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Divorce could

A FRIENDLY GAME Divorce

be laughed OF CHEMIN DE FER out of court

H

E

al-

the

him.

the

I to the extent of a couple of lous. There was no need for played the slightest feeling, I Туда a gambler. will

not mention his thousand pounds.

To what extent

game because, name

had been dishonest it is impos- though it is 1 long time sible to say. In all probability ago, somebody might still young Joel had about as much ba distressed to be remind- chance of winning from ed of the whole story. It such will be enough to call him The Gambler.

By

wns profession he

bookmaker, although anybody less like the popular idea of n bookmaker it would be dim- cult to imagine.

His appearance was remark

ho was distinguished; ably tall, good-looking and extreme- ly well-dressed, but his mast outstanding characteristic

was

an unwavering imperturbabiil- ty.

two

gamblers,

experienced

had of reaching, the moon. even in a straight game, as he

But, whatever the nature of the game, it was disastrous for Woolf Joel. Naturally he had not the money to pay, so he The cheque gave a cheque. was promptly discounted with due a money-lender course the matter came to the cars of Solly Joel.

and in

No emotion

As was to be expected, the his father was furious. That son should have been invelgled gam- into the hands of two blers was bad enough, but that

I do not think I have ever seen a man with such a sphinx- must He like countenance. have been a perfect gambler.

The other person concerned one of them should be the man

a he had befriended was in the subsequent trial was young American named Doyle, than he could overlook. who had come to England and decided to prosecute them both at to cheat for a conspiracy soon become

well-known

cards. member of the sporting fraternity.

д

Quick wit

He was a good-looking young man with a pleasant manner and a quick wit, and he rapid- ly acquired popularity among

al-

a large circle of friends. He lived extravagantly, though the source of his in- come was never clearly defined

was beyond the fact that it

from the probably derived

race-course.

more He

By IRIS ASHLEY

1

HAVE just had Here is the shy Helle Edwar-

bride. all

white, understood could have

good laugh at Love and dian

alone for the first time with her merely not; he carda But he did

BUS- husband and Anybody who played

Marriage; and I

fourposter! own stated a fact, and then

like either with him did so at his

pect that, if we could find a Clearly she would risk; he was a very good card warder took him away.

Why had he told me that

have player.

# doshing cavalier to' "The cross-examination

was story? Had he thought it would bit more laughter in the to go home to mother or else

matter, there would bo less and

nweep her off her feat. Actually, move to try calcu be n good long and skilful, well

hor nico

groom, being young was divorce. outburst arouse my sympathy, or Inted to provoke an

terrified of doing or saying the pure Inven- from the prisoner; but it never the whole thing

It might be a good idea to wrong thing, appears to be sewn came. If anyone wan roused tion?

But I made some inquiries nationalise the Michael Dealsons into his clothes and rooted to anger, it

himgoli. was GM

true (she is, of

the spot where he stands. to course, known

it is not like that and when The Gambler went and found It was quite

In theory theatre and film tans as Dulcie

but for today, back into the dock he was as that he had, a son fighting in

some who aro unemotional and unperturbed Palestine.

I was younger in those days, Gray). They have more than ten young and shy it will always be same. Marriago is as when he left it.

perhaps # trifle senti-year of real marriage to their much the

the But the facts were too strong and

play "The seldom what you expect.

Whether we like it or not, we for him. The judge summed mental, but, whatever the rea- credit and in

which I saw nt worry Fourposter," the jury son, the case began to

have to acknowledge that, on the And up severely.

London's Ambussadors Theatre.

naturally average, convicted both prisoners. They me. He had appeared so con-

his appeal

would they really do seem to show un were sentenced to long

polygamous. We can't condono terma Aden: that

had succeed and perhaps I

the married the idea socially any more than to ourselves from would of imprisonment.

of less accept other items As I was leaving the court missed some point which would viewpoint; and very funny we we

attractive turn the scale;

human behaviour. However, it is necessary to meet

this wealmers up with occasions.

not and one, However much I look.

the case I worried, 1 felt that

hopeless and I knew 1 be glad when it was

I received a message that my client was anxious to see Ime before he was taken away. hate those interviews, but it is was

should always impossible to refuse, so

over. I saw him.

be He looked precisely as had done before the verdict -- equally unmoved and apparent- by what ly quite unaffected had happened.

