The Tally Ho

 

The Tally Ho

Death Is An Escape!
                  by our own reporter

    Death is an escape, at least that’s what No.58 once thought “To hope to die, there’s nothing else.” He actually told No.6 that “One day I’ll die and beat you all.” I’m not sure that No.58 was thinking about dying of old age, so he may have thought that one day they would go too far and cause his death, or he may have been suggesting his own suicide. Suicide seems to be a common complaint in the village. There was Cobb who leapt to his death through an open hospital window. Of course a funeral was held for Cobb, and he was buried in the village cemetery on the beach. The question must be asked, what was a hospital window on the first floor doing being left open? And the lesson was not learned, because there is the case of No.73. Life in the village didn’t suit her at all, she was very happy at one day waking up in what she thought was her own home, only to find she was in the village. It must have really played on her mind, because she could not settle, so this reporter was told. It makes you wonder why she was brought here in the first place. There are a lot of unhappy people living in the village, and when the spirit is broken certain people attempt to escape, while others take a different way out. And so because of No.73’s unhappiness, her desperation drove her to try and take her own life by slashing her wrists with a kitchen knife. Had it not been for the quick thinking of No.251, her personal maid, No.73 would have ended up lying in a coffin in her grave, and not in a comfortable bed in a private room in the hospital! Had there been time she would have undergone a psychiatric assessment, and depending on the results she might have remained at the hospital for her own good. However this reporter was told that No.2 intervened, as he wanted to carry out an interrogation of No.73, wanting to know why No.73 attempted suicide. And the reason why she had been brought to the village? It would seem that No.73 was one of those people who knew too little, but even then it was enough to have her brought here! They couldn’t find her husband you see, and so they had No.73 brought to the village because they thought she could tell them where he is. But all she could say was that he was over there, somewhere there. But that wasn’t enough for No.2, and it was his threatening interrogation technique which drove No.73 to leap out of her bed and through the open hospital window to her death. According to an eyewitness No.2 may have threatened No.73 but he did not actually lay hands on her. Yes she was afraid, frightened by what No.2 was physically going to do to her. But what the eyewitness saw, as he and another medical orderly tried to restrain No.6, who suddenly came bursting into the room, was the moment No.73 saw No.6 come bursting into the room she leapt out of the bed and jumped out through the open window to her death. This reporter managed to interview No.6, I asked him what he was doing bursting into the hospital room like that? He told me that he was just passing by {passing by where, the old folks home?} when he heard a scream {you heard a scream at that distance and through stone walls} through an open window {so you heard a scream what did you think was happening} I thought someone was in danger of their life {You got to the hospital very quickly} as I said I was passing by {you just happened to be passing by}. So I went to the woman’s aid {so you burst into the room as medical orderlies tried to restrain you, did you know No.73?} No I had never seen her before {and even then it was ever so briefly, did 73 know you?} Not as far as I’m aware {then how do you account for the fact that the moment YOU burst into the room she leapt out of bed and hurled herself to her death through the open window?} I can’t. {Tell me No.6, why did you go to the window and look down at the ground where the body lay?} I was just making sure I suppose! {After Cobb you mean, well you need a body for a funeral!}