PAGE
FOUR
"
S
EVEN
r
Mystery
By
Agatha
Christie
(Continued
from
page
one)
of
the
Church
reprove
a
Turk
or
an
infidel
who
had
unwittingly
committed
a
solecism
in
all
good
faith.
Lady
Coote
blushed
for
the
second
time
that
morning.
But
a
welcome
interruption
occurred.
The
door
opened
and
a
serious,
spectacle!
young
man
put
his
head
in.
"om
mere
you
are,
Laay
uoote.
Sir
Oswald
was
asking
for
you."
"Oh,
I'll
go
to
him
at
once,
Mr.
Bateman."
Lady
Coote
hurried
out.
Bateman
or
"Ponfo"
Rupert
Bateman,
who
was
Sir
Oswald's
private
secretary,
went
out
the
other
way,
through
the
window
where
Jimmy
Thesinger
was
still
lounging
amiably
"Morning,
Pongo,"
said
Jimmy.
"I
suppose
I
shall
have
to
go
and
make
myself
agreeable
to
those
blasted
girls.
You
coming?"
Bateman
shook
his
head
and
hurried
along
the
terrace
and
in
at
the
library
window.
Jimmy
grinned
pleasantly
at
his
retreating
back,
lie
and
Bateman
had
been
at
school
together,
when
Bateman
had
gested
Bill.
"Come
on,
Jimmy."
Planning
"Oh,
let's
be
more
subtle
than
that."
said
the
girl
called
Socks.
Subtle
C7a3
a
word
of
which
she
was
rather
fond.
She
used
it
a
great
deal.
"I'm
not
subtle,"
said
Jimmy.
"I
don't
know
how."
"Let's
get
together
and
do
something
about
it
tomorrow
morning."
suggested-
Ronny
vaguely.
.MY
ou-
know,
get
him
up
at
7.
Stagger
the
household.
Tredwell
loses
his
false
whiskers
and
drops
the
tea
urn.
Lady
Coote
has
hysterics
and
faints
in
Bill's
arms
Bill
being
the
weight
carrier.
Sir
Oswald
says
'Har
ana
steel
goes
up
a
point
and
uve-eigntns..
rongo
registers
em
applied
that
is.
But
he's
only
turn
over
ana
go
to
sleep
again."
"Oh!
we
must
think
of
something
more
subtle
than
cold
water,"
said
Socks.
"Well,
what?"
asked
Ronnv
bluntly.
And
nobody
had
any
answer
ready.
"We
ought
to
be
able
to
think
of
something,"
said
Bill.
"Who's
got
any
brains?"
"Pongo,"
said
Jimmy.
.
"And
here
he
is,
rushing
along
in
a
harried
manner
as
usual.
Pongo
was
always
the
one
for
brain.
It's
been
his
misfortune
from
his
youth
upward.
Let's
turn
Pongo
on
to
it."
Mr.
Bateman
llstenea
patiently
to
a
somewhat
incoherent
statement.
His
attitude
was
that
of
one
poised
for
flight.
He
delivered
his
solution
without
loss
of
time.
An
Alarm
Clock
"I
should
suggest
an
alarm
clock,"
he
said
briskly.
"i
always
use
one
myself
for
fear
of
over-
"I'm
afraid,
sir,
the
poor
gentleman
must
have
died
in
his
.sleep."
had
been
then.
The
words
"Life
is
real,
life
is
earnest"
might
have
been
written
specially
-for
him.
Jimmy
yawned
and
strolled
slowly
down
to
the
lake.
The
girls
were
there,
three
of
them
just
the
usual
sort
of
girls,
two
with
dark,
shingled
been
a
serious,
spectacled
boy,
and
had
been
nicknamed
Pongo
for
no
earthly
reason
whatever.
Pongo,
Jimmy
reflected,
was
very
much
the
same
sort
of
ass
that
he
heads
and
one
with
a
fair,
shingled
head.
