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THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1959.

JACOBY PERE AUGUSTE

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BRIDGE

Bid Forces To

Grand Slam

recent

Virginia Beach landed

1 duplicate everyone

in six apales or ais no-trump. Declarer could not get to dum-

my and had to to down and have reached the lay down seven

Allen Hanekel of Norfolk wants to know how they could

hearts.

The bidding in the box 340- swers his question.

North's two spade bid is the normat forcing two and South's four heart response is designed to show exactly what he holds. A long, strong rult but no ace

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FORGIVES

HAD a week to spare before I

sailed from Marseilles to New York, so I went to stay with some friends in Grenoble. The evening I arrived they took me to a restaurant called Chez le Pere Auguste.

with Three were hull dozen tables

il pleasant chequered table clothes in the amali, tourists swhite-washed room. There were no

toll Frenes. The tables were decupied by

businessmen and their yet more stuild wives, who ate with rapt concentration--though now and then their fires would relax into a mile of derp satisfaction.

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He sat down beside

me with a strange

look of intemalty

and live. And I think I should for club. No one had even heard of The pince was attractive unassuming, and so was the old give him before I'die. So 1 ask a Maurice Godel. I was giving patron. Le Pere Auguste, who you this. Could you find my up in despair, when another re- Jim a message reptionist who hnd overheard jer 16 lake ur orders.

With

our conversation, leaned across

The man looked ma up and said "He couldn't mean Mr down as if he were trying to Kuess my weight. Then he said:

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can tell you where he used work," Auguste said,

There was awe in his voice.

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message from him."

"Yes,"

"What is it?"

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"The manager of came back with a piece of paper

Savoy-Waldorf," which he carefully unfolded.

Obviously Maurice, Golet," I read, and then the name of one of the Auguste's on. And yet... and not famous hotels in New yet perhaps... devided "There goes a contented man,” York, which 21 will call the to have one last try,

1 god to myself as we said "Savoy-Waldorf." R could hard- goodnight to him and walked by be described 05 1}} "esta Gut into the fresh night air. But mine."

I was wrong. And I found it al 1 try to and trim." I salt. the evening

betwe I left Dev And if I do, what inessage can Marseilles.

I give him?" hin we krew

By that time

For a moment Le Pere Auguste

sipped his due in silence. Then he said: "ell him I forgive

quite well. The wind come and or king us for a fine at the end of

the meal and he would, describe him." to the fabulous dishes and North's' live no-trump is thewates he had known in his life. last night when y so-called grand slam force. Its that

sinne fanda told him that was GAT

sauri. to Amerisa lar

oddly became jpestive and gloomy and denk

or than usual.

erased into Atter a while he came and sal down beside me and asked me,

is not a Blackwood bidl Suulit's bid has already "Partner, I have no aves."

It asks South to go to seven hearts if he thinks his sint is

good enough and obviously with a strange look of intensity, grantees me nee af hearts and i was ing to New York. either the nee or void in all When I said that I was, the story other sulis.

emme mill. It was this.

he had Thirty years aga quarrolled with his son, Maurire,

South knows his partner holde the ace of hearta, his mills good ungaidi, to he bids reven.

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was then ing of twenly. Pere Auguste's wife had died the previous year, and Maurice, their only child, wanted to leave him to go to Paris, because he won in love with "gome kind of worthless Birl thery."

UNLIKELY "And I can

Tell him about meeting your

dais and about redaurant?"

"Coitaly," he said. Suddenly Itis

HAPPEN?

ANOTHER STORY IN THE BERIES THAT KEEPS

YOU GUESSING

The next day Yuck.

this could not be

"Please put me through to Mr Maurice." I said. And when I could see they were doubtfal. 1 added:

"I may have an message for him."

find Д

·

"But I've been invited 10 Junch

here by my publisher today."

Mr get

"He asked me to tell you that he has forgiven you."

Mr Maurice's bland exprçi- sion did not alter.

"Did he tell you what I did?" "He said you'd run off Paris."

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"Did he tell you he'd chucked important me out of the house?"

"No," hesitated,

The receptionist then took up the telephine. A secretary answered, but at last I was put through to a man with fem, rather cokl, voice, and no trace of a French accent.

I asked Maurice?" **Mr rather nervously.

"Yep, Speaking,"

"Have you got a father who face runs a restaurant in Grenoble?"

a smile, un harked feeling a complete idiot. added: Au There was a pause, and thes

you

Why!"

l he said: "Yep. con him this. If he is really a true con af mine he will cook you! us x mexi

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hare done."

Then blinked as the

"I've got a message for you from him."

"Where are you now?". "At reception."

fears

he

"I have you sent right up." LAVISH SETTING

The elevator shot me up like a rocket to the top of the vast building and I was shown past pricked nie-rooms

of secretaries into.

penthouses

his eyelids and turned away.

one of the smartest

I sailed for New

DOCTOR'S ADVICE

Maurice Auguste sa "No".

When I had been there a few violent There was a insisted. scene, and young Maurier rush- days a publisher asked me

t have ever seen. the end of

Mr Maurice smiled, and for a

"Oh

110, you won't," Maurice sold armly. "You him to take, you.. to Twenty- One or some place like that. I need warning for this."

I thought of the vast holel, with its various grill-rooms and restaurants, and night-clubs, and then I thought of Le Pere Augustę, In his little white-

"I suppose you're right," I sald moment he reminded me of his washed room with its six tables.

doubtfully. father,

WEEK NEEDED

"Proud old devil," he said. "Never would admit himself the wrong."

