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Zero hour for our departure. from the hotel was half-past three in the morning. We lay could down on the beds but
not sleep. A clock in the town! struck half-past three, a large black car drew up outside the hotel and I saw two men dark hats and coats get out.
the echoed Bp Footsteps stairs, there was a faint tap on the door and fall man in " some Con- mackintosh, like
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"She removed the blanket. revealing long black hair.“
...
CHAPTER 15
rain. Louts Ignored us and, in prayer. She said nothing ready to 10, wheeling his bicycle up to the until she rose. douanier, engaged the man in Then I saw her face clearly. Her eyes had the fervour of a laughing conversation.
deep faith, and in her sallow features were the lines of
A mile beyond the
frontier
Louis, rejoining us, led the way suffering willingly borne.
to a new brick house. In the of cags kitche huge dish fried in buiter was swiftly set before us by Luuis wife, whn
hair had the grey
und the mammers of a duchess.
I have prepared a special London breakfast for you," she il proudly. "I have not slept he whole night in enge some- thing thould go wrong. Thank Go you have got this far."
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E walked with
555
If going abroad by
Nathaniel Gubbins
N France this is polite-
ness week, and I hope
none of you will be
menn enough to think it
Meaning anyone in particu
lar?
You know the one I mean,
old man. He's not only going
has anything to do with way but going away in a new the holidays and the in. car. creused travel allowance for British tourists.
Moreover, Colonel McCor- mlek, the American newspaper proprietor, who has been cross with us for so long, has dis- covered at last that we have one virtue.
"I am struck." he said on visit, "by the good manners of everyone in England."
у
Therefore, if you are travel- ling in France
have chance to test your native good manners against French polite ness in the ding-deng baille to keep ts much as posible of your travel allowance in your awit pocket.
ft.
Well, I suppose he can afford
I happen to know what his pention is, old man.
Perhaps he has some captist, old man.
Perhaps he has, Perhaps wè all have. But some of us-put by for the little woman. We can't live for ever, old man.
He looks as if he might lasti for quite a bit..
Not with ᄆ stomach like that, old man. He's been dig- Ring his grave with his teeth for years.
Then perhaps the rest will do him good, old man.
Perhaps it would do us
nul
we'd
When the porter at Boulogne got, old man. Perhaps has carried your luggage from all ilke to spend a holiday in a the boat to the train, bow from posh hotel, with no shopping, the waist, raise your hat with or cooking, or washing up to one hand and give him franes with the other.
five do.
*
I'd certainly like it, old man. This will be the first test of So would I, old man, Polish! French politeness, 50 get ing the grates isn't so funny
before when you have lumbago.
smartly into the train
he assaults you.
When you pay
taxi- driver in Paris, give him the
the
your
Nor is bending over washing machines to save the laundry bills. Was he wearing an open- neck shirt, old man? and another flourish of
Wide open, old man. hat,
It's rather pleasant This will be the second test with an open-neck shirt.
politeness versus
It's not pleasant for of French
05 when you have a necke like English good manners, but
word turtle. old man,
you
But he can't help that, old saying man.
Wrelle Jeune throud demi- exact fare with a warm site holdings into Annemasse. In a de-rrect, she knocked on the door of a decrepit house where another young, Fad-faced French woman let us through a dark a kitchen. I drank two further cups of coffee and with enormous effort swallowed There was a knock at dour and young girl entered, more fried eggs. An hour pass her head covered in a blanket, ed in allence broken only
the ficking of the kitchen
the
Dussure
She removed the blankel, re clock. venting long black hair. Her face was very while as if she had spent her life In
tinental hero of delective INTO FRANCE, WITH
tion, strode into the room and
gave the password.
Entering the car with
two
plain-clothes and two uniform-
od Swiss police we drove swift-,
ly
out of Geneva.
wards,
south-
The police car sped
dawn and
revealed moulain peaks and the shores Tha of the Lake of Geneva.
stopped near a smalt cur
the cemetery and there, with
officer.
crouched police
We
among the graves underneath a wall wall of flints. Over the
carpet of wire was a broad dividing France from, Switzer-
Jand:
"All is arranged on the other side," said the tail man in
Ja
THE MAN FROM
the RITZ, LONDON
By Airey Neave, D.S.O., OBE,-MC,
by the sign-post to Annemasse, grimaced. Remember
chill."
