SHAVING BEEN THE LAST IR LESSINGTON CROSS,
Saturday,
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"I expect it's been pretty rough fri
am having a comprehensive card index the North Sea, haiat 11⁄2 Bill" OF HIS PATIENTS that morn- compiled of overy influential person in the world, remarked to the fallor. ing, turned with a smile to his The cards contain every detail of importance. "Rough," he repeated, slurring the visitor.
The latter rocked on his foot
"Thank God, Standish," ho Will he take money? Can he be bought in any it's been rough!"
word drunkenly: "y-a-ss, like hell
remarked, "I've finished for a other way? Is he vain? Is he sexual? In what way? The barman looked at the man couple of hours at least listen- Is he homesexual? That is of the utmost value who was sipping his whisky-and- ing to other people's neuroses. Is the car outside, Jessie?" he because it provides close associations that can * soda. added, turning to his very at- never be escaped from. Has he anything in his would you, George?" lie enquired. past to conceal? Can he be subjected to pressure? and accompanied the words with a Standish, and reflecting for perhaps It is on the strength of these reports that I choose be very interesting to get to know all
tractive secretary.
The latter, after a quick glance at
the hundredth time, that It was a pity that such an attractive male my mon.
person was already married, looked
through the consulting-room window
Into Wimpole Street.
"Yes, Bir Lessington; Gilgg has
junt turned up."
"Good! Come along, Tigers let's go and feed the face."
Once the car got under way, Sion- dish turned to the famous neurologist. "I've had no chance yet to thank you for giving me that tip the other doy," he said.
Cross affected not to understand,
Tip?" he repeated: "what tip? I've no time to sludy racing form," **** "Don't be an ass! I mean about Lady Mally. It was you who sent me that
walt a minute," he went on.
Tthink I've still got it in my pocket-book. Yes," taking n plece of folded paper out of his wallet and passing t
over; "that came from you, didn't it?"
The doctor's face was a study as he scanned the typewritten words.
"How did you guess?" he returned. "How did guess? Well, that was easy enough; you remember when we lunched at the Lotus Club the other day, you sald something. about wanting to tell me something
—from "HITLER SPEAKS”
by Hermann Rauschning.
What Particular Vice
Did
On
The Nazi Gestapo Pin
Sir Simkin Hoff?
*
The Strange Case of
"Shouldn't like to be a sailor,
significant wink, "Of course, it must about new guns and things--have you got any new guns on your ship, B177
The allor, who by this time ap- peared to be in a bad way-liquor was goining the victory at last stared at the speaker stupidly,
"New guns?' he repeated. "I could tell you something, I could
And then, lurching across
the room, he sank down into an in- adequate seat, and made a motion. with his right hand, Eignifying that the world was spinning round him.
"We don't want any of those blasted dicks in here, George." ro- marked Joe Pulza; "hadn't you bet- ter look after our pal?"
Although the remark was greeted with leers by the others in the bar, the man he had addressed appeared to take it quite seriously.
"I'll take him along to. my kip," le sak; "he 'can aleco it off there. If the police got hold of him they might push him in quod-and then he'd lose perhaps, a month's pay.. We can't let our brave sailors down like that, can we, Joc!"
The Sheep-Faced Meteorologist
and then deciding that you couldn't could only describe
startled normal person would have revolted
whole to accept this evidence of good-will
fur all happened within a few seconds. in fact, that when the barman passed
"Certainly not! It would be
do it? The some afternoon I got error, had fallen back in his chair, at the sight, but the sullor appeared shame!" was the rejoinder. this at my house... well, don't evidently unconscious. The worry, old man: things turned out thing had been so quick that it had at its surface value. So much so,. all right; as a matter of fact i able to do the fair lady n good full about Hoff, had also witnessed the he invited the other to join him.
Conversation languished untli Pall
Cross, who, un a result of talking over a glass of the required drink. Mall
was reached, and the Lanches amazing occurrence, was immediate-
AS THE STILL - INTOXICATED ter slopped outside the Imposing ly on his feet, his profesional in- and raised his glass before he put which had pulled up about midway Jue decided on a mixed vermouth, SAILOR got out of the taxi entrance to the Phallide Club. As klinct aroused,
it to his lips.
along the Hampstead Rand, he took "It is good that Italy and Britain off his cap and waved it high in the are friends again, don't you think, air. His good Samaritan miscon- sailor?" he asked.
strued the gesture.
he stepped on to the pavement, Standish turned a lugubrious face
his companion,
*All right, you fellows," he said, talking
a quick step forward; " see what's wrong with him." like Daniel entering Knowing him to be a doctor of the lions' den," he stated; "am I eminence, the other members of the have liked to have knocked the glass is, "you'll soon be able to lie down. worthy, do you think, to be taken Phallida gave way. Tiger followed out of his hand, grinned amiably You'll be all right then."
