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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1932.

GLASS-OLD GLASS

A PROPOSAL INTERRUPTED.

By E. M. Penn.

Shattered Glass,

The sheer charm of old glass had captured Branting's love of the beautiful. There was a shifting, tenuous loveliness about its manner of holding and reflecting light. In become glass priams colour could almost voluptuous, And these effects changed constantly, assum

fantasies of ing new forma, new shading. Branting's fingers, moving of old glass, about his collection would occasionally tap-a-tap on here and there a bowl or vase, and there would arise from this impact a faint crystalline response, a thready sound

of music, elfin-like."

Unlike must collectors, Branting kept his glassware in his living- room. "Why not?" he would say. "Old glass is my hobby. It's the chief interest of my life. Why shut it away in a room I rarely sit in? Why not be companioned daily by the things I've spent years of my life collecting?" Branting had in- deed travelled extensively in his quest. ... Sweden, Czecho-Slovakia, France. He had a few fine speci-

ware

Venetian Bohemian and mens of glass. He possessed a number of the eighteenth-century British glass mugs, decanters, drinking glasses. He was versed in periods. He could tell at a glance if an old wine-glass dated from before or after the reign of William

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wine-glass. He placed it in her VOLUNTEER CORPS. hand. "An ovoid, you see, Cotton

white spiral, air spiral, cut stems."

Claire tilted it up, examining it Orders for the Coming

closely.

"But isn't modern glass naatar in workmanship?" she ventured.

Week.

Orders by Lieut.-Colonel L. G. Branting stared. And at the Bird, D.S.O., O.B.E., commanding amazement of his eyes she laughed. Hong Kong, Volunteer Defence

"You've taught me to note de Corps, are issued as under: tail," she assured him. "I looked! for the sear made by breaking off]

the glass from the rod by which the

workman held it whilst it was hot. But a modern moulded glass is sure-

PARADES.

Corps Band. ·

The Band will parade at Head-

ly neater? Isn't there, after all, aquarters on Monday und Friday at hint of crudity about this?" She 5.30 p.m. was laughing at him, holding the Every member of the Band who glass between her fingers, standing is in possession of any Corps there against the table loaded with Band Instruments must bring them Branting's treasures. She stood into Corps Headquarters on Friday This Order must a stream of sunlight that fell on to for inspection. her hair, her laughing face, on to be strictly complied with.

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assumed sometimes rare sheen and beauty crinkly. half iridescent. Branting had the oddest fancy about this girl, at times. Say that she was the living vital essence of the shifting, tenuous loveliness of his glassware, when sun or firelight

| FALLING STARS. · gave it life-semblance.

a thousand dancing prisms. And There will be a lecture on Tues- HIGHLIGHTS OF HAMBURG. Branting would go into detail, whilst Claire Elsom watched him Branting had again the sensation day at 5.30 pm. at Headquarters MAMIE SOUTTER. with amused eyes. "I can date a that her laugh was like the sound of for Staff and any one else inter- TREE BLASTING. wine-glass at a glance," he declaim-glass vibrating or the soft splinter-ested. ed. "Drawn. Bell. Waisted Bell.ing sound of breaking glass.

lift one of his treasures from the:

"Claire," he said, "I didn't think

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WONDERS ON WHEELS. There will be a parade at 5.30 NOBLE STARS. Ovoid. Lipped or Double Ogee. Look "Claire," he said, "Claire, I want p.m. sharp at Headquarters for gun drill and signalling on Thurs- at this beauty." Branting would to talk to you."

She placed the glass she had been day. table and place it in Claire's hands, holding on the table. There was a Battery Staff will parade at 2.15! Bending over it, holding the fragile faint reverberation of sound as it pm. at King's Park on Saturday

another thing in her fingers, ahe would touched

of the glasses. next for O.P. work, etc.

Engineer Company. laugh at his enthusiasm. Her Branting's hands moved quickly, re-

On Monday at Miniature Range laugh, Branting thought, was aarranging, setting the piece beyondj sound-epitome of the things he the danger of overcrowding. And at 5.30 p.m.

over his On Friday this Company will cherished the same note he would suddenly, his hand bent evoke if he tapped with a forefinger task, he became aware that she had proceed to Camp at Pakshawan, RIGOROUS RUGGER AT

TWICKENHAM, on one or more of his glasses. Her moved from his side, that she was leaving by Dodwell's launch at hair. her laugh. the changing, standing over against the window, Queen's Pier at 6 p.m., and Kow- GENERAL ELECTION,

T. ATKIN — SHOWMAN. loon at 6.10 p.m.. tenuous effect of light and shade in storing out into the garden.

Dress: Jackets, slacks and field SPARE PARTS. her moods....

the woman lived who could change service caps, overcoats will be CROWNED AMID my mode of life, my resolution to carried and equipment with rifles run in single harness. But since and bayonets.

The launch will bring the party I've known you——"

In a moment's silence his hand back at about 8.30 p.m. on Sunday had touched the edge of the table, evening. February 21. and the glassware, rudely jostled, 'It is essential that all those go- ing, should send in their names spoke in a dozen different keys,

Branting moved across to the win. and if this is not done in time to dow, but she evaded his nearness, make, arrangements, the Camp will slipping back into the centre of the have to be cancelled.

On Monday, February 22, at room. He followed her, but again she went quickly so quickly, ao, Miniature Range.

On Thursday, February 25, D.L. impetuously, that she tripped and fell against the table, catching at Training at Wellington Barracks.

Corps Signals. its edge to save herself from fall-}

Parade at Curps Headquarters ing.

"Claire." Branting called. "Take at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday for Buz-

zer Practice. care: Teke cars."

born

"Now I wonder," Branting would Any to himself. "I wonder." He

а considered himself had bachelor, wedded to his one hobby, But Claire seemed subtly to sum up and embody his hobby. to breathe

into it, and clothe it with vitality.

Branting one day came into the Mary. He was inordinately proud possession of a fire specimen of an of some old wine-glasses with hand-old ovoid wine-glass. Carrying it made dome feet. "When you see a home in triumph he met Claire dome-footed wine-glass," he would Elsom in the roadway. "Come in say to his friends, "the under edge and see this beauty," Branting folded back for a quarter of an urged her. "Genuine, I know old inch, you're looking at hand-made glassware when I see it. There are glass of a period earlier than 1760." folk about who don't know the When Branting found a receptive merest elements of the history of listener he became expansive. He old glass." found such a one in Claire Elsom, the sister of one of his bachelor friends. She was artistic to her finger-tips and a pretty woman. She had vivid colouring; hair that

Claire laughed. He glanced at her. Her laugh had always In- trigued him. A ripple over the sur- face only? In his sitting-room Branting showed Claire the old

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Three or four glasses had fallen to the floor. Branting stooped to! them. They were chipped. (Continued at foot of next column.) Friday.

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