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i millionaire skinflint calls "in--Dr. K

Kang:

Yeon has been kidnapped," said Monsiour

"M Mysson. "One of the servants saw him

driving off in the early morning. After that he was not seen again. This was yesterday. Late at night this note was pushed through one of the doors and hearing that you were staying at Ostend, I sent for you at once. It is correct, I assume, that you are now,...ah, more interested in."

Dr Kong beamed through his glasses at the Belgian indus Irialist and said softly, "In protecting the fold, rather than robbing it? Yes, it is correct, monsieur. It is also correct that a good shepherd is costly to hire. "You have only to name your feo." M. Myssen blinked through his pince-nez tired his mouth closed on the sentence with shop.

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that Jetel-

Its

"Later," said Dr Kang, and he reached out for the note. It was wrillen in French, unsigned. and Informed M. Myssen Ji only son had been moped, that it would be to the

diandvantage young man's invoke pollee nid, and that if a messenger would be at beach ulang the coast that afternoon at two o'clock with t thon francs 232 notes then

would b yung Henri Myssen zeleused.

4 small

De Kang sat there, pondering over the note, a bulky plovid figure like a Buddha in irpose. He knew M. Myssen, knew his wealth, and also how miserly he was with it.

( THE · CHINA - MAIL,

"Do not try to abo over-claver,"

wald Kang.

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Find my

son..

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the

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1957.

AND GET ME BACK MY MILLION

by VICTOR CANNING

beach and ploughed, "It is a lot of money," said Br frowning through the "Band Kang.

dunes. Any form of exercise that increased bia normal rate of respiration he regarded * U0- healthy. On the beacl: he made himself comfortable on a mound of pebbles and waited.

"I will pay it. Henri is my only son. He is unsatisfactory at times. But he is my non, I wish you to take charge of the nego lations and see that My Ro return safely. Also..."

do me That the kidnappera get away with the money?"

1tut "If possible. safety comes first."

my

con's

While M. Mysses left the room to get the money for the kid- nappers Dr Kong examined the UIL the tramed photographs walls. Many of them were of

and young Henri Myssen

rlends bathing. skiing riding.

No trouble

There were a few motor and saling boate out at sen. After a while one of the motor boats headed in for the beach. It was to the sand and a run up on Inan got out.

This is the comfort of old

men.

"Give me the money and I shall tell you where to Henri Myssen."

Dr Kaing handed

over

And

The

bundles of notes and the young man split it open.

"I will ber

count it in this wind," said Dr little difficult to

Kang. "And now tell me

where 1 cay And Henri Myssen"

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back to M, Myssen's house and in a little while will telephone you. Henri is ul- Dr Kang saw that the name of ready ut this moment lying

the bout was Marita.

The man carne across to Dr Kang and as he did so slipped a his handkerchief musk with eye- and sills over his face.

As Dr Kang was leaving the o servant was showing

house,

out a nun who had been col- Seeing that leeting for charity. sho had no car Dr Kang offered her a lift and dropped her at a small orphanage run by mine a little way the coast and in

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the direction of this meeting- place. Dr Kang, a natural gossip had no trouble in getting Sister Therese to talk about M. Myssen and his con

Dr Kang smiled seraphically.

"I am from M. Myssen and I have with me 1,000,000 francs, but”—Dr Kang's hand came out of bla pocket and a small auto- the man-"do matic covered not try to be over-clover. This is a business deal. You return young M. Myssen and then pay you the money.

No

option

"You pay mo the money." said the man, "and then I re- turn Henri Myssen."

"The boy is good but wild," she said. "His father, may I be

"Why should I trust a great forgiven for saying $50, is weight to slender thread? You neither. He is a miser. For three could keep the money and then years we at the convent have demand more." been trying to get him to sell a small piece of the beach he owns

"I give my word and you have

so that our children may bathe ne option but to take it.” there. But he asks

possible price.",

An

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Dr Kang sighed and put his Dr Kang left his car on the automatle awny. "Nothing at the buck now is done as well as it was unfrequented road

Headache

Do not wait patiently for your suffering to end Toke

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round to clear his head, he explained to him who he was. Finally when Henri Myssen had recovered, Dr Kang leaned back against the radiator of the car and

"Now tell me what happened?"

Henri Myssen shook has hend to clear the last of the muzzi- ness from him and pulled out a case and lib cigarette, "There is little to tell. Yesterday morn-

ing I was driving 10 Bruges

n

when two men flogged me for a ift. I stopped and immediately they attacked me. When I came to it was dark and I was some

house, But I don't know whore."

and Dr Kang nodded,

quizzically. Your father employed me to

eye-brow 11fted

onc

drugged in his car but before i ensure your return. This I have

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Though he will

And also to provent the tell you where to find him,

I done.

moncy wish naturally to put a little kidnappers having

JE DO

possible.

it, this, too, I shall never know 10

do. I that you will agree that

distance between us."

