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MERRILY WE LIVE

PRECEDING CHAPTERS:

Wade Nawlina, novellat, rough- ing it on the Pacific Coast, sa etranded when his our falls into a ravine. He goes to the Ki bourno house to asks to was the phone. He is mistakon for a Tramp and de Ara, Kilbourne has a hobby of taking in tramps and the chauffeur has disappoir- ed with all the silver that morn- drive, ing, ho 48 engaged 60

against his toill. But after a jov oroiting and humorous situa flona, he wants to stay in the atranpo household. It will furnish him with good copy.

Dopyt 1979 by Lew's, Ind.

Chapter Five

morn distrait Grosvenor than usual when Herbert Wheeler phoned for the fifth time and want again told that Milan Kilbourne wag not at home.

"Ah, Jorry, have a heart," sald Morinn. "Whatever it is you might as well get it over with Herbert will be coming over if you don't And you know Grosvenor; he looks as if he were going to faint. Once in enough for one day."

Jerry looked as if she were go ing to order her nister to keep out of her affairs, but instead she aud. denly burst out laughing.

"For once you're right, baby ale ter," Jerry wald, "We'll have our solves a good time you and I can't vouch for Herbert and Gros- venor. Beat yourself at the exten- alon in the hall and next time he Calle up, be'll got an answer all ht. Butt in when you feel in it I trust you to do your part."

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no Mr. Kilbourne who had put tho cigar in his mouth, gazed hopeless. ly at this prodicamaat. Jerry left the mantlopleco and the candles, went to him, took the empiy qoffae cup and handed the cigar fo Gros vanor. He was so howildered, so near to fainting that instead of placing it on an nah trny, he ind It on the rim of a vano. It fell in.

"As I was saying when I was no rudely interrupted," Mr. Kilbourne' went on, "there has to bo a change in this house and when I say change mean upheaval,'

"I'd say that's what we have all the time," anid Kane from behind his paper. "No change if we go on upheaving."

"If you will kludly allow me to speak, his father said sharply. "I will outline a program. First no more trampa to be admitted."

"Why should there be?" Jerry asked. "We've got a brand new one now. We won't have to turn him in for a new one for a while yat."

"Better lura him out." sala ¡Cano, "I stand with father on this mat- tor."

It was at that moment Grosvenor noticed a spiral of smoke coming from the vase. lie walked toward it calmly. But lie was no: calm after he had reached into it to retrieve the cigar. It was not a deep vase, ao he could reach the cigar onally. But noither was it larga at the top. His hand would not come cut: Holding the vase behind him, he tried to back out of the room with- out attracting attention. But Mr. Kilbourne wanted another cup of coffee. As long as he lived, Gros- venor was to marvel at the fact that someway he managed with one free hand to zip the cup under the urn, fi it, got it on a tray and hand it to Mr. Kilbourns. The

HOW

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IT BEGAN Berdanter

BUCK THE TIGER

ONE OF THE CHINESE GAMBLING GODS IS A TIGER STANDING ON. HIS HIND LEGS AND GRASPING A LARGE COIN IN HIS MOUTH. ITS USE AS A SIGN OUTSIDE GAMBLING HOUSES IN EARLY AMERICAN CHINATOWNS LED TO THE PHRASE "BUCK THE TIGER” MEANING TO GAMBLE WHERE ALL ODDS ARE AGAINST THE PLAYER.

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BERPANIER

"What do you mean by calling me names?” said Jerry.

In the only way possible.

Mrs. Kilbourno laid down her hock and rone to her feet.

She rang for the butter to come feat was the more wonderful be- and told him he was to stay with causo the cigar was burning hin her by the phone until Mr. Whealer finger tips. He could take no more called again. He was to say the chances. Ho hurried to the door. A had come in. But under no condi- moment later a loud crash was tions was Grosvenor to leave until heard. Grosvenor and freed himsalt she had told him he might.

