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Portrait Of A Gentlemen
He tubbed his eyes.
Continued from page 7.) returned the professor kind-
ly, "I've some writing to do. I be He was a hulking brute, primitive back roon." type, Irish possibly, with a low, Closing the door on that poor semi- dated animal, tearful with gratitude. forehead, stubborn closecut hair he crept forth to deliver him to the cunning eyes and a large mouth. patice.
about him.
your
CONSIGNEES.
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THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.
From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.
The Steamships
Goods
It 18th king undelivered after the
or
He tried to BUMEON up an io- Birdcage in hand he returned to the gratiating grin as he reckoned the shop,
m most disturbed," he began
"BENCLEUCH ". boss" hadn't "anny" sort of job with simple gravity, "Ever since I Consignees of cargo are hereby in left you I have been ringing my formed that all goods are being land. A type, thought the professor, friend's bell."
fed at their risk into the hazardous predestined to "crime.
"Perhaps " His face!
suggested the salesman and/or extra hazardous Godowns of wisely, they've gone out." alone would condemn him,
The Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf and The professor was dubious. "Mr.Godown Co., Ltd, whence and/or from That started the big idea, a varia-Garvice expected me," he said.
"And the wharves delivery may be obtained- tion so amazingly effective that apeeping round the side of the house No claims will be admitted after the workmanlike job of deceptina be saw a light in the kitchen. Ought Goods have left the Godowns, and
I to inform the police?" came a masterpiece of crime.
"That's for you to say, sit. "Maybe," said he, "What's doesn't look terribly serious to me.
1983, will be subject to rent. The shopkeeper smiled reassuringly at name 7"
All claims against the steamer musi the worried little man. "Of course it be presented to the Undersigned on or "Burke," said the man. "Pat could do no harm, but I expect when before the 1st April, Burke."
1933, you get home you'll find a note they will not be recognised. "What's your work?" pursued the plaining that your friend had to go All broken, chafed, and damaged professor.
Goods are to be left in the Godowns, thanking him, the professor ambled where they will be axamined on the “Anny sort of job," returned Pat forth to the station near by. A mir-17th March, 1933, at eagerly, Tis a painter I am by ror in a shor revealing the carncat, Messrs. Goddard & Douglas
10a.m. by] trade. My boss fired me for anxious little man with the birdenge drawin' his picture on the wall of son his finger amused him intensely.ed Warehouse Regulations consiguees To comply with the General Bond- Could anyour connect that with murs must have a Revenue Onear job wo were on. Sure I meant no
in at- harm at all and me feet's nearly
* tendance The police sergeant was fatherly.
dutiable when damaged Auny wore off lookin' for work.
goods are examined. "Now, sir," he protested, "if we
No Fire Insurance has been effect- were called out every time a door belled.
phut we should have all of a
Bills of Lading will be countersign- "But the bell rang." said the pro-]
ed by
GIDA, LIVINGSTON & CO. LTD. fessor.
"Maybe your friend's having a sp".
Agents. Professor. Burtinshaw hesitated.
Hong Kong, 11th March, 1933.
job I'd be thankful of."
He saw The professor smiled. how much stronger, his position) would be if he provided not only a | satisfying explanation of the crime
but the criminal as well.
"Too late to-night," he explained mildly, "but I might find a job in the morning."
"Where'll I feed?" asked Pat. "Where'll I sleep?"
"At my home," said the professor, "I'm smashing up a cement path and I've broken my pick." note from his case.
der T
John
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"I hardly like to reveal it," he said, "but my friend has been unfortunate. He gets depressed. I went to try and cheer him up. I do beg you to inquire."
Had a murderer ever before sup-. plicated the police to vialt the scene Motor VessO! of the crime? That thought pleased him amazingly.
He positively had to produce a Lip He took a before Police-officer Malthy would go "Buy me a back with him just to set his mind Just at rest. That offleer set out feeling
like a nursery governeas. Come
Passing
hairdresser's, the pro-
good strong pick down town. the iron, I've got the handle. back to Miapah' here, I'll give you fessor remembered his umbrella, proof, la shake down and a job in the
morning."