The
one
that
giggled
most
was
(he
thought)
called
Helen
and1
there
was
another
-called
Nancy
and
the
third
one
was,
for
some
reason,
addressed
as
Socks.
With
them
were
his
two
friends.
Bill
Everslelgh
and
Ronny
Devereaux,
who
were
employed
In
a
purely
ornamental
capacity
at
the
Foreign
Office.
''Hallo,"
said
Nancy
or
possibly
Helen).
"It's
Jimmy.
Where's
what's
his
name?"
"You
don't
mean
to
say,"
said
BUI
Everslelgh,
"that
Gerry
Wade's
not
up
yet?
Something
ought
to
be
done
about
it."
"If
he's
not
careful'
said
Ronny
Devreaux,
"hell
miss
his
breakfast
altogether
one
day
find
it's
lunch
or
tea
instead
when
he
rolls
down."
"It's
a
shame,"
said
the
girl
called
Bocks.
"Beaause
it
worries
Lady
Coote
so.
She
gets
more
and
more
like
a
hen
that
wants
to
lay
an
egg
and
can't.
It's
too
bad."
"Let's
pull
him
out
of
bed,"
sug-
sleeping.
I
.find
(hat
early
tea
brought
in
in
a
noiseless
manner
is
sometimes
powerless
to
awaken
me."
He
hurried
away.
"An
alarm
clock."
Ronny
shook
his
head.
"One
alarm
clock.
.
It
Ambassador
To
United
States
Is
Good-NaturedScot
WASHINGTON,
Dec.
20:
Sir
Ronald
Lindsay,
new
British
am
bassador
to
the
United
States,
is
remembered
in
Washington
as
a
"big,
good
-
natured
Scotsman"
with
a
marked
liking
for
American
people
and
American
things.
Veterans
of
the
State
Department,
I
who
knew
him
when
he
was
un-
otion
by
throwing
down
his
spec-
:
der-secretary
here
during
the
taclels
and
stamping
on
them."
Roosevelt
administration
and
"You
don't
know
Gerry,"
said
(
again
as
counsellor
of
the
em-Jimmy.
"I
daresay
enough
cold
'
bassy,
say
that
no
other
envoy
water
might
wake
him
Judiciously
of
Great
Britain,
with
the
possible
exception
of
Viscount
Bryce,
has
had
so
great
an
admiration
for
our
customs
and
characteristics.
With
friendships
.
already
established
with
"old-timers"
in
the
state
department
and
among
the
diplomats
of
other
nations
stationed
here,
it
will
be
more
or
less
like
coming
home
for
Sir
Ronald
when
he
arrives
in
February
to
succeed
Sir
Esme
Howard.
Sir
Ronald's
present
wile
is
the
former
Elizabeth
Sherman
Hovt.
daughter
of
the
late
Colgate
Hoyt
of
New
York.
The
first
Lady
Lindsay
was
Martha,
daughter
of
former
Senator
J.
Donald
Cameron
of
Pennsylvania
and
a
great
cocial
favorite.
She
died
in
1918
Product
of
the
world's
greatest
"finishing
school"
in
statecraft,
the
British
diplomatic
service,
hP
bears
an
Impressive
list
of
honorary
titles
and
is
at
the
crest
of
a
career
of
extraordinary
dlstlnc
tion
and
variety.
Aitnougn
ne
is
a
member
or
a
family
of
the
old
Scottish
nobility
nis
Droiner
ts
tne
twenty-seventh
Earl
of
Crawford
he
is
described
ar
a
map
similar
In
type
to
the
great
commoner,
Ramsay
MacDonald.
and
his
appointment
is
believed
to
be
the
nremier's
own
selection.
Sir
Ronald
entered
the
diplomatic
service
at
the
age
of
21
and
spent
four
years
of
his
young
manhood
at
St.
Petersburg
in
the
dazzling
court
days
of
the
czarlsttc
dynasty.
