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THE CHINA MAIL,

FELIPE

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detail, a brilliant piece of imagina-closing a dark, shapeless lump, of tive realism. This picture was the colour and consistency of peat. never far from his mind: he saw it Frijoles are black beans, pulped into! always when he went to sleep, and a kind of pungent relish.

thanks, Senor "A thousand would sometimes add, from the sweepings of his dreams, a face, a Tomas," cried Felipe, genuinely de- shadow, or a bit of colour to the lighted, and lupsing unconsciously crowded canvas. There were times into the grand manner. Even the which supers were coming up to scratch; when he almost forgot on Ride of the grave he stood, and the Kindly Goaler. would glost, na if in retrospect, over the staging of his death.

Tomas stared at his prisoner with remote, blear-eyed curiously, grunt-

He hardly knew whether he wased and went heavily out. Always looking back or forward on that easily puzzled by small things, ho he had sun-drenched scene the crowds could not understand why packing three sides of the aquare:been called Senor; it worried him.

Felipe enjoyed his breakfast; the the important families, in their traditional Sunday black. filling the tertillas were quite hot, not stiff and front ranks, a sombre and impres-cold as usual. He smeared them aive margin to the flashy. American-with frijoles and munched vigorous- made clothes of the smaller towns-ly. regretting only that Tomas had people: at the back the rich and ex-left him no opening for a speech of quisite rags of the Indians: a few thanks.

Presently they came and fetched shrill, excited little boys perched among the stucco machicolations of him for the last cross-examination.

between eight the Post Office, a magnificent bulld-Be marched

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He heard, as though from some patio, up the street, then to the lift, Awell of and in, by the side door, to the distance, the murmurous

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When President Carlos Mendieta strap acros8 their ed, ignominious little figures, as by a coloured

met newspaper men at a press con- though stunted by the pressure of temples.

Again a bark-! Waiting outside the room where ference, he said the first question. the crowd's dislike.

"Pardon me, gentlemen." he said, led command: the rattle of bolts: they examined him, Felipe had a

was afraid "but can you tell me whether it is complete silence, with only the momentary qualm; he wheeling pigeon's clatter to em-they would make a special effort to-true that Stalin has been killed in day to find out about Flores. He phasise, not break it. And then....

weary, and was the felt suddenly A great sigh went up from crowd. Above his crumpled, but peevishly aware that the frijoles caught the public Imagination were not ungraceful, corpse a little cluud had given him indigestion: this he the death of King George, a revolu- of dust hung Tn the air, where the considered a most unnecessary and tion in Russia, the assassination of incongruous trick for fate to play the Cuban Radical former Secretary of War, Antonio Guiteras, and the bullets had struck the plaster.

There was a curtain for you! on him, and so indeed it was.

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Rumours of trouble in Russia longeurs of the third ac! hardly from inside the room. mattered. IL never occurred to ung open the folding doors, and Felipe that he was being brave.the escort marched in under the "ppeared to be the most prevalent.

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The long room was filed with an MAN DIVORCED AT did not occur to him that it was

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At the far end, behind a table! 6th June the dirty prison floor, he was think-sun. 5th Julying of himself in terms of the cell, with an imitation marble top, sat not of the eell in terms of himself, the committee of judges. Seeing Reality had slipped away into the them. Felipe got the shock 20th May wings. Felipe stood up-atyge and which, he realised, he had instine-

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