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Chapter One

ABATAN FROM THE "MAČKA-BOLEWER’MÁTEK FICTVAZ

Halsey Raines

Don Diego jumped up, unable to re- strain his enthusiasm. He quickly lifted Nina onto one of the big tables, himself standing on the long The bells were all ringing. Beau- bench beside her. Ning was delight- tiful senorites were leaning overed at the manner in which Don balcony rajts The great cannon Diego was making himself con- ntop the tower was booming, apicuous. Their heads were almost Xi was the day of days in Madrid, on a level above the rest of the Long and intense excitement had crowd. And now, to put a crowning proceded that March morning in touch to the impression she wanted. 1668. Never had the crowning of a to- convey to fattonne, Nina took. now king been the signal for great- Don Diego's face in her hands. Do-. er jubilation. Ferdinand the Soventh barately, she gave him a passion- was a friend of the people, and was) ato klas, full on the lips. to bring Spain to greater glory than ever before. Ha wan to rescue Lite land from the menneing shadow of Napoleon, serons the Pyrenees, nad to end the late vicious cycls of political corruption.

The crowd cheered and laughed with delight. Etienne was by now livid with rage. Impetuously, ho started to make his way toward Nina, but the waiter stopped him, thrusting his bill under his nose. Elenna furiously tore it to bits.

Whilo Nina, taughing, lightly jumped down from the table and ran from the room, Don Diego reached over and took a guitar from the hands of one of the mu cfclans Full of joy, he started to sing a Spanish love cong.

.Riding at the hood of a festive martial procession, his dress unt form brilliant in scarlet and gold braid, the now monarch bowed to the plaudits of the throngs. His horse stopped daintily from one mide of the street to the other, to nyold treading on outstretched arma and feet. Meantime Ferd)- hand's sharp Bourbon eyes took in the smiling maidens who strewed his way with freshly plucked bou-ed quickly over to another tablo quets, He was only twenty-four, and that Interested him rouro, perhaps, than anything else.

The dancing and merrymaking continued, in uncosaing volumo, Tong after the king had retired to the privato domain of the palace. There were maskers, improvised Boats, and the emptying of barrel after barrel of wine. As dusk crept over the joy-laden city, torchlight processions were organized.

Every restaurant in the city was brimming with laughter, muafe and sonsta to Ferdinand. In one cafe, especially, was the celebration at Its height 1ere, in a low-ceilinged room, with great tables on which were pliod high food and boltios of wine, danced Nina Azara, known throughout this country na

Nina'took Don Diego's face in her hands.

סtניג'י*

Firefly," Ravishingly beautiful, her danco was spirited, sophisticated, BERBUQUE,

Nina paused for a moment, glanc- Ing hack toward the young Spani ard. Ellonne in the meantime walic- where nat two French officers. Ho whispered to them, and the threa atood up and walked out together.

Having Ansbed his song, Don Diego, preceded by an obsequious waiter, proceeded toward the door- way leading toward the corridor. Silently the walter indicated the dressing room beyond. Within, Lola motioned Ninn to the window. "Se- noriin," she whispered, "come here and look."

From where they stood they could see Etienne, with his comrades, on the street just outside the cafe.

"He'n waiting," Lola sald

Nina

thought for a moment. Then: "Pull the curtains," she or derad. "Now go and get that Span- ish boy."

"But Benorila," Lola protested.

"Get him," Nina repeated firmly. "But bo'a no young."

"I can't help it. I've got to get rid of that Frenchman."

The eyes of the entire audicace, mostly men, were fastened on The Firefly. Spaniards made up the great majority of those present; a smiling and happy Don Diego. hero and there, one saw a "sprink)-| Ing of uniformed French of cars, The one man in the cafe not en- tranced by Nina's dancing was one of these Frenchmen. Sitting alone

Just then there was a knock at the door. Lola opened the door to

"May I speak to the senorita?"

he asked with a charming baw

"Come in senor. Come in," Nina called cordially. "We were just talk- ing about you."

nt a small tablo ndar a doorway,} Don Diego's eyes were devouring

he raged inwardly as Nina smiled Ninn's beauty.

at those around her.

WAS

"May I present myself? Don Diego Mad applauso greeted the conclu- Manrique de Lars. Of course, I sion of the dance. And cheering realize that it's a little late for in- we've gone mort enthusiastically

Don troductions after all Diego, a handsome young Spaniard through together." who eat near the danco Goor. As Nina was watching him closely, she passed him on her way to the "And where do you come from corridor, Nina flashed the Spaniard | Honor? I haven't seen you in Ma-

a warm glance of appreciation.

