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TRAIN OF

DEATH

AND HORROR

CAPTAIN Scott stood numb with the

horror of it all. He was startled to ́hear` a voice.

"I am glad to see that it makes you ill.” Scott swung round. It was Van Leyden. And if ever a man looked ill it was be.

A surge of anger 'swept Scott, partly caused by the seeds murder of the poor souls he saw scattered around him, and part- ly by the sneering insolence of Van Leyden.

"I told you not to get out of the train," snapped Scott,

"I am a newspaper reporter It is my duty to look and report. Van Leyden mopped his head. He stared around him.

Scott glared. "All right. Look, then take a good look. See what happens when the British are not around to keep order."

Van Leyden's face, puckered, with fury. "To keep order! You divide. You set Moslem against Hindu. You divide in order to

rule."

"There is nothing we can do," be, said quietly. "They're all dead."

Catherine stared at him. "But there were hundreds of people on that train. How do you know they're all dead? You haven't had time to...look properly."

"We're moving on," "declared Scott, flatly.

"But there may be somebody alive. We can't just go on with- out being sure."

Devils

This isn't the first time I've seen this sort of thing. When those devils do a job they do it properly."

He went out of the coach to Standing there amki the tell Gupta to start. And in fact carriage under the wheeling the train was moving when vultures Scott saw only the dark Catherine climbed down on to face of Van Leyden, a face the track. She was determined stamped with hatred.

to see for herself that no living soul remained in that terrible place.

"Moslems were fighting each other for hundreds of years be fore the British came to India

and well you know it," he re-

torted furiously.

Fury

Blind fury swept through him again. "Get back.on that train,' he almost yelled. Van Leyden turned to go.

Scott himself, with the help of a soldier, moved the points which had shunted the refugee train on to the siding-and effected the ambush-back to the main line setting.

Van Leyden, meanwhile, had taken his place in the train again. He was greeted by ques- tions from those already there.

"What is it?"

...

"What's happened?” "Captain Scott said 'stay in the carriage'. We can't all go and look...."

Van Leyden did not answer, He was too upset by what be

Scott did not try to stop her,

He waited patiently for her re-

CHAPTER THREE

THE STORY SO FAR: It is the turn of the cente that trouble-spot, the North West Fronding of fa Moskau. tribes have rebelled, killed the Bajah C now threaten the life of his young son, Prince Khaben, Captain Scott, the boy'a governess Curtherine Wyatt, and four others, set out in an antiquated train to try and get the boy to the safety of Kalapur, 300 miles away. But the countryside is infezbed with rebois, and the small party comes across a train of refugees, alf of whom and they number hundreds--have been massacred NOW READ ON:

She was met by Scott, his face ravaged by self-reproach, He stayed sliert, too moved to speak. And it was Catherine who broke the silence.

"You couldn't have known," she told him in a voice filled with compassion for him. "I WAS a chance in a nation'

Still Scott could not find

words. They both climbed into the coach again. Lady Wind ham, Bridle and Peters crowded round them, all too anxious to Ce the small bundle that Catherine carried.

They turned to look at Scott. He felt censure in their eyes. He felt uncomfortable.

Catherine said, sensing the feeling in the coach. "He was turn And Catherine, sick of completely hidden. The mother soul as well as of body, moved had covered him with, her own steadily along the platform of the body. dead, into the carriages, past the sightless, staring eyes and the sprawling limbs, searching for some living thing-some move- ment that would tell her that her search was not in vain.

It was a terrible ordeal. The stench of death, the mixed chorus of flies and carrion And

常看

"Dua't make excuses form Scott told her. "I WAS wrong and that's that'

Terrible

One or two incidents occurred as the train continued ils jours ney.

The incident of the pig- skin case, for example. The case was Lady Windham's. She ask- ed Van Leydsh to fetch it down from the rack above their heads. Not because she wanted it. But because she suspected Van Leyden & was « a Mosleise whose faith forbade his touching. pigsida,

Van Leyden, reacted as she suspected. He hesitated long be fore, be touched the case. And his lips were in a-tight, thin line of distaste when finally be over- came his aversion of the job ha. was asked to perform.

Apology

Then there was the incident

of Catherine. She apologised to Scott for embarrassing him about the finding at the baby. It was a frank talk. It gave Scott a new insight into this remark- able woman's character,

"I understand why you search- ed that station Scott told her.

done earlier to stop supplies and troops reaching Haserabad." Peters said: "We can't just sit

The train moved at last. Your husband was doctored passenger. Bridie had the have been down on us like a ton leaving the terrible sight and a very fine doctor by all ac- brillantides of feeding 1 of bricks. It could have been cotants. He died trying to save through the finger of a glove. It people's lives. You could hardly sucked up the milk through this and not live up to his ideals, I tople of talk to case the strain be married to a man like that improvised teat and provided a

among the others imagine....

be traat met through a short tunnel and emerged into the

Catherine interupted him with a new note in her voice.

