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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 9, -1955.

The lady

of Cobweb

Castle

the

her wedding-day, waq I going?

| LEVEN ̈n.m, was the tell you that they're the biggest serted

Paston Where on earth hour at which near- discovery since ly

staff letters. Her father bought them. Actising posters asked me: "Is all the

in a lot, at a country sale, ages your journey really necessary?” gathered in the ago from some old bishop's I wondered. nurses' sitting-room for library."

The castle I must admit that I pricked

at which I was cocoa and biscuits. I had

decanted in the spring duck ap- vaguely noticed that Nurse up my ears.

"Kas the approached any peared dreadfully Davies was a pretty butter- authorities?" Nurse

dubious. Y Davies learned later that it had been fly, but I do not think that waved an airy band. "Aunt built by Miss Havisham's father I ever exchanged a word Loo's against all authorities with her until she said She's always having rows with

breathlessly, one March

morning: "I say, my Aunt'

Loo has got some old letters

she wants you to see."

I answered warily, I hope

wearily,

what

not

date?"

"Oh!

"OT

they're historical," beamed Nurse Davies, “abso- lutely up your street. She's one of your fans, reads all your bocks. She's completely loopy- hence Aunt Los.

thank

"Though she's not really my aunt,

God! I say! didn't mean to be rude. She's frightfully learned...

"Shelves in a castle up in Yorkshire, all cobwebs and mice,

we call her Miss 50

She wants you to see them too-after the film, them, and make them into a Havisham, you know."

book, and it'll be a best-seller, sort of historical "who- dunnit.'

in about 1870. I fudged... regardless of cost. But it was certainly impressive, and so was its owner,

A tornado

G.

I arrived about 'five o'clock, but she was already dressed for dinner in a trailing binck velvet garment, and a quantity of jewellery.

The reminiscent

There wire knights in armour, sedan chairs, Beauvias suites, Crown Derby services, all check by jowl. I even saw a gondola.

Up in my cavernous bedroom, ..at 11 p.m.,. I realised that I was

I found hel #mall -room in a high

tower.... Fler

*** explained. -Enemies!”

I heard footsteps later, once crowded journey.

Drawing by KOOLAČAN

The Zither Man Still Plays, But

THE THIRD MAN WOULD HARDLY

KNOW

VIENNA

Vienna, over two-thirds?

·000,000′ debt to

HE Third Man" of her £71,

would scarcely the -European have recognised Payments

life in Vienna.today.

Union.

The.

Coun

True, he would recognise try's unemploy many of the old familiar ment figure is landmarks in the film, such also very low.

DT Kamitz as the "giant whee?" in the as Prater with its box-like this

achieved despite the carriages that slowly rise toot that the and fall as they revolve,, to occupation has give a more superb view of cost the coun- the city.

try some £600,-

000,000 and that the Rus-

He would recognise the Pallo- sians have been regularly strip- vicini Palace, nour the home ping Austria's economy of mil- of the Jockey Club, where the liens of tons of her off and other

most fabulous balls of the goods without paying, one rouble carnival season are given, and for them. |the adjoining Josefplatz, where

I They were

Davies never saw Nurse or twice, during the night, and encased in much of the gummed again, but she sent me a post-parts of the film were made.

Over coffee, brown was cot amused.

paper which I had card from her honeymoon. She I had attempted to bring my observed before, and they were had married an Egyptologist, hostess to the point as to where addressed ready for me to post and found excavating absolutely she had found the letters. back, registered. Miss Havisham thrilling. So I imagine that she

should open them in a hurry. to dust.

volumes

The doctor has been helped. in his work considerably, it is some £300,000,000 true, by worth of Marshall Aid. But be

clearly did not intend that I must have censed to be allergic | But he would feel quite lost saw to it that about two-thirds

of

ium

+

She

deals

Taxes

are high, but not so occasionally the "dispensability" high as in West Germany, nor of a human life, if necessary.

this was Great Hall (strongly

invested in They came from "the old

In his favourite Cafe Mocart Westminster of

today. Once the chief meeting nationalised enterprises, such as Hail) was packed with objects bishop's library."

