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MARGARET. A foreign-looking girl--most plummy. Oh! Ronny's got charm
--this Mabel child doesn't know in the least what she's got hold of!
LADY A. But they're so fond of each other!
MARGARET. That's the mistake. The General isn't mentioning the coat, is
LADY A. Oh, no! It was only to Charles.
MABEL returns.
MARGARET. Did you get him?
MABEL. No; he's not at Tattersall's, nor at the Club.
LADY ADELA rises and greets her with an air which suggests
LADY A. Nobody's going to believe this, my dear.
MABEL. [Looking straight at her] Nobody who does need come here, or
trouble to speak to us again.
LADY A. That's what I was afraid of; you're going to be defiant. Now
don't! Just be perfectly natural.
MABEL. So easy, isn't it? I could kill anybody who believes such a
MARGARET. You'll want a solicitor, Mabel, Go to old Mr Jacob Twisden.
LADY A. Yes; he's so comforting.
MARGARET. He got my pearls back once--without loss of life. A
frightfully good fireside manner. Do get him here, Mabel, and have a
heart-to-heart talk, all three of you!
MABEL. [Suddenly] Listen! There's Ronny!
DANCY comes in.
DANCY. [With a smile] Very good of you to have come.
MARGARET. Yes. We're just going. Oh! Ronny, this is quite too--
[But his face dries her up; and sidling past, she goes].
LADY A. Charles sent his-love--[Her voice dwindles on the word, and she,
too, goes].
DANCY. [Crossing to his wife] What have they been saying?
MABEL. Ronny! Why didn't you tell me?
DANCY. I wanted to see De Levis again first.
MABEL. That wretch! How dare he? Darling! [She suddenly clasps and
kisses him. He does not return the kiss, but remains rigid in her arms,
so that she draws away and looks at him] It's hurt you awfully, I know.
DANCY. Look here, Mabel! Apart from that muck--this is a ghastly
tame-cat sort of life. Let's cut it and get out to Nairobi. I can scare
up the money for that.
MABEL. [Aghast] But how can we? Everybody would say--
RONNY. Let them! We shan't be here.
MABEL. I couldn't bear people to think--
DANCY. I don't care a damn what people think monkeys and cats. I never
could stand their rotten menagerie. Besides, what does it matter how I
act; if I bring an action and get damages--if I pound him to a jelly--
it's all no good! I can't prove it. There'll be plenty of people
MABEL. But they'll find the real thief.
DANCY. [With a queer little smile] Will staying here help them to do
MABEL. [In a sort of agony] Oh! I couldn't--it looks like running
away. We must stay and fight it!
DANCY. Suppose I didn't get a verdict--you never can tell.
MABEL. But you must--I was there all the time, with the door open.
DANCY. Was it?
MABEL. I'm almost sure.
DANCY. Yes. But you're my wife.
MABEL. [Bewildered] Ronny, I don't understand--suppose I'd been accused
of stealing pearls!
DANCY. [Wincing] I can't.
MABEL. But I might--just as easily. What would you think of me if I ran
away from it?
DANCY. I see. [A pause] All right! You shall have a run for your
money. I'll go and see old Twisden.
MABEL. Let me come! [DANCY shakes his head] Why not? I can't be happy
a moment unless I'm fighting this.
DANCY puts out his hand suddenly and grips hers.
DANCY. You are a little brick!
MABEL. [Pressing his hand to her breast and looking into his face]
Do you know what Margaret called you?
RONNY. No.
MABEL. A desperate character.
DANCY. Ha! I'm not a tame cat, any more than she.
The bell rings. MABEL goes out to the door and her voice is heard
saying coldly.
MABEL. Will you wait a minute, please? Returning. It's De Levis--to
see you. [In a low voice] Let me see him alone first. Just for a
minute! Do!
DANCY. [After a moment's silence] Go ahead! He goes out into the
MABEL. [Going to the door, Right] Come in.
DE LEVIS comes in, and stands embarrassed.
DE LEVIS. [With a slight bow] Your husband, Mrs Dancy?
MABEL. He is in. Why do you want to see him?
DE LEVIS. He came round to my rooms just now, when I was out. He
threatened me yesterday. I don't choose him to suppose I'm afraid of
MABEL. [With a great and manifest effort at self-control] Mr De Levis,
you are robbing my husband of his good name.
DE LEVIS. [Sincerely] I admire your trustfulness, Mrs Dancy.
MABEL. [Staring at him] How can you do it? What do you want? What's
your motive? You can't possibly believe that my husband is a thief!
DE LEVIS. Unfortunately.
MABEL. How dare you? How dare you? Don't you know that I was in our
bedroom all the time with the door open? Do you accuse me too?
DE LEVIS. No, Mrs Dancy.
MABEL. But you do. I must have seen, I must have heard.
DE LEVIS. A wife's memory is not very good when her husband is in
MABEL. In other words, I'm lying.
DE LEVIS. No. Your wish is mother to your thought, that's all.
MABEL. [After staring again with a sort of horror, turns to get control
of herself. Then turning back to him] Mr De Levis, I appeal to you as a
gentleman to behave to us as you would we should behave to you. Withdraw
this wicked charge, and write an apology that Ronald can show.
DE LEVIS. Mrs Dancy, I am not a gentleman, I am only a--damned Jew.
Yesterday I might possibly have withdrawn to spare you. But when my race
is insulted I have nothing to say to your husband, but as he wishes to
see me, I've come. Please let him know.
MABEL. [Regarding him again with that look of horror--slowly] I think
what you are doing is too horrible for words.
DE LEVIS gives her a slight bow, and as he does so DANCY comes
quickly in, Left. The two men stand with the length of the sofa
between them. MABEL, behind the sofa, turns her eyes on her
husband, who has a paper in his right hand.
DE LEVIS. You came to see me.
DANCY. Yes. I want you to sign this.
DE LEVIS. I will sign nothing.
DANCY. Let me read it: "I apologise to Captain Dancy for the reckless
and monstrous charge I made against him, and I retract every word of it."
DE LEVIS. Not much!
DANCY. You will sign.
DE LEVIS. I tell you this is useless. I will sign nothing. The charge
is true; you wouldn't be playing this game if it weren't. I'm going.
You'll hardly try violence in the presence of your wife; and if you try
it anywhere else--look out for yourself.
DANCY. Mabel, I want to speak to him alone.
MABEL. No, no!
DE LEVIS. Quite right, Mrs Dancy. Black and tan swashbuckling will only
make things worse for him.
DANCY. So you shelter behind a woman, do you, you skulking cur!
DE LEVIS takes a step, with fists clenched and eyes blazing. DANCY,
too, stands ready to spring--the moment is cut short by MABEL going
quickly to her husband.
MABEL. Don't, Ronny. It's undignified! He isn't worth it.
DANCY suddenly tears the paper in two, and flings it into the fire.
DANCY. Get out of here, you swine!
DE LEVIS stands a moment irresolute, then, turning to the door, he
opens it, stands again for a moment with a smile on his face, then
goes. MABEL crosses swiftly to the door, and shuts it as the outer
door closes. Then she stands quite still, looking at her husband-
her face expressing a sort of startled suspense.
DANCY. [Turning and looking at her] Well! Do you agree with him?
MABEL. What do you mean?
DANCY. That I wouldn't be playing this game unless--
MABEL. Don't! You hurt me!
DANCY. Yes. You don't know much of me, Mabel.
MABEL. Ronny!
DANCY. What did you say to that swine?
MABEL. [Her face averted] That he was robbing us. [Turning to him
suddenly] Ronny--you--didn't? I'd rather know.
DANCY. Ha! I thought that was coming.
MABEL. [Covering her face] Oh! How horrible of me--how horrible!
DANCY. Not at all. The thing looks bad.
MABEL. [Dropping her hands] If I can't believe in you, who can?
[Going to him, throwing her arms round him, and looking up into his face]
Ronny! If all the world--I'd believe in you. You know I would.
DANCY. That's all right, Mabs! That's all right! [His face, above her
head, is contorted for a moment, then hardens into a mask] Well, what
shall we do? Let's go to that lawyer--let's go--
MABEL. Oh! at once!
DANCY. All right. Get your hat on.
MABEL passes him, and goes into the bedroom, Left. DANCY, left
alone, stands quite still, staring before him. With a sudden shrug
of his shoulders he moves quickly to his hat and takes it up just as
MABEL returns, ready to go out. He opens the door; and crossing
him, she stops in the doorway, looking up with a clear and trustful
gaze as
The CURTAIN falls.
