A station wagon pulled up and its driver inquire anriously if I had been the sole Tussenger.
inside
Two days later I wrote to my
Oberonis and had assembled (2) to my wife returned from
K them toside the
they've Although the deep treed of the N 1962 my wife was
spending. the early never been wrong so far. In the tyres-all pumped-up to within
war, when anything could have an ounce of vach other at 261b. part of November in happened at any time, I never should have done better than
had providentially France with a great had them; that's why, after we this, I had forgotten one thing one side of the road and beyond the shop at the time. friend of hers whose family were captured, I was sure they the hundredweight of badlast in the hedge on the other bank hung
the boot when driving alone. a red slipper beside my dress- wile telling her the same tale. were wine growers in the hadn't executed him."
Thank God the road was clear. ing gown.
This smooth phrased letter "Well, what do you think has Sunhy province of Lan-
The petrol bank was gushing crossed with one from ber in tappened?"
If I survived this I should finally
:ક gaping which the last sentence caused. have learned something, but fout fuel through guedoc. It was not her first
were to survive it at the cost of mouth, particles of broken glass me to rub my chin reflectively. visit to the old shuttered
ethers' injuries, or lives, I should lay in crystal heaps along the It ran: "Although I always feel never have got over it.
whilst the front wheels safe as a passenger in the car, do road, spun en in silent accusation. manor-house surrounded by
be careful when you're driving miles of vineyards and she
I quickly gathered up my alone and please
don't go so knew its family history for several generations buck ic- was well just as she
My wife hesitated for a quainted with the may Roman remains lying be-.
moment. tween the ancient towns of "No," she said, finally, "Til Narbonne and Beziers. wait...Perhaps, after all, I'm
It did not take her ears a beginning to feel
being colish....Anyway, I'm
little better week to get. attuned to the already."
the sing-song accent of
natives southern seemed that her eyes
noticed the always changing light on the bieres mountains to west.
and
These thoughts flashed through my mind as the back of the car wang hopelessly round to where the front had been. Looking over my shoulder I tightened my grip on the steering wheel and tensed myself for the coming shocks,
nearside The back
mangled heap" when an A 70. France and after I had wel- at the airport, she Station-wagon pulled up. Its comed her driver, seeing me take a last poked at me with more than cok inside my car, inquired, in usual intentness for such an anxious tones, if I had been the occasion and said: sele passenger.
Now tell me what really bap-
قان
When I had put his mind at pened to the car."" ease and he and his family, who
got my letter, didn't had seen my car rush by them you?" I tried, evenly. wheel several miles back, had ceased Yes, I got your letter. She got out a writing pad and,
But tell me, Peter," she miraculous sur right. it controlling her desire to fill the struck the grass verge with a gaping at the had, Auer with her uppermost fears, tremendous thump, throwing the vivor, they asked where I was pursued, tilting her head in the front op into a spinning somer-going. By a stroke of good for rannar ef mathers who want to ever- she condensed them into a final
savit. The machine then
"what was with its roof on the tuney, 100, were bound for know who's pinched the jam, the colour of the Cor- rt sentence after giving me Sounced
her news. the
read, before
lorry?" its twisting
a matter of moments my The low, black sky that hung tum threw it on to two tyres en luggage was on board, we had like an evil omen above the the same side, which, in turn,
ourselves and were before it finally slithered to a sped Mulfords were more than
in the right direction. The
momen-
*London.
Salisbury Plains held little hope sent it bounding over once more duces, at a more reasonable
standstill on its back.
No struggle
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hardly noticed the days as they of water 'from the "fountains" Switched of the engine and, in from order not to frighten my you until Monday... when the
Gestapo coll at the "bright intervals" fore-
cast earlier that morning. The screen-wipers, wa Simone Herail; mistress of the
which were zaid, "And why did you not Domaine St Crescent, was the beating time to some music frem tell me that Elsa, had given you seal companion with whom to the car radio, were smearing 2 the envelope? It you mentioned that, we would havete all this. Of the same age, him of mut across my line of nationality, and gay tempera- vision, that the soft drizzle was believed you-and done some-
ment, in her society my wife not enough to clear. A squirt thing
We to protect 102. thought you
just an owed into one
another, com- seen washed away the muck English starlet trying to get her
change she needed ung up by a lorry 1 had just rame into the papers by invent-Pieting the
from the bustle of her London passed and, at sight of the lons, coming out of the Casino after DY the time I had reached the ing a story: We did not realise Life.
straight road that joined the their evening at the tables.
