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THE CHINA 'MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1951.

APORISED ALL-IN CONFERENCE OF BIC 4

IT'S JUST SOME PEOPLE MOVING IN NEXT DOOR

World Copyright. Dy arrangement with Daily Herold.,

By Erle Stanley Gardner

-PRAVDA, the Kremlin's mouthpiece, said:

“Even little children Anow that nobody ha! threatened, or is threatening, the_security of the U.S.” Today, William Hamshor tells the story of one Iron Curtain child.

JUST A SONG TO LORE

From WILLIAM HAMSHER

DESSAU, Soviet Zone.. four times a week. But no

English any more."

EN - YEAR OLD Lore At home Lore fetched With the yellow plaits satches. The mailed out bumped into me outside a

State toyshop. I muttered. 1 Her "peace

portfollo." "You're English," she said. This WDS Then she asked me about cardboard tol- decorated London. "Is it true that der

with the policemen with clubs stand #peace"

street corner? Does England belong to the

at every

was

her

dove.

thick

A

with news-

of Communist

monopoly capitalists? That's paper cuttings what they tell us at condemna Lion school,"

I walked with her to wards her home in Lenin Avenuo. We passed a Rus sian. She said:-

"When I sce a Red Army soldier in the street I am supposed to say 'Good day. Stalin is our best friend."

of Western "war-monger- Ing."

Sald Lore: "I shan't get good * marks for this. Other girls in the school have much thicker portfollos."

The Communist Youth Song- book. This is the only school songbook in Eastern Germany. Lore sang me a few bars of the "song I hate most." It proclaim- ed the wonders of Moscow in May.

"I must not call him Russian' or 'Russky. If he answers, I have to say Jo. "Read and Learn" This was Soviet citizen."

A

primer now ready for Lore's six-year-old sister, There "I could say it in Russian. is not one fairy in it. The cat the Brst few We have Russian lessons siis on the mat

pages. Then the young reader overy day, with German starts to learn about the tractors

sent from Russia,

THE CASE OF THE Horse of

P

HOWLING DOG

(CHAPTER 11)

intended to

the Ice Age lives again

ERRY MASON look- *This accusation is unjust with some Chinese friends, as "What are you going fo do Y a patient series of

was his custom.

now?" she asked. ed at his watch and untrue.

D breeding experiments, "I did

Clinton not kil

"I told her that

"Mail the letter," he said, when he entered his

Forbes: but I did kill my wife, ku Forbes, and that I wanted "and see that this portable two German professors have office. The hour was Paula Cartright.

La her to go away with me. She typewriter placed

two animals where"recreated" the authorities exactly eight forty-five.

will never which died out at the end the cort, and that she had

go of the Ice Age, ten or 15 to love me and could home."

pair

ол.

"Under the circumstances, I told me that I must do nothing, and it, take a taxicab, and

I

of

can

to

"What

A picture shows a little East German boy named Emil finding his way to the tractor hire de- pot of the Peasants' Co-opera- tive.

Lore knew the caption by heart. She quoted: "Our people have bread because the Soviet Union sends them tractors and grain,"

The children

A fow pages later come polite phrases: "Good morning." "Good night," and then greeting stogans for Young Communist League members: "Be prepared."

the

"Always Then ready" and Friendship.""

The Friendship with whom? next page tolls.

response

the

blue blouse

Perry Mason switched on the think that the public is entitled

It "What children are call- ed in other lands." In Moscow and set a leather case to know exactly what happen- ceased lights

never be happy with me. She She looked at him steadily thousand years ago,

it is "Mischa" He cd.

or "Natasha." Street's desk. on Della

I'I lived in off a catch, took

Santa Barbara threatened

In People's China it is Fu-1 to call the police for a mement, then walked napped

"Hua-tse." Bottom of the cover,, and disclosed a portable with

was and tell them about what I in the door. my wife. and i

These animals are the auroch, or with tended to do. She started for

She paused, with her hand typewriter. He reached in his happy.

was friendly

the primeval ancestor of modern page are Bobby and Bessic, of telephone.

stood motionless

London. But no Hank of De- struggled on the knob, overcoat pocket, took out a Clinton Forbes, and his wife. I the

of gloves, and put them know that Clinton Forbes was with her and she started to for a moment then turned and cattle, and the "pre-horse," thetroit!

