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Milk

Bar

try

under personally purchasing the poison.

decided it would be most foolhardy to do either of these two things." In the first place, the

always nurse:

prepared

my sunt' soups; secondly, I knew nothing of poisons and had no intention of walking into the local chemist's shop and asking

Sinister

alender

the toll palms, just like the pictures In the Travel Bureau window.

I held the whole world in fee, and always at my side Was that illusive figure who had haunted my dreams for the inst iwenly-one years. Ho. had grown old along with me; his hair was how grey, over the cars, but age had lent him dignity and tolerance. I had never met him, but I was sure he must exist somewhere out there..

I awakened with a start, The breathing had stopped. The nurse was dozing in her choir, I dared not be

to discover for an ounce of arstale or what the one

that may aunt was dead, 'I mai and walted and waited.

RETURNED to my ever it is.

aunt Margaret's Then I had the fear that it I poisoned any food, someone else room, and found might eat it. What I had to do Days seemed to pass while I was to find something that would sat there, but stil the fool of a the doctor looking be consumed at one go, and would nurse dozed on. I felt like taicon my aunt only shaking her and asking her what very grave: "We must be

I thought of lea, but the nurse the thought she drew her wages

Suddenly the

prepare ourselves for was always making it for her for.

self; Bugar, but the nurse rang. the worst, Miss thovelled it into her own tea. Amelia, I am afraid Then I thought of milk. The night-nurse hated it, she would sho is out of our But even take it in her tea. And the splendid part of the hands."

idea was, the doctor had ordered my aunt a glass of worm milk every night.

So that he should not see the joy I felt, I burst into tears and sat back in my chair weeping bitterly.

"Come, come." the doctor placed his hand on my shoulder; "you have been a devoted niece, few would dedicate their lives to care for a sick woman an you bave done."

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This caused me to weep so much that he led me from the room. He ordered the nurse to bring tea and watched me as

My next problem was ob-

the poison.

way

doorbell

The nurse jumped to her feat while I admitted the doctor. He went straight to my aunt while I watched anxiously. He bent over her, sounded her hearts and then came to me and took both my hands. My tears were ready to flow again.

To go out

"Do you know," he said, "your and purchase some weed-killer

rat polson

merely aunt is making a wonderful re- or

She is sleeping ns. plackig the noose around my covery. own neck. What I should have quietly as a child." tc de was to find lying around would not

woj

something the house. question anyone,

would just walt my own time. During the next month I found

The next week she was able

le move; a month later she was

able to, totter across the room; use mionths later she was out

All that was

a minute quantity of weed. In the gurden. killer, a tablet that had been ten years ago, and since then put down in the kitchen to des- I have been wheeling her about troy cockroaches, and the dress in a bathchair,

of six old bottles I found in the

I sloped It. "You have been medicine chest,

a good niece," he said, "and labelled 'palson.' this had to come. In fact it is

a miracle that she has lived so lang.

mopped my eyes with my handkerchief. "I know it is silly of me, doctor, but she is all I have now, and some how...... "

I

wil heavily

DAY OFF

DECIDED that a Wednesday would be the most suliable day because, ever since the nurse

und the doctor had advised me

He rose to go: "I realise thut, to get a change now and again, but she has had a long life; had formed the habit of seventy-seven you know, and the last twenty years haven't

been much fun."

visiting the local cinema Wednesday evenings.

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"Twenty-one,” } corrected Furthermore, a bottle of milk was left in the pantry which

I saw him to the door and the nurse warmed up and gave then went to my own room and my Bunt at about half-past locked myself in. I had to re- seven.

prusa 1 wild desire to leap, around the room and shout at

the top of my voice.

It was twenty-one years since I first came to this house. was twenty-nine then, and I post es Senior gave up my English Mistress at St Helen's to hurte my bedridden aunt, She had asked for me, I was her favourite niece; she made no bones about the fact that I was ber sole legatee.

I

MY HOPE

my

The situation was ideal.

The Wednesday following the completion of my plans found te quite calm.

While the nurse was in the slipped into the bedroom, pantry, and took the bottle of milk up to my bedroom. Prac- lice had made me perfect; in a matter of seconds I had removed the

patent fastener without breaking the seal. I dropped in the polsons which caused Httle discoloration, stirred up the milk, and fastener.

The other day she sold to me; "Amelia dear, we have the dear doctor to thank for all this. You rust remind me to leave him a Ittle something. Do you know, I feel as if I shall live to be a hundred; and then I shall receive a telegram from our dear Queen. Wouldn't that be wonderful?"

"Wonderful," I echood.

