THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 29, 1935
BUSINESS
(Continued from Page: 9)
IS BUSINESS
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*Spondon-street.
the opposite plot to a brewery that wants to put up a new pub.”
Yes, Spondon-street.
• The weak, blue eyes opposite be- Bostock's sense of irony was he want for it? came more animated. "You're in-expressed in a load outburst of fat terested in old master 2
laughter. Seeing that his friend Mr. Bostock smiled deprecating-did not share to the full his sense {ly, and made a gesture with his of humour he challenged him:
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"Well, I bet you've nothing to reproach yourself with.”
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“Two hundred. He thinks it's a very good imitation of about the same period, He doesn't know who I am, of course. I don't sup- pose you've ever read my bookt, on "Chippendale and his Times,' have you, Mr. Bostock?"
"You see, it's the wissng he apologised. "Can't say I care for
Mr. Pettigrew stroked his chin "I don't know. It's art myself, mless it's a zice bit of doubtfully.
“No, can't just say I have.” re- scenery. Cornwall and that, but rather a fine point of ethics Na-plied Mr. Bostock we've just built ourselves a new turally I try to buy my antiques "Well this-old fellow had a copy house and she wants a few things as cheaply 19 possible. Some-ton his shelves. Rather ironical.”: to show people. Not that I'm a times, because of my expert know- There's no doubt about the janob myself” he added in self. ledge. I feel it is not altogether table being the real thing?" asked
defence
Fair......
Mr. Bostock anxiously..
"Oh, no,” replied Mr. Pettigrew. "Of course it is," Mr. Bostock"It only took the scholar. "But unless there was reassured him generously.
me a couple of "If minutes to realise that. Ive only appreciation--Intelligent apprecia-
you didn't kid them some of your told you this as an example of how tion, I mean of really good works competitors would, and mighty my conscience sometimes gives me of art, the dealers in antiques—-—”
swinge. If the old fellow really || Mr. Bostock exploded.
Mr. Petigrew replied gently, "I knew that he'd got..........” "A lot of thieves," he generalisnot sure that kid is quite what The train was slowly entering a ed.
station. Mr. Bostock rot up and The other leant back and smiled Mr. Bostock waved niceties of reached for his hat. "This is gently, as one might at a child that expression aside. "Business, as I where I live, he explained. He İdid not understand.
said before. is business. You gripped firmly Mr. Pettigrew's "Isn't that a trifle sweepingTM"can't get away from it” A fat rather flabby hand, hurting it |he suggested.
hand mowed down contradiction, with a final wave he called out: "Swindlers," robustly declared but Mr. Pettigrew shook his head "Don't let it worry you. Business Mr. Bostock, rejecting compromise doubtfully. "I sometimes wonder is business." With which parting
The man opposite slowly felt in Take a case to-day.
I live at aphorism he, disappeared into the his pocket, drew out a card and Swindon There's an old furai- night. handed it to his companion. tare shop in Spondon-street. Mai Next day Mr. Bostock, his mid- Mr. Bostock read out aloud. denhead. I was going to call this day dinner over. pushed back his Marseilles Havre, London, Hamburg.Mr. Lionel Pettigrew and then afternoon, but, thanks to my being plate and turned to look at the new
a startled voice exclaimed: gelayed by this fog, the old fellow table which, with label still attach Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, "You're in the business yourself?" will be closed now. He's got a jed, stood near by. His wife look- Mr. Pettigrew smiled modestly table I was going to buy. I'll have fed admiringly first at the table and ás be placed the tips of his fingers to leave it till to-morrow."** Bombas. Marseilles & London, Marseilles. Havre, London, Ham- together.
"Artique, is it?" suggested Mr. burg, Antwerp, Ectterdam, & "Well, hardly the busineST. It Bostock.
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then at him.
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"It's certainly a bargain, Harry, You must have been very cleve=.*
Harry put his head hack - andį took a long pull at his cigar, savouring his wife's tribute.
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"Business instinct, my dear. We business men can't get away from it. You either have it or you haven't. If other men fools, well...."
are
His shrug dismissed all respon- sability.
