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"There was the same dis- to all the old curiosity shops, if you order there like what there always please, till he found an old Beasle
When he is. Mr. Benda, sir, he's an untidy ance ring; and that's what he wore he played Othello. He said he But could act better when he had the reali man, if ever there was one. beyond that, there wasn't no dis- thing on him like that. The way he CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby order, not to speak of, there wasn't played part, you couldn't call it sci-informed that all Goods are being
It was nothing less than-Incar landed at their risk into the Godown But where could he have gone to nation," said Lebdushka, hesitantly, the right word or not "And when
and Godown Company, Ltd, at Kow-
bear delivery may bs Dr. Goldberg, however, could no he was in a show, during the inter. 1000, whence and/or from the wharver
|vals he was na grumpy more explain that than she could, with a sore head, and he'd lock
Optional Cargo will not be lauded and with the gloomiest of mis-self up in his
with the mood hours prior to vessels arrival, but givings he now applied to the police, nobody could indesing-room, so that here, unles notice has been given, 48 the was in. That's why he drank as carried on from port to port to the "Eight you are," said the police much that it wrecked his nerves, re- final port of call to which the option
extenda.
body, I ask you?"
inspector; when Dr. Goldberg had marked Lebdushks, one remark
"We'll I'm going into this
obtained.
No claims will be admitted after the| Goods have left the Godown, and al Goods remaining undelivored after the |
be add- trotted out all he knew. have a look for him. But from aled by way of a parting
"Til come with Suggested: Dr. you, you've told me about the way he shut himself up at home for a whole Goldberg, who was at a loose end 20th inst, will be subject to zent
All cinima against the vessel must that evening. They were showing a week, without washing or shaving naval filma there, but Dr. Goldberg had be presented to the Undersigned on or fand sprawling about on the sofa, no very clear ides of what it was all before the 29th Inat, or they will not drinking brandy and then dis-about Almost with tears in his eyes be recognised.
All broken, chated, and damaged he listened to old Lebdushka prating appearing stark naked like
Goods are to be left in the 'Godowns, About Benda.
where they will be examined on the African nigger, why, sir, that looks
"He wasn't an setor," said Leb-20th instant at 10 am. by our sur to me like a-hm-well, what you dushka, "he was the very devil. One veyors, Messrs. Goddard & Douglas might call a
life wasn't enough for him, and that's In the case of dutiable cargo, Con- "Fit of insanity," Dr. Goldberg bounder in his private life, but on the Imports & Exports Offics that they
all about it.. He was a bit of n
signees are requested to inform the stage he was a a king from head to "That's it, sir," said the police feat he was a vagabond from head bave such goods for examination.
No Fire Insurancé has been effect "Suicide while of un- to foot. I tell you, he used to wave inspector. sound mind. You know, I shouldn't his band as if he'd been ruling the ed
Bill of Lading will be countersign be surprised if that's what he has voost all his life, and yet his father was nothing more nor less than a done."
knife-grinder whe tramped from place
I "But then his body would be to place.
that look at found," suggested Dr. Goldbers who supposed to be thipwrecked FLA he's on a desert island and his nails H49 {dubiously.
have been manicured. What
damn
he's
blurted out.
"By the way, allt"
"No," said the doctor hastily. As a matter of fact Benda was up to his eyes in debts, but he never took them at all seriously.
"Excuse me,"
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"And, besides, how for could be ed fool! And do you see the way go if he was naked? And why got a beard just stuck on his face this by no means superficial acquaint. should he take his bag with him? If Benda had been playing that part ance he secured an exhumation order And the car that was waiting in he'd have let a real beard grow, and within two hours, and side by side he'd have had some real dirt under with a very disgruntled divisionsi sur- front of the house? That looks his nalls. Here, I say, doctor, what's reen he was looking on while the more as if he was running away, come over ye stammered Dr. Golding dug up.
all of a sudden?" corpse of the unknown tramp was be- |sir."
"But I've just
"You can take my word for it," The police inspector remembered berg, standing up.
Thanks very thought of something. something else.
much. And he was already dashing growled the divisional surgeon, "that the Prague police asked about this; was he in debt at out of the cinema. Bends would have fellow before. He can't possibly be Tet a real beard grow, he repeated. Benda. Why, he was a filthy rascal." Benda did let a real beard growl;
When the grave was opened Dr. Why on earth didn't I think of that Goldberg had to send for some brandy, before?