"Please,

here.”

Captain Scott (KENNETH MORE) foods, hir which, includes Catherine Wyatt (LAUREN BACALS and young Prince Kishan, from the prince's palace through rebel territory to the safety of Government House in Hasarabad.

the evidence of man's stupidity, memory behind. It was only An arm hung down from, the then that Scott realised that carriage roof....a body was the young prince was not in the suspended half in and half out main compartment. of a carriage · window........* We swung open the door of woman lay huddled with her the little guards vaw And there arm up as though to protect her was Kishan-with Van Leyden, breast....The walk Catherine Not for the first time Scott got had steeled herself to undertake the impression that Van Leyden was nearly over.

Breeched to a halt with a folt forward, And going back would moved the call, sweating and Kishan, kliding had a kind of a... well,

It seems to be an interesing It wasn't endy work, But it afanatical look in his eytt man wrong reasons. I didn't for so gudden that Bridie, who was appear to be out of the question, · straining in the sun

teching tea cups, dropped 8. military problem, Captain Sedit was done in the end. keyfull of them.

Obscene

And at last she heard is had seen and his brush with faint cry. Something DID Scott, At last he said: "It's the in all that obscene nightmare of refugee train. They....attacked blood. it."

But that left long ago. It

should be miles away....

Is there anything we can do.....this from Lady Wind- ham.

"Do?" anaried Van Leyden, "No, there is nothing you can domexcept go back to your own country,"

Scott came into the carriage. He met the appalled looks of the others as calmly as he could.

It was

"I thought it was better that he shouldn't spe the Van Leyden indicated the carn- age they had last behind And Scott, in all times, could not help realising that Van Layden

Was Tight

a baby. Brown and

They returned to the main soft and small. It lay under its part of the couch: They found mother's body. She had evident the gentle Bridle making his

"What's the matter?"

"You're right, Bug for all, the to his ideals, I think that I hated them. Yes, I did. I hated the

and the squalor and the places we had to live in, I hated being a doctor at all: One does learn though

in the ... even if it is a. late in the day. Does that make sense?”

bit

bright sunshine again. But no

sooner had it done so than

Twisted

Gupta had seen, Just in time that the time ahead was torn up a length of all was bent and

twisted.

Van Loyden looked at Scott in a way that roused his irritation, Van Leyden said: "We can't go

“Or maybe a matter of com- mon sense," snapped Scott He turned to the "men. "There are

six of us. We're going to take cut that tom-up section of the rail and put another one in the place taken from behind the

Van Leyden grunted: "Im

Of course it does. I may be basket wicker

Gupta reversed quickly, into train, of course." one of the brutal and Koentious the tunnel again. Scott review- soldiers, but I'm not a complete ed the situation and came to a possible." decision. blockhead, "

And there was the light refles . **I don't think it's en ambush," provided by their newly-acquir he told the others.

ly died in one last desperate old-fashioned effort to save it from the bullets into a cradle, an the swords of the crazed "It's a funny thing," he was murderers.

remarkding, "the fellows have Weak and white and tremi always pulled my log about this "There goes Bridle bling, and yet with the feeling little case.

that her walk had been well with the baby they, used to say. worth the agony, Catherine'made Now it seems that they were her way back to the train, the right. Look, the perfect cot for bawing infant held close to her, him."

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And so the train was moved up to the broken section of call Themen got down and

Curiously

Scott felt curiously, vulnerable, though, when the section of rail

ποντά, The men, all sweating, from behind the grain was re carried it to the front.

in front. No rail behind happens if you are attacked?'

It was about then that

house Cards with

the bille

the rebet

does it mes

•Peters.

"It means they

Van Leyden, who had been an unwilling participant in the here. Hurry, manual labours, put: Bóott's U- spoken fears into words/ANA

This is now in most fibremsing eye situation, Captain Scott. No relIndeed they.

GREY FLANNEL

Los Angeles.

OW that 43-year-old John Fitzgerald Kennedy ▼ of Massachusetta has won the Democratic nomination for President of the US., and 48-year- old Vice President Richard Nixon of California has got the Republican nomination we have the pro- spect of a fight for the presidency this autumn whose ferocity will be matched only by its unique-

ness.

though

him. As

GLADIATORS

As from

For the young Kennedy and which it is clear has alread now

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