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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH October 15, 1940.

By Walt Disney

MAGAZINE PAGE

"We Are Not Alone

FROM THE NOVEL BY JAMES HILTON

THE hill heaped behind, with the dark shape of the Knoll farther still behind, the gradient spinning them into shadows of cold air under trees, and then into the bright glassy moonlight of the level. And after miles of this, keeping a good rate, David began to whistle in pure enjoyment. He often did

so as he went about the country-side at night, and if people heard a whistling cyclist they sometimes said: "But that's the little doctor."

So now he went on whistling till the beginning of Crooms- bury I made him save his breath, and a few yards higher forced him off his machino al- together:

"This is a steep one," he said, adectionately, to the earth and sky, "of and then paused in the middle the road, feeling in his pocket for pipe and tobacco and matches. "But we're doing fine-we'll easily catch the ten to twelve. Are you

my

but it hurts my kace д

"It's not far now-just through Lissington village and OYOT the next hilt-I know all the country around here. You must have been a baby when I first put up plate. Hundreds of miles away in some German village 've never heard of, you grew up-al unknown to me, all those years to fall over one night and break

I your wrist in Calderbury. you hadn't come here and done that ver have known you at ail. That's a funny thing. And it's funnier still to think that I shouldn't have missed knowing you

never

Some German village, wasn't it. Tell me about

It was a city, really--Konigs berg, My parents both died when I was young and I was sent to school the school I

on

ron

away

PANT

"Under arrest for the murder of my wife?”

"They're killing us➡but we are not alone!”

on the wheatfielda, wakening the birds. He roused her and they passed on together. I was ten to six when they approached the He entrance to the ticket office. knew that the train would take them as far as Charlham, where

and they could buy the tickets up an express for London,

arrived at Charlham at

had

and had breakfast at the Arms. The morning papers come in, and

in the coffer everyone

On

sudden soft glow of the electric light her eyes melted to his glance. "Ön kleiner Doktor ." she mur-

"Where are we mured, dreamily. going to? Where are you taking me?"

Then she remembered something he had told her sho must not speak during the Journey in case anyone should hear foreign accent.

her

the

03

They reached London in middle of the afternoon, and they walked with the crowd on of the the platform by the sides Leni

train two men sprang forward and gripped each of them by the arm.

room was talking to London

and prophecying. Most of the way slept again, but this time the train was crowded and she leaned her head against his shoulder while he talked with the other people in the compartment. He sometimes stole against a glance at the head so limp his arra; it had been a long way to the Junction for her-poor child. let her sleep. But once she half- wakened, roused by the crash of the train in a tunnel, and in the nearly over. a field and

at the top of the hill now. Jump on again. We can Бо talking." But at the foot of the hill there was a bad patch of road and crossing it too fast and with the added weight the back tire suidenly deflated. "We'll just have to push on and walk- David said. He took the machine

Into through a

gate

partly hid it in a hedgerow. Lent was limping and the Junction lights acemed far away. He put his arm around her so that she might lean some of her weight on him. "Justi matter of stepping out ." he said, but when still a long way off they heard the train they, bad aimed for puffing out of the station. bly had six hours to walt-no big hardship on a surtuner night, Half a mile farther on he knew that the side of the road heaped into a dry bed of bracken There was a big elm growing there. So when they were tired of walking thes, lay down on

turf and bracken. There art some moments that are hung in memory lamp, they shine and swing gently and one can look back on them when all else has faded into dis tance and darkness.. *

the...

Ике

** Dawn came the dawn

of

the first day of war. He got

The little doctor watched the autumn sunlight move over the floor, and when the last yellow bar disappeared he knew it was late afternoon and that another day was Presently he

heard the Cathedral chiming five, and a warder entered with tea and bread and butter for himself and for the two other warders who had to stav all the time.

According to prison rules he was never loft alone, day or night; but the warders were kindly fellows, and tried to efface themselves as much as possible. They played cards or read newspapera or yarned together for hours, not worry- ing the doctor by their pre- Bence, though they affable enough if he chose to join them for a game. They would not let him wear boot- laces, or braces, or anything he might possibly hang him- solf with; because, of course, they intended to hang him themselves.

were

The-- request that David had made, more than once. was to see Leni. She was lodged in the jali at Manchester, twenty miles away, where there was more up-to-date provision for women prisoners. He had not seen her since the trial, a month before, and when he tried to remember that last glance, he had he could only see the court- room, dark at the close of an

grey autumn niternoon, moving restlessly and meaningless- ly is

as reeds in a stream, and some- where, lost amongst them, her strange eager face seeking his in t bewildered stare. What had it all been abou(?

And he didn't know-the whole of arrest, police ques- proceedings tioning, grand jury, prison, trial all were shadows at a shape- jess fate. They let him read re- he ports of the trial, and to these now gave a half-incredulous scru tiny. He could not really under- stand. Then he turned to the current papers, and read news that was darle with buger, fantasy -Mons, the Marne, the Aisne

BRITAIN SEES IT

Many small incidents dur- ing the sustained air attacks on Britain have shown how coolly the people are facing danger.

