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WHAT HAD HAFTENED THUS FAR: Hont across the French boriler so that she may accretly learn something of Napoleon's designs on Spain, beautiful Nina Azara contrives to encourago a firlas tion with Motor de Rougemon!, one of Bonaparte's aldon, Bha ta Alemayed when Don Diego, a young Apaniard woho is infatuat ed with her, follows her to Hay onno. Unable to get rid of hin, sha confess that she réelpro- cates his love, but that sho must not see him again. Going to the Major's rooms as ha la bout to not out for Spain, Nina pretendis to be amitten by him. As he makes ardent love to her, ake reads the outer paper de la brief case. It is an oriter, signed by Napoleon, calling for the arrent of the Spanish monarch.
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"They had to have evidence ba fora they could take me. And it had sent this message, they would havo hnd it."
Blowly, sho tore up the piece of paper. Lola watabad hor, tears well- Ing up in her eyes. Nina was think-
g deaporately, looking for some way out of this tragic dilemma.
"Can't you got word to the KingTM" Loin naked,
"I don't know," Ninn naid slowly. "I might try the man in the mar ket. Atll, if they know about tho.
birda
Lola's face #ghted up. "Benorita, how about Don Diego?"
"I've been thinking about him." "He'd do anything for you," the maid continued, "Ile knows the ronda. He can ride fast. If he start ted now, he could reach Vittorin before the Colonel. Ife could warn The King."
"I may be the very one who has done nii this," Nina cald slowly,
"But Don Diego," Lola protested ataunchly. "It couldn't be ha!"
"I hope you're right, Lolo," Nina said with lncerity. She pointed to the table, speaking crisply, "Clear
For a brief moment, Nina tremb led violently. So it was true! Verup all thila. Get rid of thỏ birds. dinand was being tricked, Spain be- trayed! But In the next instant, also And regained control of herself.
"I must go now, my darling," de Rougemont paid, gently taking her hands from around his shoulders. He took the letter from her hand, all the while staring at her, devour.
her lovelinosa.
10, Nina murmured
woftly.
The Major took both her hands in kin, and land them.
Don't leave a trace of evidence."
She started for the door,
Where are you going?" Lola naked fearfully.
"First to the market place. And then, if that falls... Pil go to Don Diego."
ffer fenra were realized at the stall. The man who had sold her the pigeons, she was told, and been taken away by the polica.
As Nina moved away from the stall, she did not know that threa men were watching her from the inn nearby where Don Diego was
"Au revoir, my dear." Nina's eyes followed him as he went through the door, then a shud-stopping. One was Diego, himself; dor of repulsion passed through hor. Ferdinand was to be tricked, arrealed! Sho realized, however, that who must play her part to the and.
1
"Did you leave this room?" Nina asked.
the second, St. Claire, a determined looking figure, and Pavet both of them members of the French In- telligence Service.
"She's coming up here," St. Clairo
'From the window, she could soo | said. He turned from the window, the Major, awing quickly into his painting to soins papers on the saddle. Bho forced a amfiö, waving | desk. "Put those reports away," ho to him. He saluted her gravely, then ordered. And to Pavel; "Go
there," painting to another roon. save an order to his men.
Nina hurried back to her hotel. Lola looked at her curiously, an un- spokon question in her eyes.
"Bring me my comb!" Nina said. "But, Benorita!" "Hurry!"
In
"She's probably coming to you for help." St. Claire went on. "You must remember: she will be nur- plelous. She has discovered the birds have been changed. Bo ise doubly careful. Make her bellove Nina want quickly to a table,you're willing and eager to help whero Lola had arranged a bowl of hor. Get her to talk. If she'll confido fruit. Before it stood a plate and in you . confess what she is do
frult knife. Quickly, no cut aing that's all we need." lemon in half. As Lots, returned, Diego realized it was his duty. Nina took tho comb from her. and that there was no escape from
"Hore," nho anid, indicating the R. "Very well, sir." lemon. "Squeeze that."
SL Claira went into the next room. Diego steeled himself, na 'Nina knocked at the door.
"Nina Maria!" be exclaimed, pre- tending great surprise and cordial- Ity, an sin entered.
Nina took the top froin the comb, a high Spanish affale of cold tor tolno-ahell, with gold filigros and a Blender band of golil on the top. Deftly, she pulled off the gold band. From side the comb, which was hollow, she extracted a amanii shoot | historia nite." of thin rice-paper.
I decided to come and see this
In spite of himself, Diego could
"The Major hna started to Vinat help showing a certain con- torin niready." Nina said as she atraint. He shut the door and came worked swifily. Leln looked at her over to her.
apprehensively. "But he won't get "What happened to the Colonel?" there until Into tonight. And tho he asked.
carrier pigeons will be there in two To lind to go to Vittoria on hours, at the mosl,"
Nina sat down at the dealt. Sho dipped the qui into the lemon juice prepared by the maid and started
to write her mossage of warning for Ferdinand.
Then you didn't have luncheon
m
duly."
with
"No,"
They engaged in small talk for a while. Nina's anxiety, however, wns
"He's carrying two mossogce," she | nil tos obvious. Her mind reinalned said. "One of them is an order of on the unsent message, arrest,"
"You Beem worried," Diego mid ""Arrest!” Cola exclaimed, horritinally. "Ta something troubling fed.
you? "They evidently mean to lure the She heattated for a moment, and King into France, and then take then: "How long did it tako you to him prisoner as he crosses the bor- come from Vittoria?" aho naked. dor." Bho finished the note, "Get "Ahout clx hours, Why?" Diego me the pollet," eho eald to Lola, tried to control is feelings.
Carefully folding the message. xho placed it into a small eaclosure
In the pellet.
"Now the pigeon."
