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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1935

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To

By Louis Golding

Anything Oblige A Gipsy

happened about a year ago the scene of the accident. and it attracted quite a deal The accident had happened only fof attention when it happened x fex minutes prèviously, and his It was even a front page news was the first car to arrive on the story in one or two at the scene. A car had collided wit 1 papers. Yet the public has for-motor-bicycle. The car stood with gotten all about it. Not that its bonnet nuzzling against a tree- anybody is going to deplore trunk The motor-bicycle lay on that. The public made that the roadway, bent round on itself,

in a pool of blood and petroli

way.

It was a friend of mine it hap- A policeman had already appear- pened to, a fellow named Joeled on the scene. The occupants of Bruton. He represented a firm of the ear and a small gang of yokela jewellers in Hatton-garden, and were gathered round him. They travelled about a good deal, on the were lifting the victim of the ac Continent chiefy. He chanced to cident up from the ground. Some he travelling about in the New body was unfastening his cost and Forest when the thing happened, cellar. It looked pretty bad

Bruton dismounted. "Anything but he wasn't trying to sell jewels.

to anybody. No. As a matter of I can do?" he asked.

"Yes, sir. For sure, you can." |-- fact, he was having a pleasant

said the policeman. "Will you week-end

You may possibly recall the please give this poor gentleman &

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affair of the grey, though you ift in the back of your car? the carriage was quite thick al- won't recall it in romection with There's a cottage hospital in Maid-ready. It was getting thicker Joe Bruten. His name never gotlley, about nine miles from here every minute.

"I think I'll have a breath of into the papers. The fact is that I'll get through to them on the everyone who repeated the story-telephone and tell them you're air muttered Braton He got up and put his overcoat on and step- and it got round everywhere said coming.”.

ped down on to the platform. He did a turm or two, then found him- self near one of the guards.

"Hallo, I thought this was a no- stop!" he growled "What's hap pened!".

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the name of Sadovsky. Sadovsky's name gave point to the whole story.

Well, this is what happened. Bruton was about nine miles from the village of Nether Milton and intended to put up for the night Hamat Swanage.

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MONDAY'S STORY

Monday's story will be "Over And Done With," by Michael Home.

"Signals against us!" he was informed "There's a special train coming up sorth!**

*How long are we likely to stay here ??

Bruton daly gave the poor fellow la lift He had not covered half "Can't say. Might be ter mir-

you

He was bowling along quite the journey when he was aware utes. might be twenty!"

said Bruton. nicely in the golden shadow of the that, fast as he had moved, Death "Thank Hambeeches, when suddenly an uncouth had moved faster. He was carry-"Have a cigarette?**

He lit one for himself, too. Hel burg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & creature got up from a stamp being a dead body in his car with

side a gate and signalled him to him, as had so recently been fore- didn't fancy the idea of going back into the slightly foetid carriage. stop. It was a gipsy woman, and told

"Strange, he muttered. "That's He walked up and down, up and a very ragged one at that, with

down, the length of the train. straws in her hair and dried mud strange, isn't it?”

fifteen for about in her clothes. She looked very Then he stopped saddenly. He That went on fired and obviously she wanted a remembered the other half of the minutes. Then suddenly, starti- 5ft

gipsy's prophecy. "It strikes metingly loud in that clear air, he Now Bruton was normally as a darn sight worse for that heard the sound of a pulled signal and the clatter of the disturbed kind-hearted person and was usual-fellow Sadovsky," he thought

not averse from giving people Well, that was the story that got and settling wires.

"Enilo!" he muttered, #the a lift. But the gipsy was really out just over a year ago. But a very shabby and the car was 2 year is a long time, and the whole signal's gone red on the other line, new and spruce as paint.

thing was forgotten not only by too! What on earth's wrong?".

As he spoke, he heard the rum- So Braton Twerved a bit to the the public at large, but by Brutaz right and went straight on. But too as far as the Sadovsky part bla of the incoming train. The he hadn't gone more than a few was concerned, anyhow. The other rumble deepened into a 208.

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be frequently,

"That's torn it!" Bruton grum- mother!" he told her. "How attempted far do you want to go?"

wouldn't have been very much up bled. That means we're clamped "Thank you indeed. kind "si" set by the babble of an old gipsy (down here till the other train goes? What a nuisance! Anyhow, it's a said the gipsy. Her large brown in the New Forest. eves shone gratefully. "If I might The scene of this story now special train. It won't be held un get down this side of Nether Mil-shifts to the small Central Euro-long!**

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Yet me see your hand kind have money to spend in Cratonis, opposite Bruton's carriage. Brau again from red to gre sir." she said, “and I tell your they don't spend it on jewels. They was just about to get back to his louder, clearer, than the bell he fortune No! no!" she exclaimed. spend it in plats to over-throw seat again when he heard the de- heard a voice proclaim: Sadov as she saw his hand dive down to their dictators, and plots to over-lighted yapping of a dog Amo sky will be dead before midnight, wards his pocket "No silver, sir. throw the plotters. He had jobsment later a man with a little dark a year from to-day" Sadovaky You've been kind enough to me on hand in the countries north and terrier in his arms appeared at the half-tuned towards the sleeping ANOTHER CONCERT

south of Cratonia, but nothing indoor of the sleeping-car. He was car Sadovsky will be dead be-- IN KOWLOON If you've forgotten the story. Cratonia Itself. So he took the lin pyjamas and dressing-gowIL Lore midnight! Sadovsky will be one

How decent of the fellow," said dead before minight the voice Madame Lottie Gordon, in res perhaps you'll recall it now. You'll night-express across Cratonia. remember that the gipsy prophesi- Funds didn't run to a sleeper Bruton to himself, "to get up aut reiterated. “Sadoveky, Sadov

ponse to many requests, will re- ed that Sadovsky, the dictator of that might, but he was doing quite of his nice warm sleeper to give y Cratonis, would be 'dead within well in a second-class carriage with his little dog, a run! He must be

Frantically, Bruton looked at his peat her recent concert at St. An- drew's Church Hall on Saturday year - from that date. And when

There was less than " x watch a whole ride to himself. The other a dog lover!"

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He whipped his revolver out of be beard in Christmas Carols She caught hold of Bruton's He put a hired cushion under ly. It's a Caimi thought Bru-

his head and fastened up his cost tones, that's what it is! A his pocket and shot Sadovsky sung in Chinese, and she will also wrist in 2 vier like grip and brought the palm of his hand to securely. He felt tenderly for his jolly little fellow He had been through the temple Sadowsky, be assisted by Frau Elise Schroe

Clothilde" "Andrade, Missag "Euro- within a few inches of her lips revolver, for he had a lot of jewels reading about Cairns that very staggered and fell. Hardly two ter (violist), Madame Dreffa, Miss fifred River and; Mr. "Oh yes, xir?" she cried, "You in the porker under-his-waistcoat, day, somebody or other who had seconds had passede may simile or you may not smile!and you can't be too careful when a favourite Caim.

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No 14 Bart body in your car before you get any idea how long, when suddenly shoulders, one shoulder to your journey's end to-night!"the train stooped. The put on the than the other

Bruton tore his wrist out of the brakes jolted him all the way from still closer, into the giper's hand as if it were the balls of his feet to the top of ing lang snake, and it were biting him. is

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