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HE did not call on me at Scotland Yard, but came one even- ing to my flat as dusk was falling. She sat in a deep armchair for some minutes without speaking and then she said, perfectly calmly. "I murdered great aunt."

my

I was about to administer the usual caution, before making an arrest, but she added: "That was 18 years ago, when I was seven."

"I wondered if I were dealing with a madwoman. I had seen many

Yard. of them at the

wasted hours where they

time detailing their

precious

obsessions.

R

Glass of toddy

of

Σ

THE PACKET said CYANIDE

'How can I marry anyone with a murder

on my conscience?' she asked... But did this story really happen?. Tomorrow the answer will be published.

by

Lilian

Wyles

LILIAN WYLES 130 pinber among

policewomen, She joined the Metropollton Pakire in 1919 as one of an experimentoi batch of 100, was transferred to the CID in 1923 and remained there until ber A Women At retirement in 1949. Scotland Yard, cublished in 1952, She talo some of her adventures. fires in Boomsbury and devotes har tims to social work among girls and children.

me,

and for tho rest of the afternoon I sat in my aunt's bedroom while she told me stories.

"It had been a very hot day and as the afternoon wore on it became hotter and closer. After teo, Martha, Aunt Lavinia's maid, came in to say she would be running along to the farm a companion and a maid, was a for eggs. very old lady. She was also Shan't be long love,' she

very rich, and her heir.

my father was

And, of course, she said to me. I'll be back before sick woman; indeed, she the storm breaks. It looks like never left her bed.

we're getting one. She spoke

WBA

"Aunt Lavinia was fond of truly, for the sky was dark and me, and I went to see her every heavy with clouds.

"After Martha hod gone, day. I liked going to see her, Aunt Lavinia said she didn't She was always cheery and ke the look of the sky and I ready for a gossip. was the old lady father said he folt like giving a dose of poison

to

And

this

"My father had in his desic a Liny

marked with packed 'Cyanide, I had

been curious, and had looked up the word in my dictionary, and I knew it was a deadly poison.

had

The old lady then gave me the betier run home quickly. chance I had been waiting for..

Lemonade

D "Get yourself glass

of

"Although my parents didn't lemonade, Christine, and bring know, I was an avid reader of me one as well,' she said.

Dark clouds

He opened the atlas as he spoke... out fell a small, rather

dirty white packet.

Lavinia. I try to forget what I

Christine's father held the did to her, but I cannot I still packet in his hand. He looked have the packet the cyanide was at it curiously, then burst inter in, for I could not bring myself a hearty laugh,

this "Bless my soul, fancy to destroy it. I rescued it from. the pocket of my soaked dress turning up after all these years.

.

My visitor smiled. She must have guessed my thoughts, for she said, "I am quite sane.

murder stories. Today, of "I hurried into the dining on the night my aunt died, took It's my packet of cyanide. How unofficially came to see you

in the bottom book embarrass cource, I know now that father Joom and poured out the two to school, and put it in a could it have got into your because I think I hope, you about this financial

of my atlas?" ment. Naturally I exaggerated was joking when he threatened drinks. Taking from the pocket desk." can help me."

"Cyanide?" I asked. to poison his aunt, but at the of my cotton frock the Little

The girl was silent again, Another booming laugh. "A Before I could say anything, it out of all proportion,

"One day I overheard a con- time his words sounded real white packet marked Cyanide,

Quietly I asked her, "Why do packet of sweet-pea seeds," he taken from my she started to tell me this ex-versation between my parents. enough. He must be prevented which, I had

"They, ara

blue- explained. traordinary story.

that morning. I you tell me all this now?” The Irony of it, Elizabeth, my from doing this dreadful deed, father's desk

"Last week," she replied, purpló in colour, so I christened father said, there is old Aunt But how?

put a good pinch of the gritty substance it contained Into my "the vicar asked me to marry them Cyanide. My little joke. Lavinin ready to fall into her

aunt's glass.

him. I love him very much, but I wonder if they'll grow after grave. Just think how useful

can I marry all these years?" her money would be! It almost.

"I swirled it round to mix it, I refused. How

grew serious. "It's Lavinia the anyone, with a murder on my His face and handed Aunt like putting a "I suppose I was a precocious makes me feel

cyanide, conscience?"

eighteen years since I lost these little girl. For a seven-year- pinch of cyanide in her nightly

glass containing the old, I was too observant

For a long time after she left, seeds. I meant to plant them and

her of toddy to hurry

"thought and thought. Then but she told me to put it on sensitive,

'Drink your I sat pondering over all she hit out the day my old cunt died, especially where my along

suddenly I solved the problem, her bedside table.

would

child,' mother and father

'Joc,

polson you I

great-aunt lemonade quickly,

she told me. It all sounded un- but I couldn't find them any cerned. I

said, 'and be off or the storm believable. Yet the girl appeared where," things, no! Lavinia myself. dearly.