บริ
lo Mr
e
by
came
a
driving
othera A
you won't understand a of his heated monologue can kid yourself he's "Thank you" a thousand times. Of course he can't, old man.
off I
felt
In restaurants, when you pay He can't help having grey your bill (all right-l'addition, bairs on his chest, either, but if you must show off), gather at least he can cover them up.
bow When I saw him there. Suddenly
up all your change and
quite sick. knocking on the door. A round-yourself out. faced
addressed by This will not only be a test but will Alex, of French politeness Mademoiselle Jeanne as
prove whether the head waiter informed us that he had come
he is the homicide
usually with his car to take us
to looks.
Annecy
$100,
but
At the doorway Mademoiselle Jeanne did not smile. shook my hond quite fiercely as she said good-bye.
Another cream bun, old man? No thanks, old man. I've a lot of shopping to do *before In the days when the French everything closes down for the
thought all travelling English holidays.
was
were
men were millionaires it
you the custom, when. leaving, for hotel staffs to line up on either side of the exit with their hands out. Some of them brought their aunts, mothers, and grandmothers. share in the largesse.
increased With the
travel allowance this custom may be
to
So have 1, including a choco late egg for the nephew.
You be lucky if you get onc. old man.
nian
Nol when
lot, old man.
But there must
be plenty. An ancient Citroen called us
now awects are unrationed, old along the road to Annecy. Alex Was a cheerful, plump person
certain ples in much occupied with the Black
the Market, yet at the same tinc u ་
open-neck shirts buy up effcient on
or- patriot and
revived.
Not the lot, old man?monie hand shake each Kaniser. The snow glistened on
$0,
Cleared the shop right out, 113 the road the mountains
henrilly as you go, raise your
old man. Last week he was wound
and at their foot. Sometimes,
That once more, and. seo if your
robbing-the-kiddies-of-bananas. the engine
gine of car, driven English good manners will get This week it's chocolate eggs. charcoal burner,
П
the
began
mackintosh. "You have only to "We are supposed to be shadows of a cloister. She sat by
20 to choke and gasp, and once, lable for sland Czechs."
at Louis quietly
the I said, and go across the wire and
after a sharp explosion, it came then
to spoke moment and Louls. Her voice had the tone iu a stop. Then we heard the et a
treble horn in the distance and vesper bell.
vehicle,
Д floshing light, said 'careered towards us, ly at a bend in the road," he gravely. Louis turned to us,
"The Bicks!" exclaimed Alex. said. Far ahead I could see a "Mademoiselle Jeanne is your
box ond sentry
French next guide. She will take you "Save yourselves!"
節
骗
Chur-
"I shall take you past frontier past in a few minutes. We shall come upon it sudden-
"AJL
is ready,"
she
T five o'clock exactly Wool- douanter in a cape. Woollatt to the other side of the town. Ay'aulted the wall and climbed slowly over the and 3,atdedi.
by the storm, You have half an hour before mingled with the crowd pass- you must leave.
As we ate I watched the girl. last ing the control post with heads awful
bowed against the wind and Her eyes were cast down as if
wire, As I crossed the Atrand there was an rending sound and I felt the cool morning air upon my thighs. I turned to see a sub- stential picce of my trousers clinging to the frontier de- fences. A muffled laugh came from behind the cemetery wall. Woollatt lent me his raincoat
to conceal the gep.
When we reached the sign- the road post to Annemasse
was full of cyclists. We
had
been told to meet at 5.30 a.m.
a man wearing a blue
smock
and sabots, riding a bleyele and smoking a clay pipe up- alde-down who would act
ду
of
bc.
our guide. To our dismay this was a very fair description practically every man to Eeen upon the road. We were beginning to despair of making contact with our guide when a middle-aged
dis- man of tinguished appearance leapt off his bicycle and, removing inverted clay pipe from mouth, bowed low and respect- fully We exchanged pass- words.
ал his
"Good morning. gentlemen," said the man in perfect Eng- late. Ha, "I am sorry, to be
Let'
me Introduce myself - I am Louis formerly of the Ritz Hotel, London.
Louls had a square forehead and silver grey hair. I could picture him in a black tall cost attending to hotel guests with dignified assurance.
