10
THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH, MONDAY,
JUNE
6,* 1938.
SPARE MOMENT
AYANK AT OXFORD
“HALSEY RAINES,
Dupright 1914 by Toon's Ind. ·
WHAT HAS HAPPENED SO FAR Lac Sheridan, whose Oxford carour has been marked by a bitter poreonal foud with Paul Donument, brother of the girl whom he foves, is dismissed from college when ho escapes respon mibility for a visit paid to Paul at his rooms by Blaa Craddook, a young married woman. I the ove of the Oaford-Cambridge race, and Leo's father, Dan, has come to England from Kansas for the tart of ecoing his boy participate. When Los explains his disgrace, Dan shroudly sanses that he te attempting to ahield someone. He goes to Mot ly Beaumont, and says they must work out some way to save Los together.
Chapter Twolve
Elsa Cenddock was alone an Dan Sheridan entered her bookshop, an hour inter. She displayed no Inter.) at as the elderly man bogan to browse around. Dan appraised har for a moment, then pfokod up a bool and went over to the desk. "Send this up to Dan Bheridan's at The Mitre, will you?“
Dau Bheridan!" Elm exclaim- ed, startled.
inn pretended not to notice her Astonishment. "Yeah. I've got a boy hore, Lee Sheridan. Know him?"
"I do, Indord.
"Nice Jd, isn't he?
"Your son, Mr. Sheridan, in a great gentleman," she said very earntly,
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PICTURE
book-shop and are moving to A- dershot. He thinks there'll be less temptation there. But I have a can- Bolance. I couldn't go without telling the truth.
Astounded, the Dean paced up and down, fingers pressed to his temples.
"Amazing! Unbollovable!" bo mut- terod."
"I've nothing to gain by telling an untruth!" an insisted.
The Dean stopped pacing. "Don't misunderstand ma," he anlu, "What I fall to grasp in why young überi- dan accepted the blame."
"Oh, you know what men are, Dean. They never give each other away."
A that moment, the door opened, It was Marmaduke Wavertree, Jo confronted the Dean with a smile.
"You sent for me, ale?"
"The offense," the Dann sald slowly, "of entertaining a lady in your rooms is a grave one."
Wavertree appeared completely dismayed. "Mo, air? Oh, no, sir ho protested. That's one thing I have never done. Borry, sir-but never occurred to me."
Etan nudged him. "Marmaduke, how can you?" she remonstrated.
Wavertree looked at her blankly. "We wore foolish." Elsa continu- ed. "But it was only a firtation."
The Dean controlled his anger. "Don't to to me, mir!" burst out. Mrs. Craddock fan freely confessed everything."
Suddenly Wavertree understood, "Bho has?" he maid delightedly. "What roller, ntr Naturally, I lind to protect a woman, but now I nend le no more!"
"And you allowed another man to take the home for this! Mr. Waver. tree, I am aghast!" the Dean ex-|
Dan beamed, "Well, I'm glad to here you say no." Hin muddenly beelnimed. enme confidential. "You know," he Ald, "I ought to be sore at him. Here I've come five thousand miles to nes him row against Cambridge and what do I finit That he's been kicked out for being caught with a
"I'm sure you are, sir," was the reply, "but it didn't seem any good, owning up. You never bellovo when I do."
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Not long afterwards, Paul Beau
MOMENT PAGE
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HOW IT BEGAN Bordanier
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A PUNK
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girl."
Elsa fidgeted. "Did...did he tell you who it was?"
Suddenly Dan seemed to see for the first time the name of the cover of a book on the desk. "Craddock?" he naked with a puzzled Jaok. "Sarms like that was the tune." He looked up. "Could you be Elsa Craddock
"Yes, I am," she answered de- murely.
Dan pretended great admiration. "Well, don't that boat nverything! Now I certainly don't blanic . Didn't know Leo was such a good picker."
Elsa became serious. "But 1 - nure you, Mr. Sheridan, thero was nothing wrong."
"We're gaining, men,” the coxswain cried. "Give everything you've goff"
Lee, mant hurried to Lee's room. looking moodily at a lotter he had written, started as he saw who his in expression grim visitor was. and forbidding. Paul eronned tho
room.
Suddenly, unable to carry the pre- tense longer, Paul extended la hand. "Yank, I'd like to shake your hand!" ho said hustly.
His face reiecitar la confusion, Lee took it.
