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JOHN CLARKE'S
CASEBOOK
Visitors To London
HEY wore engaged to
THE
n
bo married, Tom, the young clockmaker and the pretty girl who walked by hla side into London store.
They walked 80 partly to show the world how things were between them, partly because they a little scared
both were of London.
They had come here on holl-
northern
town
day from whose neberer eltizens (and none were soberer thu these two) were firmly convinced that unknown perils stalked every auranger,
Hear such folk talk
when they return from holidays in London. They might be ón survivors' icave after serne great calamity.
30-MINUTE PARTING
TOM
OM led his girl to a counter
store where in the
touly
were Carpentry was his hobby,.
penter's
car- sold.
Well, if you thinks I'm going to spend al day looking st these...." the girl began.
"Perhaps you'd like to look at samething else, while I just stay here a bit," Tom suggested. Bravely they parted, arranging to meet in half-an-hour,
For Tom those 30 minutes passed like three. Suddenly he realised be was late for his dute with his girl. She would be waiting for him by the store's amkist
front-door. Alone London's lerrors.
UNNERVING
HE picked up a handful of carpenter's drills, 10 ot
1 tách. He brandished a Li note, and when he saw
110
assistant was looking his way he bolled for the street with his £1 note still in his land and the drills in his pocket,
court.
At the Clerkenwell next day Tom a studious- looking 20-year-old, pleaded not guilty to shoplifting. "I just thought my fiancee would get Jost," he said, "you see, I'd got the underground map and every thing.
place in London.