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PASSING NOTES
By Mercurius
I have written a long letter of sympathy to Superintendent McKay, of the New South Wales Police Force, expressing my regret that the sword of De Groot should have frightened him so badly. For in his evidence the Superintendant said: “De Groot might have slashed at me with his sword. I do not like a man waving a sword at me.” Of course not; who does like it? It is a terrible thing, and suggests danger. I have infinite pity for Superintendent McKay just as I have for James I of England, who used to turn pale at the sight of a sword, or even a dagger.
The Mercury
Rowland Sinclair gazed vaguely at a scale model of the Aquitania as he sat in the captain’s office on the ship itself. He was alone. The ocean liner had now made port at Darling Harbour and the proc
