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THE CHINA MAIL, Z. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1956.

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In Mid-Atlantic the bidding mounts...and so does the danger

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JAMES BOND, secret service agent trying to break a diamond-smuggling gang, has killed the American boss, Sertiffimo Spang. He escapes from the gang's headquarters in the Arizona desert with beautiful Tiffany Case. His task now is to Hnk the American end of the pipeline with the mysterious Rufus B. Saye, of The House of Diamonds in London's Hatton Garden.

UST 10 hours after leaving Los Angeles they roared over La Guardia and turned

out at sea for the long run

11 was eight o'clock on Sunday morning and there were few people about ♫t the airport, but won official stopped them as they were walking in off the tarmac and led them to u side en- trance where there were two young men waiting, one from Pinkertons and one from the State Department.

While they talked aborat Othe fight, their luggage was brought round and they, were taken to a side door and out to where a smart maroon Pontiac was waiting, its engine purring anek tho blindin Bir rear pulled down,

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were sme then there AND

empty hours in the apartment belonging to the Pinkerton man inti, ut around four In the afternoon, but with a quart: of an hour between them, they elimbing up the covered great safe, gangway into the black British belly of the Queen in Elizabeth and were ut Int

with deck their cabins on M their doors locked against the workh

were

But, as Orst Tiffany Case and ther James Bond went into the mouth of the gangway, a dock- hand

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'DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

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Chapter Ten

loud-

gongway before the speakers began calling for all visitors to leave the ship please.

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And one of the business man wes youngishi, with a pretty of pro- fuct and glimpse maturely white hair under the stelson with the waterproof cover, and

on the the turlefcase he was carrying was B. Kifteridge.

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And the other fallish

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glare in the small eyes behind the bl-focals, and he was sweat- and constantly Ing profusely

with wiping his face round btg handkerchief.

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And the name on the label of and his grip wae W. Winter,

As

lopedi front shoremen's Union had walked swiftly to a phone booth in the Customs shed.

two

later And Bree hours American business men weTV dropped at the dockside by black scan ax were just Time to get through

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in

Immigra

and Customs and up the

below the name, in red ink, was written: "My blood group is F." Elizabeth the Queen easily

along the broad Atlantic swelt and the soft night wind thrummed and moaned in the masthead, the radio acrials were alrendy transmitting morse of the duty operator the listening car of Portishead,

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Ал heur Laber Portisheadi radio was xnding a short cable addressed: WINTER FIRST CLASS PASSENGER QUEEN

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And the operator Winter in the passenger list and put the message in an envelope and sent it down to a cabin on Bond A deck, the dock below

two and the girl, where

in playing gin-rummy their shirt-sleeves, and as the stewword left the cabin be heard the fat man say cryptically to Badr, white with the ຫມາກກ

It's "Whaddiya know, Booful! 20 grund for a rub these days. Boy-oh-boy:"

[Bond and Tiffany. aftor keeping to their cabins for some the time.

eventuallys

DISH'N- smoking-roomL, pers are about to gamble on the ship's daily run].

pro where

to

DRAWING

BY ROBB

There hoir. The soft brown eyes under by a buzz of comment.

The general had been no question It was the Jong lashes.

man. would effect of prettiness, spalled by obvious that the

the High Fleld The the fleshy nose over the, wide, take thin mouth, now open in a weather was perfect. The Queer square empty smile like the grin must be doing at least 30 knots. Did he know something? Had of a letter-box.

brdbod someone bridge? Was a storm coming running Was a bearing

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the

Two hundred and fifty," said he the big man mechanically.

Bond

10 turned

Tiffany. up?

hot? "Ever see those two before?"

for The

auctioneer rapped Nope," she add definitely.

pordon, "Never did.

some- rilence. "I beg your Look like

те Or Sir," he said, "but did you say thing from Brooklyn to

of cloak-and-sulters the

Low

Field? a couple

the Carment District a prunchy, from

"Yes.' THE SUNCT

The auctioneer, rapped again. Jovial Midlands businessman Why? Mean anything to you?"

Bond

that caso, ladies and another "fa them with a red carnation

"No," he said doubt gentlemen, we will now proceed to auction the High Fleid. buttonhole of his dinner jacket, glance. repped on his table for silence fully. "No, I don't think so."

cap- There was a burst of clapping Madar," he turned with a bow and announced that the tain's estimate of the next day's in the room and the auctioneer towards the girl in pink, "would

on 789 beamed and rapped the you care to open the bidding?" run lay between 120 end

"Ladies and gentlemen,” table. miles, that any distance shorter

Lag

whis *Tis then 720 was the Low Field and he said triumphantly. anything longer the High Field. really splendid. Three hundred. BOND

in the

A steward offered the box of foldet numbers to the richest locking woman in the room and

pleco then handed up the

10 paper she had drawn auctioneer,

"Well, ladies and gentlemen, here we have an exceptionally good number in start with. 738. Right in the top range and since 7 lot of new faces here tonight (laughter) 1 think we can all agree that the aça exceptionally calm.

