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SATAN'S CIRCUS Continued from ARRIVAL
page 7,
OF SHIPS
Sunday, March 5.
"Are you perhaps in a position to At first the people of the circus held dictate, my friend? I may be their breath, then, gradually, as are minutes passed, they relaxed. He wrong, of course, but I am under the was doing well. They sighed with re- impression that we are now in Hef. The climax of the act was a French territory. Charming, words, tableau during the course of which the eh 7"
animals grouped themselves, standing erect on their hind legs about the Anatole was silent. He thought trainer, who himself sprang upon a auddenly and with horror of the pedestal, arm up raised to give more Legion blistering sun, filth, and effect to this subjugation of the brutality. He thought, too, of the beasts. The biggest tiger lay at his Hop Sang. British str.. 1,359 tons, salt-mines, that ghastly living death other animals soos assumed their ae- fect during the tableau, and while the to which he would Inevitably be customed positions when ordered, the
was at first always
condemned in the event of capture.ing the tons and leopards Ana-1
Then he remembered the animals himself upon the willing to as he had last seen them, ferocious,
tale, one foot on the pedestal, spoku maddened. He shook his head. briskly, curtly, to the
beast great "That's bluff," he said shakily. which alared at him sulkily. A "I'm no tamer. You can't force me second passed, seeming longer than a minute to the circus watchers. The into the cage."
tiger continued to stare, and Anatole, banging at the bars with his switch, pointed stubbornly at the ground at his feet.
Carl Brandt chuckled. The deli- cate yellow ivory of his skin seamed itself into a thousand wrinkles. He pulled out his watch.
str., 1,217 tons, Halvard, British
J. Freer, Capt. W.
from Swatow, buoy No. B18-Wo Fat Sing.
Capt. D. S. Pethick, from Canton, Kowloon Dock-J.M. & Co.
from
Kaelchaw, British str., 1,220 toga.
Capt. A. H. Bathurst, Chefoo, buoy No. CJ.-B. & S. Phasianella. British str., 393 tons,
Capt. F. T. Vine, from Swatow, Talkoktsul Anchorage.-A.P.C. Sunning, British str., 1,570 tons. from Capt. W. G. Mackenzie, Canton, Talkoo Dock.-B. & S.
tons, Capt. S. Nomura, from Moji, buoy No. A1.-O.S.K. Tsang Woo, Chinese str., 1,049 tons,
Capt. Einarsen, from Hothow, buoy No. C-Chau Yue Teng,
Monday, March 6
His back was towards the ring en-Sydney Maru, Japanese str., 3,223 tranee, and he did not see the groome “Five minutes, Anatole, to come and attendants draw back respectful. with me to the menagerie. Other-ly to allow someone to pass through wise I telephone the police. If the red velvet curtains. His comrades did, and rudged one another, for Mme. may be permitted to advise you, I Brandt seldom came near arena dur- suggest the menagerie. Even the ing a performance. She stood for a belly of a lion is preferable, I moment near the curtains tall and should imagine, to the African salt-straight in her flowing white dress. Argun Maru, Japanese str., 4,040. mines. But take your choice." her face pale against the dense black-
ress of her
her hair Madame Brandt, snapping an
Then
suddenly, there was tumult in orange-stick in two, now obtruded the peaceful cage, as anarling furious herself quietly into the conversation. the animals leaped from their pedestals to dash themselves savage- "No, Anatole," she said musingly, ly against the bars. Caught by aur- "it will not be possible to run away priac, Anatole turned, slashing with Hellas, Norwegian str., 1,114 tons, in the night. The Herr Director switch, shouting, oblivious of the
zullen tiger will take trouble, great trouble, to maddened with fright, collided against have you traced. The Herr Direc-im and sent him stumbling to the tor has no wish to protect ground. With the fierce swiftness of criminals."
Once again she looked directly at him, fixing him with the burning and threatening glance that was like a sword.