There
followed
two
years
at
Teheran,
the
exotic
city
of
the
shahs
of
Persia.
He
then
came
to
Washington
when
the
strenuous
Teddy
was
the
White
House
occupant
and
exponent
of
"shirtsleeve"
diplomacy.
Since
then
he
has
moved
upward
steadily
until
he
became
permanent
under
-
secretary
-of
statei
the
highest
post
for
a
"career
mn"
in
the
British
diplomatic
service.
And
now
he
is
coming
to
Washington.
WILD
CITY
OF
MACAO
Most
of
Income
of
Authorities
Comes
From
Opium
Selling
LI8BON,
Dec.
30:
Macao,
the
wild
city
of
Portuguese
China,
on
the
Bay
of
Canton,
where
vice
is
rampant
and
opium
and
gambling
dens
wide
open,
is
to
become
respectable.
The
government
has
decided
to
stamp
out
all
forms
of
vice
irora
this
"plague
spot"
wnicn
would
take
about
a
dozen
to
disturb
i
brought
disgrace
and
contempt
on
Gerry
Wade."
"Well,
why
not?"
Bill
was
flushed
and
earnest.
"I've
got
it.
Let's
all
go
into
Harket
Basing
and
buy
an
alarm
clock
each.."
Lady
Coote
went
sadly
along
the
terrace
Just
as
Gerald
Wade
emerged
from
the
breakfast
room-
Jimmy
Theatger
was
a
fair,
cherubic,
young
man.
ana
all
that
could
be
said
of
Gerald
Wade
was
that
he
was
fairer
and
more
cherubic,
and
that
his
vacuous
expression
made
Jimmy's
face
Quite
Intelligent
by
contrast.
"Morning,
Lady
Coote,"
said
Gerald
Wade.
"Where
are
all
the
others?"
"They've
all
gone
to
Market
Bas
ing,
sara
Laay
uoote.
-VUhat
tnrl"
oume
jukc,
suiu
uauy
iPOe
in
her
deep,
melancholy
voice.
"Rather
early
in
tthe
morning
for
Jokes,"
said
Mr.
Wade.
"It's
not
so
very
early
in
the
morning,"
said
Lady
Coote
pointedly.
(To
Be
Continued
Tomorrow)
Portuguese
colonial
administration
it
was
in
tne
miaaie
oi
tne
sixteenth
century
that
the
Portuguese
were
allowed
to
build
a
settlement
there
In
return
for
assistance
Riven
I
to
the
Chinese
against
pirates.
Ever
I
since,
Macao
has
remained
in
Por-
tugirsse
possession,
but
lack
of
interest
in
the
colony
by
former
Por-1
tuguese
administrations
is
respon-islble
for
the
unsavoury
state
to
which
this
Island
town
has
been
al
lowed
to
drift.
Macao
is
honeycombed
with
j
opium
dens,
gambling
rooms
and
worse
places.
Almost
the
whole
popoulation
is
thriving
on
opium
!
traffic
and
the
sale
of
Chinese
lot-
tery
tickets.
Its
low
grade
music
'
hails
and
cabarets
thrive
on
the
;
money
of
sailors
from
ithe
seven
!
seas,
1
.
'
shipload
of
opium
are
exported
to
all
parts
of
the
world
from
Macao,
where
trading
in
this
drug
is
still
permitted.
But
although
the
govenment
derives
all
its
income
from
these
sources,
it
has
decided,
on
grounds
of
morality
and
prestige,
to
sarry
out
extensive
social
TEE
P&H.Y
NEWS
Monks
Earn
Own
Living
On
Farms
Peiping,
China
Buddhists
Refute
Allegations
of
Idleness
in
Monstic
Life
by
Laboring
PEIPING.
Dec.
30.
The
Buddhist
!
monks
of
Peiping,
wishing
to
refute
allegations
or
idleness
in
monastic
life,
announce
that
beginning
this
fall
they
are
to
earn
their
own
bread
by
manual
labor.
