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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1988.

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MERRILY WE LIVE

PRECEDING CHAPTERS:

Wads Rawlina, movelias, rough- ing on the Pacific Coast, la almanded when Als car falls into a revine, le gook to the Ku- Dourne Ronse to nikt to wan the phone. In in mistaken for a fromp and as Mrs.

Kilbourne

hon a hobby of taking th from and the chauffeur kits disappro nă with nữ the silver thar worn- ing, he engaged to drive, against his wall. Ziut rifter a frui

AUTOR varizing and

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tions, he wants to stay in the strange household. 27 will furnish Aim with event comp

CURTADA JA SA Lowe

Chapter Five

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ADAPTED FROM THE

Meta Gothryn Mayer

FLOTURA

by LUCY HUFFAKER

no Mr. Kilbourne who had put the elor in his mouth, gazod _hopoinse. ty nt this predicament. Jerry laft the mantlopiece nad the candles, wont to him, took the empty coffon eup and handed the elgar to Gros- venor, He was no bewildered, no near to fainting that instead of placing it on an ash tray, he laid It on the rim of a vaso. It fell i

"As I was saying when I was so rudely interrupted. Mr. Kilbourne went on, "there has to be a chango In this house and when I say change I mean upheaval."

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

"If you will kindly allow me to speak, his father and sharply, "I will outlins a program. First mare tramps to be admitted.”

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**y should there ba?" Jerry asked "We've got a brand new one now. We won't have to turn him la for a new one for a while yet."

distrail Grosvenor than whal when Herbert Wheeler phoned for the 17th time and way) again told that Miss Klibourno was, “Better turn him out," said Kane.

"I stand with father on this mat not at home.

"Ah, Jorry, have a heart.", said ¦ tër.” Marian. Whatever it is you migh: as well get it over with Herbert will be coming ever if you don't And you know Grosvenor; he looka As if he were going to faint. Once is enough for one day."

Jerry looked as if she were go Ing to order her mister to keep oul of her finirs, but instead she sud- denly burst out laughing.

R was at that moment Grosvenor noticed a spiral of smoke coming from the vase. He walked toward it calmly. But he was no calm after he had reached into it to retriave the cigar. It was not a doop vane. no he could reach the elgas easily. But neither was it large at the top. His hand would not come out! Holding the vast behind him, he tried to back out of the room with Kilbourne wanted another cup of coffee. As long as he lived, Gros- venor was to marvel at the fnet that someway he managed with one free hand to slip the cup under the urn, fl it, get it on a tray and band It to Mr. Kilbourne. Tho

"For once you're right, baby sis- ter. Jerry sald. "We'll have ouroul altracting attention. But Mr. selves a good time

you and I I can't vouch for Herbert and Gros venor. Beat yourself at the exten- sion in the nil and next time he antis up, he'll get an answer all right. But in when you feel like it trust you to do your part."

She rang for the butler to come and told him he was to stay with her by the phone until Mr. Wheeler called again. He was to say she had come in. But under no condi- tions was Grosvenor to leave until aho and told him he might.

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

feat was the more wonderful be- cause the cigar was burning his finger tips. He could take no more chances. He hurried to the door. A moment later a loud crash was heard, Grosvenor hnd freed himself In the only way possible.

"I am grateful for your klad sup- Grosvenor carried out his Instruc-) tions to the latter, but the wild, port," Mr. Kilbourne Enid to his son, broken conversation was torture to sarcastically, "but I've taken mat- him. Dutifully he informed Mr.) tere in my own hands. Tomorrow Wheeler that Miss Kilbourne was this latest tramp gets a week's pay not in, although he felt sure her and goen." voice giving him that order had carried over the phone.

Mrs. Kilbourne laid down her book and rose to hor feet.

"I want Wads to come in," she "Liston you old block-head," said

eald in, anowar to her husband's Herbert, You can't kid me."

"What do you mean calling me question, as to where she was go- namos?" said Jerry into the phone, ing. "I've just been looking in that then motionca to Grosvenor to book on the geneology of my fam- speal. He did but for once he for-ily and sure enough my great-great- got to be the perfect butler. He grandmother was a Wade. Probably said he begged to inform the Wade Rawlins is a relative."

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

the shoulders, nor his sweetheart.

"You con of an elephant," said Herbert, Almust stuttering to his bowlldorment. "Will you play off the phone?"

"You're slaying right here, no matter who your relatives are. Did you hear me say this new-found cousin of yours, according to you, Then Jerry spoke and her tone Is to be sent packing tomorrow?”

