Fourteen – Buck's Row Outrage'A REVOLTING MURDER'
I cannot express the shock to my system!
No, not from the banner headline. I'd worked hard for that. It was expected, and deserved.
I cannot express the shock I experienced when Mrs Griggs entered my room, set down the tray supporting my evening meal, and unfurled a copy, her copy, of the 31 August edition of the Star newspaper. The Star! Of course, I had my earlier edition, covering the George Yard killing, well-hidden away. But a radical newspaper willingly brought into the house by my conservative landlady's own hand; stunning! My work was opening minds. She held the newsprint aloft and, with meaning and the slightest noticeable shake in her rarely shaken voice, said, “Mr __, have you heard?”
I shook off my shock, without comment, an