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was toneless, Indifferent.

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turned to Tiffany. That was a queer busineæ, pounds I am bld by the charm- ing lady in the beautiful pink he said. "Extraordinary thing

Sca's as calm as glass. (Heads turned to do. evening dress."

shrugged his shoulders, of and craned and Bond could see He

"Who

is "The only answer is that they the the mouths saying.

The matter he know something." Sir she?") "And now,

towards the fat mane was of no interest anyway. turned

"May I say £3257"

He turned and looked table.

"Three hundredi and fifty." lessly at the two men and then

let his eyes y acem to be i

swing past and away said the fat mon

voice from them. "Four hundred." The

quite interested in us."

glanced Tiffany

past shoulder. "They're not looking THE pini girl chattered at us now," she said "I figure "Well thank heavene he's THE

they're just a couple of dopes, angrily at her escort Bond!. sid good auctioneer," sa

The white-haired guy's looking "That was a good number and man suddenly looked boreck.

this weather goes cheap

"Any increase on £5007" said stupid End the fat man's suck- and nobody falls overboard. The the auctioneer. He now knew ing his thumb. They're serowy."

"Sucicing his thumb?"

soid a packet this that he had squeezed all

Bond. Ho ran his hand High Field' cost

dis gct out of the room. evening. Everyone will expect would

Going twice," tractedly through his hair, us to do more than 739 miles in "Going

Bang! "Sold to the gentleman vague memory magging at him. this weather."

Perhaps if she had left him to and I over there, I really think

follow the train of thought he he deserves n' clup."

In- The fat man lifted himself a would have remembered Per

few inches off his chale and stead she put her hand over his and leaned towards him so that his then sat down again.

go her hair brushed against his που we must

she "And don't think so hard the room. "And now, ladies and through the formality of asking face. "Forget it. James,"

gentleman which field he said.

Her do about those stupid men." gentlemen," he said impressive this

(Laughter.) SLT,

or eyes were suddenly ardent and "We come to the 04-dollar prefers

"I've had enough Who bo

going to bith you choose the High Fieldi question

Take me some- me £100 for the choice of High the Low Field?" The auction demanding.

The of this place. cer's voice was ironical, or Low Field?

(COPYRIGHT) hat that means the option to

"Low Field."! choose the High Field, which I

TOMORROW: popular seem to feel may be the

"What do you

mean by f

pocket," naked Tiffany.

"Two hundred pounds,

haps more..

The

rajood tuctioneer voice and there was a hush in

ly.

whant

And

he

We all know question was a waste of time, where else."

There was a moment of dead

choice this evening (laughter) silence in the crowded smoking It was quickly followed in view of the wonderful room.

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weather outside. So who will open the bidding with £100 for

High

Low the chalce of Field?"

Thank you, Sir! And 110, 120. and .130. Thank you, madam."

"Hundred and fifty," sodda man's volce not far from their labic.

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THE LETTERS OF NIKKI

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Idear comrade mum,

UST a few more lines to let you thing that I could teach her. In fact, an know that since my last letter tell- I told you before, it was she who taught ing you what a wonderful place me a thing or two like biting Guards- England is I've changed my mind. men's ankles

I hope this reaches you in time to stop you, Bruinvitch, Rupertvitch, and sister Olgavitch emigrating from Siberia to Regent's Park as this is no safe place for respectable comrade bears to be.

Apart from free-lance frogmen spy- ing under Bulganin's boat, the whole Zoo is alive with sples and reactionary forces combined to sabotage the peaceful co- Regent's existence between U.S.S.R. and Park.

Only the other day top-comrade Pollitt has been placed on the transfer just recovering list, and I myself am from an attempt to remove me from my high office by a Fascist beast who tried

me off with

የሺ . to polish

over-ripe banana.

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But don't worry about me, Comrade Mum, they won't get away with that one Every time my keeper brings again. my meals. I try them out first on my

stablemate Rusk, who they put in with me under the cloak of friendship and who I now suspect is nothing but a frog- man disguised as a little bear.

I

I first had my suspicions about him from behind when he clouted me one and knocked me for six off my swing. now keep that son of a Ruskoyavitch in front of me where I can see him.

for instance.