Ellonno could aland no more. Glowering furiously, he slammed

his glass to the table, spiling ita

{drid before.""

"I've been wasting the whole of my life up till now... In Valencia." "He's from Valoneta," Nina sald

contents. Quickly be proceded Nina to Lola, meaningly. Then, turning into the corridor. As she entered back to Don Diego, she said: "You the hallway ho grabbed her arm.have a family there?"

Ile demanded the name of the man

who was more attractive to Nina

than he. In laughing remonstrance,

to sonor!la."

do wife, no father or mother?" "No," Don Diego

uld with n

obe turned her back and walked smile. "No one to care whether I away.

live or die."

"Perhaps it's just as well," nafci In her dressing room, Lola, Nina's faithful maid, who had Nina. "Would you like a glass of watched the proceedings, was wine, senor?"

"I was hoping you would anxious. Despite her own anxiety, however, Nian assured her she come with mo... and have some would take care of the situation. suppor." Don Diego replied.

"It would be awful if, anything happened to the Marquis," Lola Bald.

Absent-mindedly, knowing they' would never got that far, Niña naid, "Support Why, you, yes "Don't worry. Nothing will hap...I'd be delighted." pen to him," Nina promiwod.

Don Diego watched har, entranc Throwing aside all thoughts of ed. "This is like a dream!" ha ex- Etienne's foalousy, Mina adjusted claimed. "I can't yet believe that I her exquisite shawl, lifted her fan am really boro. That I am talkin high and started forth for her next to you. That in a minute I shali Bong as the muslo struck up again. be walking out there with you on The audionos wont wild at her re- my arm."

For a momeni Nina regrotted her appearance.

While she sang, she walked be- ruthlessness. Briefly, she attempled tween the tables, dirting deliberato- to dissuade him from staying there. ly and indiscriminately with the But the Spaniard was adamant. He man. As shò approached the table was smiling when she took his arm. where Don Diego sat, he suddenly As they came into the street, straiched out, his band and took Etienne, in a fury, started to draiv hors. In it, pulling her around to his sword. But his comrades -re- face him. His featured relaxed in a strained him. Instead, one of them boyish grin.

approached Diego and bowed stir. Nina started to pull bar. handy. Don Diego appeared a bit do away when, for, the first time, she wildered by this procedure.

"Monsieur la Capitaine fools that looked closely at him. A thought came to her mind. Here was a good ho han boed grossly insulted," the looking young man, ono whom French omcor stated. Etienne might imagina to be his

"Did he say what would satisfy-

The Pronchman was not amused.. he usual place, the usual weap- ans, at dawn,”

successor. Here was a chance to him? Diego demanded agreeably. throw the 'Frenchman off the trail With a quick glanse in assure herself that Etiendo was watching,

"Dawn?" Don Diego started to she started to sing safely to the protest, with a quick look at Nina Spanlard, concentrating all her Couldn't he make it a little later?" charm upon him. From the corner The Frenchman didn't even deign

of her eye who saw #tients stiffen to answer Don Diego. Thrusting a

Nina was beginning to enjoy this And so was tha audlinon-masing a new romanos blondóming before their syst

Am Nina's song came to a finiáb

card into the Spaniard's band, "ha kita, curity? -

**Your secouds'can find me ktrej”

(To be continued)

BOOKS -edited by ROGER- PIPPETT

He Looked for

E

WAS

UGENE LYONS, American

newspaperman, "assigned to Utopia" in 1928. In other words, he was sent to Moscow by United Press as its correspondent, He worked there until 1934.

Assignment in Utopla (Har- rap, 15s,) tells the story of those six years.

Many anti-Soviet books havO been written by anti-Bocialists. They could be plled mountain high, and their shade would chill no Socialist. For such authors hate the Boviet Union because of fear that it is or is becoming a Socialist country.

But this author belleves that Socialism is good and desirable. And if you believe so too, you must read his book.

DOUBTS

For it is written by a man who has come to feel, in deep emotional stress, that what exista in the Soviet Union is not Socialism, and who judges that its chance of ever becoming so grows less.

