The
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY, 2, 1952.
PEOPLE IN LOVE, by
SCHOOLMISTRESS
AND THE MAN NEXT
across
DOOR
But in this case 'the answer to
RUBY M. AYRES
KING'S COTTAGE SETS A PROBLEM
ceore, und” “Whỏ owed who ong a celebration. He sinted at her and sixpence or probably less! for a moment with blank oyes
And as a finale he told her before he laughed and admitted: Prom ARTHUR MAPLEJUN that he had once road conte- "Well, I have made another where a saying which was true engagement) but=”
of the majority
of people?
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Sezela, South Natal. THE King and Queen and 1. Princess Margaret will be living very much tho family life when they move into Botha House, in South Natal, which is little more than a sensible cottage,
I have Just geen the Pratik Beynolds to be South house, which was left by Sr Africa's Chequers,
Biggest moulty will le accommodation.
sleeping
Puge 11
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known Lontion clubs, and that round her, and-Back they wait Thare thre.six bedrooms, Knight of Grace, Venerable Order of St. John of Jerosolem
of both
and opera
DD, you may wonder
ID
Yes, it most outtuinly did small don appeared on life Seene and when a year or so lafter a the pride and for the 'rought with Hin ebmplated the Happy ending lay had so nearly lost through selfshitess fon
bail sides.
two 25ft. by 10ft/adh.
Leading from these are two dressing room 14ft. by 13ft.
and these are tivo bath
quickly. Cuthbertson look They do not play 4it cards, but make your secretary?" *ortly
-play at playing! them"
ed like an abashed schoolboy after which he relented a litle when he replied, "Nos and said, with an effort to re- imatter of "faét," *please" (you! call the unselfish devotion they. I've been taking briligo sons, had both calmly believed to be and well-ve Axed and lifelong: "But you have for tomorrow evening, but if gane, darling - don't bother you would really like to do to
about me."
the opera and it won't, bare Well, that AM not sure who was being too good
was the kindling yba to tears bf course.veli to refuse, he
love it 50 was, and still is com- of a trouble which sadly in ore me to our "the famous man who had decided to accept, and one
evening when Dorcas was picte happiness, with only one creased on 'their return home, wrote the well-known walking home from some village regret-so Dorcas told me whee for Cuthbertson quickly realised she surel him, but evch as words "Whoever loved-function in which she was very we last met before they sot anit that his wife was what is called she spoke suddenly not fair- who loved not at first interested they came face to for the bock of beyond-wife a "bridge ned" that she was prisingly her tours caine, un
member of veral well- the next moment his arms were face sight," but I am sure he was
and he broke the and, news was that they hadn't discovered "glad"
us at the moment
yearz before quite wrong, for very often
how much they known before he considered it to be to her. meant to the unother.
marriage it had been her to the mppy past. love is a flower of extremely She told me it had been a 1
chief very nearly said, "Better
pastime. And what did she discover slow growth, which only moonlight night only a moment late than never"; but remember-
Thar he reaches realisation and per- before, but as he spoke she ing how the mutual friend had about Cuthbertson? footion following some un had gathered
Euddenly realised
that clouds ridiculed my stream of quota was, strangely enough, lover the sky, tions, I for once nobly held my (which, as the told him, "bored expected shock, or an extra lenying it in utter darkness peace. dose of Tertiliter."
and it was then that she knew
her stiff"); and therefore was not long before she realised I have known several there had "come a mist and o
how right her father had been instances where a man and driving rain, and life
married in haste never be the same again."
and when he warned her that more woman have been just good
What did shз say? What could which was ́odmittedly a short see that she and her husband
during their engagement ly as an onlooker he could not friends for many years --- the say? Only that she hoped he
But they still play bridge. sometimes fasting from would like
one--lasting only a few weeks would have a such
illing in com- occasionally, and Mr Cuthbert- mon!
son more diten than not in dreasing-room, childhood to middle-age- change and be happy. "But I ney never had a cross word or
Naturally the dry-rotificam phantly succeeds in wins much." disagreement-of any sort, and you--very before they suddenly dis she added. "Do you mean that?" were happily confident they had plete disillusionment gradually odd one and sixpence covered that if anything he asked, and then-with rather be made for each othert began to set in and the life from Hila missus, and they some-
times go to the opera happened definitely to part forced him.