Dr Kang motored back

ed to the Industrialist what had

M. Myssen's house and explain it will make a handsome pre- happened.

An hour later the telephone and Dr Kang picked it up, The voice of the man he had met ол the beach said: "Dr Kang

will find Henri you Myssen in his car where I left him this morning. It is in the small wood on the hill behind M. Mysson's house. By now the

should be wearing drug

ok. Adicu!"

'Be patient'

seat for Sister Therese to help her buy the piece of the booch the needs. Where is it? In the back of the car?

ing

"What on earth are you talk-

about?" Henri Myssen

frowned

the

Dr Kang smiled. "About youth and its follies. While I was in your father's study I saw a photograph, you and a friend standing in the bows of

otor boat, which was called Samaritain. Your friend kept his face covered but the black point he used to obliterate the Arst two and the last two letters of the boat'e name to make #i Mariia was still fresh."

As Dr Kang replaced the receiver M. Myssen eaid: "What did he say? Where is my son?"

Dr Kang said "Patience. He Very hot

has told me where he is, but instructed me to go alone. In a little while I shall bring son to you."

your

The at

Dr Kang left the house. wood could be seen clearly the top of the hill, no more than

walk ten minutes"

away. Dr

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"I know nothing about this." "No?

Feel this car radiator. You say this car has been here since this morning? Strange-it is still very hot. And it is easy

to pretend be drugged. should say your friend drove you up here only a short while ago-after he had collected the or money from me.

Kang took his time. A rough

track ran off from a narrow road at one side of the wood. Dr Kang followed it into the heart of the trees, In secluded clear- ing stood

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an open sports car. Dr your Kang saw that a young, Tair- haired man was huddled up in the back seat. He went round and shook him. The young man groaned and muttered some- thing.

Little to tell

In a tle while he had the young man out of the car, and while he walked him gently

"Money you need because father gives you an ade- quate but not generous allow- arce. But when a son deceives his father then their house full of strangers. Now, hand me the money and you shall have my silence and Sister Therese's prayers."

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►

TEXAS

The

Cummings

boulevards

SWING RIGHT

it

ARTRE is middle-aged, something, didn't matter.

his glasses, his pale eyes do not quite focus.

He dresses like a small town bank manager. He works hard, earns much, spenda comparatively little, He is conscientious.

Sartre is bourgeois. He admits it and is unashamed,

is not Sartre's

stand what it

was they were

He was per- suaded to give most of his time to editing review "Le Mo- - and

view. It is true that there are worshipping. no standards external to man in Sartre's sysicm. But this is from the view very differen: that there are no standards.

The standard is the one that follows naturally

from the possibility of cholec: A man is to be fidged according amount of freedom from external influence he attains. Nor is he, pains to point out, to be judged as Sartro has been at great.

to the

Temps derne people read it. But what

anan measeTY? to

His more exotic disciples alone. No man choses without often wish he would go influencing others and he is res- away to come forgotten ponsible for his choler, island and show himself only through his work.

He is not the stuff of which coventional heroes are made. Or, at least, he does not seem to be, does not cloím to be ard does not try to be.

There is no simple formula for Judgement in Sartre's philosophy simply because no choice can be perfect. Only it

by

was it

He was the darling the

of boulevards but what had be

common

In

with their

denizens? was great

Не

д

not wit in conversation.

Sartre is Existentialism-far more than Soren Kierkegaard who invented

or Martin Heldegger who made it weird and exotte.. Ile is Existen man became God could man be tlalism far more even than free and no man can do that,

made it Gabriel Marcel who Catholic

Sartre has made much of the

LES ARMOUR

and respectable or Karl Jaspers who wove It into inevitable unsallsfactoriness in the philosophical tradition.

the choices men must make. Ana the problem is reflected in his life as much as in his charae. ters.

For Sortre is an Existenllatist seems because the philosophy to him the natural philosophy For a moment Hearl Myssen

He was born in Paris 51 years stared at Dr Kang and then to a reasonable man who has slowly he began to wolk around

about thought

He received the fradi- things and ago, them through.

tional bourgeois education, cul- But to the back of the car to fetch thought the money,

his Existentialism is not The mindling at the Sorbonne and in exotic variety of the boulevards Germany,

ENDS SERIES

NEW BRITISH CARS WILL LEAD WORLD

Gear Changing On Way Out:

Now For Disc Brakes

þRITISH cars at this year's Motor Show will be the BRITISH corn at Forld. Falling sales, and -foreign competition are forcing revolutionary changes.

Research work is nearing the production line. It means that the British car of the near futuro-much nearer than if there had been no crisis-will be amoother, simpler, and far ahead of any rivals,

+

This past week I watched tests of one prototype at a lonely airfield. The car was like thousands of others on the roads today-but it had DISC BRAKES.

