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Divorce could
A FRIENDLY GAME Divorce
be laughed OF CHEMIN DE FER out of court
H
E
al-
the
him.
the
I to the extent of a couple of lous. There was no need for played the slightest feeling, I Туда a gambler. will
not mention his thousand pounds.
To what extent
game because, name
had been dishonest it is impos- though it is 1 long time sible to say. In all probability ago, somebody might still young Joel had about as much ba distressed to be remind- chance of winning from ed of the whole story. It such will be enough to call him The Gambler.
By
wns profession he
bookmaker, although anybody less like the popular idea of n bookmaker it would be dim- cult to imagine.
His appearance was remark
ho was distinguished; ably tall, good-looking and extreme- ly well-dressed, but his mast outstanding characteristic
was
an unwavering imperturbabiil- ty.
two
gamblers,
experienced
had of reaching, the moon. even in a straight game, as he
But, whatever the nature of the game, it was disastrous for Woolf Joel. Naturally he had not the money to pay, so he The cheque gave a cheque. was promptly discounted with due a money-lender course the matter came to the cars of Solly Joel.
and in
No emotion
As was to be expected, the his father was furious. That son should have been invelgled gam- into the hands of two blers was bad enough, but that
I do not think I have ever seen a man with such a sphinx- must He like countenance. have been a perfect gambler.
The other person concerned one of them should be the man
a he had befriended was in the subsequent trial was young American named Doyle, than he could overlook. who had come to England and decided to prosecute them both at to cheat for a conspiracy soon become
well-known
cards. member of the sporting fraternity.
д
Quick wit
He was a good-looking young man with a pleasant manner and a quick wit, and he rapid- ly acquired popularity among
al-
a large circle of friends. He lived extravagantly, though the source of his in- come was never clearly defined
was beyond the fact that it
from the probably derived
race-course.
more He
By IRIS ASHLEY
1
HAVE just had Here is the shy Helle Edwar-
bride. all
white, understood could have
good laugh at Love and dian
alone for the first time with her merely not; he carda But he did
BUS- husband and Anybody who played
Marriage; and I
fourposter! own stated a fact, and then
like either with him did so at his
pect that, if we could find a Clearly she would risk; he was a very good card warder took him away.
Why had he told me that
have player.
# doshing cavalier to' "The cross-examination
was story? Had he thought it would bit more laughter in the to go home to mother or else
matter, there would bo less and
nweep her off her feat. Actually, move to try calcu be n good long and skilful, well
hor nico
groom, being young was divorce. outburst arouse my sympathy, or Inted to provoke an
terrified of doing or saying the pure Inven- from the prisoner; but it never the whole thing
It might be a good idea to wrong thing, appears to be sewn came. If anyone wan roused tion?
But I made some inquiries nationalise the Michael Dealsons into his clothes and rooted to anger, it
himgoli. was GM
true (she is, of
the spot where he stands. to course, known
it is not like that and when The Gambler went and found It was quite
In theory theatre and film tans as Dulcie
but for today, back into the dock he was as that he had, a son fighting in
some who aro unemotional and unperturbed Palestine.
I was younger in those days, Gray). They have more than ten young and shy it will always be same. Marriago is as when he left it.
perhaps # trifle senti-year of real marriage to their much the
the But the facts were too strong and
play "The seldom what you expect.
Whether we like it or not, we for him. The judge summed mental, but, whatever the rea- credit and in
which I saw nt worry Fourposter," the jury son, the case began to
have to acknowledge that, on the And up severely.
London's Ambussadors Theatre.
naturally average, convicted both prisoners. They me. He had appeared so con-
his appeal
would they really do seem to show un were sentenced to long
polygamous. We can't condono terma Aden: that
had succeed and perhaps I
the married the idea socially any more than to ourselves from would of imprisonment.
of less accept other items As I was leaving the court missed some point which would viewpoint; and very funny we we
attractive turn the scale;
human behaviour. However, it is necessary to meet
this wealmers up with occasions.
not and one, However much I look.
the case I worried, 1 felt that
hopeless and I knew 1 be glad when it was
I received a message that my client was anxious to see Ime before he was taken away. hate those interviews, but it is was
should always impossible to refuse, so
over. I saw him.
be He looked precisely as had done before the verdict -- equally unmoved and apparent- by what ly quite unaffected had happened.
