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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY. 29, 2037.

Hills That

Make Men Sing

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By Stanley Baron

MAN was going across Rombals Moor is the proper a brown moor-a man title of it, of course-kley singing, in, a wild Moor is the name of only a small

• absurd voice, an absurd section, immediately above the gay tune. The road town-and as to whom Rombald from Keighley to the moor-top was I haven't the faintest idea. climbed most of the way in a But I do know why Workahiro dead straight line.

cyclists always sing as soon as they get to Ilkley.

Near the summit it curved a little and then fell spiralling in a breakneck course to Wharfe- dale.

no

song. vile. He was me.

"Wheer as that been sin

saw thee?"

the

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was the inmost melody of all the songs in the world.

All good hill country has 1

man

a

They come suddenly within

sight of the high hills

INSPECTOR PLayfair's

NOTEBOOK: 10

SIR

The Stolen Treaty

IR GABRIEL COUCHMAN, in Holborn; we've had plenty of the Deputy Commissioner, dealings, he and I, in the past. had just returned from Downing I know, he's got contacts with Street. The theft from the Solenia, and you know-belter | Foreign Office of the draft treaty than I, Sir Gabriel-bow Solenia with Norvania had ceased to be is affected by the treaty. But merely an unpleasant incident. what I can't prove is that he has It was seriously worrying the any link with Flutters. I've had Cabinet,

Lipmare down here at the Yard; I've tried every slant I know on him; and he denies all know- ledge of Jake Flutters's exist-

"T

Couchman rang the bell. want Inspector Playfair, pronto."

"Playfair," said the D.C. ence. And that, Sir, is how the

be

motioning the Inspector to 11 seat, "this business has got to cleared up, and cleared

their Lincolnshire wold, Yorkshire wold and north-east moorland, all capped by Cheviot; and

Nineteen ranges

pretty quickly. enstward parallels of

They, sing because at Ilkley they come suddenly within sight of the high hills; because the The song the man sang wha whole of the great hog's back of "On Jikla Moor baht 'at." The Rombalds (and Ikla Moor within moor was Ikley Moor. The man it), pointing north-west from I remember him to well-wns the wool towns to the further tall, thin, dishevelled by heat and the labour of the climb: most moors and dales, is a giant he finger post to freedom; because Yorkshireman, he, and should have known better than here, where the moors begin to singing quality, and when Sometimes I think we finally, the bright jewel of to try to sing a Yorkshireman's close in tightly

on the river,

finds it in the Pennines English people hardly realise Cumberland. His voice in any case was there is goed air to breathe, and most it is only because, of the the breadth of our inheritance, infinitely varied; nineteen voices,

finally because Ilkley is the last greater English hills he loves and particularly of our heritage melting one into another. ah town in Wharfedale and paradise them most. Another will hear

Add all their subsidiaries (the lies beyond. You have to sing it strongest when he goes to of hills. Make a list of them

He will hear a and hear how the chant rolls Yorkshire Howardians, for Cumberland, as you pass by Rombalds and

holy chorus in the thud and out. The South Downs leading example), tot up the multitude through Ilkley. The spirit of

boom of the wind between the on through Hampshire to the of little independent groups like "On Ilka Moor baht 'at, the high hills compels it.

the Peckfortons of Cheshire, three gates of Esk Hause. Or great Dorset rampart; Mendips the Clent and Lickey Hills be- They were singing in skip he may be a Sussex man, for and Quantocks face to face: loved of all good Brummagem All over Ilkla Moor there were ton's inns when I rode through whom nothing is more moving Exmoor beyond and Dartmoor men, and that delicious Hog's- figures on the move. Crowds at the town into Airedale. There or enduring than the undertone beyond that, with the heights back of the Poldens by which the hillfoot, thinning patterns was singing on the road as clubs of downland. But in all hills of Bodmin Moor to make the one promenades high above as they wove towards the sum swung, one succeeding another, there is music of some kind- final triangle. Cotswolds front- Sedgmoor from Glastonbury to mit; nearly all of them "baht

Bridgwater; mix in all the | Street and whether it is a soundless ing Malverns. South of the "island" hills you find in nearly Skipton High 'at" and many of them "baht" "p leave, for much of the moor is on the way to Malhamdale or singing, a mere melody of the Thames the Berkshire chalk, every county (what of Bredon?) mind, or a chorus so strong and private and reserved-officially Settle; and in the rhythmic up- insistent that all who hear it northward the Chilterns. and you have the makings of a moorland rolling Hallelujah Chorus. Or an ari- -to the wild cry of grouse and ward surge of the roads going must take it up, makes no odds Shropshire the sharp bark of guns.

north across the Pennines there to the fact.

westward into Wales. The High them. Peak and the Pennines, with

An anthem that is England.

---(lie sang)—

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TEST

ANSWERS

The Stolen Treaty

"Spare no expense." Anid Lord Barford. It did not occur even to Lipmore, when Flutters gave him a special edition of the, "London Record" ("planted" on Flutters by Molly Mandeville) that this was a very special edi tion of which only three copies had been printed. One was re- tained at the Yard; one by Playfair; the third was that which Lipmore showed to the Inspector. The proof of his con- ncetion with Flutters was thus absolutely conclusive; it was elinched by the presence of Flutters's fingerprints on the. In- criminating sheet. Confronted with this coup, Flutters turned got King's Evidence; Lipmore seven years' hard labour and Playfair his M.B.E.