"I am grateful for your kind sup- Grosvenor carried out his instrue- tion to the latter, but the wild, part," Mr. Kilbourne said to his son, broken conversation was torture to sarcastically, "but I've taken mat- him. Dutifully he informed Mr. torn in my own hands, Tomorrow Whooler that Miss Kilbourne was this latest tramp goin a wrok's pay not in, although he felt sure her and goes." voice giving him that order had! carried over the phone.

"I want Wade to comà in," she "Linton you old block-head," sald

sald in answer to her husband's Horbert, "You can't kid mo."

"What do you mean enlling me qucation, as to where she was so- names?" said Jerry into the phone, ing, "I've just been looking in that then motioned to Grosvenor to book on the genealogy of my fam- speak, He did but for once he forty and sure enough my gront-great- got to be the perfect, butler. He grandmother was a Weds. Probably maill he bagged to inform the Wade Rawlins is a relative,"

Her husband took her firmly by gentleman he was neither his baby

the shoulders, nor his sweetheart.

"You cow of an elephant," said Herbort, unost "atuttering in his bewilderment. "Will you stay off the phone?"

"You're staying right here, no matter who your: relatives aro. Did you hear no say this now-found cousin of yours, according to you, Then Jerry spoke and her tone is to be sent packing tomorrow?"

Mrs. Kilbourne for answer naked was cold, as alte said she could not understand why Mr. Wheeler had Mr. Kilbourne If he had not noticed cailed unless he wished to be in there was aliver plenty of it --- Bulling As for her she had not on the dining table? She had spont wanted to speak to him. She did hours, digging into old boxes for not want to now. Bho whispered discarded places and thought the to Grosvenor to any she was not in. result remarkabio.

"That's another thing" Mr. XII- Tt was thon that Marian got in

bourne roared. "You know we are her good work.

What number are you calling, having a dinner party tomorrow picene?" she asked. "This is the night a most important one, Can operator. If you wili hold a minute, you remember to get some docent I will try to get a connection for table things or shall I have my soc-

retary do it?!". you. Horo it is.

She placed the recolved of thei phone against the mouthpiece and ed, Dad," said Jerry. then bung up.

"Won't be time to have it mark-

"All the bettor for whoever stonin

"I hope the blast ho got won't it" broke in Kane. "Hasler to dis- burt his cara parrannonlly," she anld. poso of, harder to trace, if it's I only wish we had a gadget on plain."

Mrs. Kilbourne looked at her son the plane so, we could soo Hor bert must have been one thing to reprovingly and asked him how he look at during that tolephone Lulk," could he so unkind, so suspicious At the dirner table, Mr. Ki-an to think Wads Rawlins would bourne, sanounced that over, their stealt

"You're right;mily Mr. Kil- coffee in the drawing room, ho would bave something of import-bourne said, he won't get a chance: ance to announes and be expected 11e goes, the allver comen ---- and the individed attention of his fam-] in that order."

"What do you mean Wado is go ily. They were all prosent and ao- counted for Mrs. Kilbourne oblling? Ke ha unhappy here? Has any vious to everything except the book of unhurt him, feslings, do you who was reading: Kans stretched on think?"

Mr. Kilbourne loved his wifo the sofa reading a newspaper, Marian romping with her dogs and deeply; he felt in a complimen- Jarry leaning against the mantle-tary sense that there wasn't a- place blowing out the candles every other woman like her in the world, Lu Grosvenor's yon are not but at that moment he was wonder upon her. Once when she thought ing if there was anythug in the old ho had caught her, she lot out a saying about, "baking zones into whistle to nocount for the pucker a person. He sighed. Even If he know it to be officacious, ho know ing of her mouth...

he never could lay a hand on her "When my family realizes that wo are becoming the laughing stock of except in tenderno15,

"I have nothing more to say," ho the community and mende wagg," said Mr. Kilbourne, march-sald in a pleading votos, "excopt ing back and forth across the room, to remind you that I am most anxi holding his coffee cup in one hand on to make a good impression on and his lighted cigar in the, other, onator Harlan tomorrow night. "then I may have the comfort to For Junt this once won't you all try which I am entitled Grosvenor, not to be too Kilbourne-ish?" what on earth do you koop Bght

ing candles fort Stop it and get me

another cup of coffee."

