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WILL pass over the conversation, which was devoted to common- places, and from which I learned only that Trent Carringford was engaged in writing a book something historical, apparently, about witcheraft in King Jarnes I's time and that the cat for whom the fish in the larder was destined was an animal of Independent habits, called Sennacherib.

"He was probably "out rabbiting" in the paddock and would in due course present himself in the kitchen and ask for his supper, but I must not allow him to make a nuisance of himself.

When we had finished ten Trent volun- teered to help with the washing-up, and Mr Carvingford sent his niece to ask whether her kuni was ready to see me.

I made no objection to the washing-up proposal for one thing, I had determined from the start to let myscir be "considered," and besides, I nm alt for making men tako their due share of the work.

We were getting along very well **** Mr Carringford washing. Trent drying (managing very neatly, In spite of his dis- abilities), and I putting the things away in what I had dechied should be their proper places, when Mrs Deane came to the kitchen tone of some alarm: "Unelo door and said in Marcus!" Mr Carringford went out to her rather hastily and they conferred for a little time in the hall. Treat's damaged face was to me inscrutable, but I thought he looked worried

Presently his father came back and said: "Trent-ring up Grayling" and then me "I'm afraid my wife is not so well, and won't be able to see

you just at present. Then he,

went away.

100,

of

Illness kettle

on

HOGS

That was fear-plain, ugly fear. She said "I can't stand it, Trent.”

on

muttered consultation the door-mat. I opened the sitting- room door.

Mr Trent

Deane and Mrs were there,

but they did not Mrs me.

Denve

Was the window, and

notice

Having had some experience sitting near

I promptly put the for the first time I saw her face to boil; and Nurse with some expression on it Cutler, coming in shortly after. And that was fear plain, ugly warde with 1wo

hot-water four. She said: "I can't stand bottles, was so surprised by my it,

again." forethought commended and thanked me.

SHE

that she

'Clear out!'

Trent-not

His

actually back was towards me. He said, in an odd, hard tone, "Then hadn't you better clear out?"

I thought that if anybody cleared out it had better be me. CHE added, however, that in I had intended to ask about the any decently-run household sweet, but decided that I would gas-ring in make up something with some there would be a

LIS I re- the patient's bedroom.

that I had dla- So I made a tactful plied that I would try to cover

whereon she retirement, shutting the door with the bottles, quietly. saying only: "And high time, too."

arroage for one; bounced out

It was not who opened the

door for Dr Grayling; but he

as he was summoned, for when

of fruit

Cheered up

more.

THE STORY SO FAR

A

● MRS MERTON, widow, turns down an offer to live with her married daughter and taken a job as cook-housekeeper with the Curtingfords in

A remote old rectory. The house- hold consists of Mr Carring ford a commercial artist invalid Mrs Carringford, their nieot, Mrs Philippa Deane, nephew, injured ex RA.F. man Trent Carring ford, and Nurse Cutler. NOW read on

been killed in the war); that Mrs Deane wasn't proud though she wouldn't never set foot in the kitchen, and had given her

(Mrs Hutchinson) sweetly

Much better

places and properly Labelled, there remained. pile of empty on half-empty boties, tina, car- tons and boxes which covered the kitchen table, anch tycre only it for burning.

I am always particular about nameless white powders, and dribs and drabs of things from the chemist, calling

themselves The simply "The Lotion," or mixture

before." They might be

absolutely anything. When we had finished making our collection, I showed it to Mr Carringford and asked his permission to get rid of it,

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"Good God!" he said. "Yea, of course, burn the lot. I won der we haven't all been---" He broko off suddenly, an burst out laughing, as though taken off his a land had been mind. "I'm going into K chester for the Ash," he said "Is there anything else you'd like me to get?"

BY ALLAH! SOMEBODY'S. OPENED. ONE OF HIS~EYES !

Up The Bright Red Carpet Down The Garden Path?

