This is one of several stories which appeared in the This Week supplement to a number of North American newspapers, but does not seem to have been published in Britain.
It is narrated by a talkative barber on an island in the Bahamas, who asserts that listening to a barber's chatter can be useful. He describes the romance between an island beachcomber and the lady's maid of a duchess whose yacht is visiting the island. But the yacht's engineer is jealous and vindictive …
This Week Magazine, 5 February, 1961.
Reprinted in Australian Women's Weekly, 15 November 1961.