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take a couple of blankets as billets might be somewhat "primitive."
When I arrived at Bath Station, I was told to go to a large hut in Parade Gar- dens where I should learn the name and address of my billetor.
I went to the hut, and in due course was handed type-written slip, Bicknall, Mount Hall."
"A tartar
L
"Lady
Trevor
two
The house was nearly miles away at the top of a steep hill. 1 collected my suitcases and eventually got a taxi.
Directly I gave the driver the address, he looked at me with an odd expression, then asked
"You billeted there? You are! Well, I hope you stay longer the servants do. They average about a fortnight. Lady B. is a Tartar all
I right." He tapped his forehead signi- ficantly, then added:
$18.00
"Yes, about a fortnight, The 15.00 last maid I took there I asked
her if she'd like me to wait" 25.00
the family consist
• Out of the blitz came many human stories, to be told by writers who deal in FACT and those who "create FICTION,
The incident related here might have happened but did it? That is the talking point you are given.. every day in these stories.
-by CLAUDE · HOUGHTON
Claude
Houghton belongs to the select com- pany who have suc ceeded 10, reconciling civil
service
with literary Inspiration.
Like Pepys his department
is the Admiralty, where be has worked as an accountant: since the 1914-18 war.
Like Trollope, W. W. Jacobs, and Nicholas Monsarrat. it is as a novcilst he has written 20 that he has won interna- tional esteem.
G. Chesterton praised his first book of verse, and plays and short stories have also poured from his prolite pen Educated at Dulwich Callege, he is married, and tives at Amersham.
During dinner, when we were alone, Lady Bicknall said:
"Besides, my dear child, you can't go into that revolting tun nel dressed like that. Why take UNIT:cessary risks! It's mugh sater in the house."
"I'm all right. Come on." A bomb tell about two hundred yards away, creating a dense cloud of dust. Breathing with difficulty, we groped towards the Three opening of the funnel. steep stone steps led into it. Some weeks ago Dora had put three chairs in the tunnel-"Just "I've made a find. I've got a
in case." new maid-Dora, She's been m service at a good house, Do let sity. Over an hour passed. The The raid increased in inten- me know what you think of her only thing that disturbed Lady Her father's in the Mercantile
tile Bicknall was Dora's wholly in- Marine. She went into service adequate attire.
The raid did because she wanted to educate not exist for her. At last her herselt.
You know what I
became so emphatic mean. Most superior girl! Such that Dora said she'd go into the a relief after the brutes we've house for more clothes. had."
Before long Lady Bicknall tö Dora. was deeply attached
It was a miracle, Dora might have been her daughter. She once said to me that she'd be proud to go to the Royal Garden Party with Dora,
"There's something about that You know girt isn't there? what I mean?"
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I went to my recm but, quarter of an hour later, Dora came to tell me that Lady Bick- nall wanted to see me."
"She seems very excited about something."
"She does?"
"Very."
I went to the drawing room to And an exultant Lady Bick- nall impatiently waiting for me.
"That was
They Just Never Go To Sleep
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
London.
NOWS suffer so much
from
insomnia that
they never get to sleep during the whole of their lives, a scientist claims.
Dr Clive Balch has been watching them day and night. He found he could never creep up on unseen or unheard.
A
COW
A cow, he says, may some- times shut its eyes sleepily for a few moments, but it never loses conscicuness. And the trouble is DIGESTION.
If a cow lies down on its side. for more than 3 minute or two its stomach cannot work properly and it develops severe indigestien. So a cow can only sit down to rest and even then it has to keep its head up.
Most of the time a COW is 1ts lying down it has to keep jaws moving to chew the cud and this makes sleep impossible. Dr Balch used an automatie device at the National Institute
for Dairying Rese
Research Reading.
to see if his cows ever nodded. off while he was not locking.
that a cow's
deep
He
fourd
breathing rarely lasts for more than five minutes at a‘time.
"Observations of the Cows during
several periods of slow.
deep breathing disclosed no foss of consciousness," he reports the scientific journal, Nature,
in
the
Any more insoler scientist
faurra? Yes..
has told Dr Balch that sheep,, too, never sleeps
And zoo
Say deer, antelope, and probably camels have the same trouble.
And Cats
LEFT-HANDED cats are twice
as commen as right-handed cats, Mr John Cole, an Oxford University scientist. reports. after, careful cat-watching ex- periments.
Mr Cole tested the paw pre- ferences of 60 cats by showing them a piece of meat in a glass tube. The cats could get the the vicar from meat only by putting one paw
Clavering is near Dora's home. Clavering. He has just gone. I haven't seen him for a long time, into the tube and clawing it.
out. I told him what a grand person while Mr. Cole noted which paw Each cat was tested 100 times
Dom is."
After a pause, she went on:
"He told me something in coR- fidence. I can't mention names, of course. He told me that Dora is the illegitimate daughter of Lord C."
She added: "Directly I saw her I knew had good blood! I can always tell And I'm never wrong."
WORLD
I said I'd go, but Dora was certain that I wouldn't
know she what to get. So, despite frenzi- ed protests from her ladyship, Dora left the tunnel.
"Gct ane of my "fur coats,
yes, there is something child.".
about her."
She crouched over the top. Then came the night of the step, watching Dora. And there
she remained her cloud
I'll not forget my first impres- sion of her. Nearly 80, thin to Bath raid. emaciation,
of
ravaged features, I'll never know why-when wispy white hair intermittently
of a
fantastically tanned
by
fn. the
used for the job.
cats He found that two every 10 consistently used right hand while twice as many left-handed. The rest were ambidextrous, using one paw no "more often than the other.
were
Cats which had a strong preference for using a particular paw seemed to be brighter than the ambidextrous cats at figur- ing out how to get the meat
The experiments were part of research programme to in- COPYRIGHT RESERVEDvestigate left-handed tendencies Cole in animals generally, Mr has already shown that many DID IT REALLY HAPPEN?
