Word: nassaue
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...good for a belly laugh. There once was a Lieutenant named House. We called him Flop. Not to his face, of course, but he probably got the ideas, and we certainly did. It was not too funny, but good for our battered Egos. Then there was one from Old Nassau (a fine example of the manic depressive among College Men At War) whom we thought should be called Tiger...
...Tiger. Not literally, of course, but it was delicious. In the midst of a black and tortured night march, we broke into a sombre dirge. "Hold that Tiger, rrrrrrooomph, hold that Tiger, rrrrromph. The Tiger turned tail and promptly got out of earshot. Some of the boys sang "Nassau Hall" as we put up our tents that night. Toujours gai. Toujours...
...that anyone in Nassau could say with assurance, the man who killed Sir Harry Oakes might even now be sipping a whiskey & soda at the Prince George bar. Or he might be racing a fleet sailboat before the Royal Nassau Sailing Club. He might be talking business in a Nassau office, taking part in a cocktail-party discussion of the mystery-or resting, full fathom five, beneath the clear waters off Hog Island. Or he might not be in the Bahamas...
Strange Silence. Few in Nassau had doubted the outcome of the trial of Count Alfred Marie de Fouguereaux de Marigny for the murder of his rich father...
Strange Play. Like actors in a well-worn play, the black-robed, white-wigged attorneys had waded through the tangle of circumstantial evidence. Like playgoers, Nassau's lush sun set had paid early rising natives ?1 a day for places in the tiny courtroom-unless, like the Baron of Trolle, they chose to have their servants bring their own chairs. Evenings the jurors laughed and joked and went to the movies to wave at their families. Between sessions Count Freddy waltzed by himself in the police station, read books on sailing...