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POLICE

HALT

ROADWORTHINESS

CHECK AHEAD

"If you take my tip, sir, you'll put a match to it before my sergeant sees it.”

DID IT

THE FIVE

ACES..

HAPPEN ACES

A

by VALENTINE DYALL

LL this happened a

my rooms distressingly long having a drink

after dinner. I had thought timie ago when

that Sam was possibly a trifle was 19. On looking high

when he arrived, but al

not coincide with back, it seems to me that the date did there

BEHIND the

sinlater ye at Yalustime Dyall radio's "Man in Black" and starring in

o new Home Service serial Richard Yea and Nay-lles a dis- tinguished acting which

career was a highly im- any of the major happenings of probable atmosphere of the America's history, I felt reason- ably assured that the Lone Wolf

ford.

ter

bogan — afft Harrow сло Church,

·Oxford--with the Old Vic.

Six-fool-thres and 45 years old, As books Includa Unsolved Mystačiak (1954) and Famous Sea Tragedies, which appeared in January. Aldred, with two 100 and an adaptat doughter, Dyall breeds Russia i

NAGIRIANDENBE

Wild West about the whole was not about to strike again. We had a passion for poker affair-an atmosphere quite

that

year end. inevitably, me- inappropriate to my very

at Ox- body proposed a game. We all ordinary ludgings

thought this a good idea-all of us, that is, except Sam. He The only explanation I refused to play-brusquely, I can offer is that the charac- lecked at him in surprise, be-

'cause he was something of a of Fate, I tripped down the the drama who serious gambler. in

The others garden-path to inspired the ugly scene was began to press him. He shook, child, with an ingratiating salie an American-and a Texan his head.

17

"You play cards with

do book soppy," said little Arthur coldly. A tiny spasm of dislike shot through my breast, but perhaps I had over- done it a little. I turned my and small, what would you like 13

I

don't

at that. He was a Rhodes Dyer" he said in a hard voice. scholar and while, in "I don't play cards with any general, he was quiet and other card-sharp, for that inoffensive, there were

OC- matter." casions, such as Indepen- dence Day, Washington's birthday, and so on, when he would kick up his heels quite surprisingly.

..

1:

Lone 'wolf

on my face.

welcome the

down point or two.

do?*** I asked brightly

"Play

London Express Service

IN AMERICA TODAY -

Mr Blitz Gambles On An Idea

By HENRY LOWRIE

Washington, acre game farms stocked with THOSE who grow rich off pheasant, quall, and partridge,

kennels will the gamblers stared pointers, and Labradors. Each incredulously when real hunting party, which will have developer Norman its choice of hotel guns, will be Blitz began building a able to "rent" 20 birds to shoot

estate

$3,250,000 Nevada. hotel al

Fee $5 per birdi. that will have neither The hotel lake will abound gambling tables nor a floor with trout which can be cooked show.

Immediately for the lucky Yet. Mr Blitz is a gambler fisherman or quick frozen and birsel: his gamble is that the sent to his home, hotel will pay by attracting. REMEMBER Last year's fuss

I about Phenix

sportsmen

So his hotel, to be aamed Holiday, will have two 1,000.

City,

"the wickedest. clty

He believes that for every 10 Alabama, men who want to "shoot" dice in the United States," when there are hundred who would trimo-busting Attorney-General rather shoot birds,

Abert Patterson was murdered? Phenix now calls itself "pure the and crime free." It is on short Est of 22 for selection as- the city that has done most to solve its local problems, Who hides the "news?—A Congressional inquiry has into the question of sealed lips in "Ġovernment circles,

"I don't play cards with Dyall." he said, in a hard voice.

"I don't play cards with any other card-sharp for that matter."

started

The attack is directed mainly at the Defence Department,

Said Congressman John Moss as he took charge of the investi gation: "I don't think we have to spoon-feed the American public, but they are entitled to know what their Government does,"

"

CHOPPERS should use buses,..

city manager L. P. Cooking- ham, of Kansas City, said, I would case traffic congestion and help, the hard-hit transport companies.

He also says the fares should te paid by the shopkeeper.

TMN APRIL 1954 3,000 men of the United Automobile Workers' Union struck

Kahler, Wisconsin.

in

They are still holding out for

cents" an hour

seven

more.