YES
you until tomorrow
NO.
a
monkeys are left-handed.
Atom Fuel
BRITISH atom scientists have
succeeded in "breeding" atomic fuel, it is officially re- vealed in a report published of" when work at the Harwell
series
fanatical pale eyes and a cloud the siren sounded that night-I and
She looked like the three Put your tick in the space I'd never blast. cf rebellious wispy-white hair. got up and dressed. It King Lear had had a wife-ir dene that before and there had witches in Macbeth rolled into above and keep this panel by
hundreds of warnings. one. Shakespeare's play it would be been nice casting to give Lady Bick- Literally hundreds. nal the part. She came What's
very old, distinguished military family and her voice proclaim- There's
family. She's od that fact. She had a fanatical lived alone in that great house belief in the virtues of "blood." 25.00
since her husband died. Gca For her, blood was everything. 35.00 knows how long ago that was!
Proper Tartar I can tell you!"
8.50
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Explosions
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atom
This means that atomic power stations can so be built that as fast
as they "burn up" uranium fuel they generate more for further use.
When Dora crossed the court- the answer will be given-with | station,
story n. this yard on her return, two incen- another diaries fell almost at her feet, by She got some earth from Lower bed extinguished th incendiaries then joined the impatient Lady Bicknall who had gone to meet her.
As I went downstairs, three explosions shook the terrific I was given a room in the old
house, I found Lady Bicknall A few minutes later a bomb 7.50
I pondered this information part of the house.
and Dora in a flimsy nightdress fell in the garden, with the re-s 7.50 till the taxi reached the top of
and a light dressing gown-in sult that the courtyard was no The
taxi driver had not
and the tunnel the h, then turned sharply to
exaggerated her treatment of the drawing room. I was about longer visible
I the right.
servants. They came and went to make an inane remark when was filled with acrid dust. with bewildering rapidity.
four shattering explosions, in did not know whether the bombi She them as quick succession, rocked the was a large or smal one, but it always referred
made a noise like the end of the "They"-in a tone
which im house,
world. plied that they were orang- cubangs.
5.00
4.00
1.00
10.00
Fanatic
T
Mount Trevor Hall had
1
spacious courtyard, over which
For the first few weeks the tranquil aura of a long dired alone, then her ladyship 24.00 vanished age brooded benevo- desided that I should dice with
1.50 lently. At the back was a many her
terraced garden, bounded by 3
I said I'd go and see what was happening.
I opened the front door.
Raging fires flares tracer bullets ominous columns of moke. Everything looked like
15.00 wood, through which a serpen-" New and again friends of hers hell on Guy Fawkes Night. As
3.00
tire
Dora said to me in a whisper: "We'd better see if the house is still there." -
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path led to the stables. One dined with us. Their conversa- Mount Trevor Hall was by far. But when we emerged from wing
of the house was compara- tion war a new experience for the biggest building in the the tunnel, the immediate prob tively modern-the been built in 1769.
rest
It seemed strange to me that Lady Bicknall had lived alone shams?"
Frend-
had me.
"Do you know the
"Oh, yes! You mean the Berkshire Frendshams."
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vicinity, it would clearly be lem was breathing and, anyhow, regarded
eminently smoke, dust and debris made li desirable target.
impossible to see anything. had little doubt that when the air cleared, it would be tragically obvious that Mount Trevor Hall had slid to shapeless ruini.
"It will kill her- it's gone” "You think so, Dora?" "I'm certain. It's much more than a house to her. Difficult to what I mean. It's-ifs her It's family. It's all the past. tradition. You know-every- thing she values. Her way of life. Το her,
I turned-to find Dora, study ing the scene with complete detachment. The airplanes were so low that you could clearly see Bath the Swastikas on them. had no defences of any kind.
"We'll have to get her out of the house,
use" Dora said slowly. Every name mentioned was "She won't want to come be- ins.antly linked with that of a cause she's certain that every country. This gave me the thing the Germans do strange sensation that the popu- ridiculous. All the same, we'll lation of England had dwindled have to get her into that tunnel to a few families. To the first off the forecourt." time
my life, I suffered from "But you've next to nothing claustrophobia.
on!"
"Can't help that. There's no
say
that
house
Yes, tha
that's right-England." "Perhaps it is, to her." when the air became clearer,
In due course the bombing time to waste. You wait here." the house dimly emerged---but
started. Almost every night
German bombers roared over- Head on their way to Bristol..
Rationing became stricter: ser. vents harder to get
.......
*Safer inside
KOMENDUO
the modem wing had been hit, The all-clear went at dawn. A dense mass of stationary: amoke bung aver Bath
Birds were singing rapturous.
just be
Some weeks later
was with
When I came in one evening 1 A few minutes later she rely. encountered a new maid--Dors, turned, supporting the fragile About 17, magnificent auburn Lady Bicknall, who asserted that fore Dors joined one of the hair, resolute features, fine eyes, it was quite unnecessary to leave women's services-I She carried herself well and as the house and that the Germans Lady Bicknall in the drawing I subsequently discovered had were making even greater fools room, when a visitor was a
nounced. Instinctive tact
of transelves than usual:
PETER CHURCHILL
Did yesterday's story————-Two Cups of Coffee, by Robert Henriques-actually happen? The answer is: YES.
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