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I heard a noise -and swung round in a wild panic...
In
Bristol hesitated for just the I said it. I didn't really believe could not sleep. Fear and des Now, at least, I had proof that right length of time. Then he the child was this other man's, pair racked my aching body. I had a legitimate reason for Bald; "A doctor's job is not and I was se sorry as my wife What was the uso of going visiting her that night, confined to diagnosis. He must when, a few months later, she on? It looked as if the case I put the note in my bag and inspire confidence,
and that slipped down the stairs and lost was already lost--and Bristol was going out of the room, when means gaining the friendship it."
was sute. Safe to kill again. I stopped. went back to the and trust of his patient, my lord,
"This young man you referred his revenge and kill me, too.
Safe, one of these days, to get drawers and opened them. "My wife has mentioned the
the bottom drawer were some Incident when she found me to," said counsel. "Have you
Wearily I changed my clothes uniforms, and suddenly I realised bending over a woman patient seen him with your wife since?" and set off for Bristol's house, who slept in this room now. who was, as she saya, undressed.
"Yes," said Bristol. "At one was going through with my She thought we were embracing a.m. this morning i
I went to the wardrobe and Jooked accom- plan
at the skirts, carefully "The facts are quite other-
It was towards the end of hung, two coats, a dressing- wise. This woman had fainted panied a private Inquiry agent
to my wife's Nat. When the surgery hours when I reached gown—and then suddenly I saw during
examination for pregnancy, and fell to door was opened and we went the house. I hung around at the it in the comer.
the patients megligee:J: banging the floor. I had put side, the man was there with comer, watching
come away. Then, half an hour negligeo I had seen before. later, Nurse Vane come out and wond down the street. She was followed
The by Bristol, with the chauffeur was waiting PUT it couldn't be the same for him and he drove away on D ane, it couldn't! Bristol was his round of visits.
too cunning and careful a mon
Now, at last, I'd proof to hang him
NICKIE, a famous model, discovers that her husband Dr. BRISTOL ROBERTS has murdered LYDIA CLIFFORD. As she cannot give evidence against him while still his wile she decides to divorce him- and send him to the pallows, She knows that if he guesses her plan he will kill her too. Inspector RAYNER, of Scotland Yard, questions her about Lydia Clifford's death. Nickle returns to her flat to find JEFFREY BARING, man the once loved, there : her husband arrives and finds them alone.
By Leonard Mosley
Thursday.
T was the most beau
tiful performance of Bristol's life. He looked so reasonable
in the witness-box.
bor arms round my nock and lifted her on to the couch as my wife came
in."
It was a lie, but it did not sound a lie. Counsel asited: "You took care to be friendly with your women patients, but it was just your bedside manner, was it?"
on earth should she wish to get rid of a hus- band like this? She can't be
You could call it that," re- telling the truth when she
plied Bristol, "I hate the says he is cruel. She must phrase 'bedside manner because have some other reason it suggests that it is 'put on. I another man, probably. We really consider my patients as know these models!"
hostility,
1 could sense the sus- picion, if not rising in the air about me, and imagined I saw it flicker in the small eyes of the judge, who had seemed so amiable before. but looked cool and distant now.
His counsel asked all the right questions,
courge.
"Are you
friends."
MY QUARRELS
her."
A MESSAGE
COUNSEL sat down and mine rose. "Doctor Roberts, when you found this young man-bis name is Jeffrey Boring, my lord with my client this morning, how were they dressed?"
"They were fully clothed."
car
There was a
there,
DISCOVERY
After he had gone, I went to not to have burned it. And yet, the residential entrance at the when I took it out and brought back and rang the bell. There it to the light, I knew that this was no reply, so I took my key was the negligee
Lydia
Clifford and let myself in.
had worn the_night Bristol
I went into what used to be murdered her. The tear around my bedroom. The photographs
blesskitched. There
were two
"Would
you be surprised if I had gone from the bedside tables the shoulder had been carefully told you that this man Baring and there was a new cover on patches lower down, of the same the bed. On the bed itself was colour but not quite the samo was there only because A a teddy bear, perched on the material.
woman named Edna Vane-your
think.
nurse, Doctor Roberts had told pillow, a teddy bear I had seen Baring that my client wished to before, but where I could not see him? A message which was completely false."
LYDIA'S NOTE
Bristol said: "I am not only
How, how, how had Bristol allowed this to happen?
I
was standing by the window, trying to work it out, when I beard
a noise and swung round in wild panic.
