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THE AFFAIRE OF THE FRENCH SAVANT

... Q j W.M. J 4 O'Kinealy JJ l __Z3 IT was natural she should be entangled with a French savant; she would have been entangled with every biologist, zoologist, and other sort of learned bug in Europe-- if she had had time. The curtain was rung up in Paris, in the Salon des Livres Exposes, at the Bibliotheque Nationale, a setting by no means without picturesqueness and charm. An elderly man is ...

Published: Wednesday 02 July 1913
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1374 | Page: Page 29, 30 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

The BABY

... jS>ABY ^\9i Vy I I ^Margaret 11 Butler ll k CZZ3 MRS. BEESTON, the mother of the Rev. John Beeston and, therefore, the mother-in-law of Mrs. John Beeston, sat in her son's drawing- room in a state of very pleasurable anticipation. It was the morning of the annual flower show of the little Surrey village where Mr. Beeston had his living. The sun was shining and the Bishop was coming, the former ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1912
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3051 | Page: Page 33, 34, 36 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

Bystander Super-Scoops:: No. III. Earl Earwig's Exemption

... Bystander Super-Scoops By Qu'importe? No. III. Earl Earwig's Exemption. THIS Is unquestionably the most stupendous serial ever let loose. Unchain- j ing a fiery mustang is like a white mouse to it. Tried on the cinema it shook the thing to bits and had to be hacked off with a pickaxe. It is absolutely the most palpitating transcript of human emotions that ever palped. f The manuscript can be ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1917
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1633 | Page: Page 18, 20 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

A Captain's Love

... L Captain s V Love BY RONALD FRANKAU IN England, Sylvia was a pretty little chorus girl-- who talked incessantly of her hair. In France, Sylvia became a darling --bereft of foibles. Considering her pro fession, I had known Sylvia a ver}' long time nearly eighteen months. v\ hen I first obtained my commission and succeeded in getting into an R.E. Signal Company, Sylvia used to sup with me at ...

Published: Wednesday 12 January 1916
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2022 | Page: Page 24, 26 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

THE NAVAL OFFICER AND THE LITTLE GREY BOOKS

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1918
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1136 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

THE PRIG

... 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, ...

Published: Wednesday 29 July 1914
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2192 | Page: Page 31, 32 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

The NET of TRUTH

... 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. ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1911
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2798 | Page: Page 33, 34, 36 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

In the Trench--and Afterwards

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1916
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 448 | Page: Page 36 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

The Navy from Within: No. V.--AUNTIE'S SHOOTING

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 28 January 1914
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1798 | Page: Page 18, 20 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

It's an Ill Wind--

... //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 ...

Published: Wednesday 09 May 1917
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1604 | Page: Page 40, 42 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

HERCULES AND APHRODITE

... icciurui/i^ AMD A;>HROO(T^ By LEONARD MERRICK (Author of The House of Lynch, Whispers About Women, etc.) MADEMOISELLE CLAIRETTE used to say that if a danseuse could not throw a glance to the conductor of the band without the juggler being jealous, the Variety Profession was coming to a pretty pass. She also remarked that for a girl to entrust her life's happiness to a jealous suitor would be ...

Published: Wednesday 10 June 1908
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3269 | Page: Page 28, 30, 32 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative