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THE CHINA MATE, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1961.

The Killing at Ascot Riot! But as knives flash, the alarm stays silent...

WHEN HA Mureno,

tim

Ascal harmaid, was fotod

fatally wounded, her dying words were "The Benefactor. Wednestly," Alerted by me- tion of the name of this inter- nationally known race-track eraak. Donald Rogers, Ascot's chief security officer, Inid on extra precautions for

by

LEONARD MOSLEY

11 was then, they found the she had disappeared.

Bayad Asent meeting. Rogers where?

As he walked through the

stands.

Wats

weaken on oltack on one of the tote booths And that's where I let you down, chief." Sho gulped. " lold them. fold thein that the red signal goes and all the bells Minrt Bounding."

Rogers put his hand on her shoulder.

Iond-haller +11: But boning

Mr Rogers.

"Why, child," he said, "who Wilt Me Rogers please report to. cares if you told them that. It his office,"

isn't where the money is-inde gave his secretary, Ann, per-

Yuk know tooths. sitting the tote Jeffrey Rockett and from verdure to

WHE mission to attend a parly enclosure, Donald Hogere felt dejectedly in a chair by the that," given by Mnu, Antoine. Al the like taking off his grey loggaer

desk beside a sal-looking, half- with Anished whisky, The light an party Ann is drugged. Mae. and

the We are Antoine fells Ber:

winking taking you to see the Bene-

factor...

arrived and

stamping

frustration.

L

i

Excited

Yes, except for Ann's disap}-

Tras

on the

it:tereom Was repeatedly.

Rogers picket up rever, and the

The re- relief on his

as he rotor-

far was obvious Bra i The Voice.

Ana" I said. "Thank

Aun Hanson was crying.

IME QUEEN and her 且

party had

already stance, everything scared to cut. What happened to you?"

Hot mal. be completely were in the road was excited. But their box. The fashion that was not untivand parade was

on in the day of a big tace. True, as he wallad through the 10s. Ding, Royal Enclosure. It was Sammte Smiley bustled up to Royal Hunt Cup Day at Astrot.

Ann At Mill no gu of 1

All alght

Dil and morán. The reh had been guing and Chief Seccarty Omer Portalt turns had us aumit to rolf that be hadn't Eotelne.

jaim,

towards small

He hoked hard at her. "You didn't tell then that, did you No! where we keep the cash?"

She shook her file hair. "No, chief, I didn't tell them that. But they didn't want to know that, anyway, You see." satd. They're not alter the money.

Sole

"Am in the?" she sak. It's

Rogery saldo half an today, " the big race started?" hour. But on. Ann. Are you all right? And

where

Ann; "Don't worry about me, eid. F all right.

I'm the Yorking Troin a call box near

Viginia Wales, 1 think. give you the master."

I'l

He gestured! lusters f coloured panter -prinkled

They're all here. chef." He "All the boys Long John Akki have the thuno to. But I don':

Rogers took down the mumber, Breve anony know. When

and Burn, I can't pick up a thing switched on his inteream,

ged Roger, ini punt- ait: burty, pink-faced" ast- Check the location of hend moving through the sing buler and read a ent with a group of youths 1 right away." hind him.

There's the pig I was - quick-acting Pentnihal drug ing you about,"

rak.

Nu that wasn't quite true, at Mme. Autoine's A resuch

uf box had revealed a tube

and a broken syringe. A call "Tester Brennan, Trouble ไป Maye Antoine's hotel in maker for the white-race rabble

hadi pruduerd the rousers."

answer: "Marlane checked

out of the hotel yesterday, and

left se forwarding addres

Where had she gone And whe had she taken Ann

"

Tension

**F*2 Ann choked. chief. I've been running. shirt, this is important."

Corry,

she

***Tala isn't a robbery, chief, demonstration. There are of coloured people here aren't there? Well, these people who took me away- Erie Antoine's one of them -they're members of some fort of anti-Negro lungue. And 11 deinan- they're planning stration."

Signal

DRAWING BY

Robb

London Express Service.

"Keep Britain white." That was the signal. And Rogers moved in on the milling man.

look-uut

Ел was sharp.

the distance beyond the fringe of the course, just above the trees, a helicopter hovered.

Inside the tote tooths the She leaned forward urgently.

collected the "That's why we mustn't och cirks swiftly this

notes into bundies, packed them the alarm Boils. It's part of to t

and pushed them their plan. Someone will throw in boxes. asnoke bolub Into one of the through to the cashier cages.

ring. tote boutin in the 105. But Then they'll start fighting with the coloured prople. And then, "If anything happens during if we ring the bells, that will be the signal to the men and the big face-a fight, or some-

alarm women they've planted all over thing don't sound the

course--in front bells. Please, I'll expint when the 1 get there. But don't sound Rogal Box, everywhere, to stel shouting and waving banners, We've got to stop them, chief. Those bells mustn't ring."

Rogers id: Benefactor? Benefactor"

the alarm bells."

