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{ ‘ « ee follows : “Douglas MacKillop | But bo is one of my oldest friends. Known him ‘for years. . iI come from Ban Francisco (0. * “But dais is: extraordinary. About the last thing Douglas ‘sald to my wife and me betore fhe left. Paris” for Majorca last * summer was ‘I hope to get mar pried while I am in Majorca.’ . We couldn't figure that out. s Douglas lost his first wife about | [ie year ago and he was lonely. °: “But Cala Ratjada is about the ,Jast place in the world you would go af you wanted to meet 4 possible new wife casually.” . = i can confirm that. Eligible” Isingle women down there are as Tare as portraits of Malenkov. che U.S. “colony” {ts almost . _. "100 per cent married couples.) - Mrowsing happily in the sun, and = “ Douglas wrote me many. 4 ’ fwakened only occasionally by letters. ut the funny thing is : ‘phe roar of luxury speedboats, I - that when I wrote in August witch the scene to ine interior ‘asking if my wife and I could : { the crowded plane in which I - go and stey with him, he wrote - am again flying back to London, . back. saying he was sorry: but . by way of Barcelona and Paris. . that ra lady, her mother: and 1 » her ree “wou oe etree ee Anke ane Staying. The ville would ‘be full. on the shoulder, but this is what “Douglas is Very fond of _ happened. I am filling in one of children. It was one of his ’ those official cards that one is regrets that his first marriage always filling in ss one flies Was childless. ‘But that ‘mar- | « about Europe, when the ana pily, riage’ remark, certainly has us | , dressed young aan si Lint guessing. - - Pal - oe , beside me squin moat it mG ‘and gays: “René MacColl! . .- GOOD FRIENDS . - _My Paris friends often talker \"" ; OM . Bbout you. How do you do?" - For the holidays . rms out he is an American). ° . are named Harrison Elliott, who: &. O there we baie ni runs # business in Paris. and. . has been sto i‘ aA . that we have mutual friends af Mra, Maclean aimel | from omy days as - Paris: at divoring her . busban®. . : : : ald, next spring. ¥ ; " onlet reporter. eyes wou d huve been awny from her Maen} re, .- three years.. as there & new, ca DOUGLAS? . “ romance in the wind? - * bes TT ' . °!-MacKillop himself told me:- His old friend. <We re Sis gon cS me) ” te ‘ , [wan ve them all a mice Wa the wis olen ‘Bummer noliday.” 4 t . case comes up. I tell He first got to- know Mrs. — “him I've Just been in Majorca Maclean, ne added, because her ; on it. Where was Mrs. Maclean mother. was @ friend of his first * staying down there? -" At the Wiles s e+ 1+ oo house of a chap called Douglas." 2) ~...-- nearer : Mackilop. I Saye ae . ; ereupon Elliott chokes on | 1 ; he peach which he is in process . { eating as dessert to the mre ; -fine lunch, gives out & loud - _ Btrangied cry, and proxy AT ee Toe a4 ee en , “3s Sorat felts ye a I cat Fhe Ein te ee Sere OF pall