THE CASE BOOK OF SIR PATRICK HASTINGS, KC
CHAPTER TEN
The case for the defence was a friend of Doyle had been
American brought to me and it did not Danny Maher, the jockey, who at that time was seem to possess any particular uchloving outstanding success interest or unusual feature. It on the English Turf, and for was just an ordinary case of some time Doyle had profited card-sharping. by backing his mounts.
placed in
the
The trial took place at the Doyle became acquainted Central Criminal Court and 1 with Solly Joel, the millionaire came into court as the pri race-horse owner-Maher rode soners were many of Joel's horses and dock. Everybody seemed to be was soon included among Joel's staring at The Gambler. racing friends.
He was certainly the most He was a constant visitor at remarkable figure I have ever Joel's home, was B guest
seen in any dook. He seemed aboard his yacht, and as a re- to be devoid of any human sult became well known to the sentiment. From first to whole Joel family, including he never showed the slightest
feeling or emotion.
Woolf, a son.
For some
live enemy.
for a
statue
last
Unmoved
gave Me
a
Not everybody can see them
time, of course, selves all the but there is a moment of "that's ua!" for almost anyone.
The Agnes
men иго
To many a
cause.
woman the dis-
of unfaithfulness is The- End-no matter how much sha- herself WAS
凸 contributory
After about 12 years of mar- most riage our Agnes, while
kas engaging In appearance, undoubted y become something:
of and Michael As I went into the Appeal the play take you through a Court some weeks later, a marriage from Edwardian bridal usher
message night to wistful Darby and Joan Спос
more the prisoner had anish. Is it a happy marriage? asked me to see him. This time Yes; but not by some miracle la I almost refused. I did notit achieved. want to be burdened with any more sentimental stories, but
in the end I consented and saw him in D room beneath the court.
He was exactly the same. He showed no sign of anxiety crtion, emotion of any kind; he was utterly unmoved.
He thanked me for coming to see him,
shot down
The lifebelt
of neg.
Suddenly Michael tells her he loves another woman; someone who is Interested in the book he is writing. who is willing to share him with his work. That
and prating voice, stops her turns her pate.
all the alter- NLY through ONLY
nating sclistiness, irrita
misunderstanding. and downright ugly moments of real
No tears trium- living does it emerge phant. Humour, it would seem, is love's lifebelt,
MICHAEL (who would really rather go on loving his "I am afraid this case has worried you," he said.
other things "I beg Among
avery wife if only she'd let him) is worry any more. mother recognises with an in- anxious. "Are you going to To my Intense surprise
he you not to
Governor of ward smile are the remarkably faint?" he asks. This morning the said he was going to appeal,
of paternal "Certainly not," he is told. "I
didn't faint when the children been has and asked that the appeal be the prison told me that, my son fluctuating waves
infeeling.
had mumps or measles, did I? brought on at once. I told him
When he is baffled by youthful This" she says, setting her that, in my opinion, any ap Palestine and killed. It is quile immaterial now what happens peal would be utterly hope in my appeal."
a becomes behaviour father
belongs in the medicine chest less, and was at some pains to point out my reasons.
The appeal falled completely; partner. "We must speak to the it
children, dear "(meaning of marriage.... He listened politely until I as I knew it would; and once You must tell them what I
more The Gambler showed no had finished,
think").
When it is a question vine. either of disappointment of prizes won or scholarships, sign "Perhaps," he sald, you or distress. would be interested to know
I never saw him agalu, but I papa boasts "What do you think why I am appealing.
have often wondered whether MY boy has done...? "I have a son who is now his face remained equally un- Or it, as in the play, agile without Michael and didn't fighting the Turks in Palestine. perturbabie at the moment bettle is discovered in a 16-year He has no idea that I am In when the Prison this trouble.
room!"
