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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1934–
Professor Boynton Re-Reads
History
(Continued from Page 0)
i
seeing it beforehand," the ex-judge suggested casually,
He had been gone an hour or two and it was nearly dinner-time be And then at once the stillness fore the force of his suggestion was broken. Mrs. Parker rushed struck home to Boynton's mind. round the end of the hedge. She Ho commented on It indignantly to threw herself on the thing on the his wife and daughter while they ground, howling and walling, pull-ate.
ing at it, grotesque, unhuman. By the next morning, though, hiạ Mrs. Boynton had run out too, and attention had been diverted to Helen and her friends, and two men newer: reasons for indignation, from the street, and Boynton knew Mrs. Parker was still too ill to that ho must have cried out, though leave her bed, and the inquest was he had not meant to do so,
being postponed for her, but her The two men dragged Mrs. pre-Inquest statements, as they Parker up and bent over the body. seeped out by way of hospital at- They babbled together of a doctor, tendants and doctors, were volumin- though all of them knew in advance oue. She had heard the damning that the thing on the ground was words, she had seen the brick pick- dead. Nothing living could havejed up, the blow struck. She had that look. In the press and breathed out fire and threatenings sudden confusion Mrs. Boynton was between relapses into post-alcoholic the only one who had a definite in-grief. tention. She caught hold of Boyn- The news of her accusations was ton's sleeve.
all over West Brookins. From They'll early breakfast-time the Boynton look out for things. You have to telephone rang continually as pre-
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to messages satirical or
Even humorous.
families
"Come Into the house.
get to get this off you."
1
in
This handsome actor and vocalist of stage, screen and radio fame is now appearing at the Alhambra Theatre in "Twenty Million Sweet
the hilarious This is comedy that gives us an insight of the stars of radio fame.
She would have accompanied him into the bathroom, but he stopped Brookins, the town to which West
hearts." Brookins was a remote and superior) her at the door. "I have to haveį
nearer ones.
a minute to pull myself. together. suburb, had heard and added their I'll be down directly. What on messages to the earth was it that happened to him?" Boynton, going out to the box to Inside, he turned on all the taps, mail a letter in the middle of the It seemed to him he could never morning, found Mrs. Boynton walt- get water enough on his hands, ing in the study for him when he When his hands were clean he pull-came back.
"I don't know whether you'll like ed off his cuffs and let them drop it, Edward; I've just had a 'phone on the floor, and scrubbed his fiu- gers again after touching them. from Charlie,"
"If I don't like it, I suppose. you He could not bear to put the be foulled things into the laundry won't have had it. What does Charlie have to say? Offer to de- hamper, but with his foot he push-
fend me?" ed them out of sight, behind the
"Something like that. He said]. tub.
he was coming down as soon as hej By the time he came downstairs, could get out of court, and—and to the knot of people in the lane had keep you from talking." disappeared. Mrs. Boynton was
"To keep me from it?”
sitting on the porch, and Halep, That's what it sounded like. with scared, reddened eyes, was The 'phone wasn't working very leaning against her knees. Boynton well."
had recovered enough to be paternal "That's probably what it was," and soothing. He sat on the steps Boynton agreed. It has the ring of for a few minutes, talking over the Charlie's advice. Well, run along grotesque tragedy. .
dear, and I'll get back to writing. "Poor old soul, I wish I hadn't Inwardly, though, he was pleased. harried him about that coat. He Charlle was his younger brother was always honest enough when he and in a mild way the black sheep was sober. They've taken him to of the family. That is, he had the morgue, I suppose? Well, we'd given: up" "an irreproachable · law
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Inside his study his mind refused to apply itself to work. In spite of him, it fashed back again and again) · Charlie arrived just before din- to that minute in the lane. He got ner, a smaller man than his brother up and walked up and down the hawk-nosed, black-haired. Through} room puzzling. "What happened to the meal they kept chiefly to family him. What on earth happened to topics. Even in the study afterward him?" Toward the middle of the the newcomer fended off discussion afternoon, when he heard a mas-juntil Mre Boynton, leaning for {culine voice answering Mrs. Boyn-ward in her chair, taxed him
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BRIDGE NOTES
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4-North, a stolid player of the non-psychic variety, assumes that his partner, must hold least four spades.
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6-Mr. Barnes should have stuck by his guns since, even with only three trumps, considering the general strength of his hand and the vigour of his partner's bid- ding, he must have an excellent play for the contract. He at- tempts the impossible in trying to correct a previous error. 6-North, in his fanocence, is de-
lighted with the turn the bid- ding has taken. Not unnatu-.. rally interpreting his partner's five-diamond bid'as a Slam try, he cuc-bids in hearts. 7-For no particular reason East:
re-enters the bidding. 8-Mr. Barnes, with the uneasy
feeling that the bidding is rap- idly getting out of control, is only two glad that East's Double! relieves him of the responsibi=| lity of keeping open North's cue- bid."
9-North, with his excellent fit in bis partner's spade sult (7) and also in the auxiliary dia- mond suit, feels sure that there must be an excellent play for a Slam. whatever may be said about Mr. Barnes' bidding, it must be admitt took full advantage of a remarkably ed that in the play of the hand he
fortuitous lay of cards.
The Opening lead of the heart
to stroll out from his seclusion. "Is it Helen and I that are the Queen was won by Dummy's Ace Their next-door neighbour, Judge difficulty, Charlie?
Would you Bolling-a judge long since retired rather talk to Edward by himself 7” |
and three rounds of spade splayed.
Mr.
|—was "filling one of the porch He gave her his first unqualified] Discovering much to his disgust
that trumps did not break, chairs. Boynton greeted him smile. "Could I? It's a sort of, a briety.
professional prejudice of mine.Barnes now laid down the King of diamonds and followed with three "Oh, yes, I'm working. but I You don't mind?” ·
more rounds of diamonds, to which: 80th Jan. heard you out here, and I was won
He got up to open the door for dering Cara, I suppose somebody's her and came back from it to the West was forced to follow while: Dummy':discarded the two losing looking out for Mrs. Parker? She fireplace. · |wouldn't have ́many friends to fall
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"They took her to the hospital.” "That's good. If you think one
"Well," what do you think, Sher- lock?" Boynton challenged him,
"I think you're in a hole." "Now that," Boynton commented;
hearts.
"A low club was now led from the: closed hand and West, having no more-hearts or diamonds to lead,
of us ought to go over”, "la what criminal practice does for saw no point in splitting his hon
"I don't. Mis. Boynton flushed the mind. I might be in a hole pura. As a matter of fact it made crimson as she spoke. "I've heard were a tramp picked up on Pacific no difference. The nine of clubs from her. Edward, she she's Street-I admit that; but here in was finessed in Dummy and when
this hold the trick Mr. Barnes non-{ Wast Brookdi”. "Hight as well say it, Cara," the "It's exactly that here in Westhalantly took out the last spade judge advised. He turned round, Brookins that worries me. Did and threw West into the lead, with laughing.
you really tell the fellow you'd club Knave, forcing him to "You ought to know, Boynton/jkill:him?”
upload back into Dummy's club tenace.]|| you're hovering on the edge of the Boynton got up, too. "Look here, Mr. Barnes, without lifting his gallows. I was telling Cars just I'm not on the witness stand. eyes, busled himself with the score before
you came out. Mre, you've come down with any idea of while the other tree players merely Parker"
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