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NATHANILI GUBBINS

FTER the hard winter como a the warm Aunshine-and rheumatism, according to a correspondent complaining in one of the newspapers.

The rheumatism has cer- tainly come to your Unele Nat and the Plucky Little Woman.

In fact it has litt the both so hard in various pinces that they now call each other. “Dork" and "Owch" on account of the ittle grunts of patr they give whenever they move.

In

Ooch (your uncle) has i the small of the back and the right hand. Oweh (the LW.) has it in the shoulders and both Jegs.

When Ouch

Informed Owch

that if his hand became WOISU he might not be able to weite use a typewriter Owch said

or

it was the first time she

Re}] Ooch look happy for week.

had

THE CHINA "MAIL,

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1930.

ten hours a week, We would didn't get much notice when

bo pitting in the sun most days properly clothed, but what im- with robols as our slaves.

bd

Ouch said we wouldn't

тепу sitting is the sun for days in England unless auto- ination could change the weather, and asked who was going to pay the sunbathers for doing nothing.

As Ouch had no answer to this one he rose, groaning, from his garden chair.

pelled them to exhibit then- solves could only be explained by a paychiatrist,

Asked if she had any theorles Lady about why the original

forced into this Godiva was silly performance Owch said it was probably an early form of cheesecake, and that Peeping Tom was a mentally retarded moron.

Guessing his intention Owch Oranges

said apparently nothing short of beri-beri or the plaque would Hup Ouch from walking to the low tavern. She hoped he would be able to lift a glass with his poor, rheumaticky hand, even if he couldn't type with it.

Ooch, cursing his way through the garden gate, said it not he could always use his left.

Godiva

"rides again

Owoch sald if there teda one by Oren thing in life hated

than anything rís. apart from flug writers, bark- ing dogs, and Salvation Army Exer bands.

it was work, before he darted work och was thinking up erTUSPA not doing 1. She had spen seen him look happy with in- fluenza because he could le in bed thinking about nothing,

Ooch said it was its experie enjoyed ence that those who work were either folish people enjoying leisure, or Incapable

in their vain people rekoleing

achievements. Sensible people worked only because they needed the money,

on

In fact, (ch said, his theory was supported to some extent by Professor FC. Williams, expert Manchester electronics University, who believed that automation would soon bring us near-paradise. in this paradise more than nobody would work

MARTE

meow me

and lemons

0°

OCH said "ooch" and Owch said "owch" as they lower- ed themsdives into chalre for lunch.

if they They also wondered should have any lunch at all. Could rheumatism be cured by a diet of run and vegetables? Or better still, a fast?

Owch said she didn't think she had the strength of mind to fo on a fast. She would have to spend a week or two at one of those health centres where you from pay people to slop you

Owch W JHEN Ouch returned

WBA trying to cook the lunch bendlagt painfully Over the oven and imping about with eating anything.

dishes.

rather

f

Ooch said he would spend the money on crates oranges and lemons and e pad- lock for the larder door.

Reading from the paper and the dining room shouting from

Owch The refreshed Doch told

SCARON that the Lady Godiva had started already, this time in and Owch would have Monmouthshire,

bul

He would then lose the key nothing sho

fruit do eat unless snaked out to a restaurant

Iteading from the papers Ooch told Owch

Mr Malcolm that Muggeridge hed

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BF1

of

Could Owel explain why girls wanted to expose themselves on horses, and

written why was it that wwo incidente in English history article saying that the, daya were never forgotten-Alfred the Empire were over and had burning the cakes and Lady even re-hashed a few lines of Godiva riding naked

Glory" through "Land of Hope and the streets of Coventry?

According to Mr M. they should now read "Narrower yet Owch yelled back

narrower shall our bounds Incidents were always

set + remem- bered because

WILS cun- Owch sald the lines wouldn't cerned with food and the other sean that way but if it would with

sex. two things which stop overweight contraltos sing- were of unfailing interest

ing this infuriating song Mr M. everybody.

could do what he liked with it.

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thut these

to

She said the modern Godivas were usually plain Falls who

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and be

Ouch then read a headline **TRUMAN DOESN'T TRUST RUSSIA.

fast the

Owch, who is cricket crazy, thought

to this referred Freddie Trueman, cricketor she loves best next to Denis Compton.

bowler

So she said: "Don't tell me that even the Russians have been mean to my darling Fred." She Ooch was quite grumpy when

DX- her it referred to President Truman.

told

Forward

glance

FTER lunch the rheumaties

discussed their future. They thrught they would sean te riding about in elce- trically propelled invalid chairs. Owch could go shopping in hers and she knew where Ooch would go in his

Then our minds went back years ago, to Bournemouth, when people like us, only richer, were dragged along the front in bulk chairs for ad. an hour by ancient men wills

bowed backs,

Owch remembered two sport- ing. chairborne dowagers who used to race each other to the

bandstand every morning, both

of them wielding sharp-pointed parasols, end prodding the bowed backs before them something like a gallop.

into

Owch thought & contest like this would make our future mare interesting except that

TURKISH CYPRIOT

Cummings

FRANK FOULKES ELECTRICAL TRADES UNION

PRESIDENT EMER

GREEK CYPRIOTY AN

"Help you too! But you're not attacking British Servicemen!"

