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THE
MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER
18 1954.
Sequence Sinister
THE STORY SO FAR
GEORGE LANNING rescued pretty. Enid Cockburn when a thug tries to dope her and steal a sealed envelope she is delivering to her scientist brother, Gerald.
He drives her to her brother's flat after shok- † Ing off a pursuing car, ➜ but when
bathroom, pocketing the two guns and removing their trousers. He also removed the half-dozen pairs in Cock- burn's wardrobe. That would mean, at any rate, that the three could not stagger quietly away from the house without drawing attenten to themselves.
Her Trousseau ·
Carrying a suitcase full of trousers, he ran upstakes again to He dropped Mrs Bonday's flat., they arrive
the suitcase on the landing and they find a dead man
let himself in. The two ladies thero and minutes later
were all in the bedroom. At their pursuers surround
last they came out, Mrs Bonday the place.
drying her eyes, and Enld with a brown paper parcel under her
They avold immediate danger by using a trick to hide in an old lady's flat, Then George knocks ⚫ out one of the prowlers but is trapped in the kitchen when two more come through the front door with guns.
H
·E didn't come round
the
corner, as should have done,
"Mrs Bonday has been good
said, her eyes enough," shining with tenderness, "to
entrust to Lentille and Btrong- bow some parts of her original
Geoffrey Household
puts more thrills in our 5-author serial
But
of
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IF
IN
WINTER COMES CAN FLU BE FAR BEHIND?
By Nathaniel Gubbins
TO doubt" many people the doctor's son Pierre, and his will want to know the, daughter Marie, heard him say It was then decidedly time opinion of Dr Gub cd the surgery door, "Don't cry to Mme, Frou-Frou as he open to go. Another mounted police bins on how this horrible ma petite. I will see my little man. had' appeared from Rich-
summer will affect their pigron tomorrow morning." mood Gate, this time at if he meant business health during the coming love, looking out of tho Neither Lanning nor his mount winter.
saw the arrival of this wild weat
Monsieur Frou-Frou, The answer of the notorious man in a circus. He expected a strong
his father, but was amazed to sco them shake hands and emi braced each other.
were up to the almouthallis nest Streat + quack rings like a the Jealous husband to strike
no ho put :
fu, cad
the most backward
between himself and his pur cry of dooma” “Flu, suer, and cut across to the more fu." western wall and Its sheltering Di Gubbins writes: shrubberies. - Standing' on the saddle, he pulled himself on to the wall and dropped down on to the slope above. Sudbrook Park.
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Even
read the writings
essential to health.
During the interrupted meal schoolboy knows that sunshine Mme. du Pont was suspected of Having having a "loveur" at the wine of other shop because she bought the quacka, he also knows that sun- best wines af the lowest prices, shine stores up all the vitamins Marie was suspected of having from A to Z and builds up body an elderly "loveur" who wanted resistance to
germs. Without to buyer at shop." The pro-
would be enough if he could beach on
of Dr
He ran down to the Petersham Road, stopping only to bury his two unwanted guns In a mole- hill. He could not, he know, this sunshine which Mum, Dad, spective purchaser of the hat. bo more than three minutes 518, and the backward school shop was also
the drenched being an "old lovpected of ahead of the police but that boy
of Britain during their du Pont's mother-in-law, Mme.. breaks contact. They did not unhappy fortnight by the sea, le Brun
the whole and
they know his name,
are for family couldn't have seen enough of long before Christmas. him to broadcast any very clear that they will catch 'Bu not once What's more, I can tell them description.
but many times before the win-wiz Thero was, however, a bit ter is over, particularly if it is of evidence, which could lead a mild straight to him, and that was chiefter, because the two
Dash for it
·
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Even le Capitaine, Mme, le.. Brun's tiresomno cat, WAS BUS- when he was found up a treo pected of having 4 "loveur".
onuzzer cat."
At the beginning of this last broadcast the du Pont family are at luneb.
