THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1938
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that I just had to go and buy something. He never offered me a sweet in all the five years we were at school together; but he always had his pockets bulging. And then there were those im positions that I was always get- ting for lateness and antidiness. I could never endure to stay in- doors when the sun was' shining and everyone else was out enjoy- ing themselves.
But it was no penance to Bam- stead. He loathed exercise. EL spent his half-holidays sitting in- doors doing lines for other people. at a price. So far as I know he never got any lines himself. As was far too cunning. But he made a packet out of writing other people's lines. He never seemed anions to be paid.
For one thing he liked having | people in his power, and another the rate of interest for deferred payments was so high that the longer the bill remained unpaid the better pleased he was. So far as I know he never had a bad debt. After all, it wouldn't do to let masters know that you'd had you lines done for you, would 147
I'm afraid my borrowing didn't stop at school. He was still lend- ing me money when we went up. to Oxford. And he imposed, other conditions there- Hà wouldn't lend me money until I had intro- duced him to Jimmy Philmorton, the only close friend I've ever had in my life His aim was clear; enough. He meant by book or by, crook to take him from me.
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Jimmy saw through people. He wasn't having any of Banstead. and he told him so pretty straight. Not that Benstead was easily put of. He was for ever dropping-inte out diys--I shared with Jimmy— on the excuse, of seeing me." But when Banstead, appeared- Jimmy would just get up and walk out.
And then one evening in Jane at the end of our second year Jimmy went out. without a word. and his body was recovered twenty-four hours later from the upper river.
They did not find a scrap of evidence that pointed to anything but accident, so Accident it was I kept to myself the crumpled-ur better that I found in the waste paper basket.
Why? Because I loved Jimra and in the hours following th discovery of the body had ber born a desire to kill with my ow! hands the writer of that mote You see, I suspected Banstead From the moment when he count in, with a malicious gleam behind his eyes, to ask if there was any- thing he could do, I suspected him. But I wanted to try, and make certain before I did anything Jimmy pretty well lived for his mother (he fussed round her as though she were a pretty cousin, when she came up for Eights Weeks), and that note was the foulest product of an anonymous letter writer's mind I had ever seen. It said things about Jimmy's: mother in a manner that had evi- dently unbalanced his too sensitive mind. Knowing Jimmy, I had, no doubt whatever that that note was the cause of the "accident.”
I was never able to trace the writer. 1 only suspected m Banstead And now it--who hadi taught me so much, now taught me how to hate. With Jimmy yone, I had nothing in life that I cared about. I turned all guy pent-up energies into one dire tion. Banstead had robbed me my friend I would rob him, everything he : wanted - în - work.
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1936. King Features Syndicate.