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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY," "JANUARY:"" “1957,
FRANCIS QUARLES FINDS OUT
HE light in
Trevor's
MURDER
in reverse
Mrx
bedroom.
was dim, but Chae-
lotte Mansell was ready to swear to what she Kaw.
11
or
not She wns particularly intelligent observant girl, but nothing could shift her from her story,
"I was just passing by on the landing, kec, on my way to vacuum the rooms up~ stairs, and Mrs Trevor's door was open."
"How wide open?" she was anked, and went Into a long explanation of the way in which the door swung almost halfway open, something to do with the hinges it was you didn't close it properly. That was what must have happened this time.
Invide
Charlotte the Manselt saw o figure pouring into a medialne glass the white liquid that Mrs Trevor had to tuke every four hours. Then the gure shook some powder into
room
"It was Miss Pat," she said. "What makes you so sure t Was Miss Patricia Trevor? Could you see her face?" asked the inspector in charge of the ense.
TURNED AWAY
"Well, no, I couldn't, she was standing sort of turned away from me, you see, but it was the way she does her hair. in a horse'd fall at the back, you rec, and then she was wearing her blue dress"
"I was light enough for you to see the colour of her dress?" the inspector asked sharply.
know the
*No. She wasn't standing by the light, in the middle of the room. I suppose, or fairly near the bed, i could just see corner of the bod.
meant way the dress looks, you know. Miss It was--well, it just was Pat's dress, that's all. And then there was the brooch she was wearing. Near the shoulder it was. A sparkly glittery brooch, and it made her young man's
By JULIAN SYMONS
Where was the figure standing? Quarles asked. Charlotte indicated a spot in the room.
Tim-thal's name,
Mr Tim Williams, that she's going
to
marry
"You know that Miss Trevor, denies having such a brooch, that she'd never been seen wear- ing it, and that it can't be found among her things."
"I can't help that," Charlotte Mousell sald stubbornly, "She was wearing it when I saw her. could see the letters ever so Plain T. 1. M.
"And what happened then?" "Why, then the door closed and I went on along the passage.
But it was Miss Put, I'm sure it
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TELLING THE TRUTH
that
The Inspector thought Charlotto Mansell was telling the truth, and so indeed she was to the best of her belief. He arrested Patricia Trevor. For old Mrs Trevor's medicine that
had been heavily loaded night with a barbiturate, and under its effect the feeble ticking of her old heart had stopped.
Francis Quarles came into the care through Patrida's brother, Maxwell Trevor, a big tweed suited man with a face which normally was ruddy but wed now pale.
"Il'a preposterous to think that Patricia would do such a thing. She wouldn't hurt a fly."
"Flies are not involved."
Quarles sat back and tapped his teeth. "The
police seem to think she had adequate motive, Four of you inherited a tidy sum-you, your eldest sister
MIX "That's Mary Isabel,” well Trevor said.
Anyone who did so would be cut out of the will. Years ago Mary Isabel had wanted to get muncled but the young man broke it off when he discovered that she would come... tơ... him twithout money.
"Like Mary Isabel long ago, Patricia had naked permisalon, and been refused. Nevertheless, she apparently Intended to get married to young Mr Williams, She would have suffered con- Eldorable financial loss. That is the police case as far es molive is concerned.”
'IT'S NONSENSE'
"But a preposterous," Max- well Trevor said again. "Pat goes to commit a murder and leaves the door. open so that anyone passing by can see her,
aho obligingly puts on a with her lover's name on it, to make sure there's no „mis- takte il's nonsense."
De there
Quarles shook his head. "One mustn't get 500 subtle. Mur- dorers do maire ridiculous They wipe off finger-
were
none loft
in this cabut they leave
the door open. Things like that are not unknown. However, if you want me to investigate, I will. You reation, of course, that nobody outside the four of you who live in the house had any obvious motive for wishing your mother dead."
realise that" Maxweil Trevor said. "But I know 1 didn't do it, and I don't believe Patricia did either."
'
"Where were you standing?" Quarles asked Charlotte Man- sell and the showed him her position on the landing. Maureen Trevor, wide-eyed, and the eldest sister, Mary Isabel, tight- watching him. Maxwell was lipped and
stood grim-faced, there too.
