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Contact Man er ---- * A Short Story by Frank Whitt Mr. ticury signed the last letter added it to the pile on the right of his dosk and relaxed inthis chair, watching his «clerk * pick™ up _ the papers, : "llefore you"go, Smith, 1 have something ro discuss with you," he said. ..""! ® giving.. you three months' notice," 7° 3 © He half closed his" eyes and placed the. tips- of his fingers - to: "gEhEr, EXNeCting "a protest {rom clerk; Instead, Smith, 'withodture: plying, tossed the, papers on the desk, pulled ap a client's chair, and lit a cigarette smoker himself; Mr. , Henry had selfishly refused to ex- tend the indulgence to his staff. He said nophing, but this flagrant dis-- regard of his anthority made the task of justifying the dismissal easier: -- hd . "You have been with the firm" -- he glanced at a note on. his blotting paper--* almost 20 years. 1 have no fault to find 'with your work; it's good, hut the fact. remains that I can't afford to pay your present satary. 'I'am taking on a man with less experience at a lower wage. He is married, with the. réesponsi- bility - of - providing for "a family, - while you, 1 believe, are a single man. [Is that so?" © "Yes, my sister runs the house," 'Smith answered. : "Mr. Henry's thin lips flickered in .a -deprecating smile. "A man of your ofitStanding ability will,. I. am _certain, have no difficilty in finding another post at a higher salary than I am paying you." ) Te ©» - Smith continlied smoking placid- "ly. his eyes thoughtful behind his spectacles. : =a © "I'm afraid I have been rather blunt. 1 am. like that," Mr. Hepry explained. "1 need hardly tell, you - I shall be happy to help you in any way." ne "Smith came out-of his reverie. "I - .was content to let sleeping dogs "lie His voice was brisk and in-' cisive. "Now I'll follow your ex ample and speak bluntly. I want first-class -references. Later, you will 'regard me as a client; my soliciter will collect the sum of £10,000 irom you in due course." "Ten" thousand!" Mr. Henry opened his _gyes. "A useful legacy. - My congratulations; I shall be happy to act in the matter." Smith smiled at him. "I wonder. I'm selling you some property--six ~ cottages with two years of unex- - pired leage and a big bill for dilapi- dations to- follow, all for: the sum of £10,000." <ol Mr. Henfy clamped his lips until his mouth looked like a scar. "This is no time for jokingX' -he said sourly. i "You are dead right," Smith agreed, flicking the stub of his cig- "The, His voice .was_a- arette into the empty grate. Fulton estate!" - whisver, Dut: Mr. Henry heard and caught his breath. - . -Smith.went on: "You are oné of the tn stammering his mild-mannered : _of the Fulton estate, cing a sc rious accusation," he said, - blackmail "bya dismissed clerk!" . venience,. he had . for the purchase of my property "I promise to put you, as a trustee, and the other is an "elderly gentle -man who ivas -at one time living in the country. He was content to leave his business in your hanrds-- and very clever hands, too, With a pen, Some months ggo, 1 discov. ered "you had, realized oii pact of the 'capital by forging * vour co trustee's signature, and" -- Smith. .emphasized his words by thumping. his -fist on the table--"you forgeil. mine as a witness," > Mr. Henry's tongue was too dry "to moisten his lips. "You are mak hoarsely. . . "fam. No one knows better than you the gravity of forgery and misappropriation of a client's funds. Ruin! At present, 'we need not con- sider such a distressing event, pro- viding you--er--buy the pronerty* I mentioned." : "I'll Jsee you in helt! « It's youu word against - mine. Attempted Mr. Henry's .paflid, face suddemy became .congested with the rush of blood 'pounding in his head like blows from a padded club. . * * Smith stared at.him coldly. "You can't afford to take that attitude. _ Let me refresh your memory, add- "ing some details to those you al- ready know. This obliging gentle- man, your co-trustee, had no ties and went to Jive in Italy. For con- his letters ad- dressed to this office. When war broke out in Italy, he found he'd stayed too long and was interned. | He died soon after." ~ - _. = Mr. Henry made no reply. "Now . comes the interesting part," Smith continped. "The pa- pers connected: with the realization" of part of the trust, supposed to bear his = signature; - were - dated month after the daft of his death. -I' know; I've seen them. The case against you. is' completed." "Realization of his position over- took Mr. Henry with devastating force. He slumped qver his desk his face buried ini Ki8 arms. Smith Icisurely lit" another cig- arette. "Don't take it the hard - way; there is a way out. I can suggest. .a means to. raise the cash which will also avoid paying any further interest on the Fulton estate." . : Mr. Henry raised his head. - He scemed to have aged 10 vears in far less than that number. of min- utes. poeta ji "A bit of a shock, chi" Smith went on. "My advice is. to sell the remainder of -the estate--without' the use of my name as a witness. _ 'When you have paid iny solicitor, in an unassailable position as long as this man Fulton is alive." When the transfer of the prop- erty had been completed, Smith called on Mr. (Henry to keep his promise. "This man, _ Fulton, . to whom you are paying the interest, he is a married man?" ~ "Yes, to some rich heiress in the Midlands; they have a small fam- 7 ily and live in an impressive style. the Anybody Wanna Get Tough?--Tabby the kitten gives the dogs cold shoulder when he's solidly perched in the mane of this huge stone lion outside a London, England, antique shop. May- 'be it's the family relationship that Tabby feels. Anyway, the cute kitten makes a daily stroll from his butcher shop home down the street to the antique shop, and takes' up his perch on lion's head. International = Handshake--Greetin Indian. Prime Minister Jawarharlal Nehru (right) at reception given in his honor on his first day in New York is Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei. : Vishinsky. Fulton seems to have done well for himself." ; "A man who will pay to avoid a scandal. If he gets troublesome" when you put on the screw, remind him he is a bigamist. He is still my sister's husband." "= From "Answers." 5 AE == ~ re -- - I. .# Guds for "Red Siege"--With Red troops on its northern frontier, Hon Kong's A > : : " : : k 40,0G) Dritish troops are on a "semi-alert"against possible Communist attack. e graphical map above shovis how land features--such as the high Tai Mo Shan cliffs=--give the colony natural protection. Hang Korg has been a British Colony since 1841 (except: for four vears uiitér the Japanese in World War II). As a gateway between East and he topo- Vest, it has "great strategie value, both commercial and military. The colony is divided into three areas-- I the island o ong Kong itself, the tip of Kowloon Peninsula and the so-called "néw terri- tories to the north, an area of about 300 squaremiles leased by the British for 99 years in 1898: It is in the new territories that British commander Lt. Gen. Fran¢is Festing has set up a de- 1 fense in depth, facing the northern frontier. water. and a- cloud of steam. "The Shaky Isles" ~--New Zealan d " Rotorua, in New Zealand's North Island, is the centre of the Hot Spring district. Boiling water comes up out of the volcanic earth, Mostly jt bubbles out, but some- tines it gushes in great steaming fountains called gevsers. So you'll understand what 1 mean- when 1.say that Rotorua is like a town in a permanent Turkish bath. . Stand in_its midst and look around, and on all sides steam is rising. Over there is a row of shops, then a gap, then a hotel. In the gap is a bubbling pool of hoiling No 'good trying to fill the hole. I you "did, another one would appear, per- baps beneath one of the shops! And from the ever-rising clouds of steam comes a strong -smell of sul- phur, writes a special-corre=nind ent-in "Answers | It is this vast thermal area which ~ has caused Australians fo dub New Zealand "The Shaky: [sles." People come irom all over the world to take treatment in the fam ous Municipal Hot Spring baths, but a new-found fried invited me to have a plunge in a private pool in his own garden. There, in a shed: measuring = about-- 12 fect square_was a dug-out concreted bath "Beside the bath was a stop- tap 'set near the top of i two-inch galvanized pipe. % This pipe was about 200 icet long. One hundred and nincty- eight feet of it went straight. down into .the bowels of the earth he- .neath Mac' garden. Fo It is. the ambition of every dweller in Rotorua to have such' a pipe as Mac possesses, but all are not so lucky. ,Many drill, but some do not find a hot spring. , Mac turned the tap, and with.a . roar and a hiss"and a rumbling of powerful unseen forces, out gushed gallon upon' gallon of super-heated®" , Water at a temperature of anything up. to boiling poift. - We had to let the water cool before we bathed in it, so Mac took me into his howe to meet his wife, who gave me a good warm New Zealand welcome. .And what a nice- home these people had on the oiiter edge of the town. It was similar to a comfort- able, up-to-date - detached home in many a British town. As the house agent's advertisement would de- 'scribe it: "Small garden, hall, two sit, kit, downstairs tollet, five bed , bath, usual offices, constant hot water." "a Think of it] Constant hot water which comes gushing from beneath the ground and does the cooking, heats. the house, and supplies the -indoor bathroom. Mac offered me refreshment while his "wife went in Searct' of bath - towels, - We then retired, stripped, wrapped ourselves nour towels, and made for the bath house in the + garden. Here we threw aside the towels and squatted up to our necks in a Stéaming-pool. TTC Nature's Throbbing, Heart But | hadn't"started .scéing the * wonderse 'of - Rotorua Sa Next . morning, down in the Maori Village ~of * 'Whakarewarewa, 1 "whndéred among "spouting geysers, boiling -ponds, . bubbling mud- pools. ~Maoris--were "bathing" and copking" in'and on them. ~~ | Here is a small. hole in" the ground _tlirough™Steam is spouting This: s¢rves the Maori housewife as a kitchen Stove. On it she dumps "a cooking pot, covers it with a sack and the steam does the rest. . Why should she worry- if from beneath the crust of the earth at this poin* comes a throbbing "sound, and the ground on which we are all standing pulsates like a "beating heart? This is her honie, and she was born and bred in 2 world of steaming eruption. . The Shaky Isles really are a trifle 'shaky here. - ; - Not all Rotorua rivers are »hot. Here, winding in and' out among the boiling pools and geysers is a° river; clear and cold: It is a trout stream and there care fish as fine as you'll find the world over. So také this rod and cast for a trout, and, without taking him off the- "hook, turn. around and cook. him in that boiling . pool, behind you It can be done! And breiAuie fully, lest by a false step $ou cook yourself as well. . Now 'the big geyser spouts, throwing countless gallons of boil- ing water high iu the air, and I was thrilled to watch it--irom a dist- ance! "Yet, familiarity soon breeds contempt, and when, two "days lat: er, I saw the greatest geyser mn Ne Zealand," at Orakei-korako, lL, stood peering down into if, waiting for it to blow. They spout at inter- vals, like whales. © = .- + "New Zealand Safety Valve" "I next made for Taupo, a town- > ship' beside the vast lake of that name, in the very heart -of the North "Island. 1 stayed tie night * .at the. Spa Hotel and here again . met" the thermal waters. There was a hot stream running through the - grounds of the hotel (and 'into the "hotel bath) in which I had a swim before dinner and 3 ter breakfast! Yes, that shave was certainly a novel experience. With" many other male guests, 1 sat naked in the not water and shaved with the aid oi a mirror--one of many--that the management had placed round the side--at water level. There is a powerful force m this area which several engineers have tried to harness and have failed." It is a head of 'steam spurting out of a hole about three feet in diameter, and at a pressure of about J00 pounds to the square incir. So steadily does the steam blast from this hole in the earth that no apparatus has been found capable of taking the strain. They call this blow-hiole "the safety valve of New Zealand," and well it may be, because from the depths of the earth helow the roar- ing steam-jet comes a steady heat- ing, a, sound like a mighty subter- "rancan pump. It thumps day and night, year in, year out, and has been doing it for hun Ireds--per haps: thousands--of years. The amiable Waikato (River been persuaded to 'Suppl half of New Zeajand with light, [heat and power--to rin railways fac- tories- and cooking stoves; butrthe, periterse blow-hole remains adam- , ant in its determination to waste its mightlv enera¥ on the desert air. shave has Lhe Russia Is A Forest Land @ "You can find dlmost any Kind of vista in Russta, Leningrad is like Piris, The Crimea is a strip of the Riviera, villis™ and "all. (but no in- ternal spcicty). The Ukraine is yellow and pink houses. In Central ~ Asia there' is Southern California-- even to the movie lots, And in Si- "beria®you can find Butte, Montana, of the frontier days. I (have ridden for two days on the Moscow. - Leningrad train avithout seeing 'a yigw Lo couldu'tnateh--from--thg window 'of .a Sog train in northern "Wisconsin. 