"Shake, boss," cried Pat, offering his huge hand, "You're the whitest man I've met zince I started on the road."
The Professor watched him go. That credulous fool was bound to rome back, he reflected, and knock- led at Abraham's door.
Abraham had taken a bracer to {-celebrate victory.
“TERGESTEA"
From TRIESTE, VENICE, BRINDISI PORT SAID, SUEZ, MASSAUA, ADEN, BOMBAY, KARACHI, COLOMBO, PENANG AND SINGAPORE.
alike of an untroubled conscience and CONSIGNEEB of Cargo are hereby cholarly absent-mindedness. Also It informed that all Goods are being filled in his time-table should it ever landed at their risk into the Godowns
questioned. and his visits to the bird shon there Wharf & Godown Company, Ltd, st Between the barber of the Hong Kong and Kowloon would seem to be no interval for low- Kowloon, whence and/or from the breaking
wharves delivery by obtained.
Arrived at "Mizpah." Maltby re-
Optional Cargo will not be landed connoltred, returning silently to the here, unless notice has bean given 48
professor. waiting ir," he said. "there's carried on from port to port to the hours prior to vessel's arrival, but somdling wrong.
Go back to the final part of call to which the option station, say I found the back door extends.
No claims will be admitted after forced and there's someone in the kit- Tchen. Say I want a couple of men... the Goods have left the Godowai, and all Goods remaining undelivered after
"Come in," he said, and led the and make it ved breathless at the 22nd instant, will be subject to
way to a back parlour. "Got the money?"
"Here." The professor plaintive». ly tapped his pocket, "You're very hard on me. Are we alone?" :
"Alone?" sneered Garvice, "Yes, (and the blinds drawn."
:
The profcasor
the station. It showed his eagerness rent.
to help. Reinforcements were sent. All claim against the vessel muat "I am most anxious about poor be presented to the undersigned on at Garvice." quevered Professor Bartin- before the 1st April or they will show, holding un the stolen manus-cot be recognised. cript. "I was taking him some secre- All broken, chafed, and damaged Larial work which he would have Goods are to be left in the Godowns, found profitable. May I stay here till where they will be examined on the "May I," twittered the professor. you return?”
22nd instant, at 10 am, by our aur "satisfy myself that It is the
"Sure," spid
the inspector, and veyors, Messrs. Goddard & Douglas. original inanuscript?"
hurried out.
In the case of dutiahla cargo, Con- "You shall вес it," returned
Professor Burtinshaw deposited his signees are requested to inform the Abraham thickly, "It's in
eage, lila envelone and his umbrella Imports & Exporta Ofica that they thut
and sat down. Everything had pass. have such goods for examination. trunk."
ed of very nicely. Barke would be No Fire Insuranes has been sífect- Professor Burtinshaw beamed. The no loss to the community.
ød. police bending position at the trunk would case against him. "In the end," mus-ed by
could not fail to make ■ complete Bill of Lading will be countersign- sult his purpose excellently. His ed the professor, "the highest degree
DODWELL & CO. LTD. right hand unhooked the weapon In- of technical skill must how before the
Agenta. alde his coat.
superior intelleet of the expert pay- 'chologie." He bent to the cage. "I "There." Abraham opened the think I'll go and see what has hap lid, "There's my little Golconda, pred. Tweet, tweet, birdie."
my"!
The blow broke his neck. He collapsed with his head in the box, motionless.
picane
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He'd
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The
Hong Kong, 16th March, 1933.
LAID-UP TONNAGE IN GERMANY.
Of the whole German mercantile
Pat Burke was very grateful. He reckoned in his thick-headed way that anyone who found you down and out Strange! The professor breathless,
and treated you like a brother was a regular fellow, cold, tremulous and flereely enraged, concrete path, lie would make a fair, marine fully 30.1 per cent. or was as essentially animal as a corner de of that.