came back to him.

forerunner of modem dray- Turn over, and Emil is pre- From a briefcase he took a roller, so far as any moral scream. I choked her,

好 moted she but I

"Chiof never

sold, was concerned,

explain several sheets of paper and a sense

horses and Derby winners. emotions of that mo- results are you trying to get?"

uniform of the Young Commu- envelope. He had just liked him. I knew that he was stamped

the schoolbook "I playing

half

loved

nists. Finally, her a ment. around with

he said. "the want, placed them on the desk when

pas-

Professor Lutz Heck, of the shows him demonstrating under dozen

I knew that she no cement floor in that garage Della Street came in.

I never had any s'onately. women.

119

"German- suspicion that my wife was one longer loved me. She was extension broken up, and the Berlin Zoo, and his brother, a Red banner for

with me,

underneath to save place

carefullyProfessor Heinz Heck, of Soviet friendship and peace. save

The of them. Abruptly, and out of struggling

lesson phrages for The the the

man who П clear sky, I realised

Munich, have built up what are had betrayed searched."

demonstration picture are: I be.. me and whom I

Perry haled.

Mason Why?" she asked, regarding truth. I

waited until virtually living fossils. I was a ruined man, My

war, the bombers came. Insensible to

had gone down in the was wrecked gloves on her happiness the long black

and come

my sur she

could not sleep. We roundings.

Then I only knew that I elevator.

ho switched so was my home. I determined rou hands and armis.

hungry." "Because," he said, "we're to hunt down Clinton Forbes was crushing going to pull another fast one, and and { don't want either one dog. of us to leave finger-prints on the paper."

"Don't take off your gloves, Della; leave them on," he told her.

kill him, DS I would a

"It took me ten months to And him.

Then I found him ilving on Milnas Drive, under the name of Clinton Foley. I He walked over to the door found that the adjoining houst and locked it.

way for rent, furnished, and I "Take a sheet of paper, he moved in, purposely engaged a

housekeeper who

stone and who could not, neigh- Before

said, "and put able typewriter."

It in that port deaf,

Was

in

frantic

I had choked her

"In So we werd

Lore know these, doo-with-

-(London Express Service)

her neck in a out the lights, put on his over- Lutz Heck bas. been collecting grip. When I regained coat, sealed the letter, took the primitive species of cattle for my SCASES sufficiently to portable typewriter, and went years, He crossed fighting out looking at the book. realise what I was doing,

she to his car,

Spanish bulls with Scottish He drove to another, part of was dead. to death.

and re-crossed the elly, posted the letter in a

Highland cows mail box, and then took a wind-the calves with Corsican, Swiss. ing road which led to a reser- Bohemian, and black and white voir in the bills back of the Dutch breeds. cily.

pick

He drove along the bank of:

the reservoir, slowed his car, Each new generation put the took the

portable typewriter clock back a thousand years or. and found and flung it into the reservoir, more until he finished up with

dag up

his "ideal," the odd auroch calf which looked a bit like a bison

"Clinton Forbes was building an addition to his garage. The cement work was in. The floor I went was about to be lald. therefore,

into the garage engage she bourhand

gossip.

and shovel. I ta my killed Clinton Foley, I wanted the ground where

find out something

be

poured, about was to

wise bady of

my wanted to and habits. I

something about how he rave, took the

treating Paula,

"I don't like portables,"

"I'm used told him.

offee machine."

*"That's

to his

told all right,” he her. "Typewriters are as in-

handwriting. 115

A cut tell was

dividual

handwriting expert can

she was happy.

I

the floor burled the

in a shallow By

the time

the

Water

was

dirt in a splashed up in a miniature and a bit like a cave drawing.

10 geyser, Ferry Mason

wheel-barrow, it

and

the

rear of the lot and dumped stepping on the throttle of his To the re

It. I wanted to wait for Ciin automobile.

do

Radiators ward stil hissing

whether the kind of a typewriter that end, document was written on, and time

I spent most of my ton Forbes but I dared not studying the house can also identify the type through binoculars.

50. The thing which I had comfortably In the building writer. Itself, he has access

done had completely unnerved to it and a chance to compare "the writing”

Lan

wife. I

I

In case 1 myself' and have

that my

pour

when Perry Mason sat down with Paul Drake.

Wila spes Hara hooves. stubby mand. ...

Lutz then joined brother Heinz

me. I was trembling 'ke a 1991. I realised that my tem-

"Paul," he said, "I want "This is a new portable," she

per, had betrayed me into kl man who's willing to take D said.

"And yet, despite all of my Ing the woman I loved. I chance." "Exactly," he told her, "and plans, I failed in my purpose. realised however that I was "I've got lots of them," I'm going to put some of the I waited until there was a dark spic

was Drake from discovery. The

The con want?"

sold. "What do you type a little out of line, so it and sneaked across the grounds the cement floor in the addi-

night that suited my intentions, trad

tractors were about won't look quite so new."

"I want this man to call up He went to the machine and to the house of my enemy.

t'on to the garage and that Thelma Benton, say that he'r a started bending the type bars, fully intended to kill him and would cover up the evidences reporter of The Chronicle:

"What's

the Idea?" the claim my

gave my of my crime. I went to another that the city editor bas given asked,

housekeeper a letter to My section of town, rented a on okay to pay ten thousand to "We're going to write a con- lawyer. In that letter I

room under an assumed name, dollars for exclusive rights fession."

closed my will.

up a second identity for publish her diary if it's as happened to me, "What sort of a confession?”

been living represented. to know

at Munich, and the two protes- "A confession." he said. "to wanted

"I want him to make an the murder of Paula Cartright affairs had been put in order there ever since.

"I am making this confession appolnument to found the back door of because I feel that it is

meet Thelma ora concentrated on the ances- She stared at him with wide

only Benton

where he can inspect tors of the horse. This experi- unlocked. house

Clinton fair that I do so. I killed my the diary. startled

She may, or may meat was not so difficut, for a moved to her shoulder Foley had a police dog, Prince, wife. I did not

kill Clinton not, have someone with her. 1 few primitive horses still sur- watch dog. but Forbes-I only wish that I had. doubt if sho'll and said in a low voice, Write who acted as

surrender the Prince know me,

vive. J this, addressed to the city

because He deserved to do but I did diary for inspection. But she'll had been friendly with Chin- not kill him. editor of the Chronicle:

let him look at it,

These are "Dear Kir:

ton Forbes in Santa Barbara.

the Tarpans and "I want that man to turn to the date that's marked OctobePrzevalskis, horses of the great am saIC from detection. 18, and luar the lent from plains of Dzungaria in Western Mizabeth Walker, in which jumped on me and licked my No one will ever peneitate the the book."

Siberia. The wild cries had all she said that I had made state hond. I patted his head and secret of me present disguise."

"What's on that Xent that died out by 1923, but walked quietly several occuzlans

you "Very truly yours" and back

asked the de-beasts remained in private zo08. want?" of the bouse. intended to die on

too

Was Perry

Mason

walled until tective. going that I

through the

when spent most of

Ubrary,

the girl had antched her typing, "I don't know,"

The Duke of Bedford had ong encountered my then he took the paper I suddenly time staring

through

"She'll make a holler," wife. She stared at me and the portable machine, tad rendi

or two at Woburn Park, There tmnoculars

the rendence W

**Naturally.** I grabbed her and it over garefully creamed. occupied by Clinton

What can they Forbes, threatened to choke bar if the

do to, there two in Mudich and one at: who tests then golog under the didn't keep quiet.

"That," he said, "will be all man who does that?**** M|the Washington Zoo The Hecl is of Clinton Foley.

right."

"Not very muth," Perry brothers krok, specffnent be there "Sho almost faintea with Id purposeful pilence. Perry Maseri sold gher mag try to horses and bath them with Ice terror. I made for a down. Mason, set down at the Bible throw of carote him, but he stallione ma dipand and talked with her. She told made several Praatioć signa- that's about all they can do.” "All of these things are mo that Clinton Forbes And thres the d piece of

-"Couldn't she syd for eaten. hia housekeeper, Thelma Ben- th Tabotionaly Totwed *#*nothen, that you have fon, had

+

"I notice that in your paper In place of barking at me, the you printed an interview with deg was glad to see me.

menta

that

I

scaffold;

my

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