death in place for Black Market operators hydro-electric plants, building of all descriptions, the fruits of

"From Orwell HaB--ábout I had to go on duty directly Miss Havisham's

Italy I read of in a paper last in what was virtually the city and steel production, in this undiscriminating purchase. 18397" I suggested.

hospital, but I put "Bishop I got inta

in a year when I was dining with of the Black Market, the cafe country where enlightened Tomilin's papers?".

the parcel carefully

is now completely shown of its Socialism has ready Co- originals of

Now this was o trap, for the drawer. I had no doubt as to an old friend."

atmosphere of intrigue, stealth, operated with the more Right- the first two what I had done with, so'

He had heard of her!

and suspicion, where not only Wing People's Party and other herself of the Paston Letters when I got back to my bedroom had made bad so come to light.

# "perfect I went straight to the drawer nuisance, pestering

thousands of pounds worth of political factions, British

were arranged in the years chaplain, because a British Am- just after the last war, but For a moment I

bassador would not take real interest in her dicovery of the thought she was

jetters of Lucrezia Borgia, “

"Miss Havisham always few high," I murmured:

"Did you

meet her?" asked my friend. "Abbadje Beadon had some dealings with her She dragged him up to a castle in Yorkshire to see some papers, and well, you know Abbadie, He's not imaginative."

Biggest discovery the léturs are addressed not to see Queen Anne's not going to agree;

I' ald that I was offenid" 1 wont to films very seldom: but Nurse Davies had a message deliver.

calls them

"Sho

'Queen Anne's Letters, and she says it's not the one you think, when she says that. They're the let ters of the Queen Anne who married the man who murdered the little princes in the Tower, and they're all written to her sister."

"The letters of Anne Neville, Queen-Consort of Richard III,

I supplied, "to Isabel, Duchess of Clarence."

but after a pause she majestically. said, "No."

2

to the Duchess of Clarence," I ters tonight. For, from five to reflected they will not tell us 11, Miss. Havisham had talked, whether Richard III murdered The woman was a perfect for his nephews. For the Duchess nado. And, though she had predeceased them by seven convenient habit of not hearing

As she said it à direct question, Indeed, of y cars

curious steely It was not until I was in the making one feel that royalty gleam leapt into. train, on my way to stay the were not accustomed to such

ber eye. If it night with the lady of whom I things, at the end of the even had not been ridiculous, ̈-1- shall always think as Miss ing I did not share Nurse should have thought that she Havisham, that I realised why Davies's belief that her aunt would have liked to take down that name was familiar. I had had been either at Oxford or one of the antique · daggera taken, for a king journey, a long Cambridge.

with which the wall were gar-"

book-Great Expectations, by: I may as well say at once' nished, and plunge it in m

that I dever saw another soul bosom

Charles Dickens.

by Carola. Oman

HISTORY in her Ifamily. Carola, Oman "(in private life, Lady Lecanton) is the daughter of the late Sir Charles Oman, the great historian. Her own 'best-known: - book I probably her life of Nebon, But as well blographies she writes bistorical novels, modern ποτεία children's books.. She lives in Hertfordshire and served in the Red Cross during the war, which is the period of this story.

,,,,,,, AEROBE LATERALA.

Anne's Letters were

..

It was a new edition, Illus- in Miss Havisham's castle. There trated by pictures from a recent must have been a staff, for I Next morning she was even

small. film. Miss Havisham! Of course! heard footsteps slapping down odder. I found her in The oid women with flying stone corridors, at

Queer intervals, room, giving off a Long Gallery, “I said you'd know," nodded white hair, whose resson had while

talked-or we

rather in a high tower. This was not there. During the next 10 Nurse Davies. · "And I was to falled since she had been de- while she held forth.

evidently her place of work, for minutes I searched every inch it was full of half-opened pack of my premises, and the cup ing cases, and a typewriter stood boards in the corridor outside. on a Jacobean table. Miss Havi-

There was

no denying it. sham, still dressed in black velvet and diamonds, was fully Genuine or fake, Queen Anne's engaged pasting wide strips of Letters were gone. I had a very gummed brown

over poor appetite for supper. paper hancet windows. Her eyes gilt- tered. "Men!" she explained, Davies

• As we left

the hail, Nurse fying after me. "Enemies!"

