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bathe, shave & a late breakfast during which the Shaikh arrived with Abdulla having been to call on Cole
merely to pass the time of day. I went over to see Cole about one or two things. He seemed rather fed up
& evidently he & Metcalfe are not getting on any too well. A lot to do in the office. In afternoon I went
up to the Fort and after watching the men a while I had another go at the Hedd murder case and after a
long cross examination I got the last of the witnesses to admit what I knew that she knew, this was the
mother of the girl. It was really very melodramatic. I had one women hidden in a room while the other
talked and the one in the room suddenly of her own accord, burst out and accused her mother of lying , at
which, finally, the old woman gave in and admitted that her own son had killed her daughter and he told
her all about it after. The other woman gave evidence against her own husband. Dined with SNO on
Shoreham, also Davies, Harvey & some other sailors - poor dinner followed by a race game, but not as
tiresome a game as most are, really quite good, invented by White Russian prisoners and eventually it got
to Malta where it had a ... Quite a late evening. Very thick cloudy weather & in the morning Muharraq