A
statement
of
the
Pelplng
Buddhist
Asso-,
elation
sayp
the
monks
have
decided
w
mase
tneir
own
way
in
tne
woria
by
farming,
the
monks
spending
half
their
time
in
the
fields
and
half
In
the
observance
of
religious
rites.
This
revolutionizing
of
monastic
life
has
been
caused
by
agitation
of
the
labor
unions
who
made
loafing
charges
against
the
monks.
Union
leaders
also
have
taken
the
Initiative
against
the
Buddhist
temples
which,
the
unionists
allege,
have
been
used
to
perpetuate
superstitions.
The
street
car
workers'
union
of
Peinlng
has
converted
the
Tien
Shan
Ssu
temple
into
a
school.
Similar
conversion
of
other
temples
is
being
agitated.
Tne
announcement
that
thei
monks
are
to
earn
their
own
bread
1
sets
forth
that
for
centures
Budd-hist
monks
have
been
rendering
services
to
mankind
and
In
return
have
received
their
physical
needs
from
society
"but
it
is
realized
that
'the
worm
Is
turning'
in
China
and
that
economic
conditions
have
placed
such
a
heavy
burden
on
their
fellow
men
that
the
monks
have
decided
to
work
for
their
own
PRINCE
IS
AN.0RAT0R
Worries
Newspapermen
by
Refusing
To
Follow
Copy
When
Heading
Speech
LONDON,
Dec.
30:
The
Prince
of
Wales,
who
for
many
years
had
an
acute
dislike
for
speaking
In
pubhc,
has'
now
become
one
of
the
best
orators
in
the
eountry
both
in
the
'atyeof,
tils
discourse
and
In
uoe
rwtiuw
pi
du
aepvenng
muni
His
speech'
dri
November
10
at
the
dinner
to
members
of
'The
Most
Enviable
Order
of
the
Victoria
Cross,"
to
use
his
own
phrase,
was.
in
particular,
hailed
throughout
the
country
asl
remarkably
fine
performance;
and
Englishmen
are
especially
happy
to
think
that,
unlike
many
of
their
leading
personalities,
tne
i
prince
is
usually
the
chief
and
often
the
sole
author
of
his
own
orations.
Naturally,
he
seeks
information
from
the
secretariat
on
some
of
the
thousand
and
one
topics
on
which
he.
is
continually
called
upon
to
speak,
and
welcomes
suggestions
as
to
now
the
subject
may
be
best
approached;
but
on
a
majority
of
occasions
on
which
a
direct,
human
utterance
on
a
non-technical
subject
Is
required,
it
is
the
prince
himself
who
is
responsible
for
one
composition
of
the
speech
which
he
delivers.
Even,
too.
where
a
technical
or
local
issue
is
involved
an
address
to
a
gathering
of
electricians,
medical
men.
printers
or
members
of
.some
other
profession,
or
at
the
oDening
of
some
local
exhibition
or
agricultural
show
the
prince
does
not
merely
repeat,
parrot-itke,
in
formation
that
has
been
supplied
him
by
his
advisers,
but
makes
sure
that
he
himself
is
thoroughly
conversant
with,
at
any
rate,
the
elements
of
whatever
subject
is
in
question,
and
never
falls
to
Impart
some
wholly
individual
and
human
touch
to
his
discourse
that
is
the
product
of
his
mind
and
his
alone
A
further
illustration
of
his
individual
methods
In
speech-making
is
given
by
the
fact
that
even
when
reading
a
prepared
address
he
will
oln
throw
down
his
manuscript
on
the
table
halfway
through
an
oration
and
proceed
to
give
the
rest
of
it
extemporaneously,
a
practice
which,
incidentally,
causes
a
certain
amount
of
anguish
to
newspapermen,
who
are
liable
to
find
that
some
important
address,
as
actually
delivered,
differs
widely
from
the
advance
copies
of
the
speech
that
have
been
sent
them.
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