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BRAND

RING

JUDGING

The Booming Bankrupt

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY, 20, 1957,"

“YOU say hiring Subrina to lead yourn in ain't creeping round the judges. WE say it is.”

THE MYSTERY CLUB

APPLEBY prefaced his story by handing round what

a

orange

He had offered to

in would be an exhibit. It was arrange the whole matior had

| photograph of the largest size one commonly meets with

of an elderly lady in evening dress. She had a and diamonds and an ostrich-feather fan,

"Was she murdered?" I asked

WHAT'S hopefully.

"Dear me, no. It's Angela THE SECRET? Jeff." he murmured.

FROM SYDNEY SMITH PARIS.

MY

three

Y greengrocer patted slender boxes of lettuce and said: "I paid £11 wholesale for that lot this morning

--that is why I cannot sell you tiny one for leas than 2. 0%d.”

My tomatoes to go with it cost just a little more a pound then chicken-5a. 24,

The girl in the local One Price store where I bought a tube of toothpaste increase of price 34d. -was looking unusually gay.

And of couse Laily

Angela

Jer it was. But Plumbridge was determined not to be impressed.

"Ah, yes, The daughter of some obscure earl, who married

tiara

taken away the dhunonds; and simply had them copied in blus paste. He trusted to Lady Angola's naivo delight in new toys to blind her to the fact that, in an unsuspected sise, they were no longer as they had her.

There was a pause,

didn't take to the idea of letting ment. "Tic watchful Closs

tho alom-busting chaps have

"And is Jest put inside?" their fun with the

family Byult asked.

diamonds?"

of

be-well,

But He didn't like it a bit,

Appleby sanjed, "Dear me, no, when he tried to enlist the sup. In a family little matters In Mr Jeft somebody obscurer port for what it was worth of that sort have to

the inconsiderable Jet, he got composed. But

snubbed.

Lady Angela now has her real diamonds

still. And certainly there seems himself out that his aristo. again." nothing out-of-the-way about her." Appleby zald,

Nor about her photograph?"

Absolutely not." Appleby was delighted. "Quite so," he said, "And there's the

eralle wife would look wonder.

ON

ful in blue diamonds. He even made an uneasy joke about their

blood. matching her blue

"Somo time Inter, he heard that the

Transmutation whatever is the correct word for it-had taken place. So when, ho mot Jeff one afternoon in a club he decided to mention the natter again in a spirit of bluo accommodation,

"I can imagine her as painted by Plumbridge," I said, "A Trankly cosmetic surface, sur- rounding faded blue eyes"

"And her hair," Appleby

course,

would that be

"I mean that Closs thought I "Of course not.”

be diplomatio not to I checked would" myself. "But yes!

cut up rusty over split appear to That sort of blue-tinted wash milk. He said he believed Lady Angela looked charming in her

and ho hoped he might have the "Precisely. Lady Angels went pleasure of seeing her in them for that blue tint in rather one day. a big way. Having decided that

"And her hair was

that has been all the

She has just had a salary rise tadies of a certain age among transformed jewels

Crom

mitoimum of 223

a

month to £30 — she and more

than 10,000 others in France's

biggest stores,

ICES TAX

IN the baker's stop there were protests. Pustry and we- cream and cnything with sugar kl.cit, as well us sweets, have Just all been Myept into the luxury tax area along with household furs, jewellery, pad electrical equipment

from vannen cleaners to mixers,

Every shop in the district is cutting credit on hire purchases -less time to pay more.

Even the Post Offee and the petrol pump are in St. From this week my phone and my stamps. go up one-third In price, my super-grade petrol Bearly 144. a gallon.

15.

In fact in Just 10 minutes' valit along my shopping stree!

in Boulogne, a western suburb

your

趄

now I must tell you success how I entered the affair myself. Appleby broke off. "But I'm not it was again a matter of telling this atody very well. Of meeting in a club Closs-whom dimcult than I've known, alightly for many course, it's more any of your stories. Because of years—passed across # weekly its being reientifle, you know." paper to me,

"What Go you mean-

"What I Saw Was rep1'0- scientific?" I asked.