Governor old's drawer, it is "Agnes, look "If he got to hear of it, it told him that his son was dead. what I found in YOUR son's might be awkward for him with his brother offlcers. That and is why I am appealing, the appeal has got to succeed."
dis- If, even then, he had of
tirne Solly Joel His face was the colour of was a good and generous friend ivory. He might almost have few years been taken to Doyle; it was later that he became a vindic- some well-known actor or other distinguished person. He reminded me instinctively of of Bret Harte's In the hero crash famous gambling stories. Corpo was certainly not a man
During the first World War Woolf Joel was seriously jured in an aeroplane with the Royal Flying
and was in hospital for some father would select as a time.
London leave
When
sumclently recovered he came to London for a short period of leave, and during that leave he again met Doyle.
to
He
his
gam
Ing companion for his son.
C. F. Gu, K.C., conducted the prosecution, and he gave full dramatic force to the Ho somewhat sordid story. painted a picture of the young fying officer, badly injured in the war, coming home to and himself the victim of two
heartless gamblers.
Woolf was dining at a res taurant when Doyle spoke
From the outset it was fair- him as an old friend of your father." Young Joel was not ly obvious that the result was aware that Doyle was at that almost a foregone conclusion. tire in a precarious financial The only possible interest
the case would lie in the cross- position.
lo
examination of The Gambler Doyle was sympathetic about himself.
the flying necider and offered
his services, as an older
to help young Joel spend
pleasant leave. An appoint- ment was made
to dine to-
Old school
con-
Gill was a prosecutor of the gether a few nights later, and old school.. The moderation the dinner duly took place. and restraint which marks the today followed prosecuting counsel of Thereafter events
were unknown to him. An ex- stoneotsgood course. an almost
out tremely able cross-examiner, At dinner Doyle pointed
accustomed to 150 various well-lown personall- he was tes in the room and finally every artifice to obtain a called attention to
solitary viction and he employed them Agure dining in the corner. It all. was The Gambler.
see if he would be able to goad Doyle described well-known bookmaker and a my client Into some display of particularly Interesting com feeling-of anger or fear; but the ho was completely unsuccess- Introduced
ful.
panion,
pair.
and
him as A
Luck changed
game
In
of
I was than curious
in
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HE "DOODLED"
PALACE ON A
Dintimately
By J. W. Taylor
The beginning of this mar- ringe gets off on what Freud would undoubtedly say was the beautifully wrong foot.
CRYSTAL
BLOTTER
so
DI
She
No tears, no scene, no clinging She, thought of all the things.
would think any woman about the Other Woman. also considered the prospect of rike it much. So in aimple
shut up.. • and words, she
WoThe
Would the Divorce Court have been so much better, do you think, and maybe another hus band and the same thing all. over again?
Somewhere I read that a man says: "Twenty years ago, when
WES
In my prime... and a woman SAYS: "Twenty
jago? Why. I was in my s
There
you
of the.
:
Two people
AGNES, at 43, was all for
have one Inter marriage hurdles, Men pursue women; women pursue youth. Any husband who will keep on telling his wife how young she looks may be a hero, prosperity to the travel agency but he'll reap rich rewards. It ERBY is the town most
firm of Thomas Cook He had he doesn't she is apt to go out concerned
started his pioneer work of rail- and make a fool of herself try- way excursions ten years pre- Ing to prove it. the appeal to long- with
in the ling design for "the great in viously, and the Exhibition was established firms Midlands and the North to dustrial building to be erected a golden opportunity to extend In Metropolis." A few days it. He had a large share in ar- search their treasures for Later plans from the blotting-pad six million visitors.
ranging for the transport of its items which they rough design were
drawn up. any showed in the Great Exhi- and Paxton set out for London.