(A mald enters.) Mold, announcing
a visitor:
see Mademoiselle Mario
Mme. du Pont to Marie: 20 will is your loveur.
get up to nurse Sis. Then the backward schoolboy will get It -
and Mum will nurse, both,
Dad will go down with it
Maric: He is not my faveur. Dr du Pont to maid:
Pray request le Comet to enter.
Comte do (The
Brioche
Comte de Brioche, bowing all
enters.)
"Such happy days,"
Mrs Boriday
excusing whispered, herself and then added fiercely: "But times change, and we must.
germ destroyers ho The the Ford van which change with them. Now, would through the gardens to the road back. Had to get out of the car them; they just whistled.
had aro stinshine and hard frost.
Probably Dad will go down when a police car drove up and to do it. he you care for a cup of tea?"
whistling seemed to Lanning, as borrowed from Charlic. It was
-on Richmond Hill, with it first. He will be cun Enid looked at Lanning for spilt two constables into the Pinch Pic police car?
he ran, to be answered from, all parked
dangerously close to Cockburn's ning enough Ho gave her full block of flats as neatly as a tip- probably it would be impossible points of the compass. instruction.
to scramble ihto- gun frat. Lanning marks. She had made herself lorry. Responsible-looking men, to reverse in time. Ho couldn't His objective
block, but he simply couldn't was n much
to nurse him. Then
en Mum will to struck, the poker and sock so popular that they could stay too. Just the sort he had longed she a
thing from under the larger strip of woodland, distant leave it there until it began to to while Mum is it enough Le Comte de Brioche. He wish making little ngise against in the fat as long as might be for an hour before.
Austin, exc
go down with it and Dad will about 'er 'at shop. occasional feet. three minutes hard sprinting. arouse curiosity. except He waited outside the front Join the crowd?
Then to nurse Mum. get up But someone If he could each that, at least n hat, and managed to catch necessary.
He heard door,
would them tell the
him
Sis will get it, and Mum see squirming out. he could bury the guns. And he him as he fell.
"When we return Mra
porter that they had received a
He lay still prickled Boday's things, perhaps," he
of altogether, for the call to the
effect that murder and the innumerable paint cat might have a chance of escaping answered very formally.
Ite took a 65 bus as far "But
Surrey, Police, setting. committed in Mr growing things. had been several more Gerald Cockburn's flat
Police.
The Tigeons, and climbed up A ring They Metropoliton I fear we have
to Rich- Oh, but it cupsc. A ring round were also to inquire if Miss Enid round the
whs majestie the through the gardens calls to make in Richmond."
Outside the flat he picked up Cockburn were there, and if so, Richmond Park.
they workedi And by this way
And of mond H. Removing his coat the suitcase and made room for to help her in Every possible time a whole posse of police at course, when you came to think and tie and opening his collar, again, just before Christmas round: Madame, Mademoiselle, the brown paper parcel.
Cockburn's
Investigating one of it, they would have called up so that he looked or hoped he with, the result that they will M. le Docteur. (To Marie) Mile, old like any small business all catch it and the entire du Font. I 'ave seen the accounts trousered
corpee and three near- a mounted peliceman or two
the air on taking
warm family will be in bed on of your at shop and wish to when the job was to run down evening he reconnoitred the Christmas Day and Boxing Day, buy it for one 'undred tousand corpses trouserless.
The police car drove back to a fugitive in the park. "My dear!" the giggled, "She's evidently,
He came cantering
van. Nobody seemed to be tak- Their doctor will go down with frame. let us a complete set of her person who could know what had the road, and the crowd lost in-
ing any interest in it. He made it too, and so will his partner. 1899 corsets, day and evening happened in his fict. And he terest and drifted off. The two. tttupy tittup, all
glyen some pretty constables remained One of effortless We'll simply have to send her a 'must have
But convincing details.. sont for the Cormation.
Lafining stood still, driving seat, and half an hour after them was away-probably walch- his wood.
Wemselves, back at Wiltshire And that later So that was that.