"Say, what is thin?" he demanded. Paul Inughed. "So you'd steal my girl, would your I've just seen Elsi. he went to the Dean and con- fensed."
Lee was startled, "Confessedi But that means you'll be sent down.”
"Oh, no, it doesn't. She put it on Wavertree."
Ir
GAS-MASK NIGHTMARE
the dignified shade of Dr. Samuel Jolinson experienced a second in- carnation, and returned to the great lexicographer's
sive mend of reassuring a some- what paniekty London population. The stunt journals have been so in-
The Brut What Would Dr. sistent in printing horrife wies of
former haunts, his frank impressions of nur life might be both interesting and improving. He would find in stage
unany
directions.
gering change in and many of them would, one appre- hends, disgust him hugely,
He might wax extremely anathe- matical for certain over our up-to-
Johnson Think?
By "AN OLD STAGER"
the fearful effects of poison-gas that some people have apparently com- pletely lost their nerve.
Boys
What the journalistic Fol overlook is that poison-gas bombard- ment, so far as this country is con- cerned, can only be attempted by air, and that by air the thing is not fani- too that nowadays bie. It Is, in a vulgar phrase of date sex equality ideas, which would conscience, outrage his deepest sense of logical civilians of all ages and both sexes which Dr. Johnson would disapprove, It is Instinet come well within the lethal perime "not done in duck-shooting* reality. His punctilous
probable the Doctor would reprove that widely circulated story about the ter of violent warfare.
the Dr. Johnson raight conclude that the pante-mongers and scorn Doctor spitting out the hot soup is
Actitious would be revolted, civilisation, during the century and panicky ones with equal vigour. purely loo, by the spectacle of young pad a half since he viewed it on earth, elderly ladies performing their tollets had not advanced but receded badly. A Hideous Satira and making-up in publle. On that He might conclude that, with such theme one can imagine hire being practices extant in twentieth-century
Europe, our great capitals Invited God a death," and surely Hamlet's almost rude.
How nying would affect him is the fate of the doomed cities of the Is the right frame of mind for a gal- "If it be now, 'tis not more doubtful. It is just conceiv- Plain. Sodom and Gomorrah could lant people?
affended to come; if it be not to come, it will able that he would regard it as an not have more helnously
be now; if it be not now, yet it will Implous plece of mechanical pre- against divine law.
Dr. Johnson had a great awe Yet Dr. Johnson would assuredly come." sumption; mortal attempt to usurp
After all it is true that we all "owe
is
the locomotory privileges of angelle ascertain all the facts, and his soild of death, but assuredly his breast beings. But though undoubtedly he intelligence would at once reject the would reject base panic. That would be aghast at the total of our absurd notion that London stood la also, one fondly belleves, the attitude rond casualties, the modern luxury any reni danger of being gassed by of the majority of even native Lon- limousine would certainly attract air attack. The impossibility of this doners. One cannot answer for the him. For Dr. Johnson declared that is abundantly clear even to far less East End aliens. there were few
pleasurable brainy people than Dr. Johnson. sensations than rupid travel inside o really comfortable coach. By the Million
more
Panic-Mongers
מס
it is intriguing, on the lighter side of this question, to speculate as to when ke Dr. Johnson's comments saw, having as he had an eye for a experts One of the greatest chemical science has told us that, pretty face, some of those Streatham It was thus he used on occasion to though the invading planes' blacken- factory girls trying on the gas-masks. set out from the residence in seques ed the sky above us, they could not He would probably have regarded it: "Come on, laugh!" Paul urged.
tered Gough Court for Streatham, possibly drop enough potson gas to as a hideous satire "It's good of you to understand," "Wnvortree's got what he wanta.
risking the footpads and highway- have any serious effect on London, century ethics. You're reinstated, and now we'll
Gate for It does not require that one should Eisa sald warmly.
men around Kennington "Sure I understand," responded beat Cambridge all hollow"
"Eisa put it on Wavertree?" Leo the visitor wistfully. "And if you.
Dan waved this maido. "Of course notl Not with a girl like you. I'm mulghty glad Les's made such a nice friend."
Leo grinned as the idea por- mented."
ask me, it's pretty tough, Loe's get-repeated, slowly. A paroxymn of ting fired just because he falls for laughter shook him. Their laughter the prettiest girl in town." He sigh-was interrupted by a knock at the ed deeply, "Hard on me, too door. It was Wavertroe who en coming all this way to eco him win tored, looking very depressed.
