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(Continued from page 7.)

Sir James walked to his home Manchester-square. He let himself into the house and went to his stody.

until after noon.. His charge to the fury, would be over by then, perhaps even the verdict returned.

When the maid knocked he sent her away, saying her mistress was asleep. him He dressed carefully, and after break- star-fast smoked a cigar.

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From TRIESTE, VENICE, BRINDISI PORT SAID, SUEZ, MASSAUA, KARACHI, BOMBAY, COLOMBO, Fosdick, the butler, found

PENANG & SINGAPORE there an hour later. He was

vis SAIGON. As he stood in the hall, Fosdick ing out of the window.

helping him on with his overcoat, Sir "Her ladyship has telephoned James spoke to the butler.

CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby from the country to say she will not "Your mistress is very tired after informed that all Goods are being

her Journey. She is to have her sleep landed at their risk into the Godown be arriving till late. Sir James," out. I do not want her to be waken of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf

aid Fosdick. "WI you have dined on any pretext. Understand

and Godown Company, Lad, at Kow. ner now?"

"Yes, sir, perfectly."stick open-loon, whence and/or from the wharver Sir James turned slowly, and ed the front door for him,

delivery may be obtained. nodded and smiled rather terrify- Sir James was early at the court.

and waited in his room. He sat think ingly at the butler. But Sir James's ing how pleasant it was now that his smile had always been intimidating. head no longer pained him. Now that

At dinner and afterwards, drink-Sylvia was safe from danger. Ing the strong, sweet coffee he liked, it had been windswept and

His head felt rather empty, as if he felt calm and relaxed. Thoughts warming itself quietly in the

was spun smoothly in his brain, so that shine, but in a corner of hie brain he no one occupied him more than knew the facts of the Reddick case lay momentarily. He found he

could neatly stored, ready to be unpacked not think consecutively, but there and marshalled for his speech, Ther was no confusion. He had his writ. was relief in that. Something had ten notes, but it would not really be

All broken, chafed, and damaged bappened, he knew, that would now necessary to look at them.

The crowded court rose when Sir Goods are to be left in the Godswas. entered. He took his seat where they will be ezsinined on the

Optional Cargo will not be landed hero, unless notice has been given 48 ours prior to vessel's arrival, but carried on from port to port to the

port

of call to which the option extends,

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown, and al Goods remaining undelivered after the 20th inst. will be subject to rent.

All claims against the vessel rout presented to the Underal ved on or before the 29th inst. or th

will not recognised.

divide his life in two. Behind him James, at the post of flowers befor:#20th instant at 10 am. by our sur-

Came

fell on his knees by his bed and wept. Iscrambling the successful few of the 80 affected Reddick's mind that he did

were this and that, his career and his love, everything that had him and then down into the room ve veyors, Messrs. Goddard & Douglas. belonged to him. Before him was low,

In the case of dutiable cargo, Con. something quite different. What. There was Reddick, a little weedy, signees are requested to inform the oldish man, with grey face and haunt Imports & Exports Office that they he could not tell; he could not think; ed eyes. He stood out from the masse have such goods for examination. his thoughts would not stay still so of people in spite of his essential n No Fire lusurance has been effect. that he could grasp them.

significance. It was because of his ed, Presently he felt he wanted to the grocer, was now Reddick the mured by

isolation. Reddick, so lately Reddick Bill of Lading will be countersign amoke. The pipe he liked was in derer, or by the grace of twelve-men

DODWELL & CO, LTD. his bedroom, so he went up to fetch Reddick the madman. Not again

Agenta. it. There was his bed and there would he be the grocer, the free man. Hong Kong, 17th April, 1933, was hers, with the little table and No jury could possibly find him not

guilty, because he had been seen the pipe upon it between them. He kill his wife. This was the rare case likely to make a man behave queerly

to

shock of the killing: these things are looked at her bed momentarily and of murder before witnesses: the Crown while. But did that constitute saw her nightdress laid upon it, and had more than circumstantial evi-

dence.

insanity? Above all-and this was was suddenly shaken as he stood by

the The blue of uniformed police, the crux of the matter-did this queer-i a terrible pain.

dark grey wigs of the leaders on their neas, this eccentricity which The dyname swung from its smooth-bench, flanked by the lighter grey, the on Reddick, affect his mind at the y spinning bearings and rocked in almost white, of the juniors wige. time of the killing? Obviously not, his head.

The pains flashed to and Behind, the witnessta, jolted from for they came as a result of the mur- fro, hammering, but above the pain their quiet Essex village to be bullied, or

|der-afterwards, in prison. They and above the noises he felt the sharp shouted at, overawed.

