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M. Joas Chlappe 2); Diamiral by Premier Daladier of M. Jean Chiappe, as prefect of police in Paris, stirred up the reyalists of the French capital and provincial troops were mar shalled to curb the uprising. The deposed police chief was chored wildly
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IE CHINA MAIL
THE MAN WHO KNEW
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take this book we've just been talk- Ing about The Chestnut Lady." George has put a lot of his own into it goes without saying. But the such as I have you'll know that plot isn't his, not the plot. That's nothing in a book can be more sur-where he's so clever. He can do prising than the things that happen everything else, but he can't invent fa real life. I know from my own plots; so he does the next best Experience. Take myself: if you'd thing and looks for 'em where ha seen me ten years ago you wouldn't knows he'll find 'em.", have known me; I changed myself "And where," asked Miss Morri completely in an hour and by a sheer son, with a constraint which was effort of will. And I've lived long lost upon the satisfied apocalyptic, enough to be certain of this: any-The Chestnut Lady was unearth- do you suggest that the plot of body may do any surprising thing at any moment. No. George
ed?"
"And what is the name of this mysterious story!"
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known what he's about: he's don't suggest," said Mr. realist, that's what he is. You don't Roberts. "I know. I have proof. know Nature when you see it be It comes from one of the small
stories by Dickens that are always) cause you're not used to it."
his Collected "Perhaps you're right," she sigh- omitted from
Editions" Ted: "I certainly hope you are, for poor Mr. Wilbram's sake. And I suppose you think that he writes
"I forget it at the moment. I've good .prose?"
got it on the tip of my tongun. » No, "There's nobody living who writes I've forgotten it. But you can take better," he replied with easy au- it from me that what I say is all thority. "I think I know prose right-right as rain!" when I see it."
"And suppose I said that you. "But do you think he ever gets could take it from me that George the absolutely right word or image, Wilbram has never so much as read a single one of Dickens's short as the really good writers do?"
The train rushed into a tunnel stories, obscure or otherwise?"
"What! Old George not read with a scream, and amid the roar
And now the Dollar. Steamship Lines announce their Hong Kong, to and the rattle Verena tried to collect Dickens's short stories! Why, New York, all water canle trip, at lower-than-aver costa, * To-the East a visit to HavANS Did you know that Austra-her thoughts. What would this man George has read everything, every-Coast of America, via the Panama Canal and with
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had not worked; she could see the a benevolent school-master towards rip to New York conveniently and inexpensively. The new Apostolic Delegate law of his pipe bowl in the dark, a refractory child. But she thought Rotterdam, Antwerp &} (Archbishop Bernardini, to Aus-brightening and fading; she guess-jshe'd stick it out until she had]
tralia, at any rate, thinks s0,' ed that he was preparing a finally wrung the sponge of his revelations
"You haven't answered my ques- stated in an interview in Sydney salutary piece of enlightenment for dry. "speak English better than the her as he puffed.
When they shot into daylight tion," she repeated. "I asked you English. You speak with your again his protruding eyes were what you would say if I told you- He was swore to you, if you like that Mr. gleaming straight at her. ready with his summary. He weg- Wilbram had never read any of ged a slow, confidential forefinger at those stories. You're making very her, and began:
serious charges of plagiarism, you: "You can take it from me that know. I rather think they're libel- Georgie Wilbram's English his Icus. Please answer me!" friends call him Georgie-is-A4 With an ineffable - twinkle Mr. Roberts answered. her: Right. I studied style in the old Cyril days, and I know what I'm talking "What! Old George complain of about. But I'll let you into one Bt-libels? The quieter he can keep
le secret about Georgie."
ahmut it the better he'll be pleased." "Secret?" she exclaimed, with a touch of astonishment. "What on earth is it?"
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LOVERS DIE IN COFFIN.
Japanese Couple's Suicide Pact.
