Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-04-19
(Continucd from our last Issue.)

Sabre, the perspiration streamed
down his face like running oil, and
he'd flap his great red tongue around
his jaws and mop his streaming face
and chuck away his streaming name;
and all the time he'd be STOPPING
down to Twyning. and while he was
STOPPING and Twyning prompting
him with the venom pricking and
bursting in the corners Of his mouth,
all the time he was STOPPING this
chap would leave that great fore
finger waggling away at Sabre, and
sabre clutching the box. and his
face in a knot. and his throat in
lump and choking out Look here
Look here
Il tell you
Il was standing right across the
court az right angles to him. / was
wedged tight. Scarcely breathe. let
alone move. I wrote on a 3, of pa
per to Sabre that 1 was here and let
him get up and ask for me. Sabre
snatched the thing as II he was mad
at II, and read It, and buzzed IL on
the floor and ground his heel on It..
Just to show me, ! suppose. NIGEL
Poor devil, my gooseberry eyes went
up about ten degrees. Bit later I
had another shot. well, I'll come
TO that In a minute
II
They pushed off the case with the
obvious witnesses-police. doctor and
so on. Then the thing hardened
down. Then Sabre saw what was
coming at him-saw It at a clap and
never had remotely drcamt of it;
saw II like a tiger coming down the
street to devour him; saw Il like the
lid Of hell slowly slipping away be-
fore his eyes. Saw III l was watch
ing him. He saw Il; and things
age. grayness. lasting and immov-
able calamity don't know what
frightful things-came down on his
face like the dust OF ashes settling
On a polished surface.
you see, what this Humpo fend
was laying out for was, first that
Sabre was the father OF the girls
child, second that he'd deliberately
put the poison In her way, and bru-
ally told her he was done with her.
and gone off and left her so that she
should do what she had done and he
be rid OF her. Yes. Yes. old man.
And he'd got a easel BY the living
lingo. he'd got such a case as a
Crown prosecutor only dreams about
after a good dinner and three parts
OF a bottle OF port.
Listen. Just listen and see for
yourself. Worked off the police evil
donce and the doctor. dye see .
\
up into the box. Stands there mas
sive, bowed with grief. chest heav.
ing. voice coming out OF II like AT
organ in the Dead March. Stand
there like the father OF Virgins
thinking OF Appius Claudius.
Like this. his evidence went
Was father OF the deceased woman
CAS- they called herr Was employed
as foreman at Fortune, East and
sabre's Had seen the body and
identified It. SO on. so on.
"Then Humpo gets on to him. WA
his daughter the sort of girl to medi
tate taking her life?-'Never
Neverl' Great rendlng cry that wen
down to your marrow.
Was any particular individual IN
which took her from beneath hi
roof?-'Therel There' Clenchet
fist and half his body over the boz
towards Sabre.
Look herel" bursts out old Sabre
Look here
"They shut him up.
ANSWER the question. please
Mr.. Bright.='Mr. Sabre led to he
first going from me. Mr.. sabrer
WAS the situation thus obtaine
for the girl nearer her father
house or nearer Mr.. Sabre's?-No
a quarter Of an hour, not ten min
utes. from Mr.. Sabre's house.
Had the witness any knowiedg
as TO whether this man Sabre was
frequent visitor at the place OF IN
girls situation 2-Constantly con
stantly. night after night, he wa
there?'
Was he, indeed?' says Hump'
nightly Interested. Was ne. IN
deed? They were perhaps grea
friends OF his own standing Their
one or two men chums, no doubt
No onel No one" cries the oil
man. No one but an old invali
lady. nigh bedridden. past sevent
and my daughter, my daughter, m
Eme
Had the witness recently bee
shown a diary kept by Mr.. Twynii
at that period Yes Yes"
"And It contained frequent refe
ence to Sabre's mention in q
Office OF these visits?-'Yes, Yes,'
"Did one entry reveal the IA
that on one occasion this Sab
spent an entire night there?
Look here bursts out q
Sabre. Look here
Cant get any farther. 'T'
eroans old Bright out OF his hes
ing chest. Yes. night there
"And on the very next day. I
very next day did this man sal
rush Off and enlist Yes. Yes
Viewed IN the light OF the su
sequent events. did that sudd
burst OF patriotism bear any pl
ticular Interpretation - 'Runnl
away from it, heaves the old mi
Running away from it,
Look here from Sabre aga
Look here Same result.
so this Humpo chap went
Diling II up from old Bright /
that. old man: and all the time e
ting deeper and getting worse,
course. Sabre getting the girl q
his own house after the old lad
death removes the girl from
ncighborhood; curious srddenn
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