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MET the Pasha once shortly before he died. But he didn't tell me this story himself. I had it from relation of a relation of one of his relations, but I hope it still bears some relation to the truth!

“I'll bet a certain sergeant's parents don't give a damn, where their daughter is.”

The Pasha's

ZAT AVEBBEN LEARNERS DAT MELDALENSBA

Cigarette

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Ho know that the funeral would become an excuse for

a revolt...but the Pasha calmly went on smoking as the

procession fllod past. FACT or FICTION? Tomorrow the

whole

answer will be published.

hold-up had occurred.

Locking over the heads of the

Deliberately, without haste, the hand that lald hi # cigarette camte forward and

he pressed the burning tip against corpse's hand,

the

By then he was an old . man, very distinguished this particular funeral had I. Somewhere beyond the oppo- looking and very tired after can't remember, most probably site side of the square, further a lifetime of public ser- both. But that doesn't matter, up the processional route, à vice in Command of the What does matter is that the Egyptian Police. Yet, even detamined to see it, and the population of Cairo were in prosaic London, he still Pasha knew that it was usmc crowd, he tried to see the reason

to try worl had the romance of the East as his life was about him. And us

I stop them seeing it. All he could for it. But he couldn't see and,

hope for was that the ceremony therefore, had to guess. And, by the angry crowd. on looked at him I could picture would pass off peaceably, that what he guessed was far from symbol of authority, his own him casily enough, tall and straight and British, in his Egyptian, who, through his

to

*

the

the body of the unknown comforting-namely, that the police,

He took another puff at his cigarette and listened for the sound of the first rifle shot...

uniform, standing on the US would

reach the burial plan, that is to say, according to

steps of a hotel in a Cairo

had become a martyr funeral was going according to who wished before the crowd got out the plan of those

aquare, a quarter of a cen- of hand, and that, finally, the to turn it into a revolt. tury or more ago, on the morning of the funeral,

citizens of Cairo would return to their lawful oc- cupations without further blood- shed.

Let

I don't know Cairo, but I Imagine that a aquare in Calro is, by and large, rather like a

As he square in any other town. By

stood there,.

calm- that I mean that it 20 doubt smoking a

elgarette, provides ample standing-room ing

while the for those spectators who, in any country, like to mill around a

procession ed up, his non- public ceremony of whatever

chi alanco

was kind.

only on the sur- face, For he also knew that, in all probability, the

Erratic city

Not that the Pasha wanted this particular attract a crowd.

+

~by WILLIAM DOUGLAS

HOME

THE CHILTERN HUNDREDS and The Manor of North- stead are only a sample of the plays penned by the dramatist brather of the 14th for of Home. Half-Term Report, pub- lished last year, contained his candid commentary of his first 40 years--years inte which ha has managed to crom Eton, Oxford, the Royal Academy oi Dramolic Art, acting in the Werf End, the Royal Armoured Corps, and persistent attempts to enter Parliament. He lives with his wife and two chlidren at East

funeral was going to be used by disruptive elements as an excuse ceremony to to touch off a revolt. He was, For from it, therefore, undeceived by In the sultry, explosive atmo- sillness in the square, sphere of trat

Meon, Honts. erratic city, he cognised it as that kind of tight would much have preferred it if stience that our own generation

the

the He re-

corpse of the Egyption has learned to associate with the student killed in the rlot on the split-second hush before the previous day could have been buraling of a high explosive borne to its last resting place in bomb. private and by night. "But that was not to be.

After all, crowds display, and funerals best of all, especially

By now the whole procession had halted right down

to its Lail, and the bler, with the corpse thereon, rested at the Pasha's feet at the foot of the stops.

Not impressive

--

He knew that he must act at Egyption, can stage a riot based once to stop the riot. He also on martyrdom if the chief actor knew that on his action, and the runs out on his role. outcome of it, hung the lives of

I don't know Cairo, as I have many in the crowd and many of

although already sald, but I imagine that his policemen, and perhaps he didn't think of it, the Chief of Polloe, like any his own..

other Chief of Police, had access But what was he to do? And to a whisky bottle, if I'm right, if he did it, was it his imagina- and if the Pasha wasn't a sunshine or foetotaller, I hope that I may be ton or a trick of had he observed the least bit forgiven for assuming that he flicker of a movement on the had a double in the hotel bar. martyr's bler?