Yokohama. Two young Japanese lov ers,'unable to marry," lay down side by side in a cofin and ended their lives in Yo- kohama.
"But will you please,” she Insist- ed, with her fingers clutching and unclutching, "wwwer my question?” "Oh, I don't mean what you "Why, yes, my dear young lady,” mean. I shouldn't be surprised if he responded.paternally.. I should Goorgle had a few little secrets of say, to use a phrase that you'll and that sort, like the next man. I've useful later on, that you cannot heard a thing or two, as a matter of prove a négative!" >' fact, and one of the stories"--he “In that case,” said Verena-loud- Mr. So. Uryu, aged 37,
Was chuckled reminiscently-"was pretty | ly; and^\very"clearly, "you" are à employed in a department store. funny. Georgio's been a bit of a libeller, and a liar, and I shall be His lover was Miss Mitsuko Nit-dog in his day; but that's all over obliged if you would keep your fur- |ta, a pretty mannequin aged 22. They were found by neighbours at least, that's what all his ther conversation to yourself.”
friends think, though one can never, Utterly amazed, he gaped at her, Jin a friend's house.
be sure with a sly chap like that. looking for a moment like a deflated A hole had been bored in the one of those quiet. ones. Still frog. Then a red, angry flood wall- side of the coffin and through it waters run deep. But it's never ed into his cheeks and he looked as B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for gas tube had been introduced. been a habit of mine to gossip about though he were going to speak. 1st and 2nd class passengers.
Each had first swallowed a sleep-people. Live and let Hive is what I Then he collected himself, grabbed ing draught, crawled into the
say, and I'd certainly, never repeat his book, picked up his hat and Each held a fan. On a table anything, unless I'd got all the evid- crammed it on his head, and bowed [lay a drawn sword.--Reuter,
ence there was about it. No, it was over the familiar pages of Mr. about Georgie's books I was think- Wilbram. After the first minute a ing. That's where the little secret sulky pseudo-strength came into the is. He doesn't know that anybody's lower portions of his jaw.",
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found it out yet. He thinks it's Her rage gradually subsided.
safe. But it'll be a fine jest when Amusement resumed its place. She 1 let it out and George is taken on began to consider the great boast the hop."
book ful-baby as a curious monster. - She (Continued from Page 8)
"Whatever do you mean? Miss came nekr, Hiking bim even... For Morrison at this stage, wore a one weak moment she dalled with But two military Governors of frown of genuine bewilderment, the idea of asking, forgiveness for to-day arrest attention by their "You don't suggest, do you, that he her outburst, and then Frequent connections from Australia with the following:- The Valon 8.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom vis New happy combination of soldierly ef doesn't write his own books? Iplaining that she herself, was hot of Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
Aciency with the genius of in- know it's said about all sorts of George Wilbram dividualism;
people, but surely you don't suggest The Chestnut
But, after Sir David Campbell in Malts in ait of Mr. Wilbram1 Doh ALL WE
what would the es?Thia Lancer who was the only officer to “No, no, no, nothing lika se bad one whe past curing, past any Į be wounded in the Great War by a as that! Georgie writes his owning of lessons. Jance. He was wounded also in books right enough. No, It's Just For the rest of the journey not South-Africa, where he won ninethis" he leant forward, goggling word was spoken. At Malchaster clasps. He is small and dark and and whispering hoarsely, as though he hustled past her, scrambled out slender, with a little black mount- host of eaves-droppers were con of the door and began shouting for ache, In his youth be was a keen cealed underneath the seats-a porter without so much as looking
at her, amateur steeplechase rider, riding "George pinches all his plots!”,
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"Pinches his
really read the short stories of Charles the Grand National.
General Bir Arthur Wauchope, mean to say that Mr Wilbram ac-Dickens, and found much entertain- High Commissioner of Palestine, tually steals his plo from other ment in them, comes of an old Highland military didn't say steals. That's family. He too was wounded in
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