Three months later. Old MR JACOB TWISDEN's Room, at the offices of
Twisden & Graviter, in Lincoln's Inn Fields, is spacious, with two
large windows at back, a fine old fireplace, Right, a door below it,
and two doors, Left. Between the windows is a large table sideways
to the window wall, with a chair in the middle on the right-hand
side, a chair against the wall, and a client's chair on the left-
hand side.
GRAVITER, TWISDEN'S much younger partner, is standing in front of
the right-hand window looking out on to the Fields, where the lamps
are being lighted, and a taxi's engine is running down below. He
turns his sanguine, shrewd face from the window towards a
grandfather dock, between the doors, Left, which is striking "four."
The door, Left Forward, is opened.
YOUNG CLERK. [Entering] A Mr Gilman, sir, to see Mr Twisden.
GRAVITER. By appointment?
YOUNG CLERK. No, sir. But important, he says.
GRAVITER. I'll see him.
The CLERK goes. GRAVITER sits right of table. The CLERK returns,
ushering in an oldish MAN, who looks what he is, the proprietor of a
large modern grocery store. He wears a dark overcoat and carries a
pot hat. His gingery-grey moustache and mutton-chop whiskers give
him the expression of a cat.
GRAVITER. [Sizing up his social standing] Mr Gilman? Yes.
GILMAN. [Doubtfully] Mr Jacob Twisden?
GRAVITER. [Smiling] His partner. Graviter my name is.
GILMAN. Mr Twisden's not in, then?
GRAVITER. No. He's at the Courts. They're just up; he should be in
directly. But he'll be busy.
GILMAN. Old Mr Jacob Twisden--I've heard of him.
GRAVITER. Most people have.
GILMAN. It's this Dancy-De Levis case that's keepin' him at the Courts,
I suppose?
GRAVITER nods.
Won't be finished for a day or two?
GRAVITER shakes his head. No.
Astonishin' the interest taken in it.
GRAVITER. As you say.
GILMAN. The Smart Set, eh? This Captain Dancy got the D.S.O., didn't
GRAVITER nods.
Sad to have a thing like that said about you. I thought he gave his
evidence well; and his wife too. Looks as if this De Levis had got some
private spite. Searchy la femme, I said to Mrs Gilman only this morning,
before I--
GRAVITER. By the way, sir, what is your business?
GILMAN. Well, my business here--No, if you'll excuse me, I'd rather
wait and see old Mr Jacob Twisden. It's delicate, and I'd like his
GRAVITER. [With a shrug] Very well; then, perhaps, you'll go in there.
[He moves towards the door, Left Back].
GILMAN. Thank you. [Following] You see, I've never been mixed up with
the law--
GRAVITER. [Opening the door] No?
GILMAN. And I don't want to begin. When you do, you don't know where
you'll stop, do you? You see, I've only come from a sense of duty; and
--other reasons.
GRAVITER. Not uncommon.
GILMAN. [Producing card] This is my card. Gilman's--several branches,
but this is the 'ead.
GRAVITER. [Scrutinising card] Exactly.
GILMAN. Grocery--I daresay you know me; or your wife does. They say old
Mr Jacob Twisden refused a knighthood. If it's not a rude question, why
was that?
GRAVITER. Ask him, sir; ask him.
GILMAN. I said to my wife at the time, "He's holdin' out for a
GRAVITER Closes the door with an exasperated smile.
YOUNG CLERK. [Opening the door, Left Forward] Mr WINSOR, sir, and Miss
They enter, and the CLERK withdraws.
GRAVITER. How d'you do, Miss Orme? How do you do, WINSOR?
WINSOR. Twisden not back, Graviter?
GRAVITER. Not yet.
WINSOR. Well, they've got through De Levis's witnesses. Sir Frederick
was at the very top of his form. It's looking quite well. But I hear
they've just subpoenaed Canynge after all. His evidence is to be taken
GRAVITER. Oho!
WINSOR. I said Dancy ought to have called him.
GRAVITER. We considered it. Sir Frederic decided that he could use him
better in cross-examination.
WINSOR. Well! I don't know that. Can I go and see him before he gives
evidence to-morrow?
GRAVITER. I should like to hear Mr Jacob on that, WINSOR. He'll be in
WINSOR. They had Kentman, and Goole, the Inspector, the other bobby, my
footman, Dancy's banker, and his tailor.
GRAVITER. Did we shake Kentman or Goole?
WINSOR. Very little. Oh! by the way, the numbers of those two notes
were given, and I see they're published in the evening papers. I suppose
the police wanted that. I tell you what I find, Graviter--a general
feeling that there's something behind it all that doesn't come out.
GRAVITER. The public wants it's money's worth--always does in these
Society cases; they brew so long beforehand, you see.
WINSOR. They're looking for something lurid.
MARGARET. When I was in the bog, I thought they were looking for me.
[Taking out her cigarette case] I suppose I mustn't smoke, Mr Graviter?
GRAVITER. Do!
MARGARET. Won't Mr Jacob have a fit?
GRAVITER. Yes, but not till you've gone.
MARGARET. Just a whiff. [She lights a cigarette].
WINSOR. [Suddenly] It's becoming a sort of Dreyfus case--people taking
sides quite outside the evidence.
MARGARET. There are more of the chosen in Court every day. Mr Graviter,
have you noticed the two on the jury?
GRAVITER. [With a smile] No; I can't say--
MARGARET. Oh! but quite distinctly. Don't you think they ought to have
been challenged?
GRAVITER. De Levis might have challenged the other ten, Miss Orme.
MARGARET. Dear me, now! I never thought of that.
As she speaks, the door Left Forward is opened and old MR JACOB
TWISDEN comes in. He is tallish and narrow, sixty-eight years old,
grey, with narrow little whiskers curling round his narrow ears, and
a narrow bow-ribbon curling round his collar. He wears a long,
narrow-tailed coat, and strapped trousers on his narrow legs. His
nose and face are narrow, shrewd, and kindly. He has a way of
narrowing his shrewd and kindly eyes. His nose is seen to twitch
and snig.
TWISDEN. Ah! How are you, Charles? How do you do, my dear?
MARGARET. Dear Mr Jacob, I'm smoking. Isn't it disgusting? But they
don't allow it in Court, you know. Such a pity! The Judge might have a
hookah. Oh! wouldn't he look sweet--the darling!
TWISDEN. [With a little, old-fashioned bow] It does not become everybody
as it becomes you, Margaret.
MARGARET. Mr Jacob, how charming! [With a slight grimace she puts out
her cigarette].
GRAVITER. Man called Gilman waiting in there to see you specially.
TWISDEN. Directly. Turn up the light, would you, Graviter?
GRAVITER. [Turning up the light] Excuse me.
He goes.
WINSOR. Look here, Mr Twisden--
TWISDEN. Sit down; sit down, my dear.
And he himself sits behind the table, as a cup of tea is brought in
to him by the YOUNG CLERK, with two Marie biscuits in the saucer.
Will you have some, Margaret?
MARGARET. No, dear Mr Jacob.
TWISDEN. Charles?
WINSOR. No, thanks. The door is closed.
TWISDEN. [Dipping a biscuit in the tea] Now, then?
WINSOR. The General knows something which on the face of it looks rather
queer. Now that he's going to be called, oughtn't Dancy to be told of
it, so that he may be ready with his explanation, in case it comes out?
TWISDEN. [Pouring some tea into the saucer] Without knowing, I can't
tell you.
WINSOR and MARGARET exchange looks, and TWISDEN drinks from the
saucer. MARGARET. Tell him, Charles.
WINSOR. Well! It rained that evening at Meldon. The General happened
to put his hand on Dancy's shoulder, and it was damp.
TWISDEN puts the saucer down and replaces the cup in it. They both
look intently at him.
TWISDEN. I take it that General Canynge won't say anything he's not
compelled to say.
MARGARET. No, of course; but, Mr Jacob, they might ask; they know it
rained. And he is such a George Washington.
TWISDEN. [Toying with a pair of tortoise-shell glasses] They didn't ask
either of you. Still-no harm in your telling Dancy.
WINSOR. I'd rather you did it, Margaret.
MARGARET. I daresay. [She mechanically takes out her cigarette-case,
catches the lift of TWISDEN'S eyebrows, and puts it back].
WINSOR. Well, we'll go together. I don't want Mrs Dancy to hear.
MARGARET. Do tell me, Mr Jacob; is he going to win?
TWISDEN. I think so, Margaret; I think so.
MARGARET. It'll be too--frightful if he doesn't get a verdict, after all
this. But I don't know what we shall do when it's over. I've been
sitting in that Court all these three days, watching, and it's made me
feel there's nothing we like better than seeing people skinned. Well,
bye-bye, bless you!
TWISDEN rises and pats her hand.
WINSOR. Half a second, Margaret. Wait for me. She nods and goes out.
Mr Twisden, what do you really think?