"One #003 up to Oxford, Mr.
sant down." Wavertree," Lee said, "but one la
tant race."
By now Elsa wen "You must fool dreadful, to upset. "Yeah," Dan nodded. "I counted pretty heavy on the hoy's making good over here."
"Ob, dear!" Iina was on tho vorge of tears. "I wish there was some thing I could do,"
Wavertree tooked as if the end of the world had come,
"One in tot, ha cald. "Gentle- men, you see a broken man! The Dean said that, in consideration of my foeble intellect, which can't din- tinguish right from wrong. would fine me one pound
ha
"I wish there was," Dan groaned. "Y'know, I was just thinking to
Dejectedly, Wavertree rank into myself...hero's a clover woman. If there was any way out, she'd find chair. His last hepo of maintain- ing the family tradition of expul I've thought and thought,alon from Oxford was now coal- tored.
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but...
"Well, that's mighty kind of you.
Thousands lined the banks of the Now, maybe if we wore to put our Thames on the day of the great and Cam- honds together...we might get
race between Oxford somewheres."
Es at theto, thinking hard, bridge. Yachts and barges on the Dan watched her anxiously. Bud-river wars n-flutter with flaga. Mot- denly an idea noomed to strike her. iynand Dan together, watched "There's only one way." nho mu proudly, as the crews, Cambyrliga alghtly ahead, swopt on toward tho tored, almost to herself.
fintali ne.
"I know there'd be something!"
Dan exclaimed.
"But I'm afraid." "What? A girl of your split?“ Ets was distraught. "Oh, I do so want to help you."
"Well, then, with that kind heart of yours, you will, won't you?"
...i try," was the hesitant
reply.
Dan took her hand. He raised It
to his lips and, gallantly, he kisend
it. Thank you, ma'am," he paid brokenly. Thanks
链 thousand
In the Oxford shell, with Leo at stroke, and Paul In the number seven position Junt behind him, the coxawain urged the crow on, Thun- derous roars rolled across the river. and Molly and Dan excitedly fained in, chcoring for Oxford.
Lea's face was strained agony, his teeth grilled.
witht
We're gulning, ment" the cox- wain cried, "Glvo everything you'vo got!"
"I'm going to raise the beat!"
110140.
8. You've made an old man very Les panted.
Blowly, inch by inch, the Oxford happy."
Blowly ho turned and went out. shell moved up on ita time-honored rivals, The Thames wan a bodtam Once beyond alght of the bookshop of sound as Oxford caught, then however, he expression changed, passed Cambridge, and slid over the He burried around a corner, to a tha a winner, Completely sakausted spot where Molly wan waiting.
by thoir orqulcan offorts the Paul "Dia it work?" she asked ongerly. rowers dropped their onrs, "Y'know." -Dan said, grinning. Beaumont had just enough strength "the little lady has her good points left to clasp Leo's hand before to It wouldn't surprise me if we found collapsed. With a feeling of undilut
od triumph ho hnd never known be- alin's got a heart of gold."
Dan was more or lesa right. Afora, Les Sheridan waved happily fow hours inter Elen sat before the to Molly and Dan, whose arma wore Dean, her end bowed in contri-around each other, out on the rtver's
bank. tion.
"My husband has forgiven me," cho gald, sobbing, "We've sold the
THE END.
ihe
on iwentieth-
Even more devastating is the sake of solid entertainment at be a chemical expert to realise that thought how the formidable Doctor the table of his friends the Thrules. no enemy would be so silly as to himself would have looked in a gas- maskt Such an apparition would lle spent many week-ends with there attempt that impossible task when
Doswell, wealthy brewers at their Streatham it would be so much easier and safer probably have driven his faithful dia- to strong potion. mansion, Thrale Hall. The shade of to pepper London with high explo- cipte,
Thus The sheer impossibility of the great Lichfield's most illustrious son would give and incendiary bombs. even to-day find Thrale Hall still in the Doctor, like lesser living mortals, lexleographer in a gas-mask is the We may being. But he would indeed stare at would be greatly puzzled to under- criterion of twentieth-twenty civili- its changed surroundings. It is now stand just why a paternal Govern- sation's boasted progress. hemmed in by a congestion of work- ment has spent so much time and have the miracles of mechanism and men's dwellings and unsightly sub- money on the manufacture of fifty modern scientific research, but Dr. urban streets. When Dr. Johnson's million gas-masks that will never be Johnson and his contemporaries had the better ethics and the sounder At any rule, I think eyes knew It, the environment was wanted.
