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"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?"
"By the Town Trustees, certainly," replied Krevin. "Who else? As my principals " "I think you will have to tell us what fee, or payment, you were to have," interrupted the chairman. "If " "Oh, as the whole thing's come to nothing, I don't mind telling that," said Krevin. "I shall never get it now, so why not talk of it? I was to have a thousand pounds."
Well, Krevin came along I recognized him well enough. He sort of loitered about, evidently waiting for somebody. And just as the parish church clock struck ten I heard the click of a latch, and the door in Mrs. Saumarez's back garden opened, and a woman came out! I knew her too." "Not Mrs. Saumarez?" suggested Brent. "No," replied Hawthwaite. "Not Mrs. Saumarez. But that companion of hers, Mrs.
He knew, too, that it would never have come out if Krevin himself had not been in danger. A feeling of almost physical nausea came over him as he remembered the callous, brutal cynicism of Krevin's last words, "If it's going to be my neck or hers, I prefer it to be hers!" A woman! yet, a murderess; the murderess of his cousin, whose death he had vowed to avenge.
"I want no advice!" retorted Krevin. Simon had been at his elbow, anxious and pleading, for the last minute: he, it was very evident, was sorely concerned by Krevin's determination to speak. "I claim my right to have my say, at this stage, and I shall have it all this has gone on long enough, and I don't propose to have it go on any longer.
There was something unusually cynical in his smile, but it conveyed more than cynical amusement to Brent. There was in it the suggestion of assurance Krevin, decided Brent, had something up his sleeve. But the other people present were still intent on the old antiquary. Having come to the end of his explanation he was passing back the chart to Meeking, and seemed satisfied with what he had said.
Suddenly, from somewhere in the background, a strident voice made its tones heard above the commotion: "He knows! Let him tell what he knows! Let's hear all about it!" "Silence!" commanded the chairman. "If this goes on, I shall have the court cleared. Any further interruption " He interrupted himself, glancing dubiously at Krevin. "I think you would be well advised "
"Stop!" exclaimed the chairman, lifting his hand as an excited murmur began to run round the court. "Silence! If there is any interruption Now," he went on, turning to Krevin, "you say you heard Mr. Wallingford come into the Mayor's Parlour and that he was accompanied by a woman, with whom he was having high words. Did you see this woman?" "No, I saw neither her nor Wallingford.
And as he hurried along he found himself saying certain words over and over again, and still again.... "I'm not going to see a woman hang! I'm not going to see a woman hang! I'm ... not ... going ... to " Behind this suddenly aroused Quixotic sentiment he was sick with horror. He knew that what Krevin Crood had told at last was true.
He saw at once that Krevin was an admirable exponent of the art of description: everything in St. Lawrence Lane was as the ex-official had said: there was the door into the Bunnings' rooms, and there, facing it, the ancient church and its equally ancient churchyard.
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