WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1933.
ROMANTIC HISTORY
P. & 0.-British India OF ELLERMAN LINES
Apcar and
Eastern & Australian Lines
Proportion Of Capital To Be Refunded.
THE CHINA MAIL.
SILVER BLAZE
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the Colonel. "Of course, that was why he needed the candle, and which would disguise this taste. By struck the match." no possible supposition could this "Undoubtedly. But in examining stranger, Fitzroy Simpson, have his belongings, I was fortunate The fact that the directors of the caused curry to be served in the enough to discover, not only the Ellerman Lines, ono of the Ginest trainer's family that night, and it method of the crime, but even its coln-motives. As a man of the world, shipping concerns under the British Is surely too monstrous flag, propose to return a proportion cidence to suppose that he happen- Colonel, you know that men do not of their capital in cash to share-ed to come along with powdered carry other people's bills about in holders is not only a remarkable opium upon the very night when a their pockets. We have most of us achievement in the present state of dish happened to be served which quite enough to do to settle our shipping, but is also a remainder would disguise the flavour. There own. I at once concluded that that the Ellerman Lines can claim fore Simpson becomes eliminated Straker was leading a double life, to be one of the most romantic of from the case, und our attention and keeping a second establishment. the British companies. Sir John centres upon Straker and his wife, The nature of the bill showed that lady in the one who hal ed accountant in the Midlands, and chosen curried mutton for supper case,
tastes. Diberal A3 did so well that he was able to re-that night. The opium was added expensive
are with your servants, one tire at an early age. He found after the dish was set aside for the you idleness boring, and was advised stable boy, for the others had the hardly expects that they can buy by a friend to put a proportion of same for supper with no ill effects. twenty-guinea walking dresses for I questioned Mrs. his capital into the Leylan Line, Which of them, then, had access to their women. then doing rather badly, and to get that dish without the maid seeing Straker as to the dress without her some occupation by accepting a seat them?
knowing it, and having satisfied un the Bourd. He soon had control, "Before deciding that question I myself that it had never reached [reorganised the company to great had grasped the significance of the her, I made a note of the milliner's advantage, and then sold, the Wes-silence of the dog, for one true in address, and felt that by calling Ocean section to Pierpont ference Invariably suggests others. there with Straker's photograph 1 Morgan's International Mercantile The Simpson incident had shown could easily dispose of the mythical Marine at a price that gave his fel- me that a dog was kept in the Darbyshire.
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From Hoat Hond About
1933.
6,700 11th Jan.
Noon 17,000 14th Jan.
Noon 14.000 28th Jan. 6,100 4th Feb.
1*MIRZAPORE
RANCHI
CARTHAGE +*BURDWAN
NALDERA RAJPUTANA +*SOMALI
CORFU COMORIN
†'BANGALORE
RANPURA
CHITRAL
RANCHI
CARTHAGE
NALDERA
KAISAR-I-HIND
16,000 11th Feb. 17,000 25th Fob.
0,800
Destination.
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Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.
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low shareholders a wonderful re-stables, and yet, though someone "From that time on all was plain. turn for their original investment. had fetched out a horse, he had not Straker had led out the horse to a Very wisely they begged him to re-barked enough to arouse the two hollow where his light would be in invest this money, and so the Eller lads in the loft. Obviously the visible. Simpson, in his flight, had man Lines came into being, founded midnight visitor was someone whom dropped his cravat, and Straker had
picked it up with some idea, per on the Mediterranean service of the the dag knew well.
old Leyland Company-itself found. "I was already convinced, or al-haps, that he might use it in secur- ed on the original venture of the most convinced, that John Strakering the horse's leg. Once in the Bibby Line-and has prospered went down to the stables in the dead hollow he had got behind the horse, marvellously over since. The Navy of the night and took out Silver and had struck a light, but the crea- Blaze. For what purpose? For a ture, frightened at the sudden glare, dishonest one, obviously, or why and with the strange instinct of COSTLY SECONDARY should he drug his own stable boy? animals feeling that some mischief
EDUCATION.
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Their proposal to cut down syllabus in some directions is an
Marsellies, Havre, London, Hamburg attempt to escape from the present subtler, means.
Rotterdam, 8th Apr. Marsellles Huli.
