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Inspector Playfair Episode 62
The only occupants of On leaving the Yard, Miss Spruce against "FOR once. Dumbell," said "Sorry," he mumbled. "Any sort of Waterloo,
the compartment were a big, bearded took elaborate precautions Joshua Playfair, frowning clue, sir?"
"Yes," said Playfair. "Clue now man and myself; he had a number being followed. (In fact, however, at some thought of his own, waiting downstairs Miss Martha of these objects in a leatlier bag and no attempt was made to keep track "Easter brings us a crime appro- Spruce. They've had her there nomo was studying them through a lens, of her.) "I was very careful," she priate to Easter. The theft of umechecking up on her finger- He left the train before meat told Eddle Butcher that evening, easy money, really. Lord Lodicl'a silver eggs." prints-though Martha's not aware Vauxhall-and then I found this little "but it was
the £50 1 was adv
the him. advised by officials at
Lonk, Ed., here's "Silver caga!" exclaimed Dumbell, of that. She's here to claim Lodiel's cgs, which had rolled under the sent. Playfair belleved every word I told wurd. "I've heard of the golden enge they £50 reward.
every "And you think she may be on stallen to bring it to you. They suld note." The silver
"Playfair belleved something abou
about a reward." were laid by a goose.
accessory?"
The phone bell rang. A quick did he?? said Eddie. "I wonder. voice said
"That
you, Playfair? The Anyway, my pet, I'm not touching lady with you is Anne Mackay, alias that thing no, not even with gloves Leggatt, alias Payne, alles--as you on. You'll change it at your bank, Martha Spruce hnd (thought May knowSpruce. Associate for some please, Arat thing in the morning.
eggs have been mis-laid, have they, sir?"
"They have," said Playfair. "The next start concert, by the way, is Thursday, Dumbell; your wise-cracks
"It wouldn't surprise me."
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tion.
will perhaps keep till then. These fair) "accessory" written all over silver eggohere are photos of them her. Long before she had taken the years of Eddle Butcher, who stole the And you can keep five quid for your-
"Sure," said Playfoir. "We're -the Burmese relies of some anti- chair which Dumbell, at a sign from Helvetla statuette. You remember?" self."
the Inspector, offered her, her quick,
have We
here," unique.
Not until five days had elapsed did progreat. making to be
had
in glance quity and are said
taken
Miss
Butcher- arrest Eddie Playfair hard. he went on in an even voice, "n They were given to Lord Lodiel when acquisitive
everything the
A room.
Teddington, who's indeed, he was waiting for inferma- he was Lieutenant-Governor, I can't ever
She pro- brought us most valuable informa- tion as to that gentleman's whers- make out," he added, irritably, "why bitten woman of thirty or so, dressed Spruce, from
A good description of the pro- abouts: As soon as this information people are such fools as to want to fanhionably but not well.
duced from her bag a silver egg- slen anything that's unique. The
egits extremely the smallest and least ornate of the bable thief shall have it circulated reached him, he made haste to pull
Eddie in-though the sliver market for the eggs 19
collection and held it out for Play right away.""
had
Play- been
disposed of. already restricted-if not recovered, they can
He put down the receiver. "I sup- fair's inspection.
was able, however, to establish dishonest collector only go to some who'll gloat over them in private
this man before?"
conviction followed at both Eddle and the number of thieves who at
CHES were tempt this sort of crime is, for that
and his associate. The
for recovered too, none the worse reason, very restricted too. Which, he concluded sententiously, "possibly
their adventure; but that is another gives us our chance."
story.
What was Playfair's plan of cam-
Solution on Page Three
H'M" was his inward comment. pose, Miss Spruce, you've never seen in ma facie case, and in due course
account
"Not bad. Something on from the Yard; that's the den, is It?
Aloud he said: "Ha; one of Lord Where Lodiel's missing valuables!
"Never." "You could swear to him if you saw him?"
a
Miss Spruce fluttered her eyelids, "I think so," she said modestly. Soon "It was left in a rallway train afterwards, in return for her signed that his yesterday," said Miss Spruce. "A statement, Playfair handed her a note in time,
Joking mood, suburban train from Teddington to for £50.
palen?
"Perhaps The Exx Marketing did you get that, Miss Spruce?" Board" began Dumbell; then re- membered, just superior was not in
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10-Letter Words
Try Alling in the missing letters to complete these 10-letter "INA" words, Deinitions are given be- low:
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1. sluggishness. 2, bankers. 3. districta occupied by Chinese, 4, arrangement. 6, Inventor, 6, dis- ordered, 7, primitive. B, accor dlon-ke Instrument.
Letter Juggling
reader
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For English Readers
A man bought ✡ secondhand car. He sold it later, and gained 5 per cent. If he had bought t for 5 per cent less, and sold it for one shilling less, he would have gained 10 per cent. How much did it cost him in the first place?
Fun With Antonyms
Here ore 10 more words and their antonyms to be paired off:
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Solutions on Page Threo
NEW NOVEL
R
OBERT (" Good-bye to All That") Graves has become the Terror of tho, Dons. Down at Oxford, I gather, they go through his historical novels with a tooth-comb, hoping to catch him out on some point of Old Roman ritual observanco.