TWISDEN. I am Dancy's lawyer, my dear Charles, as well as yours.
WINSOR. Well, can I go and see Canynge?
TWISDEN. Better not.
WINSOR. If they get that out of him, and recall me, am I to say he told
me of it at the time?
TWISDEN. You didn't feel the coat yourself? And Dancy wasn't present?
Then what Canynge told you is not evidence--he'll stop your being asked.
WINSOR. Thank goodness. Good-bye!
WINSOR goes out.
TWISDEN, behind his table, motionless, taps his teeth with the
eyeglasses in his narrow, well-kept hand. After a long shake of his
head and a shrug of his rather high shoulders he snips, goes to the
window and opens it. Then crossing to the door, Left Back, he
throws it open and says
TWISDEN. At your service, sir.
GILMAN comes forth, nursing his pot hat.
Be seated.
TWISDEN closes the window behind him, and takes his seat.
GILMAN. [Taking the client's chair, to the left of the table] Mr
Twisden, I believe? My name's Gilman, head of Gilman's Department
Stores. You have my card.
TWISDEN. [Looking at the card] Yes. What can we do for you?
GILMAN. Well, I've come to you from a sense of duty, sir, and also a
feelin' of embarrassment. [He takes from his breast pocket an evening
paper] You see, I've been followin' this Dancy case--it's a good deal
talked of in Putney--and I read this at half-past two this afternoon. To
be precise, at 2.25. [He rises and hands the paper to TWISDEN, and with
a thick gloved forefinger indicates a passage] When I read these numbers,
I 'appened to remember givin' change for a fifty-pound note--don't often
'ave one in, you know--so I went to the cash-box out of curiosity, to see
that I 'adn't got it. Well, I 'ad; and here it is. [He draws out from
his breast pocket and lays before TWISDEN a fifty-pound banknote] It was
brought in to change by a customer of mine three days ago, and he got
value for it. Now, that's a stolen note, it seems, and you'd like to
know what I did. Mind you, that customer of mine I've known 'im--well--
eight or nine years; an Italian he is--wine salesman, and so far's I
know, a respectable man-foreign-lookin', but nothin' more. Now, this was
at 'alf-past two, and I was at my head branch at Putney, where I live.
I want you to mark the time, so as you'll see I 'aven't wasted a minute.
I took a cab and I drove straight to my customer's private residence in
Putney, where he lives with his daughter--Ricardos his name is, Paolio
Ricardos. They tell me there that he's at his business shop in the City.
So off I go in the cab again, and there I find him. Well, sir, I showed
this paper to him and I produced the note. "Here," I said, "you brought
this to me and you got value for it." Well, that man was taken aback.
If I'm a judge, Mr Twisden, he was taken aback, not to speak in a guilty
way, but he was, as you might say, flummoxed. "Now," I said to him,
"where did you get it--that's the point?" He took his time to answer,
and then he said: "Well, Mr Gilman," he said, "you know me; I am an
honourable man. I can't tell you offhand, but I am above the board."
He's foreign, you know, in his expressions. "Yes," I said, "that's all
very well," I said, "but here I've got a stolen note and you've got the
value for it. Now I tell you," I said, "what I'm going to do; I'm going
straight with this note to Mr Jacob Twisden, who's got this Dancy-De
Levis case in 'and. He's a well-known Society lawyer," I said, "of great
experience." "Oh!" he said, "that is what you do?"--funny the way he
speaks! "Then I come with you!"--And I've got him in the cab below.
I want to tell you everything before he comes up. On the way I tried to
get something out of him, but I couldn't--I could not. "This is very
awkward," I said at last. "It is, Mr Gilman," was his reply; and he
began to talk about his Sicilian claret--a very good wine, mind you; but
under the circumstances it seemed to me uncalled for. Have I made it
clear to you?
TWISDEN. [Who has listened with extreme attention] Perfectly, Mr Gilman.
I'll send down for him. [He touches a hand-bell].
The YOUNG CLERK appears at the door, Left Forward.
A gentleman in a taxi-waiting. Ask him to be so good as to step up. Oh!
and send Mr Graviter here again.
The YOUNG CLERK goes out.
GILMAN. As I told you, sir, I've been followin' this case. It's what
you might call piquant. And I should be very glad if it came about that
this helped Captain Dancy. I take an interest, because, to tell you the
truth, [Confidentially] I don't like--well, not to put too fine a point
upon it 'Ebrews. They work harder; they're more sober; they're honest;
and they're everywhere. I've nothing against them, but the fact is--they
get on so.
TWISDEN. [Cocking an eye] A thorn in the flesh, Mr Gilman.
GILMAN. Well, I prefer my own countrymen, and that's the truth of it.
As he speaks, GRAVITER comes in by the door Left Forward.
TWISDEN. [Pointing to the newspaper and the note] Mr Gilman has brought
this, of which he is holder for value. His customer, who changed it
three days ago, is coming up.
GRAVITER. The fifty-pounder. I see. [His face is long and reflective].
YOUNG CLERK. [Entering] Mr Ricardos, sir.
He goes out. RICARDOS is a personable, Italian-looking man in a
frock coat, with a dark moustachioed face and dark hair a little
grizzled. He looks anxious, and bows.
TWISDEN. Mr Ricardos? My name is Jacob Twisden. My partner. [Holding
up a finger, as RICARDOS would speak] Mr Gilman has told us about this
note. You took it to him, he says, three days ago; that is, on Monday,
and received cash for it?
RICARDOS. Yes, sare.
TWISDEN. You were not aware that it was stolen?
RICARDOS. [With his hand to his breast] Oh! no, sare.
TWISDEN. You received it from--?
RICARDOS. A minute, sare; I would weesh to explain--[With an expressive
shrug] in private.
TWISDEN. [Nodding] Mr Gilman, your conduct has been most prompt. You
may safely leave the matter in our hands, now. Kindly let us retain
this note; and ask for my cashier as you go out and give him [He writes]
this. He will reimburse you. We will take any necessary steps
GILMAN. [In slight surprise, with modest pride] Well, sir, I'm in your
'ands. I must be guided by you, with your experience. I'm glad you
think I acted rightly.
TWISDEN. Very rightly, Mr Gilman--very rightly. [Rising]
Good afternoon!
GILMAN. Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon, gentlemen! [To TWISDEN]
I'm sure I'm very 'appy to have made your acquaintance, sir. It's a
well-known name.
TWISDEN. Thank you.
GILMAN retreats, glances at RICARDOS, and turns again.
GILMAN. I suppose there's nothing else I ought to do, in the interests
of the law? I'm a careful man.
TWISDEN. If there is, Mr Gilman, we will let you know. We have your
address. You may make your mind easy; but don't speak of this. It might
interfere with Justice.
GILMAN. Oh! I shouldn't dream of it. I've no wish to be mixed up in
anything conspicuous. That's not my principle at all. Good-day,
He goes.
TWISDEN. [Seating himself] Now, sir, will you sit down.
But RICARDOS does not sit; he stands looking uneasily across the
table at GRAVITER.
You may speak out.
RICARDOS. Well, Mr Tweesden and sare, this matter is very serious for
me, and very delicate--it concairns my honour. I am in a great
TWISDEN. When in difficulty--complete frankness, sir.
RICARDOS. It is a family matter, sare, I--
TWISDEN. Let me be frank with you. [Telling his points off on his
fingers] We have your admission that you changed this stopped note for
value. It will be our duty to inform the Bank of England that it has
been traced to you. You will have to account to them for your possession
of it. I suggest to you that it will be far better to account frankly to
RICARDOS. [Taking out a handkerchief and quite openly wiping his hands
and forehead] I received this note, sare, with others, from a gentleman,
sare, in settlement of a debt of honour, and I know nothing of where he
got them.
TWISDEN. H'm! that is very vague. If that is all you can tell us, I'm
RICARDOS. Gentlemen, this is very painful for me. It is my daughter's
good name--[He again wipes his brow].
TWISDEN. Come, sir, speak out!
RICARDOS. [Desperately] The notes were a settlement to her from this
gentleman, of whom she was a great friend.
TWISDEN. [Suddenly] I am afraid we must press you for the name of the
RICARDOS. Sare, if I give it to you, and it does 'im 'arm, what will my
daughter say? This is a bad matter for me. He behaved well to her; and
she is attached to him still; sometimes she is crying yet because she
lost him. And now we betray him, perhaps, who knows? This is very
unpleasant for me. [Taking up the paper] Here it gives the number of
another note--a 'undred-pound note. I 'ave that too. [He takes a note
from his breast pocket].
GRAVITER. How much did he give you in all?
RICARDOS. For my daughter's settlement one thousand pounds. I
understand he did not wish to give a cheque because of his marriage.