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Now I was rich, Atteen thou-

I saw nothing on the screen

sand in cash, and an Income of that evening for my Imagina- me into my aunt's three thousand a year free of ion took

tox I felt as light and gay as bedroom where the nurse would

I folt the day I had first entered be thrusting the feeding bottle this house. I did a few steps between the trembling jaws of of the Charleston, kicked over that decrepid old woman, whilst a case of stuffed birds, then re- the milk slopped over her chin

onto the pillow case. turned to my aunt's bedroom

The nurse shook her head, my eyes filled with tears. "Call me occurs, I am If any change going to try and get a lttle sleep."

The nurse nodded her head. For the Arst right for years,

I slept soundly.

I hurried home and went straight into my aunt's bedroom find the nurso anxiously to bending over her patient. "How is she?" I asked

The nurse looked up. "I don't The next morning I woke at like the look of her at all." i to clear up by taking six and pulling on my dressing helped gown, I ran to ray aunt's bed away the dirty dishes. and wash- nurse looked up ing them up. I usually did this with a melancholy expression; before retiring for the night. "She's still lingering."

She said the same thing for

room.

The

the next ten days.

The doctor began to give him-

solt alts until I felt like pick-

ing up the sodawater syphon

and knocking

THE WORSE

1 T about two o'clock the nurse

QUESTION

Cafe Makarios

Enosis

~PERSONALLY I THINK WE SHOULD TAKE A RISK“

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

GEOFFREY THURSBY

meets

the King

who lives with

"If these problems are not tackled and solved the future will be clouded with danger,"

I asked what he believed were the main problems in the said theno Middle East. He

Palestine

were

three: the

rofugees, international munism, and Algeria.

1

Com

THE REFUGEES, cald tha

king, are the greatest prob lem. Jordon has a population of a little more than 1,000,000. There are 750,000 refugees, dis- contended, easy dupes for the Communists,

danger

The Reds good tho refugees to

rovolt.

Nazoer and tho Com mumist supporters in

HAVE just talked with the young man Syria join in, because they hope

lo carve up Jordan amotu

with the toughest job in the world. This themecives. is King Hussein, 23-year-old ruler of Jordan.

The West depends on Hussein to stem the tide of Communism in the Middle East. The Russians would like to see him dead. That is why he lives under constant guard, with heavily armed trucks always with him when he travels.

I saw him in Amman, his capital of the Seven Jebels, or Seven Hills. The winter sun shone brightly on the white-walled palace where not so long ago his ancestors pitched their black, goat-hair tents.

Straight to the point

The short broad-shouldered Hussein, in dark grey suit and silvered-coloured tie, shook hands, emerged from behind his leather-topped desk and came straight to the point:---

"The Middle East is a battlefield for the cold war. We are confronted with problems which not only endanger our own stability but also the peace of the whole world.

PINCHER ASKS A ABOUT THE

ATOM

How much responsibility

VITAL

So Hussein, with assassination a constant threat, rules with martial law.

Solution needed

He said "It is high time the world saw the Arab point of view and took steps to solve the refugee problem. Unless which solution is reached

of war"

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acceptable to the whole Arab world-and the Palestinians In particuler the Middle East will spot continue to be a danger exposing the world to the threat

What was his solution?

idea, He offered ΠΟ леш merely repeating the old Arab that the argument

refugees should be allowed to return to their land and homes in Israel stuck The king seems to be with this argument, bocause ano move away from it may topple

his throne.

If he made any practical Į suggestions for solving the could refugee problem, which

all Arabs to their homes in Israel, the Egyptians and Communists

not include the return of

CHIEF Would bring him down with

can one man

stand?

eries of "Traitor."

2.

On COMMUNISM. Hussein was blunt. Clearly mean- ing Egypt and Syrie, he said: "Some countries in the Middle East have been inclined to think that international Communin will solve all their difficulties, political and economic.

lite, сал

"They seem to have OVET looked the fact that liberty of the individual, family nationalism, and religion noves coexirt, oh the Can munist doctrine."

One necessity

to

How could internaijensi Com- munism be beaten back?

sald the "Ono necessity." king, "is 'build up the people's standard of living and increase economic prosperity."

That was what Jordan trying to do and would go on doing as fast as she could.

Then. ALGERIA. The king said: "I believe the era of

Was

to his Berkshire headquarters colonialism has come to an end

How much responsibility can one man on the night train to clear up The people of Algeria must have

:

shoulder before his health, judgment and relish for work begin to suffer?

sante

his desk and returns by night the right to self-determination. train the san

day.

This problem must be solved, It is Penney who writes the too, if the Middle East is to be report of the accident and who come stable.