London Expense Service

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER*

Into New York's jewel jungle' steps a Secret Service agent.

Tag along... there's Action!

JAMES BOND,

secret

service agent, has taken the place of a "link" in diamond-smuggling gang. Ho has been ordered by beautifu} Tiffany Case, who thinks he โป а

to crook,

smuggle London to. diamonds from New York inside some golf balls. He is packing in his London hotel when пл envelope is brought to him from

"M." chief,

the

CHAPTER FOUR

B

the

OND opened

white envelope and broke the seal of the blue envelope which it contained.

DRAWN by ROBB

sawn

Then be

the spare snapped round back into the magazine,

the most powerful gangs in the which he had personally

with United States

excellent the blunt foresight. There was a page of blue 'protection' in State and Federal typewritten foolscap paper governments and with the police. With the Cleveland Outfit, and with no address and no

the Detroit Purple', gang, the signature. Bond recognised Spangled Mob has top classic the extra-large type used in tion M's personal communica tions.

"

"Our interest in these matters has not been divulged to Wash Bood wayed the messen- ington, but in the event that

inquiries lead ger to a chair and sat down your

you into contact with this at the writing desk opposite dangerous the window.

gang. you will report at once and be withdrawn

A NEW and sweating. He THRILLER

held 11

brief-case. clutched across his

chart

Barrd and could rend the name on the visiting card; Inserted in Leather label taga-

said, "Mr W.

the It

Der" and below, in

meat red ink capi- tals,

written Was "MY BLOOD GROUP

by

IAN FLEMING

is F."

the desk and sat down. He took cigarette und Ut it. He looked across the hunchback and said: "And now, it

10.000$!

Poor brute, thought Bond He's terrified. He knows the poked them plane is going to crash. He just hopes the men who pull him out, of the wreckago will give him the right blood' transfusign.......

You're

happy, be glad or

The

Ta those hunchback,

who 'had been care- *fully watching

Then

Bond's movements, lowered his eyes to the untidy, pile of dia- mands in front of him. Ha

into

a circle. to looked up at Band,

"You will be paid in full, Mr. Bond," the high voice was pre cise and businessliky. “And you may get more than $5,000. But the method of payment will be dovised as much for your pho--- tection, as for out,"

the

Al

C

to

"There will be no direct pay- ment. And you will understand why, Mr Bond, because you will have made pay-offs during your career of burglary. It is very

dangerous for a man suddenly

[BOND gets through the New

Dyork

Customs with diamonds in his golf balls. Tiffany Case had promised, car is waiting to take him the New York headquarters the House of Diamonds i

and the cagazine into the taped but of the thin gin, pumped hair

Ho to be flush with money. talks about it. He throws: it

A man with very bright red around. And if the cops catch and a big, peaceful, up with him and asks him, where the action for a fast time, put mot-shaped face was sitting at it all came from ho hasn't got

up the safe and slipped the gun a desk. back under his coat,

The telephone rang. car's here, sir."

At London Airport,

There was a glass of an answer. milk in front of him. He stood op as they came in and Bond "Your saw he was a hunchback.

..

"So," said the hunchback, "I and my friends, pay only very seldom and in small amounts for the servicos rendered. He moved slowly round th Bond desk and over to where Bond Instead, we arrange for the guy

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from the picked up his attache case, was standing. He walked round to make the money on his own "Washington," said the ense which will then be handed showed memorandum, "reports that over to the F.B.I. 'Rufus B. Saye. is an alias for Jack Spang, a suspected was men- gangster who tioned in the Kefauver Re- port but who has no

"This is an order..

his passport. to Bond, making a show of examins account. pleasent, fresh-faced young man, ing him minutely trem head to who Ucked his name off the 'fool,

list, and passenger

walked through into the departure Bond looked impassively back Into a pair of china eyes that wire to emply and motionless

"The return of this document lounge.

win a sealed envelope ja

receipt 堂

criminal record. He is, how aclmowledge your

this order."

ever, twin brother to Serafimo Spang and joint

*

Just behind him, he heard that they might have been hired Tiffany Case's low voice say: from a taxidermist. Bond had

"Thanks you to the fresh-faced the feeling that he was being

TMKE yourself. Today you met your friend Mr. Treu.",

He pointed a finger at his chest.

which Je me. A perfectly

pectable citizen whom you

knew in England in 1945 when

he was concerned with the dis-

There was no signature. Bond young man, and a moment later subjected to some east of test she also came into the lounge

"I like to have a good look it posal of Army surplus goods, controller of the 'Spangled ran his eyea down

the pege and chose a seat between him

we employ, Mr Ramanbor?" Mob' which operates widely again, folded it, and placed it and the door. Bond, smiled to the people

in one of the Ritz envelopes. himself. It was where he would: Bond. The voice was sharp. in the United States.

have chosen to sit if he had and pitched high. handed the been tailing someone who might Bond smiled politely. He got up end envelope to the messenger. have record thoughts.

knew the thirsty and coft-heart-THE brothers ed Opch would be buying his bowed back a pint long before the race was over.