It was Edna Vane. She looked
O he went on, bland, pleasant,
courteous, and calm, care- fully giving the charges against him a new interpretation. "I wish I could say
to the drawers, but I was surprised, for I don't know why I WENT always a perfect husband, but Nurse Vane should do such a the clothes in them were not at me, pale with anger. "How
thing. sometimes, particularly after
I am also happy. I minc.
But when I fumbled dare you come back to this house, hard day
dealing with winter have never believed
"And the gossip underneath the dresser my little Mrs Roberta?" she said. my temper frayed, about my wife and Baring." strongbox was still there. Inside, what are you doing
with my Bristol epidemics,
ot and there were quarrels."
sentimentally' tied The court adjourned and we "And the quarrel on the oc- caston when your wife told went outside. Inspecter nywe were Bristol's letterbong ng hige? Give it to me."
underneath them, crumpled with she was
child?" came over to me.
was the note from Lydia Cuffo Bristol contrived
"Ms Roberis, wouldn't it be asking me to go to pet her on the to look both sud
successful in your you profession, Doctor Roberts?"
"Mildly so."
"And popular?"
Bristol smiled. "A doctor who
he asked, "Instead of
and sorry.
"I can't tell better If you talked to me night that Bristol med hqr. you how much I regret it. I can body." only say that
love my wife waiting until tomorrow? Time
very much, and I am jealous of her.
is not popular with his patients A few days before she told wouldn't have any."
The judge intervened.
tioner that
"It
is getting short and Edmund Clifford is very 10."
•
He answered every ques
"You think I'm going to lose tion with such careful con-
me about the baby, a kind friend this case, don't you?"
He shrugged. had rung me up and asked me sideration, and glowed with
"But I've got to win, Insper- such affection when he has been suggested by the peti- If I knew that my wife had bad
ator. affair with
If I lose, nothing I can you were particularly a tempestuous looked towards me that you
do with
women young man shortly before she tell you will any good."
"That's practically could feel the heart of all patients-but hardly for medical married me, and that she had
accusing been seeing him again.
husband of being a mur- the women in court and the reasons. She claims that you
veer had relations with them other "It was a great shock to me, sympathy of the mon
than those between doctor and and I was in a nervy state, I ing in his direction.
patient. This is a most serious said the first thing that came hear charge.
What have you to say into my mind, and I could have "Why to that?"
bitten off my tongue the moment
I could almost
them thinking:
your
derer, Mrs Roberts,"
"That's right,” I said:
1
was 80 tired when
I
got back to my fat that all I wanted to do was sleep; only I
A MURRAIN ON ALL OF THEM, YOU SAY!
London.
today.
A SAD, heart-rending tale
By LES ARMOUR
roll, your shirt, and a llen won't, after all, have to walk 200 A tale of English human- on your wife's salary for miles to London, ity forgotten and turned to the next year, You wan- You reflect that the gods of atomy heartlessness, A fine der disheartened and un- chance may be kinder to you tradition shattered,
happy back into town.
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York alty council has The world is a bleak, hor- ruled: "Backers who end rid', place. You wish you up, broke and stranded were dead. You call upon after the York races will no the gods to rain curses on longer be allowed to stay bookies, horses, Jockeys, the night at the corpora- race tracks and tipaters. tion workhouse.”.
permitted to risk pneumonia in a gutter.
getting
He is sorry that the nearby "approved place of shelters will not have you But that is not his fault. He just enforces the law, he doesn't make it.
next time
You move on. The night what awaits you grows colder. You visit the workout aware hastly locat police station. The w warden reluctantly talls you that geant is sorry. You have.com- run along. No room mitted, no crime. He is not you must
really permitted to let you stay. for bankrupt backers here.
Regulations and all
all that, th Forlornly, you hand for a park
You bench or tuck yourself tenderly long way to London. You
hit
the road. It is ́a for Into a fuller.
wish you had slur the police Suddenly, you be the But your peace and quiet do persvant. But that would have And very sight, too, you corponition workhouse. A sweet not last long. This L Britain. A. bom un-Br
un-Britain. memory of the odour of cooking ten policeman appears,
murrain, you growl, on the cabbage percolates through your
Shy He tells about the section of added & patas of York city' the law, which – bolibé that you crabbed opunettional You the unlucky.punter. The Your pace quicken, you feel must go to fail tomored platen Ladeny o odd on their bookie takes your bank better about the world; You of: shelter,” No
But, suppose YOU are brain.
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