But Master Graves, who had the run of a 5,000-volumio-library when he was a boy, is always one jump nhend of te professors. They ploughed expectantly through those stories of that shy, eccentric Emperor, Claudius. But they failed to píough the man who wrote them.
His
Count Bellsarlus how tale, (Cassell, Bs. Od.), features the life of the great sixth-century soldier who defended the Empire in its decline, couting ita swarning enemies in a dozen campaigns, walloping the Persians and driving the Collis from the crumbling Walls of Rome.
dons aro I don't doubt that the already poring over these pages. But Master Craves has been too quick for them again. Wherever surviving records are meagre," he taunts them in a foreword, "I have been obliged to A in the gaps in the story with no tion, but I have usually had an his torical equivalent in mind.”
SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1988
Of Course
But Are
By The Dragoman
You
Know, Sure?
You
FOUR colleagues claiming average Intelligence had a preview of this week's questions and averaged 38. I hadn't thought them as simple as means you that. The questions, I mean. That should get about 60-except that the maximum is only 50.
Take two points per correct answer. If you total 30 you'll pass, and if you total 50 probably I'll pass out! I'll be surprised, anyway.
Jeeves, the haunch of venison, please! Yes, we have venison for dinner whenever I happen to shoot -
Kangaroo; moose; bufato, Iluma; deer; goat; rapid.
2-1 was surprised the other day when a man 1 met tried to sell me the Empress of Britain, because I always thought the boat belonged to the
P. & O.; Orient; Cunard-White Star: Hamburg-Amerika; Canadian Pacific Rail-
eap: Como Ferries, Ltd. 3.-A savant-now don't quibble, you know n savant I
A mall river boat; on cel-like Ash; a learned man; an art exhibitor; a Chinese man-servant.
4. When I was in the country once (you'd be surprised how I've travelled!) I picked up sume argot-I mean some-
Precious mineral; sort of crop disease; slang terms; stuck fadder; dissolute-looking tramp.
5.11 is so obvious that one feels ashamed to ask you whether Gazebos are
South American goats, women's spring garment, summer-houses, municipal of- cers, football jerseys.
6-If you get really angry and felt like com- mitting felicide you would feel like killing→→→
A dog one of your fellows; a horse; a cat; the boss: your wife with kindness.
7. My Aunt Sarah (yes, sure I've got an Aunt Sarab-bless her) is a valetudinarian. She- Makes religion a study; never eats meet; Instructs valets; is always sick; is a man- hater; plays the piano one-finger. 8.--You've seen golf balls--thoic round things you get clastic out of for shanghais? Well, the indented pattern on the cover of a golf ball is supposed to
Make it easier to get out of bunkers: make it travel farther; make it siop rolling: keep it from wearing out; make it easier to find.
unit of energy and the A-Hurse-power is n number of pounds one horse-power can lift one foot in one minute is
16,000; 13,000; 20,000; 23,000; 30,000; 33,000; 40,000; 43,000.
10. If the thing is done correctly at a wedding the tonst of the bridesmaids is responded to by-
The bridegroom; the bridegroom's father- in-law; his father; the best man; the bride's grandfather; the taal-driver.
11-I'll be very surprised, Indeed, if anyone doesn't know that the Arst of the Ten Command- ments --
Thou shalt not kill; Thou shalt not steel; Thou shalt not bear false witness
Thou shalt have no other gods before Me; Thou shalt not covet
12. Don't take it as an insult to your intelli- gence when I ask you such an easy thing as- what a pentathlon is-
Dear Kiddies,
Girls' and
Lots of entries again this week.
A Greek opera; an athletle contest; a large snake; an antique ornament; an an- clent sailing vessel.
13. There are all sorts of waves--sad sen waves, waves of enthusiasm, marcello waves and farewell waves, And, of course, wireless waves, which, in miles per second, travel at the rate of
00; 120; 100,000; 08,000; 100,000; funt millions.
14. The Roman Wali in the north of England was built bym
Julius Caesar; Severus; Claudius; Hadrian; Constantine.
--I was talking to an American the other day
noun. and he kept using the word Fall an should have known he was referring to the
Depression; harbour; staj coastline; season; itquor regulations.
18. Even 1, some of us weren't certain how many plain calgut strings there were on a violin you ought to know that catgut largely from-
comes
Dogs; sheep; cats; crocodiles; elephants; Ashing linea.
17-Some my good old Sergeant-Major and some sny (now then, keep the column decent.- Ed.). All right-n sergeant-major of the Austra Han military forces wears on his sleeve-
Tico chevrons; a star; three chevrons, two stora; three chevrons and a crown; just a crown.
18. Unless you skip a couple of places the next
becoino
arch- step in promotion after you deacon Is-s
แค
Archbishop; deacon; cardtual; curate; bishop; archangel.
10. Don't let it go any further, but bomboa (the stuff we used to moke our penshoolers from) is a-
Tree; shrub; creeper; proas; ecreut; moss; cactus; reed.