THE CASE BOOK OF SIR PATRICK HASTINGS, KC

CHAPTER TEN

The case for the defence was a friend of Doyle had been

American brought to me and it did not Danny Maher, the jockey, who at that time was seem to possess any particular uchloving outstanding success interest or unusual feature. It on the English Turf, and for was just an ordinary case of some time Doyle had profited card-sharping. by backing his mounts.

placed in

the

The trial took place at the Doyle became acquainted Central Criminal Court and 1 with Solly Joel, the millionaire came into court as the pri race-horse owner-Maher rode soners were many of Joel's horses and dock. Everybody seemed to be was soon included among Joel's staring at The Gambler. racing friends.

He was certainly the most He was a constant visitor at remarkable figure I have ever Joel's home, was B guest

seen in any dook. He seemed aboard his yacht, and as a re- to be devoid of any human sult became well known to the sentiment. From first to whole Joel family, including he never showed the slightest

feeling or emotion.

Woolf, a son.

For some

live enemy.

for a

statue

last

Unmoved

gave Me

a

Not everybody can see them

time, of course, selves all the but there is a moment of "that's ua!" for almost anyone.

The Agnes

men иго

To many a

cause.

woman the dis-

of unfaithfulness is The- End-no matter how much sha- herself WAS

凸 contributory

After about 12 years of mar- most riage our Agnes, while

kas engaging In appearance, undoubted y become something:

of and Michael As I went into the Appeal the play take you through a Court some weeks later, a marriage from Edwardian bridal usher

message night to wistful Darby and Joan Спос

more the prisoner had anish. Is it a happy marriage? asked me to see him. This time Yes; but not by some miracle la I almost refused. I did notit achieved. want to be burdened with any more sentimental stories, but

in the end I consented and saw him in D room beneath the court.

He was exactly the same. He showed no sign of anxiety crtion, emotion of any kind; he was utterly unmoved.

He thanked me for coming to see him,

shot down

The lifebelt

of neg.

Suddenly Michael tells her he loves another woman; someone who is Interested in the book he is writing. who is willing to share him with his work. That

and prating voice, stops her turns her pate.

all the alter- NLY through ONLY

nating sclistiness, irrita

misunderstanding. and downright ugly moments of real

No tears trium- living does it emerge phant. Humour, it would seem, is love's lifebelt,

MICHAEL (who would really rather go on loving his "I am afraid this case has worried you," he said.

other things "I beg Among

avery wife if only she'd let him) is worry any more. mother recognises with an in- anxious. "Are you going to To my Intense surprise

he you not to

Governor of ward smile are the remarkably faint?" he asks. This morning the said he was going to appeal,

of paternal "Certainly not," he is told. "I

didn't faint when the children been has and asked that the appeal be the prison told me that, my son fluctuating waves

infeeling.

had mumps or measles, did I? brought on at once. I told him

When he is baffled by youthful This" she says, setting her that, in my opinion, any ap Palestine and killed. It is quile immaterial now what happens peal would be utterly hope in my appeal."

a becomes behaviour father

belongs in the medicine chest less, and was at some pains to point out my reasons.

The appeal falled completely; partner. "We must speak to the it

children, dear "(meaning of marriage.... He listened politely until I as I knew it would; and once You must tell them what I

more The Gambler showed no had finished,

think").

When it is a question vine. either of disappointment of prizes won or scholarships, sign "Perhaps," he sald, you or distress. would be interested to know

I never saw him agalu, but I papa boasts "What do you think why I am appealing.

have often wondered whether MY boy has done...? "I have a son who is now his face remained equally un- Or it, as in the play, agile without Michael and didn't fighting the Turks in Palestine. perturbabie at the moment bettle is discovered in a 16-year He has no idea that I am In when the Prison this trouble.

room!"