"I'm must awfully sorry!" she panted. "But while you were on duty I had to burgle your bed- TOOM. Auntie Loo came on the phone-s trunk-call from York. She must have taken a taxi in there, for she hasn't had a tele- phone since she had that row with the exchange.

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A landmark in the history of Time meas ement.

A trunk-call

I looked out of one of the windows, Far, far below, I could see tree-tops and a strip of the drive. "But, surely," I ventured, "you are remote enough here. "They carried off Benito Musso- lini by air," said Miss Havi sham. I was very glad when I saw a taxi arrive on the strip of "drive,

came

"She doesn't want you to edit the letters after all. I was to post them back. I'm most awfully sorry!”

I said, that I, too, was sorry; but Nurse Davies had more to "I'm leaving tomorrow.

I was travelling in uniform, tell. so my case was much too smell The result of my test has come for the parcel which was de- through and I'm allergic to livered to me. I had to lug dust and feathers. .So I can't

Anne's Letters Queen

a possibly stay here"

01

A four-poster

I have always cherished a profound respect for Professor Beadon but reviewers have been saying for half a century that he is not imaginative.

"A pure scholar," I agreed. what happened?"

Cate

are there quite the number of burdens trom Indirect taxes. comer from the Cate Sacher on

Mozart just round. the here as in the Federal Republic,

the Albertinaplatz, facing the But one thing "The Third Albertina Gallery, which houses Man" would and the same as a magnificent art collection in eror-the melancholy, haunding cluding works by Michelangelo, zither music of Tony Karas. zither star Rembrandt, Raphael, and the Karas, unobtrusive

best collection of Durers in the of the picture, now has his own world, now puts up a pleasant wine restaurant on the city's yellow-and-blue but highly res outskirts at Slevering, where pectable front..

"the new heurige wine is drunk.

The Black Market has virtually disappeared from Vienna today, thanks largely to "Austrian miracle" achieved by Dr Reinhard Kamitz, The picture made Karas a the 48-year-old Minister of famous and a rich man. He Finance in this country, whose now further successfully capi-

talises, on this, chiefly for the benefit of tourists.

No when the occupation of Austria is ended, which should be same time later this summer.. and the sewhat sinister shadow of the last of ... Russia's - estimated 40,000 soldiers is rem

"Well, he told her, then and there, that they were absolutely bogus. He's quite fearless, But he sticks to it that, during the night, he heard her coming to murder him. Providentially, he people are not notorious for their moved from Vicana and from has a hygienic horror of cur- persistent hard wrk.

the rest of the country back to tained four-posters, so he was

behind the Iron Curtain, it will sleepin on 2 chaise - longue The only Black Market opera- be the final "exit of "The Thind next door."

tions which still occur are very Man" I had the four-poster. Isecret multi - thousand - pound

deals on an international East As Julius

F remembered.

West level to secure and deliver WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED

certain strategic goods on the international cafe waiter who Allies banned list to behind the bas worked all over Europe but for the past 20 years has been Iron Curtain, and some petty profit-taking by Allied Occupa Sacher's Cafe mit Schlag coffee serving customers with Cafe tion Forces, chiefly American

topped with a blob of whipped G.I., in the way of cigarettes. cream explained while tapping

DID IT REALLY HAPPEN?

YES

NO

℗ Put your tick in the spocy abera and kop til prval by you'aniß, tomorrow when the carver will be glas-with mancher story in this ariat by Ca

Milton Shulman

● Did Saturday's story-Through

Hartmann, typical

A packet of American his fat" pocket-book cigarettes, for instance, costs two

schillings (about 7dy in the "This is full now. To All this P.X. and about 2s. 32 in the is the most important thing to Austrian market.

us-that, the sunshine, a bottle ́chief of wine, and a happy song."

"The' Third Man's” livelihood has vanished because

Austria's economy is sound, her

and she has repaid

the Window," by Hesketh Pearson currency, though still controlled,

is stable, actually happen; The answers. NO.

