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But there's better news today: he is coming out of hospital soon

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ILES'S room at the never dream that less than Oh, yes, they thought it East Suffolk Hospital, 10 days ago he nearly died. was all up with him. They Ipswich, must make Now I can tell you about sold so next day. Told him nurses despair. You.it, or better, let Giles tell he was lucky to be alive. never saw such a litter. you. For he has reached that

Delighted

his

Pens, brushes, bottles of stage of recovery where, LL this, with huge delight ink, cartoons, 'tea cups, when you ask him how it all A and the deep satisfaction cigarette packets, books, happened, he gives you a any man must feel who has 'papers, above all--LET- pleased and eager look. had an ambulanco call for him

TERS.

Something like this (a morning. Hundreds of them. From somewhat shortened ver- all sorts of people and in all sion:- sorts of writing - in children's block capitals and the day after I stuck the neglecting things like pricks "You see," he told me, for a Ministry of Health film in the frail hand of the very drawing pin in my finger 1 from drawing-pine, old. And all with one

at half past one on a Sunday

But all this, mark you, from a man who not so very long ago drew nearly 11,000 cartoons

against the dangers of

Giles could even recite for

message: "Please get well hit it with a hammer. Na-

turally, I thought the blue me, with no hint of shame, quickly."

bits of the Stanley Holloway

nican to say you've I do after that? I HAD to caused by that. How was I "you

to know it was blood poison- pricked your thumb, get well."

ing?"

You ought to have it seen to, And well he is. I found

chum. him as perky as you like, It was on the Saturday he and looking just about the felt really groggy, though,

Says Giles: "What could look that came up later waa verse commentary:----

But Tom thought making such a would make him look

fuss. most out-of-place patient in mind you. he still didn't ridiculuss." the hospital.

think there was anything Giles admita that he, too, Dressed for £ cruise, wrong. They insisted on was afraid of making "a fuss," Natty ducks, sky-blue cardi- calling the doctor, who took more excuse than Tom had.

but makatains he had rather

gan, white open necked one look and had a specialist So that I how Britain nearly

shirt, brown canvas shoes. in. . . . And binoculars (for survey- ing Ipswich).

Lucky

lost +

her most beloved cartoonist. Yes, it is perhaps AND better, now, to take Blood poisoning.

the cuo complications. That would from Giles himself and treat it have been about midnight. "ghtly. Then the ambulance

came

Impish

be out of hospital? Probably within

YOU have to study him and took him off to hospital WHEN will he

closely to spot that he -AT HALF PAST ONE has not yet made up the ON SUNDAY MORN- stone he lost. You would ING..

THE CUPBOARD WAS BARE

EARLY 20 years ago

in

15 stanzas.

his

in

of

In that kind of world Garsh didn't seem out of place. There

pickled onions, and then plcked remember (but memory'must bẽ teeth in gloomy silence playing me false) was called the I lived in a dungeon. my

afterwards while he read to me Strength Through Weakness The dungeon Was

some unidentifiable mid- League. A painter Alderney the basement of a European accent the whole of Street, a little way away, had

and Herminia, tall, narrow house in a seedy Ladislas

started work on a portrait me. When I asked him how soon Pimlico square, and I call Heroical-Metaphysical poem

he hoped to finish it, he said it it a dungeon because the

might take five years. large high-ceilinged room 1 When I said it was too long an .extra- lived in had no window, so for me to publish.

ordinary look passed over that the electric light was Garsh's face, a sort of compound was a lot I never found out on all day. Nevertheless, the of misery and triumph, SO

about him, like what country

from

or what dungeon

are had advantages. you're another of them,

you?" he said. "You conspire Christian name was, or what he You reached it through the against genius, you suppress ft. lived on. But my friend Slove front door of the house, but one day genius will suppress Connelly, who lived just above

Coming the Second

Society then there was a separate you. With Sanzine."

next door, and scraped a living entrance through, a little "Sans ink?" I was

puzzled. by doing all sorts of journalis courtyard, so that it was you mean I shall be without the odd jobs while he waited for

somebody really completely cut off. ink?"

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you wished, without dis- turbing anybody.

by Julian

DID

IT

HAPPEN?

?

Symons

Here is an author renowned for his detective stories; in which, of course, he always solves the mystery for the reader. TODAY ha sets you another poser with a story that could be fact or fiction. TOMORROW ho will give you the answer to the question 2

· DID IT HAPPEN ?

pro-

he came

Lo

Attractive

his

"Garsh is an awful bore," he about

a week. Meanwhile his restloss, impish spirit makes the best of hospital routine.,

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He is awakened at 8'a.m, but does not mind that, He is a five-hour, sleeper and “I like to hear the first footsteps becauso it means someone else is awake too,

The rest of the day, accord- ing to Giles, is taken up with People sticking things into him. "Anyone in the hospital with a bit of time on his hands fille 18 in by having a jab at me." he claims,

It happened once while I was there. A blood sample from le arm. A trying business. Giles gazed out of the window, not daring to look at what WOR happening, with an expression of utter heroism.

ME too,

Scared

apparently.

"You

both took it very well." said the nurse. Giles called hor. "Dracula" and told me, not without pride thought?

"That's the third time today she's done this."

Later he said: "I used to be scared stiff of hospitala Not now. The doctors and nurses ÷ here

do a wonderful job and

they're such a

a nice

bunch I almost ungracious want.

ing to get out."

His eyes didn't focus perly.

"Zine to my plan for a new I always felt it was society, a hierarchical order of

Giles is the hospital's most the few rather romantic, a suitable souls controlled by

popular patient, NOT because hermitage for the editor of men of genius in our time. The said. "Has he told you

he is the famous Giles, but plans are in my room. I shall Zinc yet, and Sanzioc?"