"Two hundred pounds, did you say?" his wife asked:
Mr. Bostock chuckled.
That's
what he asked. Said it was a
Mr. Bostock saw the enthusiasm. light up in the rather watery blue eyes of the frail-looking adven- turer. Contempt and pity battled in his voluminous breast. He be gan to regret his precipitate and SAILINGS perhaps rather cruel estimate of Catholic, both inspired by dis very fine piece of furniture even
dealers in antiques.
cipline. hierarchy, authority it was an imitation. I offered “Look bere, Mr. Pettigrew. (But has he not forgotten medie him a hundred and fifty take-it-or- When I said all of you folk were val Florence and Venice?)
leave-it. He took it, all right.” swindlers. I didn't mean
The Fascist State is social Mr. Bostock. gave hearty Mr. Pettigrew smiled benignly rather than political
It recog langh. and held
in á aynises and incorporates syndical- up a hand
Later in the afternoon a schubar which both arrested the sentence ism, capitalism, employers and ly figure entered a small furniture and conferred a blessing.
employed, producers and con- shop in Spondon-street, Maiden- “Not another word. Mr..
Only there must be no head. He was greeted by the old idlers and no class entities man who owned the shop.
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Harry "Each of us," said Bacco, Musso- "The table went this morning. Bostock."
lini's Minister of Justice, "be Mr. Pettigrew. A business, MAL, * Mr Bostock. I know longs at the same time to several a builder, I think he said be was. įwhat you meant It is indubitably classes." This is the truth which He was waiting qutside whez I true that there are some black puts Marxism quite out of date. opened the shop this morning. He sheep in every business. I must Fascism is indeed far more mo heat me down to a hundred and even confess to a few twinges of dern than any other form of afty, though." conscience myself sometimes.” government; it has no dogmas. "We mustn't grumble," said Mr. Mr. Pettigrew laughed a little no shibboleths; it is willing to Pettigrew, wiping the lenses of his nervously. Mr. Bostock looked at try any experiment.
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joined more robustly in the laugh-}dream of reviving the Roman Em-rubbed his hands.· ́ "And it's the
When a man applied for his tex. Jovially he slapped the pire, with Rome as its capital third table this week. I hope you other's knee, which flinched at the This dream has given an unhap did what I told you about the in-discharge from bankruptcy at sudden contact
pily militaristic colour to Fas- voice?"
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"If you don't do
"You may be Official. Receiver's report stating of oat fifty pounds. ·
A declaration against heavier other fellow he'll do you first" birth control, now legislates sure of that," he replied, grinning, that his father, grandfather, and And Mr. Bostock plunged into a against it, and offers bribes to wrote clearly on the ball Imita-brother had been through the penalties for road offences by
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The man was Frederick Ernest Chief Constable of Eastbourne, business acumen
powder, though in reality it is “Yes,” replied Mr. Pettigrew, Standen, described as an estate de Mr. W. H. Smith, in his presi- "Punny thing, only yesterday. much" over-populated. He may pocketing the fifty pounds, "es-veloper of Hornchurch, Esser dential address at the Chief Signed a contract to sell a new end by bringing Italy into a rnin-pecially when business is business.” The judge, Mr. Alfred Hildesley, Constables conference at East- house to a retired school-tescherous war.
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heavier penalties." he said
My view is that they ought not to be heavier than the general public consider fair in all the circumstances."
Uniformity Wanted
An effort should be made to achieve uniformity in regard to the speed limit throughout the country, he said. New provi- sions of the law would lose a good deal of effect if some authorities were comparatively. lar in their enforcement.
Mathieson, Assistant Secret of the Boads Depart ment of the Ministry of Trans- port, dealing with traffic pro blems, said that while there were 10,000 pedestrian TOSS- ing in the London area there were fewer than 5,000 in the rest of the
Contrary to the popular view, cyclists did endanger others A recent investigation T London of accide
as at a
at a junction control- led by police, showed that near- 40 cent were caused by