land So and So have been to my flat and passed the night” 1
Suggest that the names mentioned were those of mutual friends
of
Crowley and Berridge, men beyond suspicion,
Maries. It may have been so.
Sconrio, K.C, Andthat Crowley
added, implicitly or explicitly:
“ts that any reason for making such abominable charges?”
Maruins. Perhaps.
Scorpio, K.C, I must ask you to remember that Crowley was
brought up among the Plymouth Brethren, and thatat this time he
nad no more knowledge of the world than most boys of 16, He
swallowed your yarns easily enough, didn't he?
Mavuirs. He did
Sconrio, KC. Now take the second part. “For the last
ieen months or two years there has been nothing that the
police could get at me for.” ‘That implies that previous to that
date there was something?
Marans. Undoubtedly.
Sconrio, K.C, Let me read you this passage from Crowley's
works Vol. I, p. 115, published in 1903 Sonnets...... To the
author
of the phrase “Lam not a gentleman, andI have no friends.”
T need not continue. But I will read the footnote of Mr. Ivor
Back, FRCS, the Editor :
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It is clear from this that Crowley bad been associated with a
‘man of bad character
; but thaton discovering him to be so, he
instantly disowned his ?
Maruers. Yes,
Scowri0,
KC. Mr. Crowley may have thought that even an
mocent association with such a person was criminal?
Maries, “He was very young and foolish
Scourio,
KC. It is this that he referred to in his remark to
Dr. Berridge?
Mavuns. May be.
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