1938-03-12 — Page 16

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY

MARCH

12,

1938.

Th&FIREFLY

Kalsey Rainer

Copyrigin 1897-Loow's Ize.

WHAT HAN IUPTIMED THUS FAN: Bent Groar the French border so that she may avoretly learn something of Napolson's designs on Epain, beautiful Nina Azaro contrives to encourage a flirta sion with Major de Rougemont, one of Bonaparte's aides. Who la diamoyed when Don Diego, a young Spaniard who is infatuat ed with her, follows her to Buy onne. Unable to get rid of him, aho confesses that the recipro cates his love, but that sho muat not see him again. Going to the Major's rooma as he is about to ant out for Epain, Nina pretends to be smitten by him. As he makes ardent love to her, aho reads the outer paper in his brief case. It to an order, nigned by Napoleon, calling for the arrest of the Spanish monarch.

Chapter Fivo

"They had to have evidence be fore they could take me. And if I had sent this message, they would have had it."

Slowly, she tore up the piece of paper. Lola watched her, tears well- ing up in her eyes. Nina was think- ing desperately, looking for some way out of this tragio dilemma.

"Can't you get word to the King?" Loin asked.

"I don't know," Nina sald slowly, "I might try the man in the mar ket. Still, if they knew about the

birds.

"..

Loin's face lighted up. "Benorite, how aliout Don Diego?

"I've been thinking about him." "He'd do anything for you," the maid continued, "He knows the ronds. He can ride fast. If he start ed now, he could reach Vittoria before the Colonol. He could warn 1 King,"

"He may be the very one who has - Bonn na," Nina sald slowly.

"But Don Diego," Lola protested ataunchly. "It couldn't be hol"

"I hope you're right, Lola," Nina Bald with sincerity. She pointed to the tablo, speaking crisply. "Clear

Don't leave a trace of evidence."

For a brief moment, Nina tremb lod violently. Bo it was true! Fer-up all thin. Get rid of the birds. dinand was being tricked, Spain ho- trayed! But in the next Instant, she had regained control of herself.

"I must go now, my darling," Rougement said, gently taking he hands from around his shouldora. He took the lotlara from her hand. all the while staring at her, devour. ing her loveliness.

I suppose so," Nina murmured Roftly.

The Major look both her hands in his, and Klosed them.

"Au revoir, my dear."

Nina's eyes followed him as ha want through the door, then a shud- der of repulsion passed through her, Ferdinand was to be tricked,

·ATTERted! She realized, however, that she must play her part to the end

"Did you leave this room?" Nina asked.

From the window, she could soo the Major swing quickly into his saddle. Bha forced a smile, waving to him. He solutod kor gravely, then gave an order to his mon..

She started for the door. "Where are you going?" Lola urled fearfully.

"First to the market place. And then, if that falls... I'll go to Don Diego."

Her fears were realized at the rlall. The man who had sold her the pigeons, she was told, had bee taken away by the police.

Aa Nina moved away from the stall, she did not know that threo men were watching her from the inn nearby where Don Diego wna stopping. One was Diego, himself; the second, St. Cinire, a determined 30oking figure, and Pavot both of them members of the French In- telligence Bervice.

"She's coming up here," St. Clairo

said. He turned from the window, pointing to some papers on the desk. "Put those reports away," he ordered. And to Pavet: "do in there," pointing to another room.

"Sho's probably coming to you must remember: she will be su

Nina burried back to her hotel. Lola looked at her curiously, an un-for help," SL Clairo went on. "You apokon question in her eyes.

"Bring me my comb!" Nina said.plelous. "But, senorita?” "Hurry!"

Nina went quickly to a table, where Lola had arranged a bowl of fruit. Before it stood a plate and fruit knife. Quickly, she cut a lomon in half," As Lola returned, Nina took the comb from her.

"Here," she said, indicating the lemon, "Squeeza that."