Lyons grew up in grim poverty on New York's East Side. From his boyhood he was a Socialist,

He was among the first to leap to the long defence of Bacco and Vanzetti, whose blographer ho became. He edited "Soviet Russia Pictorial." From 1924 till 1928 he worked for Tass, the official Soviet news agency.

Almost from the moment of his arrival in Moscow doubt crept in. It was not the poverty, though that was pretty bad.

REALITIES

It was the Terror, the tied Press, the secret police, the sudden dis- appearances after "they" had called, the crammed jalls, Siberia and the Far North, forced labour. the "liquidation' of the Kulaks, It was the Kremlin's disregard for human life and human values, the gruesome abject "trials," the screaming sadism of organised clamour for the blood of old Com- munists, the absence of one single free voice in all Russia,

It was the slower intellectual discovery that nationalisation without democracy is but a new power in the hands of the dicta- tors-that a dictatorship, however

UTOPIA.

EUGENE LYONS

found "trapped nation"

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immense its economic achieve- ments, is still a dictatorship.

At first, as so many would, he put his doubts aside. But they cropt crowding back at each now outrage

"the Socialism, upon eternal dream of equality and jus- tice." Then the dull, irresistible pain and final agony of dis- illvalonment.

Then the feeling that still one must not "tell" because that played into Fascist hands-a feel- ing conquered at last by the con- viction that it was Stalin himself who played into Fascist hands by using Fascist methods, and that Socialiste, by remaining silent, only made matters worse for the free Socialist Movement.

And at last this:

"I had gone to Russia believing there were good dictatorships and bad, I left convinced that defend- ing one dictatorship is, in fact, defending the principle of tyranny,

No Complaints

Against Ruth

F anyone has a case for misrepresentation in fiction, It is the schoolmistress, who is usually staged as a frumpish, bespectacled, sex-starved, bullying little despot, the Wicked Fairy of the old pantomimes with a politer for a wand.

The three teachers that I happen to know personally are still burst- ing with vitality after years of class-room routine. They are even more bored than I am at seeing themselves in novelists" distorting mirrors--and they will be reloved to read Ruth Adam's new tale, I'm Not Complaining (Chapman and Hall, 78, Gd.).

For this is everyday existence as the staff of a school in a northern Busy, Industrial town knows it. bellerable mistresses. Lanky chill- dren, with "extraordinarily sure voices,'

and exclted herself as a girl by writing a romance called Cynthia Carstairs: or The Rainbow Wooing. which featured (she would easily forgive the word) a certain in- effable Lord Røger.

Then marriage came to her. And unhappiness. She grew wiser with the years, was widowed, married again and found happiness with her second husband. Thereafter life never lost its interest for her. Thoro She was a grandmother. was so much to see and do and learn.

As long as the Bhaws and Bar- Lusses condoned political murder and masa exile and the crushing of human decancies in one place and for one cause, they were sup- porting those methods in all places and for all causes.

Socialism

of emptied

its ad- humanitarian impulses Vancos no argument which Fascism cannot dupilcate.

"Already it has brought the idea of Socialism into disrepute by cut- ting off all its associations with the -accumulated treasures of human

freedom.

TRUTHS

"Those who defend such a Bo- clallam are essentially reactionary. If the certainty of a full belly is to be made the only goal of Socialism (and Russia or any other country may attain that goal in time) then the inmates of Bing Bing are al- ready living under Sociallam.....

"I had the sense of leaving be- hind me a nation trapped.

"The fact that these things had come to pass under the banner of 'Socialism' only made them more ghastly. The word Bocialism, the eternal dream of equality and jus- tice, was also trapped.

love Read this book if you Socialism--for it is a great book, written with unquenched idealism an its driving power, and with life as its raw material. I think it will make you feel how little can be learnt from library studies of insti- tutions and constitutions, when they are of the high academic quality of the Webbs' Bovlet Communism." R. F.

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JAPANESE WARSHIPS

IN SOUTH

New Fleet Arrives In Kwangtung Waters

Canton, Mar. 6.

