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"TRIANGLE"
(Continued from page 7.)
CHINESE STEAMER TAKES WATER.
Built For Ferry On Yangtze.
"Away with you! Can you not of seven occupied on the other side generate your own clectricity for of the landing. Ivan Ivanovitch, this one night?" roared Litvin, the father, clumped out in his
(Reuter's Special Mail Service).
London. good-humouredly, and shooed them wooden shoes and fumbled for the
The Chinese train ferry steam- out.
feeding-bottle in the old peramer, the Changkiang, which will Kaspar and Xenia took up quar-bulator where half the household be used for the Yangtze River ters in a tiny kennel in an old goods were stored. A loud-speaker traffic, bas just been launched on mansion near the river, It was wearily mumbled details of new the Tyneside. not comfortable, but it was light-blast furnaces. On the frosty air
'well · confess,"
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They both spoke of Gigant.
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Dr. W. C. Chen, Charge
said that the vessel marked a
were left
ed by Gigant, and that was all the faint chimes of the Kremlin d'Affaires in the Chinese Lega- sulhcient. Old Marajeff, the con- played the Nine o'clock Revolution, spoke at the launching and cierge, who had once owned the tionary Funeral March. mansion, though everybody had "One might as long ago forgotten it, had pushed said Kaspar, between his teeth, new era in China and was sym- bolical of the unification of the an old wooden cradle in, whether went out last night to see her. I
country. which from accident or design it was hard shall go again to-night."
meant a great deal to China in its present to sell, for old Marajeff was half- Xenis snarled. She made ♫ witted. Turned upside down, It gesture that knocked over the up-
state. made a good book-table for Xenia's turned cradle and the books it!
Given peaceful times, he said Marx and Engels library. Some-held.
he believed that the vessel would times Marx and Engels bamused} "I went to see him," she said. double and treble the traffic her. She was of the soil and go "I mean to go to him every night." across the Yangtze. waa Kaspar, and Moscow and its
The vessel, he remarked, was significant of the co-operation machines-especially Gigant-went to their heads like stupefying wine. For eight hours each day they between British industries and But they were very proud to be worked at the Gorki and gloated, Chinese enterprise. He pointed Soviet man and wife, emancipated in their spare moments, over the out the necessity for closer and free. Each day they came giant dynamo. Kaspar had the understanding and co-operation, home together by the same tram, practical advantage, for it was he, saying that if the commercial But sometimes Kaspar would slip the electrician, who attended to her and industrial people out and not come back till mid-and caressed her. But Kenia, alone without meddling from night. And sometimes, when he secretary to the manager of the politicians the relations could returned, Xenia was not there.... Gorki, had all his figures on paper not be other than satisfactory.
"This biological attraction-it is and knew every staggering detail Sir George Hunter, well-known atrange" mused Kaspar. "It is of his being. She gave lectures shipbuilder, expressed his sym- very comfortable. But I am told upon Gigant to her Institute, turn-pathy with the Chinese people, it cannot Inst. If it does it being Kaspar cold with, jealousy. and admiration of the heroic | comes merely-well, love. The old But it was Gigant at night, efforts of the Chinese Govern- ideology."
pulsing power .and radiance ment to restore order and make "Love"! scoffed Xenia, slanting through Moscow, that drew them, China once more a united and blue eyes from the stocking she foodless and sleepless. They went prosperous country, was darning, but not meeting by separate trams and crawled Kaspar's gazo, "It is soul-destroy-home separately. Sometimes, now, ing. It is slavery. Divorce only Kaspar drank vodka, though he bad costs a rouble or two, does it not? hitherto kept away from those The Ben Line a.. Bengloe from The State leaves the door open. enemies of efficiency, nicotine and Leith, Middlesbro', Antwerp, Lon- But I, for one, do not believe in alcohol. It made him not notice don, Straits and Manila left Sin- wasting even one or two roubles." the blood he coughed now and gapore on November 20, and is "The biological adventure is re-then. And sometimes the vodka due to arrive here on November served for men," returned Kaspar caused Gigant to shimmer with a 29. coldly. "There is an unanswerable beauty that made him cry.
The R.M.Ş. Empress of Russia economic reason why women should Litvin, the night foreman, grow arrived at Shanghai yesterday at not deceive their husbands.” |rough-tempered and kicked him 6.30 a.m., left Shanghai to-day at His glance roved deliberately to out. This made it necessary to 6.30 a.m., left Shanghai and is the upturned, cradle, and then re-slip inside very cunningly when due at Hong Kong on November 25 turned like that of any wife Gigant was left to sing to herself (Fri.) at 7 a.m. She leaves for beating husband of Tsarist days to for a few minutes. And it was on Manila on November 25 (Fri.) at Xenia. He was sneering. Xenia's one of these occasions that Kaspar 6 pm. lip quivered. Not once had the stumbled over something, which lay two married children spoken their empty night hours. Nor had either looked back when the other followed,
of on the steel gangway by the vibrat-
"So you have another woman?" "Perhaps." "This 'other weman-is, she clever, beautiful?”
