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THE BRIDE WORE RED
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Copyright 1977-Loww's Ino.
Chapter One
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BEATRICE FABER-
"Talk?"
"Suppose you tell me about your self. Er where you were born and all that sort of thing."
Slowly, deliberately, she looked The little white ball spun around at him and a faint resentment attr- and arcund; the croupier's volco red within her. So he would like fo droned, "That's all-no tnore bein." know what made the wheels go
Rudi Pal glanced around
the round, would he? Then she strug crowded room, Though the Cosmos ged. After all, champagne was a Club, wan the pivotal point
rarily, Might as well make the mont Erlente society, he was finding it of it Bhe sipped from the glass and hopelessly dull, Gambling did not felt the bubbles tingle pleasantly In interest tudi tonight for his mind her nose. "My nama ia Ann Pav- and heart were filled with benutiful, lavitsch. Born In Poland, age twen- generous-hearted Maddelena whoty. Mother, Austrian. Father, inde- awaited him in the Tyrol,
Beade him, Count Armalla wap gathering up his chips with all tho smugness of a winning drunken
gambler.
Rudi grinned tolerantly, "Armalia, your luck Improves with every glaon of champagne."
"And Rud, the champagne im proven with every roll of the wheel."'
"Please," Rudi suggested elabor- ately as they strolled toward the door, "You mustn't stop playing for my anke. The mere fact that I have? to be up at dawn."
"Bah" Armalla exploded. "Have
crat." terminate, probably not an aristo-
"You talk well," Armalla sald approvingly, his plan already begin- ning to take shape,
She turned to bĺm, a xudden odge to her voice. "And we breathe and sleep and are hungry too, very much like human beings"
The Count bowed galiantly. By Cind, this girl had something, spirit if nothing else. "It's my world's bad luck that you were not born in it."
She nodded absently, "Yes. It is.” Her chin was cupped In her curved paims. She had had nothing since Poverty. The stench of squalor in mother
to be up at dawn." Rudi, you alhor carllent days of remembrance. ways talk as if you controlled your
bent
own dealloy. Don't you know her nostrils. A drunken, brawling
"Now look here," Rudi pretented. "This is one night when I refuse to listen to your naive clumpayne: philosophy."
forgotten. Hope. teams, had long since been stified, Armalia said to her softly, "And how would you like a little holl- day, Misa Anni? To stop at a fine
ounshine, plenty of food, beautiful
Armall snapped lite moutli open and shut, much like an Irritated | hotel, have servants to wait on you, clam. He was more than a little drunk and know it; Intoxiested not clothes?" only by wlao but with power and She said in honest amazement, Its own omnipotence. And what"Do you really like me that much?" did he do with such a golden night I eyebrows lifted. "Don't min as this? Dino and debate with ni understand me, please. You and I love-stek young fellow who could live in quita - different worlds." think of nothlug but the morrow Ho amiled whimsically. "But I'm in and his flancée, "Naive!" he burst a mood to meddie with fale to- out. "Can't you realize, you young? night. Supposing I were to send you fool, that Life is a Great Roulette to mingio for two weeks with men Wheel and the human a tile ball, and women of my world, the people worthless to himself, bouncing you say are simple and artificial?
Slowly, deliberately, she looked at him and a faint re- sentment airred within her.
helplessly from alot to slot? Where|With clothes from Galll's I can sed will he ond, in wealth oe poverty? you doing not at all badly." As Rudi Pal, the young aristocrat She sipped her champagno com- or," he gestured, "as our friend posedly. "I won't go unless I can the walter, whose only noset is the lhavo `n red evening, dress." It ability to cool and pour cham-wouldn't hurt to humör a crazy old pagne? You see, my dear fellow, man. A good night's rest would his number didn't come up." Hoelaar hie hond. In the meantime, mumbled, "Rudi and the walter, there was more champagne to be Allike at the start and now so dif-had, perhaps. ferent,
"Of course. Anything you want. Patiently, Rudi Ilstened. Another I think I'll send you to-Terrento.” Variation on Armalia's favorite He began to shaku with inward theme, "You'll go on from there to laughler. Oh, he would teach his the one about all men are created complacent young friend Rudl, a equal,"
lesson. In Torrento, Anni would bo Which they are."
sure to meet him and his friends. How they would be taken in. It was a grand joke on Rud, on them all
Which they are not." Armilla's snille was aardonic. "Do you think there in really anything
to distinguish you from that wafter Anni felt her heart quicken. What
ver there except your clothes rudsons the man driving at?
dhe fact that you pit while he Whipping out a penell, Armalia' Blanda
begun welling on the menu. "You'l
"There is everything. Brending, go to a very fashionable hotel in family, tradition glancing at tin Tyrol." he chuckled, "filled with Bato watch, Budi broke off. "I give legant Indles and gentlemen of up Armalia. I'm going home like breeding. I'll give you two weeks a good little roulette bull. The train of it. Two weeks, exactly, and you'll for Terronto leaves su early in the welcome the sight of this bar." morning."