So for these have been used So for this is a luxury found only in racing cars and one or, only in some foreign cara, and two

sports models.

our mote expensive makes, It They mean no more erratlo gives' befter road, holding and stopping, they are cheaper to safer driving. maintain, and now brake lininga It is no secret that the GEAR can be fitted in moments.

LEVER is on its way out, Most

odd

constructed as illustrations for

jt.

He prefers to say something meaningful rather than something smart.

He was not an apostle of goy abandon, His

standards were-and are -as bourgeois as his father's. Ho wag not even o high- brow. He liked

and likes

not, even perhaps, the rather He came back to teach philo- variety that crops up in the sophy in a Paris Lycee and novels and the plays (not all his stuck to his last Until 1938 to enjoy him- plays, be it said) which he when he wrote his first novel. zelf. He likes popular music, He was conscripted on the enjoys flirting outbreak of war and went east harm 1 essly with the disheartened

army with which tried to stop the Germans,

girls,

Not for At Strasbourg, he was captured him

the per The basic principle can be and taken to Germany.

versions which some of stated simply-and must bo

bis charactors seem to revel.

Principle

stated if the man is to be A year later, he was released understood. For Sartre the on medical grounds and went world contains two sorts of back to Germun-occupied Paris. things. One sort—tobles, chairs, He felt he must do something dogs and elephants-is made what it is by something outside abou; the Germans. But what?

Itself.

The other sori-man-has a choice. It fiself be

thated or tenant resele de der

Fancy

A

pretty

Jean Paul Sartre — the quiet hora of Paris"rowdies",

Finally, he was not and is not Last month, he published' à philosopher of the "let's go 50,000 word indictment of Com and alt in the wilderness" school. munism and throw in some Sarire is a clty dweller,, with a

elty dweller's interests, and a extra words condemning the passionate bellet in collective French Socialist Perty, responsibility.

The Communists no longer He fancied himself DS n He felt he had to commit wondered where he stood essence. It can make itself or writer, So he wrote--a cland himself politically. By con- for once," Humanlic

estine pamphlet, printed and dis... viction, he is a Socialist. But French Communist, dally? was let itself be made.

tribuied at considerable risic to the intrigues of French left wing various people's lives. Its effect politics, had long sletched him, allenced, It could not trot out did not seem worth the risk.

It is the choice which em- cerns Sartre and, this, perhaps, to what is a little bewildering.

Compromises, deals, and sell So he took the plunge. The outs turned him away from the For Sartre holds that all rest of the war between bouts offelal leftist parties, values stem from this cholco. of

You do not condemn a dog for of playwriting-he spent in the active resistance movement

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Attraction

i

But tho

the usual forms of abuse "in- ("type-writing jackal", tellectual hyent” and the like). Sartre was too big to be written off like that,··;

Furthermore, there seemed no good answer to Sartre's charges.;

being a dog. You do not con- fo had made his choice. But demn a man for being a dog even then it was never easy. unless he has deliberately chosen Everything he td risked some Communism attracted him Communism, he and, had at to be a dog.

body else's life. Was it worth because it seemed to be clean- 147 Was it even right?

cut, rallonal, and determined. But last been exposed as You can only judge after the choice,

ho could not submit to dialec"; fraud and those who belonged He nover got a satisfactory teal majorialism as a philosophy, to the party end those who had

more That is why the characters in answer any

than tho to control over idens or to the dallied with it must admit their

a total

Britain is expected to be the makers I have asked give it Sartres novels and plays are heroes in his resistance novels Communist refusal to let me guilt and do something to Erst country lo fit them in only another year or 50, Then placed in terrifying and drama- ever did. family cara,

Independent

automatic devices wil replace it, the situations which make tha At the end of the war, ho

Already STARTING HANDLES choice and the anguish which went back to writing.

disappeared from several goes into making the choice-

But ho

haveNow makers are talking | clearer than it is in the muddis was not to be left in peace.

try to find their own galvation, tone for it. "We used to be

the party, of The result was that he dallied thought the with Communism for years, Ho murdered, Now we must soo

Commmunlat wrote, one

рго

ourselves as the party of the SUSPENSION research, too, of doing away with the SPARE of real life,

Existentialism became a fad paganda play Nekramos-and murderers. has got the scientists working' WHEEL

and he became a hero... But that many articles plugging Com hard.. Almost every · maker And a glimpse into the The doctrine that man makes didn't solve his problem. Who munat lines.

But he did not So

Sarizola skalnin'- thos alrently has some of his pro- further of future: Our resourch his own values was, of course, was he, anyhow, to be a hero? Join the party.

wilderness, nloring: for his own' duction models Atted with fide- laboratories all claim that takut by the crowds 'on' the --

gullt. He is certainly not hu pendent suspension at back and TURBINE ENGINE develop boulevards to mean that any Furthermore, his worshippers Hungary forced him to make own hero. But perhaps he is, af Front,

ment is well ahead of schedule, fihing goes, So long as you did, did not, even seem to under- an open breik.

least, a man,