... TWO piano-movers knocked on the door. A meek-looking man opened it. Did you order a piano from the Blank Music Shop? asked the first piano mover. The tenant shook his head. No, not a piano, he corrected. X ordered a flute. The piano man studied a slip of paper. According to this, he grumbled, you ordered a piano The little man studied the husky piano- movers. Very well, he said ...

... p The Q Home Coming p A Short Story n By pi ^Terence Ilorsley THE last fix placed Malin Head 083 degrees 340 miles. In the words of the steward to the only wakeful passenger, the air liner was an hour and a quarter from land and less than two hours from her British base. She was flying at 23,000 ft. in an eighty-knot wind from the nor nor'- west a smooth, rushing wind without a ripple in its ...

... Love Rules The Waves An Anglo-American Romance Of The Last Days Of The War By Day Russell AN angry girl, leaning against a full gale from the sea, pushed her way towards the village. The village was a single street that ran down a steep hill to a little fishing harbour facing a bay on the English Channel. White- caps and blown spray raced across the bay and great angry clouds beat at the sea ...

... It Was A Hard Task To Follow In. His Father's Footsteps-- Especially When That Father Was An Admiral And A V.C. By Gilbert Hackforth-Jones AS he drove the car through the misty lanes of South Loam- shire, William was tempted for a moment to test his father's self-control by taking liberties with the Highway Code. He put the thought away from him just as he always did when in the com pany of ...

... By SYBIL DOBIE. MRS. STANLEY-TOMPKINS (one must never forget the Stanley) was clearing away the remains of her frugal supper when the bell rang. Hastily she thrust the tray and her apron into the kitchen and shut the door. She gave a glance round her sitting- room, lit the gas-fire, turned on two more lights, pulled the photo graph of the late Rev. Ignatius Stanley-Tompkins into a more ...