The porter gasped.
other out. with nursing each tousand franc, Loveur or no where did you get Gerald's suit-
ing the other side of the copse. The game was up.
suffering acutely loveur, will le Comte de Brioche That bloke what just wont The other stayed on duty over blasted cop was simply showing House.
from depression of 'Bu abous.
they completely
will get are lunch wiz us? unknown case?"
Charlie was in the garage. 29 be said. "Ho's got Mr the Austin,
His
black boots off to his fellows. His whole
[] their. third doso. criminals (at least, he hoped
kburn's
Aultcose.
Comte de Brioche: Knew I
were occasionally visible.
bearing seemned to be a criticism
when it said. they were criminals) in a
And there's all
"Anybody been the end of February, recognised it!
Ume think of happy
apry sum pleasure, Madame.
(The for mo?" rest the state of very
maid enters.) of suspended
Mr Cockburn's
making arreste
mer holidays This was, the real stuff with replied. "Did I know the chap well ask me for some, encourag to sco Mme. du Font: Charlle personal-liko,"
once more might· Maid: Monsieur Sirop from zo. This animation.
miserable familly shrieking nd unpleasant, Then mores police arrived; He was smiling, tolerantly and what just came in, they asking advice to lessen their win- As 'ow many dozen of 'em there coming on doot from the road. haughtily at Lanning, and pot Nover, seen 'im, I say. Always ter hardships, but I have litle zis la'your lovour,
Number One, meanwhile, had caught a glimpse of the in the living-room согрве and came charging back down the passage, calling for his companion. He stuck hia head into the without any precautions at all-absolutely offered him- self to the poker.
kitchen
Three
"What's in 117" he asked.
Agitated
way.
Call from Gerald Cockburn, Ho was the only
"I've been back to the flat. callers! Gawd, what with keepin' I'll explain as we go," he replied. an eye on the furnace and all "Now, there's only one man on them delivery boya, i don't know duty-green velvet trousers,
What to do with them all was a problem. Tying I'm a stranger here, he might was!"
them up
was of doubtful think up some trick to stop me Police car
value. Could one, anyway, tie in the hall.
up three people with any "But he can't possibly stop
job was
clear of trouble. After that
Richmond
up
the
He dashed worthless envelope!
stairs found
по
one
case.
fiat,
Two guns
of
more
Dasily,
beautifully
GO
man
Marie, excited: Pape
to cut eff Lanning from dash from the, gardens to thol Therefore they will have to look Mom du Pont: One 'undred:
21
vulgar. methods of for
the Joan, chum,'
It bolted
cars.
“Not
public whom I do."
your
to offer.
Apart
and
Mme.
Wiz
wipershop 'ave called and wish
Dr du Pont to his wife: Ah,
Lonning heard them making a looking where he was going, people poppin' in and out of close examination of the cor And then his horse put its foot the garage what ain't got no
from telling them that Mme. du Pont: He is not my above him, and opening the suit- in a rébbit hole.
1 KOYE
backward son will be even 10eur (To mald) Request 'Im The nine
Allard is still out more backward because he will to enter. nine pairs of trousers
in front, because, I ain't picked Lanning's instant reaction was didn't surprise them at all. certainty that one of them you. All he can do is to follow to burst in on the party and tell He gathered from their con-
it up because a bloke's watchin be away from school for a whole That of it.
term, I con Been buyin' a drink after they should keep their sense of of wine.)
only suggest
(M, Sirop enters with a case But what versation that the Cockburn fat wouldn't get loose? And did you which he will. Walk into them all he knew.
Park by the main about Enid?, Enid
The cop sat up. The horse, hours? entered and as was
Or didn't. er "usband humour, If they ever had one alone in had been it matter? The Immediate
bowing to Mme. du That
the aware that it had broken all the like your face?"
M. Sirop, enough Richmond Park, and, behind her, natural
noʻhing like a good Font: Wiz ze compliments
of Instilled into to get Enid and gate. I shan't be far behind.
