Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-04-18
tContinued from II last issue)
CHAPTER ~

aIn YOU house. Mr.. Sabre. And
her baby. dead with her
.Found dead? Found dead? Fife
Ard her baby? Found dead? On
dear God Catch hold or m.
arm a minute. All right. let me go
Found dead? What d'you mean
found dead?"
.sThere's to be an inquest tomor-
row. That's what you're wanted
for"
Inquest? Inquest?' Sabres speech
was thick. He knew 1t was timex
His tongue felt enormously too big
for his mouth. He could not control
II properly. He felt that all his
limbs and members were swollen
and ponderous and out of his con-
troll. "Inauest? Found dead? In
quest? Found dead? Goo. COD
can't o tell me something!
The man said, II say that's for the
coroner. And least you say best. sir.
III YOU understand me. Looks as Il
tho young woman took poison. Ok
alic acid"
"oxaIc acid"
They went to the cab.
In the morning. in the mortuary
adjoining the coroner . Couit' ms
mind suddenly and with shock most
terrible made contact with the car
amsty it mad pursued.
In the mortuary 49,.
When he arrived and alighted
from his cab he found a small crowd
pf persons assembled about the yard
OF the court. Someone said. There
he isl" Someone said. "That's him!
a kind of threatening murmur went
n ffam1-re-ppople. What was the
Chatter? What were they okin
atp He seemed to be wedged among
n mass of dark and rather beastly
faces breathing close to his own. He
could not get on. He was being
pushed. He was caused to stagger.
He said. "Look put. I've got a game
leg" That threatening sort of muir
muir arose more loudly in answer to
his words. Someone somewhere
threw a piece of orange peel AT
someone. II almost hit his face.
What was up? What were they all
doing?
At the door OF the court Sabre
looked across to where on the other
side of the yard some men were
zhuffling out of a detached building
THE coroner's officer said, jury.
They've been viewing the corpse"
r." tOTDCt. lIiC IOdSh NOAo
Through his numbness. He though,
~Corpsei Viewing the corpse! OBJ
ecene and horrible phrase Corpse!
Eme," He made a movement in that
direction. -
The man said. Eyes, perhaps you'd
better"
Il He was against a glass screen,
misty with breaths of those who had
stared and peered through ii. The
policeman wiped his sleev across
She glass. There you are"
Z All :! Now. suddenly n with
mock most terrible, his mind made
bontact with that which 1t had pur-
uued. 1t had CROPPED as in a dark
room with outstretched hands. Now.
hnddenly and with shock o ter
EEhYe- IL was as IL those cropping
hands had touched in the darkness
face.
a An. insupportable, This was Efie.
rhis WIS Bright Efie. This was that
nlIy little Ene of the old, million
HAr-old days. This! This!
J she lay on a slab inclined towards
me class. She was swathed about
rIdbIe. Within the hollow of her
rm reposed a little shape, all
Swnthed. She had brought il into
~ world. She had removed 1t from
- world that would have nothing
- n She had brought a thousand
~rniIea into the world, put she had
riven ofense to the world and the
S0ended world had thrown back her
~mi1es and she o had expressed
ser contrition to the world. This
rna her contrition that she lay here
Tor men to breathe upon the glass,
"A aare. and rub away the dimness
nth their sleeves. and breathe, ami
tare again.
on. insupportable calamity, Oh.
kraredv beyond support He thought
her as oft and again he had seen
5her-those laughing lips, those shin
ing eyes. He thought of her alone
|<sr6en he had left her. planning and
Preparing this frightful dissolution
or her body and her soul. He thought
~ her in torment of inward fire by
S1not which had blistered her poor
Al very terrible groan was broken
out Of him.
81 They took him along.
81 The court was crammed. In two
<zfhirds OF its space were crowded
Ez6euehes. At the upper end of tine
E<room was a dais, a schoolmaster's
Thanking it on one hand were
FORMS occupied by the men SABRE
had seen shuff1ing out of the mortu-
my. On the other hand a second
1afs stood. Facing the central dais
q long table at which men were
<oated on the side looking toward
khe dais. Two men sat also at the
head Of this table. facing h jury.
AZ sabre entered they were in deep
conversation with a stunted. hunch-
BACKED man who sat next them at
the corner
Every face In the room turned to-
rnxd the door as Sabre entered.
= might have belonged to 4
1nxIo body and they appeared to
- = single expression and a single
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