... THE AMENITIES OF LONDON. iVo II --Two Stalls for To-night The Second of a New Series Dealing with London Life of 1 o-day By ARNOLD PALMES In last week's issue we began publication of a new series on London life by Mr. Palmer The following is the second article of this series its subject is one of great interest to play-going Londoners the choosing of seats at the theatre. When I happened to ...

... By WILLIAM FREEMAN The clock in the bar of the Green Antelope gave its preliminary whirr. Time, gentlemen, hinted Miss Preece, the barmaid. The thin-faced Indian in the corner puc down 111s glass ana gave a suuuen cackling laugh. Time as though you understood even the meaning of the word Teddy Parkin Edwin James Parkin glanced at him suspiciously. Teddy was a small man with a truculent ...

... Bridqe Under the New Rules When Dummy is No Longer Dumb DO you realise, said Dummy, that I am no longer dumb? Were you ever? I asked wearily. Dummy is a voluble soul. Anu iurmermore, ao you realize mat Eastleigh has revoked No, did he? I was threatened with a defeated contract, and two tricks would turn it into a successful one. Yes; renounced on the king of spades and followed to the ...

... My own eyes filled with sudden tears when I saw that hers were closed. I had stopped in the village to ask about her, but no one had told me she was blind. May 1 come in I swung the open gate with a little premeditated clatter. She smiled ever so sweetly. Yes, indeed, come in. I shall be very glad to see you. Glad to see me. The pathos of the word stung me as I walked the flower- bordered ...

... THE DIAMONDS. A Story of Adventure --contijiued. the theory probably evolved by its subsequent discovery there would be that the man had come back to his native place and had fallen over the wharf, or wherever he might happen to be found, in the darkness or in a state of intoxication but it was also true that some strange things would be said if the body were discovered without a penny in its ...

... THE ZEPPELIN The Story of a Night Attack. The battery stood on a black spit of land which ran out into deep sw-Fling' water. Since the beginning of the war, some six months fiirfier, battery has kept an unceasing watch which had iti'o ';n stupefying in its monoiony. Three months ago there had been ten glorious minutes of excitement because an errant fishing smack a pj>ssysd through the ...

... THE HISTORY OF DR. SWEETBRIAR. A Short Story in Two Parts By Olive Birrell Dr. Sweetbriar is persuaded by Edward Whitaker, while under hypnotic influence, to write a letter to a firm of lawyers stating he knows of the death of Hugh Watson Neville. Subsequently he becomes a successful nerve specialist, but it is only in sleep that he can remember the name of the lawyers to whom he wrote. He is ...

... I - f Is't the guidance o' Providence or a temptation o' the Evil One? As David Johnston uttered these words in an awed whisper he stood staring at a small object in the bottom of the vestry closet. He had taken out the pulpit Bible and laid it on the table, and it was when he returned for the hymn book that the thing caught his eye. A An' ye've been minister's man for twenty year ft odds, ...

... UNDER THE CHERRY TREE. 1 I The Japanese Proverb Again Mr. Wantage Throws up his Role of Friend of the Ladies By PETEF. TFAHEE With this sixth article, the series by Mr. Peter Traill comes to an end with, as is only fitting, the marriage of Mr. Wantage as a final episode. Readers who have followed the adventures of Mr. Traill's hero through his various stages of philanderer, man in love, fiance ...

... 1 1 I THE HAPPIEST TIME.-- j I s I A SHORT STORY. a By Kenelm Foss J The boarding-house was at no time the most cheer ful place imaginable, and a rainy day spent within it from breakfast until tea had depressed me unutterably. Neither gazing out for hours on end upon the slippery deserted sea front nor wrestling vainly for other hours to extract harmony from the cracked piano had noticeably ...

... The Short Stories of a Master of Fantasy On February 17, 1947, at the age of eighty-one, the Irish romantic novelist, M. P. Shiel, died at Chichester. The death of this master of fantasy, some of whose works bear the stamp of the poet and the seer, did not pass altogether unnoticed; but throughout his long life he was less widely known than he deserved. Shiel was born at Plymouth, Montserrat, ...

... GRAND LARCENY Tib *5>H2°y Bungininies SteaL By William Hamilton Osborne Smithson, of Bleecker and Smithson, swung into the superintendent's office and laid a bundle on his desk. Tommy, he said, there are the pay envelopes. Better go over them a bit. 1 didn't check them up on account of the rush. I guess they're nil right though. The superintendent nodded, shoved the bundle into a big ...