The bride had lived alone with which they had bleved would times go "You'd better
(which Ich them, and to end that come with
her-father for many years, her be so perfect became a stries they can find some kind sit-in mother having
Hied when she of They were at her gate then was a child and although he was proaches.
petty quarrels and re- Indy to look after the son and friendship, life would be
and it had unkindly begun to shrewd, far-seeing man with a
helr) and the opera no longer anything but one glad, rain, so all she could do was grent understanding of life and Culbertson intend as Cuthbert
"IUS
apity my name when't bores the missus, in fact she sweet song!
to laugh-though she felt more people he had allowed her to gason," the Bridge .I
knew a school like tears-as
Fiend's bus did her own way without much con
band told her one day to An ideally Happy couple to- 28ti. by 15ft., each with a tiled mistress a quiet, unpre- bade him goodnight-"Before
tral or criticism, so it came as which the sharply retorted; day because, thanks to the tact-eplace surrounded by book tentious but very pleasant el drenched," as she told him. samething of a shock when, a "It's a pity it wasn't Pugilaceful "mére onlooker," they were panelling and leaded glass book-
tinys before her wedding he or woman, who had lived all
said quietly: "Well, I wish you
high-brow Throught to their senses before it shelves.
was too late and were made to her life in the same village
every happiness, and I sincerely
realso that "True to a small
headlong into such and next door
The kitchen and pan- hope you won't regret rushing
understanding and
is loveries are behind the marriage" boarding house where
without wings." of the residents WAS
to.you cheery, perfectly happy bachelor.
once
one
chall miss
She
would
sudilen
hurriedly.
LTHOUGH she did not say Aso, I imagine her pillow was more then drenched the night a though ite wes kind to her, and the following evening when the was returning home, tis time feeling more lonely and These two had knows
unhappy
ever before, the than one another for more years again came face to face with than either could probably the Man Next Door.
He didn't although remember,
even say "Good- raise evening or remember to
and
THEY
+
some
Italian,"
other
·
until they drifted so far apart "they were yellom seen to=" gether, and were apparently quite contended und, resigned to such an unhappy state of affairs!
and when in angry bewilder- AND so i went on and on, mert the asked: "What mean he replied:"
You
nothing know
of this nian-except that he is well-dit good to look at. "You don't and know anything about the way he will expect you to run his Hic and your own but merely as an onlooker, I can't see that you
But Fate was kind, for once again the Bridge Fiend's father stepped in-cleverly this time and made it this business to try
ify-things-by-one-day. quietly remarking to his she was so soon to be n bride. ca that he wondered she j
object lo Cuthbertson
they were excellent friends his hat for there wore save-a-thing in common... nothing deeper than friend many things of for greater A bit of a blow, considering ship-had ever occurred, -to-importance elther of them, because they attention-and were both quite content to go their own sweet way and had never given a thought to marriage.
DORCAS as we will call her
told me, when fer some reason or another we were talking about husbands
ncas.
were:
-to
occupying his
his first words but she only laughed and told
her father that he was talking taking his secretary about with "Did you mean it last night after rubbish and that she and him
them to often "Saw when you said you would miss Cuthbertson (that was actually lunching together yesterday-
and as it someone had his name) thoroughly under and she stupidly let out that told her what answer she must stood one another and she was she had been to the opera with| give. which would
be the sure theirs was to be a perfect him several times." right answer she inquired marriage. unsteadily-"And did you mean it-when you
said a better. come with you?"
The Man Next Door
the
ap-
It was with a supreme effort that the Bridge Fiend tried 1s laugh and to say with pretend- ed indifference, "Well, pho's quite a nice girl-and- 1 fun-
WELL, they married, with the and Parently also gave the correct usual podphernalia The pose she's. company It's'l wives, that she had two sisters reply and then,, as ft to express Voice that Breathed o'er Eden, Which you ought to who were both so
the unhappity
approval
whole the Wedding March, and showe:s your job as his wife," her de- married she had long ago
the world,
-moon suddenly of .confetti dice not being avall- purent informed her, but he did clded to remain in single blessed. appeared from behind a cloud- able at the time and off they not mention the fact that he
Bank and shone down on them went to
to an expensive hotel in had already warned Cuthbert- with dazzling glory.
the West of England. Unfor- son that his wife was spending "Haven't you ever cared for 3.
