1940-12-20 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY SUPPLEMENT, DECEMBER 20, 1940.

MOTTO FOR SUCCESS

(Continued from Page 2)

Bones watched the party going with

without him - Il swing ignoring him. Something boiled in Percy Bones.

"What about another trick, Alf?" somebody suggested.

The fat man laughed.

"Well," he said, "if you all real- ly want me to. I don't mind show- ing you

"I know a good trick," said a voire, surprisingly loud and hil- herto unheard, from the settee in

the room while this demonstration is taking place, as their presence may cause unpleasant psychical vibrations."

"He's a medium," someone whis- pered. Nobody left the room.

"What I am going to do," con- tinued Percy Bones, "is to ask you to blindfold me as heavily as you wish, and when you are com- pletely satisfied that I can sce nothing that is going on in the

fat man's, and immediately there folded, was a denfening crackl as a crac- ker went off a few inches from

blers of water that was forgot-

ten now,

That's right! Try him with an-

"I had no idea you had such' his left ear, and at once another other."

gifts!" exclaimed Miss Haver, crack! a few inches from his right,

of Roars of laughter went up all "The first lotter is F and the looking deep into the eyes

dark round him. He felt slightly dazed last is U." they told him. This Percy Bones. "A proper with the noise and the excitement; time the answer came without horse, that's what you are," she

said. "Read' me the first and the last hesitation: letters of the motto, please," he said quietly.

A strange voice answered.

"M is the first and the last is R," it sald.

"M and R?"

"That's right.”

room, to pull a cracker. There will probably be a printed motto on a "There was silence, broken by

"From beyond the ocean blue Your fate is drawing near you.''

"Never seen anything like it!"

"Uncanny, I call it."

"Let's pull another cracker." "OK."

to

"You must come along to our New Year's Eve party next

cried week,"

another woman, rather breathlessly, as if afraid this treasure might be snapped up before her eyes.

The blonde just sat and looked * at him. Her eyes were dewy, her delicious lips slightly parted with wonder.

"Oh Mr. Bones, you are a one!"

a

Crack! Crack! went the crack- piece of paper inside the cracker, a little snirtle of giggling, quick- ers. Crack! Crack! Crack! It was and if you will hold this piece of ly suppressed. Percy Bones stood the trick of the evening, the trick she murmured. paper in front of my bandaged with bent head, concentrating. of the season, the trick of a life-

Percy Bones woke late in his eyes and tell me the first and the Perhaps ten seconds passed. Then time. Crack! Crack! and never i the corner. "I'll show you a very last letters of the motto, so that he threw up his head, he threw single mistake never so much as lodgings the next morning. His of Perry head pained him, but the pulse good frick." The voleo was slight I can tune in to the proper vibra- back his shoulders and in a clear a falter in the voice ly tremulous, but it had something tion, I will read the motto out loud and ringing voice he declaimed: Bones.

that beat in it was not so much

commanding iTt

it almost to

the pulse of a physical malaise as you--by clairvoyance. But "Mistrust new friends who conx threatening: a queer tune. you please satisfy yourselves first that and flatter.

They kept it up until all the the heady pulse of bliss. Then he would have thought, to be heard the blindfolding is as effective as

crackers' were pulled. Then they remembered. He had become

social success overnight. at a party. People paused, and you can make II," concluded Percy Tried comrades are the ones that took the bandage from his eyes. listened. They turned and looked Bones in an aloof and disinterest- matter.

He felt the soft hands of women

With the weak but thankful with interest at Percy Bones. ed voice. He stood with folded

round his brow and ears as they Percy Bones stood up.

hands, waiting for them to blind-

"Good Lord!“ It was the fat loosened the bandage. His eyes, Bait of a convalescent, he tottered clothes. fold him.

opening to the bright light, had out of bed and into his

at his bed- a dazzled look, as if returned from There was a knock gazing on a far-off country. There room door. Elsie the housemaid was a kind of hush. Then Miss entered with a cup of tea. Haver said:

man's voice. There was a good deal of ner- "Let me see the motto myself," vous giggling. Nobody moved to came Miss Haver's voice, then begin with. Then a young man "Well I never!" stepped forward and bound Percy's eyes firmly with the yel- low handkerchief, which was" ly- ing on the table. "This scarf too," somebody else suggested, "just to make sure." He fell it being tight- ened, none too gently, round his

"You get a length of string," the fal mum was saying. "You get hold of a length of string," he repeated, in a louder voice. But they were not listening any longer to the fat man. They were listening to Perry Bones and looking at Percy Bones as, rather white but with shining eyes. Percy Bones moved over to the front of the fireplace, "This." he said. "is not really a trick at all. it is a demonstration temples. of clairvoyance. If there are any people in this room who are scep- "Now see what you can

see, tical of the genuinenes of occult remarked with a trace of malice phenomena, will they please leave a voice which he recognised as the

CHRISTMAS

1940

"Best trick I ever Saw," said someone else.

"That was no trick," remarked a third voice, a woman's. “That was second sight."

"And the second cracker I heard you pull? What are the first and last letters of the mottoe in that?" asked Percy, still blind-

"You must be worn out, Mr. Bones. Come and sit down and have a drink."

"I thought you might like a cup of tea, Mr. Bones," she said shyly, "after your late night. And here's a leller for you, Mr. Bones," she said. She watched him open the letter and read it.

Dear Mr. Bones,

1

Another girl, a tender blonde, brought

as he him the drink settled back on the settee; but now he was no longer withdrawn into It is with great pleasure that a corner: The setter" was now the we are able to inform you that focal point of the room. It was the our previous year's trading has that we are fat man with his cards and tum- been so successful

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"Good news, Elsie," replied Percy Bones, sugaring his tea.

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