He waited and listened. Green green trousers who had shown murderer of tho on the rules of decorum
thug on
"If she had one, he wouldn't here is
when you have a tem- my employer, le laugh
Comte de bit". himself off the premises and velvet, who had been in the pirendy that he would stick at chesterfield, was presumed to be boot or let it proven; howell, he seemed to. But perature of 102 and your chest Brioche,
Nor did approve at hall, Was
Egitated by nothing to get that certainly
apparently
is full of sawdust, the same man who had knocked bolted.
Mme. du Pont: Your em... out his three companions and ult et being chased by a member then she don't know you like Moreover,
as germs cannot plbycur? (To Brioche) So you of that harmless it was up to Gerald Cock- the right of Enid.
live in locked them in the bathroom.
extreme cold may I sun ze wine-shop? burn and his opponents to outside Cockburn's fat to whom If he started up a conversation The
their-
·well-groomed hinder amazed. From the scraps with its
next holidays at the North fainly, Madame, For some time Comte de Brioche: But cer- explain themselves and their he could
renched an hour before he could which
him Lane parts. Still, after 50 yards it "Alf hour ago.".
Polo? The summer there is it 'as been my pleasure to supply motives to the police.
down again.
the polce that it was ning couldn't tell what their remembered its training-When
"Alone?" Lanning, carrying the suit- persuade
not likely to be much worse had been, but it was clear In Doubt, Stand Sull,
"Little chap with her. story He contented himself with case, descended to the hall, Enid urgent to collect Enid,
Like than a summer in England, and you wiz zo. best at ze lowest and her follower had gone on.
Explain
prices. didn't
rode as two peas they were, except the food will be better and Lanning mounted and
Dr du Pont: Ah, zen it is. 1 locking the three in the e
south
park that one's dark and the other's cheaper if Dad is good at catch- Comte de Brioche who is your The believe a lot of it. about
parallel wos
to walk out the only
was parked on He expected that at Hove boundary. He cantered gently, been to the 'airdresser.
ing bears.
loveur? the drive, facing the right way. moment the car would be driven for the horse was limping badly "You haven't seen a bloke in It was unlocked. He jumped away from over
But even a in, and drove for the park gates. also remembered for the first back to stables.
"Not unless you mean Blast it! An entrancing view time, with utter horror, "that he gentle canter was enough to one what was asleep in the of grass and trees and bracken, had two' loaded guns in his make him free of the park. He back of their no other glimpse of green pocket: That was going to take could go where a car could not, answered.
ARK
CROSS
ENGLAND
report, and dashed now, it would be a good quarter to hoe had taken the three It..generally pushed into shape. She's been here?" he asked, suggest that they spend
FINE LEATHER GOODS
FALCONERS
of
Austin and That was enough that the police
but
course.
to.
the
his head. He and ought to have been walked green trousers, have you?" the Mme du Pont's
and no Enid! The police car some explaining Int court, and no man on foot could catch
D.The
was a hundred and Afty yards expecially if the pair of toughs him behind, and pulling up rapidly, whose property they were denied
cops must have What the devil was he to do? any knowledge of thom.
thought him the most impudent Ho'd be held as a suspect for Meanwhile the
were fugitive from justice that ever police fun with days. His story was preposterous having
the roll of was; for, having assured him. at any rate without the corro- Victorian corsels in brown paper, self that Enid had not gone on boration of Enid and Gerald Judging by the laughter, some- Cockburn. And where was body was trying them on. They were certainly taking their hair
Enid7
The police car tried to crowd down, so there couldn't possibly him into the side of the road. be any, onlookers about.
An automatic movement. There
wasn't any kerb. He roared
across the grass, scattering a herd
of deer, and into the woodland
Holly tree
on his left. The police, taken Dared ho risk'a break while
by surprise and with a ditch they were so joyously decupled7
to negotiate, were half a minute it might be worth a try, even if he only had time to get rld of
behind him.
