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THE CHINA MAIL.
THE OLD MAN
(Continued from page 7.)
LLOYD TRIESTINO.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
Steamor,
"CONTE VERDE"
That day's meeting was at. Kemp-he would do in the ring at Gatwick From TRIESTE, VENICE, BRINDISI,
PORT SAID, BOMBAY, COLOMBO ton Park. To-morrow was the first the following day. He was in
AND SINGAPORE. rather low water, but he could-put day of the Gatwick meeting, and his hands on just about enough to CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby the bookies ait up. there, staring at him, were the five make
And informed that all Goods winners. He passed his hand with a second winner at 100 to 81 landed at their risk into the Godowas
of He had still another drink, and Wharf & Godown Company, Ltd, at the Hong Kong, and Kowloon across his forehead; it was damp stood the barman one too.
Kowloon, whence and/or from the wherves delivery may be obtained,
with cold perspiration.
"D'you know anything for to
The man behind the morrow ?"
bar knew Thompson quite well by sight and reputation.
Knocker hesitated. "Yes," he said, "Sure thing. Salmon House in the second raco. Price'll be a bit short, but it's snip."
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are being
Optional Cargo will not be landed hours prior to vessel's arrival, but here, unless notice has been given 48 carried on from port to port to the final port of call to which the option extenda.
No claims will be admitted after
the Goods have left the Godown, and all Gooda rameining undelivered after the 7th thatant, will be subject to rent.
"There's a trick somewhere," he muttered to himself, and carefully re-examined the date of the paper. It was printed on each page.. clear and unaltered. He scrutinised the unit figure of the year, but the "six" had not been tampered with.
"Thanks very much; I'll have a
All claims against the vessel moet He glanced hurriedly at the front hit on raeself."
be presented to the undersigned on or Ultimately he left the saloon before the 16th instant, or they will page. There was a flaring headline
bar. He was a little shaky. His fuot be that
recognised. about the Coal Strike . . .
doctor had warned him 'not to All broken, chafed, and damagod wasn't twenty-five. With profes-drink, but aurely on such a night where they will be examined on the Goods are to be left in the Godowns, sional care he examined the racing!
7th instant, at 10 a.m. by our sur results. Inkerman had won the first
The following morning he went veyors, Messrs. Goddard & Douglas. race... Inkerman-and Kocker had to Gatwick. It was a meeting he
In the case of datiable cargo. Can- made up his mind to back Paper liked, and usually he
signees are requested to inform the was vory Imports & Exports Office that they Clip with more money than he could lucky there. But that day it was have such goods for examination. afford to lose. Paper Clip was not merely
a question of luck. No Fire Insurance, has been effect- merely an also-ran. He noticed There was a streak of caution in ed. that people who passed were glanc-his bets on the first race, but he Bill of Lading will be countersign-
ed by ing at him curiously. Hurriedly be flung caution to the wind after In- pushed the paper into an inner kerman had come in a comfortable pocket and walked on.
winner-and at 6 to 1. The horse The Effect of a Little Arithmetic. and the price! He had no douhte Never had Knocker so needed a left. Salmon House won the drink. He entered a snug little second, a hot favourite at 7 to 4 on. the paper, which was still in his: "pub." near Charing Cross, and was In the big race most of the pun-pocket. He had no real interest thankful to find the saloon bar tera left Shallot alone. The horse in news, as such, for racing ab- nearly deserted. Fortified with his had little form, and there was no sorbed the whole of his very limit-
far 18 drink, he turned again to the paper-racing reason why anyone shoulded imagination. As Inkerman had come home at 6 to 1-back him. He was among what the could tell from a casual inspection He made certain hurried but antis-bookies call "the raga." But Knoc-it was a very ordinary sort of paper, factory calculations. Salmon Housejker cared nothing for "form" that He made up his mind to get ax- had won the second; he had expect day. He spread his money judi- other in town and compare the two ed that, but not at such a price... ciously, Twenty hore, twenty in order to see if the old man had 7 to 4 on. Shallot-Shallot of all there: Not until ten minutes be spoken the truth. Not that it mat horseshad romped away with the fore the race did he wire any tered very much, he assured him- third, the big race. Seven lengths money to the West-end offices, but self.
DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents. Hong Kong, 1st January, 1998.
He got no further; the paper fell from his limp fingers on to the floor of the carriage.
...
he
at 100 to 8! Knocker licked some of the biggest men in the Another Glance at the Paper his dry lips. There was no fake game opened their eyes when his Suddenly his incurious glance about the paper in his hand. He wires came through. He was out to was held. A. paragraph in the knew the horses that were running win a fortune. And he won. stop-press column had caught his at Gatwick, the following day, and As the horses entered the eye. An exclamation, burst from the results were there before him. straight one of them was lengths him.
"Death in race-train," the para- The fourth and fifth winners were ahead of the field. It carried the
Was boaded. at short prices; but Inkerman and flashing yellow and blue of Shal-graph
Knocker's Shallot were enough
lot's owner. The groan that went heart was pumping, hut he read on It was too late to get into touch up from the punters around him mechanically: "My Martin Thomp with any of the bookmakers that was satisfactory, but there was no son, a well-known racing man, died evening, and in any case it would thrill in the race for him; he had this afternoon as he was returning not be advisable to put money on been certain that Shallot would from Gatwick." before the day of the race. The win. There was no objection- better way would be to go to Gat-and he proceeited to collect. wick in the morning and wire the Celebrating The Day's Success bets from the course.
His packets were buiging with He had another drink ... and notes, but his winnings were ne another.
nothing compared with the bar Gradually, in the genial atmos-vest he would reap from the big with difficulty.
"Stop ... stop the train," he phere of the saloon bar, his unesat-men in the West End. He ordered ness left him. The affair ceased to a bottle of champagne, and with gasped, and strove to rise
communication appear uncanny and grotesque, and a silent grin drank the health of the lurch toward the became a part of the casual happen-old man with the beard before he cord.
'Steady on, Knocker," one of ings of the day. Into Knocker's sent for the taxi that would take slightly fuddled brain came the him back to the station. There them sald, and grasped his arm. memory of a film he had once seen was no train for half an hour, and, "You sit down, old chap. which had made a big impression when at last it started, his carriage musn't pull that darned thing on him at the time. There was an had filled with racing men, among Eastern magician in the film, with a whom were several he knew. The white beard, a long, white beard wise race-goers rarely wait until just like the one belonging to the the end of a meeting. old man. The magician had done
ex-
"Look at Knocker," водсоле said. "He's ill
He was breathing. heavily and
and
He sat down... or rather col- lapsed into the seat His head fell forward.
They forced whisky between his lips, but it was of no avail.
"He's dead," came the awestruck voice of the man who held him.
Knocker was usually very the most extraordinary things...pansive after a good day, but that afternoon he took no part in the on the screen.
But whatever the explanation, conversation, with the exception of Knocker was satisfied It was not a an occasional grunt when fake. The old chap had not asked mark was made to him. Try as he floor. In the general upset it had
even
a re No one noticed the paper on the
TUESDAY, JANUARY
1933.
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taken the half-crown that thoughts away from the old man, is not possible to any what be- Knocker had offered him. An, as It was the memory of the laugh that come of it. Perhaps it was swept Knocker knew, you always collected remained with him most vividly. up by the cleaners at Waterloo."
Perhaps... the dibs or attempted to if you He could still feel that queer sen-
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