Unlocking a door that evidently
"I feel just
Into
The man in navy blue, who would.. "All right, BU," he said soothing-
this abode of the august? closely behind. He had his own in you wops are all right," he led into the living quarters over a
Haven't you got to have a certificate views of the situation. He was su
.
from your doctor testifying to the quickly on Cross's hecis, in fact, that returned; "it's those bloody Nazis I shop, he caught hold of his com- exact amount of brain you possess he was able to pick up the piece of can't stand. before you'll be admitted?"
paper which had fallen from Sir hell-and we shall give 'em more narrow flight of stairs. The sailor,
But we're givin' em panion's arm, and guided him up Cross laughed.
Simkin Hoff's nervous hand a minute before very long." "Don't be nn nas; you're just an'before. As he did so, he found him-
still apparently bubbling with good eminent in your own way as half of these jokers, although that's saying a
good deal. Come along."
Once he had signed his guest in and attended to one or two other preliminaries, the neurologist, taking Tiger by the arm, piloted the way to
spacious
lous dining-room. This was crammed almost to capacity, but the table for two which Cross's secretary liad reserved over the telephone,
the
awaited them in a corner.
"I thought this would do us very
well," Cross announced; "you'll be
able
to get a good view from here
A
As though wishing to impart a nature, made no demur. It was only when he found himself confronted by three other men, all of whom looked curiously at him, that he started to protect.
Tiger Standish Story
By Sidney Horler
stricken man
thought you lived alone, George?" he complained. "I don't like all these strange faces."
"It's all right, Bill," returned the sallow-faced man, winking at the others, "they're all good friend of tnine--and they's ana tifferent
all be good friends of yours; that is," in a
لله
Jus
"if you aren't going to be too
"Fussy? It you'd been where I've been for the last three months, you I can tell yer! If
of dil the celebrities and they're self staring into the hostile eyes of secret of great import, and as though wouldn't be fussy, here in ful force to-day: there's so- the waiter who had handed the entirely disregarding the fact that they're good pals of yours, they're and-zo and so-and-so."
He proceeded to run off a list of several seconds they looked at each curlous loungers, the sailor bent over
the enevlope. For the squalid bar was half-filled with good pals of mine." some of the most imposing names in other. Then.
That's the talk. Now come and many branches of British uctivity,
the bar.
sit down," lending the way to a sofa including the Arts, Selences, and the member here?" enquired the walter, solini," he confided in a rich wheeze, by the side of the door. "Do you "Excuse me, sir, but are you a "I could tell you something. Mus- that ran along one side of the room "Go to hell!" was the retort. as though some of the rum bud think you could do with mother
rasped his throat Instead of lubricat- drink?"" Ing it.
"Do with another drink! Of course I bet you could, saller," Joe could. Old Bill never refused a
I Pulza smiled sympathetically, and drink
Church. Although not possessing s trave of snobbery, Cross showed himself to be justifiably proud of being
n member of what was in many respects London's most famous
club, and made no attempt to hide SPENT STREET, SOHO, is never a showed himself to be in o receptive fult Jet," and he Inughed benst-
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on doubt been anticipating was not sallow-faced man took a chair near mitted to the Phallida, "and half tall, well-proportioned sailor, lurch given. For in that moment the door him. the letters that appear in the Times ing from side to side, sometimes with the collar of his overcoat pulled ble, Bill," he urged: "If you're not
opened
and
a sallow-faced man. "Now then, make yourself comfort- are written from here."
rouing in the gutter, and
and sometimes Repressing a desire to ask if that stopping for
too tired, tell us something about moment to lean well around his ears, and was a recommendation or a warning, against a shop-window, as though hubby felt hat pulled well down your adventures. We're
all Tiger showed himself suitably Im- endeavouring to recover his equilir. his eyes, entered. The salior als here, on I've told
you before." pressed, and got on with his food brium, appeared to be asking for gave no filention that the critica!
