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ELSA'S PIANO
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with my unsuspecting sister-in-law, "Wasn't that rather incautious? at the bottom of the sea.
I have done? Asking her to your home?" I ven- "What should tured to interrupt him.
Easy to
of Bay afterwards. "Incautious! It was the most course, I should quite simply have I had idiotic thing I ever did. But not introduced the ladies. what you think. I beg to point out nothing with which to reproach to you"-here he gave me a stern myself. But instead, I thought: the 10th Aug,
and virtuous look over his eye-'combination of a charming woman' Wednesday, 15th Aug. at 10 am.glasses-"thut I am happily married and wine in the morning what will [Ruth think? To any nothing of Wednesday, 5th Sept, at 10 a.m. and the father of fwo children."
"I never meant to imply "Elsa! hastened to assure him.
"I turned my back to the danger. the "No, because I want you to rea-I quickly pushed Annie into lise one thing; neither Annie nor bedroom. She raised her eyebrows I had any notion of re-animating and blushed a little as I begged what had been. Annie's no fool, her to be quite still there for a few and she knows that melancholy is minutes. I had just turned the key as water on the flames. And you in the lock of the bedroom door and can't get away from the melancholy put it in my pocket when Ruth Iceling when you meet again as we entered.
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did years afterwards. We separat Nice that Elsa's coming home ed as friends once, Annie and to-day, she said. 'I just dropped without reproaches and without in to water the plants first.'
"Rather late in the day,' I re-
friction.
Sho
"Well! We went up to the flat. marked acidly.. I lived in a house down in town. "'Certainly not,' she said. then, on the first floor, 1 short had watered the plants only two fight up. I had no view to parade, days before. Then why again? but there were green trees outside oh, feminine officiousness, Ruth filled the watering-pot in the kit- my window. coffee and served it on a tray by chen, and began to potter. about the window. Every time there was
over fussing
the plants, Of a gust of wind, the leaves rustled
the wine- course, she noticed
Annic made
the
Te
against the open French panes, and glasses. I explained them by say-' the odour of plants filled the rooming that a colleague of mine had There we sat, just the two of us, been up to visit me. I thought the sipping coffee and smoking.
watering was done, and was just! didn't say very much. I remember drawing a sigh of relief, when sitting silent for long times on end,
Ruth exclaimed: ns I enjoyed watching Annie's thoroughbred fingers as they mani- pulated her cigarette.
"When I took her back to her? hotel at ten, I asked her to come back next day and have coffee with mo again. She'd more than pleased,
"Oh, of course! I almost forgot the cactus in the bedroom.'
"'A desert plant doesn't need any But water, objected nervously. Ruth was conscientious.
" forbid you to enter the bed- She had already
Once called the most beautiful model in the world, Betty Higgin- botham, now in England, is the centre of a unique divorce action. in New York. Two men are seek- ing freedom from Betty. One, for Edward Glantz la ouing divorce; the other, Richard H. Holland, of Paris, seeks annul. ment. Betty is now reported to be engaged to a titled Britisher.
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she said. So she came that day, room, I cried. and the next, and all the rest that discovered that the door was lock-
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she was in town. We passed each idered. evening the same way, drinking coffee, smoking a good deal and saying very little.
toma. Mr. White..
"I have it, and I won't let you No report of the Federal com in, understand?' I replied firmly, mittee which reads books for censorship will be available to "It was one of the first days of but with despair in my heart.
"Then came Ruth's voice: 'Philip the public, says Mr. White, and August that I bad met Annie in the park on the seventeenth she was there's somebody moving in there in very few cases have their de
-I saw it.' (The upper part of cisions been made public as to, 23rd Aug. leaving for Oslo. 24th Sept.
seventeenth, too, Elsa and the chil- the door was of ground glass). the banning of books referred to dren were due at home. I expected 'Oh, now I see it all-poor, poor them by the Customs Depart
I might have ment. them by the afternoon train from Elsa. The wine.
guessed it at once. What a home-
And on the
lessons for the day. It Way
4th Aug. Saturday. 4th Sept.
"At half-past eleven in the morn- ing, my front doorbell rang. It was Annic, come to say boodbye. I had) been expecting her farewell visit, and had therefore bought a bottle" of Moselle and cooled it. I knew viciously behind her. 5th Aug. Annie valued a glass of Moselle, and
"A secret censorship in a de-
the south, and had cancelled my coming! How could you, Philip?mocratic country seems unthink **My dear Ruth, I began. able!" said a well-known writer. "If Dr. Goebbels had made 'Don't try to defend yourself, beast! And don't you dare go such a rule, it would have been understandable. But why does down to meet the train-if you do, Mr. White set up a virtual Nazi I'll expose you publicly at the station. The front door slammed control of literature here? The film censorship can at least be made public, even if the censor is "grilled" in the procesa.” ·
"Outrageous!" was another comment. "We may yet find suppression of Australian books for reasons of political policy. "The action is the more
“A few minutes later, Annie 5th Sept. the day was worm. We sat by the left. 1 imagined there was a hint jopen window, as we had been doing of scorn in her eyes as she nodded 81st July in the evenings, and emptied our goodbye,
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In the fraction of a second, I had time to wish those plants, together
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