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Joke Over
began with a mild joke. The Groobetts and disagreed over something just a routine row-and Julia had gone to alt In the lounge, leaving Henry in his deck-chair. The french win dows were open, and presently she heard him arguing. There was no other voice. Baffled she got up.
Henry was saying to her emply deckchair, "But what about the time, when Hobbs and Sutcliffe".
He broke off elaborately as she crossed the lawn, and picked up hin
paper.
"I don't want to intrude," she said, "but who's your invisible friend?"
"Charlie," he said.
She looked at him steadily. a round face, with its healthy, lan and
Two
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fancy grock, Improvising For You Alone at the plane...
You've just missed Charlie," she maid,
All right, all right! growled Henry, "let's pack it up."
"I thought you told me he didn't like women," mid Julia and struck a solt chord.
He saw then, of course, that the Ittle woman had depths he had Charlie cropped never suspected. up regularly in her conversation, at Arst in shy little references and then with happy frankness.
The
Charlo took her to the shops, to common. picture across the Charlle said her voice was worth training, and he liked üle frock with She went red spots and he preferred her hair pulled back into a bun.. about singing quietly with an ethereal look.
Henry went through phases of! laughing, raving, dumb despair and
reached a chil coltn.
He had to go out of town one day. When he returned at dusk she was sitting by the french windows more naphanous than ever holding a rose
from the garden.
blue eyes, seemed normol. gardens nway, Blount was praying his flower-beda, she could hear the "sheeee." A blackbird throw string of notes at her from a chimney.
"Charlle who?" she said.
"I don't know his other name just Charlie."
She looked at the empty chair, '"I'd ask him to stay to supper. But maybe he's no stomach for it."
"That," said Henry, "Is in bad taste. Luckily he's gunr. I don't think he
kes women."
"All right-1 suppose It's your iden of a joke," she said tranquilly, "Put the chairs away won't you?"
IT was, as a matter of fact Groobett's
i
Iden of a joke. In his bachelor days he had played pretty well ali the standard pranks, working up through stink bombs, booby traps. phosphorus, hoods sheets, and hollow voices, to complented drollery with telephones and telegrams. Love had after three sobered him but now yeats of marriage the old craving had returned.
Two evenings later, he said to Julito. "You don't mind if I just pop up to the Black Swan with Charlie? We shan't be long."
"Charlie!" she choked, then rallied and laughed, "I shouldn't have thought he drank."
"He likes to watch Henry,
men," said
"Wasn't it sweet of him to remem-
"I'm
ber my birthday?" she said,
"To-morrow," said Henry, taking you to the doctor when I get home"
Before long the Black Swan idea was being played twice a week. And soon Henry got Charlie into the They had long, top-sided house. wrangles over politics-Charlie was an anarchist-and these reached such a pitch of realism that Henry would stutter and get red in the face. Once Charile apparently, walked out in a passion and Henry followed him to the door calling him a stinking moron.)
Some women would have gone to pleces but Julla Groobett had hidden reserves. She accepted Charlie as a lodger.
·
"Ah" she said. when Henry's favourite pipe was found smashed in the hearth, that's a bit of Charlie's carelessness." Henry looked thought- ful at this, and for a day or two the Groobett lived furtively alone,
One evening Henry reached home from the office and found Julia in a
But when he got home the house was empty and there was a note propped against the clock: "I have gone away
with Charlie. Your supper is in the
oven.
HIGHER
STANDARD
OF LIFE
201
BRITISH
WORKERS
"I'LL ATTEND TO THE FOUNDATIONS LATER.”
Nor, for that matter, was there any-
Harold
Roberts
Since then there has been no sign thing in the oven. of Mrs Groobett.
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There is a difference between. force and faith. If you have a dream, keep it around you; pursue
According To Culbertson
(Copyright, 1946, by Ely Culbertson)
West led his top club, and East Sound defence ofien demands that, the declarer should be lulled into a played the queen, king and ace. De- clarer ruffed and then faced quito give up a false sense of security concerning a
a problem. Should he finesse. To-day's deal is typical in trump trick to the king and later diamond stake everything finesse, or should be try to shut-out the heart king?
That respect.
West, dealer. North-South vulnerable.
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South's leap to four hearts was ex- tremely aggressive, not to say op
North supplying mistle, but with not-to-be expected values, and with West's passive help, South got away with It
on the
After considerable thought declarer went to dummy with a spade and led through East. diamond queen. the West promptly took the trick with speic. his king and returned South ruffed and now, with only unt fair chance for the contract, led a low diamond to dummy and took a It held, of course, trump Anesse. and when he then laid down the Four heart ace, East's king fell. hearts, bid and made!
life, and let that dream silently ne company you. If you make that dream your main interest, you'il turn it into a nightmare.
It was not particularly difficult for West to guess the precise problem:
With that confronted the declaror. only one entry in dummy it was ex- hoping WAS tremely likely that South for more than one lead from the ex- posed hand, and was figuring that he lost the diamond inesse he could diamond go back to dimmy with and take
a trump finesse. West should have played low on the Brst diamond lead without the flicker of hesitation; in an effort to induce second finesse in diamonds. Very probably, South would have taken that second inesse and that would be his doom.
Thus,
By Ernie Bushmiller
WELL TAKE OKAY YOU WOULDN'T
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The businessmen were about their employees. "Well, old Johnson grey-haired in my service."
"Nothing wonderful about that. I've got a girl with me who has red-haired brown, grown yellow, and platinum-blonde in my service."
Hostess (to little girl who is not "Don't you like enting her toost): it, dear? What does your mother lave for breakfast?"
The child replied: "Porridge,“ and the hostess bustled away and brought a plateful. The visitor still refused to eat.
"But you said your mother always had porridge for breakfast," urged the hostess.
"Yes," she replied, "but not me."
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"Sometimes we get one that's a trifle deep-rooted—".
ARE YOU SURE?
Answers on Page Five
of ex-Tremier 1. The Burma was shot at recently. Ho 15-
Pandit Nehru, Gandah Leil;
U Saw, Firozoon Khan?
2. A porpoise La-
A fab, a quadruped,, a
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3. France acquired
tick from us by-
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old, ropet
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Coyote, naivette, Idealy, futility, intimacy?
7. Cacophony is
The screen of a television BOE, inflammation of the throat, musical discord, mov-- ing colly
8. A new blography of William IV.'s queen has, Jost been published. She was + Anne, Caroline, Alexandra, Charlotte, Adelaide, Sophia?
0. What distinction havo these saints in commoms
Chrysostom, ·Jeroma,` Au- enetine, Ambroso, Athora- alus?
10. How many meals do baby birds in their nesta cat Bday.
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