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THE CHINA MAIL, Z. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1956.
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In Mid-Atlantic the bidding mounts...and so does the danger
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JAMES BOND, secret service agent trying to break a diamond-smuggling gang, has killed the American boss, Sertiffimo Spang. He escapes from the gang's headquarters in the Arizona desert with beautiful Tiffany Case. His task now is to Hnk the American end of the pipeline with the mysterious Rufus B. Saye, of The House of Diamonds in London's Hatton Garden.
UST 10 hours after leaving Los Angeles they roared over La Guardia and turned
out at sea for the long run
11 was eight o'clock on Sunday morning and there were few people about ♫t the airport, but won official stopped them as they were walking in off the tarmac and led them to u side en- trance where there were two young men waiting, one from Pinkertons and one from the State Department.
While they talked aborat Othe fight, their luggage was brought round and they, were taken to a side door and out to where a smart maroon Pontiac was waiting, its engine purring anek tho blindin Bir rear pulled down,
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were sme then there AND
empty hours in the apartment belonging to the Pinkerton man inti, ut around four In the afternoon, but with a quart: of an hour between them, they elimbing up the covered great safe, gangway into the black British belly of the Queen in Elizabeth and were ut Int
with deck their cabins on M their doors locked against the workh
were
But, as Orst Tiffany Case and ther James Bond went into the mouth of the gangway, a dock- hand
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'DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
The new thriller
By
IAN FLEMING
Chapter Ten
loud-
gongway before the speakers began calling for all visitors to leave the ship please.
A
And one of the business man wes youngishi, with a pretty of pro- fuct and glimpse maturely white hair under the stelson with the waterproof cover, and
on the the turlefcase he was carrying was B. Kifteridge.
naine
And the other fallish
with
big. a WAG
u nervous
glare in the small eyes behind the bl-focals, and he was sweat- and constantly Ing profusely
with wiping his face round btg handkerchief.
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And the name on the label of and his grip wae W. Winter,
As
lopedi front shoremen's Union had walked swiftly to a phone booth in the Customs shed.
two
later And Bree hours American business men weTV dropped at the dockside by black scan ax were just Time to get through
tion
a
in
Immigra
and Customs and up the
below the name, in red ink, was written: "My blood group is F." Elizabeth the Queen easily
along the broad Atlantic swelt and the soft night wind thrummed and moaned in the masthead, the radio acrials were alrendy transmitting morse of the duty operator the listening car of Portishead,
the duty opera And what for was sending at exactly 10 pm. Eustom Standard Time, was
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BOLU TION ESSENTIAL YOU STATE PRICE PAYABLE IN DOLLARS. The signature waa WINTER.
Ал heur Laber Portisheadi radio was xnding a short cable addressed: WINTER FIRST CLASS PASSENGER QUEEN
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And the operator Winter in the passenger list and put the message in an envelope and sent it down to a cabin on Bond A deck, the dock below
two and the girl, where
in playing gin-rummy their shirt-sleeves, and as the stewword left the cabin be heard the fat man say cryptically to Badr, white with the ຫມາກກ
It's "Whaddiya know, Booful! 20 grund for a rub these days. Boy-oh-boy:"
[Bond and Tiffany. aftor keeping to their cabins for some the time.
eventuallys
DISH'N- smoking-roomL, pers are about to gamble on the ship's daily run].
pro where
to
DRAWING
BY ROBB
There hoir. The soft brown eyes under by a buzz of comment.
The general had been no question It was the Jong lashes.
man. would effect of prettiness, spalled by obvious that the
the High Fleld The the fleshy nose over the, wide, take thin mouth, now open in a weather was perfect. The Queer square empty smile like the grin must be doing at least 30 knots. Did he know something? Had of a letter-box.
brdbod someone bridge? Was a storm coming running Was a bearing
011
the
Two hundred and fifty," said he the big man mechanically.
Bond
10 turned
Tiffany. up?
hot? "Ever see those two before?"
for The
auctioneer rapped Nope," she add definitely.
pordon, "Never did.
some- rilence. "I beg your Look like
те Or Sir," he said, "but did you say thing from Brooklyn to
of cloak-and-sulters the
Low
Field? a couple
the Carment District a prunchy, from
"Yes.' THE SUNCT
The auctioneer, rapped again. Jovial Midlands businessman Why? Mean anything to you?"
