... JUST prior to the war, a brilliant young naval officer had a bad breakdown-- a breakdown so complete that it looked as though his career were at an end. He was ordered an entire and protracted iest not only from professional duty, but from every form of work. But war broke out, and his services he was a clever expert were urgently needed. He rejoined. Despite his anxiety to serve, however, he ...

... By GORDON SCOTT IT was their ninth dan together, and the last three had been con- secutive. b Old Lady Barncombe 1/ nudged her neighbour, who Fi /v was nearly asleep. ^3* Where's her husband she demanded, in a deep bass. Whose husband asked Mrs. Lidgett, waking up bewildered. Why, Millie Lipscombe's, of course. Young Garnett's never left her side to-night. Ah there they go, she added, ...

... T The Jf£T0f^--mk j M- sy MARGARET BUTLER Love is the net of truth. Abu Said. MR. SIDNEY CATTERIDGE was entertaining at his villa on the Riviera. He sat at the head of a long table. The table was white and its decoration white. Most of the guests who fringed it were anything but. A more dusky-souled congregation has rarely assembled outside the satin- smeared lounges of a fashionable séance. ...

... In the Trench-- and Afterwards THERE is a lull in the attack, and, save for an occasional shell bursting unpleasantly near, there is nothing doing. The men in the Trench let their minds run on matters more plea sant than fighting. I get my leave to-morrow, if I'm lucky, says one. Touch wood, J im, says another; how long Week Well wish you luck suppose you'll call in at the Club? Ay ay ...

... j tAfivy 7 C No. V.-- AUNTIE'S SHOOTING j (This story is a Fable with a dash of Truth) By A NAVAL OFFICER A CERTAIN First Lord said that favouritism was absolutely necessary to the well-being of the Navy. He was quite right, for favouritism has undoubtedly provided the Navy with some of her greatest history makers. Who, for instance, is better known to-day than Rear- Admiral Sir Plantagenet ...

... //y III v JF/W- By C. M. FRERE SHE was very young when she became engaged to Geoff Mac- donald-- or, rather, when that nebulous thing called an understand- ing first came into existence between them. Geoff and she had known each other since babyhood her father and his had been at school together. It was more or less inevitable I that they should fall in love in fact, it would have been ...

... THE LAUNCH of the PREPOSTEROUS Related by THOMAS TATTENHAM j Al THE INNER HISTORY I| Of A II i JOURNAL 1/ i A97/C .9C r=fi3 [Editorial Foreword. This story was suggested, to the author while witnessing some years ago the launch o) a mammoth liner. In publishing it, we desire to stale that the story is, jrom beginning to end, pure fiction, and that the incidents and the persons connected with ...

... I a 4. J t, 1 i 5y Elinor II i Mordaunt jj CZZ3 The Grand Hotel, Curepipe. DEAR SIR,-- I believe that the shooting rights over the Charmarel Basin are in your hands. Might I have your permission to try for a stag or two there some time next week? I would not venture to ask, but that I hear how very plentiful the deer are on your estate, and how much harm they do to the young sugar canes. ...

... La Femme Propose? mass Fhomrne A MODERN TREATMENT OF A TALE OF ANCIENT TYPE J THAT accidents, and motor accidents, will happen, particularly in the best regulated of families, is accepted. Why, however, le bon Dieu ordains that succour in such accidents should invariably come from the most unwelcome quarters-- that is insoluble. And so it happened with young Bernard Langering. Thrown out of ...

... THE WOMAN'S I 1 STORY BY GLADYS LLOYD I THE Kinleys, had chosen a curious little flat for their first adventure in housekeeping. John Kinley, a novelist, said that it inspired him; the surroundings were so French. Certainly, Cheniston Gardens was full of surprises. There was not much space, but then love's solitude à deux scorns a vacuum. '1 he front room was panelled with white mouldings, gay ...

... HIS CHANCE BY JEAN BOURGET *=*f 1 A TALE OF A MINIATURE I i hp* GOOD health, sir. The speaker was a burly and handsome countryman. He sat with one other man in the smoking-room of a small Strand hotel. Good health to you, Mackeen. i hope everything is going right with you. Ah Not so well, not so well. There's a living, of course, but 1 want more than that. You used to know my wife. Socially ...

... By MARION MOLE and R. E. FRANCILLON IN the course of a quiet life, I, Hendrik Zilber, of Haarlem, have had one experience so strange that it would be impossible were it not true. My father, my grandfather and my great-grand- father were buyers and sellers of musical instruments, and 1 was brought up to their trade. I loved the busi ness, and had no ambitions beyond it. My one great affection ...