"You can and have a look at it To police headquarters!" he shout yourself," the visional surgeon snarl- ed as he flung himself into the neared at Dr. Goldberg, and remained in
mortuary. "Or was there--hm-any private est taxi, and when he got as far as front of the
After a while Dr. Goldberg stagger-| scandal, was he crossed in love, or the sergeant who was on night duty
he begged and prayed of him for ed out of the mortuary, as pale as was he worried about his health, or heaven's sake to find out immediate death. "Come and look," he gasped, had he got any sort of trouble out ly, but it must be immediately, who returned to the body, and pointed to of the ordinary ?"
ther on September 2 or thereabouts the place where the man's head hed Dr. Goldberg then took "Not as far as I know," replied they had discovered the body of an 'once been and pulled back what had
unknown
110 Vagrant-yes, matter this fores
forceps Dr. Goldberg hesitantly: he did re-where. Contrary to all expectation, ones call one or two things, but he kept the sergeant did actually go of the once been p; this revealed the re Tather, THE OF And, anyhow, look the matter up or to inquire about pulsively decayed teeth,
ed with black carica. "Have ■ good! they could hardly have any bearing it, probably more from asheer boredom at the yellow stumps of teeth, stain-
than from any actual zeal or interest; look," muttered upon Benda's inexplicable dia
meanwhile Dr. Goldberg was on ten-the forceps betwberg, as he thrust the teeth and re- Appearance. All the same, on histerhooks, for a horrible idea had dawn-moved a costing of black decay from way home from the police of ed upon him.
thera.
Underneath it two strong, Bal course, the police would do all they "Well, sir," said the sergeant when shining molars became visible. could he turned over in his mind the returned, "on the morning of Sep. Dr. Goldberg could stand it no long.. tember 2 a gamekeeper found the er. He rushed out of the mortuary, everything he knew about Benda in body of an unknown tramp, about clutching his head in his hands. that respect.
There was not much. forty years ago, in the woods at When after a while he returned to 1. Benda had a wife somewhere Krivokint; on September 2 the body the divisional surgeon he was pale abroad, but he did not worry himself of an unknown man was taken out of and woebegone. "So much for those about her.
the Elbe near Litomerice he was remarkably decayed teeth," he said
them to himself,
2. He was keeping a girl in one of about thirty, and had been in the softly, that was only a black com- the outlying districts of Prague. water for at least a fortnight; on Sep- position that actors put on their teeth of 5. He was having what is called an tember 10 an unknown man of about when they are playing the parts affair with a lady named Greta, the sixty hanged himself near Nemecky very old men or vagrants. That filthy wife of the big industrialist Korbel Brody
rascal was an actor, and," he added, "Are there any particulara known with a despairing gesture of the hand, Greta was extremely anxious to go that tramp asked Dr. Gold-a very great actor, too,"
breathlessly
Korbel had financed
some films in
Jon the stage, and for that reason said
the sergeant, gasing|
*
which his wife, of course, played the
at the agitated doctor. The same day Dr. Goldberg called star parts. was notorious
It
that Benda
Wan Grota's lover,
"According to the report from the on the industrialist Korbel; he was a that local
his skull had been tall, powerful man, with a chin like police station, Greta followed him about and was no longer showing even a reasonable smashed by a blunt instrument. The golosh and a body like a buttress "I have come to see you," said Dr. ambunt of discretion. As a matter of findings of the post-mortem were:
cause of death, Goldberg gazing fixedly it kim fact, Bends never talked about these Signs of alcoholism:
Here's brain injuries,
the photo through his convex glasses, "la con things; he despised the whole business,
lordly graph," said the sergeant, and added, section with Benda, the actor." which he treated partly with
"Oh!" said the manufacturer, and sire and graces
and
partly with a cynie. with the air of an expert: "My word, Ism which made Goldberg shudder, he was properly done in, and no mis joined his hands behind his head, "has
The turned up again?” No, said the doctor to himself hope- take."
"Partly remarked Dr. Goldberg, lessly, nobody knows
The photograph showed the body all the ins and outs of Benda's private life; T be only as far as the waist; it was dress-and I think it'll interest you hanged it this isn't a case of fouled in verminous rags, with an open if for no other reason, on account of ablet; at the place where the the film that you were going to pro- play, but that's a matter for the police corehead and eyes should have been duce, or, rather, finance, with him in
calico to deal with.
was a ghastly cluster of matted hair it."
"On account of what film?" asked and something which perhaps consist
only the bristly the great man with an air of bore Dr. Goldberg, of course, did noted of skin or
of know what the police were doing and chin with fin
KHy
what was their lips of metion." With the half-opened month stubble and! dom. "I know nothing" about it.”
"I mean," said. Goldberg obdurately, "the film in which Bends was to heva an increasing despondency he kept on semblance to a human being: waiting for news. Meanwhils a whole Goldberg trembled like a lead. It played the part of a tramp, with your month elapsed since the disappearancecould it possibly be Benda?
wife ne lending lady. As a matter of Had be
had he got any fact, it was to have been produced of Bends, and people were now be ginning to refer to him in the past special distinguishing market, he because of your wife added the doc tense
The sergeant looked into a mass of One evening Dr. Goldberg raa
that Korbel. I suppose "Hm-helght, across Lebduahics, an old actor, and papera. as they talked of one thing and -an-hair turning grey, teeth extremely de-Benda came to you with some story other Benda's name naturally cropped Goldberg uttered a loud sigh of talk. There may have been plan of or other. That was all premature up. "My word, he was an actor and
That not him. Excuse me some sort in the air. Benda told you
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