Bond
that caso, ladies and another "fa them with a red carnation
"No," he said doubt gentlemen, we will now proceed to auction the High Fleid. buttonhole of his dinner jacket, glance. repped on his table for silence fully. "No, I don't think so."
cap- There was a burst of clapping Madar," he turned with a bow and announced that the tain's estimate of the next day's in the room and the auctioneer towards the girl in pink, "would
on 789 beamed and rapped the you care to open the bidding?" run lay between 120 end
"Ladies and gentlemen,” table. miles, that any distance shorter
Lag
whis *Tis then 720 was the Low Field and he said triumphantly. anything longer the High Field. really splendid. Three hundred. BOND
in the
A steward offered the box of foldet numbers to the richest locking woman in the room and
pleco then handed up the
10 paper she had drawn auctioneer,
"Well, ladies and gentlemen, here we have an exceptionally good number in start with. 738. Right in the top range and since 7 lot of new faces here tonight (laughter) 1 think we can all agree that the aça exceptionally calm.
is
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on
gave
was toneless, Indifferent.
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turned to Tiffany. That was a queer busineæ, pounds I am bld by the charm- ing lady in the beautiful pink he said. "Extraordinary thing
Sca's as calm as glass. (Heads turned to do. evening dress."
shrugged his shoulders, of and craned and Bond could see He
"Who
is "The only answer is that they the the mouths saying.
The matter he know something." Sir she?") "And now,
towards the fat mane was of no interest anyway. turned
"May I say £3257"
He turned and looked table.
"Three hundredi and fifty." lessly at the two men and then
let his eyes y acem to be i
swing past and away said the fat mon
voice from them. "Four hundred." The
quite interested in us."
glanced Tiffany
past shoulder. "They're not looking THE pini girl chattered at us now," she said "I figure "Well thank heavene he's THE
they're just a couple of dopes, angrily at her escort Bond!. sid good auctioneer," sa
The white-haired guy's looking "That was a good number and man suddenly looked boreck.
this weather goes cheap
"Any increase on £5007" said stupid End the fat man's suck- and nobody falls overboard. The the auctioneer. He now knew ing his thumb. They're serowy."
"Sucicing his thumb?"
soid a packet this that he had squeezed all
Bond. Ho ran his hand High Field' cost
dis gct out of the room. evening. Everyone will expect would
Going twice," tractedly through his hair, us to do more than 739 miles in "Going
Bang! "Sold to the gentleman vague memory magging at him. this weather."
Perhaps if she had left him to and I over there, I really think
follow the train of thought he he deserves n' clup."
In- The fat man lifted himself a would have remembered Per
few inches off his chale and stead she put her hand over his and leaned towards him so that his then sat down again.
go her hair brushed against his που we must
she "And don't think so hard the room. "And now, ladies and through the formality of asking face. "Forget it. James,"
gentleman which field he said.
Her do about those stupid men." gentlemen," he said impressive this
(Laughter.) SLT,
or eyes were suddenly ardent and "We come to the 04-dollar prefers
"I've had enough Who bo
going to bith you choose the High Fieldi question
Take me some- me £100 for the choice of High the Low Field?" The auction demanding.
The of this place. cer's voice was ironical, or Low Field?
(COPYRIGHT) hat that means the option to
"Low Field."! choose the High Field, which I
TOMORROW: popular seem to feel may be the
"What do you
mean by f
pocket," naked Tiffany.
"Two hundred pounds,
haps more..
The
rajood tuctioneer voice and there was a hush in
ly.
whant
And
he
We all know question was a waste of time, where else."
There was a moment of dead
choice this evening (laughter) silence in the crowded smoking It was quickly followed in view of the wonderful room.
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weather outside. So who will open the bidding with £100 for
High
Low the chalce of Field?"
Thank you, Sir! And 110, 120. and .130. Thank you, madam."
"Hundred and fifty," sodda man's volce not far from their labic.
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THE LETTERS OF NIKKI
CONTINUING THOSE HISTORIC DOCUMENTS TO WHICH··
GILES HAS ACQUIRED THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS
Idear comrade mum,
UST a few more lines to let you thing that I could teach her. In fact, an know that since my last letter tell- I told you before, it was she who taught ing you what a wonderful place me a thing or two like biting Guards- England is I've changed my mind. men's ankles
I hope this reaches you in time to stop you, Bruinvitch, Rupertvitch, and sister Olgavitch emigrating from Siberia to Regent's Park as this is no safe place for respectable comrade bears to be.
Apart from free-lance frogmen spy- ing under Bulganin's boat, the whole Zoo is alive with sples and reactionary forces combined to sabotage the peaceful co- Regent's existence between U.S.S.R. and Park.
Only the other day top-comrade Pollitt has been placed on the transfer just recovering list, and I myself am from an attempt to remove me from my high office by a Fascist beast who tried
me off with
የሺ . to polish
over-ripe banana.
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But don't worry about me, Comrade Mum, they won't get away with that one Every time my keeper brings again. my meals. I try them out first on my
stablemate Rusk, who they put in with me under the cloak of friendship and who I now suspect is nothing but a frog- man disguised as a little bear.
