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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1957.
Friell
'It's little things like this that unite us more than ever!'
FORSOOTH!
'twas India that invented Metric Money
THE
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New Del
poper The
charger swaddling pestugi svamps and newspapera dot. <! cross-leased The W in the new Currency among piled-up nuts and spices though the old was a and pros in the buzuar and the man in wild sidi Le Dsv,1-f.: mimiba be- cily clothe standing behind the fire the shiny new evil, are in hotel desk are counting in their full elrculation. fingers the week,
Sad Premier Nehru, intro- "We
Reason for {༡༩༠༢༩༦ mental dueting; the new coinage! Aymus ties The contage bas are not adopting anything allen.
been changed from the antas din HANK the world long and pics on puzzling to foreignery ago the Freal discovery to what cry other country but
India would call conls.
Hove they have the unwieldy name of naya
balsa, which
means "new money,
zure and numerals and, Inter. The beginning of what became known as the metric system saw HID light because of Indian Kenius.
So we go back to our
There are of course, 100 own."
naya palsu to the supeo (1/0d), Meanwhile, Anger counting
In shops and stores Indians and head-scratching goes on. are arguing over
Bion tablea cut from
conver-
news-
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Madman
Alone
From out 100 HITLER'S Deputy Rudolf Hess has been in prison mort untidy, although once the quand ranges
ever since his dramatic bid to end the war in 1941, took pride in his_cabbages, soldiers when the Americans Some think Hess in insane, have the rotating i prison, qhairý Alone in a cell, in a prison for 560-his guard, be but most, observers at Spandau manship, to some 180 when the tween 100 and 180 soldiers.
think be probably only a Soviets have the chair. Than United States, British, Frich and. Boviets take hers provide ing the guard.
Aged, haggard Rudlf Hess probably is the only eccentris. German alive today who still openly acknowledges the leadership of Adolf Hitler..
In
his cell at four-power FROM
spandau prison, Hoes herengues himself on the glories of the dend Fuchero and his own role as Hitler's deputy,
Sometimes, carried away by emotion, he sings the Horst Wossel song and attempts to goose-stop in a cell 10 foot long and 6 feet wide.
Except for his Nazi out- bursts and occasional shouts of
Joseph Fleming
Of
sunken
SPANDAU
his eyes
under beetle "Hell Hitler," Hess spaks litilo brows. In his grey prison wii- to anyone, He appears to live He has been a prisoner since form he has the appearance of in a world of his own, May, 1941, when he made his a bony-looking scarecrow. mysterious flight to Scotland
He steadfastly refuses to al the four prisoners still tend religious without Hitler's knowledge to
left in the West Berlin prison, cell converted
servicos a give Britain peace terms.
Hess is by far the most difficult and he does not allow his funily
Into a chapel He complains bitterly, of poor to visit him. health, alleging heart, stomach and kidney allments.
Now 02, he will and his days in prison or in a madhouse,
The four-power Nurnberg
milliary tribunal sentenced him to life for crimes against world pesco and planning and starting a war of aggression,
less has aged far beyond his years, His features are haggard,
Once he worked regularly in the pricon laundry, but now the four-power guards can get him to do little work,
Of the seven top Nazla sezi- tenced to serve their terms in Spandau in 1948, only four are left,
The Soviets have put out foclors on closing down the prison, and putting Hers in a hospital and the others in the other gaol.
But such a siẹp does not ap pear to be imminent.
In the prison along with Hen are Nazi youth leadir Baldur Von Schirach, who is serving a 20-year term; munitions boss Finance Minister Walther Funk, Albert Speer, 20 years; and
life.
Admiral Karl Domenitz Won released last year after serving a 10-year term. Earlier, Ad- miral Erich Reeder end Forelin Minister Konstantin' von Neurath were releas;d because of age
Of all the garden patches in They are all alone in a prison the prizen courtyard, his is the bulli for 650 prisoners, the and poor health.
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And there
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TAKING a job as cook-housekeeper, Widow Merton finds herself caught up in a mystery, Invalid Mrs Carringford, wife of the widow's employer, dies from poisoning. Fear and suspicion
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sert things out in my mind.. After Suppose Marcus didn't get Philippa came down from her aunt's room
Trent was no worse We had arrested. stayed in the kitchen-oh, quite twenty minutes- afford to marry at the present And very likely be couldn't talking before we went upstairs. She had been in a time. state of considerable distress, and what could you make of that?
Of course, she might simply be afraid her aunt was dying and be recalling that other occasion when someone else close to her had died of poison. Her husband-had she hated him? And if so why? In any case it was unnatural. A young man doesn't commit suicide unless there's something badly wrong, and I wondered how much she knew that she'd never chosen to tell.
Suppose she could persuade him to marry her on condition she kept her mouth shuff
The Suspects
1
I threw my pencil down.
Embittered
*
Really, I know too little about everyone. I didn't know what money Philippa had or where it came from: I didn't know where Joy Barnslow fitted in.
