... OVER THE WIRES. I A SHORT STORY g by J. MORTON LEWIS 1 There were people who prophesied the marriage would turn out a failure-- there are always such. In this instance it seemed their prognostica tions would prove correct. Mrs. Graveling was a sweet woman, one of those who are in every respect made for married life. An ideal wife, but she was not the right one for Graveling. jrV Eor a tew ...

... 1 1 ON FIFTH AVENUE. I A SHORT STORY 1 S by WARD MUIR I'm American, said my friend Beirens; you're English. Hence, I replied, the difference in our point of view. Sj We've different prejudices, that'sall. Or, rather, we test life by a different set of precedents. >i. Not that the American is worried much by precedents I anyway! ft No occurrence, when you come to think of it, 8 has any ...

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... y i THE CLAIRVOYANT. I I A Short Story J By BARRY PAIN I I Bridge was over for the afternoon. Georgina Elliston paused in the hall of the club talking to her young friend, Myra Keeling. Mrs. Elliston had been losing with bovine content ment. The stakes for which she played were of no importance to her. All her life she had had more money than she had wanted to spend. She also happened to ...

... THE RECORD OF THE WELSH GUARDS And the Story of the Air Transport Auxiliary Detailed war records of the work of particular units have a value beyond their obvious importance as a con tribution to military history, and beyond the fact that they elaborate upon the individual sacrifices which, in sum total, made possible our survival. Such records are indeed a key to a way of living that all too ...

... KINGS' PLAYGROUND The Story of the Gardens of Hampton Court Nineteen years before Wolsey took over the Manor of Hampton, the Wars of the Roses had ended on Bos worth Field and the Tudor Age had begun-- an age marked by a little more serenity than its frowning predecessor; one in which the King's friends busied themselves with con solidating their new positions, and built for themselves fine ...

... SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY Presenting The Edwardian Story Shaw Desmond, that ebullient Anglo- Irish writer who has set his fiction and has lived his life against a wide range of backgrounds, who in an adventurous career has sailed round the Horn, travelled 7,000 miles in Africa, worked in the Fleet Street of Lord Northcliffe, and contested an elec tion against the legendary John Burns, has ...

... . By Harry Graham. I had finished luncheon and was sitting, as usual, in a comfortable armchair in the club smoking-room reading my favourite journal and enjoying a cup of coffee. I was especially interested, I remember, in the leading article, a masterly attack upon the financial policy of the Government and on national extravagance generally, for I knew the writer to be a well-known ...

... 1 IN THE TWILIGHT. II A SHORT STORY by JEAN D'AUVERGNE We had gathered together for Easter at Port Dickson. There were seven of us all told, representing police, planter, magistrate, and miner-- the active and passive of British credit in the East-- and there was not one of us who had not done his ten years under the Malayan sun. M We had just finished our afternoon bathe and 1^] were loafing ...

... 1 i I I I 1 I THE TWO CENTURIES. i I 1 A SHORT STORY I by ALBERT KINROSS J (0 I had always regarded Fleming as a very consider able man. To begin with, he made a fortune while most of his contemporaries were getting under way. It was not a very big fortune, but quite enough. Say a thousand a year or so. It enabled him to retire from Oxford Street into the country, a matter on which long ago he ...

... U Humming with happy voices lay n The garden where we played And criticized the court or play i And had tea in the shade. 0 P A telegram, Sir, someone said I read it, vaguely chilled. The Secretary of State, I j read, Regrets her husband killed. 1 She saw, but never stopped the game, Nor was her laughter stilled, Although her whispered question came Quick wounded missing J) That last - ...