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I said,
my hat, saying, "Isn't it hot; take off your clothes."
What do I want to take off my clothes for? She remarked, "Its
hot."
I then made to get by her when a man who was under the
bed (her brothor), caught hold of my ankles and shouted as some-
Her husband sprang out of the wardrobe and
thing in Portuguese.
hit me with a stick.
retaliated, but was struck by the man who had got out from under
the bed on the side of the face and nose. I went down to the
floor, and on getting up I questioned them as to their conduct.
The husband said, "I fix you son of a bitch. What you do to my
wife. I watch you.
See that hole in the wardrobe.
What you
do to my wife last Tuesday." I told him I had not interfered
with his wife, that I was there on duty, and that I would summon
them. I then left the flat, and as I was bleeding very badly
from the nose and mouth, and my clothes were covered with blood,
I went into the ground floor of 49, Queen's Road Fast to the
kitchen, stayed for some considerable time, sent a Chinese on this
floor to the office for a clean suit of uniform, and changed. As
my nose was still bloeding badly I got on my machine and rođe
home to get a piece of ice to put at the back of my neck. When
I arrived home a message by telephone was waiting for me from
the H.S.D. to attend the Head Office immediately. I arrived
there about 5.30 p.m. Xavier and Botelho then left his office
and Ur. Tratman told me with what I was charged, which I denied,
and stated my reasons for being on the premises on both occa-
Bions. I was suspended from duty.
The woman then ran into the kitchen. I
I also mentioned about the sweets that they were lying
about the matter. Nothing was said to me about swoets, and se
far as the excuse I was supposed to have offered about not going
to town to buy them is concerned, it was not necessary to go to
town to buy sweets as there are two compradore shops quite close.