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THE CHINA MAIL.
THE PHANTOM BUS
(Continued from page 7.).
Strite did not ride the black bus, only to learn later that the other the next morning.
line finally had been discontinued.
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED,
From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.
It was nearly seven o'clock when His first reaction to this informa-The Steamship,
Tho
P
"BENARTY"
CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby
ho opened his eyes from a troubled tion was an overwhelming relief. sleep.
This meant that he would No longer would he be reminded by be late for the office where he work this shadows, rumbling hull each informed that all Goods, are being ed, on the other side of the city. morning of things he wanted to landed at thoir, risk into the hazard- Of course, he missed his regular forget.
ous and/or extra hazardous Godowns But on the heels of this thought of The Hong Kong and Kowloon, bus, and, with it, the other. daylight, too, put a different aspect came the realisation that the very Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or from the wharves delivery upon things. It would have been discontinuance of the line had re-
may be obtained. ridiculous, after all, to board a bus moved all chance of his ever killing bound for another part of the city the Illusion if the latter continued merely to humour a crazy impulse. to trouble him.
Yet,
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Golowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after when that night come, That day at noon, as he walked the 27th December, 1982, will be sub-
jeet to rent. Strite hesitated to go to bed. He along a down-town street, a peculiari All claims against the steamer told himself that he was hopeless, a odour halted him, There was an must be
presented to the Undersigned fool and a coward. Then he un illusive, dread familiarity about it. on or before the 10th January, 1933, dressed and resolutely turned out! He was before a florist's open shop, or they will not be recognized."
All broken, chafed and damaged the light.
and a great bowl of tuberoses, those! His hesitancy had not been un-once choice flowers for all those icods are to be left in the Godowns, founded. Again he found himself departed, was set out in front... Here they will be examined on the December, 1932, at 10 am, by where he had smelled Messrs. Goddard & Douglas. boarding the mysterious, sweating knew now conveyance with its leaning opera-their scent before-on the phantom To comply with the General Bond- ed Warehouse Regulations consignees tor and strange, Illusive odour. bus of his dream.
was in theat have a Revenue Officer in at- And again
Once again Strite sudden, agonised
tendance when damaged dutiable awakening.
phantom bus-in his subconscious goods are examined.
This time he knew exactly No Fire Insurance has been effect. But this time he saw the other oc-mind.
coming. They all what was cupants before he awoke.
He seemed ed
Bill of Lading will be counter- there were six of them--had their powerless to change a single detall
signed by, The pause'just inside the eyes closed as they eat nodding of it all. slightly with the almost imper-doorway as he forced his gaze up ceptible swaying of the bus. There to where the six passengers sat in eyes closed, in a repellent something about plain view, their those faces, other than their closed death-like weariness or worse. The eyelids, that struck a chill into icy touch of a finger on his wrist, Strite's heart. He wondered whe-the reaching for a coin, and the die- ther they were just weary, like him,covery of the slender, tall girl up
was
1
front. Doris!
At this point the sequence of
A cold finger touched his wrist. He managed to turn and face the events suddenly galvanised him inte
tered.
Ho
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD., Agenta,
Hong Kong, 20th December, 1082.
JAPAN'S REVENUE FROM SHIPS.
This Year.
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operator. The latter, his face still a feverish alertness for the next Y. 100,000,000 Expected hidden, was pointing to the fare thing. As Doris's hysterical scream! box. Of course, these ill-built, ill-rang in his cara, he was abruptly re- kept buses would reverse things by leased from the grip of immobility Japan's shipping revenue, which demanding their fare when one en-He turned quickly and looked out tops the receivable account of her invisible trade, It is believed will He reached into his pocket of the front of the bus.
What be anw there made him exceed Y.100,000,000 this year. for u, dime, and in that moment] caught sight of a seventh passen-throw up his hands in an involun- Non-liner operators even predlet ger, seated in front on the other tary gesture similar to her own in- Y150,000,000.
and stinctive gesture of terror. side. The operator's head
The shipping income used to re- her heard the brakes squealing shilly-gister Y140,000,000 to Y150,000,000 shoulders had partly hidden
the sleet until a few years ago, when it start- from him before, despite her slen-felt the bus skid on
covered road even as he caught aed to dwindle. The falling tendency der tallness.
side glimpse of the operator's face was neute in 1930 and 1931. The As his fingers found and -saw with sudden horror that half Yokohama Specie, Bank put the a dime, the face was missing. Beyond' that figure at Y85,000,000 in 1930 and he observed that this passenger's fleeting glimpse, he had time for no Y88,000,000 in 1931, though it is eyes were not closed like the restfurther examination; for just ahead argued that it actually totalled that they were pale grey and star- a heavily-loaded truck was emerging Y115,000,000 and Y1,000,000,000, ing at him.
