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Contestants are required to In the missing half of the cover sations-recorded on-
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To-day's Short Story
THE CHINA HAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEIFFER T8, 1935
The Hampstead By Christopher
Murder
L
Bush
The name was not a well-knowis
He had, however, to his credit three novels, two having as theme the eternal triangle and the lother-concerned with those swall
IFE is 3 curious thing-cutar shrewdness you might have That has been said so guessed that Latley Prentisse was To-day is the second day in the many times and experienced so an author. and you would have been **song title" contest being run in many more that it is trite right
be boring. Butj -conjunction with the screening enough to -during Christmas Week of the surely its divergencies and its Warner Bros. picture. "Broadway Strange juxtapositions are note.
in themselves boring. Take from life its undoubted and verified coincidences, and where is the spirit of adventure2 coteries which are to be found in
Or again, trace to their first the Riviera. Of these novels thet Parying strip with sppropriate sources happenings that are mo last had sold well, a matter of song titles. These strips will be mentors-at least to some people gratification to its author. but published for three days more (one!
jand how trivial are the things that purely from pride of workmanship. set having already been published set them in motion. yesterday); and at the end of the Inverness lights his pipe with other four or five hundred added
imade no enormous difference. Paper spill and a man in Brighton to his own.net fifteen would have breaks -his-leg-in-consequence. Because of a bankruptcy in Corn- wall a Yarmouth fishing smack" goes down at sea. A man writes ja letter to The Times and the re-
salt is the Hampstead Murder.
-contest the five sets complete must be sent in to the China Mail offices not later than 12 roan on Monday
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·TO-MORROW'S STORY-
To-morrow's story will be Two Letters." by John
Talland.
The fast of the matter is he had
You may not recall the Hamp-drifted back into writing almost stead Murder. There is no special without knowing it and as much reason why you should. It created as anything to escape from bore no excitement whatever. A woman dom. The first two years after his!
lady if you like was found marriage had been for him affairs strangled in a drawing-room. The of rather foolish routine; Switzer noose was round her neck and the land for mid-winter, the Riviera of for the spring. in the summer been affair could have. seconds only. It sounds rather Hindhead, with golf and tennis, horrible, but after all, as murders then Deauville or some fashionable go. it was a clean and abrupt basi- English resort. Finally in the late
One
autumn was town, which meant the and the multi- room, club. theatres Take, for instance, the smelling faintly of pot-pourri: tudinous rush from morning to charmingly furnished with a de night.
lightful period piece or two; some Dorothy Pierisse fitted-in well! really excellent china; half a dozen with all this. At golf, for in- | water-colours that were friendly stance, whereas her husband was! and yet possessed of an air; a car-la poor sixteen, she could give a pet soft and seductive; chairs like single handicap man a thundering the arms of Morpheus, and, tivo good game and play off the men's superb Khorassan rugs.
ees 2 that At tennis she was Then there was the womast in one of those unspectacular women azing gown and shimmering in who seem somehow to get them
imacies: a couple of hundred (always over the net., pounds' worth of rings on her - She played a rattling good hand gers, with a face like a surprised at bridge; a bit aggressive, per- Madonna and hair like an aureele haps, but rarely a loser unless There was no blood, ne vulgarity, no cards or parmers were impossible; signs of a struggle, but everything quite different from Lutley, a can- quiet and restrained; nothing. i tious bidder if ever Ishort, but that deadly circle round one; good for what he said and
later the neck. Of course,
on perhaps a bit more, but never less- His golf, too, was that of the there was the trial and the ulti-:
there were
mate conferenz during His light-hearted who would rather Majesty's pleasure, but those things beat a man of his own standing had to be.
than worry about figures. So with From the charm of that detached his tennis; no craft or guile but house and its acre of tree-backed good lasty hitting and the score to garden, it seems a long way to look after itself. In some ways; Two Dress Circle tickets will be Porter-street, Mornington-crescent-you might have thought them an warded to the senders of the ten There was a time, a very few years ill-assorted couple; he. short and best list in the opinion of the ago, when the Crescent had an air sturdy, with quiet, brown eyes, a Competition Editor, whose deci- of grandeur, with the lift of its certain shyness and the air of an sion is final
great trees and the old dignity of intellectual: she, tall for a woman, its houses. Porter-street still re-all curves and divinity, grace and tained something of that charm distinction and yet with every even though its Georgian buildings quality that makes a man's woman, had become fats and private offices with all their polite jargon, their In one of these on a certain mocareless sporting chatter, and with ning late in May. Lutley Freisse it all that certainty of judgment was sitting. He should have been which knew when to retire and werking, but he was not. In front make a background.
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