For Them That Trespass Page #6

Barmy

"a great reckoning in a little room"

It is a line written by Shakespeare about a fellow dramatist called Marlowe

Marlowe?

Where can I found out more about this bloke Drew?

He's got two columns in Who's Who

-Whose what? -Who's Who

It's kind of record of successful people, written largely by themselves

Drew,Christopher

Born,educated

Grant's College Serram Hill

Publications,home,address

High Grove

The treasury that gave us Shakespeare, the treasury that gave us Shaw and

Shall I say it?Yes,why not.He's giving me a box for the first time of his new play

The treasury that gave us Christopher Drew

Ladies and Gentlemen and those with their elbows on the table

I give you a toast of Christopher and Mary,

coupled with a toast of Christopher's collective poems

Christopher,Mary

Ladies and Gentlemen,and those with their faces in the fruit salad

I thank you for your friendship, on my own behalf and Mary's

Though deeply grateful for the fame

and put it in the context,cash, I play them puts of broth

the things I value most

is seated around this table now

my wife,my children,all of you

Bob,Annie

Yes,solemn Annie

When I look round and see you all

I think how lucky I've been

and no man,least of all myself, is worthy of such luck

Theres a candle lit for everyone of daddy's books

just think of writing all those books, just think of reading them

If you don't shut up I'll make you read them one by one

Come on,Dad,no cheating, blow them out all at once

Huge blow

Come on,Ben,all we get up

-Good night,father -Good night,darling

Excuse,daddy

Excuse me,Sir,a man came to see you, he was hanging about the garden

What sort of a man?

A rough sort,didn't like the look of him

-Give his name? -Logan,Herbert Logan

He said he would call back later

I will see him if he does

That's likely to be him now,Sir

Mr Drew

Yes

I'm Herbert Logan

Who?

Don't you remember me?

No,I'm sure,we have never met

We've never met before but I've been looking forward to it

It's kept me going thinking that for sixteen years

Fifteen of them in jail

Mr Logan,would you kindly tell me just what you come to see me for?

You were Kit Marlowe,weren't you?

The only Kit Marlowe I know of died in the reign of Queen Elizabeth

I heard that at the trial,thank you

Frankie told me all about you

Frankie? Who is Frankie?

The girl you strangled down in Croyber Square sixteen years ago

You were Kit Marlowe and you murdered Frankie

Mr Logan,I'm afraid your imaginations running away with you

I heard your play on the wireless, sorry for nothing,that's me

That's what Frankie always said, I found out other things as well

You were 21 just what Frankie said,

you went to school in Serram Hill, just like she said

She also said you were coming in that night

You are in.I know you are

How dare you come here and talking like this

It's not often I am accustomed to being pestered by lunatics

but this is too much,will you go at once please

Otherwise I should be obliged to call the police

You call the police,I'll give them all their proofs if they want

You mean this story about the girl being in my play

all authors,Mr Logan, find their characters

identified in people they never knew existing

I was 21 sixteen years ago,so were several thousands other people

I went to school in Serram Hill because I lived in Serram Hill

Lots of people do,you know

I hate to say this you run the risk of being certified

Now would you kindly go

I am mad,am I?

Perhaps I was to think you come forward now

What killer would

You're clever

Frankie said you were

You got all the answers pat

I admit I can never prove you were Kit Marlowe

but I know you were, and so do you

I swear it as God is my judge and yours,

One day he will judge you

One moment

It's just one point about your case as it occurs to me

I seem to remember that there was a woman who

See,here we are, Olive Mockson,

she testified that a certain fireman on the railway, a Heal

could not have been with this Frankie

at the time she was murdered as he was with her

I don't understand

An alibi,Logan,if this Olive Mockson was in love with Heal

an alibi might have not been too sound

Worth considering,you think?

He is undoubtedly be guilty of misprision of felony

Prosecution for that is very rare

But the cove in your play would be absolutely ruined

letting an innocent man rot in prison rather than stand up to it

Justified disgrace

The whole of society would be after him,the papers,fellows in parliament

No one would have the slightest mercy for him

The disgust of his fellowmen would follow him into the grave

Yes.So I imagined it would have been

Hey,give the pubs a miserable, we can't stick to lemonade

I've never touch a drop until I become a driver

-Well,so long Jim -So long

Be careful if it can't be good

Are you Jim Neal?

That's me

It's Logan,Herb

You clear off.There is no one who wants to mix with you

I've got some questions I want to ask you,Mr Heal

Who is it?

It's all right,Olive,my miss wouldn't like you hanging about here ,Logan

Olive?

Olive Mockson.Is she your mrs?

Sorry I can't help you

I know who had done it,Jim

I found him

Turn off that noise

What has that got to do with me?

I know who was with Frankie that night

A writer named Drew who was with her,all right

You said he was there,he must have known that,after she has done to him

You got no proof about this Drew

The cops would laugh at you

Detective Inspector Benstead don't do, the cop that picked me up,he listens to me

Always get's a bit too sentimental when the copper who nicked you does

Suppose Drew had been with Frankie,

just supposing he knew who it was had done her in

We got to force it out of him, see then I got what I want

I'll tell you something.That fellow Drew would talk one day.I'll make him

Sure as I'm standing here

You are wasting your time,mate,drop it

Here,have this beer

Until you find your wallet

Yeah,when I can get it,I was scavenger, not an engine driver

I'll say it's been tough for you,pretty awful if you've never done it

There's only one thing kept me going

the certainty that one day I'd find the real murderer

Look mate,I always thought that you've done it

What else was I to think?

I want you to know that I don't bear you no malice

So what say you if I try to fix you at the depot with a job

There is more talent in that then street sweeping

Railwayman? I could use some extra dole

You will get it enough to buy yourself a pint while you can forget all this

All gone and done with

I'll tell you what

I'm going to see Charlie now, he is the foreman

I'll speak to him about you,so we better meet up at the old..

No,I never go in there before I put myself right before the world

I walk in there again one day

Come to think of it

Why not come along and see Charlie with me?

Why not?

I'm going down the depot

I'll take it with the boiler before I go

We shan't be long

You been fixed up all right?

We can celebrate with a wet at Plate layers Arms

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