Grosvenor brought the coffes aup, 'but noglected to take thin other one, I

(To Be Continued).

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and when "ginger is hot i the A French Disaster mouth."

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Without allowing the narration to mourners Colourful memories of those become too neademic or boring. Mr. After the corpse has been washed youthful visits have occasionally Guercio gives us a clear account of and the bed remade, the latter must made more fretful and irksome the all these changing Sicilian historical be adjusted so that the corpse's feet those of the dead Patroclus in the drab grey monotony of the city's phases, including that memorable are turned towards the door, as were middle-age pewter skies and smoke drama of the Sicilian Vespers, in Iliad. Some of the poorer people, grimed stone. But the next best which a Sicilian reaction, as fero- during mourning, refrain from shav thing to getting foot in a far country, clous as the tyranny that produced ing and wear their clothes inside- and beholding a mysteries with it, wiped out the whole French gar one's own eyes, is reading about it rinos of some forty thousand troops by someone who knows it inside-out within a few hours,

Particularly interesting is Mr. and has the gift of vivid and con-

Mr. Guerció comments: "The Kenial narration. To these who Guercio's story of the famous secret sigh to renew old memories of one organisation known as the Mafia, behaviour at a Sicilian wake helps of the most pleturesque and faseinat- round whom RLS, has woven one us to understand the real nature of ing spots on the map of Europe, or of his most exciting short storica. Job's comforters. They were not, who have the urge to make fret Educated Sicilians are rightly grate- as many modern readers are apt to acquaintance with its scenery and ful to Mussolini for doing complete- suspect, enemies of his who came The ly what successive Italian Govern- to gloat over his afflictions, but co people,. I commend "Sicily: Garden of the Mediterranean." ments had abjectly failed to do. mourners and consolers, steeping Through the instrumentality of a him and themselves in wee, revell- This is a los book, published by well chosen and indomitably brave ing in despair, and helping him to Faber & Faber, and the author, Mr. Fascist Governor, the Duce utterly rid himself of it through its very Francis M. Guercio, recently a lee broke up, not only that criminal excess."

Those who elect to tour Sicily in turer in Italian at Glasgow and undertaking, but even its ingrained

find Mr. Guercio's company will an Anglo-Italian, tradition. Manchester, is

Here la the author's first-hand themselves lifted out of the flimsy with a foot sympathetically planted In each country. This makes him authentic portrait of the typical artificiality of our modern existence, the perfect interpreter for English young Mafiusa. He could be seen and translated from an environment readers of the scenery, history, and in the streets of any Sicilian town up of service flats, neon lights, and psychology of Mussolini's other to a few years ago. "He wears his suburban beauty parlours Into a Island

hat upon the left side, his hair-land of sun-baked elemental re- amoothed with plentiful pomatum, alities. He will introduce them to Much Coveted

and one lock brushed down upon his an island and an island people who The author claims that his mixed forehead; he walke with a swinging stand still four-square with Biblical parentage gives him an insight into motion of the hips, a cigar in his virility and classical tradition. The the widely different characters of mouth, a heavy knotted stick in his uncomprosing drama of real human- the English and the Sicilians, and hand, and he is frequently armed ity, stripped of its cheap camouflage, a keen senso of the possibilities of with a long, knife or revolver. To looms through some of the chapters: misunderstanding between them. these traits should be added the of this book. This modest claim is more than wearing of gold or silver rings and the use of ercaking shoes, two very justified by the book.