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6,100
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Marseilles & London.
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sane
on?
a loss to know was intended,' had lashed out, and And yet I was at
There have been cases be the steel shoe had struck Straker why. fore now where trainers have made full on the forehead. He had al- sure of great sums of money by lay ready, in spite of the rain, taken off their own horses, his overcoat in order to do his deli- ing against through agents, and then prevented cate task, and so, as he fell, his them from winning by fraud. knife gashed his thigh. Du I make the Sometimes it is a pulling jockey.lit clear?!
Sometimes it is some surer and "Wonderful!" cried the Colonel. What was it here? Wonderful! You might have been situation, which is nothing less
I hoped that the contents of his there." than a barbarous early specialisa-
"My final shot was, I confess, a tion in as many as five or six sub-porkets might help me to form a
very long one. It struck me that so conclusion. jects. Have they gone far enough?
"And they did so. You cannot astute a man as Straker would not It is impossible to frame a really
this delicate, tendon- satisfactory time-table to meet the have forgotten the singular knife undertake prescat. demands of the School which was found in the dead nicking without a little practice.
could cer- What
he practice Certificate Examination
man's hand, a knife which withouti
man would My eyes fell upon the sheep, either giving individual subjects tainly no so short a ration of periods that choose for a weapon. It was, and I asked a question which, rather teaching tends to degenerate into Dr. Watson told us, a form of knife to my surprise, showed that my cramming, or else cutting out of which, is used for the most delicate surmise was correct,”
"You have made it perfectly the syllabus altogether those sub-operations known in surgery. And
it was to be used for a delicate clear, Mr. Holmes,” jeets which are not offered
"When I returned to London 1 in the examination. In this operations known in surgery. And connection I recall the words it was to be used for a delicato called upon the milliner, who at of an eminent publisher
who operation that night. You must once recognised Straker as an excel- assured me that no book could know, with your wide experience of lent customer, of the name be a financial success in the secon- turf matters, Colonel Ross, that it Darbyshire, who had a very dash- dary schools unless it was directly is possible to make a slight nicking wife with a strong partially for aimed at the School Certificate or upon the tendons of a horse's ham, expensive dresses. I have no doubt Matriculation examinations. I
and to do it subcutaneously so as to that this woman had plunged him would be difficult, I think to ima leave absolutely no trace. A horac over head and ears in debt, and so
develop a slight led him into this miserable plot." B.I. Apear Line steamers have excellent accommodation for gine a stronger condemnation
of 90 treated would
lameness which would be put down' "You have explained all but one 1st and 2nd class passengers.
the present state of affairs.
to a strain in exercise or a touch of thing," cried the colonel "Where rheumatism, but ever to foul play was the horse?"
"Villain! Scoundrel!" cried the
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1933.
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A Notable Service
of
I doubt whether the investiga-
"Ah, it bolted and was cared for tors have dealt faithfully enough Colonel.
by one of your neighbours. We with the matter of cramming-the "We have here the explanation of muet have an amnesty in that direc- obvious and fatally easy retort why John Straker, wished to take the tion, I think. This is Clapham! made by pupil, and often, I fear, by horse out on to the moor. So Junction, if I am not mistaken, and
7,000 lat Feb. Manila, Habavi, Brisbane, Sydasy & schoolmaster, to a system which spirited # creature would have we shall be in Victoria in less than is felt to make improper demands. certainly roused the soundest of ten minutes. If you care to smoke rooms, colonel. I But they render a notable service sleepers when it felt the prick of a cigar in our when they demand that the School the knife. It was absolutely neces- shall be happy to give you any other Certificate, the test of a good sary to do it in the open air."
details which might interest you."
THE END.
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NALDERA
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**SOMALI
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1933.
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Kobe & Yokohama, Kobe, & Yokohama, Kobe & Yokohama.:
14,000 20th Apr. Shanghai, Kobs & Yokohama.
May Shanghal, Nith
Moll, Kobe & Yokohama. 8,100 19th May Shanghai, Kobe & Yokokama. 12,000 18th May Shanghal, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama, 11,000 lat June Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Tokohama. $17,000 15th June Shanghai, Kobo & Yokohama, 17,000 29th June Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.: 17,000 18th July Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama,
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