So I did not think anything about it being in notes, you see.
TWISDEN. When did he give you this money?
RICARDOS. The middle of Octobare last.
TWISDEN. [Suddenly looking up] Mr Ricardos, was it Captain Dancy?
RICARDOS. [Again wiping his forehead] Gentlemen, I am so fond of my
daughter. I have only the one, and no wife.
TWISDEN. [With an effort] Yes, yes; but I must know.
RICARDOS. Sare, if I tell you, will you give me your good word that my
daughter shall not hear of it?
TWISDEN. So far as we are able to prevent it--certainly.
RICARDOS. Sare, I trust you.--It was Captain Dancy.
A long pause.
GRAVITER [Suddenly] Were you blackmailing him?
TWISDEN. [Holding up his hand] My partner means, did you press him for
this settlement?
RICARDOS. I did think it my duty to my daughter to ask that he make
compensation to her.
TWISDEN. With threats that you would tell his wife?
RICARDOS. [With a shrug] Captain Dancy was a man of honour. He said:
"Of course I will do this." I trusted him. And a month later I did
remind him, and he gave me this money for her. I do not know where he
got it--I do not know. Gentlemen, I have invested it all on her--every
penny-except this note, for which I had the purpose to buy her a
necklace. That is the sweared truth.
TWISDEN. I must keep this note. [He touches the hundred-pound note]
You will not speak of this to anyone. I may recognise that you were a
holder for value received--others might take a different view. Good-day,
sir. Graviter, see Mr Ricardos out, and take his address.
RICARDOS. [Pressing his hands over the breast of his frock coat--with a
sigh] Gentlemen, I beg you--remember what I said. [With a roll of his
eyes] My daughter--I am not happee. Good-day.
He turns and goes out slowly, Left Forward, followed by GRAVITER.
TWISDEN. [To himself] Young Dancy! [He pins the two notes together and
places them in an envelope, then stands motionless except for his eyes
and hands, which restlessly express the disturbance within him.]
GRAVITER returns, carefully shuts the door, and going up to him,
hands him RICARDOS' card.
[Looking at the card] Villa Benvenuto. This will have to be verified,
but I'm afraid it's true. That man was not acting.
GRAVITER. What's to be done about Dancy?
TWISDEN. Can you understand a gentleman--?
GRAVITER. I don't know, sir. The war loosened "form" all over the
place. I saw plenty of that myself. And some men have no moral sense.
From the first I've had doubts.
TWISDEN. We can't go on with the case.
GRAVITER. Phew! . . . [A moment's silence] Gosh! It's an awful
thing for his wife.
TWISDEN. Yes.
GRAVITER [Touching the envelope] Chance brought this here, sir. That
man won't talk--he's too scared.
TWISDEN. Gilman.
GRAVITER. Too respectable. If De Levis got those notes back, and the
rest of the money, anonymously?
TWISDEN. But the case, Graviter; the case.
GRAVITER. I don't believe this alters what I've been thinking.
TWISDEN. Thought is one thing--knowledge another. There's duty to our
profession. Ours is a fine calling. On the good faith of solicitors a
very great deal hangs. [He crosses to the hearth as if warmth would help
GRAVITER. It'll let him in for a prosecution. He came to us in
TWISDEN. Not as against the law.
GRAVITER. No. I suppose not. [A pause] By Jove, I don't like losing
this case. I don't like the admission we backed such a wrong 'un.
TWISDEN. Impossible to go on. Apart from ourselves, there's Sir
Frederic. We must disclose to him--can't let him go on in the dark.
Complete confidence between solicitor and counsel is the essence of
professional honour.
GRAVITER. What are you going to do then, sir?
TWISDEN. See Dancy at once. Get him on the phone.
GRAVITER. [Taking up the telephone] Get me Captain Dancy's flat. . . .
What? . . .[To TWISDEN] Mrs Dancy is here. That's a propos with a
vengeance. Are you going to see her, sir?
TWISDEN. [After a moment's painful hesitation] I must.
GRAVITER. [Telephoning] Bring Mrs Dancy up. [He turns to the window].
MABEL DANDY is shown in, looking very pale. TWISDEN advances from
the fire, and takes her hand.
MABEL. Major Colford's taken Ronny off in his car for the night. I
thought it would do him good. I said I'd come round in case there was
anything you wanted to say before to-morrow.
TWISDEN. [Taken aback] Where have they gone?
MABEL. I don't know, but he'll be home before ten o'clock to-morrow. Is
there anything?
TWISDEN. Well, I'd like to see him before the Court sits. Send him on
here as soon as he comes.
MABEL. [With her hand to her forehead] Oh! Mr Twisden, when will it be
over? My head's getting awful sitting in that Court.
TWISDEN. My dear Mrs Dancy, there's no need at all for you to come down
to-morrow; take a rest and nurse your head.
MABEL. Really and truly?
TWISDEN. Yes; it's the very best thing you can do.
GRAVITER turns his head, and looks at them unobserved.
MABEL. How do you think it's going?
TWISDEN. It went very well to-day; very well indeed.
MABEL. You must be awfully fed up with us.
TWISDEN. My dear young lady, that's our business. [He takes her hand].
MABEL's face suddenly quivers. She draws her hand away, and covers
her lips with it.
There, there! You want a day off badly.
MABEL. I'm so tired of--! Thank you so much for all you're doing.
Good night! Good night, Mr Graviter!
GRAVITER. Good night, Mrs Dancy.
MABEL goes.
GRAVITER. D'you know, I believe she knows.
TWISDEN. No, no! She believes in him implicitly. A staunch little
woman. Poor thing!
GRAVITER. Hasn't that shaken you, sir? It has me.
TWISDEN. No, no! I--I can't go on with the case. It's breaking faith.
Get Sir Frederic's chambers.
GRAVITER. [Telephoning, and getting a reply, looks round at TWISDEN]
TWISDEN. Ask if I can come round and see him.
GRAVITER. [Telephoning] Can Sir Frederic spare Mr Twisden a few minutes
now if he comes round? [Receiving reply] He's gone down to Brighton for
the night.
TWISDEN. H'm! What hotel?
GRAVITER. [Telephoning] What's his address? What . . . ? [To
TWISDEN] The Bedford.
TWISDEN. I'll go down.
GRAVITER. [Telephoning] Thank you. All right. [He rings off].
TWISDEN. Just look out the trains down and up early to-morrow.
GRAVITER takes up an A B C, and TWISDEN takes up the Ricardos card.
TWISDEN. Send to this address in Putney, verify the fact that Ricardos
has a daughter, and give me a trunk call to Brighton. Better go
yourself, Graviter. If you see her, don't say anything, of course--
invent some excuse. [GRAVITER nods] I'll be up in time to see Dancy.
GRAVITER. By George! I feel bad about this.
TWISDEN. Yes. But professional honour comes first. What time is that
train? [He bends over the ABC].
The same room on the following morning at ten-twenty-five, by the
Grandfather clock.
The YOUNG CLERK is ushering in DANCY, whose face is perceptibly
harder than it was three months ago, like that of a man who has
lived under great restraint.
DANCY. He wanted to see me before the Court sat.
YOUNG CLERK. Yes, sir. Mr Twisden will see you in one minute. He had
to go out of town last night. [He prepares to open the waiting-room
DANCY. Were you in the war?
YOUNG CLERK. Yes.
DANCY. How can you stick this?
YOUNG CLERK. [With a smile] My trouble was to stick that, sir.
DANCY. But you get no excitement from year's end to year's end. It'd
drive me mad.
YOUNG CLERK. [Shyly] A case like this is pretty exciting. I'd give a
lot to see us win it.
DANCY. [Staring at him] Why? What is it to you?
YOUNG CLERK. I don't know, sir. It's--it's like football--you want your
side to win. [He opens the waiting-room door. Expanding] You see some
rum starts, too, in a lawyer's office in a quiet way.
DANCY enters the waiting-room, and the YOUNG CLERK, shutting the
door, meets TWISDEN as he comes in, Left Forward, and takes from him
overcoat, top hat, and a small bag.
YOUNG CLERK. Captain Dancy's waiting, sir. [He indicates the waiting-
TWISDEN. [Narrowing his lips] Very well. Mr Graviter gone to the
YOUNG CLERK. Yes, sir.
TWISDEN. Did he leave anything for me?
YOUNG CLERK. On the table, sir.
TWISDEN. [Taking up an envelope] Thank you.
The CLERK goes.
TWISDEN. [Opening the envelope and reading] "All corroborates." H'm!
