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THE CHINA MAILA
The Screaming Skull
(Continued from page 7.) somehow I cannot bring myself to
shake out the bit of hard stuff_my. self. The mare. idea that it may be Christian jaw, and ought of fortable, yet I've got the conviction lead makes me confoundedly uncom decent burial, wherever the rest of that shall know the body might be. I fold him that chal certainly know, I'm sure Tre before long 1 doctors often put bones into quick-hearn knows.
CONSIGNEES.
LANCASHIRE SHIPPING CO. LTD.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
Steamer,
“BOLTON CASTLE »* lime to whiten them nicely, and I'll go upstairs now and ret k. FROM ANTWERP & PORTS.". that I supposed Dr. Prott had once
What? You had better go with met had a little lime pit in the garden bat do you think I'm afraid of CONSIGNEES of Carry are hereby
a bandbox and a noise? Nonsense} for that purpose, and had forgot- Bother, the candle, it won't light! landed at their risk, Into the Godown
informed that all Goods are being ten the jaw. Trehearn looked at As if the ridiculous thing understood of the Hongkong and Kowloon Whar me quietly,
what it's wanted forl Look at that and Godows Company, Ltd., at- Kow "Maybe it fitted that skull that enough for my pipe. There, do you delivery may be obtained.
the third match They light fant
whance and/or from the wharem used to be in the cupboard-up-ses? stairs, sir" he said. "Maybe Dr. tin safe where L keep the supply of bag, unless, Bodice has been given
fresh box, just out of the
Optional Cargo be landed Pratt had put the skull into the account of the dampness. lime to clean it, or something, and damp, de yout
think the wick of the candle may be hours prior to vessel's arrival, but
・be fearried on All right I'll light anal port
port to port to tas when he took it out he left the the beastly thing in the fire.
of call to
to which the option lower jaw behind. There's some That won't go out, at all events. human hair sticking in the lime, Kos, grow, fe burns just likes Goods maining undelivered after the No claima will be admitted after the it splutters bit, but it will have left the Godown, and all Bir
one in my
Jet
Ob, sod
extends.
from
29th inst will be subject to rent
All claims, against the vessel murt
be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 8th Jane, or they will not be recognised.
broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns,
If he did not suspect something,
any other candie, doem't it?
You think I had better leave you why in the world should he have the candie and take the lamp, do suggested that the jaw might fit you? I don't like to carry lamps the akull? Besides, it did. That's
about, that's the truth. I never drop but I have al- proof that he knows more than he ways thought I cares to tell. Do you suppose he You may as well Anish that glass where they will be examined on the looked before she was buried ? Or while I'm getting it, for I don't mean 29th instant at 10 am, by our sur
you off with less than thres perhaps when he buried Luke in glasses before you go to bed. Yon Goddard & Doug La the same grave
won't have to go upstairs, either, for
the case of datiable cargo, Coo "Well, well, it's of no use to go I've put you in the old study next ni pignons, are requested to inform the
I said I would surgery-—that's where I live my have such goods for examination. Jover that, ls it?
Imports & Exports Office, that they] keep the jaw with the skull, and I friend to sleep upstairs now.
self. The
fact is, I never ask
No Fire Insurance has been effect took it upstairs and fitted it. info Yes, I'm off now unless the candle (ed. its place. There's not the slightest goes out. As if there were anything doubt about the two belonging to be afraid of! If I were scareded by gether, and logether they are.
should tell you so quite frankly, and get you to go upstairs with me.
the
*
*
Trehearn knows several things. We were talking about plastering the kit chen a while ago, and he happened very carefully, so as not to disturb Here's the box. I brought it down le remember that it had not been it, poor thing. done since the very week when Mrs, shaken, the jaw might get separated You see, if it were] Prait died. He did not say that the from it again, and I'm mason must have left some lime on
the
dire
Yes, the candle went out as I was coming downstairs,
Bill of Lading w will be countersley,
DODWELL & CO., LTD.
Agusta. Hong Kong, 22nd May, 1933.
you
AUSTRALIA AT THE FAIR.
Australian Traders Agency Display. MAINLY PROVISIONS.
it was the very same lime he had but that was
e place, but he thought it, and that wouldn't like that. found in the asparagus pit.
the draught from the Haleaky window on knows & lot. Trehearn is one of your you hear anything? Yes, there was
landing. the
Did silent beggars who can put two and another scream. And I pale, two together. That grave is very say? That's nothing. My heart is near the back of his cottage, too, and Ele
queer sometimes, and I went
do
the
he's one of the quickest men with a upstairs too fast. spade
I ever saw. If he wanted to know the truth, he could, and no one was not from the skull, for I had the Wherever that shriek came from, it elee would ever be the wiser unless box in my hand when I heard the stand is situated opposite The chose to tell.
The Australian Traders' Agency's What is awful to think of is Luke's proved definitely that the screams are entrance doors to the Australian
noine, and here. it is now; so we have deliberation, if he did it; his cool produced by something else. I've no section. Although the firm repre certainty that no one would find him doubt I shall find out some day what sents many Australian export lines, out; above, all, hin nerve, for that must have been extraordinary.
piakes them.