Nina took the top from the comb, A high Spanish affair of soild tor toiso-sholl, with gold filigree and a slender band of gold on the top. Deftly, she pulled off the gold band, From inside the comb, which was hollow, she extracted a small shoot of thin rice-paper.

Sho has discovered the birds have been changed. Be be doubly careful. Make her belleve you're willing and eager to help hor. Get her to talk. If sho'll confide in you... confess what she is do ing, that's all we need."

Diego realized it was his duty, and that there was no escape froïn

"Very well, sir."

St. Claire went into the next room. Diego stealed himself, as Nina knocked at the door.

"Nina Maria!" he exclaimed, pre- tending great surprise and cordial- ity, as she entered.

"I decided to come and sea this historic site."

In spite of himself, Diego could con-

The Major has started to Vit-not help showing a certain toria already." Nina said as she eiralat. Ho shut the door and came worked awitty. Lola looked at her over to her. apprehensively. "But he won't get there until late tonight. And the carrier pigeons will be there in two haure, at the most."

Nina sat down at the deal. She dipped the quill into the lemon juice prepared by the maid and started to write her message of warning for Ferdinand.

"What happened to the Colons??" he asked.

"He had to go to Vittoria on duty."

Then you didn't have luncheon with him?"

"No."

They engaged in small talk for a while. Nina's anxiety, however, was all too obvious. Her mind remained on the unaspt message.

"You seem worried." Diego sald

you?"

"He's carrylog two massages," she said. "One of them is an order of arrest."

"Arrest!" Lola exclaimed, horrifinally. Is something troubling fiod.

They ovidently mean to lure the King into France, and then tako him prisoner as he crosses the bar- dar." She finished the note. "Get me the pellet," she said to Lola.

Carefully folding the message, she placed it into a small anclosure in the pollet.

"Now the pigeon."

Lola hurried to the crato and took out a bird. She carried it over to Nina. As she leaned over to attach the poliat to the pigeon's leg, she alopped, suddenly, startled. Bho in- closely, apected the bird more #DFORding it wings.

A look of anxiety crossed her face.

"Did you leave this room?” she' asked sharply.

For a minule, Tez," Lola sald, bewildered.

"Why? Why?" Nina's four caused her to speak harshly,

"But who could it have been, Benorilay

She heatlated for a moment, and then: "How long did it take you to come from Vittoria?" she asked.

"About six hours. Why?" Diego tried to control his feelings.

"I want you to take a message. for ma."

"A messago?" he repeated slowly. She started for the desk.

You get your write it for you. things. I want you to start Immo- diately."

"Where am I to go?" Diego asked as she wrote swiftly.

"Vittoria." She stood up, folding the paper on which she had written, "You haven't told me whom this

is for?" Diego reminded her.

"Iload it, and you'll see.”

1

At this moment, St. Claire step- ped back into the room, followed by Pavet. Nina turned quickly as

Bt. Claire, without a word, stepped to Diego's sida. Pavat went toward the door leading to the hallway.

"I'll take that, Captain Andra," "Bomeone who knew all my move-St. Clairs said, taking the message ments," Nina mid thoughtfully. from the hands of Diego, who stood, "Someone who knew I had the feeling miserable, bat unsshained. birds; who know when I was going out and bribed the concierge to get you out of the room.”

"But senorita," Lola prolasted, "if they knew all that, why haven't they done something before this?"

"Captain Andrét” Nina repeated, wonderingly,

"Of the French Military Intelli- gence," St. Claire added, drily.

(To be concluded)

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OU'LL hardly believe it, but Sinclair Lewis is sadly

he has been the World Middle-Weight Satirical Cham- plon, sending Babblits to the floor with glorious regularity.

And here he is, taking the count himself in his new novel, "The Prodigal Parents (Cape. 78. (d.).

What's worse. I'm afraid, he has been knocked through the ropes by n bgy of his own creation. a wretched stripling whom he nicknamed ton early"Lazy, Belfish, Good-for-Nothing Youth."