He Was
lucky to have as travel- Derbyshire's beautiful marble Is bition of 1851 so that they ling companion Robert Stephen-was splayed with won from hausting project because Michael
son, son of the great
George Wales, gold from California, and is belatedly understanding. He malces her laugh; not in the way may be included in the dis- of souvenirs at play
the Stephonson, railway pioneer, of jewels from India.
he
It is intends
true, but deeply. Chesterfield Robert knew Pax- next Festival of Britain
At the conclusion of the Ex- and sincerely she laughs at him, ton os bis father's great friend year, for it was in a Derby and supporter, and being one of hibition, the highest award of and through him. at herself.
Was it a happy marriage? office that the famous blot the most influential members of the Council's gold medal wenti
of two. ting-pad sketch of Crystal the Exhibition's building com- to Paxton and Fox, as well as to Well, it was the story
mittee, was at once a powerful the Derby frm of S. Reed and people who loved each other and the Palace, the home of
ally, which resulted in Paxton's Company, for a "now power-learned how to live together. Exhibition, was made.
loom for weaving fringes with-The first part is easy enough: design being accepted.
out shuttles," and to Sir Joseph that last bit is where we seem of to inventor
need
from Whitworth, the
Icssons
the- Denisons Darley Dale, Derby,
The Exbibition was a land- mark in British social and in- dustrial history, and the Victoria
The son of a Derby doctor, Str and Albert Museum authorities Charles Fox-lke Paxton hel want more of such curiosities as was knighted when the Exhibi- the 70 to 80-bladed knife which tion closed was the contractor a Shefteld flem has offered from who had the task of its original, Great Exhibition Wing Paxton's doodling, in display to add to their collection terms of the magnificent steel of Exhibition pieces they
are and glass structure of the Crystal showing at the 1051 Festival, Palace. Sir Stafford Northcote, They already have the blotting the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, pad sketch, Prince Albert's sea who had been educated at the son ticket for the Exhibition, local Shirley Vicarage, was one and an enormous Indian throne of the three secretaries to the presented to Queen Victoria.
Royal Commission which organ
•
While The Gambler wDE the witness-box his demeanour remained precisely the samt ats when standing in the dock.
the Exhibition, and Rowland The Gambler was invited to
and He was perfectly calm
Ordish, of Derby, ono of the dinner and Join them at
only
most famous engineers of his due course suggested that both perfectly courteous; his
It was only a chance episode generation, mado greater
the should indication of being affected by Doyle and young Joel
Gül'e taunts was merely that that inspired that blotting pad part of the working drawings. his Ant for a go round to
some of his answers showed a
Ways Samuel Plimsoll, whose name is sketch. The Works and drink. Then came the sugges slightly amured contempt. Committee of the Midland Ball- perpetuated in the Plimsoll zine
friendly tion of a
the honorary His demeanour was
irre-way had assembled in Derby to for ships, chemin de fer.
Bixteen years later try an offending pointsman, and secretary, They played. At first the proachable, and he was quite
Sir Joseph Paxton presided. His Plimsoll became MP for Derby. stakes were low and young frank in all bis answers.
colleagues thought he was busy Certainly, he had. invited
Another Derby
link Joel won, Thon Doyle suggest- ed they be increased and luck changed. By midnight ly ho had suggested a game Woolf Joel had lost between of cards-that was how be
lived--but to £3,000 and £4,000.
suggest that Doyle complained loudly there was anything dishonest that he, too, had been a loser in the play was utterly ridleu-
POP
was
WGS
the young Joel to his flat; certain taking notes of the proceedi Medioval Court, one of the out-
POP-IT'S NEARLY
EIGHTY IN
THE SHADE
but actually he was on his blotting-pad.
standing features of the Exhibi- tion and for which Augustus j The pointsman having been Welby Pugin, the architect of St dealt with, Paxton showed his Commissioner of Fine Arts. The astonished associates his "dood- Exhibi500 brought fame and
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