Governor old's drawer, it is "Agnes, look "If he got to hear of it, it told him that his son was dead. what I found in YOUR son's might be awkward for him with his brother offlcers. That and is why I am appealing, the appeal has got to succeed."

dis- If, even then, he had of

tirne Solly Joel His face was the colour of was a good and generous friend ivory. He might almost have few years been taken to Doyle; it was later that he became a vindic- some well-known actor or other distinguished person. He reminded me instinctively of of Bret Harte's In the hero crash famous gambling stories. Corpo was certainly not a man

During the first World War Woolf Joel was seriously jured in an aeroplane with the Royal Flying

and was in hospital for some father would select as a time.

London leave

When

sumclently recovered he came to London for a short period of leave, and during that leave he again met Doyle.

to

He

his

gam

Ing companion for his son.

C. F. Gu, K.C., conducted the prosecution, and he gave full dramatic force to the Ho somewhat sordid story. painted a picture of the young fying officer, badly injured in the war, coming home to and himself the victim of two

heartless gamblers.

Woolf was dining at a res taurant when Doyle spoke

From the outset it was fair- him as an old friend of your father." Young Joel was not ly obvious that the result was aware that Doyle was at that almost a foregone conclusion. tire in a precarious financial The only possible interest

the case would lie in the cross- position.

lo

examination of The Gambler Doyle was sympathetic about himself.

the flying necider and offered

his services, as an older

to help young Joel spend

pleasant leave. An appoint- ment was made

to dine to-

Old school

con-

Gill was a prosecutor of the gether a few nights later, and old school.. The moderation the dinner duly took place. and restraint which marks the today followed prosecuting counsel of Thereafter events

were unknown to him. An ex- stoneotsgood course. an almost

out tremely able cross-examiner, At dinner Doyle pointed

accustomed to 150 various well-lown personall- he was tes in the room and finally every artifice to obtain a called attention to

solitary viction and he employed them Agure dining in the corner. It all. was The Gambler.

see if he would be able to goad Doyle described well-known bookmaker and a my client Into some display of particularly Interesting com feeling-of anger or fear; but the ho was completely unsuccess- Introduced

ful.

panion,

pair.

and

him as A

Luck changed

game

In

of

I was than curious

in

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HE "DOODLED"

PALACE ON A

Dintimately

By J. W. Taylor

The beginning of this mar- ringe gets off on what Freud would undoubtedly say was the beautifully wrong foot.

CRYSTAL

BLOTTER

so

DI

She

No tears, no scene, no clinging She, thought of all the things.

would think any woman about the Other Woman. also considered the prospect of rike it much. So in aimple

shut up.. • and words, she

WoThe

Would the Divorce Court have been so much better, do you think, and maybe another hus band and the same thing all. over again?

Somewhere I read that a man says: "Twenty years ago, when

WES

In my prime... and a woman SAYS: "Twenty

jago? Why. I was in my s

There

you

of the.

:

Two people

AGNES, at 43, was all for

have one Inter marriage hurdles, Men pursue women; women pursue youth. Any husband who will keep on telling his wife how young she looks may be a hero, prosperity to the travel agency but he'll reap rich rewards. It ERBY is the town most

firm of Thomas Cook He had he doesn't she is apt to go out concerned

started his pioneer work of rail- and make a fool of herself try- way excursions ten years pre- Ing to prove it. the appeal to long- with

in the ling design for "the great in viously, and the Exhibition was established firms Midlands and the North to dustrial building to be erected a golden opportunity to extend In Metropolis." A few days it. He had a large share in ar- search their treasures for Later plans from the blotting-pad six million visitors.

ranging for the transport of its items which they rough design were

drawn up. any showed in the Great Exhi- and Paxton set out for London.

