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The Man Who Was Not

Toomey

(Continued from. Page 3)

thought-that's the kind of man ho

|in."

1 interrupted to ask if the repre- hensible Braxton had told him all this during their drive together, He looked at me strangely, shaking his head, te

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Splendid Playing Of Madame Masson

my senses, that he was, these scraps

DELIGHTED AUDIENCE CALLS of biography were not convincing:

FOR FIVE ENCORES they were facts that any one ac, quainted with Toomey might know, "No. He didn't say anything but

Madame Masson' gave music- Can't you go faster than this? lovers a rare treat at the Helena

or at least learn.

His look of dejection was pitiable. Can't you shake any more out of May Institution' on Thursday night|

"Yes, that's true," he said. "Wait the old rattle-trap? And all the a minute: Let me think." He drop. time that revolver was pressed ped his head into his hands and against my ribe.

the gesture reminded me with pain- "And then we came to a nasty ful vividness of the man he so in- S-bond across a dip. You may credibly aimed toke.

know the place. I've never liked it.

་

second bend too fast-I was ..., too scared of my passenger to 'slow down as I should have-the car got

with her splendid rendering of a pro- | gramme especially well selected to display her virtuosity and marvel- lous technique.

rendered.

The whole evening was a tour de I waited, and the room was silent The road's right up on an embank force, the entire programme being played through from memory. It after the clamour of his urgent ment, with only a crazy railing as a is almost impossible to single out appeal. The little clock on the guard, and the surface gets slip- mantelshelf ticked loudly, the, Are pery in the slightest rain. It was anyone item for special praise were so grandly Bank with a rustling sound. With slippery last night, and, taking the where all alike. a sudden gesture of triumph hế

In response to insistent demanda lifted his head. "

Madame Masson responded with no "Crockford" he said, "once, some into, a akid.

Jass than five encores; Arne's Sonata time ago, you' and I ́and another|

"With that awful feeling of help-

in B flat, à repetition of Brahms' man-I can't remember his name, leseness one gets, I at sat the wheel Capriccio in B minor, Schumann's but he was a beefy, red-faced man while the car slid across the road, "Novelette" and Romance

Nocturne in F major and wont salling. The third man was and crashed through the railings, supposed to be washed overboard. The next instant. we were rolling sharp. but he drowned himself deliberate down the embankment In

Madanie Masson may be com ly, after telling us what a mess he'd midst of it all. I saw a sudden flash pelled to leave Hong Kong next made of his life, and that he was of light, heard a crashing detona-week and is now awaiting a cable tion, and felt a swift, agonising which will decided her movements. | If, however; she is not obliged to

face to face with ruin."

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I as 'staggered. This was a thing pain here" he touched the region that, I could swear, no living soul of his diaphragm. but Toomey and myself knew. Wo

a second recital shortly-Music...... I stared at him in stuperfaction. had resolved never to breathe a hint I still had not the faintest premoni-lovers please note.

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Beehoven

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the spot where the accident happen. Caprice Bohemien ....... Smetana "Do you believe me now, Crocked a little while I could not Intermezzo in E major, Op. 116 ford 7"

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understand what I was doing there,

then slowly my memory came back, Carpriccio in B minor, Op. 76 though the effort of trying to think Etudes in A Fiat, F minor, made my head ache intolerably,

Brahms

F major, G sharp minor, Op. 25, Etude in F. Major, Op. 10 Ballade in F minor...... Chopin

..Chopin

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He gave a sudden start, and put

"And then I remembered the crash his head on one side in an attitude-but the strange thing was, Crock- of listening, just as Toomey used ford, that I seemed to remember it.

as two people—as myself driving the "They're coming for me," he said car, and as the other man, seated be- In a whisper. "I knew they would. side the driver. I had, too, a muddled, I couldn't hope to escape: they're simultaneous recollection of myself bound to trace me. It doesn't mat driving from Bristol and of Braxton iter so much now. I've told you breaking into the house. And I felt

some of it-I think I've convinced strange; literally, not figuratively, heart, which Weat cleverly decided you. We'll have other chances to not myself. Everything about me not to trump, knowing that if he | talk about what I must do,

felt unfamiliar,

retained his four trumps he would His voice trailed away. He sat in "It was dark in the road, of give the declarer considerably more that tense attitude of listening course. I could not see myself. trouble. When West did not trump Then with a sudden shrug he relax-But presently, a car came towards in, the trick was won with the heart ed.

