On another occasion a man came running up the stairs of the Hall and thrust his way into a meeting of the Committee one of those normally happy, irresponsible Syrians who, because of a love for holidays, are the despair of mill overseers. Now he was dazed, breathless, his great eyes grief-stricken like a wounded animal's. "She is killidd, my wife de polees, dey killidd her!"

On another occasion a man came running up the stairs of the Hall and thrust his way into a meeting of the Committee one of those normally happy, irresponsible Syrians who, because of a love for holidays, are the despair of mill overseers. Now he was dazed, breathless, his great eyes grief-stricken like a wounded animal's. "She is killidd, my wife de polees, dey killidd her!"

On another occasion a man came running up the stairs of the Hall and thrust his way into a meeting of the Committee one of those normally happy, irresponsible Syrians who, because of a love for holidays, are the despair of mill overseers. Now he was dazed, breathless, his great eyes grief-stricken like a wounded animal's. "She is killidd, my wife de polees, dey killidd her!"