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JOHN CLARKE'S

CASEBOOK

Visitors To London

HEY wore engaged to

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bo married, Tom, the young clockmaker and the pretty girl who walked by hla side into London store.

They walked 80 partly to show the world how things were between them, partly because they a little scared

both were of London.

They had come here on holl-

northern

town

day from whose neberer eltizens (and none were soberer thu these two) were firmly convinced that unknown perils stalked every auranger,

Hear such folk talk

when they return from holidays in London. They might be ón survivors' icave after serne great calamity.

30-MINUTE PARTING

TOM

OM led his girl to a counter

store where in the

touly

were Carpentry was his hobby,.

penter's

car- sold.

Well, if you thinks I'm going to spend al day looking st these...." the girl began.

"Perhaps you'd like to look at samething else, while I just stay here a bit," Tom suggested. Bravely they parted, arranging to meet in half-an-hour,

For Tom those 30 minutes passed like three. Suddenly he realised be was late for his dute with his girl. She would be waiting for him by the store's amkist

front-door. Alone London's lerrors.

UNNERVING

HE picked up a handful of carpenter's drills, 10 ot

1 tách. He brandished a Li note, and when he saw

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assistant was looking his way he bolled for the street with his £1 note still in his land and the drills in his pocket,

court.

At the Clerkenwell next day Tom a studious- looking 20-year-old, pleaded not guilty to shoplifting. "I just thought my fiancee would get Jost," he said, "you see, I'd got the underground map and every thing.

place in London.