TUESDAY, APRIL 12 | 1921.
SHIPPING
P. & O-BRITISH INDIA
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(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER SERVICES
STRAITS, JAYA, BURMA, GEYLON, INDIA, PERSLAN GULF, WEST INDIÈE, MAURITÍUS, MAST AND SOUTH AFRIⱭ2, AUSTRALIKIL, INCLUDING NEW KHALAND AND QUEENBLAND PORTA, KRD BEL EGYPT, EUROPE, &C.
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE QUEST OF MOHAMMED'S SACRED SLIPPER SERIES.
IL-THE FIGHT FOR THE SAFE.
BY SIXE BONMER.
(Continued from yesterday.)
(COPYRIGHT, 1916.)
Prof Deeping famona Orientalist, stole Mohammed's slipper and took to England, thereby bringing down.m himself and all others who had anything to do with in the weath of the Hashia- him, à Moslem 2008 that guarded the
relics of the Prophet. Deeping mysteriously killed, and the key to safe containing the slipper was left
the custody of Cavanagh Bond big story of the meeting with aman of Aleppo, his second 'encounter with the girl of the winlet eyes, and Zia hazrómv ing experience in the moonlight in the room where Deeping was killed.
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS (South; Was Bristol? It had his build,
5 &
TODA
From Hongkong
(about)
**KHYBER
9,000
15th Apr.
**DUNERA
! 5,414
19th Apr.
"DEPANEA
8,000
27th Apr.
"SOUDAN"
["DILWARA,'
5,000 5,378
*NAGOYA
29th Apr.
9th May 7,000 . 13th May
BRITISH INDIA-APOAR
"TORILLA”)
Destination
Marcuzes, LONDON & A werp Sines part, Colombo & Bombay, Lampor & A'werp. MARSIBLES, LONDON & A'werp Singapore, Colombo & Bombay. MAXSALES, LOSOS AT
SAILINGS (South)
| |
5,200
18th Apr.
Calcutta, via Singapore Penang and Rangoon
it had his gait; but my fears remained. Then the figure crossed the patch of shrubbery and stepped into the loggia.
** Mr. Cavanagh!”
•
I laughed drily at my own coward fice, but my heart was stil besting
abnormally
"Here I am, Bristol, in a ghastly funk ****
A hot breath fanned my check) At that, my overwrought nerves be trayed me. I uttered a stiffed ay, looking upward-aid into a pair of gleaming eyes which looked down into mine!
For a second the brown man (who must have entered by one of the win- dows overlooking the shrubbery) was bending over me.
Scary Knowing what I did, I raised my revolver and blazed straight into the dimly-seen face. Down upon me silently dropped a naked body, and something wam came dowing over my hand. But knowing my locs to be fesh and blood, feeling myself st handgrips, now, with a palpable enemy. I threw off the body, sped up and fired, though blindly, at the fying shape that fashed across the loggia and was kist in the shadow pools under the elims.
I
Upon the din of my shooting fell a silence like a cloak. A moment listened, -teuse, still; then I turned to the table and lighted the lamp.
In its light I saw Bristol lying like
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THE Staimihip
MOORISH PRINCE* Having arrived from the above Port Canriguess of Cargo are hereby inform ed that their goods sie being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon, and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.
All broken, chafed, and damaged) goods are to be lait is the godowns, where they, will be examined on Friday, 13th instant at 10 am.
All claims must be presented within FIFTEEN DAYS of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognized,
No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 16th ink, will be subject to rent.
Consignees of cargo are hereby a
tifed that they must produce o Import permit signed by the Superin- tendent of Imports & Exports, Hong- kung, before Bill of Lading can be countersigned.
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(a dead man. Close beside him was It had a big heavy lamp of chay. been shaped like a ball, but now it was flattened out curiously. Bend-ed by ing over my unfortunate companion and learning that, though icon- scions, he lived, I learned, too, how All's well the Hishishin conrrived to strike men insensible without approaching them. I learned that the one whom I had shot, who lay in his blood almost on the spot where Prof. Deeping once had lain, was an expert slinger.
"I don't wonger! They may be On us any time now. the gate, but Morris says he beard, or thought he heard, something at the side of the chapel opposite a while ago.
fell
We resumed bar seats and silence
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14th April at 1.30 pm. 6th May
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TO
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I 7,000
13th Apr.
at 7 am
*TAKĀDA
6,949
14th Apr.
14 K&NOWNA"
7,000
20th Apr. Japao direct
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All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans free of charge.
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Consignees are reminded of the necessity to apply to the Company's Agents regarding arcival of consignments expected of which they have received documents or adțios.
The moon rays, creeping around
ing the shrubbery and encroaching upon the low wall of the loggia, now flooded its Hoor. Against the silvery light, Bristol appeared to me in black silhouette The breeze, too, seemed now to blow from a slightly different direction. It came through the win-
dows on my right, beyond which lay the unkempt bushes which extended, on that side, to the wall of the grounds.