Quarles opened the bedroom door: The hinges were binding, halfway who and it stayed almost
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ореть. Quaries placed himself beside Charlotte. He could see well into the left-hand half of the room. In the right-hand hall stood the bed with a small table beside it and a chest of drawers. A large looking glass hung on the same
sarne wall as the door. "Where was the figure stand- Ing?" he asked.
▼
Charlotte was vague. “About here, I suppose." She indicated a spot near the centre of the
room.
WASTED NO TIME
"But you said "Quarles slopped himself, thanked Char- lotte Mansell, went into the bed- room and closed the doar firmly.
HI
researches subsequent ocoupled two days, and when they were completed he talked to inspector Grading, who was in charge of the case, Grading went with him to the Trevor home, and the family assembled to greet them. The inspector wasted no time.
"Mary Isabel Trevor, I have a warrant your arrest on the charg
Mary Isabel's thin mouth
"You'll turned down. prove it. Charlotte Patricia"
A REFLECTION
never
Quarles Interrupted her "What Charlotte saw was what
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standards populations.
And
of their swarming.
these
THE Elsenhower plan to throw shadowy economies of lands that fury have met and clashed tiny British-protected shelkdama
a protective arm round the own the oll, but need Western nationalism, Communism, and with the most oil of all. Middle East oli lauds moved know-how to lift the living imperialism,
New
a now pattern takes quickly ahead.
shape. Krushchev rants Russia putamen, 'money' and Imperialium-meaning America, The President sought a joint
Syria, The Moscow newspaper Prayda weapons into Egypt and session of Congress at which
lands RE- and champions their scheming soyle at "new interferèncn he would
to QUESTED American protection against the pro-Western authority ask
rulers with the aid of' U.S. armed forestall Any Communist ag- against Communist attack, them of Iraq., Jordan snape at the forces." gression against the oil.
the U.S. would give that pro-
British hand which raised her in Eisenhower puls all other tection. It is a guns AND butter deal
the desert. Smoke clouds from business aside and premes on The Middle East is where the the sabotage bombs of Nasser's with his doctrine of guns (if which, Eisenhower has prepared. America would dollar-boost the great-antagonisms of this cen- agents have risen Kuwalt, necessary) AND butter,
Frederick Ellis cables: I have been bowing my head in
shame and I invite British shipyard workers to join me’
Tankers Galore!
I
And they're all
made in Japan
From FREDERICK ELLIS
1
Kobe.
L the Clyde, the Tyne and Na Japanese shipyard the Mersey not sneer, Let them that should shake read facts I
泪 BOW
massive them ad cut
of complacency challenge to British bred of fat British order books
workmen { 88,000-ton lasting into the 1980's.
tanker being built in eight months. And I heard the chief of the yard say: "The next one will take only five months."
she was meant to see, a reflection in the looking glass, which had been brought from its
proper
Five months, that is, place and put against the wall where it would reflect what from keel laying to de- went on in the other side of the livery, I reckon a
I realised that when yard would take more than Charlotte said she'd seen
room.
room.
Was
so
a year,
British
Their week
a
Shipyard men here work basic 60-hour week, but most average 55 and more, for they love overtime.
"They will know- "then" what they are up against."
In ten years-
The Japanese success formula is dynamic management, sound planning, tremendous prefabri- cation, and hard work by tha yardmen.
In 10 years
or less today's boom will be over and ship. ordering, back to ** normal pattern.
Thas the best yards with the best workmanship, the best delivery dates, and tho cheapest price wit, got the orders.
and Queen's Island; Belfast, are anying by this time: "He's
Unless there is a fundamen- crazy--does ho think we should tol change of stiftude on all level, downwards to Japanese levels in. British yards the
Japanese will get the orders. standardaz"
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Well, this is what my Scots * Average time in a. British friend said: "Japanese work is yard to build that tanker woulä Hui John first class, up to Lloyd's 100 A1 be 15 to 18 months.
Brown's, of Clydesión said that standard.
provided they had thự men and materials they COULD do the "Production per man-hour on fob in six months -- "it is all a . berths is higher than at home,, natter of priorities.” In hull constructión one. Japan- èse does twice as much as in average British yards."
They get two days off
That is tile, voice of a British monthly, no summer holidays expert at that with pay.
And British shipyard chiefs corner of the bed, which was
Lunch (a boxed meal) gois can take that smirk off their quito out of her range of vision.