More people
were
end
Cover
and
no
of getting
change
Away
Unident
#
taxi," Charlie
TOMORROW: Laurence Meynell, author No. 3, takes over and con- tinues the story in the next two instalments. :
Journal
IN the last instalment of the French version of Mrs Dale's Diary Mme. Lulu Frou Frou, the married lady contortionist, called on Dr du Pont in the middle of dinner. The doctor's outraged family, Mme. du Pont
PARIS NEWSLETTER BY SAM WHITE
DOMINICI IS
ABOUT HIS
ANGRY GOATS
ze (
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Mme. du Pont, weeping: He not my loveur.
Marie, weeping; "Hols:sup- posed to be my loveur, my grandmama's ́old- loveur, and
ow my mama loveur
Comte de Brioche:: At 7ELI cannot be everybody's loveur
(The maid enters.) and Mald: Mime, Lulu Frou Frou ander oosband wish to seo za docteur.
(Mme, Frou Frou, followed by her husband, push past the maid. She flings herself into the doctor's arms.)
Mme. du shameless
the
Pont: She is a
Mme. Frou-Frou, embracing doctor:: You fave saved my little pigeon. She ly well and appy at last
Mme,du Fönt) / Who:le they title pigeon?
od ag
Mme. Frou-Frou: daughter. Your cosband, maky 'er well,
the pistols before he was caught.
Tho
polke.
round bonnet of the cor. Inch by ho wi izgled himself allently
Paris. He is allowed to amoke and, Royallet himself, but bellaves in (Mme, la: Bean enfernalij He jumped out, pretended to
his head.
ASTON DOMINICI, by the Dominici family or near-royally. His estranged
to receive food parcela sont surrounding himself with royalty Mime, le Brub; Lo Capitano; Lake to the one open path, dived shoulders appeared between the 77-year-old farmer He can have valtors, twice a wife is a duchess related to the brezzaire. My long lost brop (socio Brioche). My off it and wriggled back through, back wheels. There was no one the bracken under his own car about on that side but very charged with the murder week, but all members of the former Spanish royal family, paire That was about the one place the little
of the Drummond family, family who live on the Dominici, and one of his sons-in-law, is Mme. du Pont. Zen he le not police were unlikely to for all of
100%
form are forbidden to see him. a, prince, by your loveur. And aut is why he has now been committed for v halm,
le reached back &
He receives money from-th Furthermore, his principat send urze cheap wine For a CVA crerinder, adult store which he know most trial next November. Ha He receives, money from thèm
Dr du Pont: "And he is no strain and stresses, timately; it had been digging into continues to proclaim his the prison of between 8 and lawyer. La the Count de Cham Marie's favour, Ho J he thought, to have his ribs for the last 20 minutes. innocence, and 80. His chier worry soms to be daughter its housekeeper is a
brun who married to Laval's contale: bo developed a lot or imagination. He rose to his krices and fung variety ・・・ of short-term ["in", the last couple of hours. It. had been the same in the war, in thick, undergrowth som stod prisoners who have been about the fate of his farm and counters, private secretary Pro-Frou is not your
that it will bo la a marquis, and if before the. ponibility
web wel waters or marriage of his two daughters, át zo wino Strains and, stresses - well, they yo
yards to the right of the car lodged in his cell in the
their chaperons were a princess loveure received cod molecular While it was describing its high hope that he would make a
recently sirve through the air ho fall confession have failed to some news about which he come and a countess The police car drow up along flat, and prayed that the police provide the authorities with plains bitlyn pact of his goat Palio'
Patino's oldest into the underwing in solto of the current any new information. Ished he could tell them aberp
changes in any material.
Flagrand," the constables
King!
corsets, i would:
their time and. It was. They sur velvet troue holly true lega
Boggers!= they wanted had to
HM IDE: ther: cotild be
had
20
herd has been sold by his wife.
He banged, aureat deal in GISELE MARRIES Sage married by the year that: kö had been prison and has lostɔmuch"
the long standing romance Patin
between 31-year-old fish' «Gilsele Pascal and Prince.
me, du Pont: And
Dr du Pont: And
daughter is Prince de FIheldon- 'front
loveur
Dr da luvours,
Gangril Post Office