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THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1935 -
Arriving in New York enroute to her old home in Havan for a visit, the Countess Coradonga, wife of the former heir to the Spanish throne, denied the reports at she contemplated divorce was Bonořite proceedings. She Edelmira Sampedro, Cuban bells, For whom the Spanish prince re- nounced his royal rights.
ELEPHANT CAUGHT
BY PYTHON
Rescued When Reptile Is Killed
The Problem Picture
(Continued from Page 9)
"Helas, I do!"
The fish was rising to the
| very rapidly. *.
Gustave expanded magnificently. "It is not the end of everything, mon ami. I, Gustave Debrenne, will halt pay your rent and help you to finish
your picturo."
and
"So this morning I thought thought. But perhaps you will be offended?".
"An artist has never been offend-
For a moment a fierce hope shone in the young man's eyes. Then he waved his hand in a helpless gesture. "If it is your picture-postcard
ed, my friend"-Gustavo's ' voice idea, I still think the game about took on an Old Testament sonority it." -"when, a patron comes to his aid,
"But it is not, Listen, Jan, you
a patron, that is, who is himself an would not paint me the picture of artist. It is only the money of the windmills, and bathing girls, and canaille that disguste." -
dancers, because they were bad art. But now I have a new order.”
Rapidly he outlined the predica- ment in which he was placed. ́Jan, who felt a little sick after the re-
"That's swell. Because I've de. cided to help you to realise your dreams. And.. and I've rented a studio for you.”
For a moment Gustave sat incital, shrugged his shoulders. stupefied silence.
Then he said, faintly: "You have... what?"
"Alors, where do I come in?" “You, my friend, will paint for me that picture! You will paint a pic-| "I've rented a studio. And bought ture of the eternal woman, the you painta... and canvas, and woman of mystic beauty, the woman brushes.. I want to stay la Paris that is all women 1''
"All right, save your talk for the and see you paint the picture you have always dreamed about. Oh, 1 Americain I cannot do it. guess my folks would think I'm blasphemous." crazy-but I'm just built that way.
*
*
די
It is
"Blasphemous I" Gustave burst It's like this, all my life I've tried to learn a bit about art. And I've into a sudden fit of anger-"you, s succeeded in a small way-I don't half-starved gamin, talk to me like know so much about it as you, of that? Where will you est? course. But now I have the chance will pay your rent?
Who
You are
to help a real artist, and I'm just thief-living on other people! Bet- tickled to death with the idea. Aw, ter to be blasphemous than a thief! don't look so surprised. My old This is your last chance. Will you man's got more money than I'll ever do this or starve?"
The artist was silent. spend for him,” "A studio.
And for a long time he remained deep in thought, seated, on the brushes
Gustave spoke in the voice of a broken chair at the window. Two round its trunk and foreleg so man who wonders when a particu-floors below the apostle gravely per- formed a step-dance of the purest] tightly that the animal could not larly bad nightmare will end.
An elephant has been taken cap- tive by a snake near Calcutta.
The clephant was asleep beneath
a tree. The, snake colled Itself
move.
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"Yes, that's it. Would you like joy. He stopped as a knock came to see the place? I know It will at the door and Jan's face appeared
Like a man in a dream Gustave sult you. Let's get going."
"Ah, yes, Jan?" "The terms?" followed Casey out of the cafe and down. the boulevarde toward the "We will not quarrel, mon vieux.”
"I know that. A thousand magnificent block of apartments where the studio had been rented. francs."
"What!"-the patriarchal beard And as the young American chat- tered in the excitement of his bristled in fury, "a thousand francs crusade for genius, Gustave grap for a picture! It is robbery. Are pled with the biggest problem that you mad?" had ever threatened his occupation with disaster. A
For he had never painted a pic- ture in his life.
*
F
Exactly three hours later Gus-
"Nojust sensible. A thousand france or no picture! That's flat."
"But you will rob mel Still, I suppose-ab-well, you shall have it."
"To-morrow."
"Mon Dieu, do you think I have tave Debreme dragged himself up a thousand francs in every pocket! the stairs toward his apartment. It is impossible!".
He was tired. His hair drooped "To-morrow at noon. Or no pic lankly on the dusty velvet jacket. ture.".
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at their risk into the hazardous and/or
7th Feb. extra hazardous Godowns of The Hong with an enthusiastic young man who ing the tumbled bed, "is the artis 7th Mar. Kong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown wished to see him begin painting at tic soul. Still, the Americain.
Co., Ltd., whence and/or from the moment's notice had exhausted A week passed and the afternoon wharves "delivery may be obtained.
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No claims will be admitted after the him, body and soul. Goods have left the Godowns, and all He entered his room and stared clear glass windows of the atelier 31st Jan, Goods remaining undelivered after the sadly at its familiar squalor, Man where Gustave Debrenne had been
16th January, 1996 will be subject to die, what was he to do? The mad installed.
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On before a "draped canvas. before the 30th, January 1985 or they into the new studio. He had a will not be recognized.
vision of himself, trapped in a mag-cushion, three or four yards away, To comply with the General Bonded nificent atelier, paintbrush in his John Wilbur Casey sat expectantly. Warehouse Regulations consigness must have a Revenue Officer in attendance hand, while the Americain, squatted when damaged dutiable goods are on a cushion, watched with eager My friend," declaimed. Gustave examined.
jeyes for the first stroke that would with the voice of a maitre address All broken, chafed, and damaged signalise the birth of the chiefing Academie Francaise, "you have Goods are to be left in the Gadow d'oeuvre. Gustave broke into a cold wondered, no doubt, why I have where they will be examined on the 15th January, 1985 at 10a.m., by sweat.
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"You have picked a fine time, Gus that it expresses my dream-But tave. To-morrow I go. The pro- what will you, my friend, think of
it? prietor is adamant I must pay up Well, let's have a look," breathed for clear out but where? And my picture is not finished, I tell the heir to the Casey millions.
"Assuredly." you Gustave, it is the end of every"] thing."
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