Lola hurried to the crato and took
"I want you to take a message for me."
"A message?" he repeated slowly. She started for the denkt. "1 write it for you. You got your
out a bird. Sho carried it over to things. I want you to start imme Nina As aho leaned over to attach dintoly."
the pellet to the pigeon': leg, he "Where am I to go?" Diego naked stopped, muddenly, startled. She in-ne she wrote swiftly. spected the bird
spreading its wingu
moro closely.
A look of anxiety crossed her face.
"Did you leave this room?" she naked sharply.
Tor a minuto. Tes," Lola said, bewildered.
*Why? Why?" Nina'n fear caused her to speak harshly,
"But who could it have been, senorita?"
"Someone who know at my mave- mente," Nina sad thoughtfully, "Someone who know I had the birds; who know when I was going out and bribed the conelorge to get you out of the room."
"Vittoria." She stood up, folding
the paper on which she had written. "You haven't told me whom this
in for?" Diego reminded bor.
"tend it. and you'll soD."
At the moment, Bl. Clafre atòp ped brck into the room, followed by Pavat. Nina turned quickly as St. Claire, without a word, stopped to Diego's nido. Pavet went toward the door leading to the hallway.
"I'll take that, Capinia Andre,” Bt. Claire said, taking the message from the hands of Diego, who stood, feeling miserabio, but unashamed.
"Captain André?" Nina repeated, wonderingly.
"Of the French Military Intell "But sonorita," Loin protestad, gonoo," Bt. Claire added, drily.
*if they know all that, why haven't
they done something before this?"
(To be concluded)
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OU'LL hardly believe it. but Sinclair Lewis is sadly out of training, For years he has been the World Middle-Weight Satirical Cham- Plon, sending Babbitts to the 1:00r with glorious regularity.
And here he is, taking the count himself in his now novel, The Prodigal Parents (Cape, 78. Od.).
What's worse. I'm nfraki, ho has been knocked through the ropes by a bogy of his own creation, a wretched striping whom he nicknamed too cally "Lazy, Belfish, Good-for-Nothing Youth."
The parents in question were Fred Complow, a motor-car agent in Sachem Falle, mud his wife, Hazel America's Little Man and its Little Woman. Plum, pleasant people, as ignorant of soul mattera as they make thera, They might have lived happily ever I hadn't been for thelf se edalons children. ...
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Beautiful bogins, both of them. No wonder Father Cornplow, fecing to Europe with Hazel, fails to escape them in the end! No wonder they knock their creator clean out of the -in!
Tale of the Pits
JACK JONES, author of Rhondda Roundabout. Black Parade and that magnificent autobiography, Un Anished Journey, continues to mine a rich Both Wales sean in his third and longest novel, Bidden to the Feast (Hamish Hamilton, Bs. Ud.).
Starting ut four in the morning on a lovely summer day in 1885, he stages hearly forty years of the coal-black bistory of a Glamorgan mining town. Forty years of rich men's greed and poor men's toll. Forty years of lovo and hate, lfe and death, dry, dusty pjtmen's throats and soaring song.
Forty years of the lives of Rhys and his wife, Ann, and their children.' Especially those sisters, Megan and Moriah. Their father didn't like to
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Through them and around them. above and below ground, we see the driving, swarming hilve of their valley. "Mark yo well her bulwarks, con- sider her palaces-that ye may tell it to the generation following," Mr. Jonen has quoted on his title page. And, in the crowded pages that come alter, he has told us as much of those dark bul- warks and darker palaces as any novelist has s'et.
Long-Short
MOST of the authors of six hundred
page novels might do much warse than aludy the case of 11. O. Wells, who in the last fifteen months 108 given us foltr" long shorts" which are models of concentration and clarity.
In the latest of them (The Brothers. Chatto and Winds, 39. d.) he has imagined a country ripped and slashed by civil war. Bolaris is the "White" leader, and Ratzel is the leader of the
Reds."
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Physically they are extraordinarily alike, and the resemblance doesn't stop there. For Mr. Wells, inking far too many things for granted, invests them with twin destinies and twin ideals, too.
You have only to substitute Franco for Bolaris and n Spanish Government leader for Ratzel to see the confusions of such a simplification. Twin ideals? Nat on our little lives, Mr. Wells.
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Professor's Puzzle
O not imagine from its title,
DA Philosophy for a Modern
Man (Gollancz, 78. Od.), that Professor 11. Lovy has written an casy, man-in-the-street sort of book..
It is very tough reading indeed. And that is a pity, because the author's attempt to make philosophy more understandable by relating di at encil step to science was n brave one.
Yet the result hus been to make the book doubly unintelligible. Not only has Professor Levy cluttered up his page: will many dimeult philosophie terins. Ite bon cluttered them up with telen- Lifto terms as well!
Hu has allowed himself to write nen- tences like: "When a set of atomic Isolates are seen to be grouped together as a recognisable isolate, the latter will be called a atalisticni isolate."
Puzzle Lint out. And then picture 201 pages of it.
But, dimeuit though the book is, it is trying to do something so important that it cannot be brushed aside.
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Take Junt ono example. Professor Levy has some sound tand almost Tendable) thugs to say about the
theory of probability."
and
Selentials, mallicinalicions philosophers have talked about " prob- ablity" since they talked at all."
But along comca Professor Levy In 1930 and puts forward detailed pro- pazels for harnessing present-day knowledge about probability to our job
Socialists.
We do not only want to know, he says, how probable it is that a dice. We
thrower will throw a double-six. want to know how probable it in, for instance, that we shall get Socialism.
So it clear that this book has something very important to say. Try Lo struggle through It if you can.
But, before it can justify its very in- viting title, someone will have to trans late it into English, I'm afraid.
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