At that rate it will take them

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"No, I'm afraid not that one,”” glamérous with a clove carna- I said with a frminess which I tion in my buttonhole. Accord in wages, hoped matched His.

DE

years to make up the $1,000,000 they have so far lost

ingly, I bought one. Just as I EMAND for a "far-reaching" "Went that one," he insisted. was going towards the door, I Congressional investigation "P'll give you a lovely set of heard a slight, disagreeable into American boxing was made

poise-ker-dap-behind me, and in

the House by Kapre- San Marino

San "Don't want

Marino- there on the shiny linoleum, in sentative Thomas Lane

an improbably dy little fan, He questioned whether it was want

I'll show you a card-trick," I lay face upwards-five aces...

So many a sport or a racket. They must have stuck between people, he said, own a "piece" cut in desperately.

His concentration faltered for my shoulders when I had shaken of a promising young Agater a second. Like a flash, I snatched out the rest of my palmed cards, that he resembles a commodity up a pack from the table-I had Crimson with embarrassment, rather than an athlete. been playing Idiot's Delight and stooped to pick them up.

GEORGE HEARST, son of the embarked on my one card-trick.

William Randolph As I did so I caught sight of late an enormous, vaguely familiar Hearst, the newspaper owner, Agus, vanishing from view was still married to wife No. 4 across the shop window. I now when he married again, ruled realise that it must have been Justice McNally in New York Sam. Hence all this trouble.

A warning

"Soppy," he sneered, when, the Xogerdemain was over. His eye strayed back to the stamp- album.

a sam.

Hearst argued that his fourth marriage, to Sandra Rambenú, was invalid because it was only four hours after his divorce No. 3.

was thunderstruck, pretty angry.

"Sam, what the hell are you talking about?" I demanded.

Indians, said little "You know damn well" he Arthur in a voice brooking no said, thickly-I had not realised contradiction whatever. how really stewed he was I scented danger.

Either my friends believed me getting to his feet. "He knows Wouldn't you like to look

decided to give me or they what I'm talking about. fellers round the garden first?" I

another chance but keep their sk him have him tell you pleaded, hoping to gain time. "Know any card-games?" I eyes open, for we played

Poker It was no good. asked, staking everything on often enough after that night 16, Edward Steichen is

whose memory, as

A taking Indions or nothing. It last throw.

blank the turned out that play-

following morning, When some-

gain. ing Indians with Doors."...

one told him the story he said that he had been meaning to ask me about those five ices, but had never gotten arcund to it.

WOHL coUTEKUHT RESERVED

DID IT REALLY HAPPEN?

He would get together with other

Americans

sing FAOT or FICTION? Did it really and *Sweet Adeline" in close harmony and my "Yippee" at happen? All the stories in this serias irrelevent intervals. All good, COULD be true. That is the problem

clean fun, but there was a

eyes

published tomorrow,

you, roles

of

éven

"Beat-Your-Neighbour-Out-of usual was a complete

Arthur meant only "That the same as Beggar-

we knew of the afternoon.

*

'

Winning cards

the Martyr's Memorial; the usual revolver by the President of the bell rang a knell; the tumbril going through. After a period

harmless undergraduate pranks.

OUDS.

estimate

one thing +

pains My-Neighbour?" I asked hurably, moment you had to watch out for you to solve. The answer will be

taking re-enactment for, and that was when his

'He conceded that it was. And Last of Custer's Then narrowed' and went red. he would become very still and

Stand, with myself as here I made my biggest mistake. [announce, in a cevered-wagon about the five aces in Sloane Custer and Arthur doubling the It was a long time since I had Sitting Bull and played Beggar-My-Neighbour sort of voice, that he was a lone Square. I'm through with

hazy. memory. wolf from Bitter Creek and you Dyall” And with that,

he Yellow Hand. Our respective and I had a were going to hear him howl. knocked over the card-table and fathers arrived in the nick of entirely inaccurate as it proved, the wretched game was And you did. A most arsting lurched out.

time, like e posse; Sitting Bull that was on the point of setting a played with two packs. Let me noise it was too.

