Word: casement
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Among those whom Conrad met in the Congo was Roger Casement...
...corrupt aristocrat moves painfully by day. At night, of course, he is able to change from man to bat to wolf to fog. The human characters who have been hunting Dracula in the light now lie abed, weak with doubt, receptive to phantoms. A winged shape flutters at the casement-ludicrous as a plot device, but classically suggestive as an embodiment of dread...
...they did him in." That possibility gained credence when Miami police found traces of blood and hair, along with a recent imprint of a body, inside a 300-lb. "concrete overcoat" of the type used by the Mafia for burials at sea. Unfortunately for investigators, the body inside the casement was missing, and the Florida police declared that there was as yet no reason to connect the two cases. One other puzzling fact: Stone-house's wife, who has stuck to her assumption that he drowned at sea, first denied and then later admitted that she had taken...
Then came the Tower, Brixton Prison and the Old Bailey. Nothing so became Roger Casement as his stride to the scaffold. No reputable barrister would handle his case: the diaries were circulating; the Allies were suffering horrendous losses in France. It was not even seriously questioned whether the English had the right to try an Irish conspirator save as a prisoner...
...final speech from the dock, one of the most eloquent addresses ever delivered in the cause of a free Ireland, Casement declared, "Loyalty is a sentiment, not a law. It rests on love, not restraint. The government of Ireland by England rests on restraint and not on law; and since it demands no love, it can evoke no loyalty." Self-government, he added, is "a thing no more to be doled out to us or withheld from us by another people than the right to life itself-than the right to feel the sun, or smell the flowers...