He cortainly deserved one. So, Well, he would soon find out. I reckon did the corpse. deliberately, without haste, the hand that held his cigarette.

He looked down. He had came forward and he pressed the burning tip against the never seen the body before. It corpse's hand. had been guarded jealously over- night by those who meant to use it on the morrow for their own disruptive purposes. In itself, he decided, it was not Impressive

Scream of pain

For an eternal moment there

which in the posthumous power

it exercised over the fate was silenco. Then the air was of the of the

lens

of thousands of shattered by a scream of pain. that people in milling square did And, as if screamed," the corpse it assure a mantle of importance leaped up

and

ran into the that It never wore info, crowd.

Indeed, it ware le else. Just.

n

no

*

one, not

even

an

a dirty cloth wound

Well, that, of course, was that. carelessly about its joins. Otherwise it For

panic-

At any moment now, he felt, was entirely naked, just es the rule of law might abdicate naked as the elemental in favour of mob rule. And when ulready spreading through tho stricken fear of the unknown

By now, the leading nies of that happened, in the middle of crowd. the funeral cortegs were moving this unpredictable, inflamed; und love any past the hotel where the Pasha far from friendly crowd, who probably stood. But, as the tail of the knew where it would end? funerals procession reached it, just such

The murmur grew, the crowd surged forward, and the police unhitched their carbines,

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Did Teatritzy's, stary»- the Kayi, hy: “atrick: Kaldmus happen?" "The newash it 1, HO.

1535= "One Lump-or Two?

But the Pasha stood,

with a religious or a political an emergency as he had dread- The Pasha had a shrewd idea. background. Which background cd arose.

I would end with a mase attack "gazing at the corpse.

CHICAGO'S UNDERWORLD WEARS A NEW LOOK AT A

Garden Party For Gangsters

BE

from NEWELL ROGERS

Chicago, ordinary garden party. The 300 Never in the history of Outside, two cprionds of gun-

from ali COTICTS of EJEWELLED, gaily guests

America had driven up in bullet mobster dared appear in sissy away busybodies, sightseers and American gangsterdom bad, a men patrolled the streets to keep gowned women cluster-proof limousines. ed around the spouting

"short pants," hairy knees ex- possible assassine anxious to champagne fountain on the They were the top drawer posed. Here was Tony in blue muscle in on the policy racket. lawn turned and stared. gangsters of the underworld and figures sports shirt, dark blue. ', Blueblack jowls of men their "molls." drinking · beer out of solid At one tablo swigging beer alver tankards and eating was Joe "Elg Caesar di Varco barbecue steaks at tables wearing grey fansels and a plank under red, green and blue sporla shirt with black stitching

on the collar, stripod umbrellas stopped moving in amazement.

shorts, high blue socks, bisok Every little while waiters shoes picture of squat broad poured two cases of champagne into the fountain to keep it host tegance.

Money for Tony's famous dogs sizzied in the barboue pits. bubbling, Beofsteaks and hot

parties comes from the nickeln and quarters 'lot milions: who i play the numbers gama" in cities from coast to coast. The player --

For -- their host, the king of

selects three numbers' from one Through the trees and among Ausserlën's numbées : racket....... Jake, "Greasy Thumb” Guzik, to 78 and bets they will come up the rose bushoes loudspeakers sometimes, loown as the squfew impeccable white short in order of his abjection in a broadcast hot jazz and⠀ 2015 of Lake Tort was coming viceved shirt and dark blue drawing. The chances are 10,000 musto. In the basement rumpus ersts" and shacks was eitbinge with Paul to one against him. But Tony room the men hot down the stove Belwcon lo (Capone brigace man là nước, rung: the numbers, game ricket played poker, with hundre tall while pillars of friar southerns who wong a Blue-brown checked. It hál, made"alm, more iban: ■ -dollar blile, plantation-type salon out sports milet wills grey: slacht také: Chicago Weering Bermuda-

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