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CHICHIBU MARU (Omit Shanghai), Friday, TATSUTA MÁRU ........................... ASAMA HARU.

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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1934.

PORTRAIT OF A QUEEN SPAIN'S OLDEST

"He

ENGLISHMAN

Made Clothes For All Grandees.

in

Continued from Page 9.) teacher," said Tarharqua.

was a great artist." . brief picture of his Royal master "I have heard that you are no flashed through his mind-thin, discredit to Him" bald the Queen, round-shouldered, dyspeptic and smiling a little. They talked for a elderly. Uncomfortably Menebre while, then Tarharqua settled FORMER COUNTY CRICKETER dimissed it, and fixed Tarharqua down to work. The artist came to

Madrid. Jeurface, and big face with a sagacious old eye.

grew keen

The oldest Englishman "You're a good-looking boy, Tar and disinterested.

Nesaru leaned on ber couch. Spain, Mr. John Roberts, was re-l harqua," he said slowly, "See that you keep your eyes on your The slave girls postured, and sang cently, feted by the British colony

weird minor songs.

in Madrid on his 90th Birthday, work. Understand?"

Mr. Roberta is a tailor. The fountain tinkled in the "Perfectly," said Tarharqua, and

He made the clothes of pract!- bowed to hide the contemptuous courtyard, and the shadows travel- smile on his mouth. As if there led from one wall of the other. It cally all the dukes gnd grandees the Court of Queen Marla were any danger that he would was not an atmosphere favourable at look with the eye of desire on the to Menebre's advice "Keep your Christine during the childhood of

ex-King Alfonso. first lady of the land!

eyes on your work!"

hind him. Tarharqua atrade out time," she said. of the palace with such exultation

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"Rise, Tarharqua.. Bring some wine, one, of you.".

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It is 50 years since Mr. Roberts

Mr. Roberts, who is still hale At noon, Nesaru told Tarharqua "Well, that's all, See that you're

and hearty, goes to work each day [here early." Menebre nodded he must go,

"Come to-morrow at the same at a Madrid tailoring establish- and parted the purple curtains be-

ment Financial losses compelled Then she walked through the him to give up his own business in his bearing that the soldier on lane of slave girls to the further some years ago. guard outside Menebre's chamber chamber, followed by her attend-

left came to Spain. Before that he was ants, and Tarharqua

lived in Derby, where he was pro- gave him his smartest shlute.

Jalone.. Tarharqua's

fingers brown

Every day he presented himself minent in sporting circles. He moulded and kneaded the clay be fore him. His thought whirled at the palace, hurrying through played for the Derby County Crie could have the high, white lanes of Thebes Inket team and was one of the foun- Who pérplexingly.

tion Football Club-Reuter. guessed that Nesatu the Queen the morning coolness. It was not ders of the Derby County AssocÍR- was as lovely as Nesaru the wo- always the same.

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Sinking on to the low ebony

stool

with confusion on being shown an hour or more, pacing irritably into her presence by remaining in the courtyard where he had Arst a full attended the vizler. Once or twice stock-stilt and silent for half-minute. Then he remember. a giggling slave girl cams running

In Throat. ed to drop on both knees, with eyes to tell him that the Queen could cast on the ground, and murdered not see him that day. Then Tar- incoherently the formal galuation.harqua would return to his work!

Albury, N.S.W. a hint of shop, kicking the door angrily to A sweet voice with

behind him. No other work had Early last year the three-year- old son of Mr. C. Clancy swallow- mockery in it said:

One day,, as he was about to ed a speargrass seed, which lodged. him any savour for him.

leave the palace after a futile wait, in his throat. His mother treated a the child, but, as an improvement was stopped by Tarharqua

did not take place, it was decided to which Nesaru waved him, Tar

soldier.

specialist. Before harqua had a dim vision of slave

"From the vizier," he said, salut-to consult a

done the mother dis girls in filmy draperies clustered ing with precision, and presenting this was

a well-preserved grass about him, one offering him wine, a scaled roll of papyrus. 'The covered another cakes and fruit. He 4 sculptor was well known at the seed protruding from the boy's ear. The seed was removed, and cepted automatically, still distract-

palace now, and the general ed by the scents and the sound of

opinion was that, as things were the boy recovered. Reuter. fountains, and above all the ex-going, it was as well to keep in Babylon, studded with turquoise and 12th Aug.quisite loveliness of Nesaru,

with him.

amethyst, banked the table. Slaves Her lips were very red and full,

Slave girls talk, and even ladies stood behind each guest; and waved Nubians with deep, mysterious corners, and of the court are not above a little tall ostrich feather fans. her skin was the colour of honey idle gossip, now and again. It was moved to and fre bearing trays smok ing with savoury meats and strange She had delicate, high cheekbones whispered that the Queen had delicacies from Persia, India and 24th July and a pointed, chin. But it was looked very graciously on her China. Lamps stood on the table and 23rd Aug. her eyes that fascinated Tarhar good-looking sculptor.

qua. They were, big and brown

Meanwhile, Tarharqua tore and of unfathomable depths, and the sealed missive, and read, her eyebrows had been produced extreme delight, the few

to long slanting contained in it with antimony lines. She wore her hair in long' It was an invitation to a banquet sacred designe in Ivory and ebony, plalts, dozens of them, wound to be given that night in honour stood at the head of the banqueting in and out with gold threads of the Assyrian Prince, newly ar- room. Pharaoh, wearing the full ré Instead of the high ceremonial rived at court. The vizier, on, bo- galia of double crown and ceremónist crown she wore a wreath of blue half of the most divine Pharaoh, at Nesaru, rather aloof and slient. She

costume, occupied one. lotus flowers.

commanded his presence.

looked round the vivacious gathering "Convey my most. profound with a certain weariness. Exquisite birds and beasts floated thanks to the Vizler Menebre," quet had been in progress for several

hours, and faces were with thistledown lightness on the said Tarbarqua, "And say that the voices becoming rather high and hỳ- painted walls, and fishes slid be-

King's word is a command... sterical. 19th July tween the tangle stems of lotus Oh, here you are," he added, talk- Tarharqua didn't like it at all. Court 81ef July plants. Great alabaster

ing a coin from his wallet as the orgies were out of his line altogether, His ascetic upbringing under, Senmot's stood about, filled with sheaves of soldier showed a. tendency to puritan eye had not prepared him for 20th July the sacred flowers. The air was linger.

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