Several
mulual tunately the weather was bad far too much of her time with so-called man?" I asked
her, and she
friends
of this happy could rain, and high winds and stormy man Bridge Fiend-not only at laughed cheerfully,
she said: exprefsel extreme surprise and seas, which made "No never, I am glad to say! disapproval when
It Impossible the Bridge table but af various though I like men, and have the news. "After all these years sun's expensive car-with any evenings.
they heard to go out even in Cuthbert other times of the days and several very good men friends.
ends. suddenly to But I'm perfectly
decide to marry; degree of pleasure, and one happy us i
us It's absurd and most foolish,' evening the happy bridegroom am."
so one of them remarked to me, found his huppy bride looking have been nearly "He's a confirmed bachelor, and out of the window unsmilingly MERELY as an onlooker or not, Door, as we will call hing, was nearly 50. Such a marriage is not much fun, is
Calling, Next she-well!.. they must both be as she remarked gleamily, "It's and he gave both als dasar and her husband as unpleasant several years her senior, so bound to be a ifatture,"
"Not much," he agreed, rather: jar-causing them each 16 L came as a profound surprise 10
ito her
urprise, and then the member their first happy days first
of trouble was and kindled when she told him that making them realise that, al- had drifted so that they had become engaged!
though they reminded her she had been asked by the peo senselessly and far apart, thero Curiosity being one of my how, yet anothe: famous nun ple who sat at the table next to ‚was såll nothing half so aweęt many failings, I naturally made had declared, "Love at 501... theirs if they would care to in life as Love's young dream!
effort to discover what Why, every
look you, it is Ike make up a four at bridge that And had brought
what happened? Well, about such rheumatism-nothing can cure evening.
strangely enough, they had bot happy ending-dat was it," the gave an exasperated You piny, et ceurauf" the hoppened to be bara an the. she said impatiently, submliled. Well, he didn't-he same day, and the night before
and your
endless
She
must
40 then-and
#
me and to everyone who knew
them when we, suddenly heard
Dorcas younger
who,
Told me.
*
ND. when I
looking years sigh as
and prettier, one day
:
quotations-I can't think dess said that he hated cards, they cutithermutny birthday Mass It appeared that the Man you remember them all-and, see no enjoyment whatever in band a little shyly Next Door had been offered anyway, rheumatism job somewhere overseas which
can kill spending hours sitting glued hesitatingly that she would like round a table arguing about the "to go to the opera with him us
even if it can't be cured."
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Two other rooms are Mt. BY
rooms.
In the roof of his butch with red gabled house, white
los are two resins which in the days of Mrs Bouis Bothh vero used only for ironing.
Withe King and QÜICH each using a big bedroom anıl and Princess Margaret using one of the by 14ft, rooma, there is not much room left for staff.
Guards there..
fi
the right at the hail and the
Downstairs are the lounge lo
dining-room to the left, cach
friendship,ehind the lounge is a small
NEXT SATURDAY SECRET OF --- ATTRACTING THE OPPOSITE SEX
|POCKET CARTOON By OSBERT LANCASTER
"Once and for ull, Maudie, will you please get out of this beasily habit of con-*| stantly referring to members of my family in terms of scrap!"
-dining-
room,
There is talk at 'Sezela (pro- nounce it with the accent.on the second syllable) that the royal party may after all stay F.1 neighbouring Lynton Hall, a manalon occupied
25-Or
or 30-room "Crookes, mana-
hy Mr
by Mr
ger of the, sugar concern found- ed by Sir Frank Reynolds.
Nalive guards have been, put
on all roads to Lynton Hall and
to Bolha House, which is set in
a 1,500-acre park,
Private beach
William Lowrie, caretaker, at Botha House (40 years ago lived in Kensington-down by -the side of Barkers),' said the house's private golf course and beach Wil remain open to vilters the King and Queen! arrive. Then be shut off to ensure complete en everything will seclusion."
Sezela is in the headlines of..
Durban
Natal
newspapers
a banner Handle In the Mercury: Hezon จีบ shaken by lean to fume."
I saw Sezela itself, it is a collection of corrugater, Tron: sliacks Inhabited by lang workers at the local sugori factory.
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