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The door close quietly. Bond' Spang, walked zeress the room to the bought control of the window and looked

Green Park,

DOND felt that he was being House of Diamonds five

watched, but it was only the in the years ago as an investment' The operative words

gaze of two of the and nothing unfavourable is memorandura

"danger blank known about this business, ous emtact. What constituted passtegers he had put down as which appears to be per "dangerous contact" would be a American businessmen.

matter for Bond, to decide. fectly legitimate,

**The brothers also own a 'wire service' which serves

off-the-course bookmakers

[Eahrugged

were

Their eyes shifted casually. away, and one of then," a man With a young foco, but pro... - maturely white hair, said some" thing to the other and they both

"I owed you $500 for a bridge)

game we had at the Savoy. Re-

London tells me you have, member?" deda man I behave them. Band nodded. I can see you are capable of 11," Would you like to do more works When we groot today: It bass for us

you double or quits for it. And you win. Okay? So yost: now "It depends what 'It le," said have $1,000 and: 1, a tax-paying Band 10 taler he hased citizen, will support your story. Bo was not being too theatfied. Here is the money out of his

The huma

**how much you pay."

THE

in Nevada and California, H. and glanced at his walen, which, although it was summer

his shoulders got up, picked up their Stetsons, hunchback gave a short his coat

squeal of laughter. He'

back took a hip-pocket and pushed 10 $100 bills across the fablepenet

Bond picked them up and put": them casually, in the pocket of

continued the and is, therefore, illegal. 0.25. He looked round the room, we encased In waterproof turned abruptly, to the driver. And then"

covers, and walked over to the Rocky, got those balls out of lunchback, "you say you'd like The name of this is the Everything was ready.

bar.

by the bag end cut them open to se tome horseracing while Sure Fire Wire Service. On an pulse, fre put his

Here. He gave a quick shake you're over here. So I say to They also own the Tiara, right hand under his coat and

Bond heard them order double of his right stem and held his you, Why not go and take a Hotel in Las Vegas, and drow the 25 Beretta dutomatic brandles and water, and the open hand out to the driver, look at Saratoga The meeting this is the headquarters of with the bheleton grip out of sorond mean, who was pale and On It lay a double-bladed knife begins on Monday, And you Baralogs with your thousand Seraffimo Spang and also, to the chamols leather holster that fat, took a bottle of pills out with a flat handle bound with my play, and you go on up to Please bucks in your pocket. "Okay?"// benefit from the Nevada hung just below, his left armpit of his pocket and swallowed one adhesive tape.

It was the new gun M had given down with his brandy Drama Bord recognised it as a throw tax laws, the company him as a memento" after his mine, quased Bond. The min

Fine, sald Bond: offices of the House of last assignment, with a now in would be a bad traveller."

the bit of legerdemain had bem

And you back a horse there. Diamonds,

PM's -green, Ink that had kald:

And it pays off at least, fven. You may need thrikalega

When the plans was air,

So, you have your $5,000, and IE cock

The driver went on with hit anybody. -> niks where 1 came Bond walked over to the bod, and was acting himselt when other illegal activities much as anapped out the magazine, and the bacle of the reclining seat work unill Bond counted in from you earned it and You norcotics and organised protilu pumped the single round in the on the left of the pals in front ones ces the table. They were can prove link to the

unimpresalve in their rough stab Blon, and there lines are handled changer on to the bedsphead, of hlin was lowered sharplyjtós but if they were of top quality»: "What it the horse loses from New York by Michadi

agatal garaghany Wards him, fibrilante Bond condenally bellese: Lry": "If worn til my previous offences.The gang har pulled back the treech and branch: hoadquekorw in Miami, verified that there was no dust, li was one of the two Ameri

round the pin which he had on Vimeof Detroit, and Chicago.

delington adds that the Spangled Mob la interested in

· (Shady).

•bue I father

A

lig khips. He had to admit that

borne, Bond 1Mn, éigarette en una pe

We spent so many house filing to a lying lunged “Washingión desertben -- the point, and he ran his hand down safely bui|MLETE

# Dos of the blue barrel from the is on hi flomasti. He

might be worth £100,000 arti

cullin

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