Behind again,

could not, therefore, be said to have Не agony of the thought of Sylvia. [the

horde which had waited not know what he was doing when he He felt at first a great pity for cheerfully for hours before the court strangled his

wife her. She had done something wrong: was opened. On one side, the jury. The jury were obviously in thrall what was it? him mortally, but omething that hurt Twelve men, no women. All the bet to the voice. The bewigged listeners it was not her fault, ter, thought Sir Jamer. Women can't had heard it often before, and yet surely it was not her fault. Little appreciate the law. Sylvia, soft, fragile,

pretty little Sylvia, to whom he had wanted to voice, unmannered

BY VOICE, say so much, towards whom he had wove its accustomed spell over the never been able to bear himself na-court. There had always been some plea turally, at case, by reason of his burn thing hypnotic in Trefissick's voice.

you think he would?" fing

love for her. Sylvia had hurt him Even as an advocate he had disdained

"But he's talking sense. I don't aro broken in some oratory: his were

Carmichael's speech can Carry knew how, but he could not grasp the without passion, they were above are much weight with the jury. thought of it, for it slipped about in stan. The measured perfection of his

"Shi want to listEN. his head like quicksilver.

phrasing, the awful dignity of his Mr. Justice Trelissick did not speak Then the din in his brain quieten-manner, made him sound infallible, for long. He disliked a camming-up

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they were impressed. The wigs bob- bed close to each other and there was

of quiet whispers.

He began to speak. The clear dereliosick won't take the insanity]

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He

d and he heard his own aciny weep. Impossible to stop one's ears to that to take more than a couple of hours: ing. The harsh tearing sobs echoed beautiful inhuman voice. Like God it wearied and confused a jury. in the empty bedroom,

rounded off He stood up: speaking, thought Reddick,

few points, smoothed someone might hear,

The Judge came slowly to the nien them, patted and polished them, and Sir James went downstairs again to of Insanity. Counsel for the defence frished. The jury relied. is study, but he did not smoke. The had said that this man

Str Janes set in his Wax Kn for

room, Lis pain in his head was unbearable. out of his mind that he did not know heavy door between him and the court. He had not been sleeping well late what he was about when he strangled He thought about Reddick dispassion- and a powerful sleeping draught his wife. Yet it had been proved thatally, not as a man, but as a case. had been prepared by his doctor. He Reddick was a competent man of bust-Of course the man was sane and lie saw the stuff now on his desk and ness, a grocer, nat unsuccessful. His should hang A weak fellow; the took a heavy dose, locked the door secounts and Indgers were well kept, nervous shock of killing had perhaps pnd lay down on the sofa.

his affairs in order.

He was

him temporarily. The drugs fought the pain, and preacher, well

alay junhinged the local more

naturul?

The soft grocer's [slowly the Doisra quickened, the chapel.well respected, in

could point to no hands of John Reddick were not made dynamo slowed and stopped, and he definite sign of insanity. Counsel for for strangling. When they closed, afept.

the defence had ought to show in round the neck of his wife they were When Sir James woke the fire instances of manis, but what were they strong with passion, but it would the grate was out The dark room but little eccentricities? Mr. Car leave him weak. vas clammy with fog. His brain was michael had made great deal of the quiet and he felt calm and tired. He behaviour of the accused man while would go up to bed.

in prison under remand, Certainly ugers crooked beneath his. robe. There was a fight in his bedroom. the prison doctors had He opened the door softly and saw with their story of Raped him/When the bands cloud round her!

What

When they closed round her neck!

conduct, ueck.

Mr. Justice Trellasick's long

Even a little grocer's hands that the reading light above Sylvia's It might amount to mania of a surt, were strong enough for a woman's bed was alight, and Sylvia lay asleep But it was not unusual for a man to soft neck. When his hands closed beneath it.

be affected temporarily, in his brain, raund her neck her neck. Syl He tiptoed into the room and stood when he had net long before violent-via's neck. Sylvia's neck. Sylvia's a long while watching her. He felt ly killed his wife, whom he had love soft, white, round slender neck, Syl- very cold, and the breathlessnez huded passionately. The Jealousy, the vis come back. He repeated her name anger at his wife's infidelity. the over and over again to himself, while

something jogged and gathered speed

within him.

Then he crossed the heavy soft carpet and stood by her bed,

24th Apr. towering above her bed, the lamp projecting bia shadow от the 17th May wall behind, gigantic and distorted. She lay with her childish fair hair catching the beam of light, shadowing

face,

but ber throat was a clear 17th May white column. Sir James bent for

ward closer. Now he could see her closed eyes: they were a little red- dened as though she had been crying, but her mouth was smiling

When he saw her smile, the cold 4th May within kim turned to heat and a hot

red

wave surged up into his head, flushing his cheeks, making his eyes emart. He jerked down stiffy to wards her with his crooked bande held] before Mm.

She died so quickly and Ap silently that he found time to wonder at it. 4th May of relief. He had saved Sylvia from He was possessed by a great sense the danger, from the mistake which was not her fault.

Now she was hias never before had she

4th May his so utterly. He undressed doen

luxuriating in the feeling of peace, of escape from the jangling thoughts which had hammered and bruised him. He folded his clothes, brushed his 2nd May teeth, and got into bed. He went to

Lep at once.

in along a dusty

The sun. alanting tshoft, woke him. It was not quite

eight, and the maid would not bring tes until the hour, He turned over in his bed and looked at Sylvia. Her facs 10th May

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He remembered everything, per- and he felt clear-headed, and servants must not find

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