Mrs. Kilbotime for anawar naked was cold, as she said she could not understand why Mr. Whooler had Mr. Klibourne If he had not noticed called unless he wished to be in there was silver plenty of it -- Fuling As for her sie bad not on the dining table? She had spent wanted to spoak to him. She did hours, digging into old boxen for not want to now. She whispered discarded ploces and thought the to Grosvenor to say she was not in.) reauit remarkable.

"That's another thing," Mr. KJ- It was then that Marian got in

bourne roared. "You know wa aro her good work,

What number are you calling, having a dinner party tomorrow plocne?" she asked. This in the night a most important one. Can operator. If you will hold a minute, you remember to get some decent I will try to get a connection for tablo things or shall I have my 805-

rulary do it?" you. Heto It is,

Bho placed the received of the phone against the mouthplace and then bung up.

"Wen't be time to havo It mark- od, Dad," said Jerry.

"All the better for whoever steals hope the blast he got won't It," broke in Kane. "Easier to dis- hurt his cara permanently," she said. pose of, harder to trace, if it's "I only wish we had a gadget on pinin."

Mrs. Kilbourne looked at her son the phone so we could see Her bert must have been one thing to reprovingly and asked him how ho look at during that telephone talk." could be so unkind, so auspicious At the dirnor table, Mr. K on to think Wade Rawlins would bourne banounced that over their steal7

"You're right, Emily," Mr. Kil- coffee in the drawing room, he would have something of import-bourne anid, "he won't get a chance. ance to announce and he expected He goes, the silver comes and the undivided attention of his fam- in that order.”

lly. They were all prosent and at- "What do you mean Wade is go- counted for Mrs. Kilbourne obli- ing? In he unhappy here? Has any vious to everything except the book of us hurt his "foelinge, do you ate was reading; Kana atrstohed on i think?"

the sofe reading, в дотерарот, Mr. Kilbourne loved, his wife Marina romping with her dogs and deeply: he folt In a complimen Jerry leaning against the mantle-tary sengo - that there wasn't an pieco blowing out the candies every other woman like her in the world, ma Grosvenor's eyes were not but at that momont he was wonder upon her. Once when she thought ing if there was anything in the vid he had caught her, she let out a saying about, "shaling sones into" whistle to account for the puckor a person. He sighed. Even it ha ing of her mouth.

know it to be efficacious, he know "When my family realizes that we he haver could lay a hand on her are becoming the laughing-stock of except in tenderness.

"I have nothing more to say," he the community and ends ita ways," said Mr. Kilbouras, march said in a pleading voice, except ing back and forth borong the room, to remind you that I am most anxi- holding his coffee cup in one hand our to make a good impression on and his lighted cigar in the other. Senator Harlan tomorrow night. "then I may have the comfort to For just this once won't you all try which I am entitled. Grosvenor not to be too Kilbourne,ia?", what an earth do you keep light- ing candies fort Step it and get me

Another cup of coffee,"

Grosvenor brought the soffas cup, but neglected to take the other one,

(To Be Continued)

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OTHER

ISLAND

Sicilian maiden la husy embroider- ing her trousseau.

apring in Sicily was the nearest by "An Old Stager" Ancient Greek and Roman cus-

approach to Paradise of which sin

ful man is capable. This near

approach 1 made several times at ing some tract of their sojourn that joyous period of life when one architecture and habits. is "but an eugle's talon in the waist"

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

toms survive in the Sicilian death ritual. Wailing is still practised in country villages. The wailing in mother, wife, or daughter can be heard by the whole street in which she lives.

Elemental Realitics

A generation ago professional 'mourners were still common. Without allowing the narration to Colourful memories of those become too academic or boring, Mr. After the corpse has been washed and the bed remade, the latter must youthful visits have occasionally Guercio gives us a clear account of made more fretful and irksome the all these changing Sicilian historical be adjusted so that the corpse's fect 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-nge pewter skies and smoke- drama of the Sicillan Vespers, la lad. Some of the poorer people, grimed stone. But the next best which a Sicilian reaction, as fero during mourning, refrain from shav thing to sciting foot in a far country, cious as the tyranny that produced in nnd wear their clothes inside- and beholding its, mysteries with it, wiped out the whole French gar out pne's own eyes, is reading about It rison of some forty thousand troops by someone who knows it inside-out within a few hours. and has the gift of vivid and con- Particularly interesting is Mr.