'Fanatics'

The fond-hailer

razap into "Will Mr Rogers nperation: report ta bis office, pleas***

The Chiet Security Oflyer patted Smiley on the shoulter, Keep there yes open. Sammie,

1hr room, Be I've it a diszen ulturers stande

Ing by the moment you smell

O trval]

" Donald Rogers Wis worried

she di appear- ube!

The JetTroy nier.

Rockett, young trainer, was frantie. He had come back to coffeet her after his trip o fonden.

Can't understand said. " was sent on an errand to fit up import term: fiut Mme. Aitoines hotses

Customs when I got

the Eta they'd never heard of h

And then, he saidt "Where's Ana" rould do with her just www.need a little ing."

comfort

SIE tanked

Very small and frightened when she came into

The

Thener, they slid down on the moving band which carried the money to the vault on the either side of the course there to wall until the pay-out.

Talla 11 shouted Rogers. and with the pollee ching hiru. moved fast towards the mob of miling white and coloured men. these were kniver Already

added in the sun.

"Keep Britain while?" some- one was shouting.

The key

THE en were all around the concrete building on the heath

now.

The crowd was beginning to the rails now. press towards The fle-tae men waved hyster vally,

tik The babble

the bookies till but drowned the throb of the helicopter whirl *13ut the ing away beyond the fringe of What about the the course,

"

Ann looked him straight in the eyes. It isn't the same She went up to Ruktors and

one, chief. It isn't the minster mind at all. The Benefactor is her eyes were brimming,

the crazy name they've the Royal in hair an hour,

1 had to tell them,"

she just "There aren't

crooks, given to one of their fanatics! Tint Cup, the big race of the salt.

Rogers leaned to his inter- day, would be 7 and Rogers chef. They're fanatics. When I

anil licked down te came to properly, I was in this com molt sense the tension in the

switch over which was the crowd as he pushed through house and whit they kept ask-

Electrician. them towards like tee in the ing me, ever and over again.

want What happens if someone This Important," he said, www stund,

"I want those. ofarm bells switcheri

04. Understand? Yes, all of them. If there's any trouble starts, I want silence yes, damn you. silence."

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A 'copter

THERE was five minutes to go before the start of the Royal Hunt Cup and the queues he fore the lole windows and the bookles' stands were long and claman!.

Over in the 10s, ring, Rogers had stationed his men and the

·

One of the filled 4 key

We door the ammeter bull into It Regan to waver madly.

"One thousand five hundred voits," said one of the men, "A real kiler, this deur. Steady,

Tarn the

on HOW.

current They switched on a motor, and as it began to hum, higher and higher in pitch, the Bgure on the meter began to come. down-to 1,000, 500, 100, 50, and then down to zero.

"Okay," said one of the men to the leader. "She's nullified now, You can to in."

The leader took out a key It into the door, and Buted turned it, and began to pash... As the men burst into the

into a lock and the door swung pen. In the crowd on the rails, there was only one max no watching the Royal Hunt Cup. Vault, one of the clerks sit- he was pale, bearded and well ing beside the pile of notes

and he sat in mulled up, No one took much notice of a mechanical wheelchale. shely towards a concrete butid- black imousine which moved

He watched for a

it

moment,

and reached over, saw them convulsively pressing his alarm hell. But no sound came,

THE Face was alaust over.

E Just beyond the guard rail as the group of men disappear- Aud so was the riot in the in the edge of the heath side ed into the door of the concrete 10s. ring. Summie Smiley was Then he started up nursing a bruise the size of an of the course. No one needed to building. worry about it, anyway. It was his wheelchair and began pull apple la his forehead, but he inside the track. Two men got putting away across the heath. was grinning.

to drift

towards

urinned.

coming in low to the centre of the heath now. Sammie looked at it and grinned.

Probably for him," he said, jerking his thumb towards the Itoyat Enclosure. "His nibs has got bored with the racing and he's going off to play polo!"

Mad dash

Rogers said: "By God, It's not for him. It's for something else! Come on, Sammic-and round up everybody!" And he

dushed

towards inadly

the tunnel that would take him to the other side of the course.

But by the Ume he got to the other side, It was too late.

The men had come out of the building. The bulging bags were being loaded into the aircraft, and then each man scattered into the crowd.

Slowly it fled, hovered for and then a low moments, moved away towards the shel- er of the frees-with £100,000 in nice dirly, negotiable notes inside

out at ved towards the con

Inside the concrete building Hopers looked cross at him crete building, while another

bls And then man stayed at the wheel. From the men were going down the and

step towards the great iron forehead knitted in a frown. the crowd, another three or four door at the boltum.

wheel The old man in the mon began

"That's funny." he said. " "Mask on!" The order

at it as it them.

cane in thick, gultural tones. thought this course was cleared chair looked up OVER the loud-haiter the an Ant over the heads of all of of all aircraft for the duration passed. The expression on his face could be described in only went all-stucking of the meeting.

of nounter made the hot call. In them

The helicopter had passed one way he wore a look the tule booths of the 10s. ring masks.

over the outer rails and was extreme satisfaction. the clerks made ready to clan the windows down.