Or

THE Yugoslav Foreign Minister, Mr Popovic, has I finally brought into the open the serious new break

between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. He revealed recently that Moscow is now using economic pressure against his country, just as Stalin did. He has also indicated that Yugoslavia will not bow to the pressure of Stalin's successors any more than it bowed to Stalin. The Soviet Union, he said, which in August last year undertook to provide, jointly with East Germany, a £62 millions credit for the building of a big aluminium project at Niksic, in Montenegro, had now postponed the project until after 1960.

c) By

David Laidlaw

a

a Scot who has travelled widely in Eastern Europe, and has made special study of conditions imposed

by Soviet Russia,

Mr Popovic implied that succeeded only in making the creed respectable for the Russians are trying to Tilo

It is not a surprise that the unrelenting struggle against the credits, use

on which Communists,

Russians should have made a those whose alleged aim is to the Yugoslavs had been This is just another example great fuss of the Bulgarian replace "proletarianism – interia.

of the way

"bourgeois In which Soviet delegation, which returned home tonalism" counting in planning their

and agreements are with

and to deny the new 200 milion rouble nationalism" economic development, as a tled up with

Kremlin's overlordship, In the ideology and long-term credit in lis pocket.

of means of pressure to bring political tactics.

The Bulgarlan

condemnation Communists, general Yugoslavia into, or at least

since the Kostov trial late in Titelsn", the Bulgarian leaders

have nearer, the Soviet camp.

servile

He explained that the essence of the Soviet-Yugo slav dispute lay in differing ideas on what Yugoslavia's relations should be towards the "Socialist camp" and on who should be head of the I monticned Nurse's gas-ring camp: Yugoslavia, he said, and a few other things, which did not want to enter this he promised to fetch. «Από

I'm glad to say," he added, camp since this would not. that my wife is much better be in the interests of peace today, and would like to reo or of socialism.

must have come almost as soon SOME time later, Nurse Cutler

arvived 10 prepare

some pretty scraf last Christmas.... She sald that after exploring the cupboards meat essence. more thoroughly and cleaning her patient had hand a nasty fainting it but was some of the worst grease from attack-a the stove-I presently emerged better now. So I roasted the

and sald 110 from the kitchen, he was just chicken crossing

Dinner

nol xactly WLA

ALSO, that everybody had you as soon as you're free!"

betz expecting Miss out, hilarious meal, but they all, in- his way

Dr Barnslow's

'Not poisoned?' Culler, seemed Grayling, but it

engagement to Nurse He was a pleasant, energetic- cluding

seemed to looking man of about 40, to be cheered up by may have gone

off somehow; that and was saying with come coolding,

Mrs C. wasn't Mr C.'a class. emphasis: " egree, it's not at

when Mrs and some people said she used all satisfactory. Perhaps trou would like

the hall Carvingford on

with

MT

turned

Fortunately, Hutchinson morning, sho Mr Carringford was frowning florid, cheerful gravely, and they went into a natural

Against

skin disease and itching

Mitigal

AQINUINE BATIK PRODUCT, BAYBR

MANUFACTURED IN

LEVERKUSEN, OʻIRMANY

P

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I

The recent ideological warfare between the Yugo- : slavs and the Russians had aroused suspicions that the aid bargain might not be kept.

MUST say that I did not take to Mrs Carringford,

impression that young next to drink before she got it but got the up

must have Carringford proved to be a that was afore they come here Mr

These were reinforced by womana and ahe (Mrs Hutchinson) was married his model in haste and

She had the recent treatment of a glattern, but an never one to gossip; that Mr repented at leisure. energetic worker under direc Trent's room was full of orrible the remains of remarkable good Yugos v trade mission to 4lon. She entered with

and books en pictures

about looks, but her face was puffy East Germany when the thusiasm into the idea of polson, and a tasty black 'ed and peevish, and her volco

talks broke down and the turning out the kitchen, feel on the wall what would give common.. ing evidently that here was a you quite a turn....

Yugoslav delegation was Job which

Mhen I got there, Mrs Deans called for all her

to humiliating mettle.

"And what would that be, was arranging a bowl of flowers exposed I wonder?"

sald Mrs Hutch on the low window-sill, where treatment by the East Ger- She talked, indeed, as fast as inson, rattling a tin which was Sennacherib-a

gentle man authorities, she worked. Though I refused conspicuously labelled "Poison; man in a very handsome dress- to listen to her opinion of my moth-balls, maybe, or them uitwas lying majestically

. The hardening Russlan could not predecessor, 1

help tablets for slugs. It proved, asleep, with his chin on attitude to Yugoslavia is learning that Mr Carringford however, to contain nothing Georgian walnut tea-caddy. the latest phase in the wouldn't have nobody dust his worse than a number of bone Mrs Carringford asked me a

of tortuous studio not if it was

lot of

development of over so; buttons.