[He puts it in his pocket and takes out of an envelope the two notes,
lays them on the table, and covers them with a sheet of blotting-paper;
stands a moment preparing himself, then goes to the door of the waiting-
room, opens it, and says:] Now, Captain Dancy. Sorry to have kept you
DANCY. [Entering] WINSOR came to me yesterday about General Canynge's
evidence. Is that what you wanted to speak to me about?
TWISDEN. No. It isn't that.
DANCY. [Looking at his wrist watch] By me it's just on the half-hour,
TWISDEN. Yes. I don't want you to go to the Court.
DANCY. Not?
TWISDEN. I have very serious news for you.
DANCY. [Wincing and collecting himself] Oh!
TWISDEN. These two notes. [He uncovers the notes] After the Court rose
yesterday we had a man called Ricardos here. [A pause] Is there any need
for me to say more?
DANCY. [Unflinching] No. What now?
TWISDEN. Our duty was plain; we could not go on with the case. I have
consulted Sir Frederic. He felt--he felt that he must throw up his
brief, and he will do that the moment the Court sits. Now I want to talk
to you about what you're going to do.
DANCY. That's very good of you, considering.
TWISDEN. I don't pretend to understand, but I imagine you may have done
this in a moment of reckless bravado, feeling, perhaps, that as you gave
the mare to De Levis, the money was by rights as much yours as his.
Stopping DANCY, who is about to speak, with a gesture.
To satisfy a debt of honour to this--lady; and, no doubt, to save your
wife from hearing of it from the man Ricardos. Is that so?
DANCY. To the life.
TWISDEN. It was mad, Captain Dancy, mad! But the question now is: What
do you owe to your wife? She doesn't dream--I suppose?
DANCY. [With a twitching face] No.
TWISDEN. We can't tell what the result of this collapse will be. The
police have the theft in hand. They may issue a warrant. The money
could be refunded, and the costs paid--somehow that can all be managed.
But it may not help. In any case, what end is served by your staying in
the country? You can't save your honour--that's gone. You can't save
your wife's peace of mind. If she sticks to you--do you think she will?
DANCY. Not if she's wise.
TWISDEN. Better go! There's a war in Morocco.
DANCY. [With a bitter smile] Good old Morocco!
TWISDEN. Will you go, then, at once, and leave me to break it to your
DANCY. I don't know yet.
TWISDEN. You must decide quickly, to catch a boat train. Many a man has
made good. You're a fine soldier.
DANCY. There are alternatives.
TWISDEN. Now, go straight from this office. You've a passport, I
suppose; you won't need a visa for France, and from there you can find
means to slip over. Have you got money on you? [Dancy nods]. We will
see what we can do to stop or delay proceedings.
DANCY. It's all damned kind of you. [With difficulty] But I must think
of my wife. Give me a few minutes.
TWISDEN. Yes, yes; go in there and think it out.
He goes to the door, Right, and opens it. DANCY passes him and goes
out. TWISDEN rings a bell and stands waiting.
CLERK. [Entering] Yes, sir?
TWISDEN. Tell them to call a taxi.
CLERK. [Who has a startled look] Yes, sir. Mr Graviter has come in,
air, with General Canynge. Are you disengaged?
TWISDEN. Yes.
The CLERK goes out, and almost immediately GRAVITER and CANYNGE
enter. Good-morning, General. [To GRAVITER]
GRAVITER. Sir Frederic got up at once and said that since the
publication of the numbers of those notes, information had reached him
which forced him to withdraw from the case. Great sensation, of course.
I left Bromley in charge. There'll be a formal verdict for the
defendant, with costs. Have you told Dancy?
TWISDEN. Yes. He's in there deciding what he'll do.
CANYNGE. [Grave and vexed] This is a dreadful thing, Twisden. I've
been afraid of it all along. A soldier! A gallant fellow, too. What on
earth got into him?
TWISDEN. There's no end to human nature, General.
GRAVITER. You can see queerer things in the papers, any day.
CANYNGE. That poor young wife of his! WINSOR gave me a message for you,
Twisden. If money's wanted quickly to save proceedings, draw on him.
Is there anything I can do?
TWISDEN. I've advised him to go straight off to Morocco.
CANYNGE. I don't know that an asylum isn't the place for him. He must
be off his head at moments. That jump-crazy! He'd have got a verdict on
that alone--if they'd seen those balconies. I was looking at them when I
was down there last Sunday. Daring thing, Twisden. Very few men, on a
dark night--He risked his life twice. That's a shrewd fellow--young De
Levis. He spotted Dancy's nature.
The YOUNG CLERK enters.
CLERK. The taxi's here, sir. Will you see Major Colford and Miss Orme?
TWISDEN. Graviter--No; show them in.
The YOUNG CLERK goes.
CANYNGE. Colford's badly cut up.
MARGARET ORME and COLFORD enter.
COLFORD. [Striding forward] There must be some mistake about this, Mr
TWISDEN. Hssh! Dancy's in there. He's admitted it.
Voices are subdued at once.
COLFORD. What? [With emotion] If it were my own brother, I couldn't
feel it more. But--damn it! What right had that fellow to chuck up the
case--without letting him know, too. I came down with Dancy this
morning, and he knew nothing about it.
TWISDEN. [Coldly] That was unfortunately unavoidable.
COLFORD. Guilty or not, you ought to have stuck to him--it's not playing
the game, Mr Twisden.
TWISDEN. You must allow me to judge where my duty lay, in a very hard
COLFORD. I thought a man was safe with his solicitor.
CANYNGE. Colford, you don't understand professional etiquette.
COLFORD. No, thank God!
TWISDEN. When you have been as long in your profession as I have been in
mine, Major Colford, you will know that duty to your calling outweighs
duty to friend or client.
COLFORD. But I serve the Country.
TWISDEN. And I serve the Law, sir.
CANYNGE. Graviter, give me a sheet of paper. I'll write a letter for
MARGARET. [Going up to TWISDEN] Dear Mr Jacob--pay De Levis. You know
my pearls--put them up the spout again. Don't let Ronny be--
TWISDEN. Money isn't the point, Margaret.
MARGARET. It's ghastly! It really is.
COLFORD. I'm going in to shake hands with him. [He starts to cross the
TWISDEN. Wait! We want him to go straight off to Morocco. Don't upset
him. [To COLFORD and MARGARET] I think you had better go. If, a little
later, Margaret, you could go round to Mrs Dancy--
COLFORD. Poor little Mabel Dancy! It's perfect hell for her.
They have not seen that DANCY has opened the door behind them.
DANCY. It is!
They all turn round in consternation.
COLFORD. [With a convulsive movement] Old boy!
DANCY. No good, Colford. [Gazing round at them] Oh! clear out--I can't
stand commiseration; and let me have some air.
TWISDEN motions to COLFORD and MARGARET to go; and as he turns to
DANCY, they go out. GRAVITER also moves towards the door. The
GENERAL sits motionless. GRAVITER goes Out.
TWISDEN. Well?
DANCY. I'm going home, to clear up things with my wife. General
Canynge, I don't quite know why I did the damned thing. But I did,
and there's an end of it.
CANYNGE. Dancy, for the honour of the Army, avoid further scandal if
you can. I've written a letter to a friend of mine in the Spanish War
Office. It will get you a job in their war. [CANYNGE closes the
DANCY. Very good of you. I don't know if I can make use of it.
CANYNGE stretches out the letter, which TWISDEN hands to DANCY, who
takes it. GRAVITER re-opens the door.
TWISDEN. What is it?
GRAVITER. De Levis is here.
TWISDEN. De Levis? Can't see him.
DANCY. Let him in!
After a moment's hesitation TWISDEN nods, and GRAVITER goes out.
The three wait in silence with their eyes fixed on the door, the
GENERAL sitting at the table, TWISDEN by his chair, DANCY between
him and the door Right. DE LEVIS comes in and shuts the door. He
is advancing towards TWISDEN when his eyes fall on DANCY, and he
TWISDEN. You wanted to see me?
DE LEVIS. [Moistening his lips] Yes. I came to say that--that I
overheard--I am afraid a warrant is to be issued. I wanted you to
realise--it's not my doing. I'll give it no support. I'm content. I
don't want my money. I don't even want costs. Dancy, do you understand?
DANCY does not answer, but looks at him with nothing alive in his
face but his eyes.
TWISDEN. We are obliged to you, Sir. It was good of you to come.
DE LEVIS. [With a sort of darting pride] Don't mistake me. I didn't
come because I feel Christian; I am a Jew. I will take no money--not
even that which was stolen. Give it to a charity. I'm proved right.
And now I'm done with the damned thing. Good-morning!
He makes a little bow to CANYNGE and TWISDEN, and turns to face
DANCY, who has never moved. The two stand motionless, looking at
each other, then DE LEVIS shrugs his shoulders and walks out. When
he is gone there is a silence.