The "adventures" which which, on the principle perhaps that troubles: there were many denizens had arrived; he leaned his great next quarter of an hour, the words! moment in that night's entertainment turned mariner narrated during the high-powered brains function belter of Spent Street and its immediate length against the bar and looked inter-mingled with loud shouts of on a plain diet, was good enough but neighbourhood. that would cheerfully ike an overgrown boy only intent on laughter as he described how "U" scarcely up to the standard of any have stuck a knife into this jolly tar, a good time. of his own haunts.
who had apparently been celebrating
boat after "U" boat had been sunk, During a lull in the service-they not wisely
"but
would have made the fortune of any too well, were waiting for the boiled mutton thought it would have turned out a with self-confidence and the com-
The newcomer nlngled furtiveness action romancer; they were terrifle. with caper
per sauce, as a matter of fact prontable undertaking. Indeed, two binntion did not add to his charm. chums," he said at the end. "We've
"And there's another Tiger drew his host's attention to prowlers had talled after him for Yel, as though oozing good will to get guns on my boat that can shoot an extraordinary-looking man two some time, and were just about in all the world, the sailor leaned to five miles further than anything the tables away.
make their attack, when the sailor wards him. "Who's the cove with the enormous unexpectedly sobered up.
"What you have chum?" he
Nazis have got." head, and a face like a sheep with Showing his clenched ants, he wheezed, and as the man looked at his listeners, a thick-set, bull-necked.
That's
alle" came from one of the nettle-rnsh. Cross?" he enquired growled!
him suspiciously; "I'm all right. My square-headed man who looked like whisper. The neurologist stiffted
"Get into his table napkin. laugh
lo hell out of here or I'll beat name's Bill Bates. I'm just off the a butcher. the fiving guts out of yeri" Sir Simkin Hof, the mil-
... well, p'raps I'd better not say The sailor climbed unsteadily to That was enough; the footpada what my ship la, but I'm home on his feet. Honaire," he replied; "the famous:
alunk amateur meteorologial;
leave after three months. Have a with a side-
"What's that you say, chum?” line in old musters he's supposed way forward. Eventually he arrived the words by pulling a
The sallor continued to lurch his drink;
come
and accompanying. It was the xallow-faced man who to save one of the greatest art col- at the lower end of Spent Street, and from the mysterieur inner recesses
wad of notes altomated to ease the situation. lections in the world. Several times there turned into a
Jim was just saying that was a millionaire. Anything else you cafe-bar. The Three Worlds" was caught hold of his new-found friend's you know about these guns? But typical Sohn of one of his trousers pockets, he splendid news, Bill-what else do want to know?"
Before
kept by one Joe Pulza the said he arm and gave it an encouraging could make any reply was an Italian but he looked as squeeze, to this minor barrage, of information, though he belonged to at least a chum?" he went on
Tiker un extraordinary thing had happen- dozen different breeds); he cocked a the time they had been very wary eye on the newcomer. talking, he had watched a waiter who seemed to bring into approach the table at which the man mephitle atmosphere a breath of the with the curious name and (to him) strident North Sea. even more curious activities, was seated, and hand him a note.
"Hello, chum," Joe wheezed, using the
in a
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"What I say, is gospell" came the "George Hunter."
indignant retort: "Well, have
aren't I the first a drink, George- gunner?”... d that what's it going to be?"
At the words, the four men becan Joe Pulza put
on his most un- simultaneously to get to their feet. pleasant mirk again.
Whilst two of them edged round to expect George'll
their hands in their right-hand coat Under the combined influence of pockets. But they were too late,
The sallor, recovering, in what ap
ily tone to characteristic of his won't you, Georg havo his usual, cover the door, the other two put
Sir Simkin Hoff, atter saying a kind, how's the Navy?" word to the man on either aile of "The Navy's all right, old, cock," the two, the newcomer relented. him, had opened the note casunily, returned the sallor: "got any rum?" glanced at what was written the Joe brought into play his most in-
"Yes a drop of Scotch," he said. reared to be miraculous fashion paper he took out of the envelope, gratiating smile. This rendered him drink, passed the gloss across the rom the mysterious inner recess of The bermoon after, mixing the from his drunken stupot, produced and then, with a look of what Tiger so unpleasant to look at that any zinc-covered counter.
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