Dazed, the latened to him: Her Armatia made a sweeping gesture name would be Ann Vivaldi, he that nearly unbalanced him. "By wan saying. She would poso an the Chen, lill have changed a dozen daughter of his mythical friend, Hver shaft do great things to-Lieutenant Vivaldi, a naval ofileer. gi. Tudi, grent things. Lead me Her dead mother had lived in gen- to destituin."
teel poverty and she herself. bnd "The destitute alcop after mid-been brought up in a convent. night, Bome other time, old man." Her eyes were round. Why, the
This very instanti IIe would man must be mad, show his young whippersnapper "I'll wire the hotel myself," he friend and all the nkepiles of the continued, "Here are the addresses world just what a man could do of some shops. I'll notify them to when he willed R. Lurching through talte enro of you. And here's a 12- the door he stumbled Into a horse-tle money for tips. The rest of the drawn cab at the curb,
(bills will be sent to me."
Aani stared down at the money. "Goodbye, Armalin," Rudi called, "Come up to Terrento If you don't at the card. They were real. No, think Maddalena and I aro too he wasn't in a dream. from which zmug. And don't get too dizzy on she would awaken. But what world that great big wheel of life. had she entered, then? Things ko Armalia's reply was a contemplu- this did not happen, not to Anns, ous snort. Then he bawied to the who had been unlucky enough to be driver, "Take me to the lowest divoj born.
in Trieste, The very lowest, Tho The Couni roso and he was laugh. lowest of the low."
Ing strangely. "I'm cheating. I'm
A short space later he was enter=) Fixing the wheel Anni, fixing it no ing the fittle waterfront café, that you can win for a little while.” Bảuyền Thui would say họ wig bo known as The Cordillera,
lcyon, roaming about the ing" cruel, but he wanted to know. smoky dance hall, fastened on a He wanted to know about what girl who was singing. He rubbed his made a walter a waiter, Rudi, Rudi, hands. Laboratory material made to and Anni, Anni. "And if it turns order. She was young, not mera out badly," he said, suddenly harah. than twenty perhaps, with a youth- "don't como complaining to me. In ful Jaw and cheekilno under the fact, don't come to me at all. Two heavy maak of rouge. Her byba weaks Anni, that's all you have, wero indige, filmed by fatigue. The Goodbye, and good luck."
Her chooks burnod foverlihty. volco was herself and all her #pacles, existing in a manofone, The world had been put at her foot with no interest in the note that and she had only to trend ita velvot kad pamed nor in the note that carpet. Adventure awaited her and was coming.
yes, oven a mad, beautiful danger,
As if in response to his gaze Ann! the danger of the unknown. She clasped her hands together. Bho turned and stared at him. The pro would have good food, fino nur prietor was whispering in her ear. Her lipe twisted. A Count, was he?roundings, now clothes - a bright Come to stare at the animals in red dress sown with bands.
the zoo? She sauntered to his table, Ah, let Destiny bring what it might. Thong two wesica would bo not angry, Just duly curious
"Good evening, sir. Would you here, a timeless interval that could care to dauce? Or shall I sing an-nover be taken from ber. ather song. perhaps? · An old! favorita?"
Azınalia waved her pompously to
a chair. "No, thank you. Let u
just be two-hazmonas, muda in com
Cánht to challonping fato itself
by entering on this masquerade. Can the win? Will it bring her Zdorraso or joyt Be sure to read
munion for a night. We will drink |--tomorrow'aliaxoiting Instali,
ment)
By Pan! E
HOW IT BEGAN Berdanier
MARRYING TO A' DIFFERENT STATION.
IN EARLY ROME ONLY THE PATRICIANS, 'OR ARISTOCRATS, COULD RECEIVE [THE REQUIRED OMENS FROM THE 'GODS BEFORE MARRIAGE. SINCE THE PLEBEIANS, OR COMMON PEOPLE, COULD RECEIVE NO OMENS, THEY COULD NOT MARRY PATRICIANS, WHEN ROMAN CIVIL LAW CHANGED "THIS IN 445 B.Cy' OUR MODERN FREEDOM IN MARRIAGE BEGAN.
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Be RUTHLESS
By
J. H. FREEMAN
IF
1938,TM*
In SPORT
sible time. He has the killer instinct almost as highly developed as had Jack Dempsey, to whom he bears such a facial and bodily resemblance.
The greatest heavy-weight boxer of his time, Billy Wells, would have been the uncrowned king of his class if he had possessed Dempsey's mental make-up, or the terrific cold-blooded concentration of Ted "Kid" Lewis, the most successful Oghting-machine this country has produced for a generation. Lewis won three British titles at different weights, and the world championship us n welter-weight.