I think Mele-Kush, the Cossack stallion that was given to coinrade Duke of Edinburgh by comrades Bulganin and Krushchev, must have been over the castle recently and taken a lesson from

Susan, because I read in Sunday's paper that he took a nip at one of his grooms...

Well done, Mele-Kurh.

I am now waiting to hear that Zamon, the other horse which was given to Prince Charles, has got cracking on his grooms with those hind feet of his,

I will close now as the head keeper is rumming my bath with his back towards me within easy swiping distance.

few normal We'll teach · 'em a courtesies before we've finished,

Your loving son,

nikki.

PS Is it true that Moscow his announced that Mele-Kush's nip at his groom took place "without official por- mission" of the Kremlin?

They haven't let me go to Windsor to you, Castle any more since I wrote and I hear that Susan the Corgi, who P.P.S. Pravda certainly gave that lodges there, was given a brain-washing Gaitskell feller the old what-o, didn't after my visit. Not that there was any- they?

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

RIEND O' MINE. is sitting beside me on the seat opposite the Sea Nest discussing holidays.

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"Perhaps you need a change holiday, here is your Uncle Nat's of scenery abroad," says Friend Highway Code based on per- O Mine, and tells me of a trip sonal experience. to Finland he has read about,

"There," he says, "you can · Road Signs: A Halt Sign at t wander through untamed forests, road junction means belt, which and be alone with Mother, also mems atop and this means

you!

If you want to know, what these matters on the other side they have been walling for, li's of the road?" for you.

You then lead the goselpa Zebra Crossings: You must across and get back into Jour give way to pedestrians .at

bra crossings not controlled Car by the police.

the

It another woman slops in "Eighty," said someone..

He thinks I, neod a quiet Nature

This rule includes pedestrians the middle of the crossing "Two hundred pounds."

ho holiday far from what } Something muda, Bond turn

originally calls "the I recall the frightening ex- When you have stopped make who can't make up their minds and something In her handbagt

and "women: 'who, stop' (la), the k 25.00

round and look at the man who 8.50 had

madding crowd," although periance of a man I knew who sure it is safe to proceed. Look middle of a crossing to find it can be assumed that spoken.

patience is exhausted. He was a biggist man. His where I live there are no stayed at an hotel in Helsinki. right, then left and then right something in their handbags. He rang for a bath grid. Mother

Lot your first gear, of party madding crowds except in Nature appeared in the form of again. And see where it gets. It also includes groups. face and, the glistening,

clutch, and give her, everythi 35.00

people who gossip « under enormous womens who appeturen of Dspus-out bulin-

you'vo 7.50 eye, Email, cold, dark eyes August when the place in two

The invaded by half-mad visi grabbed him without saying were. looking towards

word, stripped off his pyjamad nuretioneer's platform through tors and their complete and carried him howling to motionless bi-docais.

ly, mad dogs,

ster bath wirene they took 5.00 "Two hundred and too guid

turn to beat the hell out somoone The big man's chin "What about a fahing hall him with pine branches, 4,00

wobbled and he opened his day, old man?! to 1.00 tight-buttoned mouth and sald, There's nothing Like fish Well, old man," says Friend wo hundred and twentyning for peace of mind of mine, if you don't Uled fish- 3.00

Ing, eveling, hiking or the idea 4 level American voles, and 1,50 What was there, about this

7.50

of

Animals

Imalas Andmails on the road does not mean bewafa Bew Vittle cars who drive át 20. miles. en four in the "middle""of_ibe highway, Nor does it mean cyclists riding six abreast, (254 third med vindal It just means 'animalé, suckcha horres, shop, cows, and reven Länsir circus, LED elephants you meet traye

On a Saturday in August this may go on for hours. Before your head maps of and before your family is half-mad wich

As you will be responsible for hunger and thirst, it is best to,

back and drive home. Dieir safety if they make a sud

drive home.

den dass deross the road your tell him ho may be right but of going to Fhiland, Indon's Pedestrianus. Wodich for pedes. best procedure is to stop your FOUARANTEE 1,50 man het plucka chord in what's the use of peace in your know what to suggest. It's cen fria who come but suddenly, engine, ut on your hand brake, Bead's memory? watched mind if there's turmoil in your fainly a long way to go for a from behind Stationery vehicles get out of the car and join in 30 the big face, running his mind's stomach in a heavy swoll? *30] aye over the filing system of his honou

He then suggests cycling, hiki ay, "A long way to go for the same thing in well-propelled Don't take any not beat bulling out drawer after

valid chase DO PORT deceiver hunting for the chief bird touching and went being floo

Bond pave up and dined his badger Apalahing, bem ORIYANK

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