Page 7 of Summer Shorts


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  Coincidence, I thought impulsively, as I threw down the clipping and picked up the third. Johns' letting his imagination run away from him. I wish now that I had been right but even my cynicism was shaken as I read the third.

  School Bus in Accident.

  A school bus ran off the road in the Kentish countryside last night after the brakes failed. Luckily no one was seriously injured but a police spokesman said that it was fortunate that the bus was about to drop off its last passengers at the village of Midas Green when the accident occurred or more children could have been involved. Inquiries are continuing into why the brakes failed as they did.