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THE CHINA MAIL.
A STRANGE GUIDE
(Continued from Page 7.)
had a mysterious influence on all the neta of his life.
All this talk led up to this person, At first I had thought that in cer and fizzled out in vague, obscure tain places the gorge would become threats expressed laughingly with impracticable and that we should have clenched
teeth teeth exquisitely
to leave it and take to it again higher white, and capable of biting into R recognised that the
came
bad
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up, but, proceeding by degrees, I soon silver coin. In the depths of his eyes The above named vessel having arriv- passage was al- there quivered a timid and humble an- cd, Consignees are hereby informed ways there, and also that it
it even be IMBSD BEACH the higher we went. This violent speech, but 'which eventual that delivery of their cargo must be xiety which contrasted strangely with called out to him to stop,
but my voice could not have reached him, axly won me entirely. Of this he was taken from the vessels tackle immedi Lite wind. If it had also conscious, and when I offered himately the vessel is ready to discharge shouted against
and as far as the vessel can de- same, not been for the valise I think I would You have been thinking badly of
cigar, he said:
liver.
If the Consignees fail to take de- have gone back. At last I saw him me. I am not a rascal. Come here, livery of the said goods within the time
I sitting on the ground awaiting me.
and you shall know everything." The reached him in a
humour.
We had come
and at the rate aforesaid, the vessel base of the rock had become slippery The gorge land widened here, and on
to the first anowe shall have the liberty to discharge and through a stream of water, and heline mountain all around there was not/lore the goods in Godown at the risk
and
of Consignees damaged had waited to give me a hand in casc
expense ong blade of grass. It
It was one great
All broken, chafed ruin of gigantic rocks, half smother- wwwg.
did you go away? I wish to ed in Bandy soil, humid with newly Roods are to be left on board and will
he examined by our Surveyora, Mesara.| fallen snow and the drippings from Goddard & Douglas on application. the icicles, He led me by the hand into this labyrinth until we arrived at their Bills of Lading for countersigna- Consignees are requested to send ini noy you.
12 kind of grotte formed by two
two great "Why do you leave the path so masses of rock, the points of which ture immediately. often? What are you doing roaming met overhead. He entered this cave
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Hong Kong 22nd March, 1933. package,
weighing some pounds, in torn raga. Opening it, he
have
you near me."
"I thought you seemed to prefer be ing alone, and I did not want to an
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sniff around."
"Good but don't leave me again" wred cigars and
"As you command."
tobaccos. He
I tried to start a conversation, but was a smuggler.
Descending from the Swiss aide, he now it was he who wouldn't bite deposited his merchandise in so many The sun had come cut, and he had hiding places that if any were found Laken off his coat and was carrying he would not lose all. When he had it over his arm. From his leather
belt a hatchet was suspended, an un-made up the parcel again he replaced Usual weapon for a guide.
"Why do you carry that hatchet?" "I always carry it." "For what reason 7"
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in the hole, and returned to me with a bright and trustful face. Now that his secret had been confided to me by himself he no longer had any "Soi" "He looked fixedly at me and fear.
This is
the highest store. The added: "I also have a pistol, seeguards never come as high as this
He took a short pistol with twa barrels out
of his pocket and hand-cause they know that at this height Consignees of cargo are hereby in- there are no shepherds to give the formed that all goods are being land- ed it to me, warning me that it was necessary witness and that here 1ad at their risk into the hazardous loaded.
command. And this is my field-lieu-and/or extra hazardous Godowns of
"BENMACDRUI”
I was tempted to keep it: with us tenant," he added, drawing a customs The Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf and In the mountains, nobody goes about officer's carbine from a neighbouring Godown Co., Ltd, whence and/or from armed, and pistols are weapons of Jerevico.
the wharves delivery may be obtained.
a minute,
rabid hatred
Out of this grows b To comply with the General Bond-
of the customs guards, ed Warehouse_Regulations consignees
E
In at-
luxury, reserved for joyful salvos at No peasant can ever be persuaded No claims will be admitted after weddings.
