Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1934, Page 25

By VICTOR BRIDGES Synopsis: _ Nicholas _Trench, gifted young sculptor. just has been acquitted of the charge that he murdered his school- fellow, Osborne. Somewhat shaken. he has rétired to a tea room (o read a letter noved by two persons discussing his case at the next table. He fears the general public will not agree wtih the verdict Now he 15 going to see Sir Seymour. CHAPTER V. APER in hand, I edged my way J to a vacant front seat on top of my bus. To judge by the amount of space allotted to me on the that I was the principal sensation of the hour. There was a three-quarter column description of the scene in court, with photographs of myself and Sir Charles port of old Earle’s summing up, which occupied the best part of one of the center sheets. It was, without question, a master- piece of detached reasoning, but hav- lordship’s views, I felt no particular temptation to repeat the experience. I turned instead to the last-minute bulletins, where was blazoned the fol- lowing announcement: NOT GUILTY I sat staring at it as the bus rolled along up Fleet street. It was queer to think of all that those few words meant to me—of the shattering bomb- from his cousin, Sir Seymour. and i SIR SEYMOUR. first page it was evident at a glance Barrett, followed by a verbatim re- ing been already acquainted with his TRENCH CASE VERDICT: shell which fate, for some inscrutable reason, had seen fit to drop into my | life. Only six weeks ago the world had seemed a singularly agreeable place. I had been in the best of health and enjoying existence wholeheartedly. My work had already begun to attract an encouraging amount of attention, commissions were coming in with in- creasing frequency, while the design I had submitted for a new national memorial, which had been thrown open to competition, was, as I knew, being very favorably considered. Suddenly, and without the smallest warning, this incredible thing had happened. Arrested on a charge of murder, of which I was completely innocent, I had been dragged from the peaceful atmosphere of my Hamp- More than half my small capital had vanished, my private affairs had been exposed to the gaping curiosity of every newspaper reader in Eng- land, and finally, after narrowly escap- ing the gallows, I had been turned out unceremoniously into a back street to make whatever use of my freedom society would be gracious enough to permit. Was it any wonder that, in spite of the fate that had overtaken him, I cursed Osborne from the bottom of “You realize this business my heart? Why should he have land- | | ed me in this infernal mess? We had been friendly enough, after a fashion at Cambridge, but what | right had he got to come thrusting | his way back into my life, devastating and wrecking it for his own selfish ends? stead studio into the glaring notoriety of the Central Criminal Court. I had been a fool, of course, to have anything to do with him. It had been THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1934, I should have left him to stew in his own juice. My only reason at the time for try- ing to help him was because I had felt sorry for him. Our old friend- ship, coupled with the obvious statg of funk which he was in, had per- suaded me into acting against my bet- ter judgment. I had given way to a sudden spasm of idiotic good nature, and seldom in the whole history of misplaced kind- ness had a man been more promptly and bitterly rewarded. It was, as may be ed, in no very amjable mood that I got off the bus at the corner of St. James street and turned in at the handsome block of bachelor flats, where Seymour had taken up residence. Without troubling to ring for the lift, T walked up the short flight of thickly car- will affect your future.” Ee;led stairs, and pressed the electric ell. After a brief interval the door was opened by my cousin himself. but looked worried and ill at ease. “Ah! So it's you, Nicholas,” he exclaimed, with a perceptible air of He |} was as immaculately dressed as usual, | relief. “You—you got my letter, then.” “I did,” I replied. “It was handed to me as soon as I left the dock.” He glanced round as though to make sure that there was no one with- in hearing. ‘Come along in,” he said hastily. He moved aside to allow me to pass, and tossing my coat and hat onto a table in the hall, I followed him into his comfortably furnished sitting room. “Where's that dignified valet of yours?” I inquired. “Have you given him the sack?” “I have had to send him out with & note.” He closed the door carefully behind us. “Let me say at once how glad and relieved I was to get Cress- well's message. Thank God, things are no worse than they are.” “I was sure you'd be pleased, Sey- mour,” I said. “I've felt all along that you must have been distressing yourself terribly.” “Sit down,” he observed, pulling for- ward a chair. “There is a great deal we have got to discuss, and after what you have just been through .. ."” he paused. “By the way, would you like & drink?” ‘I could do with one,” I admitted. “A good, stiff one.” I followed him with my eyes as he crossed over to the sideboard. There was something about his sleekly brushed hair and his well cut morn- ing coat that filled me with an un- reasoning irritation. “That will pull you together,” he said, placing the glass on the table beside me. *“I suggested that you should come and see me at once, be- cause I was extremely anxious that before you committed yourself to an definite step you should—er—you should have the opportunity of listen- ing to certain proposals which I wish to put before you.” “Quite s0,” I replied patiently. “You've already explained that in your letter.” He sat down opposite to me. “We have got to look facts in the face. 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