I
I first had my suspicions about him from behind when he clouted me one and knocked me for six off my swing. now keep that son of a Ruskoyavitch in front of me where I can see him.
for instance.
I think Mele-Kush, the Cossack stallion that was given to coinrade Duke of Edinburgh by comrades Bulganin and Krushchev, must have been over the castle recently and taken a lesson from
Susan, because I read in Sunday's paper that he took a nip at one of his grooms...
Well done, Mele-Kurh.
I am now waiting to hear that Zamon, the other horse which was given to Prince Charles, has got cracking on his grooms with those hind feet of his,
I will close now as the head keeper is rumming my bath with his back towards me within easy swiping distance.
few normal We'll teach · 'em a courtesies before we've finished,
Your loving son,
nikki.
PS Is it true that Moscow his announced that Mele-Kush's nip at his groom took place "without official por- mission" of the Kremlin?
They haven't let me go to Windsor to you, Castle any more since I wrote and I hear that Susan the Corgi, who P.P.S. Pravda certainly gave that lodges there, was given a brain-washing Gaitskell feller the old what-o, didn't after my visit. Not that there was any- they?
NATHANIEL GUBBINS
RIEND O' MINE. is sitting beside me on the seat opposite the Sea Nest discussing holidays.
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"Perhaps you need a change holiday, here is your Uncle Nat's of scenery abroad," says Friend Highway Code based on per- O Mine, and tells me of a trip sonal experience. to Finland he has read about,
"There," he says, "you can · Road Signs: A Halt Sign at t wander through untamed forests, road junction means belt, which and be alone with Mother, also mems atop and this means
you!
If you want to know, what these matters on the other side they have been walling for, li's of the road?" for you.
You then lead the goselpa Zebra Crossings: You must across and get back into Jour give way to pedestrians .at
bra crossings not controlled Car by the police.
the
It another woman slops in "Eighty," said someone..
He thinks I, neod a quiet Nature
This rule includes pedestrians the middle of the crossing "Two hundred pounds."
ho holiday far from what } Something muda, Bond turn
originally calls "the I recall the frightening ex- When you have stopped make who can't make up their minds and something In her handbagt
and "women: 'who, stop' (la), the k 25.00
round and look at the man who 8.50 had
madding crowd," although periance of a man I knew who sure it is safe to proceed. Look middle of a crossing to find it can be assumed that spoken.
patience is exhausted. He was a biggist man. His where I live there are no stayed at an hotel in Helsinki. right, then left and then right something in their handbags. He rang for a bath grid. Mother
Lot your first gear, of party madding crowds except in Nature appeared in the form of again. And see where it gets. It also includes groups. face and, the glistening,
clutch, and give her, everythi 35.00
people who gossip « under enormous womens who appeturen of Dspus-out bulin-
you'vo 7.50 eye, Email, cold, dark eyes August when the place in two
The invaded by half-mad visi grabbed him without saying were. looking towards
word, stripped off his pyjamad nuretioneer's platform through tors and their complete and carried him howling to motionless bi-docais.
ly, mad dogs,
ster bath wirene they took 5.00 "Two hundred and too guid
turn to beat the hell out somoone The big man's chin "What about a fahing hall him with pine branches, 4,00
wobbled and he opened his day, old man?! to 1.00 tight-buttoned mouth and sald, There's nothing Like fish Well, old man," says Friend wo hundred and twentyning for peace of mind of mine, if you don't Uled fish- 3.00
Ing, eveling, hiking or the idea 4 level American voles, and 1,50 What was there, about this
7.50
of
Animals
Imalas Andmails on the road does not mean bewafa Bew Vittle cars who drive át 20. miles. en four in the "middle""of_ibe highway, Nor does it mean cyclists riding six abreast, (254 third med vindal It just means 'animalé, suckcha horres, shop, cows, and reven Länsir circus, LED elephants you meet traye
On a Saturday in August this may go on for hours. Before your head maps of and before your family is half-mad wich
As you will be responsible for hunger and thirst, it is best to,
back and drive home. Dieir safety if they make a sud
drive home.
den dass deross the road your tell him ho may be right but of going to Fhiland, Indon's Pedestrianus. Wodich for pedes. best procedure is to stop your FOUARANTEE 1,50 man het plucka chord in what's the use of peace in your know what to suggest. It's cen fria who come but suddenly, engine, ut on your hand brake, Bead's memory? watched mind if there's turmoil in your fainly a long way to go for a from behind Stationery vehicles get out of the car and join in 30 the big face, running his mind's stomach in a heavy swoll? *30] aye over the filing system of his honou
He then suggests cycling, hiki ay, "A long way to go for the same thing in well-propelled Don't take any not beat bulling out drawer after
valid chase DO PORT deceiver hunting for the chief bird touching and went being floo
Bond pave up and dined his badger Apalahing, bem ORIYANK
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