Stories with a Vengeance — page 50: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains story prose from what appears to be a detective or crime fiction narrative. The text describes the narrator's discovery that their friend Charlie has been murdered and their subsequent involvement with Scotland Yard detectives investigating the crime. The story reveals that a cab driver connected to the case has disappeared, and a detective eventually tracks down a vagrant in Whitechapel whom they suspect of the murder. The text indicates this vagrant confessed to causing the death of "Mr. Charles Lawrence" through actions that occurred on Christmas morning. The narrative concludes with the vagrant apparently dying in police custody from mental breakdown, apparently disturbed by guilt over the crime.