New Britain herald., 1922-04-18

orange peel at someone. It almost hit his face. What was up? What were they all doing?
 At the door of the court sabre looked across 10 where on the other side of the yard some men were shuf- fling out of a detached building. The coroner's officer said, Jury. They're been viewing the corpse"
 ! Corpse" The rough word stabbed through his numbncss. He thought, | Corpse, Viewing the corpse. Ob- scene and horrible phrase. Corpse. | Eaie." He made a movement in that direction.
 He was against glass screen, misty with breaths of those who had stared and peered through it. The police man wiped his sleeve. across the glass. There you are.'
 Ah Now, suddenly and with shock most terrible, his mind made contact with that which it had pursued. It had groped as in dark room with outstrctched hands. Now, suddenly and with shock most terri l ble, it was as if those groplng hands |
 An. insupportable! This was Fife This was Bright Fife. This was that jolly little Fife of the old, million year-o old days. This. This!
 She lay on a slab inclined towards the glass. She was sWathed about ] in cerements. Only her face was visible. Within the hollow of her arm reposed little shape, all swath- cd. She had brought it into the world. She had removed it from the world that would have nothing of it. She had brought a thousand smiles into the world but she had given of fcnse to the world and the offended world had thrown back her smiles and she now had expressed her con- triton to the world. This was her contrition that she lay here for men to breath upon the glass, and stare, and rub away the dimness with their sleeves, and breathe, and stare again. Oh insupportahle calamity. On, tragedy beyond support! He thought of her as oft and again he had seen her-thosc laughing lips, those shin-
 ing eyes. He thought of her alone when he had left her planning and preparing this frightful dissolution
 of her body and her soul, He thought of her in torment of inward fire by that which had bistered her poor lips.
 A very terrible groan was broker out of him.
 They took him along,
 The court was crammed. Tn two thirds Of it's space were crowded benches At the upper end of the room was a dais, d schoolmaster'S desk Thanking 1t on one hand were forin < occupied by the men Sabre had seel shuffling out of the mortuary. On tE' other hand a second dais stood. Fac < ing the central dais was a long tabl X at which men were seated on the s1d s looking tc ward the dais. Two mel ' sat also at the head of the table, ia a ing the jury. As Sabre entered the were in deep conversation with
 stunted, hunchbacked man who sa , next them at the corner.
 Every face in the room turned to
 wards the door as Sabre entefeo
 They might have belonged to singl
 body and they appeared to nave
 single expression and single though
 a dark and forbi1ding expression am
 a thought dark and hostile. Ther
 was again that murmur that ha
 greeted him when he stepped fror
 the cab. At the sight of him one o
 the two men at the head Of the tahl l .,,,to1 to btS fppt X very big mar
 and with q very hig and massive fac
 and terrific eyes who started up an raised cienched fists and had his Jaw s working Old Bright. His companlo