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-(London Express Service).
THE PROFESSOR
NOTICED him in the crowded Arab cafe in Damascus because he did not look like the kind of man who enjoys listening to a band of man- dolins and tambourines in a room so full of smoke that one could hardly breathe.
Another story in this could-be-true series
to set you guessing.
DID IT HAPPEN?
The answer will be published tomorrow
from
His gentle volce and smile prevented the question seeming abrupt.
"Journalist," I said. "Full time?"
"Yes, At preverit,” "Hard work?"
Very""
WAS
He was obviously English and about sixty, with a lean and long de- ascetic face licate hands. He WAR wearing a tweed coat, a white silk scarf, and a pair of steel spectacles perched on his thin, slightly sun- He leaned back and sighed burried nose. He was sitting afraid so," he said."
"Directly I saw
you I at a marble-topped table
"What do you moan?” close to mine, and as he "Those lines on the forehead the mouth--that listened to the noisy band he and round sipped a glass of arak. I harassed look in the eyes. I can always spot a man who has to reckoned he must be a pro- work with his brain to gain a fessor from the University living." at Beirut who was out on a вpree.
Empty chair
At that moment be turned and saw me watching him.
"English? I thought so," he said. Though you might have been American, Won't you join me for a drink?"
"Thanks." I said I was bored with the music, and his face interested me,
-
"Don't you have to?" He smiled at me,
"Only occasionally," he said, and gazed down placidly at his delicate hands.
work?" 1
had
What
asked,
your
The bottle of orok arrived.
by Robin Maugham
ROBIN MAUGHAM campaigned
In the Middle East during the war and has been back there several times, since. Barn in 1916, he was educated at Eton and Trinity Hall, Cambridge; and became a barrister, but it is on ́d writer-live travel books and three navels--that he is most He lives in widely known.
Cadogan Square,
"I'm waiting for the lady just like the rest of them." Bald.
he
"What lady?" "Aischa, of course. She'll appear any minute now,"
"And who is Abschra?" 'You're a jourrialist, and you don't know why this cafe is packed? Really, you must keep your
ear closer to the ground. Who is Alscha, indeed! My good young man, she's a great singer, the biggest-prima donna of the Levant."
"Nonsense,"
I sald crossly. "I've never heard of her."
Blue spangles
At that moment the mando- lin players stood up on the platform and twonged their in- struments vigorously. Suddenly the room was a volley of clap- ping and some husky cheering as a woman swept on to the platform and stood shyly twist- Ing a mauve chiffon handker chial in her hands while she walted for the appinuse to sub- alde ond smiled în acknowledg- ment of her reception.
She was of good height and well built, Spangles flickered about her chest and round her hips. Her right hand
was weighed down by six massive He poured out three They were positively desolated gold bangles. Round the fleshy inches of the colourless liquid to see me go. But I just couldn't
wrist
of her left hand was then bear the work an instant longer clamped into each of our glasses.
on qutsize American added some water and watched teaching all those noisy fur watch the drinks grow cloudy
before bulent young men." he spoke.
A wink
When I got up to join him, he leaned forward with a polite
"What would you say my job bow
his ulender was?" he asked, and waved hand towards an empty chair. beside him. I decided that ho was a little drunk.
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glanced round the cafe. Every lable was now occupied. The band had stopped playing. but
Prima donna
a hundred Syrians were "I told you she was the talking as if each moment might
SHE smirked in approval and blew me a kiss before she
disappeared through a door beside the platform.
You'd be amazed how like you The room was unbearably hot I was once. But I learned my 1 Anished my drinks quickly. I lesson at last."
I thought that it would be unfait spoll the professor's little
"What lesson?**
A
He stared at me bléarily. "Do you swear on all you most sacred you'll never me away?" he asked.
"I promised."
Slowly and deliberately drained his glass.
hold
give
he
In to
to
Joke by following him through the door
out
that led to
Alscho's dressing-room; BO I left by the main entrance.
The night
wonderfully cool, and" I strolled slowly back towards my hotel. I didn't believe one word "the professor had said.
Wallet gone
"I learned that I had no duty to the world." he said, "I learn- ed that life was a party which most people worked make their way to the sideboard to get food and drink, I'learn-
I was crossing the tile bridge ed that the clever thing was to
remembered that I had to pay help oneself." slip in by the side entrance and that spans the Barrada when I He lolled back comfortably in my hotel bill the next morning. Automatically I patted my, his chair. I felt embarrassed and turned started my new career by breast pocket. It was empty. away from him towards the stealing Bfty pounds from My wallet had gone.
Lebanese banker,
added.
At that moment I also re- "And I've done quite well ever
membered the professor's hand resting lightly round my should- er. The cafe was at least 20° minutes away. Cursing myself, I looked round for a gharry, but there was not one in sight.
be their last chance of speech biggest prima donna," the pro- fessor said, and began to shake "This place hardly strikes me quietly with laughter, as an oasis of peace and quiet," I said,
The professor nodded his head dreamily.
"Professor," I replied without hesitation. He clapped his hands to sun-
He looked very pleased with mon the waiter and ordered
a himself.
"'FL a bit raucous, I confess. whole bottle of arak, I protested
"You're almost right," he But then this is the only nigirl's, that one glass of the stuff was said. "I was a professor, In work I shall have to do all the enough for me, but his Arabic Beirut. as a matter of fact"
week. was far better than mine, no he So my guess had been quite won.
accurate.
"What's your profession?" he asked as soon as the waiter had left us.
"And now?" "I've retired." he said. "It was quite voluntary, I assure you.
THE SULTAN IN THE SPOTLIGHT: !