CANYNGE. [Suddenly] You heard what he said, Dancy. You have no time to
But DANCY does not stir.
TWISDEN. Captain Dancy?
Slowly, without turning his head, rather like a man in a dream,
DANCY walks across the room, and goes out.
The DANCYS' sitting-room, a few minutes later. MABEL DANCY is
sitting alone on the sofa with a newspaper on her lap; she is only
just up, and has a bottle of smelling-salts in her hand. Two or
three other newspapers are dumped on the arm of the sofa. She
topples the one off her lap and takes up another as if she couldn't
keep away from them; drops it in turn, and sits staring before her,
sniffing at the salts. The door, Right, is opened and DANCY comes
MABEL. [Utterly surprised] Ronny! Do they want me in Court?
DANCY. No.
MABEL. What is it, then? Why are you back?
DANCY. Spun.
MABEL. [Blank] Spun? What do you mean? What's spun?
DANCY. The case. They've found out through those notes.
MABEL. Oh! [Staring at his face] Who?
DANCY. Me!
MABEL. [After a moment of horrified stillness] Don't, Ronny! Oh! No!
Don't! [She buries her face in the pillows of the sofa].
DANCY stands looking down at her.
DANCY. Pity you wouldn't come to Africa three months ago.
MABEL. Why didn't you tell me then? I would have gone.
DANCY. You wanted this case. Well, it's fallen down.
MABEL. Oh! Why didn't I face it? But I couldn't--I had to believe.
DANCY. And now you can't. It's the end, Mabel.
MABEL. [Looking up at him] No.
DANCY goes suddenly on his knees and seizes her hand.
DANCY. Forgive me!
MABEL. [Putting her hand on his head] Yes; oh, yes! I think I've known a
long time, really. Only--why? What made you?
DANCY. [Getting up and speaking in jerks] It was a crazy thing to do;
but, damn it, I was only looting a looter. The money was as much mine as
his. A decent chap would have offered me half. You didn't see the brute
look at me that night at dinner as much as to say: "You blasted fool!"
It made me mad. That wasn't a bad jump-twice over. Nothing in the war
took quite such nerve. [Grimly] I rather enjoyed that evening.
MABEL. But--money! To keep it!
DANCY. [Sullenly] Yes, but I had a debt to pay.
MABEL. To a woman?
DANCY. A debt of honour--it wouldn't wait.
MABEL. It was--it was to a woman. Ronny, don't lie any more.
DANCY. [Grimly] Well! I wanted to save your knowing. I'd promised a
thousand. I had a letter from her father that morning, threatening to
tell you. All the same, if that tyke hadn't jeered at me for parlour
tricks!--But what's the good of all this now? [Sullenly] Well--it may
cure you of loving me. Get over that, Mab; I never was worth it--and I'm
done for!
MABEL. The woman--have you--since--?
DANCY. [Energetically] No! You supplanted her. But if you'd known I
was leaving a woman for you, you'd never have married me. [He walks over
to the hearth].
MABEL too gets up. She presses her hands to her forehead, then
walks blindly round to behind the sofa and stands looking straight
in front of her.
MABEL. [Coldly] What has happened, exactly?
DANCY. Sir Frederic chucked up the case. I've seen Twisden; they want
me to run for it to Morocco.
MABEL. To the war there?
DANCY. Yes. There's to be a warrant out.
MABEL. A prosecution? Prison? Oh, go! Don't wait a minute! Go!
DANCY. Blast them!
MABEL. Oh, Ronny! Please! Please! Think what you'll want. I'll pack.
Quick! No! Don't wait to take things. Have you got money?
DANCY. [Nodding] This'll be good-bye, then!
MABEL. [After a moment's struggle] Oh! No! No, no! I'll follow--I'll
come out to you there.
DANCY. D'you mean you'll stick to me?
MABEL. Of course I'll stick to you.
DANCY seizes her hand and puts it to his lips. The bell rings.
MABEL. [In terror] Who's that?
The bell rings again. DANCY moves towards the door.
No! Let me!
She passes him and steals out to the outer door of the flat, where
she stands listening. The bell rings again. She looks through the
slit of the letter-box. While she is gone DANCY stands quite still,
till she comes back.
MABEL. Through the letter-bog--I can see----It's--it's police. Oh!
God! . . . Ronny! I can't bear it.
DANCY. Heads up, Mab! Don't show the brutes!
MABEL. Whatever happens, I'll go on loving you. If it's prison--I'll
wait. Do you understand? I don't care what you did--I don't care! I'm
just the same. I will be just the same when you come back to me.
DANCY. [Slowly] That's not in human nature.
MABEL. It is. It's in Me.
DANCY. I've crocked up your life.
MABEL. No, no! Kiss me!
A long kiss, till the bell again startles them apart, and there is a
loud knock.
DANCY. They'll break the door in. It's no good--we must open. Hold
them in check a little. I want a minute or two.
MABEL. [Clasping him] Ronny! Oh, Ronny! It won't be for long--I'll be
waiting! I'll be waiting--I swear it.
DANCY. Steady, Mab! [Putting her back from him] Now!
He opens the bedroom door, Left, and stands waiting for her to go.
Summoning up her courage, she goes to open the outer door. A sudden
change comes over DANCY'S face; from being stony it grows almost
DANCY. [Under his breath] No! No! By God! No! He goes out into the
bedroom, closing the door behind him.
MABEL has now opened the outer door, and disclosed INSPECTOR DEDE
and the YOUNG CONSTABLE who were summoned to Meldon Court on the
night of the theft, and have been witnesses in the case. Their
voices are heard.
MABEL. Yes?
INSPECTOR. Captain Dancy in, madam?
MABEL. I am not quite sure--I don't think so.
INSPECTOR. I wish to speak to him a minute. Stay here, Grover. Now,
MABEL. Will you come in while I see?
She comes in, followed by the INSPECTOR.
INSPECTOR. I should think you must be sure, madam. This is not a big
MABEL. He was changing his clothes to go out. I think he has gone.
INSPECTOR. What's that door?
MABEL. To our bedroom.
INSPECTOR. [Moving towards it] He'll be in there, then.
MABEL. What do you want, Inspector?
INSPECTOR. [Melting] Well, madam, it's no use disguising it. I'm
exceedingly sorry, but I've a warrant for his arrest.
MABEL. Inspector!
INSPECTOR. I'm sure I've every sympathy for you, madam; but I must carry
out my instructions.
MABEL. And break my heart?
INSPECTOR. Well, madam, we're--we're not allowed to take that into
consideration. The Law's the Law.
MABEL. Are you married?
INSPECTOR. I am.
MABEL. If you--your wife--
The INSPECTOR raises his hand, deprecating.
[Speaking low] Just half an hour! Couldn't you? It's two lives--two
whole lives! We've only been married four months. Come back in half an
hour. It's such a little thing--nobody will know. Nobody. Won't you?
INSPECTOR. Now, madam--you must know my duty.
MABEL. Inspector, I beseech you--just half an hour.
INSPECTOR. No, no--don't you try to undermine me--I'm sorry for you;
but don't you try it! [He tries the handle, then knocks at the door].
DANCY'S VOICE. One minute!
INSPECTOR. It's locked. [Sharply] Is there another door to that room?
Come, now--
The bell rings.
[Moving towards the door, Left; to the CONSTABLE] Who's that out there?
CONSTABLE. A lady and gentleman, sir.
INSPECTOR. What lady and-- Stand by, Grover!
DANCY'S VOICE. All right! You can come in now.
There is the noise of a lock being turned. And almost immediately
the sound of a pistol shot in the bedroom. MABEL rushes to the
door, tears it open, and disappears within, followed by the
INSPECTOR, just as MARGARET ORME and COLFORD come in from the
passage, pursued by the CONSTABLE. They, too, all hurry to the
bedroom door and disappear for a moment; then COLFORD and MARGARET
reappear, supporting MABEL, who faints as they lay her on the sofa.
COLFORD takes from her hand an envelope, and tears it open.
COLFORD. It's addressed to me. [He reads it aloud to MARGARET in a low
"DEAR COLFORD,--This is the only decent thing I can do. It's too damned
unfair to her. It's only another jump. A pistol keeps faith. Look
after her, Colford--my love to her, and you."
MARGARET gives a sort of choking sob, then, seeing the smelling bottle,
she snatches it up, and turns to revive MABEL.
COLFORD. Leave her! The longer she's unconscious, the better.
INSPECTOR. [Re-entering] This is a very serious business, sir.
COLFORD. [Sternly] Yes, Inspector; you've done for my best friend.
INSPECTOR. I, sir? He shot himself.
COLFORD. Hara-kiri.
INSPECTOR. Beg pardon?
