Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 20, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page Twenty off the record Winnipeg free press saturday january 20, 1940 by de Reed i i goodness Only knows Why i should try to build up your we Are not alone by Hilton copyright 1936, by James Hilton instalment 30 found it tolerable at first to watch the Days crawl by. He was not afraid of death he knew that death could be prophesied for All men he had often prophesied it himself. Even to look ahead and know that a month hence he would lie in a prison grave was no worse than to diagnose As Many a doctor must the first budding in his own flesh that will bring death As its Flower. And the routine of prison helped to a certain Tranquillity in the mornings when he took exercise in the Gravelled Yard he smiled at the sky and let the wind blow lovingly through his hair. It had gone Grey during recent months but they had not made him clip it Short. In the afternoons he read or rested or played a game of cards with the two men on guard Over him and soon after Tea because there was nothing else to do he went to bed. It was nighttime that was the worst. He could not sleep Well Between Midnight and Dawn and then in those guard less hours for the warders , usually dozed off he thought of Leni. Love is a strange thing we May not notice the moment it comes yet there is a moment when we know it is Wakeful Ness As to pleasure or pain after sleep a sudden color As of a paint ing after an etching. So it had been for. The Little doctor he remembered a moment in the courtroom during the judge s summing up he had been tired after a Long Day in that Stuffy atmosphere and the judge s words had droned on More and More slowly As if they were being pushed into sound by Means of an Ever greater Effort. A Little Way off in the prisoner s Dock Leni was sitting and she too looked tired had lapsed into a remoteness that seemed by its very detachment from environment an almost physical absence. The judge was going Over the Points of the Case one by one and presently he said with evidence of motive gentlemen we Are not primarily concerned when there is so much suggestive evidence As to fact but you will probably conjecture the purpose for which he brought her from san Mouth to Calder Bury and you will Forn your own opinion As to the Validity of the pretext of engaging her As his Young son s governess. It May Well be that you will feel that no More unsuitable person could have been chosen to look after a nine year old child Anc a very nervous and highly Strung child we have been a Young woman whose temperament was such that she had Only recently attempted suicide who had Hac no kind of previous experience As a child s governess and who in addition could barely make herself understood in the child s language you will have to ask yourselves plainly and straightforwardly wha Lay behind this extraordinary in it can be made to look attractive if you think of it in terms of Rescue and Benevolence but if you. Will Bear in mind the culmination to which it led am which is the sole cause of our Here today to pass judgment then you will form your own opinion Why the prisoner chose to instal this Young woman in the very Centre his household where h could see her every Day and a often and for As Long periods a he liked and where under the same roof As his wife and son gentlemen it is. Of course of you to decide and interpret thes matters so far As you feel justified in doing Only desire to Cau Tion you against the pseudo or fals romanticism of which plays an novels Are such frequent exponent kind i mean that Deal wit what i believe is called the eternal such fair words Are in a measure hypocritical they May Lull us of an evening s entertainment but in court of Law it is our duty to re it is my duty to poin plainer and less agreeable facts lust infatuation the lowest and basest physicality a controlled dominating a of which gentlemen is Apt in our modern world As you know to b loosely summed up under the Wor love you May Call it love if to like provided you realize and at that the whole mumbling greyness seemed to be lit by a Stab Bing trumpeting Light and the lilt doctor said in his heart almost As he were taking advantage of per Mission just Given him yes i Cal n it was so Wron absurd preposterous All that the judge had said and yet just Roun the Corner from the nonsense ther was this imperishable Pearl of True 1 i Call it love. Of god yes i Ca r it looking Back As he tried to Slee during those last nights in Calde Ury jail the Little doctor sighed Only because that moment has Hap ened so late. And thence Nevit Bly he turned to thinking of love at had always been in his heart d in the hearts of so Many love Mankind that had sheltered Long the Monk s cell and the artist s audio and the doctor s Laboratory be that had made men quietly build and sacrifice and die love that ight have conquered the world and not its moment arrived too late. Chimes of the Cathedral marked a quarters marked the slow aged of the lateness while the title doctor dreamed