"Clever and beautiful. And she is mine. Mine, do you hear, Comrade Xenia?”
Xenia beld her breath. It was
STEAMERS' MOVEMENTS,
ing dynamo. Bending down, he put of prison. He had no clear saw that it was Xenia who lay idea of what happened next. Ho there, her outstretched hand touch-must have slept through the day- ing the oily casing. She had faint light.
ed, and he caught her up, filled It was night again. Gigant was with an odd mixture of hatred and humming in Kaspar's brain; the biological tenderness, and carried deep, contralto voice of the siren her to the rest-room. Big Anna, which shook him from head to toe. the welfare woman, surveyed him What a timid lover he was! He with contempt.
knew the exact switch which would
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"She should have begun her four make her die to a whisper and then | March, and the depth of winter months State holiday long ago, to nothing, bringing darkness to a There seemed no nourishment in What folly! Take her home and good alice of Moscow. If he could the food. Kaspar was thin and let her not come near Gigant again only get past Litvin's iron toe- haggard, but the pupils of his eyes till she has got the little dynamo capa.... glowed with fierce Tight. He came of her own well started up." Kaspar slipped into the great from the Ukraine, where there was It filled Kaspar with exultation, shed, unseen. It seemed to him much tuberculosia. made him kind and con-that Gigant's voice deepened and cheeks were sunken, too, though, descending to Xenia. She took her sweetened at the sight of him. Her LONDON SERVICE thank God, she did not live in any defeat very quietly. Something great pale shoulder all but touch of the countries of the depression. changed in her after that night.ed the swinging arclights at the "So? My man is likewise, Com-She grew secretive, as though the roof as though she showed her rade Kaspar. Strong and beautiful triumph had been hers. When he beauty proudly. Within her shadow and shining, And he is mine. swaggered out at night she would was nothing but smooth, clamour. Mine only."
look at him from where she sat, asting life. Kaspar swayed over the They glared at each other. A thin and white as himself, and not spinning armature and watched the doctor from the capitalist coun- very shapely.
NEW Then she smiled little blue crackles at the coils. tries would have said that they It enraged him.
Hie brain awam with delight and were only two children, their He taunted her one night.
lack of food. One touch of tho nerves drawn to a razor-edge with "Stalin said yesterday that every switchboard on the steel platform hard work that was beyond their craftsman must love his machine, above him and Xenia, in the old simple brains and ill-nourished That way only will efficiency be mansion, would know once for all bodies. In the tense silence a baby attained, Stalin said. I love that Gigant had responded to the walled in the room which a family Gigant"
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"I heard Stalin on the radio. He might mean a trial for sabotage by added that flesh and blood are the komintern of the Gorki. But, greater than the machine. Man he thought, Gigant would under- goes on, but the machine breaks stand if Xenia did not. and has to be repaired by man. That is for the women to see to, he said."
"Ten thousand devils!” Litvin's voice came round the corner of gleaming metal. “You again?” "Even Stalin must tickle the Kaspar jumped. The metal floor women's vanity," growled Kaspar, was olly. He clutched at the hand- slamming the door and falling over rail and missed. Litvin anatched a stove on the landing, too late. The blue crackles She was jealous but, woman-like,kissed angrily into white flame for prebending not to be. How he hat an instant as the night foreman ed that biological sttraction which hurled himself up the step to the threw inen and women together! switchboard,, without daring to He had actually, for, one moment look at the limp figure which hung wished to hide his face in Xenia's on to Gigant. She lap and curse Gigant. Instead, he
was out in the sinking-hot July "Was it dark?" murmured Kenia, night, making towards the Gorki. "Or did I imagine it?" When he reached It Litvin was "The light failed," said the ready for him and had purposely nurse from the clinic, bustling changed his rubber shoes for iron-about the little room. There must shods to greet him with Kaspar have been a breakdown. It is limped round to one of the big lucky it did not, happen when the windows to watch Gigant, that doctor was here. Cradles are not frozen cascade of energy, through hygienic, but this one will do for the glass. For a mud second he the night. Well" the nurse would have liked to stop the deep, smiled professionally, though mellow, song which went on night with a certain dryness because she and day
knew Kaspar and Xenia "what is All that night he soaked vodka he to be called. Comrade Xenia? in a cafe full of ne'er-do-wells Gigant? Kaspar?” inefficients, ex-bourjal; one or two Xenia closed, her eyes and smil-
the ed. T murderers who were abusin kindness of the State by getting "Anything,” she answered.
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