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...revealed was the fifth marriage and divorce (eleven days later) of glittery, fire-haired Patent Medicine Heiress Merry ("Madcap") Fahrney. Briefly questioned in Manhattan was Husband (in name only) No. 5, a Swedish waiter who said he was 4-F (adenoids). Having lost her passport to the State Department, which disapproved of her Nazi friends, the heiress had paid the hard-up waiter $1,500 to make her a Swede, promptly got a Swedish passport, shortly skipped to South America with some half-million dollars of her fortune. Now living in a white-columned villa in Buenos Aires, she says...
...Waiter! Another Bock...
Colonel Deneys Reitz, onetime enemy of Britain during the Boer War, arrived in England last week as South Africa's new High Commissioner. It was a great joke in Britain when, full of friendship and good will, he breezed into a London hotel and told the waiter: "I am an easy man to please; just bring me some bacon and two eggs." Most Britons have not seen two eggs together for many months...
Within a few days Timar is happily forgetful of his job, drinking heavily, scorning Adèle's obese, mouching husband. And then comes sudden death-to Adऑe's husband by fever, to a Negro waiter by an unknown hand. Adèle is calm as ever, boxes up her husband without a tear and persuades the infatuated Timar to use his uncle's influence to get them a partnership trading concession in the back country...
...conscience. As they travel to their new home, Adèle disappears for hours to parley with a native chief. Then she suddenly goes back to Libreville, begging Timar to wait patiently till she returns. But the lonely Timar has learned that Adèle herself killed the native waiter, who had seen her leaving Timar's bedroom and threatened blackmail. He has also found that her parleys with the native chief were to bribe him to fix the murder on an innocent tribesman. She has gone to Libreville to spend the night with the Governor...