questions many that Mr Deane was his wife's

to my mind. Imper-Soviet Yugoslav post-war niece and Mr Trent his own

It is surprising how much finently personal, but r

up economic relationships. nephew (their own son had rubbish can

accumulate, oven poco she had nothing:

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in 18 months, when no attempt think about, lying there ill all It started just after the war, is made to keep order. When day, and

a new housekeeper | when the Russians attempted tổ all the identifiable substances was a distraction for her.

benstrate

controt the had been put in their right

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

and

business had what my means Cominform in 1946' and to

I patiently told her where Yugoslav economy, and stopped and of whom I was born, where when the Yugoslav resistance to I had Hved, what my husband's Soviet domination lod to boen, how many | Yugoslavia'g expulsion from the children 'I were, and

nd why I had decided to ruthless blockade, take a situation.

And what did your husband die of?", was the next, "Not

hopped bu jour cooking. I

hoot

A

economic

But although the Russians are

adopting a stern ling towards 1949, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, on the other side, is being given the red carpet" treatment.

and

been

little of their own back for adulators of the Soviet Union show no hesitation in getting a most reluctant to Yugoslav criticism of their na countenance any dangerous ex- Stalinist policies and Pravda's periments in reforming their attacks on

been Tito have studiously echoed by all local The recent Bulgarian pilgrim- Stalinist regime.

Although Bulgaria has never Bulgarian speakers and news age to Moscow was as much a display of close ties between the betrayed any tendency, since the papers, munist regime Kremlin and the Sofa Com- execution of Kostov, to question It now appears that the extra the Soviet "right" to supremacy investment in friendship to- wards the docile Bulgarians is demonstration of hostility to in the "Socialist camp", it is a Tilo. And the Bulgarians were sign of the times that its leaders to be recovered at the expen90.

find it necessary to announce an of the recalcitrant Yugoslavs. rewarded for their loyalty.

ms it was a

That Independent Air

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IT CATCHES ON IN WEST

Ostentatious Generosity

Mr Khrushchev'e political

NOW

that Ghana is Independent, her of very unpleasant overtures in 1605 were followed neighbours want to

bo

And she went off into

"Oh,

Aunt generally. The following year

laughter. Mrs

Mrs Deano exclaimed by a period of ostentatious independent too! That Is 5 restrained myself, Russia granted currency and Particularly true of the --

and replied, quietly that my trade loana to Yugoslavia, as eight territories which bg- husband had been killed in a well as development credits for long to French West Africa motor-poel dient.

・the

construction of fertiliser

avaste federation of Then he was luckier than now unical factories and a 15,000,000 people that is

cald Mrs Carringtond power plant. She gave another hoot ng her

The Soviet Union apparently far larger in area than any unkind, inughter but after believe, now that: It made a single country in Africa, ca moment who put out her hand, major orror in apologising so At present cach territory with a gesture; of apology, to abjectly for the 1948 rift, and has a French governar

Never

mérid, Informally granting: Yugoslavia assisted by e picked privy Philippar I'm on your side she had gotta Comptied once again to fight countil and

an elected

+ TOMORROW another national Commnasium, 200 tire assembly, and is_represent=" famous woman writer, Kawmill that the ed in the French Parliament 1. C. R. Lorac, picks up the 1900750 warrockdom anair. A Boviec Yugonday bouernoon of

Pin Parts? threads of the story and memo VIENTO MINUSTUslavia The French, with their [Jweaves them in her own ways, benetto

Trump / recent history of struggles -

AFRICA

In Indo-China and North Africa, are 'divided on how far and how fast West Africa should move to- wards Independence.

Some are now sure that -in ̈view of the African's' present, agitation" - com- plate. independence la the only way in which France will be able" to keep her, export markets and buy har imports of groundnuts, palm-olf; "bariarias; cocos land coffee,

The French West African natives are often erivious of their neighbours,

Liberia became the first independent Negro state in the world in 1847, Sierra: Leone enjoyed constitu tional advances in 1951. Nigeria. the chief. West African country, and Br tain's largest colony-pro- ceeded further towards self-govemment. In 195 Ghana_is_nov And: 1954.

ruling herself.,

To many West – Africaf natives in French territorias. It seems that they alone are