, awNh Nearly went into mysteries myself lIuGpO stopping his tongue around his jaws, watching him like a dog watching its dinner being cut up, After about two years. slaps in his tongue and demands, Como sir. for what purpose did you buy this oNalic acid"
 Sabre gave his first clear, calrulat- ed words since hr had got up there. l guess he had been pulling himself together to look for a trap. He said very slowly trying each word, like q chap feeling along on thin ice; he said Fife asked -mo--to to-Ect it my-straw at--for- me
 for-Brighton,
 Did she clean your straw hat for you?'
 Mods.
 You don't appear to he wearing itc'
 Shakes.
 Pray, where, then, Is this straw hat 10 clean which you obtained the oyalic acid ? Is it at your house.
 Shakes.
 Not at you house. odd, Whera them
 Look here
 "'Where them
 Look here
 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.'
 "Humpo draws in his breath Stares at him for two solid minutes without speaking. Then says. ike one speak ing to q ghost, You lost it in the sea ct Brighton! You lost it in the sea at Brighton!' Has an inspiration h. spired in hell. Turns like a flash to the coroner, I have done with this wit ness, sir Sits down. Plump. Court lets go its breath like the four winds round q chimney. Sabre staggers our of the box. Falls across into his seat.
 Too much for me old man. l bawl ed out. people in front of me nearly jumping out of their skins with the start, l bawed out. Mr. Coroner, l saw the witness at Brighton, and he told me he'd lost his hat in the sea.
 "Buddha, like a talking idol tliscoN ering an mtidel in his temple, 'WAo are you, sir
 "'1'm a solicitor. I'm MT Sabre's solicitor
 "Buddha to $ bre: Have you . solicitor in the court, Sabre?'
 No No. Get away. Get out of it.! Get away from me.
 You have no standing in this court, sir says Bud1ha.
 Awful. Nothing to be done
 
 vitness-put up to screw down the lid on Sabre's coffin, to polish up the argument before it went to the jury. Stood there with the venom frotnine at the corners of his mouth, stood there a man straight out of the loins of Judas lscarlot, stood thero making his testimony more damnng by pre- tending 1t was being dragged out of him. Told positively damning story about meeting Sabre at the station on his departure from leave q day after the girl was sacked. Noticed how strange his manner was; noticed he didn't like being asked about circum- stances of her dismissal; noticed his wife hadn't come to see him off. Yes, thought it odd. Sabre had explained wife had cold, blt saw Mrs Sabre in Tidborough very next day Yes, | thought the whole thing funny hc- | cause had frequently seen Sabre and | the girl together during Sabre's leave, | Yes notably in the Closter tea rooms late one evening. Well, yes, had i thought their behavior odd, sccretive. ! Had he ever had occasion in the past. | in earlier days, to remonstratc with 1 Sabre concerning attitude towards | girl? Well, scarcely liked to say so, i 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 i \ oice from the back, It's lie, It's | an ahominable lie And you know its | a lie'
 "Eh :? Terrific? tell you terrific : isn't the word. Silence How dare ! you, madam Turn out that woman, .