They were like ab, from a narrow bridge-end, blocking Shipping was not at all en- God, it couldn't be-Doris! But
their way... Then 1 it was it was! How could he have rending crash...
terrife,couraging for the first half of the year, but the position has since failed to recognise her sooner, de
The 6.45 bus was four minutes greatly improved. spite her position on the other side
late on account of the ley condition! Now he could of the operator? understand why this bus had drawn him so strangely, irresistibly.
tomatically brought forth
au-
The favourable turn is due part-
of the roads; they had been that ly to increased exports through the way for two days. A little group depreciated yén exchange, but the of Baason-ticket holders on the road-main cause is the activity of non- As he stared back at her, speech-side were talking in subdued tone, liner operators in ocean shipping. less with amazement, her eyes left for once unmindful of the delay as The total tonnage serving in. hia face, turned toward the wind they waited. shield, Her pale lips twitched odd-
scream.
>
.
"Queer thing about how it got there," said the other.
Europe and the Atlantic now #X- "Personally," a ly, as if, mute with fear at what faced man was saying,
pompous, redceeds 800,000 tons, and increase of she saw there, she sought vainly to Ranson killed
"I believe over 870,000 tons from a year ago, and-mauled-bim and the highest on record. for attentions to Mrs. Ranson,"
In view of the tariff barriers, Then, abruptly, the spell was "But Strite didn't appear to be which necessitate shipping men broken. She leaped to her feet, that type," objected a young men taking defensive measures, the throwing one arm across her face ber of the group. "Nor him. Be situation cannot be viewed with tod in a gesture of one warding off aides, consider the condition of the much optimism, yet it is generally fearful harm. A shrill, body. Why, Ranson or no one else believed that the same favourable hysterical scream pierced the quiet could have so mangled another to altuation will be maintained at of that closed space like the atab of say nothing of leaving it in bed and least until the early part of next a knife!
persistently claiming that he didn't year. Any improvement in China That cry jarred Strite back to know how it happened except that and America will brighten the consciousness with a suddenness he and his wife were awakened in trade. that jerked him upright in bed. the middle of the night by a fright- As he sat there, trembling with fat cry and found him that way! the realism of his dream and that No; I say there is some deeper agonised scream, he became aware mystery about the affair, the nature
at he held sometthing tightly of which we haven't suspected.". in one closed hand." A fresh chill The big, orange-coloured bus hove "Nobody witnessed the accident, passed through his body at the into view, at this juncture, inter-and the defunct bus company's familiar feel of that something. rupting the discussion for the time officials swear that the last they Mon, 6th Feb., 1033. He needed no light to tell him that Presently they all had boarded it saw of their death trap was when It was a dime he clutched the dime and found sents at various vantage it was locked away in an old garage he had been ready to drop in the points. A little distance along the on the other side of Norwood. Can fare box of his dream!
road one of them pointed out to his you imagine anyone swiping a cân Of course, he found that the coin neighbour a twisted and splintered like that for a ride? But the 24th Dec. evidently had fallen out of his vest mass of wreckage at the foot of an present-day young coke-head will
when he sat on the bed while un embankment of the narrow bridge, grab anything for a joyride." dressing. In fact, he kept done enange in this vest pocket, so they were just then crossing it No queerer than that feat mess "No queerer than that-that mess
30th Dec. as to have it handy for tips, news struck--didn't even delay us yeater- been crushed like well, Ike poor papers, and such. Perhaps the de- day when we followed a few minutes Strite, for instance. Yet they cidental anding and touching of after it was discovered.””
'could 'Bhd-no trace of a Body!"" that coin in his slutabers had even started the train of thought that had made him dream of the fare box-and the other things. But
Bat
Fri.,
4th Jan, there was no more sleep for Stritë. After tossing about for the rest of tho night, he got up about five 3rd Jan. o'clock,
Taes
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This morning he was determined upon one thing. He would ride the 2nd Jan, black busthe phantoms bus as
he had come to term it privately- 24th Dec. this morning, and kill once and for
all this persistent subconscious 11 9th Jan lusion that had taken root In His mind from the seed- of his first absurd Impression of the rickety convoyance in the ceris light of half-dawn.
29th Del Once more, his intention was
be defeated
The black bus
before the
had arrived at its ato
quarter.
He even
after Ha
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1932.
ONLY
AN IDEAL
XMAS
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Special Excursion
то
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ARRIVES MANILA
AT MANILA
DEC. 22, P.M.
DEC. 24, A.M.
Meals and Lodgings provided on board
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LEAVES MANILA ARRIVES HONG KONG.
DEC. 26, P.M.
DEC. 28, AM.
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