Evening star., 1936-09-06

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"'Put you at thirty-ive or thirty
Six she repeated. And his uneasiness
seemed to increase.
From then on he never went out,
even at night, but haunted his room
like a ghost. the front bedroom that
looked over the sea; till one day he
blurted out furtively. 4 must leave at
once. l have an important appoint
ment in London
"To London he went, and to the
house of Caber. which he knew well
enough where to find. He had been
there before; it was Caber who had
made him forty. He was young man
of twenty, wanted for murder"
"You haven't told us his name."
said Terbut.
"Boran," said Jorkens.
why! l remember that easel!
And said so, too, and several of
the rest of US. He had murdered a
woman in a London fiat. Afterwards
he had locked the doors and windows,
by which act he gained twenty-four
hours, and twelve hours more while
the police found out who did it: by
then he had disappeared. AS a matter
of fact, he had gone to Caber's house,
and Caber had hidden him while he
did the course; and he had slipped out
one night, a man of forty, and gone
down to the seaside -.
''Let me see. Didn't something 60
wrong with him under an anas-
thetic?" said someone.
mot bit Of it" said Jorkens. "I'll
tell you what happened. He slipped
back to Caber's house the night that
he left the lodgings, and when there
was no one about in the street he gave
the knock on the little door that
Caber's patients knew, and was let in"
"You seem to have known Caber
fairly well" said Terbut.
mo-" said Jorkens. Il had hap
pened to find out about his treating
people. Of course it was all pretty
secret, but somebody had to know or
he would never have had any patients;
and among the right people, as he
called them (the wrong people, as we
should say), it was pretty widely
known. His clientele. as he called it,
was limited, not only by there being
rather few cases in which men needed
to be twenty years older, but also by
his fee, which was a thousand pounds"
"A thousand pounds" exclaimed
Terbut.
Eyes" replied Jorkens. more muir
derers can scrape that together than
you would suppose, when it comes to
that or the rope. Look at the ex-
pensive defences they often put up.
Well, man committed his murder,
then he would often wait few days
till he found that Scotland Yard had
got on his tracks, and then, if he knew
about Caber. he would slip down to
the Caledonia Market, where more
than one could tell him of Caber's
address and how to knock on his door.
If you went down there with a fver
in your hand, it mightn't be long before
you came on one of the right men
yourself"
Thank you," muttered Terbut.
"No, no. no. l am not suggesting
anything" said Jorkens. well then,
his fee was a thousand; and Boran
came running in painting for fright,
and his extra twenty years, all be-
cause his landlady had said he looked
thirty-fve. 1t seemed too close to
twenty, and Boran didn't seem to
himself to have altered much, not
knowing that there were all kinds of
scientific tests that would have proved
he was long past twenty. He panicked
and asked for another twenty years. !"
Sixty" said Terbut.
"Yes," said Jorkens, ''but with ten
more years to live at least, as Boran
Had figured it out; and then dying in