Mr. Guercio comments: "The genial narration. To those 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 picturesque and fascinat 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 stories. Job's comforters. They were not, who have the urge to

make frat 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 people, I commend "Sicily: The ly what successive Italian Govern- to gloat over his afflictions, but co Garden of the Mediterranean." ments had abjectly failed to do. mournors and consolers, steeping Through the instrumentality of a him and themselves in woe, revell- This is a 15s 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, récently a lec- broke up, not only that' criminal exceas.' turer in Italian at Glasgow and undertaking, but even its ingrained Manchester, fa Anglo-Italian, tradition. with a foot sympathetically planted

an

Those who elect to tour Sicily in Mr. Guercio's company will find Here is the author's first-hand themselves lifted out of the flimsy in each country. This makes him authentic portrait of the typical artificiality of our modern existence, the perfect interpreter for English young Mafiusu.. Ife 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 loland. Much Coveted

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into his hair land of sun-baked elemental re- hat upon the left side, smoothed with plentiful pomatum, alities. He will introduce them to and one lock brushed down upon his an island and an island people who The author claims that his mixed forehend; he walks 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 uncompresing drama of real human- the English and the Sicilian, and hand, and he is frequently armed ity, stripped of its cheap camouflage, a keen sense of the possibilities of with a long knife or revolver. To looms through some of the chapters misunderstanding between them. these trits should be added the of this book. This modest chim is more than wearing of gold or silver rings and justified by the book,

the use of creaking shoes, two very distinctive details in the complete The idea that Sicily is geologically outfit of a man of honour.'” more African than Italian bns in re-

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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

19

ACROSS

1 If the P.M.G. advertised

surely he would

be

Peter to pay Paul (8).

5 An African tree (0).

this robbing

9 Beat advice to belong to a poli-

tical party (0),

10 More than one anyhow (0);

12 A famous blade (9).

13 Regimental colours? (5).

Vessel (4).

14

18 Would a sailor tying in the dock.

be guilty of this? (7).

10 Dance (7)

21 Falstaff's drink? (4).

24 Masculine name (6).

cent time been abandoned, together Marriage in Haste with the theory that it was onec

Not the least fascinating chapter joined to the Dark Continent by a prehistoric isthmua. Since the days in this notable volume is that deal-

Thousands of sufferers from Elda of Homer, whose resonant lyre Ing with popular Sicilian custome chunted the cradle song of European and traditions. These are, as Mr. trouble and ladder weakness A

stopped Getting Up Nights, Leg Pains,

25 No, this variety of 20 across is not a favourite food at plenies history, the ancients have emphasis- Guerclo observes, fossilled faith Circles Under Eyes, Hweiten Anicion, Emart-

(0). xincas, Lumbago, Hur cd Sivily's triangular formation. relles primarily concerned with the Only the ancient made it, an even land-marks of human exintence, auchi of Vigour by Tloc

27 The highest order (0,.. mediaeval maps reveal; an acute as marriage and death, and, since tor's now dincovery called Cyxiez (BKY

more kidnes. In 15 minutes 28 17is older" (Ahag.) (8). angled instead of a right-angled one. Sicily has never at any period of its x). Gently Roothan, tonen, leans ind and vitality in 48 hours, unw health to ent

30 Sols ablaze but is already burn- Our author reminds us that the history suffered from iconoclasts-Cystex ainete purifying your blood, Bringe 20 Bird (Sco 28 across) (6).

Ing apparently (8), Sicily of that dim and distant date as England did during the Puritan duaranteed

DOWN was very different from present-day regime the island is particularly money back, Get Cyator at all cheasiala uspoeta. To visualino it we must try rich in such folklore,"

The initiative in marriage belongs

to imagine a Sicily without lemons, to the Sicilian parents. In middle- oranges, grapes, olives, almonda, encli, or aloon. The sweet orange, class marriages the actual proposal for instance, for which Sicily is now is made by the sultor or his father so well known, was a sixteenth to the father of the lady concerned, century importation by the Portu-but among the lower classes it is vucno from China, Yet it was the the young man's mother who pro- Sikelians whose crude husbandry poses to the girl's mother. Sicilian aro usually brief. Inld the foundations of the future engagements

Young people cannot walt-thoy "granary of Rome.",

A queer melange of evanescent grow rostion. This is a philosophy racial conquerors secured a footing doubtless generated by climatic ne in Sicily-Romans, Normane, Ger wall ng racial conditions. Long be mans; Moors, and French-all loays "fore she is engaged, however, the

troublen 8 daya

COUNT THE

“TELEGRAPHS”

EVERYWHERE

1 This may describe or tell us the spider's niceplog-place (0), 2 One of those abdul whoin Wolier

advised caution (6).

3 That a political party has lost an artist is not a true statement

(6).

This icind of rest is

entirely useless (7).

Large coll" (Anag.) ...(9),

7 French port (8),

almost

& Can you guess this swool? you

will need a good shot to get it (0).

11 An ungotting journey (4)

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16 What is this is dear at any price (and more so if broken in two) (D).

17 Sounds like an alarm 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 bormald instead of a potman (7)

22 This British author seems to give unnecessary advice to a strict Jew (6).

23 Either of two war-time Ministers

(0).

20 Material to 'sult a soldier? (5).

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