"The Algerians no longer It to the Press. explains It

want French colonialism. That When the Prime Minister de

is clear."

that

eldea to set up three committees

Windscnte accident Penney is asked to be its king-post.

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Again the king stressed I ask this question fol- during the tenseness of atomle to investigate the whole atom economic prosperity must come the silly ttlo wakened me. "I think you'd lowing the announcement blasts in the Australian desert, set-up Ferney is on all of them. to the Middle East if its probe It is precisely because his con- Now when a critically im-lems are to be permanently man's brains out. And all the better come, Miss Amelia, the

critically important tribution to this nation is to portant safety panel is set up to settled. time my aunt clutched at life old lady has taken a turn for of a

move in the interests of the immense that I say this is a bad, profit by the lessons of the like un emaciated miser. My the worse.

nation's safety-the sorting bad appointment." that whimpering hatred for

I drew on my dressing gown Agure lying beneath the salmon- pink counterpane, grew to such and telephoned for the doctor up of a special panel of dimensions that I trembled with who arrived after about half an experts to control the safe

For hour

He looked at the still handling and storage of rage in her presence.

weapons and tunately, the doctor and the uro on the bed and nodded atomic

knowingly. My nunt was H-bomba. nurse mistool this for grial.

breathing heavily so that the should really have "You

sound seemed to fill, the whole change," they sald.

About then, I decided

A

Overloaded

A big man

Police posts.

"In this way," he said, " can make this vital region power for good instead of, un, I say that no man however instrument of destruction which

mind, versatile in

however will threaten the world." resilient in physique can cope

said: Ho shook hands and OOK at Bill Penney's respon- with such a burden. Look at "You know I really am looking. sibilities. Ho is the prime the post-war statesmen if you forward to a good year in 1958." These experts will bear the idear man and designer for the doubt this,

and H-bombs

Outside, over, black leo in house. The doctor said: "There's immeasurable responsibility of atomie weapons to

Recidental nuclear for all three Services. In this

tulip-shaped glasses, one of the murder my aunt; I would polson nothing much we can do now, preventing

Call explosions at the atom-weapons capacity the Government has

king'a nides Balsh: "Don't you millions on her. The trouble was I knew we'll just have to wait.

think our king is wonderful? nothing about poisons, but I did me back if anything happens, it stations and the secret under- Invested countless

amateur not I'll be round first thing inground stores, They will be the his, assurances.

there nobody else who could He will lead the Arabs to a know that талу

Zount of authority on the sofo Ho is the arch planner of test handling And poisoners with ambitions similar the morning,"

carriage of explosions with all the dangers take on this latest task? I better life."

driver But the taxi

who Navy, to my own, finished on the

Army

William Cook, Penney's deputy. gallows.

of so doing.

When the Anal details of the Bill Cook has proved himself to looked at a now police past and I went to the Public and all the time, as an accom blast whole elles into rubble.

paniment to my thoughts was The man selected to head Macmillan-Eisenhower

be a big man in the Christmas said: "Police! There's nothing defence and H-bomb tests..

but police and soldiers in thii Library, but was careful to the stentorian breathing of my this panel and hear the main agreement have to be worked

country. select the books from the dying aunt.

burden of decision is Sir William out in Washington the indis- Hemann comalderations aside, "People are locked up with- shelf myself; I did not

they haven't borrow them

I saw myself on a white ocena Penney, the 18-year-old scientist ponsable Penney must be there. Penney's brain is too valuable aout reasonand I browsed

After an accident at Windscalo national property to be over much chance of getting out. No among the books. I found going Hoer, mingling with the who is already all things atomic

alom works in Cumberland it is strained. So now there are wonder they are building, more that polsoners make two gay careless tourists. I saw to all mon,

the palace. I either by myrelt stepping forth into the yield to nobody in my ad- Penney who is put in charge of two Bills of atomic eminence I police posts round fatal mistakes. preparing the food contain white heat of Columbo, and miration of this excellent man. the favostigations. He is a pay the Government should stop They will need them.?!

For the young man with the ing poison, themselvom or drinking gins and toulo. waters I have witnessed ble outstanding overloaded that when the work being Peancy-foolish and re-

him of mind in aetion in the conference at Windscalo is field up for 24; beve

responsibility toughest job in the world, just room, over the Bunch table, acid hours he cannot rest bút travels instead of giving him more. one more problem.

The nurse and I sat back in R.A.F.,

and

I had no intentions nur chairs in the darkened room, bombs and rockets which could and political difficulties they say there is--the newly knighted trove me away was angry. Ho

entail.