1 have flown from Mos: cow to the Urals, and over the Urals deep into Siberin.. And" what ~was the country like? It was pine forests, 'taniarack swamps, birch forests, crystal ble lakes, open "meadows shoulder-deep in grass, small patches in th - clearings--and more lakes and more streams. This Js the heart of Russia, a land of forests and streams, of marshes and tance. The American outlook on the world is conditioned by' our elbow room. So is the Russian outlook, - only more so."A hundred years ago American life and American thinks ing. were conditioned by our great continental forest. "Today that is gone. But in Russia the forest is still there, and in this forest niost Russian families have lived for many generations, @ ter | saw the line where the forest begins. About an hour and a half of flying time south of the capital "the land changes from a vast sea {1 green. The forest reaches for prob- ably a- thousand miles north and south, and it runs for soine six or _seven thousand miles from west to -east. While I was in Moscow I was always§ conscious. of the forest. | thought of it in winter, when from the gloomy window of my hotel room I peered down-into the court- "yard and saw half-a-dozen quilt coated Russian women, hacking away at the firewood. T thought of it as | watched the battalions of girls 'rattling by in trucks, bound Jor the forest and a day's work, cutting wood. I thought of it when I hiked -across the breadth of the | Red Square and smelled: the wood smoke of a thousand chimneys in my nostrils, And I. thought of it when [studied how the fivesyear plans provided wood-burning power plants for the Moscow region The striking thing about the for- - est is the.way it laps right at the edges of Russia's capital. I have often ridden to the end of, the marhle-walled Moscow subway; boarded a dingy Mocsew trolley bus bumped along for a mile or two through the thinning out factorié® irrived at the and potato patches and the forest.--From "Russia on Wav." by Harrison Salisbury Ohne of the best invesunents made by any government was surely the purchase of Alaska by the U.S.A, from Russia in 1867. Purchase price was seven. million dollars. At the time there were few who thought "it a good buy. "Alaska? That's where polar bears come from. Why do we. want to pay that money for bears?" ) : Now tie tune has changed. last year Alaska produced goods worth 120 million dollars, including min- erals, furs, <ilmon and. farm prod- uce. ed With her val on the light switch, the won £1 Sp uy to inquire: "Is every- ing shut up for the night, dear?" Out of the darkness canie her husband's patient =ealv: "Foe vihing else 1 = 'Mobile Swivel Chair--Unveiled A PLR *, ciation convention was this bus seat on a pivot. afford easier exits for the beside-the-window passenger, the swing: seat will also save wear and tear on the back of the com muter's trousers. Unfortunately for bus riders, Betty [Jar- Creamer is ip picture for demonstration purposes only. at the Américan "Transit Asso Designed to REE . Jowa or Nebraska with white," blue, -meadows;-of-open-spaces-and-of dis--: Flying north to Moscow in win- of white to an endless sea of dark * fused in her intermin- 19, has America's most perfect legs, according to a noted Hol-- Miss Legs--Libby Dean, |" lywood hosier. They measure" 814 inches at the ankle; 1214 at the calf; and 19Y; at the thigh -- all perfect measure- ments, say anatomy experts. Glasses Yet--This bust = of President Truman, now 'on dis- play at the White Mouse, has removable gold-rimmed glasses The scuptor was Ernest During "Bach and Gals Celebrated Bitter practices Yoga - Carl 'oga atop the piano at his home 1 the British sectof of Belin. Bitter uses: Yoga to gain. spiritual uiderstanding which he feels necessary for the best interpretation of 18th century music, especially Bach compositions. SALLY'S SALLIES ---- "The Doctor Is simply exhausted f° préseribing 80 much rest to 80 many patients" G HF 0 a it CIEE ; i 1 J f \ 5 by £3. 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