The stories and by no means all are chronicled-il- lustrate British imperturbabi- lity, courage, presence of mind, and good humour.

They increase in number daily Here are a few of them, taken from the events of one 'weck:--

During the heaviest rald so far on one section of the north-east. "const miners climbed to, the 'sum-

toid operation on a woman when a bomb fell close at hand.

When David heard on Thursday morning · that Lent was to be brought to see him that "same afternoon his heart overflowed with anticipation. They let her come in clothes, the same that sho had know

known whlist balancing on the The hack of David's bicycle along the Marsland Road. But her different from then; she had the little crushedt smile that he had he had Arat of all

of all when he bandaged her wrist at the Theatre

seen

Whe

Royal She came forward aturth)- ing a little, leaning at last into his arms, as he stood. "Du kleiner Doktor Oh, du kleiner Dokter

." She began to cry, and all at once it seemed to him that the whole world was crying, crying for

·lost, impossible love,

Her first words were: "David, whatever you did, I love you, David, I told you that once be- fore, but you took no notice. "When did you tell me?"

"The day I danced for you."

"Yes, I remember that, I try to remember everything-I try and I try but I can't think what really happened," And then suddenly he said: "Leni-did you-you didn't— you didn't do anything-did you?” She looked at him gravely for a moment and then answered: "No. Did you?"

"I didn't either. Did you think I did?" "I wondered." "I wondered, too." Then he smiled. Forgive me. How could such a suspicion—”

"But if it's really true that neither of-then who?”

"Yes, that's the trouble. That's why they won't believe us. They have to find some answer. And it's so caly to prove things by evidence. She put up her hand and touched his face as a blind person memorizes. "They are go- ing to kill us, David, though we haven't done any

"I

know."y wrong at all."

And he added, seeing beyond her, hundred of miles be yond her: "We are not alone."

What do

"These menn?"

are always hap- pening. Don't be afraid of death. It isn't the worst we have to face only the last. No, no, we should fear birth much more If we could look ahead of it. If there's a next world I'll try to find you in it as I found

you in this

"Oh, David Davidi Why does

ave to happen like this?"

It have

Presently a stranger entered the room and pinioned his arms with

leather

A

he

#aw

or murmur.

Then

without wore submitted to this Chaplain standing "Good morn

he said and smiled at them.

the chilly morning air. He stood on a gravel walk in the 31ttle int

platform. A white hood was put over, his head. The slipped over it and he suddenly re- membered Lent, and her little crushed spille, the

same moment in Manchester Come me, go with me,

With

poose

nt

that she and the too, ot

I don't know where, but there are

a few of us, we make a good com- pany already, we carry love in our hearts, we are not alone.”

(To be continued to-morrow)

THROUGH

BE

Some

Hundreds of people watched a people waiting in a public shelter night attack on Croydon.

during a raid, : stood on the top deck of an omej Dibus.Soldiers cheered every time a raider tell. Children who had been driving with their mother; left their car, lay down in a feld, nad had a good view of the battle.

Anti-aircraft guns answered. All round, the noise became deafening; but among the confusion, with fighting overhead, the surgeon and his assistants continued their work and ended the operation success. That night people in a south fully. The woman is recovering.

east coast town cheered: them-

KRAKAN FRAU 5 prselves whoarse" - when, an anti-air- pilot who was shot craft gun scored a direct hit on a down and rescued during one of Messerschmitt 100 and sent it flar-

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When Dornier raiders appeared

A woman having her hair waved in a Homsey saloon refused the proprietor's, invitation to, tako cover, and asked him to continue, At the time of the first London ruid warning on Friday the band of the Irish Guards was playing on Tower. Hill When thej band- master announced that all who withed to inke shelter should do sopi.few people moved the crowd At an Overseas Club party forogramme continued

shouted Carry on, Bill," and the members of the Dominions fighting. forces, enThursday Butzkrieg Day-two

chairs, were reserved. "If they don't come any nearer, shan't mind at all, bald s for Hitler ind Mussolini. They re-g

•Wile allerta bömb hád mained vacant,

blown left the roof of the

dance about fournit

At offe London station a dozen sailors, going on leave, took no all of the air-rald waril- spent the time having

heerfully ob

up leaving her still: aleeping mit of albg-beap to watch the over-Portland and, Weymout the Lord, Willingdon, read two, en house; and made the furniture:

'and walked a few yards to the

"Stamford Magna,

peare, how many days, cars? The spire of

urch, pricked, over:

stening.

Aghting, Frutash Pahan tak dana swarm of bees in the sky

They y stood there, cheering and British

waving their caps

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Asurgeon at a Portsmouth hoa pital hnd Just started a critical mas-

windows of a chupet in which a children's service was being held avere blown outdated or

The forty children present went into, a lecture room at the back sheltered yogainst the wall, and twention singing against the wall and went on singing their hymns until the end of the raid,

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