Brandt glanced at his watch. "I must remind you, Anatole, that you have only two minutes left," he |said with an air of great courtesy.
tous, Capt. H. Oyama, from Sakite, buoy No. A6.-O.S.K. Choyo Maru, Japanese str., 5,302 Capt. J. Kikuchi, from Dairen, buoy No. B26.-Y.K.K.
Capt. W. Hannevig, from leopard, Bangkok, buoy No. B17--
Thoresen & Co.
Liger
Huichew, British str., 1,221 Lons,
Capt. E. W. Richards, from
Lushan Maru, Japanese str., 1,507 Canton, buoy No. C6.-B. & S.
tons, Capt. T. Tominaga, from Canton, Yaumati Anchorage.-- N.Y.K. The tiger
mighty hawk, the great made the blood run cold, yells of Aprang. A thick choking growl that terror from the crowd, and then the Armed crack of two revolver shots. with hosepipes, the menagerie men drove the animals back.
was wounded in the shoulder, and President Grant, American str,| clawed the ground, biting at itself in 4 frenzy of pain.
Aantole lay doubled up on the saw- like a rag dummy, so
from Shanghai, Kowloon Whar 8.405 tons, Capt. W. A. Ross, —Dollar S.S. Line.
"How many years did you serve in/dust look wisted was his body. On To Chu Kung, Chinese str., 906 Lans,
limp
the Legion, I wonder? And is it the bright blue of his uniform oozed eight years in the salt-mines for a clotted stream of red. His face? deserters, or perhaps more?"
Anatole had no longer a face; only a
Capt. J. Miller, from Saigon, buoy No. B10.—Nam Tại ở Co
huge and raw and gaping wound. Wong Shek Kung, Chinese str.. "I'll work the animals," said An- Opening a side door, they dragged his tole shortly. He knew that Lva body from the cage and swiftly wrap-
1,044 tons, Capt. A. Laihovet- No. sky, from Saigon, buoy Brandt had read his thoughts, and wiped the sweat from his face as helped it in the gorgeous coat of a Chin-
C1-Bing Lee & Co. acrobat 250
ICLT standing
by. went towards the menagerie. It was Screaming, weeping, cursing, the for not possible for the mixed group to rifed audience fought, struggled and appear at the matinee, but it was stampeded to leave the tent. In the nounced to the circus in general that noise and tumult, Mme. Brandt slip- the eats would work that night with ped through the red velvet curtains out fail.
Anatole was to spend the and vanished like a white shadow. afternoon rehearsing them.
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March 6.
Aeneas, for Dairen, Huichow, for Foochow. His face was grey as he shut him- That night the body was laid tem. Hydrangea, for Swatow. self in the cage, armed only with a porarily in a little canvas dressing- Kulmerland, for Shanghai. lamer's switch. Outside the bars room belonging to the clowns. It was Lushan Maru, for Shanghai. stood two keepers with loaded revoltate before the show people retired to
vera. They, too, were nervous. The bed, but, by one o'clock in the morn-Meiko Maru, for Rangoon. animals stood motionless to stare at ing' all was still in the test-town of Nankin, for Shanghai. the stranger, hackles raised, restless. Brandt's Circus. Only the night Nissho Maru, for Takao. yellow eyes fixed upon him. Around watchman, a stolid, unimaginative the cago were arranged painted fellow, paced slowly, up and down, Phasianella, for Tamsui. wooden pedestals, upon which the swinging his lantern, but from me Sydney Maru, for Brisbane, animals were trained to sit at the to time a lion would whimper and Tsang Woo, for Whampoa. word of command. The Alsatian now grow in the silence of the night gave that command. They took no It was the watchman, however, who notice. He repeated it louder, slap-afterwards related to his comrades the bars with his switch, and what he saw during this lonely vigil they scattered in a sudden panic to.
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It was about an hour be take up their accustomed seats. He fore dawn, and the man was lolling pulled out the paper hoop through
ugh on a heap of hay, relieved, no doubt, They to think the night would soon be over, which the lions must jump.