The parents in question were Fred Coraplow, a motor-car agent in Bacicm Falls, and his wife, Hazel. America's Little Man and his Little Woman. Plump. pleasant people, na ignorant of social matters as they make them. They might have lived happily ever afte it hadn't been for their seantalon children...

haven't met a wickeder young cowole tian Howard and Sara in many They go roaring manila ut liction. round the countryside in rondaters. mushing into trees and spilling gin down her throats, tinkering about with laterior decoration and psychiatry and prog their father's money.on wikl-cat Rudical schemes.

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Beautiful bogies, both of them. wonder Father Cornplow, fleeing to Europe with Hazel, falls to escape them in the endi No wonder they knock their creator clean out of the ring'

Tale of the Pits

O JONES, author of Rhondda Roundabout. Black Parade and that magnificent autobiography. Un- finished Journey, continues to mine n rich South Wales scam in his third and longest novel, Bidden to the Feast

Hamish Hamilton, Es. (d.).

Starting at four in the morning on a lovely summer day in 1866, he stages nearly forly years of the coal-black history of a Glamorgan mining town. Forty years of rich men's greed and poor men's toll. Forty years of love and hate, life and death, dry, dusty men's throats and soaring song. Forty years of the lives of Rhys nud his wife, Ann, and their children." Especially those alsters, Megan and Moriah. Their father didn't like to

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SINCLAIR LEWIS hear sluging outside the clinpel. But And "our mam," their mother, did.

so did they,

Through them and around them. Above and below ground, we see the kiriving, swarming hive of their valley. "Mark ye well her bulwarks, con- sider her palaces-that ye may tell it to the generation following," Mr. Jones has quoted on his title page. And, in the crowded pages that come after, he ins lold us as much of those dark bul- warks And darker palaces as any novelist is yet,

Long-Short

MOST of the authors of six hundred

page novels might do much worne than study the case of H. G. Wells, who in the last teen months has given us four "tong shorts" which are models of concentration and clarity.

In the intest of them (The Brothers. Chatto and Windus. s. 6d.) he has imagined a country ripped and slashed by civil war. Bolaris is the "White" leader, and Ratzel is the leader of the "Reds."

Bolarla captures his antagonist and, in what seems to me a remarkably polite interview, discovera that they are twin brothers.

Physically they are extraordinarily alike, and the resemblance doesn't stop there. For Mr. Wells, taking far too many things for granted, invests them with twin destinies and twin ideals, 100.

You have only to substitute Franco for Bolaris and a Spanish Government leader for Raizel to see the confusions of such a simplification. Twin ideals? Not on our Utilo ves, Air, Wella.

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O not imagine from its title. A Philosophy for a Modern Man (Gollancz, 7a. 64.), that Professor H. Levy has written an easy, man-in-the-street sort of book.

It is very tough reading indeed. And that is a pity, becauso. the author's attempt to make philosophy more understandable by relating At each step to science was a brave one.

Yet the result has been to make the book doubly unintelligible. Not only has Professor Levy cluttered up his pages with many difficult philosophic term He has cluttered them up with scien. tific terms as well!

He has allowed himself to write sen- tences like: "When a set of atomic isolates are seen to be grouped together as a recognisable taalnie, the latter will be called a statisticni isolate."

Puzzle that out. And then picture 281 pages of it.

But, dificult though the book is, it Is trying to do something so important that i cannot be brushed aside.

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Take just one example. Professor Levy has some sound and almost Things to say about the readabich "theory of probability."

Scientists,

ard mathematicians philosophers have talked about "prob ibility since they falked at all

But along comes Professor Levy in 1830 and put forward detalled pro- posals for harnessing present-day knowledge about probability to our job na Socialists.

We do not only want to know, he nays, how probable it is that a dice- thrower will throw a double-elx. We want to know how probable it is, for instance, that we shall get Socialism.

So it tear that this book has Bomething very important to say. Try to struggle through it if you can.

But, before it can justify its very in- viting lile, someone will have to trans inte it into English, I'm afraid.

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