COLFORD. [He points with the letter to MABEL] For her sake, and his own.
INSPECTOR. [Putting out his hand] I'll want that, sir.
COLFORD. [Grimly] You shall have it read at the inquest. Till then--
it's addressed to me, and I stick to it.
INSPECTOR. Very well, sir. Do you want to have a look at him?
COLFORD passes quickly into the bedroom, followed by the INSPECTOR.
MARGARET remains kneeling beside MABEL.
COLFORD comes quickly back. MARGARET looks up at him. He stands
very still.
COLFORD. Neatly--through the heart.
MARGARET [wildly] Keeps faith! We've all done that. It's not enough.
COLFORD. [Looking down at MABEL] All right, old boy!
The CURTAIN falls.
Feeling that such things don't happen
I've nothing against them, but the fact is--they get on so
Isn't the slightest connection between innocence and reputation
Prejudices, Adela--or are they loyalties
Scandal is heaven-sent at this time of year
There's nothing we like better than seeing people skinned
They're more sober; they're honest; and they're everywhere
We all cut each other's throats from the best of motives
Wife's memory is not very good when her husband is in danger
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BreakingNews 28/3/17 - Boko Haram leader, Shekau is alive -FG
[ Masterweb Reports: Isiaka Wakili reports ] - The Federal Government of Nigeria has admitted that the leader of the Boko Haram terrorist group, Abubakar Shekau, has not been killed. The Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, disclosed this to State House reporters on Tuesday after briefing President Muhammadu Buhari on the security situation in the country.
The minister said it had been difficult to arrest Shekau because the insurgents usually put on masks to conceal their identities.
He, however, stated that the government would not relent in pursuing the Boko Haram leader, assuring that he would be arrested as soon as possible.
"Let me tell you categorically, these insurgents, have a way of putting on mask. There could be so many, but we're looking for the real one, he [Shekau] has been using mask to portray Shekau in one incident or the other to give an impression that he has been killed so that we'll relax, but we'll not relax, we're on him," he said.
Dan-Ali said those who had been to Sambisa forest would know that the sect had been defeated.
"We've dominated the whole stronghold where they used to be, that is where we call camp zero where their spiritual and their strong headquarters that they were using as communication base was destroyed and as at the same time occupied by our men the armed forces.
"I believe it is just a matter of time. It took America about seven to 10 years to get Osama Bin Laden. So, we will get Shekau as soon as possible," the minister assured.
"The spiritual headquarters has been ransacked and vandalised. He [Shekau] is on the run. So, he may be hiding in one of the enclaves of Sambisa forest which we're dominating. We've opened up the place, we're using the place as a training area whereby the army engineers will open roads, we shall be patrolling and be ransacking that forest for the whereabouts of Shekau," he said.
The minister said President Buhari was impressed with the performance of the armed forces.
"Security situation is something that you cannot get 100 percent, and remember that Nigeria has been having these turbulences for a very long time . We are trying to manage it and we are trying to make it solvable whereby every Nigeria will have peace and tranquillity to do his normal business," he said.
The minister, who said Buhari directed the security agencies to do more, noted that "the more we put our efforts, the more Nigeria gets safer. We're doing our best and we've also requested for more in terms of equipment, and I can categorically tell you that the armed forces have turned to professional armed forces.
"The training we had, the small arms competition, was done last almost 11 years ago, so also the sports, so you can see we are joining the professionalism with the security challenges happening in the country."
Dan-Ali said he also briefed Buhari on the issue of the Internally Displaced Persons, stressing that the government wanted them return to their homes for their normal economic activities.
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EdX will be offering Foundations of Data Analysis via the University of Texas at Austin. The course starts November 4, 2014. Here is a list of topics:
SlideRule is a new startup focused on being on online learning hub. One of the sections of the site allows experts to create "learning paths" for a topic. Well, Claudia Gold, data scientist at Airbnb, created a learning path for data science titled Data Analysis Learning Path. The learning path covers: topics, timelines, resources, and links necessary to acquire the skills needed to be a data scientist.
Happy Learning.
As of yesterday, I was completely new to the term work-force science. Essentially, work-force science is data analysis applied to Human Resources. It makes more sense than the old gut feeling approach. If you want to know more, see this excellent article from the New York Times, Big Data, Trying to Build Better Workers. The following quote sums up one of the key findings.
An applicant's work history is not a good predictor of future results.
The list is ordered according to the level of difficulty.
This list comes from information presented in the first week of the Coursera Data Analysis class.
Cosma Shalizi of the Statistics Department at Carnegie Mellon University is working on an Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View textbook. A copy of the textbook will remain freely available on the website. Since the textbook is still being created, comments are welcome.
Data analysis is performed in many different fields and on many different types of data. Most fields call it something different. The following list comes straight from Jeff Leek's Data Analysis Coursera class.
The type of analysis is very similar for all fields, but what separates data science and machine learning from the others is the 3 V's of big data. Data science and machine learning deal with a greater Volume of data, Variety of data, and Velocity (speed at which new data appears) of data. Because it is becoming cheaper and easier to store massive amounts of data than ever before, I think the other fields are beginning to realize the potential in big data. Signal processing is definitely becoming an area with big data, due to the fact that electrical sensors are everywhere.
What are your thoughts? Do you see any real differences in the data analysis performed for the data types above?
The Coursera Data Analysis course started yesterday. This course would be an excellent follow-up to the Computing with Data Analysis course. For a bit more about the course, check out this video explaining the content. The course consists of lectures, quizzes, and some data analysis assignments. There is still plenty of time to signup and start analyzing.
Jeff Leak, instructor of the upcoming Coursera Data Analysis course, wrote up a nice blog post, The Landscape of Data Analysis, explaining the topics to be covered in the course. The topics look good. He also made a video explaining how data science fits in with other disciplines such as: computer science, medicine, statistics, and so on. The video is short (less than 5 minutes), so it is definitely worth the time.
Week 1 of the Computing for Data Analysis course focused mostly on getting R and RStudio installed. Then it focused on some of the basics of the R language. Here are some of the topics
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If you hurry, there still might be time to enroll in the class and finish the homework for full credit. Week 1 was not too intensive.
The Coursera class Computational Methods of Data Analysis started yesterday. There is still plenty of time to enroll in the class.
This course assumes a good familiarity with calculus, linear algebra, and some basic programming. Thus, if your math background is weak or needs a refresher, you may not want to take this course. However, if you have a solid math background, the course starts right into Fourier Analysis. The course topics look good, and image analysis is one of the central themes of the course. The software Matlab ($99 for student edition) is recommended, however Octave (Free) is acceptable.


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Secretary of State welcomes rising employment figures
James Brokenshire encouraged by today's labour market statistics, which show continued positive trends for NI.
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, James Brokenshire has welcomed the latest labour market figures published today.
The statistics for Northern Ireland show continued positive trends and the employment rate is the highest since the series began in 1995, exceeding 70% for the first time.
Reflecting on the news, the Secretary of State said:
Today's encouraging unemployment figures show a welcome fall for the sixth month in a row – with unemployment at the lowest level since 2008. There are also 64,000 more people in work in Northern Ireland since 2010.
Economic inactivity also continues to fall, which is good news. The government will continue do everything it can to build a stronger economy and a Northern Ireland that works for everyone.
A summary of the latest labour market figures for Northern Ireland:
The employment rate has increased by 1.1 percentage points over the quarter and 2.2 percentage points over the year, now standing at 70.1 percent - the highest since the series began in 1995.
There are 64,000 more people in work since 2010.
The unemployment rate is at its lowest point since November 2008.
The claimant count fell for the sixth successive month, with the Northern Ireland decrease being the largest of all UK regions.
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Foss Waterway Seaport — www.fosswaterwayseaport.org
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Scandinavian Cultural Center. Pacific Lutheran University — www.plu.edu/~scancntr
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Foss: Ninety Years of Towboating (1981), Mike Skalley
This definitive history was written by the Foss Maritime Company historian and manager of Pacific Northwest customer service. It was updated in 1999 in conjunction with Bruce Johnson and published under the name Foss Maritime: A Living Legend. Several Foss family members (Sid Campbell, Drew Foss, and Pete Campbell) were consulted in the books' assembly.
The book is available in most regional libraries and can be purchased online from several sites.
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In Tacoma, WA.
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Adjourning at noon on the dot, the Idaho Legislature closed its 2017 session Wednesday with a routine appropriations bill—an anticlimactic end to a session that saw big increases in road and education funding and a possible repeal of an unpopular tax on groceries.
The House concluded business officially at 10:48 a.m. after passing the spending bill and sending it to the Senate. The House had postponed a vote on the bill to the very end as a kind of insurance to prevent the Senate from adjourning prematurely.
I feel good about this session.