"Well, All

Appleby stories, duction of this''-and although highly diverting, have again tapped the photograph

en pretly well out of the ark. and when he gathered that I "They've all happened within or her husband he told me the knew nothing about Lady Angela the last 12 months, but they facts of the case much as I've might have happened at any told them to you now, time during the last 50 years. Not so with Lady Angela. She is extremely up to date. "Having decided to

"He idn't be con fossed, rational epuse for being blue hair, she proceeded to much

Whether or not the elect blue diamonds as well." annoyed. Appleby upped the photograph, diamonds had dropped in value. "Those are blue,"

OLD IDEA

Lasty Augria whs

favour

NO CAUSE

ns a result of their adventure

was something he had taken expert advice on, and it seemed to be an open question, More- certainly over, Lady" Angela was on per-

Hammersmith, wearing what appeared to be a festly good terms both with her striking necklace of diamonds, daughter and with Closs himselt. But none of us was very im

of Paris which is a twin munici-

with pality Written on every price tog in every shop the glory biggest uncial crisis which has hit France since the war,

cr the

France is a booning bankrupt. Living at the moment on £1,000 million worth of credit with a vast copital fortune -- and no ready hard cash.

AUSTERITY

THE Hew French Government canent hold the price freeze any longer, and it la estimated

that by next September 15,000,- 000 French salaries will auto- matically have to increase by

ve or 10 per cent.

"But it just did vex him to see pressed. "There's nothing par- ticularly up-to-date about blue her posing there, with her blue diamonds, Warriner said. "I formed Jowels, He could

ran remember my mother—”

"No doubt," Appleby cut this interpolation short.

hair and her freally trans-

almost imagine the damned thing as it would look he said

if it was twopence coloured.

"I had another glance at the "Blue diamonds have always come from time to time from photograph and I asked Closs If

he

tinted.

the mines. But this is a Angels taken after the stones adather was certain it had been of ariitlelal tinting. Lady Angeln turned blue. decided to have her diamonds testly,

He replied that there Was no question of it. Lady Angja herself had described to

him "And there was nothing stup her. It's something that how her first action on getting the things back from the France at the moment is only has become feasible just within one-tenth of a point off the cost-the last few montlis. The atomic laboratory had been to dress up of-living index level which research people will do it for and summon a photographer," makes a nation-wide wage in you."

Thal's debatable. But the better set about having diamonds, were Lady Angela's obscure Jeff put inside." absolute property, to do what

The

Appleby pausėti for a moment, crease compulsory. And that "Is it commercially advan- «And at that. course. I sug- one-tenth was only avoided last tagius?" Plumbridge asked.

gested to Close that we had months by a potato subsidy..

The cost-of-living spiral wili carn for the French from this week on the biggest Govern ment austerity drive imposed by Duy post-war Government.

Every price, from hotel tariffs to the price of a glass of mineral water; in beginning to soaT.

The Bourges

Maunoury Government Is fighting back with credit restrictions, cuts in forcim imports, with bigger deposits and increased duties on arota, and tempting credits for exporters.

she liked with. Her husband the "Insido?" Byatt asked blankly. "In quad Jeff had been

obscure Mr Jeff had very little influence with her. In point of

the

Perhaps because we were an

:

the

fact, he was something of an regressing." adventurer, and her marriage to him-iate in Bfe-had proved to elderly lot and Indeed only t be socially rather an embarrass- for the ark, we merely stared at ment.

Appleby. an ought to though

mention that indy had

What was wrong with no children by Jeft, there was in photograph," he said, "was pre- fact a daughter by a previous sely that there was nothing marriage. And

Arat bus wrong with it. The residual trusted-din- radio-activity in band, It seems, had no cat monds would confidence in her sagacity for he. But it would be sufficient, after be very slight, left the child's affairs entirely. DEVALUAT, IN over in the hands of his solicitor, and the

that choot interval, of time, to unmistakable fuzz

THE WEDGE

being

Is the last end most desperate thing any French Government daro try to do, mid, it is not like ly immediately.

ber

shrewd old person called Close upon a photographie plate. În "Clons did his best to keep on Inly Angela's photograph every good tons with Lady Angela, duthit was entirely clear-cut. since she had a substantial

Yot wurlais from Britax and private fortune-cluding her two could be quite certain, other countries entering France diamonds-which he hoped to then, that although the necklace

eventually to

the. In which Lady Angela had been ****** photographed "right"|have, been "At the same time Closs war blue, it had never been inside

that laboratory.html you may well

with clicup franes (up to one be fifth below the current Paris daughter, rutes) 'áre ‹ operating a form of devaluation.

Aleposed-on

One foreign observer and in imagine to keep a pretty sharp "And what had happened

Paris: This inde factpi eye on the Jeft monage.".

ebon bocamo clear, Jeff bad

END

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"Was she murdered?”

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