I stared at him in amazement, "You've come here to work?" The professor slowly shut his right eye and opened it again in a broad wink.
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THE LONG TREK TO EXILE
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Paris. Ben Youssef, who has now family, choosing a room with
A in a lonely, drab hotel between
central figure in the dispute floor. His chief distractions are
platform.
Alscha smiled once again, since." handed a yellow shawl to the Lambourine player, tossed back her greasy black hair on to her massive shoulders, waggled her body once violently, and burst into an Arabic song.
he
Mischievous
only
Obviously he was not drunis, but mod. I thought it As I hurried round, the last corner I saw a man fahuling The professor leaned over to wine) to famour mind.
towards me, I was the throw "And why did you come here 1990. tonight?" I asked.
me and put his arm shoulder.
round my
"The name of her song in Arabic," he said between gaspi,
too
I bolove, now, that when he "You've prpraised not to give saw me coming towards him he Hesitated. But phaps that was "Is Sing for me gently, gently meihway?" w
a trick) of ima ration, for a second later by hand dipped "Certaintly."
peered to my yds and into hit Breast pocket and pro- then nodded his head as I dated my wardt which he
waved at me
merrily. satisfied.
"Didn't you see (Alacha's arm? he asked In a hoarse whisper..
The thought of it was much for him, and he begun to shake and snuffle again.
"Either be quiet or get out,” I hissed into his ear,
•
"This seemed to amuse ́ him his still more and he buried face in his arms.
A frenzy
*
"Your wallet!" he cried. Grimly I took the wallet from his hand and counted the tes Those bangles, Not one was mising
The Aphetigan wristwatch?"
They were self gold."
"Your really meat 6.kouse me."
I now beges to supoch that in he value I always have
Ho bowed done once again
his drunken, mischievous way been absent-minded." he was trying to tease me **_and__shifffed away leaving, me decided to play hi home.
confused, and uncertain.
The inhabitants of the small As she bellowed her, song she art those bangles won't coghe
över ho17 ho nakod Gold b'ingles You know the term at vch a fleet of American cars, every Friday, to a mosque which
'I turned back towards Aischa,
ogitato fier body 40 began curiously. Her head and should- sharply. ars and dent remained still,
N exiled monarch, living accepted the French plan, is the bare walls and a mattress on the France and the 20-year-old Westerns films and a in, Madagascar, this week Moroccan nationalists who powerful radio. saw his hopes of returning clamour for his return,
Three years ago he possessed town hardly ever see him. He home turn brighter.
largo ретвова! fortune, goes out only once a week He is the deposed Sultan 2.
palaces, a of Morocco, Sidi. Mohammed a wife, and family, and 40 con- he has personally restored at a Ben Youseef. And he has cubines.
cost of £1,500. waited three years for this Today he lives an isolated life, hardly leaving his hotel ot moment.
Antsirabe. It is a spa town, but The 44-year-old ex-Sultan just now there are only two met General Catroux, an old other guests taking the waters friend of his and one-time there.. French Minister for Air, and M. Henri Yriasou, pri- vate secretary to the French With him is his entourage of a confined life. It was a picture As Aischa bowed round the room.
He gazed at me seriously, 30, including his wife, two sons, taken of bis eldest daughter she noticed the professor, ngho Foreign Minister.
three daughters and eight con- bathing in a county swimsuit at was apparently sobie cubines. Altogether they occupy a Casablanca, bathing pool which trollably
men.
FORTUNES HALVED
...
re halved.
AN UPROAR His sons,
their carly twenties, sometimes sit on the hotel terrace drinking coca-cola or swim in the bathing pool; the ex-Sultan, never,
His throw daughters also lead
veidāts” “udisoen alez,”
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but the rest of her body, which as do. Those thick bargles There had V un obvious We considerable, wobbled and were given hoe by admiring Sulge in his bre-pocket after waggled from side to side, The Shelichs and Wishes en hoh had handed he the wallet. band-players were not aminter was just a sig of a girl. You'd That was why I counted the
off her sat notes
ea to cartul, Sikidenty-I ested in this activity, though never get them
of Knother robson, fors one felt that they were not par- nok without file or a blow-
the nire. Per po the "gold ticularly keen on It. The audi- lamp."
trangles of the latest period" dili however, were, working! ence.
dasten with a clip. themselves into a trendy.
The applause was deatening.
in
Little joke
ber early period he mild "But "I agree about the bangles of He also met three Moroc-
a kiss the bangles of tier inter period, can leaders who arrived by halt the hotel, it costs him caused an uproar in Morocco approval and blew me
prior to his dethronement. before she disappeared: through fasten with clip or so I am air with the two French Youtu
rollably informed!!! hin fortunes pro
His harum, composed of two a door, beside the platform.
Cirensalmes two Barber gizin, The feat of cars is reduced to a
Suddenly he clapped his hands The professor based his head, for the water and Bung down CENTRAL FIGURE
alave girls, two blondé Maurilans vary & Citroen and a 2 Ford
Studebaker. His hartam dwindled and two boal black regress, His eyes were red from laughter some Syrian note onto the
and drink General Catroux told him on the long trek to exile from His wife, the CASA MEIE all in the night's work,"
Princçes his Government's plans for 40 to 4
„verschis doctor who Morocco-and for hia per one of the Sultan's problems recently gave birth to ftud, he nuded.
at Antsirabe has been to keep brought all the Sultan's children sonal future
warm, in winter, despite 30 into the world, the Dependant on the meeting and electric freel he ordered from Rabac to end birth SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. the exultan's reactions; was winter. For the stock-It at an. apa insult of the.
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