On November the 6th, in this dim. horizo, I pressed down the peaceful atmosphere, it was accelerator. therefore all the more astonish- The powerful car swept for- with its increasing ing fer. Simone to observe that ward and,
sed, my spirits sored. Life was good and I began. count my blessings, My wife wes
away the sun where
Bduur of the magician the that you were helping to track
down a murderer." commissionaire had come out, and following him was the
1 pasend my hand wearily young man Jüles: Behind i
Please, across my forehead. heard the rear of a car, and as
understand anything. don't OWN the steps came the two we turned it, raced away along won't you tell me, betore I go
past the delightful Hittle Japanese the harbour road girls who have been in Europe Casino and up into the twisting crazy, what this is all about?"
nads of the old town. *Madam making a film about Butterfly," and 1 was enough in
I felt a touch on my arm and possession of my facultk's to
I saw that Jutes had come up to think
how their pretty little
He was looking concerned, voices would rise to high-pitched
my heart tummed over for screams if they knew that death him-because obviously he did had struck a few feet away not know. from them.
mic. and
"Your wife," I said.
"She 13
Francoise Arnoul, the tough girl of French Elms, came out in that ear, and he has killed
with Eether Williams, Eddie Constantine, and Jules Dassin behind her.
ULES patted my hand. "First,"
he said, "you must give us That is the clue to the key, everything. Once we have the key safely in police hands, and the address that Elsa gave you where she hid the box, every- thing will be all right and "What wife?" he replied. there will be no disaster tem I stared at him. "Elsa," I morrow. But we must have the "I found her dead in the key. That is the important
The man has strangled thing."
her."
Constantine is an American said. who 133 become the most car. famous tim detective in France. ver."
Dassin (who made "The Naked
ever seen on the screen.
cok for an English car with the number WPJ 798. That there is
THE 200 of Odette and Pater Churchill is omong the mast spectacular of the wor. His books have made it more memorable.
•Educated at Malewen and Coins Collage, Cambeldpe, Churchilarly corr - is now in the mid- Jorties - ‘ins/øded :: Ice hockey the played for Explaadi, publicity, war-fox forming, and the consular survies.
Brought together as the resistance agents, French-born bermine wor awarded the George Cress, Medale Militaire and Croix de Guentasher husbandth 0.3.0. and Crois de Guerre.. They, married in 1947.
live la Holland Park,
to
shone, and the rest of the famuly
w
verê fit and
After
lecture
happy..
week's lour, ending on
the high-riote of Dartmouth Naval! College, I was on my way home to -London.
her friend's attention began to I had slept well on the pre- wander.
vious night and had now, at 11
I looked at them both and It was 10 o'clock in the am. on November the 6th. come "Poor Elsa," he said. He then I said, in a small voice: morning and Odette had been a long way in a very short time. City) has just directed a pic- turned to the commissionaire, "But I threw the key away, enjoying a late breakfast in her The car was running beyond the ture called "Brawl Amongst who was standing beside us. When that awful man grabbed room. Suddenly she put down highest claims of its manufac- Men" which 13 one of the "you will telephone the police, me I threw it into the harbour, her cup with an unsteady hand turers, without effort or noise,
the new toughest gangster stories I have please." Tell them they must I haven't got it any more." and a look of distress came over only
tyres changing her whole being.
their faint hum according to the "Sacre bleu," said the detec-
"What is the matter?" asked different road surfaces. "What do we do now, Simone, who had spent months There isn't much time with her guest in a Gestapo cell, was Ou information is that they "Something awful is happen- little plan to do it tomorrow. Some-ing to Peter."
"Whatever makes 1 hysterical by this lime, he was one will die tomorrow, Mademoi- them-knowing that had a dead woman beside me, taking it so calmly. "She's selle if we don't open the box that?"
Your wike in time." that a killer's hands were on my dead, dead, dead! throat, and knowing that these has been murdered!".
a woman inside you say she is live. dead, Mademoiselle?"
"Yes," I shouted.
AND it was funny, just looking beginning to
feel
I
4
were only celluloid heroes-that He took me by the arm and the only person who could help led me into the Casino. Come,
Jules?
This particular stretch of road had been so evenly rolled that I suspected its smoothness below the soapy spray. Yet, far out-
these weighing
deliberations you say were the
thrill of speed, the thrill of well-being, the con- "I always know if he's in sciousness that with each passing
was Next Saturday: Is there danger."
driving better, was "Have you had such premoni- year I
alert more time to save a life....?tions before:""
was wide open, My window with the anti-draught section slightly turned to catch the fine rain. Had there been wings on she would the car, I thought,
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WORLDWIDE peace From A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
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style has just been launched and Washington than any other Chinese
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have been airborne in about another 15 seconds. Turning up the radio, I joined in with Mario Lanza at the top of my voice.