A 10-minute faces. That's why Charlotte
. Bowing deep from the only 45 minutes. vague about where the figure waist is an old Japanese had been standing.
custom. But today I have "In the looking glass she saw been doing the bowing Japanese, Mary Isabel wearing a frock
exactly similar in style to her bowing my head deep in mister's (we've traced the dress-shame. maker who made it), and with her hair done in a horse's talk, pour out the medicine and edi the barbiturate. Then the door was closed."
"But why the looking glass?" Maxwell alkod
STRONGEST POINT
I invite British shipyard workers. from basses to rivet boys, to bow, their heads just oned in their yards in mourning.
For in this New Year tho year of the cock in the Japanese calendar-lhe Japanese are for the first time cock of the world's The criminal's usual love of shipyards. over-ingenuity. I should guésse
that Mary Isabel wanted to They have toppled the British make quite sure that Charlotte as the world's leading ship- Identified the figure as Patricia builders, doubling the ships put in the dim light. She happened | In the water last your to
Lo possess abr
brooch that said 1.850.000 tons, nearly 250,000 TIM. Tim, when Charlotte saw
it in the gloss, so she wore it. |I should 'imagine
tons more than our yards,
HUMILIATION; that it gave
her great pleasure to buildin case against her sister by use lover's name, because of her own frustrated love in the past.
of
JAPAN'S biggest shipbuilding
stati
firm; Mitsubishi of Kobe, claims to be planning a 30,000- ion submarino ofl-tanker with a submerged spoed of 22 knots,
Such a vesel would encounter no Tesisingice from wired or wayas, would not worry about fog or crowded shipping routes, And atomic fuel would give it almost unlimited rango,
break in the afternoon.
Japanese management is not Sure, life is tough for the afraid to make changes in
technique. It is never satisfied. with delivery date.
Submarine experts believe One yard has torn down a tanker would be dark- mountain in a year to make shaped, with a low coming way for a mammoth tanker Borth tower, and tall, retractable
periscopes.
.Ho livea In shantytown wooden houses resembling subur
30,000-ton submarine tanker
ban garden huts, and not much blazer.
for 00,000-tonnera,
Today veteran Japanese ship- yand chief. Takeo Morimoto proudly showal me that 30,000 ton lanker, for the stuckp for Greek owners, F
Five months! Reading
dis
boiler on my
Living quarters and ciglow rooms would be directly beneath the conning-tower, the forward and after parts of the pressure hull being taken up by the oll cargo tanks,
face Morimoto. Plea for help.
Baid: I will
tell
'trick."
you the
MONTAGUE LACEY writes:
He will build a big slice of British Shipowners are to prom the tanker's stem alongside the again' for financial help fróny tho
of the Govertiment borih :: with's come,
the" designing No British worker would machinery in it while the rest and building of Britain's, dewa welcome Japanoso pay packets. of the hull builds up on the #p. atomic ship for the Merchant
torn end will be Navy.
Then the stern's man
Standing In Kobo's bustling Kawdaaki dockyard asked a
The averigo shipyard Clyde-trained Scot fond ox-gole toy daly barlier that if gild to join us with the rest of More than 100 British ahlge You mean she bought "aperienced in the world's ship- brooch?" Maxwell takod
under 26, a wette, But he gets the hull, That is prefabrication owners and navel mollienta yard, how It was done
a winters and summer » banus, "on, the grand scale, pen making 14 months' pay; a year:
og
· Ha also somi-feudal, getting cheap - housing, cheap
unparalleled.
decided after a Harwell c "Oh, no, The brooch is al-
"Qulio simple, ha maid
forenoo on"atomio ships that! most the strongest point against The Japanese work much
My Clyde man said: "It is Britain's Arst nuclens verd for That brooch was hen, own harder that at home.
was still" "quitana, fow, grou A fooling glows throwback #
away—perhaps 10, years reverse umaGI, • HO that the
As I walked round the yard. cheap goods like textiles, and tell them on the Clyde that grand brooch she was wearing bore with my experience of most other peri, like free cinema five 30,000-toners will come off Blueprints of the • Japan her own millal MIT Mary · Britiada rivers, as well as Greg Aickets and free......... medicul that slip this year, for by Moel- atom-sub tanker are expected
manquicidy confrmed that fervices. derimotor new method: the slip be ready within few buchs the Tapanese devotion to work No doubt mor, friends on the only occipled for two and a half Also planned in Kobo, as is unequalled.
Clyde, the Tyne; the Mersey, monthe al ·tlind.
face 17,000-ton • a joaniq... tankar
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