This job with tire
ad rat. He saw himself in the mantel
anything to 1,170,086 tons are at present idle. the "little mirror, wide-eyed, lips drawn back
according to atatistics published snarling, For thirty seconds, he had, ed his plates, he sat staring at an Shipowners giving the state of So he ruminated when, having wash- by the Association of German been mad, emiting, unreasoningly ec- statically bestial.
empty cardboard box on the kitchen table, awaiting his benefactor's return. German shipping at "The inherited memory of the beast He did not see P.-c. Maltby peering 1932. These figures when compar- the end of emerges at times of stress," he not at him through the window. He was ed with the returns for the begin- ed complacently, "but Pve fixed that just beginning to wonder Job all
all right."
when the The battered head confirmed thated by the entry of two police officers. Were idle, show the considerable bass would come when he was staining of 1931 when 1,009,823 tons Never could living eye bulge so star-
"Gosh!" said Pat with a grin, "you decline suffered by the shipping bare of Hd
given feller start,"
ingly
Under the flaccid bulk he found the manuscript. Except for a lazy drip from the nose there was no blood.
"That won't bother me again," said the professor, an 8
who has man swatted a ▲ bluebottle.
years,
trade during the past two policeman, pouncing on his wrists.
"Less you say the better," said The month with the highest total of idle tonnage was September last Pat laughed. "Funny?" snapped a policeman. with 35.5 per cent. Since then "Plucky funny," agreed Pat, "Cos there has been a slow but steady Stepping briskly into the kitchen be why I was naked in here. The bos improvement which is interpreted a meal. Pat should have a good in giving me a dose for the night." by interested circles as the begin- supper. There was the forced entry "He can't," said the policeman,
"You're coming with us.”
to be faked. A burglar would choose
trouble?
ning of the eagerly awaited return the back of the house. Locking him- Pat didn't worry, Why make to normality. self outside the back door, he broke it open with a claw hammer, splin tering the frame. Then, replacing the key on the inside, he went into the front hall to wait for Pat.
"You'll fall flat when the boss rolls; up to say it's all O.K,,” said he,,
At the front door they came on this inspector and Professor Burtinshaw talking in the porch.
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"My good fallow," said he, 4I've "Come along; never seen you in my life before. I've been waiting for you."
What are you talking about" “Borry, boss," said the man, blink- "What," asked Pal rosen, "you ing and grinning gap-toothed like an ain't the bloke what lives here an amiable gorilla. **"Une place tried to art me in to
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“Of course not,” Interruptedi : the | Sun. 19- he's not stung."
is lying dead in that room and I'm "Good of you," returned the profes holding you for his murder.
Mon. 20. Take "Here's your supper. You must him along, Macarthy." be ready for it"
Toes. 21 The light, Ahe ranson, faded from Fat looked
at the provision, his pass eyes. His face crumpled into face twisting in a sudden spasm.
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His watch told him that eight
Time Meridian 120 deg. E. (Zone-- minutes had elapsed since he entered "Now we'll see," crowed Fat Burke, 8); ooh. fe midnight, 12h. is noon. the house. As soon as possible after "There's the little boss. You give me Heights are referred to the datum ef Burke's return he would go to the supper and as's me in, dida ye, sl the largest scale Admiralty chart of bird shop and say that he could not didn' ye...
wasn't it the place and should be added to make anyone hear at "Mizpah.”
what Not you even a simple-minded old savant would At the amazement in the prefes 4) when they should be subtracted.
depths, unless preceded by an asterisk knock Indefinitely at a door where he sora face his voice talled off, The got no reply.
At the sound of the man's step be ment opened the door,
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"You're A Christian, boss. For two blind, dumb, insensate, semi-paralynod, Thurs. 28
days You isike off in all I've been an animal doomed to the slaughter. handed out. This makes a feller"
Ila volon broke. “God! it does.” (Continued on Page 18.)
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