Steady.

As they did so, a ferrely Bite. man edged his way forward

"We've gol vxnely eight and fung something through minutes!

You know The the window. Anuther man flung routine!" a smoke bomb into a group of by. men standing coloured

Two men moved forward to There were shouts and

the door and forecd against crack of breaking bottles,

the electric box they had been Over their hands "They're off!" said the voice carrying. over the loud-hailer and the, they wore rubber Hlove. As horses were away.

they moved

the

There never

ONE evening towards

the end of the war,

in the old back bar of

| the Cafe Royal, London,

a newly commissioned,

very young subaltern

the box against

NEXT WEEK:

Where is the Benefactor?

COPYRIGHT: Specially written for the China Mall

by Leonard Mosley. All characters

was

like Agate!

found himself standing By PETER

next to the most famous

and formidable critic in

the land, Mr James FORSTER

| Agate.

First the young mum

queried a quotation In Mr Agate's not recent

then WLEIT

article,

was accustomed to night Invasions.

Hero, with only three of for

sudlence, I now

ure Betitious.

Loudon Express Service).

critic

Jate he altered the date, explaining that H. G. Wells and another

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different Agate, a strange, for- mented, lonely, unhappy mati. In debt, -health, and prey to private torments.

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Devastating

remember hin adapting his asthmatic forhorn wheeze

friend had died on two con- secutive days before our inceling, "and, my dear boy, do under- stand that I must have a fe briween two deaths)"

He

material grabbed diary from anywhere, I wrote to him frein an Army depot in Egypt saying that I had Pharaohs at the bottom of my garden; he never replied to the letter, but die printed it in Ego.

He gol himself, accepted as a Balzacían character who lived

and b1 champagne

cigarh, who knew about cricket and, ahoye all, acting; could always produce A witty reminck, his own or somebody elec'a; and was in sum kr a mixture ar into a devastating Imitallon of John Bull and Dr Johnson.

in thin anthology you will find Olivier, adding that the actor

such diverse delights as a pas- was essentially clump.

nake suggesting that Lord Why? Well, Ree how he Beaverbrook is seven men in one revlew smoked a cigarette in "Iebecca" ( few?); a brillfant ("Give me a elgarullet Matches, proving that the fate, wlidly matches!"

In your pocket, overpraised Ernest Hemingway James." "Ah, yes."), holding it was really the pen-name of a. in the palm of the hand like a malden leds of fereproachable workman protecting his fag virtic.

Rebust the wind, not the aristo-

the

He wan certainly a entendid performer, his favourite stage ment given to a nobody by a being the Cafe Royal restaurant check that still startles him he busy, beszt, ailing old man, and well remember from Informed the Great Cham that it is more than gratifying to night I dined with him. in due course he would have be able to pay pubile tribute one of his jobs.

Mr Agate stared for a long

to his memory.

moment at the stranger, as ĺž I ent vouch for the abov (unsure whether it was a pip ar iezause I was the young mibal-

a chlp he wure on his boulder, en in question. (then chuckled and invited blin

I was there

C

And I rceall

Champagne

Wonderful poelentia of Sarah Bernhardt and flenty Irving, the two great players by whom he judged all who came after: a racy description of a trip to America! Advice

to

poetry-

Bu much

It makes a bedzkie book to keep the steeplest awake.

For no clear reason he had crat Olivier was portraying.

Wollt, a Wing Commander In-attend- And

the "Watch ance; chan pogne was called for, way he walks as Hamlet, like to dinner the following evening now, partly because Agate cities the bottle, so the Wing Com. Plus much unprintable more.

the secation but he would not have three at one of the servants at Elsinoro. a sparkling new mander had to drink Ingor, Above all, he was obsesard by writing soldiers; and anthology of his work, JAMES which seemed entirely proper to his nine-volume autoblography, etre. AGATE by Herbert van That Second Lieutenant Me.

the Ego serler. (Harl-Davis, 218.), and partly On the strength of a mtb- to convey to those too yuting to

Walters were despatched with sonitent pcelmen article. Mr remember him that no critic messages to acquaintances in al Agate promised to get him a has over held a positioni quite parts of the room; he effected

remaric Introductions; if pleased him he repeated it to

My own view in that this is claiming that he was a nighty

mojur one of tho He was not a creator. He was adjoining tables; the hands of

works of floe follow, but he could not that could Before

happen.

wele like Hazil. Today we a clinracter.

ald actressen were kissed with action of our time. however, Mr Agate rather

elaborato gallantry,

crites ara mighty fine fellows, Inconsiderately did, but that Ila imposed upon the public

For a tiny example, when but I don't think we can write does not detract frum then brand-image of himself në × huge, hired car, and whizzed vlf Agate described (quite inac Bike Agate, remarkably gehatolás éneziurage- typical Lancashire man.

London Express Bervice,

Job og à critle when the young. Tike James Agote, un was demobbed,

Afterwards we piled info

Delights

to a fat owned by a widow who curately) his encounter with me,

James Agate was tund of pro-

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