But whether Dr. Grayling was in love with Philippe or not I was dead sure Trent was,
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I remembered the day I found them
and her together,
"I couldn of anguish stand it again!" Of course, there was always the chance I got that Fhilippe hereself would be After accused, and her past would headache stand her in pretty poor stead.
actually Would Trent think of that?
As soon As
Characters in the Case CENTRAL · figure in the story is widow-
ed Mrs MERTON, gentlewoman cook- housekeeper to the Carringfords. They are commercial artist MARCUS CARRING FORD ar nis invalid wife, who dies of pol. soning.
TRENT CAR- RINGFORD, a. war- wounded nephew, and MRS PHILIPPA DEANE, a niece of the nervy type. Mrs Carringford was looked after by NURSE. CUTLER and visited by DR GRAY. LING. An Interesting outsider, blonde | JOY BARNSLOW, comes to help in the garden, and another outsider is MRS HUTCHINSON, the daily help, Serinacherib, the cat, complates the house-
hold.
Or had she deliberately kept me down there, know ing more about the effects of digitalin than I? Well, It seemed that the choice now was between Phillippa Deane and some other
don't know how
that lunch. member of the household through
wards I pleaded F who had come back by and,
Philippa 49 stealth, propped up the sick offered to do tho household woman and got away, un- shopping or me,
Ah, but I'd always heard that I noticed. It would be they had all
Were gone off about murdere
men (and their lawful occasions was able women) of one Idea. They ensy. The kitchen was to settle down very comfortably didn't look ahead, If ko re- shut off from the rest of in the sitting-room with a solved to poison Mrs Carring the house and if Philippa pencil and paper and begin to ford with the intention of each gotting Marcus hanged, he and I had been talking we work out a case against
wouldn't co more than ten should bear nothing.
the household could obstacle being removed from member The case against Marcus had his path. And to m embittered go down there, and I doubted already been put to me by Mra young man of his experience whether their absence could ba Hutchinson. Of course, It pre- would a life or even two moted.... supposed that he wanted to be seem particularly important? free-why? To marry someone softly ala
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The grass vergo came almost to the "French windows, and a man (or woman) moving wouldn't make a sound.
'Or woman? That gave
member of the household,
Or just because he was He had so little-boalth gone, alck of carrying that unpleasant future gonotie only thing woman round tils neek,
Discovery!
left to him in the maelstrom I came to the conclusion that, of post-war existence was this naturo had never intended me I passed on to Trent. did beautiful woman he so patently to be a sleuth, and I had st me a fresh idea. Marcus not quite
see where be fitted loved. I even began to wander decided to stop my theories, wasn't the only person who into the household. Ho was if he could have told us more when I saw the glaring omision had been out that evening, partially incapacitated, but he about the late Mr Deane's 1 had made. I had anod How about Nurse Cutler? managed to get about pretty death than had ever come to that the digitalin must have
well; he had, I supposed, a dis- light. What alibi had she?
nbilly... pension, and possibly some money of his own as he
What Alibi? didn't have to look for a job.
Strong Case
come from the foxgloves af the foot of the garden. But had it
Mightn't digitalin have been usod just for that reason," that
↓ Well, then, if his reasona
But that I remembered old Mrs weren't Anancial, and there
was wasting time, it was available to everyone? that death we wore Hutchinson's hideous suggestion was no reason to suppose they It wasn't
concerned about now. I moved I sat thore hours I daresay I don't remember how long that I might be too much were, why was he hero?
on to the case against Philippe. interested in Marcus for his wife's good-wouldn't that apply discover was Philippa
The only
answer I could This was the strongest of all But at last I got up and wont
molive, Deale.except for
out to the kitchen and. Why to Nurse Cutler, too? It might. As to why she
was here I should she want to poison Mrs myself a cup of tea, and with still steaming forgotten on Lut-I was working this out was afraid of her story follow-
Imagined it was because she Carringford?
my desk I stared down at my like a jigsaw puzzle-even it:
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his wife was dead what guaraning her round, whereas here it too had nurse that the widower was known. would offer her marriage? I couldn't
mude
I left that and thought about Jigsaw puzzle and knew that I Joy. She had the most chance had found out at last how? ihm of getting the digitain because murder had been committed. But even If Trent was in she was always working just auppose she wanted love with Philippa how would where it grew, she could pick door I nearly ped out of my When a knock sounded at my him for his money since ho it help him polson Licanor it without anyone notlding and skin. Boeriod to have so little, but Carringford? suppose she had fallen for him,
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supposing you had to distil it I really
and i could use the little stove in the
a child where "Coine in," I said in a voice as they say so vulgarly nowa, b And then I saw it. Suppose violent crime is concerned the that didn't sound like my own.
days?
Marcus WES arrested found guilty who would short potting-shock there was an olle The door ope
opened stor I couldn't dismiss that as his money?
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