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HOUSEMAID ON The General's Dilemma
GRAVE CHARGE Alleged Administration
Of Poison
DID NOT WANT TO DO ANY HARM
(Continued from Page 7)
At the appointed hour the or- dling cavalryman's gait, it seemed derly announced "His Excellency hardly credible that he could be General Ivan Karlovitch Wurm !” entitled to wear the little old kepi Lieutenant Truskin breathed a with the flat peak. He came by prayer to heaven and had him | degrees to be a sort of joke. "The (shown in The General entered. last officer of the old Alexander He looked like an old pair of mut- Regiment...." Everyone knew crackers. The medals danced on his stereotyped phrase.
his breast, his spars jingled.) When the great war broke out With the little flat-peaked cap in The girl who was said to be active service.
General Wurm volunteered his hand, he sat down, jerking
for His application with emotion. And it was this
a
A poison charge was brought against 16-year-old girl at Wealdstone Juvenile Court Cently.
Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham-ployed as a housemaid by a Mill was accepted so as not to offend doddering old man who was the Hill man, was charged with cas him, with a promise to let him terror of the Ministry! With the ing to be taken by her employer know the result in due course" courage on December 27-28 a quantity of His patience was
of despair Lieutenant put to hard Truskin began: perchloride of mercury, thereby proof. Every week the little cap endangering his life.
"Your of the year 18 turned up at have gone through the prescribed Excellency's petitions The girl was remanded for
the Ministry of War, but the per- week
channels It has take rather mission of the All-highest was not longer....in time of war... -h'n. forthcoming.
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the Minister
The General was deeply hurt. The General nodded his little He began to suspect inimical in-grey head meditatively. trigues. Malevolent rivals, mo
"His Excellency doubt, were blackening his rept for War has carefully examined tation at Court the reputation of Asking for a remand Inspector the most popular officer of the your memorials, and it goes with- Brown said that it was necessary Army!
out saying that the Army....h'm for the girl to be legally repre- Henceforth the events of the has no wish to lose the bene sented, but he had been unable to world war sank into insignificance fit of the experience of such a beside his personal campaign. distinguished soldier....There is fighting in progress on the Ger- He added that he thought the Each day be paid a visit to some
frontier...and in Galicia magistrates should know more fresh dignitary, in order to com- about the nature of the "stuff" plain of this unmerited shizhit.
"Shoot the whole lot down and It had been analysed and was now With the inevitable rose in his in the hands of chemistr
hand.
ald intrade upon forge ahead!" croaked the he world laboratory.
elderly ladies-in-waiting, at the man, striking his sword on the The chairman (Mr. B. E. Fig-most impossible hours, to
beg floor
"Of course, of course, 1 ZNA it was alleged the poison was ad-the Empress-Dowager the quite of your Excellency's opinion
ministered.
Tarina..
Lieutenant Truskin sought | Inspector Brown-It was in People
Continuation. proffered consolatory despairingly for a whisky and cocktail mixtures. The phrases, and cast about for means Holy Madonna of Kazan, help me! waster took some and
the of shaking him oft- The Minis- The General set about blowing mistress.
ters gave orders not to admit him his nose with great thoroughness. on the table. any more. They were now always He hid his cap "engaged in an important confer Lieutenant Truskin would have In answer to the charge the girlfence. The ladies-in-waiting had liked to throw it out of the win- replied, "I did not want to do any a perpetual migraine, and the dow, and the General after it. harm."
General turned away despondently But at that moment the Madonna The Clark-That is a plea of with his rose.
of Kazan performed her miracle.
Lien- He applied himself now to the "Excellency" began the not guilty.
The mother of the girl who drawing up of "memorials," and tenant, this time in a firm soldier- attended court, stated that she bombarded the War Office with ly tone, the Ministry finds itself and dificat had come from the north of Eng-petitions. These invariably began in a most delicate land. It was said that the has with an allusion to the exploits of position. As your Excellency band was earning only 218. a week his grandfather in the Napoleonic knows, the regulations of the 11th and that she had to return to the Wars, enumerated the distinctions of October are unalterable. Field North during the adjournment to earned by the Warms, from the Equipment! It will be impossible attend a son who was seriously time of Nicholas L to that of for your Excellency to return the The chairman of the magistrates Nicholas II, contained hints of 18 cap you have been •· excep. said that the court was prepared strategic plans which the General tionally permitted to wear by his to lend the mather the fare for her proposed to lay before the Staff, Majesty *
Not Guilty
also
CRIPPLE'S LOVE. FOR DOG
and ended with the reminder that "What?" cried the General, zit- he alone, of all officers in the ting up.
conse-
Army, had received the imperial “A most complicated case, as I} permission to wear the cap of said, hitherto unknown in the a- 18
nals of the Army. Simply to re- It was not surprising that Cap-nounce a special favour of his tain Kalantaraft's patience at last Majesty's may have.. gare out. His writing-table was quences the gravity of which we Janowed under by
Gewerk cannot foresee. On the other petitions. Something had to be hand, to infringe regulations. done about th
(with which even their Imperiál Grief at the loss of his dog is
"Tell the General to come here! Highnesses the Grand Dukes must believed to have hastened the death the Captain shouted to his subor-comply imagine H!”
Believed To Have Hastened Death
of Mr. William Dugdale, of Halldinste "You'll have to receive The General crumpled up. street, Clitheroe, Lanes, who died him. and it you don't find sonde
problem loomed up before
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recently in the local infirmary. Hay of delivering me from the old him an zaair of State!
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{D'you hear?!! from birth and for years he was entenant Traskin clicked his kin. We are powerless to inter-once more happily
with your Excellency,” said Trus- The terrors of the drawn about in his invalid chair by a collie dog.
heels, collected the petitions and fere. On the one hand: his Ma-1 He did not come agali. earried them sway to his room-jesty On the other: the disci-impossible to find an The dog used to pull him out to me devil take the General Airline of the Army! The Ministry this fearful dilemma
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ores of visitors to the district camo to know the man and his dog.
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was he to do Hežinvite:
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