The iden that Sicily is geologically distinctive details in the complete more African than Italian has in re- outfit of a man of honour.***. cent time been abandoned, together Marriage in Haste with the theory that it was once

Not the least fascinating chapter joined to the Dark Continent by a prehistoric lathmus. Since the days in this notable volume is that deal-1 of Homer, whose resonant lyre ing with popular Skellian customis

20 No, this variety of 29 across history, the ancients have emphasis Guercio observes, fossilised faith circles Under Eyes, Awollen, Anities,

is not a favourite food at pienter Burning, Itching, Smart- chunted the cradle song of European and traditions. These are, as Mr. trouble ed Sicily's triangular formation. relics primarily concerned with the Nervousness, Buttness, theumatiam, Diz.

(0) Only the ancient made it, as even land-marka of human existence, such, Toidur and Loss of Rour by A Doc

17 acute na marriage and death, and, since tar's now discovery called Cyntex (Blane 27 The highest order (0,.

tox). Cantly soothes, toore, cleans, and mediaeval maps reveal, angled instead of a right-angled one. Sicily has never at any period of its heal, raw sore kidness. In 15 minutes 28 "His elder" (Anag.) (8).

Our author reminds us that the history suffered from iconoclasts Crater starte purifying your blood, bring 20 Bird (See 23 across) (4).. Sicily of that dim and distant date us England did during the Puritan Bow health, youth and troubles In 8 days 30 Sets ablaze but is already burn- was very different from present-day regime the island is particularly or money bade. Get Cylex at all chomisia

poets. To visualise it we must try rich in such folklore.

The initiative in marriage belongs

to imaging a Bielly without lemons, to the Siellian parents. In middle- oranges, grapos, olives, almonds, clasa marriages the actual proposal cacti, aloes. The sweet-orange, for instance, for which Sielly in now is made by the suitor or his father so well known;

sixteenth to the father of the lady concerned, century importation by the Portu- but among the lower classes it is guere from China. Yet it was the the young man's mother who pro

was a

Kill Kidney

Trouble Quick

ACROSS

robbing

1K the P.M.G. advertised this

surely he would be Peter to pay Paul (8). An Alrican tree (6). Beat advice to belong to a poli- tical party (8). than one 10 More one anyhow (0). 12 A famous blade (9), 13 Regimental coloura? (5). 14 Vessel (4).

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Would a sailor lying in the dock he guilty bc

of this?' (7). 19 Dance (7).

Thousands of sufförers from Kidney 21 Falstaff's drink? (4).

and Bladder weakness hard

24 Musculine name (5). stopped Getting Up Nights, Log Pains,

Quarantved to end

vitality in 48 houra,

COUNT THE

Sikolians whose crude husbandry poses to the girl's mother. Bleflian TELEGRAPHS”

are usually brief. Inid the foundations of the future engagements

Young people cannot wait they "granary of Romo."

A queer melange of evanescent grow restive. This is a philosophy racial conquerors secured a footing doubtloss, generated by climatic as in Slelly Romans, Normans, fer- well as racial conditions. Long be mans, Moore, and French-all leav fore she is engaged, however, the

EVERYWHERE

ing apparently. (8). ́.

DOWN

1 This may describe or tell us the spider's sleeping-place (1), 2. One of those about whom Weller

advised caulion (6). 3 That a polical party has lost an artist is not a true statement, (B).

4 This kind of rest is almost

entirely useless (7),

6 "Large coll" (Anug.) (9).

7 French port (8),

o Can you guess this sweat? you will need a good shot to get it : (0).

11 An unselling Journoy (4)..

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15 What is this is dear at any price (and more so if broken in two) (0),

17 Sounds like an alamin to terrify

(8).

18 One who is not contented to fol- low in the foot-steps of others (8).

20 An American President (4)... 21 In this kind of pot-house there is apparently a barmaid instead of a potman, (7). 22 This British author seems to give unnecessary advice to a strict Jew (8).

23 Either of two war-time Ministers

(8),

20 Material to suit a soldier? (5).

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