He Was

lucky to have as travel- Derbyshire's beautiful marble Is bition of 1851 so that they ling companion Robert Stephen-was splayed with won from hausting project because Michael

son, son of the great

George Wales, gold from California, and is belatedly understanding. He malces her laugh; not in the way may be included in the dis- of souvenirs at play

the Stephonson, railway pioneer, of jewels from India.

he

It is intends

true, but deeply. Chesterfield Robert knew Pax- next Festival of Britain

At the conclusion of the Ex- and sincerely she laughs at him, ton os bis father's great friend year, for it was in a Derby and supporter, and being one of hibition, the highest award of and through him. at herself.

Was it a happy marriage? office that the famous blot the most influential members of the Council's gold medal wenti

of two. ting-pad sketch of Crystal the Exhibition's building com- to Paxton and Fox, as well as to Well, it was the story

mittee, was at once a powerful the Derby frm of S. Reed and people who loved each other and the Palace, the home of

ally, which resulted in Paxton's Company, for a "now power-learned how to live together. Exhibition, was made.

loom for weaving fringes with-The first part is easy enough: design being accepted.

out shuttles," and to Sir Joseph that last bit is where we seem of to inventor

need

from Whitworth, the

Icssons

the- Denisons Darley Dale, Derby,

The Exbibition was a land- mark in British social and in- dustrial history, and the Victoria

The son of a Derby doctor, Str and Albert Museum authorities Charles Fox-lke Paxton hel want more of such curiosities as was knighted when the Exhibi- the 70 to 80-bladed knife which tion closed was the contractor a Shefteld flem has offered from who had the task of its original, Great Exhibition Wing Paxton's doodling, in display to add to their collection terms of the magnificent steel of Exhibition pieces they

are and glass structure of the Crystal showing at the 1051 Festival, Palace. Sir Stafford Northcote, They already have the blotting the Chancellor of the

Exchequer, pad sketch, Prince Albert's sea who had been educated at the son ticket for the Exhibition, local Shirley Vicarage, was one and an enormous Indian throne of the three secretaries to the presented to Queen Victoria.

Royal Commission which organ

•

While The Gambler wDE the witness-box his demeanour remained precisely the samt ats when standing in the dock.

the Exhibition, and Rowland The Gambler was invited to

and He was perfectly calm

Ordish, of Derby, ono of the dinner and Join them at

only

most famous engineers of his due course suggested that both perfectly courteous; his

It was only a chance episode generation, mado greater

the should indication of being affected by Doyle and young Joel

Gül'e taunts was merely that that inspired that blotting pad part of the working drawings. his Ant for a go round to

some of his answers showed a

Ways Samuel Plimsoll, whose name is sketch. The Works and drink. Then came the sugges slightly amured contempt. Committee of the Midland Ball- perpetuated in the Plimsoll zine

friendly tion of a

the honorary His demeanour was

irre-way had assembled in Derby to for ships, chemin de fer.

Bixteen years later try an offending pointsman, and secretary, They played. At first the proachable, and he was quite

Sir Joseph Paxton presided. His Plimsoll became MP for Derby. stakes were low and young frank in all bis answers.

colleagues thought he was busy Certainly, he had. invited

Another Derby

link Joel won, Thon Doyle suggest- ed they be increased and luck changed. By midnight ly ho had suggested a game Woolf Joel had lost between of cards-that was how be

lived--but to £3,000 and £4,000.

suggest that Doyle complained loudly there was anything dishonest that he, too, had been a loser in the play was utterly ridleu-

POP

was

WGS

the young Joel to his flat; certain taking notes of the proceedi Medioval Court, one of the out-

POP-IT'S NEARLY

EIGHTY IN

THE SHADE

but actually he was on his blotting-pad.

standing features of the Exhibi- tion and for which Augustus j The pointsman having been Welby Pugin, the architect of St dealt with, Paxton showed his Commissioner of Fine Arts. The astonished associates his "dood- Exhibi500 brought fame and

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