So we sar unt the moonlight poured fully in upon Bristol's back. So we sat when the clock cirmed the
hour of one.
Bristol arose and once more went to the gate. He had arranged to visit Morris post every half hour. Again I experienced the nervous dread that he would be attacked in the svente; bat again he returned unscathed.
"All's well," he said.-
But from the tones I knew that he had not forgotten that it was at this how Marden and West had suffered mysterious attack.
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The contrivance which, in comMON with the other who had escaped, be carried, was a sting of ancier: Per- stan type: In place of stones, heavy lamps of clay were used, which oper- THE Steamship ated much the same as a sandbag white enabling the operator to work from a considérable distance.
J
"BENLEDI,"
informed that all Goods are being
It had been a divine accident which! CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby had caused me to drop my revolver, landed at their risk into the hazardona and, stooping to recover it, unknow- and or extrs hazardons Godowns of the gly to frustrate the design of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and and/or second slinger upon myself. The Goden Co, Ltd, whence light of the lamp fell upon the face of from the wharves delivery may be the dead Hashishin. He lay forward, obtained. upon his hands, croaching almost, but with his face, his dreadful, feature less face, twisted up at me from under his left shoulder.
No claims will be admitted alter the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 13th instaat, will be subject to rent.
All claims against the steamer mont be presented to the Undersigned on or befors the 20th inst, or they will not be recognized.
And then as I stood, between that horrid exultation which is born of killing and the panic which threaten- ed me out of the darkness, I saw
All broken, chafed, and damaged something advancing slowly slowly Goods are to be left in the Godown
from the elm shades toward there they will be examined on the loggia.
13th instant, at 10·5.1.
Any damaged packages must be left in the Godoys for examination by the Bocsignees and the Company's Surveyors, Meners. Goddard and Douglas, at 10am-moonrays. In my mind an idea was of man or spirit. But a horror seem- on MONDAYS and THUESDAYS. "All claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognised. plains will be admitted after the goods bars left the Godowns.
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It was a shape--it was a shadow. Silent it came on and on. Where And now my attention turned anew the dusk lay deepest, it paused-an- | by to the course of the slowly creeping defined; for I could give it no name struggling for definition. There was led to proceed from it as light from a sormething significant, in the loner larrip. fighting of the room. Why, I asked I groped about the table near to myself, had the attack been made at me, never taking my eyes from that o clock? Did the time signify any sinister form outside. As my fingers thing I so, what? I looked toward closed upon the telephone, distant Bristol,
voices and the sound of running foot- steps (of those who had heard the shots), came, welcome, to my ears.
His figure, the chair upon which he sat, were sharply outlined by the cold Sight. The wall behind me, and to my left, was iluminated brilliantly; but no light fell directly upon me.
4
The idea was taking shape. From the loggia and the avemie, Bristol, I reasoned, must be clearly visible. From the shrubbery on the south, through the other windows-could I be seen? Yes, silhouetted against the moonlight!
The form stirred, seeming to raise phantom are in execration and a stray moonbeam pierced the darkness shrouding it. For a Beeting instant before it was gone something Bashed veromously,
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The sounds grew nearer. I could
BOLE PROPRIETORS OF, « tell that the newcomers had found Morris lying at the gate. Yet still I
TARASHIMA, OUHL, MUTABR YOSHINOTANE A faint sound, quite indescribable, stood, frozen with uncanny fear, and KISHINASE came to my ears from somewhere out-watching-watching the spot to which HOJO, NAMAZUTA, SAYO, SIN- sidebeyond.
that stray beam had pierced; the spot NEW KANADA, BIBAL, HAMIYA "My God!" whispered Bristol where I had seen the moon gleam MADA, and DYDEAKI. "Did you hear it?”
upon the Ring of the Prophet!
"Yes! What--" ·
it must have been Morris-"
was half standing-one
......
• Bristol
The next story in this series will. hand upon the arm of the chair, the be," The Hand of a Thief." other concealed, but grasping his.re-
(To be continued.}
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the weapon upon the carpet.
With an exclamation of disney, [ stooped quickly to recover it
As I did 50, something whistled pest my ear, so closely as almost to touch it and struck with a dull ihud the wall beyond I
"Bristol!" I whispered.
But, as I raised my eyes to him be seemed to crumple up, and fell Joose- ly forward into the patch of moon- tight spread upon the floor 15
In a cold sweat of fear, I. crouched therefor it had become evident to me that as I bent,' I was entirely in shadow.
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16th Apr at 11 am was strongly upon me, and I was un able to realize that this Eastern ap parition was creanre of flesh and blood. With my nerves strung up to snapping point, I crouched watching him. He entered the room, bending over the bodyrol Bejön.
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