Senate President Pro Tem Brent Hill, R-Rexburg
The Senate had a little more to do, at first rejecting, as expected, a last-chance tax bill from the House that included a fractional income tax cut. It then approved a measure on pedestrian safety related to the watershed $320 million road funding package the Legislature sent to the governor Tuesday. The appropriations bill followed.
"I feel good about this session," said Senate President Pro Tem Brent Hill, R-Rexburg, as senators rose to make closing or farewell remarks prior to adjourning for the year. "It didn't turn out the way I expected, but I feel good about it."
Lt. Gov. Brad Little gaveled adjournment precisely at noon.
Besides approving new transportation funding, lawmakers this session voted to repeal the sales tax on grocery food, a move opposed by Gov. Butch Otter and possibly facing his veto.
The 2017 session: What the Legislature accomplished
Lawmakers also approved the third year of a five-year plan to increase teacher salaries, but could not find consensus on any proposal to expand and improve health care for thousands of Idahoans who cannot obtain health coverage.
"I wish that was something that we had stepped up to do," said Senate Majority Leader Bart Davis, R-Idaho Falls.
The Legislature, Davis said, postponed action this year while it waited for Congress to decide the fate of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. The Republican-led effort to replace it failed earlier this month, but Republicans might try again.
"I'm hopeful that between now and next year that we have some increased certainty inside the Beltway on whatever they're going to do so the Legislature can engage," Davis said.
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The University of North Carolina system's Board of Governors has formed a special committee to review a massive business combination proposed by Charlotte's Carolinas HealthCare System and Chapel Hill's UNC Health Care.
The 6-member committee, which was appointed Monday, is scheduled to hold its first public meeting at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Chapel Hill, said UNC system spokesman Josh Ellis. A UNC Board of Governors document says the committee was formed to ensure the Board of Governors will be "fully informed" about the combination of the two systems.
The committee's members are auto parts magnate O. Temple Sloan III; health care attorney Carolyn Coward; N. Leo Daughtry, a Smithfield lawyer and longtime state lawmaker; R. Doyle Parrish, founder of Summit Hospitality Group, a hotel management business in Raleigh; Randall Ramsey, founder and president of Jarrett Bay Boatworks in Beaufort; and corporate lawyer W. Louis Bissette Jr.
Its creation comes after the two nonprofit hospital systems in late August announced plans to form a joint operating company that will be overseen by its own board of directors.
The proposed public, nonprofit corporation would run more than 50 hospitals and employ more than 90,000 people, making it one of the nation's largest hospital chains. North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein has already said his office is examining whether the pending deal will harm health care competition in the state.
The committee's role will be to review UNC Health's consideration and evaluation of the combination, the document says. The committee will also ensure UNC Health has "employed an appropriate process, informed by necessary expertise, based on relevant facts and information." The committee is scheduled report its findings to the Board of Governors by Dec 20.
UNC Health Care is owned by North Carolina and governed as an affiliate of the UNC system, under 1998 state legislation creating the University of North Carolina Health Care System.
That legislation gives the Board of Governors oversight of UNC Health Care, as well as the power to appoint its CEO and 12 of 24 UNC Health Care board directors.
In a statement, Carolinas HealthCare System said UNC's special committee was formed as part of the Board of Governors' due diligence as it reviews the proposed joint operating company.
"We look forward to answering any questions from this committee, welcome their review, and are confident it will conclude that the collaboration between our two organizations is in the best interest of the people of our state as it fosters our common goal of improving the health of North Carolinians," the statement said.
Carolinas HealthCare said it is still seeking to sign a definitive agreement with UNC Health by early 2018.
Approvals from the boards of both Carolinas HealthCare and UNC Health Care are also still needed, Carolinas HealthCare said.
The two hospital groups have said they will create one of the leading nonprofit health care systems in the U.S., allowing them to work together in myriad ways – from building new hospitals to negotiating with insurance companies. They've also said they will push to improve access to care in rural areas, which suffer from a shortage of doctors and services.
Critics argue similar combinations across the U.S. have reduced competition and driven up prices.
"I'm not aware where two systems combined and costs went down," said Patrick Conway, CEO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield, the state's largest health insurer, earlier this month. "Historically the larger systems charge a higher price per unit."
Ellis said the special committee was created by Bissette, chairman of the Board of Governors, and that Wednesday's meeting will be open to the public.
A notice Monday to the media announcing the meeting said it will be in the Board Room of the Spangler Center at 910 Raleigh Road in Chapel Hill.
Scheduled the day before Thanksgiving, one of the busiest travel days of the year, the meeting's timing raises the question of whether the committee is attempting to conduct business out of the public eye, said Amanda Martin, general counsel to the North Carolina Press Association.
North Carolina open-meetings law does not have requirements that official meetings be held at times convenient to the public, Martin said.
But, "unless there is some true urgency to this meeting – that could not be accommodated by meeting earlier or later – it is simply bad public policy to schedule a meeting on an issue of extraordinary legitimate public concern at a time that is almost assured no member of the public can attend."
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Security forces in Equatorial Guinea detained more than 100 youth during the last week of May. The reasons for the detentions remain unclear.
A new report ranks Equatorial Guinea among the world's worst violators of political and civil liberties.
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the detention of a television crew and the destruction of its footage in Equatorial Guinea.
The government of Equatorial Guinea is spending billions on showcase infrastructure projects. Will that lead to sustainable development in Equatorial Guinea?
Transparency advocates are making headway in their effort to extend a U.S. transparency law to other markets.
The protests sweeping across North Africa and the Middle East have inspired demands for political reform in Equatorial Guinea.
The U.S. State Department has released its 2010 Human Rights Report for Equatorial Guinea, which documents the ongoing abuses of human rights and civil liberties.
At the "Busting Bribery" report launch, panelists explored the history of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and its enforcement and discussed the potential consequences of the current efforts on Capitol Hill to amend the Act.
Tutu Alicante speaks with Democracy Now and Al Jazeera about abuses in Equatorial Guinea ahead of the African Union Summit.
This 2011 State Department report finds Equatorial Guinea's response to human trafficking to be inadequate, particularly given the government's substantial financial resources.
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We all know that, when it comes to raising the profile for a fundraising event or campaign, there are few things that tend to draw so much notice as attaching a well-known celebrity name to your charities name. Well, they don't get much bigger than Colin Farrell or Roger Moore.
Both have been featured in prominent fundraising drives launched by Irish charities in recent days. Roger "raise an eyebrow" Moore, of James Bond fame, was in Dublin recently for a slew of public appearances, the most noticeable of which was his presence at the UNICEF Ireland Gala Ball on 16 January at the Burlington Hotel.
Sir Roger – renowned for his long-standing dedication to charitable causes and for his work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador – also officially launched the new fundraising initiative between UNICEF and Topaz, in which Topaz customers will be invited to add 2 cent to their purchase in aid of UNICEF Ireland at 100 company owned Topaz sites around the country. It is all part of the UNICEF €1,000,000 fundraising drive for UNICEF Ireland.
Perhaps even more noticeably, Colin Farrell (fresh from his Golden Globe victory last week for his role in "In Bruges"), has continued to demonstrate his dedication to the Irish Special Olympics by fronting their new fundraising campaign. So Colin has not only been appearing in cinemas up and down the country but also on the side of buses and on walls in the form of posters featuring his profile. This should come as no surprise to anyone as Colin has been working as a Special Olympics Global Ambassador since 2003. Siobhan Grant, a director of the charity, has lauded Colin's tireless championing of the cause, adding that, "his dedication is above and beyond the norm. He has given a huge amount of his time to this, and most of it when the cameras aren't around".
And it's not just the big-name A-listers who can be effective in kickstarting a fundraising campaign. Take, for example, the upcoming "Celebrity Jigs and Reels" event due to take place in Limerick in March. This fundraising event is being billed as a follow-up to the hugely popular "Limerick Sporting Celebrity X-Factor" night, which featured a number of well-known local celebrities. This series of events have been organised by local man, David Dineen, in aid of the Symptomatic Breast Cancer Care Unit in the Mid-West Regional Hospital.
Limerick celebrity-spotters can expect to see the likes of Irish rugby legend Peter Clohessy, Labour TD Jan O'Sullivan, Limerick hurler Niall Moran, Limerick Leader journalist David Hurley, Cllr Maria Byrne, model agency owner Hillary Thompson and Limerick FC chief executive Andrew Mawhinney, all strut their stuff for charity on the day of the event.
So, the question is, what famous faces are you in your phonebook?
[1] http://www.unicef.ie/topaz_partnership.htm
[2] http://www.specialolympics.ie/Fundraising_and_Sponsorship.htm
[3] https://www.wheel.ie/funding