Some crevice in the it will concentrate on ahqwing pro- sometimes
wall, of think it's bad enough to
edures, or a crack in a chim. live in the place where it was done,
or a think In the frame of visiona.
That's the
way all ghost Australian Traders' Agency act
If it really was done, I always put stories end in real life. Do you know, as representatives of 21 Interstate the condition. you see, for the sake Jolly glad thought of going up four millera, covering a multitude
of his memory, and a little bit for and bringing it down for you to see of brands, many of which
22nd June my own sake, too. 19th July
for that last shriek settles the ques- I'll go upstairs and feich the
box tion. in a minute, Let me light my pipe; been
To think that I should have well known here there's no barry! We had supper poor akull could really
o'clock.
aare
Bo weak 45 to fancy that the A good show is being made of sil carly, and it's only half-past nine ring thing! and ducts, and in this section house- ly cry out like a Scarletts canned and other pro Now A Abing happened that made meiake it out and look at it under the wives will see
open the 7th June start a little when I found that the bright light. It's rather awful to them. 6th July Jaw fitted exactly.
much to interest Goods shown consist of all Jurt when I had set the jaw in its think that the poor lady used to sit classes of canned and other pro- place under the skull the teeth C. in just the same light, InVisions, including canned and fresh
in your chair, evening after ed sharply on my finger. It felt actly as if t
it were biting me hard, mind that it's all rubbish from begin tomato sauces, all canned meats in- But then-I've made up my fruits, vegetables soups, pickles, And I confess that I jumped before ning to end, and that it's just an old cluding sausages, pork, rabbit, I realised that I had been pressing skull that Luke had when he was a camp pie etc. the jaw and the skull 5th June my other land. I assure you I
Logether with student; and perhaps he put it into 5th July not at all nervous. It was broad day-could not find the
was the lime merely to wh
whiten it, and
19
concentrated fruits, light, too, and a fine day, and the
jaw.
which are being exported now to all sun was streaming into the bast bod-
made acal on the string, you room.
It would have been absurd to 60, after I had put the law in itate of the world, will be well in
evidence. nervous,
place, and I wrote on the cover, And it
Enquiries will be mintaken impression, but it really from the milliner's, addressed to Mrs.
was only a quick There's the old white label on it still, welcomed at the Fair. mede mc fed
Somehow it Pratt when the hat was sent to her, 1st June of the coroner's jury on Luke's death, the edge: "A skull, once the property
made think of
of the funny verdict and
diet and as there was room I wrote on NEW VENTILATION 20th June "by the hand or teeth of some per- of the late Luke Pratt, M.DIN
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son or animal unknown." Ever since don't quite know why I wrote that, that I've 25th May marks on his throat, though the low-plaining how the thing happened to Swedish-American 20,000|||--PATROCLUS: 7 Jun Karmilie London, Hotterdam, Glangow
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er jaw was missing then.
I can feel it now. It was exactly wondering sometimes what sort 28th May as if it were alive and were trying hat it was that came in the bandbox. I cannot help 4th June to bite me. It would if it could, for what colour was it. do you think? I know-it hates me, poor thing! Do Was it a gay spring hat with a bob- 1st June you suppose that what rattles about hing feather and pretty ribanda burg, has carried out alterations to
Scalde really a bit of lead? Well,
The Gotavergen A. B., Gothen-
I'll get the box down presently, and Btrance that the very same box the accommodation of the 20,000-
If whatever it happens to drop out
hold the head that wore the ton twin-screw motorship Kungs cry-perhaps. Nowe made up our
into your hands, that's your affair If it's only clod of earth or minds that it just came from the hoa. holm, owned by the Swedish Ameri- pebble, the whole matter would be of me. It's far better to look at it in
pital in London where Luke did his can Line. my mind, and I don't believe I should that light, Lan't 117. There's no more and ventilating system has been ins- lever think of the skull again; but connection between that skulltalled: Blohm & Voss, Hamburg,
The latest: Thermo-Reg beating|| BOOK
Mrs. Pratt than there was be tween my story about the lead and built the weasel in 1928, the ma
Good Lord! Take the lamp-don't
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ale That won't open again, for the room after the' ydsdow, was burat penye Bill of Lading.
heard the
up the bar. Good dodge, an open? Oh yes, so did 1, but that Fold-fashioned. I bashere's nothing like was natural enough. when everything
It. Now, you find the bandbox while was open. Of course we Flight the lamp. Confound those wind. What could .one
meet to wretched matches! Yes, pipe cepiti Look here, please. I w
better-It, wist light. In the free that the real ir Intact before we
Want You! thought of thank you open the box together. Will
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of the molto easily, “Bwort And low": That's the rst time I have ever that's because the known the wind to burst that window "Wind of the Western 2005 DETA upeny but it was partly carelessnock "blow him agail to me, and all that. on my part when I. last that it-Tex: Here the heal" on my watch-chain
course I heard the scream
of
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