And

The father

Ho went on reminiscing. "Old next day was Wednes- will catch you.

sane enough. "We were living in the same laughed. He said "Who saya day, and on Wednesdays her

aunt died suddenly. The dread- "I was only too eager to be village. that

ful storm wo had that day wo do now. I'm jesting?'

companion went into town to gone. I wanted Aunt Lavinia Gradually it dawned

Christino had As, to die for father's sake but

finished her. "I heard no more, but I had change the brary books. that my father was desperately heard enough to send me into a usual I went to spend the after- I did not want to be with her

gono to have tea with her, and worried about money. It was lever of terror.

noon with Aunt Lavinia, arriv

when

the poison worked. I

was just leaving the house when caused by helping a friend 'gen- "My great aunt Lavinia, who ing ag Miss Thompson, the gave her what would be her

I made a few inquiries and the storm broke. A neighbour but foolishly. erously

My Ilved at the other end of our companion,

and ran leaving the last kiss,

from the found that the old lady had died opposite & Christine run to parents had no idea I knew village in a pretty house, with house. She waved cheerily

to house.

18 years FEO. The cause of the gate, and then Aunt Lavinia, "I had reached the gate when death had been given as heart came to the window calling to the storm burst. There was a failure. She had left a con Christine to go back into vivid flash, followed by the most dreadful clap of thunder alderable amount of money, but house. She hadn't been out of years, and the I have ever hard. I must have there did not appear anything hor imagined it, but above the roar suspicious in the circumstances, exertion of getting up: finished.

the poor old soul. She collapsed of the thunder I thought I heard

Still, I had promised Christine by the window. The neighbour my aunt calling my name."

to call on her and a few days rushed over to find Aunt Lavinia, later I travelled to her village, dead."

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"Mother

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"I reached home drenched to

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We were chatting__in the

bod for

Full glass

the

My visitor signed deeply, and pretty drawing-room Christine, was silent for some minutes. her mother and I. My mind was

Christine moistened her dry She was back in the past, living not in our conversation. I was

she said, "that over again the horror of that wondering

her story.

afternoon I gave Aunt Lavinia afternoon. Then she continued: did not believe here the girl I lips, Diddy,"

The door opened and In some lemonado before I left the skin, and hystorical with bustled an elderly gentleman. her. Do you do you know if fright. While the storm ragod I He was Christine's father, and she did she drink 17

old mar "Lemonadel" The was bathed and put to bed, Loft he flourished a red book in her.

wrinkled his brow, "Bless my one while my mother went direction.

"Just borrowed – this downstairs to heat some soup

atlas soul! Fancy you remembering for me, I lay trembling wonder from your room, Christine," he that after all this time! Yes, Ing how long it would be before maid. Turning to me, he went there was a full glass by her news came of Aunt Lavinia's on, "My wife and I are taking bedside. She hadn't touched IL.

ro hot that afternoon death.

cruise and I want to seu It was exactly where we are bound." I drank It imyself."

J

"I nover had the soup. I

凱

He opened the alias as he spoke,

London, a pilgrimage 15 years ago, He bring in enough to pay HERE are still between managed to escape by stowing supplies on the way back.

Mr

Greenidge says that all and 125,000 away in a ship. Eventually, ho

got to the Sudan, where he con- the countries from which 7.50 "chattel" slaves in Saudi- tacted Emmanuel La Gravierra, pilgrimages start try to keep a

watch 7.50 Arabia, and between 750,000 a member of the Assembly of alose

outgoing and .1,000,000 chattel slaves the French Union, who lodged servantas,and then check their in the whole of Arabia. an official protest and raised employer on the way back and

the case in the Assembly. Insist on a full necounting. 4.00 That is the latest estimate Now the fantastic story has

from Britain's Anti-Slavery 'been uncovered.

·SAHARA CROSSINGS Mr Greenidge says that aer- Society.

fro used as vantg Society Becretary

the pilgrims **mart C. W.

But, many of their and that, mako

tho way acrosa Groeni dige says he's frankly travellery 'cheques" alarmed, for not only is the despite the precautions taken Sahara and there can be no heard hurried footsteps, then and from its pages there fell a voles and small rather dirty white packout, 24.00 total staggering but between by almost every country from check the thousands af Martha's agitated.

Sahara mother's sudden buret af weep 3.00 20,000 and 80,000 are added to which pilgrims depart, little or points

the slave holdings by "sales" nothing can be done about it. frontiers at which crossings are Ing. Aunt Lavinia was dead.

"When they told me I burst 15.00 of the servants of Moslems who The problem is this:

possible, Most of the pilgrims from.

At the moment, the United into such wild and uncontrolled mako holy pilgrimages to Mecon 1.50

Africa make their way over Nationa la trying to wipe out wooping that the whole houro- 1.50 ESCAPE TO SUDAN

Larudi

The old gentleman stopped to They don't take enough this last vestiga of "chattel hold was alarmed. Each time

trips, trips which often take as able

machinery

born | tanod I sobbed and sobbed, and saw Christine's face. It was. slavo rackot have been the renilt long as two

established.

after a time it was decided never deathly white, Sho sat in her yours. of revelations made by a native The moet

readily salable Only Arabla till koops | to : mention her name in my chair, rigid, her hands, gripping SOUTH CHINA' MORNING POST, LTD. of French Equatorial Africa, commodity in Arabia. In the chatter aisvos salvos, who prosecco. But I learned that the arms. She gazed at the 10

Awad el Gouldi

human being. A acrvoet will are hald. to bo B man's father inhorlied her money, white packet and her eyes held Golad we sold into fetch between £150 and £500. property. Just like his motor cur

*From that day I have been the most extreme terror I have ( slavery, by hie employer during Two or three corvants will, or kitchen stove,

haunted by the mémory of Alint (eyer;jeen,)

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