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I mean, My only hope of discovering the If you're man who ruined my happiness and I'd rather murdered Philida yes, murdered her-les in the fact that hands
Fumblingly sought about in my heard about that affair? mind for some explanation of the how much that's true? change in him; and abruptly, like interested. I'll tell you. a key into the band of a man stand-like you to know." ing before a locked door, came the Instinctively I found myself say- can't change, that they are a more memory of Philida. Why, of course ing: "But, Mace, old chap, you certain means of identification even --Philida
can't want to talk about it. We than faces, Poor old Macel He'd thought the can all guess how cut-up you must "-"In the February of 1915 my world of Phil. If ever a man had have been and-"
man Yamado-who is extremely de Wednesday, 4th Oct. at 10 am.worshipped a woman! It was to He flashed me a quick probing voted to me-happened to be inn Wednesday, 18th Oct. at 10 am. celebrate the first anniversary of look. Kaaw his nostrils quiver like Paris. "And one day he was on the Wednesday, lat Nov. at 10 am. their wedding that we'd all been in the nostrils of a spirited horse. point of crossing a street when 4 vited down to Belhaise that Inst He was crashing the cigarette to block in the traffic caused a taxi. to. week-end. Funny that even mar-pulp between his fingers, ・・ |halt against the kerb immediately. riage hadn't succeeded in breaking "But I do, I do want to talk about in front of him. In the taxi be Jup the "Circle"! We'd all pro-it!" he cried, his voice rising to a caught a glimpse of a woman's face "In-Philida's. He tried to see the phesied that it would.
|sudden passionate insistence. I don't be-fact, I—I've brought you all here face of the man she was with, but Philida was lovely. lieve I've ever seen a more beauti- this evening-for the express pur- this was impossible. Suddenly the ful woman; but-well, somehow. I pose of talking about it.".
man got up to open the window. never quite liked ner. I didn't feel Again his glanca seemed to chal-His face was still invisible, but for that she was good enough for Mace. lenge us, seemed to linger just a several moments his hands rested in Underneath her charming exterior fraction of a moment upon each in- full view upon the frame of the I fancied her character had a cor-dividual face. And as his eyes met open window. tain shoddiness. And Mace adored mine I was conscious of an odd thrill "Wall-Yamada happens to have
of foreboding.
[a peculiarly infallible memory for And in the end she had left him:
"How can one judge," he said, hands. If he once, either con- -run away with some other man. "who is really to blame-in affaira (sciously or unconsciously, Axes the 1 shivered again as I heard him of that sort?" Women? They're impression of a hand upon his laugh-a peculiarly hard, mirthiess the devil! I know there are men memory, he never forgets it. We sound. He had never laughed like who say that all this talk about Europeans are apt to imagine that that in the old days. The iron must never being able to understand 'em personality expresses itself only in Hindeed have entered into his soul. -down to rock bottom.
[the face.. An Oriental realises that The meal went on, to the accom- "As for Phil-I thought I knew a hand may be identified as surely paniment of a somewhat vague her. I thought I'd given her all aan, perhaps more surely than a face stream of small-talk. And then, woman could want-that she was that a hand can't be disguised as" little by little, as the effects of the content. If loving her could have a face can. And-well, as I've told very excellent food-combined with made her happy" His voice you, Yamado happens to have this the Various even more excellent broke, his lips twitched; he stared gift of hand-memory supernormally wines got to work within us, the blankly upwards after a volating developed." atmosphere of the gathering began cuck of blue-grey smoke. "Damn it I think it was Remington who subtly to change.
Ice first all, you know what a fool I was said: cracked, then brake generously in all about that woman! If cutting my "But how the deuce is that going directions, to be finally swept away heart out of my living body could to help you? You can't have the ypon a flood of animated loquacity. have saved her a moment's pain-hands of every man in the world By the time the last course had But it seems that wasn't what she paraded for Yamado's inspection." been disposed of we were all wanted. No, there wasn't anything Again Mace smiled his subtle, thoroughly, even a trifle bilariously. could do. She'd just got tired, cryptic smile.