The following warships were in snarled for several minutes, striking when all at once his quick ear caught port yesterday:-- out with their savage pawa bed!-
in the soft sound of approaching foot-1 the end, possibly deciding that ener war less trouble, they bounded steps. He turned, hiding his lantern ded beneath his coat. It Was Mme through the loop with an ill grace. Brandt, of course, walking slowly, like The two keepors, and Anatole as well a a sleep-walker, across the deserted North Arm-Kent, Witch, and were soon streaming with perspira-! Brena towards the dressing-rooms, Swan. tion as though they had been plunged seeming no more tangible into water. The Alsatian was now shadow, a white shadow that gicam- however, more confident.
He turned ed for В moment in the darkness, to the bears.
And then was gone, awallowed by the Twenty minutes later Carl Brandt gloom of the night. Now, the watch- rejoined his wife in the living wagon. mun was a brave fellow, and inclin- "Better than I expected," said the ed to be inquisitive. He slipped off
Mme. Brandt made his shoes and crept after her. director coolly.
then
af West Wall.-Hermes.
Dock.-Herald, Odin and Otun. No. 3 Buoy.Cornwall. No. 6 Buoy. Suffolk. No. 7 Buoy-Folkestone. Foreign.-U. S. river gunboat
no reply, nor did she turn her head. Madame Brandt glided straight to and French training cruiser Jean-
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That evening the Alsatian was sup- the Rttle dressing-doom wherein layne D'Arc. plied with a splendid sky-blue uniform the mangled body of the Legionary. and cherry-coloured breeches from the The watchman had not dared to 10th Apr. circus wardrobe. Out on the lot his bring his lantern, and it was, there comrades glanced at hire sympathefore, dificult for him to see what was tically.
One or two, unconscious of his antecedents, warned him to defy happening, but at the same time
managed
to observe quite enough. Brandt and keep out of the cage. He glimpsed her white figure kneel- Anatole merely shook his head, incaping near the dark shape on the door; 21st Apr.able of giving an explanation. as he watched, she struggled with Steamer,
It was dusk The bandsmen, splen-some drapery or other, and he zaw the did in their green and gold uniforms, that she was trying to drag sway played the overture inside the huge sheet that covered the corpse. Hav. tent. A group of clowna, glittering ing apparently achieved her purpose, in brillant spangles, stood waiting to she remained still for a moment, star- make their comic entry. Behind the ing at what she saw; this Immobility, clowns alx or seven grooms were busy which lasted only for s second, was controlling twenty milk-white Arab succeeded by a sudden revulsion of CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby stallions with fleery white manes and feeling more horrible than anything informed that all Goods are being talls. These horses were magnificent that had gone before; for with all the landed at their risk into the Godowns in scarlet trappings. The Chinese ferocity of a starving animal she of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf troupe, dark monon over gorgeous flung ingeelf upon the body, shaking and Godows Company. Ltd., at Kose- brocade robes, diligently practised it, gripping it tightly to steady taloon, whence from the wharven near the bears' cage. Anatole sat on leader weight while the thrust her delivery may be obtained. A bale of hay near the tigers, deaf face, her mouth, down upon that torn Optional Cargo will not be leaded to the advice muttered in his ear by and bloading throat then in the here, unless notice has been given 48 various comrades. The circus proceed distant menagerie the ilons and tigers hours prior to vessel's arrival, but ed.
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1st Apr. ness,
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All claims against the vessel must 11th May, gering beneath sections of heavy iron most certainly a thief.
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| slinking with a cat-like agility, about was silent, for I was thinking (sd.) -
Gripping his switch, Anatole utter both of 14 Brandt, and Anstole. ed the first command. One minute Suddenly I felt rather sick. later the animals were seated with a "Look here,” I said, “dh you, mind certain docility upon their wooden if we don't talk any mors about the pedestala. Anatole produced his hoop, Cirens Brandt for the moment??
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