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case stands."

Sir Gabriel scratched his chin. "Well, Playfair," he said, "you up know I've every confidence in

Haven't you & you. I've told the Cabinet that.. Have what men you want, spare line on anything yet ?"

expense Lord 'Barford's Playfair laughed, sardonically, orders and if you can nail your

no

"I know who stole the treaty, Sir pal Lipmore there'll be an M.B.E. for you. You haven't any plan, Gabriel Jakke Flutters, of

I suppose?" Somers Town. And I'm pretty sure I know who has it now. said Playfair. "And, in that con- "I've the germ of a plan, Sir,” But my difficulty is —I've ex- nection; I want you to do some- plained it to the Superintendent thing for mc. I want Molly -that I can't establish a connec Mandevillo out of Holloway tion between the two. There's (Snugg is her real name: Mande- ville's a nom-de-guerre.) Molly no case against Flutters, and no used to know Flutters pretty case-except suspicion-against well; they belonged to what was called the Coffee-stall gang; and Lipmore. But if I could prove if you give her a few months' Lipmore's complicity, Flutters remission - she's due out in would talk."

February- I think she'll do “H'm,” said Couchman. "And worth it, Sir Gabriel, believe me." something useful for me. It's who's Lipmore?"?

The D.C. looked hard at Play- "Lipmore's the man that I fair. "Get me an order and I'll think has got the treaty. Ho's a aign it." -

The SNAPSHOT GUILD

Tally-Ho! Tantivy! Lights! Camera!·

solicitor, Lipmore is, with offices, Two days later Playfair called |

on Lipmore at the latter's expen- sive offices in Helborn. "Sorry.. Mr. Lipmore," he said, "but I've come to worry you again. You're still sure you've no know- ledge of Jake Flutters ?" "None at all, Playfair," said Lipmore. "Damn it, man, I thought I'd made that clear. And if all we read is true, you know it yourself as well as I do."

"Ha

answered Playfair. "Been reading the London Record I presume?" He drew a copy from his pocket. "I have," said Lipmore. "I've a cutting from it here. It tells us all about, your old pal Flutters. Mentions him by name (that's very dangerous, surely?) and says that ho's be lieved to have gone abroad"

Trophies of a night "Pleture Hunt"

THE "Treasure Hunt" and the "Beavenger Party," ao popular in recent years as a form of amiuno ment for `aight-social gatherings, now have a rival in the "Picture funt."

Instead of going out to find con cealed "treasures" or queer objects in the highways and byways, the par ticipants go out with their cameras and bring back night photographe The negatives are developed and printed while this contestants are al nappor, dancing, or otherwise amus 'Ing themselves. Prizes are awarded 'to the 'takors of the most succoseful

pictures,

Is this exciting? Each participant is given a considerablo lat of sub jects from which he or she any make a choice of one or more-such na "Street Sceno," "Waterfront Scene," Night Club" "Theater En trance," "Trame Policeman," "Hotel Chef" and the Hiko,

All the "buntora" start out to gother and must return with their trophies within h-given time. Ar rangements are made with a photo faisher to receive the negatives, dā a quick job and deliver the finished prints at the headquarters of the. Hunt before midnight. The pictures aro thon viewod and judged for prizes by a committee of non-partiel. panis.

While some of the subjects an. siguod, may call for flash bulbs, au- →por-sanallivo fim, and an ultra-fast

lens, the scope of the hunt generally is broadened to include subjects

that do not require all of these aids. For instance, a contestant owning an ordinary camera may successfully. photograph on ordinary 0lm a bril- Hantly illuminated street, or ̋aky- scraper by making a time exposure, Again, such a picture as a theater entrance may be mapped without flash bulbs, it a fasl lens and super sossltivo Sim are used. Usually no limit is placed on the number of ex- posures for any subject. Under such rules, the fold of the hunt is wide open to all types of equipment.

Picture hunting at night pot only proves a test of picture-taking skill and judgment, but it offors Interest- ing-adventure, and each one's nc. count of how his pictures wore ob.. tained proves a big part of the eve- ning's fun.

Tried recently In Now York by a' group of "socialites," the picture. hunt idea has spread and is being adapted also to daytime pletura hunung. The dayiime hunt appeals especially to club, church and other social organizations. It winds up in the evening as the main feature of a dlaner ór suppor meeting at which the pictures are displayed and Judged, Subjects pertaining to the activities of ikó organization - dre nesigned and the plotures, in addt. tion to their pletortat interest, prova et considerable historical value to the organization,

JOHN VAN QUILDER.·

"He was arrested this morn- ing,"

said Playfair, quietly, "and now, Mr. Lipmore, I have a warrent here for you. I arrest you, Charles Hopewell Lipmore, for conspiracy to steal certain documents, the property of His Majesty's Government, and I warn you that anything you say will be used in evidence against

you,"

On what evidence had Playfair based his arrest?

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