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To watch Lewis in the ring was to see an example restrained, calculated ferocity that was almost frightening.
Benny Lynch, our sole world boxing champion, Is our chosen players in various
kindred spirit-when he is fighting for a champlon- fields of sport are to make British ship. But he has not Lewis's determination in contests achievement in 1938 something more than of lesser quality.
a matter for laughter or contempt, they will have to undergo a mental revolution.
A Now Spirit
DOTH the Lawn Tennis Association and the Royal and Ancient Golf Club have made offer-
Ruthlessness in its modern application is a harsh word, a near relative of unscrupulousness, ings to the spirit of the age by entering on a new war But in its striet dictionary meaning it is a quality with new idens. that we need in competitive sport.
Test cricket, international golf, Davis Cup and Wimbledon lawn tennis, have long ceased to be sporting engagements, conducted on friendly, go-as-you-please lines.
They are stern encounters. fought with a tenseness on the part of our opponents that needs to be matched with equal determination and con- centration by our own men and women.
Fierce Competition
AUSTRALIANS on the cricket field, Americans
on lawn, tennis court or the golf course possess something more than the will-to-wl and the fighting spirit. The most successful of thom, while keeping strictly within the rules, have a strain of mercilessness that does not permit them to give pulnia to beaten opponent, and in some cases enables them to turn near defeat into striking victory.
It is idle to regret the passing of an age when chivalrous behaviour counted more than results. Fierce competition has changed all that. Record books are soulless things. There is in them no mitigation of our successive defeats in so many spheres of sport where for long we reigned supreme.
Frank Critics
TOR do those who travel find much consolation NOR
in empty tributes to a false sense of sporis manship. On the Continent of Europe, in the United States, in South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand they are very frank critics of our fallings; in these places they do not suffer fools gladly.
If Tommy Farr, who begins again his quest for a world championship with a fight against James J. Brad-
The Lawn Tennis Association is on the threshold of a scheme that will give our leading ranked players of both sexes intensive training, physically and mentally, from the late winter to the end of the Davis and Wight- man Cup tournaments.
Part of this training will be psychological. The ruling body, with real wisdom, wants to get rid of the frame of mind that lost us the Wightman Cup last sum- mer in America. In four of the rubbers then played our giris led in their final sets by two games—and yet the match was lost 0-11.
Did not our last Test team in Australia win the first two matches and have the third within their grasp? Can any of us irongine an Australian team under, any,
losing the rubber?
Wooden or Armstrong, being similarly placed here and
Concentration Power
NE has to live with these Australians on their ONE
fours to realise their tremendous power of concentration, their indomitable will, their complete sball I say inability to case up when a century is on the score-board.
If I had my way I would remind every English Test cricketer of the Lord's match of 1930, when Australia scored more than 700 runs in one innings (and put the score-board temporarily out of action) In which was inexorably crushing in its effect.
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The R. and A's changed and modernistic spirit is revealed in its appointment of a committee whose duty it in to find a team "capable of winning the Walker Cup." That word winning is indicative of the R. and A's mental revolution.
No previous committee has had a similar instruction,
Perfect Match Winner
IN professional golf we have in Henry Colton, the Open Champlon, u perfect example of the dock in New York on January 21, has one asset that match winner-cool, deliberate, determined, pitiless. nts him for the trak, it is his remorselessness in the ring. Being 0 up at the end of 18 holes means to Cotton the A punch that equalled his supply of this quality possibility of being 10 up at the 30th that, or more, would make him equipped almost to the point of in- but nothing less. vulnerability.
Douglas Jardine's quality of ruthlessness won for Max Schmeling, the German, who hopes to take us the Ashes In Australia in 1932. It also cost him the away Joe Louis's litle in June, is soft of speech, kindly, captaincy of England in 1934. ftemember the outery and with a great charm of manner-as a private over "bodyline" bowling? individual.
I think the M.C.C. would blithely see all the troplites
In the ring he has one single ferocious purpose-to in the Long Room at Lord's go up in smoke it they could
| batter his opponent to helplessness in the shortest pos- find another Jardine in 1938.
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5 Not very firm ground for sup- posing an artist not to be a roll- ing stone (0).
0 The sort of undertaking that would be touching without the fifth letter (8).
9 Only a slight noise from part
of Ireland (0),
10 Hold-up in a hotel perhaps (8).
11 This age was ages ago (4).
Vague (13).
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23 This country might easily be
broken up (5).
25 The cast of any latest big flm?
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33 In it is metal, it is clear (8).
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transgress this is beyond
ab This kind of merriment does not,
ring true (8),
38 What one wants from the doctor
as a rule (8).
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The rap in it is doubtless for cleaning the occupant of it (6), 4 One would hardly call it a sheet of water, though it contains many sheets
5 This bird might be shini (6)
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In America (4).
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