By now the speedometer was rapidly gaining the 20 mark and 600 yards, or so, ahead the straight ribbon of road dipped Meanwhile, Communist pro-
down what I paganda for internal consump-out of sight tien has beca maictained at the imagined must be a sight in- Communism is
Though there had been same level of violent anti-cline. of darger to them, Molotov
of a corner, one Western vituperation that was no indication trying to
Arabs persuade the
started by Molotov in his could never tell The Soviet Middle East de that Russia is the friend who
Few motorists in this country claration gave notice that Mas will help
them against the speech in February.
have not, at one time or another Secretary Krushchev's speech cow will, free now on, take an "bad imperialists."
on April 20 in Warsaw was the occasional absence of war- a rude surprise from experienced active part in Middle East af-
Moscow's move had an im long trade against the fairs. It said that if the Western mediate response on the Arab perialist bandits," as he called placed too chose to the danger ing signs or through their being As the Communists make policy of "building up agere ride. The Syrian, Minister in the Western nations. peace overtures on one front sive blues" and
Moscow asked to be receive by Mkklle Eastern
The idea of Commerist world spot. on -Formosa-there is plenty "presure
Minister Molotov, and revolution is being actively pro continued,
Foreign Moscom
declared
than his government's pagated more at present of evidence that they are states is
ask the United Nations to
"gra!itude"
Moscow's in- at any time in recent years. - trying to expand in other intervene.
in Middle tervention
East directions.
The Soviet statement added The latest expression of Com- that Moscow. will "defend the
-the munist goodwill" is the offer independence of
by Russia and Communist question except China. Its aim is to create a belt of weak, neutral states around the Communist em- pire.
will
by Chou En-lal, the Chinese Eastern states." Foreign Minister, to sit down
sad
negotiate" with
with the United
States. Stolet Premier Bulganin, has
DANGEROUS
putting
Middle
PROPHETIC WORDS
affairs,
On the same day, Radio Mos cow announced the ratification by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet-Perslan agreement frontier and financial matters prophetic words of Lenin: concluded on December 2, 1954, first Bolshevik revolution has
GH snatched 100 Moscow is playing
The skid
on chev said: "I will recall raked gingerly, but to no avall
The
I took my foot off the accelera- tor and the needs sank back Through 70 and 60 down to the arties on the drag of the engine. took the brow at 60 and there, In bis Warsaw speech, Krush-to my horror, curled the un- right-hand bend 1
The car went into a four-wheel million people skid. Releasing the brakes. I Russia has been more or less
accelerating
out, st inactive in the Middle East for double game. Is sudden will from the imperialist world. The tried gently
left-hand 37 years. Her present bid to ing to sign the Austrian peare next revolutions will take away the same time giving
from the imperialists the entire correction to the steering. · The re-enter Middle Eastern poli- treaty was an important con-
Created human mice My M
wheels merely spun round, and ties is seen here as one of the cession but it also
Western
Both in Warsaw and Moscow, the deadly skid went on mishatithet
dangerous developments a stat Is a most
a state of unrest in
tried. Hry East-West by tactical-device,
Gemary A similar purpose-la vendors in recent
is during the celebrations of the In lightning succession I purely
One of these was the recent.
esen Schind is Middle Eastern 10th anniversary of the Soviet out all the tricks I knew, but this The Moscow publication of a statement on
Middle East de declaration, or it is a prelude Polish part, it was repeatedly time the accident that had been „Middle Fäst affairs by the claration is in line with every to Soviet expansion into new stressed that Russia and her awaiting me these thirty years Soviet Ministry of Foreign Af thing the Communists have areas. of diplomatic activity ratellites are going ahead in had got as in its tolla. Now I their planis Dow establish a must pay the price for breaking according to lob been saying in Bandung Just posing as the champion of
also repeated his positve al Ttude to the idea of negotia tions at the highest level.
But there are several Com munist moves
which indicate
Kalean his. here, is at presents: Chou Erwal-was trying Flo-Poppressed" Arab peoples, against world Coppamist army under the golden rulo"Don't do what
fmusing more anxiety in London persuade the Asian states that the West
the
united commishd
Good Samaritans, they were a delightful family and I was glad when they accepted my invita= tion to come in for a cup of Put your tick in the space In the upside-down position I tea as we drew up outside my
above and keep this panel · by door. the sudden hush, Mario Lanza In continued his song of love. I mother-in-law they agreed to answer w[1] be given-with switched him off, opened the stick to my proposed yarn that another story in this mories glove-locker and emptied it. a LOTTY had skidded into my by There was no need to struggle stationary car as it stood outside. with the jammed door for the a shop in Ilminster. As this bad windows at The front had happened to a previous, of vanished, I crept out to survey mine the story had a
good my wrecked pride.
chance of holding water.
The boot lay wide open and my luggage, tools and goir clubs
car
It all went off like clockwork and my family rejoiced that I
H. A. Manhood
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