In

the

an elaborate

He walked siowly across room and opened cocktail cabinet.

"Drink?"

I'm meeting "No, thanks. friend In the bar downstairs and I'm late already."

"Mind I have one?"

He poured out half a gloss of whisky and

added some ce cubes. His back was still half- he next when turned to me spoke.

other

"Was there message?"

any

"Yes," I said, after a pause.. "Let's hove It."

"Listen, you've eaten my old man's cooking, haven't you?"

"I certainly have."

"Then you know I need a week, if I'm to compete with him. Is that a date? You lunch with me here today week?"

I thanked him. He relaxed and chuckled, "I reckon it's for me to thank you," he said,

MY REWARD

It might have been the most wonderful meat of my life. I shall never know, because three days later I was suddents called away from New York. I had to go to Charlesion to give a lecture carlier than I expected.

But instead of a fabulous lunch I had a memory that was just as rewarding—a picture of Mr Maurice reaching for telephone almost before out of his penthouse.

the

was

"Get mc long-distance". I "France,

you've "With all this set-up And there at

pale green got in this hotel. I'm afraid it long room behind a brood desk, sat sound rather ridiculous."

"I'd like to know it, just the heard dark-haired smooth-faced, J

Europe."

DID IT REALLY HAPPEN?

In plump man. Ife was alert und

"Mr ed hystericuity out of the house, lunch at the Savoy-Waldort. I very confident. vowing nover to return, Maurice emembered Le Pere Auguste's went to Paris. The girl did turn ermund so I arrive half an hour asked.

same."

Maurice Gader"

I

"Your father said that if you were really a true son of his.. No, It's really too stupid."

"Carry on.

"If you

"Pleased to meet you. Have a

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early, and went to the reception "They call me Maurice round out to be worthless, and Maurice desk and asked them it I could here. It's easier.

States, where emigrated to the

told me he get in touch with a Mr Maurice Le Pere Augoste

I cal- cigarette. Sit down. Weil now "dans Godet, who must now, aw worked as a water

cainted, be about 50, and who (quoiqu'espero d'estamnot."

had once worked They had

net for

as a waiter. years,

"I am now and man* Auguste said. The dudes to ime 3 have mor

many years

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in the hotel is hy met my father. How the man's Something about

were a frue son of his you'd be able to cook me as good a meal as he did."

He swung round and stared of ine. Then he put down his glass.

"Right" he said. "Give me a The receptionist was very deliberate calm irritated me.

ther Nol too well," 1 sald. "The week to get things organised kind. He ruing through

the gril-room,. the doctors have told him he hasn't and we'll see what the hotel can to e laurant,

elampagne roon, and the night- many years to live."

do."

'MAC-the unflappable'

London,

PARLIAMENT rose for the summer recess the other week. Most prob- ably this will be the last holiday in the life of the present government,

it now being generally accepted that a General Election will be held in mid-October.

In an eve-of-recess debate,

air Aneurin Bevan, with an echo PETER BURGOYNE'S.

al his former the-eating well,

dubbed it the worst Parlament

ite culd re:nembeT. Perhaps

for Mr Bevan this wils

Indeed, not so many months ago you might have

found dis-

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consointe Tories to agree with panicked once he has embarked on course of action. This re soluteness has paid dividends, particularly in the field of na tional economy.

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Parliament rose, prospects for the Turies were brighter that they had been strce the last General Election

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of mere acquisition born of the realisation that the malerial possessions dees yield a full life.

Whatever the cause, the Gov- ernment is going to have to find

It has pald dividends just as some way of stemming the important, electorally speaking. crime wave

before It over- depleted

In 1954. In fact, in retrospect. For "Mue the Uniflappable" has wheima the nation's the change of Tory fortunes rallied disheartened Tory sup- police forces,

has been something like parters, once more to the bli

miracitiuus.

banners or milliant Conserva- Plea For Colour

At one time, it looked as it is..

the Tories had reached a low

It Mr Macmillan decides to

point from which they would go to the country in October, never be able to scramble back Tory prospects are bright,

to favour. Fate really seemed

Crime Wave

No

TO one could accuse Manches- ter of being a colourful place. It has countless civio virtues, but even the most loyal to have it in for them, There'

Mancunian could not unblush. was Sucz, the resignation of Sir

ingly call it colourful. Its rain. Anthony Eden, headlong wage inflation, a credit squeeze that AST week I told you how fall is famous and, frankly, for hurt, the resignation of three London's crime record had many its name is synonymous Treasury Ministers, Gleeful soared to unprecedented heights. with gloom.

thai Now, comes confirmation

You'd think, then, that they Something that happens to Socialists rubbed their hands.

not confined to would welcome a spot of colour, Then, quite suddenly, dawn the trend fa broke for the Trics. Things London.

a touch of the exotic. But not This week they began to go their way,

Latest crime figures released a bit of it.

had a wonderful opportunity Was this fortuitous? I think for England and Wales are

new citizen, Gwani not. The change, I belleve, was higher than ever before; 628,600 whos inspired and developed by Mr indictable offences known Harold Macmillan once he had the police-a 14.0 taken over the premiership.

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to Sundar Singh Sagar, applied

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per cent for a job as a bus conductor.

The City Council turned him the previous year's

+ down because, as a Such, he re- And again the increase was fused to abandon his turban in favour of the standard uniform most marked among teenagers.

cap. Why the turn to crime at a

Mancunian Ume when jobs are plentiful, if I were wages good and security com- (which I'm not I should have His optimism communicated monplace?

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thla time de- Somo psychologists say that cut off a letter to my

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