1935-01-15 — Page 9

To-day's Short Story,

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1935

GRIM

By Michael

Kent

burrowing

SMP pither by accident of among the bookstalls on the qual

OME people are citizens of playing platfond or

birth nor chance of occupation, at Chantilly for golf or at Charen- but by a compelling affinity." Alon. gossiping on the river bank man may travel the five conti-under the plane trees among the nents to learn that London is children with their nurses, always home, or forget his native Braes"in his plate," interested, impartial, and slake his nostalgia in Man-expert in the finesses of the game clalay.

whether he played or watched bare

This is most true of Paris.

of snobbery and pretence, a true These soul alives are not held compere, a man whose rest of life by such allure as grips the heart itself had outlived all minor in- of youth. They are attuned to fatuations. quiet. The streets, the smells, the people, the seasons and the skies content them. They do not go

awny.

"Suita me all right," you will hear in explanation, "I feel at home here,” but it goes deeper than that

Wherever he went Grim went tou, the tawny Belgian police dog with the wide grin, the drooping, jaws, the careless masterly lope and the "Isn't life a joke?" expression.

John Ilved meubles. Except. for his morning coffee he fed at places chosen by long experience.

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "The Treasure Seeker," by C. T. Stoneham.

John Stanley was that kind of Parisian. He had the Parisian fancy for a Beat in the stalls and no yearning for a place on the stage. To sit with his long-lasting bock at the pavement edge and dis- cuss the traffic of the streets, re- ligion, art, morality, all in the kind- ly light of an ethic large and Omaresque, to foster neighbour- liness careless of convention, to On Monday he went at noon to Alsatian tavern near the have an eye for the Ironies, to be a an little fastidious about food and Bastille, whose patron came from drink, these were the canons of his Colmar and excelled at onion soup life.

and pale de foie gras. That even- He had two small rooms on aing John would dine at Montmartre, first floor off the Boulevard Raspail chez Le Gros Polisson and play a in the house of a pear-shaped man game of Belotte with an out of work who lived in his shirt sleeves. You actor who made a living posing as might find him at the English Circle a professional apache in the cafes) whither tourists resort to be thrill- ed. Le Gros Polisson is a place too bad to be notorious. The company is doubtful, but, when in season, the frogs are excellent,

NAVAL INSPECTION AT VALLEY

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A Calaisian house on the, left

A total of 1,150 officers and men bank expected him for Tuesday order, lunch. The cook there was a mas- carry-ter of the poetry of mussels. He

were landed in marching wearing steel helmets and ing oilskins.

His Excellency arrived at a.m., and was greeted with

would dine frugally at home that; 10.15 night. On Wednesday he would be the found at the Restaurant Amorican,

The police have had the former residence of Bruno Richard Hauptmana" (right) under a strong guard, following the discovery that the wood ared to patch the ladder found at the window of the Charles A. Lindbergh residence on the night of the kidnapping, matches with a piece in the attle of the Hauptmann home that had been sawed away. The identification was made by Mr. Arthur Koehler, United States Forestry Service expert, who is shown with the ladder. Detectives are seen looking the Hauptmann closet before they found the carefully concealed trap door leading into the attic, Indicated by the arrow below.

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Everywhere Grim attended, pad-can appreciate good music and

The order was then given to "On ding silently behind, swinging un-will attend performances when ullakins," whereupon all seamen dor his chin the little silver disc such is offered them.

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Ing order was then put on over Marcel Thill."

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Then one day madame brought throughout and in response to The Royal Marines, who only the morning coffee to find John their applause the gifted pianiste carry a waterproof cape, put these Stanley, flopped in his armchair, played two encore pieces, the fav on over their equipment.

fully dressed, white in the light and ourite 'Minuet of Paderewski and The Battalion then marched past blue grey in the shadow, the same Brahm's Waltz. for the last time in column of placid, half disdainful amusement The French Consul, Monsieur route, carrying their rifice at the at the vaunts and follies of life R. Solange Teissier and the Consul "Becure." The guns of the bat gleaming in his half closed eyes, for Portugal, were amongst those tery were also covered, as if it dend

present. were raining.

Grim was beside him comatose,

Madame Florigny hopes, in res- Thus the inspection bad also a glassy-eyed and gasping.

ponse to numerous requests, to be special practical value, the men of He would have died, too, but for able to arrange another concert

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in a short apace of time without For it was murder. The dented putting their equipment on the head and forehead sprayed purple ground.

with the bruise of a shot-filled bag attested it.

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the last platoon of the Battalion. ed.

The vast concourse of specta tors were given a thrill when the ning-like eruptions of money mad- last part of the programme took ness that lie behind nearly all Charged with the theft of a place, 15 aircraft from the aircraft French crime. It had been futila quantity of jewellery, valued at carrier Hermes, swooping down in too. John had been wont to draw $270, the property of Tsang Put. That is for you to determine. five flights to give the aerial sa Afteen hundred francs a week for yuen; a married woman of No. 142 lute and then roaring away to his running expenses, and there Whitfield Road, Lai Teui-ha, à re ng room. None of the usual wards the harbour.

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OBITUARY

Bombardier And Private Accorded Full Military

Honours

The funeral of Bombardier Vibart of the 20th Battery, Royal Artillery, and Private Barter of the Lincolnshire Regiment, took place at the Colonial Cemetery yesterday.

Full military honours were ac ded the buglers of the East ashire Regiment sounding the

on December without a muzzle, Le

licens out being Cobb' ples guilty

School, who has been in the set- questioning

the

vices of the Hong Kong Police nothing came of

Force for the past 25 years, ds up the retiring from the Force and will a simple

leave for Home in April

He Is a keen lawn bowler and is home the present holder of t #Bing Championshipanion, the

when enough.

but

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