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not wearing my own clothes, but in his own hand. He bent forward in his chair with Braxton's. I was not in my own the dummy with the club Ace and He re-entered an earnest gesture, and I sank into body, but Braxton's. Do you under-led another heart, trumping this ane opposite him.

stand what I mean?"

time with his other high spade; "Yesterday," he said slowly, "I

I could only stare at him infand now he led his last spade, won went to Bristol, on my usual round, amazement. The thing he suggest-in-dummy, and drew the rest of Do you remember that I go there ed was Incredible and yet I could West's trumps.. The dummy of once a month? I came back last suggest no other explanation to ac- course was now set up except for night, rather late. It was a rather count for the phenomenon he pre-the Queen of clubs, which South rotten night, you remember, but I'm sented. He looked at me with an eventually conceded to the oppon used to driving in the dark, the expression of helpless, hopeless enta. road's good all the way, and there misery that wrung my heart,

Thus the contract was ful-|| filled, the declarer losing only to wasn't a lot of traffic about,

"I put my hand into my-his-the heart Ace and club King. The "I'd just come through Oxford this pocket," he said, his voice ris- total swing was 500 points, as one when I saw a car ditched by the ing again. "It was full of pearl North-South pair was plus 450 and roadside, and a man standing in the necklaces, diamond rings, all sorts the other minus 50. middle of the road waving his arms, of things. I flung them over the signalling me to stop. Perhaps hedge." He paused, taking a fresh you'll remember that I'm nervous grip of himself. about stopping; one hears such "I sat down on a bank," he went stories of trapa-though I'm sure on simply, "and tried to think it out, 19th Apr no one has ever heard a story like It was very difficult-to think, I 7th May mine. But it's diMcult to refuse to mean Braxton's thoughts-not, not help a fellow human in trouble, ao exactly that, but Braxton's memory, I braked hard and pulled up. The the stored-up impressions recorded man opened the door, jumped in, in his brain, kept confusing my The Steamship, 28rd Apr.and pulling the door shut behind thoughts. You might think, per 21st May him with one hand, dug the muzzle haps, that since I now had Brax

of a revolver into my ribs with the ton's brain, all my own memory, all formed that all Goods are being landed other.

"Drive like hell!" he said, "or I'll be lost to me. It isn't quite so.

my own stored Impressions would at their risk Into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of The Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown blow out your—your guts!” (The|

"I don't know whether memory is Co, Ltd, whence and/or from the 3rd Jan. hesitation at use of the word was something more than an impression wharves delivery may be obtained.

typically Toomey's.)

on a physical brain cell, or whether No claims will be admitted after the "I obeyed, of course.. I could do don't know how to put it. It's Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the nothing else. You can't argue with fact, Isn't it, that after an organ of 15th April, 1985, will be subject to a revolver. 1 accelerated until we the body-a gland, say has been rent were doing a speed that terrified removed, some of its effects on All claims against the steamer, must me; I've never driven so fast in my other organs persist for a while?ve presented to the Undersigned on or before the 29th April, 1935, or they 6th May life. But the man kept saying, I think something of the kind must will not be recognized. 7th June Faster, faster, and using awful have happened here. I, myself, the To comply with the General Bonded language and prodding me with the real me, was continuing to remem Warehunae Regulations consigness mat tevolver.

ber, without my brain. But that have a Revenue Officer in attendance

when

damaged dutiable goods are Ha memory is fading; I can't remember

examined. 80th Apr name was Braxton. With another things as clearly now as I could All broken, chafed, and

"end · damaged man, Vanning, he had stolen a car last night-or even an hour ago. Goods are to be left in the Godowns, 20th Apr. and burgled a big country house "For a long time I couldn't where they will be examined on the 2nd May just outside Oxford, where there think of what to do. My instinct. 18th April 1985, at 10 am, by

Messrs. Goddard and Douglas. was some valuable jewellery. They my natural impulse, was to go cleared this up all right and made straight to my wife for-for com their getaway, but the household fort. But I couldn't, could 17 18th May was aroused and the alarm raised. couldn't go, to her, in this man's But They were afraid of being followed body, this horrible man's body, and Sub., 14th Apr, and caught. They drove away say. I was her husband. It would Ban 21st Apr. 8 pmmadly,

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