20. Whenever I hear of a man being held in veneration I straightaway think of him being held
in-
Disrespect; thrail; contempt; a sort of alligntor clutch; reverence; gaol. 31.-Your childhood education WAS
sadly neglected if you don't know
Wag
that Ally Sloper
Film actor; Dickensian character; preat general; comic character; author; explorer. 22"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends"-la it possible you don't know that was written origin- ally-
By Shakespeare; by Browulug; by Long- fellow; by Rupert Brooke, in the Bible. 23-If you move in the right circles and you hear them refer to a dowager, you know they
meen-
An elderly woman; an old gossip; a divorcee; 1 widow; 0 boardnig-house keeper.
24-They were funny at my old school--they used to give us marks for NOT knowing things. I remember getting six marks once for not know- ing that the word STEPPES meant-
Fire escapes; Siberian forests; Eskimo houses; Alpine retorts; treciese plains; Arctic jungita.
20. Just a simple one-for young and old. Tom, Dick and Harry (the old Arm!) have £90 between them. Dick has twice as much as Harry. Tom has as much as Dick and Harry put together. Therefore, Dick has-ch, how much?
(Answers on Page Three)
Boys' Corner
Unfortunately, some
of you decided to colour the birds with the brightest of your paints or crayons. The type of bird in the picture is very sel- dom coloured a bright red, orange or purple.
However, there were some really excellent paintings and crayon work sent in.
The prizes, therefore, go to:-*
Sybil Rousseau (aged 13), 9, Victory Avenue, Homuntin; and Christopher Lam (aged 5), 523, The Peak, Hongkong. Coupons are being sent to space forbids my printing it in Sybil and Christopher. I want this page. them to bring these coupons to
Stephen Mose: It is a pity the "Hongkong Telegraph" of- that you were too old to enter fice in Wyndham Street where the other competition as I am they will be exchanged for sure you would have done well. Your painting is very good, I moncy prizes.
Specially commended for good like the way you painted the dwarf's beards, Thank you so much for sending me your paint- ing.
work are:-
Aurea Marques: Thank you very much for your drawing of the birds.
Seniors: Stephen Mose, Suen Mo-tak, John Anderson, Doris Moy Toy, Ho Man Chan, S. J. Bux, Elizabeth Millar, Charles Edward Clark, Julle Fok, Edith
Quite a few of my nieces and Tan, Maimie Ho, Frank Chan, nephews have been asking for Aurca Marques, Albert Re- medios, Joyce Sturgeon, Iu Po-one particular type of competi- chiu, Lily Bradshaw, Yaeult tion and that is making lots of Cooper, Lilia Xavier, Young Kit- small words from one big word. So this week we are going to wa, Dora Tui, Irene Osmund,
have the word Mary Grace Asche, Majida Omar, Wong Yung-tsing, Betty Becker, Fernando Alves, S. A
Fergusson Bux, Joyce Peggy Barton.
Juniors: William Chan, Ghazi J. Khan, Doreen Xavier, Tony da Roza, Jacqueline Xavier, Gerald Marshall, Christa Luer, Marie
and
FORMALDEHYDE from which you can make such words as deer, ham, fare, etc.
Important: Please put the small words down in their pro- per sections such as deer under D, ham under H and fare under, F. Also I want you to count up Kun, Alexander de Oliveira the number of words discovered Sales, Michael Hall, Annie Spen- and put that number on the top cer, Tootsie Garcia, Umberto of your page. Please don't for Mosc, Norman Waid, Robin Hill, get these two points. Irmgart Soltau, Gabrielle Ohl, S.
When you have found as
A. Bux, H. A. May, S. A. L. Bux, Ronald Quie, Geraldina Ribeiro, many words as you can, write Cynthia da Luz (Shameen), your name, age and address on Teresa Souza, Conny Bonhoff, the paper and wond to Uncle Eddle, c/o "Hongkong Tele- George Elliott, Ann Thompson, Gladys Smith, Tania Tchurin, graph", Wyndham Street. The S. S. Bux, Nona Ozorio, Ann competition closes at 4 p.m. on
Wednesday. Hunter, Miskin Samy.
Lilla Xavier: Thank you very much for your delightful paint- Ing of Mickey Mouse riding the Burf.
Irene Osmund: Many thanks for your poem about "Snow White". Unfortunately lack of'
Two prizes will again be given.
Lots of luck, kiddies,
+
Unche Enddia
A Sallor's Life -By Yscult Cooper (aged 12) Yo Hol for the life of a sailor,
A sailor on the sen, (That instine's ruther Billy,
For where else would a sailor be?) Yo Hol for the life of a sailor A-float on the billowy main, (He never has to hurry
To catch the eight o'clock train!) Yo Hot for the life of a sailor
With his little "tot of rum” (And when he's had too much, sir,
Oh, then begins the fun.)
Yo Hol for the life of a sailor
Who will always "lend a hand," (But after the Bay of Biscay I'd rather stay on land!)
Joke
-Sent In by Charles Edward Clark "Good morning, Madam! I have come to tune your plano" "But, I did not ask you to call,"
sold the lady.
"No, Madam. But the man next
door told me to."
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