I suppose
I bored her; 1 was so "No, of course not. Besides, it darned simple, such a greenhorn. Isn't necessary. You see, I happen And 17 Oh, my God, I loved her! to know that the hands Yamado saw We went back through the fold- You remember that last week-end in Paris belong to one of five men." ing oak doors into the sitting-room. Even then-and we'd only been
We Bat round in a careless semi-married a year-there was someone "Yea. He recognised them as de- circle, and Yamado, his flattísh yel-jelse.
|longing to one of the guests he had low face smiling its eternal smile] "And then the war
came-and waited upon at table during that; of good-natured obsequiousness that simplified matters. I hadn't week-end at Belchaise." came an with coffee on & tray.been out in France three weeks be- "But--you mean to say———?”? There was a slight lull in the con-fore she left Beichaise for good and "There were six of you present versation as he filled and handed & all. She sent me the usual sort of on that occasion, but as Darracq cup separately to each one of us note, to the effect that she'd happened to be killed two days be Then he went out again, and wethought things over and come to fere Yamado saw my wife in Paris, ent meditatively sipping the strong the conclusion that our marriage-well, that puts him out of it." black beverage and staring at the was a mistake,' and that she'd gone i For one ghastly frozen moment
away with the only man she'd-ever nabody spoke_Then... And then, inevitably, the talk really loved'-her 'soul-mate* I think "Good God!" Stoddard exclaimed, gravitated to that last meeting at she called him."
"You accuse'one of us? "You must) Belchaise, that critical week-end He laughed, harsh, ugly laugh, be crazy. You don't know when the fate of all Europe had and helped himself to a fresh you're talking about." bung in the balance. And someone cigarette.
With an elaborate gesture of mentioned Philida.
"I was in the trenches-helpless, nonchalance Mace put his cigarette
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1 imagine I wasn't the only one It was eighteen months before I got to his lips. who felt curious. But aumehow my first leave, and by that time- "I know perfectly well what I'm well, I suppose we hadn't liked to well, what could I do that was any talking about. I'm saying that the say anything-not until the name use? They'd covered their trackman who ruined my life's happiness, slipped out accidentally; and then very cleverly--and I don't know. that who took Phil away from me--and we were all on the alert, watching I wanted; specially, to find out who finally left her to die like a dog in Mace as a cat watches a mouse. the man was. I won't pretend that a Spanish hovel-is in this room at
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He had got up from his chair to if I'd happened to come up against the present moment." fetch a box of matches from the him in the beginning - that 1 The ring of passionate conviction mantelpiece, and now he turned and wouldn't have killed him, gladly, in his voice left no doubt in my 20th Sept. faced as, his back to the glowing with my two bare hands. But, mind that he believed himself to be 2nd Oct. logs, a dead match in one hand, a after all, it was her choice and if speaking the truth. I felt the hair 2nd Oct. cigarette in the other. I saw that he'd treated her decently
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"Philida?" he said, quietly, almost between his teeth. "If only he'd statement to make, unless you're "PHILOCTETES” 24th Sept. pensively. "Ah, yes-Philida? I treated her decently! But he didn't positive; and how can you be on
wonder someone hasn't mentioned I found out afterwards he'd given such evidence?" her before. No doubt you've want- her hell. Helli+He took her to "I'm quite satisfied that Yamado ed to--and didn't like to, 'Fraid Paris and then smuggled her dam made no mistake." of hurting my feelings and all that. to Barcelona-that was in the 'carly "Then--for God's sake, man Well, you needn't worry."
part of 1915. And when he was which one of us was it? Which?" He tossed the burnt match into tired of her he just left-her-|
"I don't know." the grate, deliberately scrutinised stranded, starving and came back "You don't know?” each member of the "Circle" in turn, and joined up in the British Army with Yamado that it, while waiting "No. Before you came I arranged and went on
She died in 1917--without a penny, wonder how much you've after sinking to the lowest depths at table, he recognised the hands he of misery and shame, any woman sew in Paris, he was to give me a could sink to After the Armistics certain sign: He gave me that sign
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