... . By KEITH AYLING. (BEING OUR SHORT STORY.)* GAMBLE? I should say 'e does! When the Colonel sits down to a game 'e means business, and not half. The speaker, a large man with a bowler hat which rivalled the dome of St. Paul's in contour, stuck his hands in the armholes of his waistcoat and eved the deck steward quizzically. The luxury liner was gracefully slipping its way homewards. And ...

... . By INEZ HOLDEN. Author of Born Old Died Young, Friend of (he Family, etc. (BEING OUR SHORT STORY.)* FRIDAY to Monday; that was two days and three nights in actual time, but Sybil did not care how long it was in actual time, because she knew that the experience would seem interminable. The dinner-party had been going on for a long time, and the end was not yet in sight. Sybil looked at ...

... THEME AND VARIATIONS. By ALAN PRYCE- JONES, Author o I Spring Journey, elc. (BEING OUR SHORT STORY.) THEME. I saw a woman accidentally drop the piece of paper she was carrying. A man walking behind her picked it up and, out of curiosity, read what was written on it. I saw that he was surprised, possibly frightened, by what he read. Then he hurried after her. FOURTH VARIATION. IN such a house ...

... .* By WINIFRED F. PECK. WISP banged the door of his step- mother's house behind him with a passion which contrasted strangely with the amiable vagueness of his normal manner. It was not surprising. He was one of those unlucky people who have been born with a silver spoon in their mouths and live to see them, as he had this after- noon, cleared efficiently away out of reach. Some girl had given ...

... WOMEN I SHOULD LIKE TO HAVE MET. IV. MRS. PRIG HACKETT. By ALAN PRYCE JONES, Author of Spring Journey, People in the South. (BEING OUR SHORT STORY.)* AMONG the women whom most people would like to meet, Mrs. Prig-Hackett comes, possibly, first-- not only because of what they can get out of her, not only because they can say quietly, Last night, at Amanda Prig-Hackett's, but because ...

... THEME AND VARIATIONS. By ALAN PRYCE JONES, Author of Spring Journey, elc. THEME. I saw a woman (accidentally drop the piece of paper she was carrying. A man walking behind her picked it up and, out of curiosity, read what was written on it. I saw that he was surprised, possibly frightened, by what he read. Then he hurried after her. (BEING OUR SHORT STORY.)* SIXTH VARIATION. MY dear, it was ...

... IF THE CROWN FITS. By MONICA EWER. (BEING OUR SHORT STORY.)* PICCADILLY CIRCUS at nine- thirty on a Saturday morning. Ruth Elsom walked across quickly, blindly, as she might have trod a familiar cloister. She was absorbed in her own thoughts. She looked like a nun who had escaped into civilian clothes. Her hands were in her muS as once she might have held them inside her sleeves. In visible ...

... . By ALAN KENNINGTON. (BEING OUR SHORT STORY.)* Blair and Kerrigan sat with their coat-collars turned up under a dripping thorn-hedge on a Sussex road, staring gloomily at the drizzle and darkness around. In the ditch below them lay the wreckage of their car, with a snapped front-axle and one head-lamp still glaring at the sky. Mud and torn branches festooned its bonnet, and long furrows ...

... CAUGHT AT SLIP. By E. M. WINCH. (BEING OUR SHORT STORY.)* Everybody had heard that his Highness the Rajah of Candepore was to play for Surrey at the Oval, but only one person outside the Rajah's personal suite knew that he had brought with him from India the diamond known as the Star of Candepore. Monsieur Antoine, that prince among hotel-managers, had no notion of the contents of the small ...

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... THEME AND VARIATIONS, By ALAN PRYCE- JONES, Author of Spring Journey, etc. (BEING OUR SHORT STORY.) THEME. I saw a woman (accidentally drop the piece of paper she was carrying. A man walking behind her picked it up and, out of curiosity, read what was written on it. I saw that he was surprised, possibly frightened, by what he read. Then he hurried after her. FIFTH VARIATION. ON the first and ...

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