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Human Snowbird Loops the Loop
At first give one taky well be pardoned for making, the Alpa, near St. Moritz, Switzerland. There is no what is it? It is an unusual pictare of a ski jumper limit to the daring of these sportsmen, who risk lite apparently turning a somersault on a steep slope of and Umb in a dash down a mountain.
The Room on the Fourth Floor SLOVAKIA'S CLAIM
"I see you will not let me tell the story in my own way." smiled John Chester. "I was going to show you]
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"Miss Farringham stared wildly 1,000 17th Feb, Marseilles, Harvre, London, Hambur,about her and fell down in a faint how you might have solved the Is it just that Slovakis should be
Rotterdam & Antwerp.
"They got her to bed and pro- riddle. No matter. You shall have degraded to the level of a Czech Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marcilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, mised to send a telegram to Eng- the plain sequence of things at once. colony for ruthless exploitation? ly President Liner at Hong Kong and take this opportunity to make your
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land. Early next morning she A few minutes after Mrs. Far-According to our best statisticians, trip to New York" conveniently and inexpensively. Marseilles & London
crossed the Channel, just dazed.ringham had been shown Marseilles & London.
to her the Czech "liberators" of Slovakia | And she was met at Charing Cross room her daughter had gone up to have so far squeezed out of our by friends just as mystified as her- the fifth door and she was alone, country about £2,000,000,000. self. That night she was seriously Ten minutes later her bell in the 'But not only do the Czechs treat ill. Brain fever."
room rang. The chambermaid ap-my country as a colony; they are "But the mother?" I asked.
peared, and to her dismay found also making of it a corridor to "Nothing more," said John Chos-madame lying motionless on the Russia, by which, at a favourable
*was ever heard
of the floor. She rang for the porter, and moment, Russo-Asiatic, harden of the porter, hardly less frightened Bolshevist or Cossack barbarians The division bell wes ringing, then herself, fetched the manager, may be introduced into the very and my host excused himself. "The manager called for a doctor. heart of Europe. As recently as must vote." he explained. "I shall Fortunately there was one in the December 6, Dr. Benes, speaking at London, be back in ten minutes, which will hotel. The doctor appeared and Bratislava In opposition to the re- & give you just sixty times as long as made his examination. Mrs. Far-vision of the Peace Treaties, Bald:
the ex-Prime Minister took to solve ringham was dead.”
"We cannot give up Slovakia and the riddle." Ife nodded, and hur- "Dead!" I repeated.
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mother."
|· "Dead," said John Chester, "Now territory to give us connection I tried to exercise those faculties the death of a lady in a large hotel with the Little Entente and with which the detective of fiction finds is an unpleasant event at all times, Russia."'"
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so useful. Either Mro. Farringham but in this case there was some- Self-Government Wanted had arrived at the hotel in Paris, thing so peculiarly unpleasant; that These are the grounds of our ap÷| I argued, or she had not. John the doctor, instead of notifying the peal to the public opinion of Europs Chester had stated distinctly that police, called up one of the Govern- to help us in our claim for justice she had arrived, and therefore....ment offices on the telephone, and and for complete independence of was lucky enough to find a high the Csachs. In doing so we are not My host had returned. "A prettylofficial still at his post.
only fighting for our existence; wa problem?" said he. "Confens your-| "What followed you may think are also serving the Interests of self completely at sen."
extraordinary, and extraordinary It European culture and civilisation. "Completely," said 1.
certainly must have been. In less The Czechs were able to get on "Come along to the terrace, than an hour's time there had ar-1without us for fally ten centuries, then," and we walked out and stond❘rived at the hotel a small army of but we, under Czech rule, have been looking over the Thames. It was men. Some seamed to be visitors, brought to almost total ruin in the not a warni night, and we were other workmen. If you had watch-short space of 15 years.
ed them at all, you might have¦¦ After all our misfortunes
coatless.
We
"I have often wondered," he come to the conclusion that a large Slovaks want to lead a free national) began at last, "why Mrs. Farring-quantity of furniture was being re-life. Yet we do not desire any fur ham had that sudden desire to buy moved. As a matter of fact it was ther partition of Central Europe,
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I hurriedly sought for a clue in have been soon being carried down-economic recovery, the carpets, but found none. jstairs and placed in a furniture For this reason we do not aşk "Perhaps," he continued, "It was van, which drove rapidly away. If for a fully· ́independent Slovak an excuse. Perhaps she shared in you had waited about the fourth State. All we ask is to become a common with most of her sex the floor, you might further have seen self-governing territory in federa-
self-deception. It is just possible,room which Mrs. Farringham "had Our geographical situation clear- that is to say, that Mrs. Farring occupied, and you might have been ly Indicates this course. We want kam gave
up the proposed trip puzzled at a peculiar odour until to be united again with: Hungary, through Asia Minor because she the manager, whom you would have to which we belonged for a fullA Begular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan was not in her usual health."
met casually on the stairs, inform-thousand ́ years,''and' whose first and Hong Kong to Australia.
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He was silent for so long that led you that a clumsy servant had king, St. Stephen, gave on his drew his attention to the low tem-upset a case of drugs destined for death-bed the following counsel to
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which may or may not have escaped have seen three or four gentlemen fer to live in Hungary" rather your notice. In France they have talking earnestly to a chambermaid" than outside it.”
a peculiar way of doing things. A and a porter, and, at a later hour, For a thousand years the Slovaks logical way, I admit, but some to a cabman who happened to have fought side by side with the Hun- times peculiar. Consequently things taken up his stand outside the garian nation against the Tartare happen in France, and particularly hotel. The porter and the cham and the Turks. We want once in Paris, which could not possibly bermaid Incidentally received large more to unite our forces with happen anywhere else. The Far-sums of money," and the cabman, Hungary so that we may, if need ringham affair is a case in point, similarly enriched, was bidden to be, devote our lives to the defence I will tell you exactly what happen- await instructions. Also several of Western civilisation and culture ed, and then you shall come inside lessons in the art of acting had against"? the "dangers :: that” may to hear the debate.
My been given.“
threaten them from the Eastri "Well, then, here, as I said be--"I am more bewildered than
That was the only vital point." fore, you have the fact of two ever." ladies arriving one evening in a “And yet," said John Chester, But even then...” Paris hotal There is no question "two words whispered over
“Do you suppose," asked John about that: they both arrived, and phone had been suffi to cause Chester, that anybody would have Mrx, Farringham was given, a room all these g
to take visited Pariz if a case of bubonic
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