Perhaps he might conclude that it outlook on life. semi-rustic and beautifully sylvan.
What would astonish the eminent was an elaborate and rather expen- Doctor, however, and immensely puzzle him, is a near-by establish-. ment. This happens to be a factory where the nimble angers of hundreds of chle little Cockney girls are turn- ing out almost a record number of gus-manits for the Government.
It would be necessary, though
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The word "discourteously" is quite' most unenviable task, to explain to of whlers. At fenst, if we sufficient to make us think different- of the songs sung by We can not imagine such lover Dr. Johnson just what these masks listen to some are intended for. Then, indeed, we every day over the wireless, we will standing before microphone in an at- might hear him deciulm to some be inclined to belleve that quite a titude suggestive of dog baying the effect in his most magisterial manner. large section of every community is moon. Military instinct was by no means "ed up."
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or woman ever started out to accom-
absent from his make-up. There Love seems to be the trouble; and
us plish big things in a spirit of dis- Boswell
What has gone wrong with erouners tell us so in trenciy tenes alludes, that the Doctor as a young day after day. They inquire dole. Are we only expressing very, old dis- illusionment. The glory of youth mon was "out" in the gallantly fully about the probability of appointments in the modern idiom? lies in its bellet in all things its romantic 45 adventure of Prince happy issue out of all their afflic- Perhaps. We may feel that a good dreams and aspirations, its love and Charlie. He has declared, moreover, tions; but one is tempted to hazard whine in our rungs is infinitely pre- falli. Old age is the time for dis- thut every man, if he were honest, the opinion that a happy issue might ferable to a slow pining away such illusionment; and when that time would confess to wishing that he spoil the quality of their singing, as the Mald of Neidpath suffered, comes we shall have a philosophy might have been a soldier.
Even lady crooners take up the strain. Pining away is a luxury dented to that will be proof against all that and inform us that love is just an the young in this age of hustle and the world may smosh for us. Illusion. Well, they may be right. blatancy. In any away is the out- Riding for a Fall
ward and visible sign of a case, the
We think of ourselves as a genera- But in Dr. Johnson's century, But why whine about 17. which saw the campaigning prowess Young people listen to this and cure for that is a visit to a psycho- of the brillant Marlborough, military dance to the engaging rhythms to analyst, who would reveal to us that tion of tear-eyed young people who operations still retained some of the which those melancholy statements pining trick to gain sympathy prae can show our elders and betters At one time the world read tised on us by the unconscious mind, where, poor souls, they have gone wrong. That has been the way of decencies associated with the tradl are set.
the youth since the beginning of me. that apart, however, tion of chivalry. The spirit of Roland the ballads and sing the songs of an Procale, no doubt but true.
unhappy love feeling the pathos and was still breathing in Europe.
It would have humiliated, Dr. beauty which in part of all sorrow. ccainsies that we associate with the But it we keep singing songs in Johnson's belief in human nature to But there was a dignity about those tender passion are given to us in such which mutability and disillusion- learn think, so far from sticking to ballads. Who can feel that there is lugubrious and muffled tones by the ment is the dominant note, age will a whine In the crooner that we are becoming con- be forced to forsake its attitude of the ancient prejudice against polson- the misery of
vinced very early in life of the sad tulerance and shake some sense into ing the wells, modern warfare de- words:--
"Ainst my love, you do me wrong mulability of all things.. Dangeroua us instend.
We cannot on the one hand show liberately aimed at poisoning the
ideas for the young. No young man la cast me off discourteously"? very air. It would have shocked his
grey-beards where they have gone wrong, and on the other assure them of the impermanence of all in which youth is supposed to belleve. It
We have no right to whine! doesn't make sense.
Of course there are those who sing with offensiva joviality about How very un-British and un-Scotst their seat on the top of the world. "Our native caution tells us that we are riding for a fall when we do that.
But surely there to some hoppy Ing "Mary Morison" is not the mere medium between crowing and whin- crowing of a triumphant young man. It is a humble and touching tribute to the sweetest of women. Nor is the "Mald of Neldpath" whining
Crooners examine the old love- ballad. It is a terrible tale invested with the dignity of real tragedy. songs and sing them!
Olivia Clarke