EINSTEIN GAVE US A

N 1905, a young clerk

in a scientific patent office published three papers on the basic problems of physics.

The first two have been all -- but forgotten. The half-baked one recorded that "E equals MC [squared":

Albert Einstein was to live to see It become the idea which dominates the world.

Not understood

By Les Armour

NEW

Richard

Greenough

NEW WORLD

Large numbers of men and manipulatable, ..there to

one could understand, Einstein chuckled and said: “When you sit with the girl you love for two hours, you think it is only. be two minutes, but when you

minutes you think it is two hours. That is relativity.#20

That is rather more than 3 The point of the

varia...

Copernicus

even toyed delightedly with the changed and made use of by sit on a red hot stove for two more subtle aspects of his rela- maz. The learned world was For it was

tivity theory. that idea

that

Space and time are our peT- interested in two of them, made possible the atom bomb They had accepted without sanal descriptions of our

questioning the fact that, if you dividual situations. Two men The young man, said the and the hydrogen bomb,

shat the Empire State Building in two different places will see neat crack. professors, showed talent.

It is also that idea that has through space at the speed of the same event happen at two relativity theory is that time made it possible to believe that Ught it would be infinitely small different tires and there is no and space are tools for later- The third

not one they the day may come when life for and weigh nothing at all. It was use asking "when did it really preling your experience, thought, was little half most men in most places will fun to think that an alarm clock

happen,"

for, the answer, de absolute standards which baked. The kind of thing a cease to be nasty, brutish and through space would seem to pends on where you were when determine your experience,

make time go more slowly the it happened. young man might produce, short.

faster it wEIZI.

Energy too, is not so But he would grow out of it.

Between the two given a thing absolute, but something But there were all parlour time and a place we can susceptible of infinite ganes -- Amusing conversation, calculate a "space-time locations a tool for man. curiosities, something to be for- tion which everyone will agree For the intense young Ger- gotten about in the ordinary upon. But it is our calcula- man Jew whose schoolmasters workaday world.

tion, and the answer is a mat- dethroned man from the centre gave him up as too dull ever to Hardly anyone has grasped the fer of public, conveniences or the traffeine. when he, đôi It just so happened that that amount to anything gaye man fact that Albert Euisten revealed

monstrated that the earth 10- formula was to change the the key to the mastery of the the world as a very different

about the sun and not volved world.

universe.....

the

"earth, "and", 'that later astronomers reduced man to The theory of relativity is Putting it bluntly: Space and an insignificant speck In

time are the ways in which we could conceive it...

universe · so vast that no man zotach more than a curiosity..

co-ordinate our experiences. It is a cold hard statement But we are free to co-ordinate:

Einstein put man back. about the nature of the world them in other ways if it hap They had rasped the fact a statement which it may take pens to be more convenient. sun goes where you want it to in Einstein's world we provided. that the poadbility of converting a long time for men to grasp per gang m matter into energy made 1 fully

Einstein, for instance, found it that you are smart enough not is that matter everything for civilation in a single blast. It means that space and time convenient to dispose of the to get curried slabs of rock to the chair you're even the fact that made it are not fixed, rigid things as we kind of space you learned about

Incest, the principle sitting on and energy are not possible to drive almer across have swaye imagined them. It in the schoolgoometry books

the Atlantic on the energy con means that matter is not the end to substitute a miti hydrogen bomby is different things but two

substance dimensional space. You couldnt principle which tained in whos same

Breun

for The question is whether man Be one really big enough

The young patent clerk was Albert Einstein.. The formula was the core of modern atomic

w in the formula, for energy, M. for mass,

speed of light

the

stands

for

for

What it means, at its simplest

place than anyone of bad suspected

ected.

He died a saddened man.

The world had accepted his revolution without ever under-p standing it.

possible to anihilate whole d

WBJAN (OZ"looking at wed. The day bedied American

To the scientists at the urn the commercial.

scientists had begu

process behind the H-

of the century, that was all but thermo-nuclear Incredible,

Thaphysical: univer nothing more than so ma rangements of ede

Tool for man

Ferndescribe

wouldøre Gastronom

Once", asked forzars Hon of the theory which every give

rid which

Tha

of the