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...Story. Gučret was a huge stoop-shouldered young man, his full and sallow face had a fleshy nose, thick lips, grey eyes, a blighted look. He worked as tutor to small André Grosgeorge. Once Madame Grosgeorge surprised the two in the garish lesson-room when André was stumbling over his history. Gučret heard the softness in her voice as she called her son: "Come closer. . . . Raise your head and look at me." Then, clenching her teeth, she struck the boy suddenly across the face and with sadistic greed in her black eyes, watched the red mark fade. Horrified...
Work over, Gučret decided to eat not with his wife but alone. He entered the restaurant presided over by Madame Londe...
...gastronomic ones. For her customers she was breaking in Fernande, 13, who sniggered when tickled. Angčle, older, reliable, was more popular. Only Angčle could answer inquisitive Madame Londe's "whys" about the customers. Somehow Madame Londe did not set Angčle to probe this reticent stranger Gučret. Yet it was Angčle who attracted Gučret nightly to the restaurant's neighborhood...
WILLIAM A. EDDY Captain, USMC Ret. Department of English Dartmouth College, Hanover...
Agents of the efficient Sûreté Generate (French Secret Service) ferreted out, last week, a series of amazing frauds, perpetrated by smart French and German merchants to swindle their governments in connection with the "payment in kind" of German Reparations...