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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 66, 19 March 1925, Page 18

KROSS-WORDS FOR CHILDREN. No. 11. Wnile tne schools continue in recess simple Cross-word Puzzle* will be published regularly, which it is hoped, while interesting the youngsters, will serve the object of a lesson. HORIZONTAL. VERTICAL. 2. A writing fluid. 1. To such an ex5. A preposition. tout. 7. Always. 3. Title. 8. The edge. 4. Kentucky 0. New England (abbr.). (nbbr.). 0. To rid; release. 10. Suffix. !). None. 12. Over (contrac- 11. Accomplish. tion). Solution to ' Yesterday's Puzzle. A punch landed on Alfred's nose. He hit back blunderingly, unscientifically,' but with hearty,goodwill; a second pistol dropped to the ground, and two windmill sweeps of Alfred's fists stretched its owner beside it, laid out as thoroughly as any expert could have done it. Lifting him up, .' *fred bundled him into the car and turned to the driver. '■'Now, Miss Gladys Conyers," he remarked between his panting breaths, "suppose we take this chap to the police station V "When did you guess ?" she asked him. It was an hour later, and they had just handed over their prisoner to the police, who had received him with joy. He had that very night burgled a mansion in the vicinity, and had intended to use the car to aid his escape. Alfred smiled. "Almost from the beginning. You disguised your voice very well, but, you see, a man knows every inflection of a voice he —he—loves, Gladys dear. Had you been a man—well, I should have put up some sort of a fight to keep those vases. As it was —I just wanted to see what you would do in the end. What was the idea?" A somewhat shamefaced expression clouded the lovely face opposite him". "Promise you -won't be angry if I tell you?" He nodded. "Well, it was like this. I've been a sort of—sort of—interested in you ever since we met, but somehow you never played games and did things like other men, and I felt I had to prove what was in you, Alfred. I didn't know how to at first, and then I thought of the burglar idea. I've always been able to imitate a man's voice pretty well—used to do it for fun as a cliild—and my brother's clothes fit" mo all right. I forced that silly old French window of yours with a penknife, and then deliberately smashed tliat awful 'present from Margate , vase in the hope that you would hear mc and come down. You did. .1 didn't know you guessed. I thought you a horrible coward—of course, the pistol wasn't loaded—and I very nearly cried. And all the time you were so brave! What made you tackle that man like that?" "Only the fact that he started to pull you about," Alfred admitted, honestly. "And you'll start to play games?" "I will," he promised. The next ten minutes or so do not concern us. "There's one thing," the girl remarked at last, "in which you don't seem to need much coaching.'' "What's that?" "Making love—oh, Alfred!"

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