But
I reflected that if he that smuggling is a culpable action. (the Goods have left the Godowns, and had meant to make a bad use of the His moral sense does not reach to the ail Goods remaining undelivered after weapon -he would not have shown notion of the artificial rights of the the 27th March, 1933, will be subject 10 me,
me, and so I returned it without State He knows that stealing and to rent. word. After a quarter of an hour's acts of violence against his neighbour All claims against the steamer, musi walking he said to me:
jare wicked, but he cannot see why it be presented to the Underrigned on or "Excuse me, I shall be back direct should be wrong
to buy
an object before the 10th April, 1933, or they! ly. You go on,
I will rejoin you in where it is obtainable at a low price will not be recognised. two minutes."
and dispose of it where "it is
is well paid All broken, chafed, and damaged And away he went. i wanted to Ifor. The prohibition of auch a Goods are to be left in the Godowna, get rid of my doubts, so, as soon as natural action strikes him as intoler- where they will be examined on the he had gone, I followed him out of able tyranny, against which it is not 25th March, 1933, at 10a.m., by the gorge. I saw him run to a mass only allowable, but actually meritori- Messrs. Goddard & Douglas. of great rocks about ten yards away, bend down, shift two or three great to rebel. stones, moving the earth about, and then turn back. When he saw that I and the arm intention and cold-blood-must have a Revenue Offer
jed
when damaged dutiable was watching him, he frowned and reparity to shoot them if woestendance 10th Apr.
The guards know this zot very red, but recovered himself in well, and often it happens that if they
Bary.
quite goods are examined.
No Fire Insurance has been effect- meet a snuggler in a lonely spot-- |ed. "I went 19 collect the bread and unless they happen to be in sufficient Bill of Lading will be countersign- cheese which I put there yesterday, numbers, or they think the goods are ad hy
as if often roam about the mountain and of exceptional value-they act place victuals in
He concealment."
had seen nothing, and pass by Jooked me in the eyes again and add-
A Blot is ed: "You don't believe me?"
fred, and at that height
eight a corpse is
and lastingly conceal- bread I had seen him take out of hised. The guard does not
return
to on the pocket, and his uneasiness at nrters, suspicion falls doubt-shown by the fact that he had
homicide. They start in com- been watched-must have some rea-panies to search the gullies for traces
of the dead man, but it prover ad The Motor Vessel
On the high i I began to feel seriously uncomfort-visable not to find him. able. He took note of this, and im-Alps there is always some convenient mediately became jovial and talkative, loop-hole for the defending lawyer. He knew me, had asked the hotel- My guide found himself, one time, Hamburg, Rotterdam Antwerp
I was a unarmed, at the mercy of two customs Genau) consignees of cargo are hereby keeper about me, knew that
a journalist, which officers, and only escaped by a miracle-informed that all goods writer-that is,
are being must be a great profession for mak-Another time, without being
Banded and placed at their risk into the ing sacks of money. He knew the hurled a mass of great stones from a
Hazardous and/or extra hazardous 3rd Apr. f of the city and always read the height on two customs nien who were Godowns of The Hong Kong and Kow- 19th Apr.
one of them, in mak- Be also knew that I had climbing up, and one written pieces for the theatre, another ing off, dropped his carbine. gold mine! But if I would agree that "It was that carbine which I showed 1st Apr.
Hald Jacques, with a triumphant The was all right, 20th Apr. stories, and make me acquainted with
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his name when he appeared at the win-with dow and said; to-day, even if you had not wanted me. Oh, don't be alarmed. I shall not snug-
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Jacques?" The host, without moving, said: "He is at the back of the house close to the bayloft. I will come down.”
Jacques, in ons bound, was at the
I left him at Zermatt eight days agoniace indicated, and I followed him.
and he was to have returned the next
day. I only heard yesterday that he feeling my way. Before the host had
arrived had not come back. That alarms me.
he had lighted a taper, and we
It has snowed twice during these days saw a sack, tell at the top, lying on a on the peaks, and, in the summer, anow
virder.
der. It was full, but lumpy and
understood-I guess
means storm. It is very necessary that uneven. At that moment
I should search for him, but I am poored by his
the
Host
and have a large family, I cannot "They brought him in this evening-
afford to waste my days. Shall WO search together, air, will you?"
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I cannot say what supplicating Yesterday g
they went up with the shepherds
sweetness was in those words, “Bir, will you!"
----
to fetch him. To-morrow the priest will come for the last rites, Certainly I would, even at the cost
"He was sealed on the snow, his feet of spending two days at it, I could
with gangrene, black with
The pain had climb to the Piccolo Cervino andther:
him, and he stopped. The frost scized time, for there was no use in searching) gave him the gangrene in his feet - the peaks,
he had to sit down, and fell asleep." On the glacier which, scarcely touch- Jacques opened the sack, turned it of by the Theodule, rises towards the down far enough to uncover the head Breithorn, we found traces.
of the dead man. He kissed him on They are his cried Jacques, "they the mouth, made the sign of the cross are tracks of five or six days ago, and on his forehead with his thumb, then
and sald the host: one man alone. They tell me every-closed the
Back thing. I hoped he had stayed at Zar-
"Quick to supper. This gentleman is dying of hunger
of
matt if he climbed, he is dead.”
We followed the tracks for over an
to
(From "Great Italiani Short Stories,"
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