United States or Pakistan ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"I am my cousin's nearest blood-relative, and it lies with me to do what I can to find out who's responsible for his death. I understand that you are Deputy-Mayor, so naturally you're conversant with his public affairs. Now, I've learnt within the last hour that he had become unpopular in the town made enemies. Is that so, Mr. Crood?"
Of course the Essy I writ for the Social Science Society is a more finisheder production than the one on Cats, which was wroten when my mind was crood, and afore I had masterd a graceful and ellygant stile of composition.
But Krevin Crood smiled more cynically than ever. "That's all you know, young man," he retorted. "You'll know more when you're my age. Well," he continued, turning his back on Brent and again facing the bench, "that was the situation. I was to act as ambassador, and if I succeeded in my embassy I was to be well paid for my labour." "By the Town Trustees?" inquired the chairman.
Hawthwaite, called first, gave evidence as to the arrest of the two prisoners. He arrested Krevin Crood in the passage leading from Bull's Snug about 6.30 the previous evening, and Simon at his own home, half an hour later.
He was quick to see that he and Queenie were in for a row, probably for a row of a decisive sort which would affect both their lives, and he purposely threw as much hearty insolence into his tone as he could summon. "Eavesdropping, eh, Mr. Crood?" Simon withdrew a hand from the sable folds behind him, and waved it in lordly fashion.
"But that isn't to say that he'll tell everything or anything! Alderman Crood, Mr. Brent, is the closest man in this town which is saying a good deal. Since I came here, sir, ten years ago, I've learnt much and if you'll drop in at the Monitor office any time you like, Mr.
"This chap's been the Borough Accountant for some years, and I've often wondered if he doesn't know a good deal that he's kept to himself. But, if he does, will he let it out? Old Crood doesn't look over pleased to see him anyway!" Brent glanced from the new witness, a quiet, reserved-looking man of middle age, to Simon Crood.
"Then, if Wallingford's reforms had been carried out, Krevin Crood would have lost £150 a year?" "He would have lost £300 a year. Wallingford's scheme included the utter abolition of all these Town Trustee-created pensions and doles. Lock, stock and barrel, they were all to go." "And the Town Trustees Crood, Mallett, Coppinger were fully acquainted with his intentions and those of his party?"
"The evidence of the Bunning woman, supplemented by what Krevin Crood said which was a mere, formal, crystallizing of common knowledge has altered the whole thing. Here's the back entrance to the Moot Hall left absolutely unprotected, unguarded, unwatched whatever you like to call it for half an hour, the critical half hour.
The fragment went the round of the bench of magistrates, and Tansley whispered to Brent that if Meeking could prove that Krevin Crood had taken that handkerchief out of Mallett's drawer, and had thrown it away on the following evening in the Mayor's Parlour, Krevin's neck was in danger. "But there's a link missing yet," he murmured. "How did Krevin get at Wallingford? They've got to prove that!
Word Of The Day