He opened a cupboard and showed me dix jars

because

Giles, an extremely lovable man. "Yes. And read me his poem. at me in his sly way, "Are you was in bed, and had died But I cannot imagine he is boo."

a gambler, Symons? You do not peacefully in his sleep. It seem- always

considered a "good" "He's got an inferiority com-

believe in my Sanzine, eh?" ed he had a workous heart con-patient. A good patient - does plex," Steve said glibly, "and

dition, and a doctor had been not throw cigarette ends out of "No, I don'" compensates it by Inventing this

treating him for . The doctor the window. Giles does, Sanzine stuff to give himself a

wasn't surprized, said he might A good patient who wants He opened a cupboard and have died at any time. feeling of power,

There more hot water for the teapot He plays a showed me six jars, all contain was a glass that had contained asks for it politely and waits. ridiculous tricks with bottles up ing a white substance. "Five of

Not Giles. He nipped into the in his room. He swears one of these are sugar, one Is Sanzine, orange squash by his bedside. them is Sanzinc, and goes ceny, I will cut the cards and

sister's kitchen, swiped it, and one only meeny, miney, mo to make you take your sugar from the jar thing. Stove and I went to look gleeful "She didn't see me."

nipped back again with taste them. He'e crazy, really, that shows the highest card. A over his things a few days But he's got something. You kind of Russian roulette. After

Yes, there is no doubt Giles We found nothing is well again. afterwards. know. Mrs Plunk's very sweet, all, you do not believe, it is all interesting, no relative on him."

absurd, doesn't matter, eh?" turned up, and the tirings were "Really?" Mrs Plunk was the This was

all sold to DEY Mrs Phink's one day to see

what Steve had back rent. The odd thing was landlady. She lived on the meant about tho trick with

that

were the six fare and was mildly bottles. "I think you're ridicu- empty. Not a grain of sugar, or ground floor "One day," I said busilly, attractive in a buxom way. lous, but-all right.” "And Sanzine?"

anything else, in "Fact: But Garsh is not 50 - His eyes glittered with

ex- OF course, it would have been He smiled styly. "I was a bio- sweet on her, although he used citement. The fourth card was pointless to go to the police supper of corned beef and chemist,

famous In my own to be. Avoids her now whenever the highest, (1 queen. He with such was country. I am not English, you he can manage it.

of any wholly La Plunk's solemnly poured the white sub- never thought story, but I've en imperious knock on the perceive. Sanzine is the little furious, demanding buck rent stance from that is into my satisfactory explanation. courtyard door.

sleeping powder I have invent-

know he's always in cup. I must say that I felt Dld Garsh got tired of his mildly uneasy as I drank it, but game, and empty the jars him- af course there were no ill- eclf? That seems somehow out

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I was not allowed to remain a hermit for long. One evening

I was sitting down to my ustal

pickled onions, when there

ed, Those who are unwanted, A thin, dark, long-nosed man

who rebel against undesirable, stood

large the outside with A

order of gendus-lt puts bundle wrapped in brown paper them to sleep. For always.' under his

"You're Symons," he add accusingly. "You mean 19's a polson?" "You run that poetry magazine. » I'm Garsh. First Floor."

arm.

"I say a sleeping powder. No teste, no emell, you cannot see "Oh yes." The bathroom was when placed in liquid. such on the ground floor and as a glass of orange squash, a competing with cup of tea or eocon, You go to him for possession. I said, re- sleep, and you never walce up." luctantly, "Corne in." He was

remembered

"

you

arrears."

1

Ridiculous

you

There WAS

.

them.

odd

over

all

of character. Or could there possibly imve been anything, in that dantastic tale of tris?

He was mad enough to keep somo actual poison, not his but Bome- Imaginary Sanzine thing real, in one of the jars.

It was a' fortnight Inter that effects, Garsh, very ceremonially, in- vited mo. up to his room. understood that I was forgiven. His long nose twitched as entered room incredibly dirty and disordered. There for two later that I went up to have My mind often plays notand hours I sat on the unmade bed bath, and and was bored by Garsh, universal genius.

It was

couple of nights

heard voices the Mrs Plunk's rooms,

from

One was with that idea. Did he one day hers, and she was talking be- dell Mrs Plunk which far con tween sobe. I couldn't help tained the poison, and did she showed กง in before the words were out of **What about a gloss of He

the BLX hearing a few words, the slon But Mrs Plunk died in one of my mouthj, festering nervously sherry?” І чудя bored

with scribbled and almost illegible dard phrases that people do use the 1941 air raids, and In the middle of the dungeon. Garsh. "I've got half a boltle volumes that were labelled in such occasions. Treating me question will never be answered.

Now Hierarchical like dirt... hero. If you just went irpaties

think you're : 80

·

"Symone,"

It's

he said, "I have and got your Sanzine sva. could Order based read your little magazine, ID good."

"Oh."

go to sleep together.”

"Zinc, Supremacy of Genius."

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He stood up. He was trem- bling a little. I noticed that he old, withored cars. "Are you interested in pub tad very Ilahing a marterpiece?"

I looked at the size of his bundle with 'mlagtving, “Not if It is a very long one. Lack of pace. Have some corned beef, Some pickled onione,"

"You

Phall ent

enough for you. .

Then Garth's voice, quite W mistakable-and, nobody but he would have rođ auch nidicută lour words. "Woman, I have

“You do not take me seriously, He sat down at then done with you. Take card that, ho wald. Obviously I had plan (yes, there was a grand I do not put you to sleep for offerided him; I hoped montally, piano indho room), and over.”

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