LOUIS looked at our clothes with a quizzical expression on his fine features.
"Your disguise to not good. You look the perfect gentle- men.
*For reasoYLE of excurity, the author' has
niek. plan tour namkato several "helpers" -who organised - his passage from Switzer Land through "Occupied, ......France, tơ Spain.
#'
you a cab to the station - or even get you out of the coun- try alive.
Gentlemen In Retirement
OING away, old man?
Go
Tomorrow: Maurice the Magnificent.
DRAMA ON THE CORONATION ROUTE-
REGENT 37.
MCA HOLLY
WHITCHAL
THE KNIGHT AND THE LADY
THE WYATT REBELLIONİ
LADY
JANE GREY
LAWYERS PLEAD
INARMOUR, UNDER
THEIR ROSES
ON FEBRUARY 7. 1554, A FIERCE FIGHT RAGES IN WHITEHALL. SIR THOMAS WYATT IS TRYING TO DETHRONE QUEEN MARY AND REPLACE HER WITH LADY JANE GREY, HIS CAUSE GOES WELL.. WYATT ATTACKS QUEEN MARY'S TROOPS AGAIN AND AGAIN, CITY AND WESTMINSTER ARE IN A PANIC.
WHITEHALL
TO THE CITY:
CLINTONS
MEN WYATTS FORCE
WYATTS FORCE SEIN HALF
LORD CLINTON MARY" COMMANDER „SAVES THE DAY.- PRETENDING TO BE BEATEN, HE LETS HALF THE REBELS THROUGH, THEN CLOSES HIS RANKS AGAINA
FIVE GAYS AFTER THE EXECUTED, WYATTS
THINKING HE HAS D
ED THE LOYAL
Can't afford it, old man, Same here, old man. Though some lucky people can.
Whitehall
MARY'S
CONFESSO
PREACHES WITH ARMOU BENEATH HIS VESTMENTS
A BOAT WAITING TO TAKE MARY TO SAFETY LIES. WHITEHALL STAIRS
AT
BUT BACK AT WHITEHALL ATT DOTACHMENT OF LOYALISTS UNDER THE EARL OF PEMBROKE COMPLETELY DEPEAT THE REST OF WHATT'S MER
ES WYATT RIDES WITH HALF HIS NUMBER TO THE CITY HOPING FOR SUPPORT.
REBELLION HAG XECUTION FOLLOWS EIGHT WEEKS
"ALLO
LADY
JANG UPCY IS
LATER.
Dream Encounter
A
TOM CAT in 'a fez and dark glasses was piloting the aircraft taking me on my first visit to Russia. 143EJ
why
are you going Russia?" asked the Tom Cat.
"Because
have invited reporters
are you. I said. ̈
10
Why
"Because out of a population ot 200,000,000, said the Tom
Cat, "there mus
must be at least half a million pretly-girls- Boy, ah, boy.":
We went into a ed Squara.
and landed in the Red
Crocodile in a wing collar and with a mile a yard wide came forward to meet ust
hand he held a bottle of elther vedka and a dish of caviar.
"Who are you?" asked the Tom Cat,
"I am Vishinsky," said Crocodile.
the
"I love everybody
Who are you?".
"T
was once King of Egypt
cald the Tom
protiy girls.
Cat."love
160
This is Molotov," cald Crocodile. "He is learning-to speak all over again. He can toy Ye now,NATIO What could he say before arked the Tom Cát,
sald the "Only 'No, no, no, sald Crocodile.
"How would you like me to be King of Russia?" asked the Tem Cat.
"Wonderful," said the Croco dile. "Maybe another monarchy would do us good," LAHT
Yes, yes, yes, gald Checap in a black Homburg hat and pince nez, «kes >>
"Then let's have a corona- tion," raft the Tom Cat.
"Can I be Prime Minister?" asked the Crocodile. "No, no.. 210,"
Cheese
The Crocodile hit him with
the bottle of vodka..
"Why did you do that?"
ed the TomCat,
I
your
Believe "Because majesty likes yes-men around you said, the Crocodile. Dupree Calle
yez-woinch,"
Ithe Tom
"Long live Ring Tak sata the Crocodile ret-3 **"Yes, yes, youmidutha Cheeso