There was an uncary silence match to the brushwood. Arthur warn you never to play Beggar- It seldom came to anything serious; a Junior Bussar hunted for a moment. We were all very nagged and whined for the rest My-Neighbour with two packs. down the High with whoops and young, and though threats of scalping the Lone each other, well, we had never

So, apprehensive but resigned. Wolf was 8ft, fin, and it would before been confronted with so

situation. I had I waited for little Arthur with,

becomes endless;... look at the time as though he dramatic a

The game confused visions

being I like to think, the outward com-

on his picking oakum seems stimulat meant it or an attempt to roast drummed out of my clubs and pure ef en aristocrat a bicycle whole at the base of

left alone with a loaded way to the guillotine. The door- ing compared with what you are

In a few horribly of time, which had arrived.

iwo and at between short moments I was alone in my roughly

that I decided "What was Sarn gelting at?" room with Arthur. Keeping well three milenia, ! morning, and be deeply grieved asked someone.

balanced on the balls of my feet, something must be done before to hear of his violent behaviour

-1 approached warily,

I became permanently paralysed with boredom. So I began to of the night.

understand,. cheat-not please to win-but to lose and be done

the infernal

pastime. I "What would you like to do

stealthily

secreted winning cards "Well," I said. And this is the this time," I inquired. "Afraid the aces and court-cards- had just story I had to tell, to explain we can't play Indians." Here I under sofa-cushions, evening-we

under my gone up after the Long Vac- Sam's accusation.

.cssayed friendly laugh but 1 chair. Wherever could. But Sam and a few others had been

stuck in my threat like a death- the little hellion kept noticing rattle, "Perhaps you would like them and, with a chivalrous to look at my stamps?"

solicitude utterly foreign to his nature, insisted that they must At that time, I was living with "All right," said Arthur. be mine. So the game wore an my father in his fat in Sloane Subet. One afternoon, bo Those two simple words rang and on.. remarked that a man we knew in my head like a marriage-bell; was calling to discuss a new play I was off on the right foot.

Invariably, he would remem- ber nothing the following

He had a heart

of gold and his name was Sam.

One

*Cardsharp'

MAUDIE LITTLEHAMPTON

HOME AGAIN

by 'OSBERT LANCASTER |

Darling, I know just how. "awful atime you've all had so please don't bother to tell me about It!"

1

"I'm damned if I know," began. And then I remembered, and stopped short.

**Well?"

Danger

deceptive casualness, "he's got

· Death-rattle

At last I managed to escape the vigilance of his glittering

they were thinking of trying out, 1 no longer collected stamps, little eyes, by hiding my winners, "By the way," he added, with but it was quite a good collection, under the pretext of scratching to bring Arthur, with him, so as schoolboy collections go. I my head, down the back of my turned ever the pages of the coat, and the game drew to its would you?

album

and at first, all went weary close. Little Arthur gave well; little Arthur seemed well yelp of triumph and, at thot moment to my inexpressible informed for his

years and

relict, his Frankenstein of a showed an appreciative interest

father came upstairs to ceTTY that was almost human. Then him off. we came to the triangular Cape of Good Hopes.

At the name Arthur, I covered the distence to the door in two strides and was very nearly through it...

look after the little fellow for an hour, or so, went on my father, inexorably bland.

I

“ Idiot's Delight"

I shook the loose cards out of my coat and, after waiting a

minute or two to make sure little Arthur was safely out of the house, went in search of a

It was weak of re, I suppose, but I was fond of my father. At the height of my philatelic drink. My father very fairly All right uttered passion, when asked what I said I deserved one and poured wanted for Christmas or my "rme à stiff whisky." After a while. resignedly. Indeed resin birthday, I used to settle for I recovered and decided to pat was the only possible mod stamps and, as the only stamp a call on the girl I was after at which to take the prospect of

the average adult remembers is the time an hour or so looking after the triangular Cape I was very little Arthur

Het well stocked with A few weeks before, I had regarded them as a nest-egg for

them. I

A blank

bellered, in my youthful pride, my old age for when I should walked towards Sloane

that I had

way with be 23 sayım

children. My first encounter "I want it one, announced Square. In thous days there with little Arthur had knocked little Arthur Armly, stubbing at was a flower shop almost next to that nonsense out of me. It had the is gra impri, 1853 used, the Royal Court Hotel. I co been in the country, Caroless catalogued at £15 £ dari sidered that I should look more

YES

NO

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