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Complaints in the Morning. More than four years ago Panayiota Theofanous, a pretty soft-voiced Nicosia housemaid, caught the fancy of John Gow, a Scots R.A.F. pilot. Airman Gow was killed six months before Panayiota gave birth to a boy in the Nicosia Government Hospital. The rosy baby weighed 7 Ibs. 9 oz., and had eyes as blue as any Scotsman...
After three days, Mother Shatis appeared satisfied with the fair, blue-eyed child she had been given as her own. She took Blue Eyes back with her to the mud-brick village where she lived with her husband. Panayiota stayed behind with the dark boy who, she was convinced, was not hers...
Time and again Panayiota traveled to the Shatis home, begging for the return of Blue Eyes in exchange for the dark boy. But Mrs. Shatis insisted Blue Eyes was hers-she wanted no part of the dark little tyke who looked like all the other children on Cyprus...
After three years, Panayiota finally found a lawyer who would listen to her. Last November, in Nicosia's green-walled district court, Panayiota faced Zekia Bey, the judge. Nervously she displayed photographs of her dead Scot lover: Blue Eyes clearly looked like him. Then swarthy Mrs. Shatis stepped to the bar. She cried hysterically that Blue Eyes was hers...
Last week, Panayiota was preparing to take her bonnie, blue-eyed lad to Scotland to live with John Gow's parents. In her village on Cyprus, mother Shatis had resigned herself to her loss. She had even grown to love the other child, she said, and father Shatis hoped that the dark boy, too, would bring him luck...
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