Japan's South China patrol, the And then a publisher discovered

11th fotilin, has been replaced her forgotten book and decided to rovivo it and expose it to "the gradually by the 16th flotilin which affectionate derision of the nine-in time of peace acts as the Formosa

"A perfect period teen-thirties." plece," the critics would say. "A coast guard. The Tai Chung news miracle of ingenuous absurdity." agency reports that most of the "My beautiful Lord Roger." she newly arrived warships are larger

"How they'll laugh at met

than those which have left for What fun it will bel

The Bending Sickle is what used, Formosa and the present fleet is to be known as a Pastoral Novel: larger than the former by ex And, nowadays, most pastoral

Baki Agitated and argumenta- tive parents. Inquisitivo inapto- tors. Work. Love. Living,

Likes and Dislikes

And, beyond their little island of order and quietness, "where, the three hundred volces hum with the steady monotony of bees in a hive, is the maze of mean streets and dark yards swarming up to the green-painted fence like the jungle round an outpost of civilisation."

While I read, I lived on that island. I liked some of the people there. And I hated some of them, especially that, handsome, arm- twisting policeman. Now and then the pace gote a little too hot and the air too foverish. But, I dare Bay, schools seem like that occa- alonally to the teachers,...

Anyway, Miss Adam has thrown those distorting mirrors away and boon

her content to parado islanders as they are without pro- tentiousness.

Which leaves hor easily top of her class.

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'AVING‘had our fling at those sturdy Aunt Sallies, the Vic- "toriaru, we are, I gather, be- ginning to appreciate their good points. Indeed; Lalago, the sixty- year-old heroine of Gerald Bullatt's latest novel, The Bending Sickle (Dent, 7s. 6d.) is brighter: and younger than any of your Bright Young Things.

A vicar's daughter, abe amused

or

novels pass most of us by. But seven ships. Watchers report that Mr. Bullett has the touch. His marines have come with the Dew story rises like an arch in some old, fleet, whereas there had been nono

weather-beaten farm which has seen hundreds of seasons come and go.

I hope it will survive a few": seasons, too.

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with warships of the past weeks.

Agents.

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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

ACROSS

5 This scientist's end was no loss,

apparently (0).

8 "Nover eat it (anag) (10).

9 It is half laughable but may

be poisonous to eat (6).

10 In this kind of house one fares well at the second half (10). 11'One of the U.S.A. (8).

means

Four warships on March 3 took 12 Favourable location for round- about amusements (two words R. P. positions off Swatow, and one large

cruiser is patrolling off Swabub. 17 This at is no loss (3). by no Near the island of Samcho (Chung- 18 A condition

singular in America (5). shan district)

three Japanese 20 A game (4), warships, from which over 1,000 22 Part of a peace demand, possibly,

(4)- AUL MCGUIRE, not much marines landed. A transport bas

23 To

To do this has a refreshing more than a beginner at this also brought to Samcho GOO result (6). sort of thing, comes out top

THRILLERS

of the week's list of detective Koreans, who stories with W3

Ta. (4.).

pre

do tho rough 24 Less than half a million. (3).

20 Te the unfortunate who i

It has (Heinemann, work for the Japanese.

.:

been noted that fishermen's houses

Ho provides a singor myster- lously dead in a night club, a trail on the island have been razed to give of breakings-in and killings-off more space for: military works. The and a quite satisfactory Flying 200 sailors comprising the island Bquad chase and round-up.

But mainly you'll like meeting police who know about police work, crocks who seem credible and even lovers who are neither bores nor simpletons,

His

thus alont a time of misfortune must seem the last part (10)))

for 30 Do woman's work

also

military occasion (0),

31 Not in a hurry (10).

32 No popular food for motorists

· (0).

garrison have been taken back to 33 Begotten (10).

34 To go wrong in height brings

strong emotion (8).

Formosa,

When the first of the war vessela of this 10th notilla cáme of the court

Lynn Brock, reappearing at last, of Sanwul on February 28 there were also still knows how to write, The Silver Sickle Case (Collins, 78. 8d.), with queer goings on a yet another night club, runs close for second place. Lots of good de- tooting, but a tride too much of a tangle at the end,

nine fishing boats out from the shoo. Probably because of the danger that. reports of the strength of the flotilla might be carried back, this report

P.EL continues, all the small craft were

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2 If this is bad in steel is It llable

to anep? (6)..

3 Communication that suggests

the house-ngent (6).

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resist (0).

Much the same as 23 across

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(4). 14 Mostly not a high shine (4). 15 A

Jost source of mineral wealth

(5)

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18 This fish is no gentleman when

it loses it's head (4).

10 A tool (4).

20 Part with Anal speed (8). 21 An instructive speaker (0). 25. Form of service (7).

20 Nurse (8).

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but not with part of 20 down (0):

28 The most suitable part of the house for joint occupation (8),

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