... s The Predestined cyf// alarming short story by 0. PATRICK v IT was Jasper's tenth birthday. There had been strawberries and cream for tea on the lawn, and a party of nice-mannered boys and girls had solemnly presented him with gifts and wished him many ...

... the house must have grown to seem rather an old story, and with things as they are we are unlikely for the present to be able to replace it with a new one. But what is wrong with giving the old story a new ending? Why not set yourself the task of doing ...

... TELL ME A STORY By Margaret Bovill FAIRIES seemed further away in the autumn. When apple blossoms gleamed, and cowslips and daisies starred the fields in springtime, fairies were everywhere : under bushes, in the young grasses, dancing among the daffodils ...

... South America. Corumba was the next place I visited Continued onpage 84) oVo ON THE IVORY COAST Travelling in Search of a Story Continued from page 41) in the Matto Grosso after Campo Grande. I went there via Buenos Aires, travelling fifteen hundred miles ...

... A Short Story of the Stage By Marguerite Steen THE sort of insane courage which prompts someone about to commit suicide filled Lou Renshaw on the day she walked up to Henry Batchelor and asked him for a job. nenry rsarcneior w n o could never say No to ...

... A THRILLING ESCAPE STORY-- FROM the time when Reuter's first issued the briel announcement that several British Generals had escaped from their prison camp in Italy, it has been obvious that a big story must lie behind the report. Considerations of security ...

... Charlotte's death robbed the English Crown of its heiress, but it also opened up the way to the Victorian succession and to a love story as tender as any in a graceful century. A little time after Princess Char lotte's death the Duke of Kent crossed Europe to ...

... favourite brother, I don't mind much being palmed off as your girl friend, if it's a good enough story. But why should I have to go Greek? It's one of those stories that couldn't have a happy ending without someone getting a bit hurt. Tell me if I was right ...

... him; if I knew the facts it might give me a line to work on. All right. He didn't bind me to secrecy, so I'll give you the story as he told it to me. It's a longish tale. The thing happened last March, when we were at Azelot, near Nancy, just before I ...

... Thc CoRoiwnon Story M v Jd'iv.. v Part tl| B €lizabgth Tudor By JOHN HERBERT ON a November day in 1558, young Elizabeth Tudor stood under an English oak in the grounds of Hatfield House, in Hertfordshire, turning over in her hands a jet-black ring. She ...

... WyHPE A Short Story By Anthony ^Armstrong KING MENDIP III of Tolaria was facing a grave problem. He had faced many before in his life, but had always skilfully twisted round, through, or under them. He was not known to all Europe as The Fox for nothing ...

... dashing meantime through a village which had already gone to sleep. Oh, don't worry, said Manny. We'll get a story. There's always a story in everything. You don't have to have lolled to get a good yarn about a railway smash. Wilbur Jones, younger and ...