remembering e millions crouched in their enches hate murder agony the lowest and basest Union rolled dominating All of hich gentlemen is Apt in our modern world to be loosely sum de up under the word you May Call it love if you like provided you realize and Len he fell asleep for a few moments waking again and half keeping again until the Dawn out ined the bars across the window Aey Call it love i Call it Iove but e do not mean the same thing to his dying Day which was in it the Day after the Little doctor 2ver knew Why it was that the Rison authorities allowed him to Leni. The reason is disclosed 1 a Book published Only a few ears ago by major sir George Mill Man under the somewhat catch Enny title my forty years in ail. There is a paragraph of in resting reminiscence about the Alderbury Newcome was under my charge oth before and after. Sentence he Ras a quiet fellow on. The whole and gave very Little trouble. The Only request he persistency made to see his co prisoner Frau Ein Leni Krafft who had shared is conviction and sentence and was imprisoned a few Miles away. Of Ourse As i told him this was Al together contrary to regulations it i happened to mention his re West to sir William Clintock who As in charge of the wartime Secre ervice and he took it up from nother Angle. It seemed that very rattle was known about the Ger Man girl apart from the Calder Ury Case but a forged passport Ivas discovered amongst her pos sessions after her arrest and the espionage department suspected hat she was a German spy who lad earlier been working in rus a. _ of course All this was Kep iut of the court evidence and. It die lot affect the question of her Guiu n the Calder Bury charge. Sir Wil Iam however believed that a last minute interview with Newcome might reveal some hint As to her Eal identity and perhaps afford Lues that would assist the depart ment in countering the Machina ions of enemy espionage so after consultation with the Home Soffio in Mission was duly Given and the condemned prisoners talked for half an hour in a room in Calder jury jail which they had been encouraged to think was private. Actually several persons including one who knew German perfectly wer is Ehing and taking notes All the Ime through holes that had been made secretly in the panelling o he room. The idea was Uri doubt edly Worth trying out but in poin of fact the two prisoners Exchange no remarks that were of any help of the when David heard on thursday morning that his one request Hai Een granted and that Leni was to e brought to see him that Sami afternoon his heart overflowed Vith anticipation and he pressed he governor s hand with Mori emotion than he had yet shown since his arrival at the jail. The governor was a Little embarrassed not at All not at a Newcom Don t thank the authorities. Still i glad of your Sake. Anything else i can do y know How Long can we talk for of Well no exact Tim Imit y know pretty Well As Ion As you like within reason. Say half an hour. Plenty of time of anything you want to say to each other. We Shan t bother you mean there la be nobody maybe Well stretch a Point an Call the warders off i Daresa you d like it better in private. Of and by the Way you remember at the at the told the judge tha the girl was really Only but he would t listen t i know. Pm interested All. The same in what you said. Did to Only just say it to try to get he no it was but How did you know it a True what reason had you of thinking her so she told of i see you had t an evidence except just i believed yes of course a Well you la e her this and a few minutes later Recoy ing from his embarrassment Illman telephoned to the Gover or of mide Hester prison. Yes i id him it would be private. Did of Tell her the same Good Ather an awkward business eally. Of lord no he was so an pleased about i d red it As a special favor y know. Ather pathetic in a made e feel a bit of a of yes i ked him about the girl s age but e knew nothing iat she d Tolcz him she was Only Netleen. Seems to have believed re thing she .told7 him poor evil. Yes All clock. We be fixed the room and e men will be ready. 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Queen Esther Rebekah Odge to. 2 will be the guests o 45 on this occasion and during he course of the evening the de ree staff from Queen Esther no 2 will Confer the Rebekah degree on a class of candidates. I annual meeting of the Rebekah Ransi Erit sick visiting committee was held Friday evening in the Odd Fellows Temple. This commit tee reported a successful year s work. Members and friends of Hia Watha Lodge no. 60 Are reminder of the theatre party monday Jan. 29, at the Dominion theatre. Manitoba Lodge no. .1 will meet in Friendship Hall Odd Fellows Temple monday Jan. 22. Temple Lodge no. 75 met in Friendship Hall Odd Fellows Emple wednesday evening. Offi cers and members of lodges in Dis list no. 1. Of other City lodges at tended. Ladies auxiliary to Canton for Garry no. 1 will meet in the Odd Fellows Temple wednesday Jan. 24. Installation of officers will take place. 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