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From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON ---AND STRAITS
nis.diary (Continued from page 7.) there. He tries, as
shows, to find some analogy to the One Tree Hill was a place adapted kind of operation he contemplates. to mediation of the distressful Riotous phrases are scribbled about. kind. On clear days one could look He is "playing pranks with Experi- for miles away on to the northern ence," "setting Life's alarum," or
metaphysical false heights across all the sounding gulf "probing that lay between, and even when the bottom." Altogether it is evident The Steamship, a
“BENVORLICH" fog hung heavy in the valley one that he found considerable dificulty was still able to consider the bistre in explaining to himself in any set CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby affiction of sad sister hills looming terms the exact nature of his informed that all Goods are being
"experiment"
landed at their risk into the hazard- (dimly through the murk.
Again and again would Mr. Ham- That experiment (we have it from ous and/or extra bazardous Godowns mond take his seat here beside Sir Windrop himself) be conducted of The Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf & Godowa Co, Ltd., whence a little tree, and wonder over his with calm and deliberation. "Wind/or from the wharves delivery
remember adventure as his gaze wandered toni," he said, "do you
may be obtained. over the tumbled sea of what you were telling me the last No claims will be admitted after over here? Rather an the Goods have left the Godowns, and London. Somewhere. In the dis time I was tance under the shrouding mist the interesting case I thought it all Goods remaining undelivered after House stood. Sitting up there, and seem to have forgotten a good deal the 26th August, 1933, will be subject looking out to the dim north-east, about it though. Tell it me again."
All claims against the stemmer
he seemed to feel it returning his Sir Windrop, a heavy man with almost be presented to the Undersigned regard like a hiding, watchful thing. mind of elephantine gait, considered on or before the 9th September, 1933, All broken, chafed and damaged A mile away it might be, or two, or ponderously as he poured out a glass or they will not be recognized. three, he knew not where yet very of port and viewed it with one eye Goods are to be left in the Godown, surely as his glance swept over the screwed. "Yes," he said. "Yes, I where they will be examined on the "25th August, 1983, at 10 am, by limitless drab expause he felt that remember it. It was like this.... out there, buried and covered in The guest thought: "This is silly. Mesra Goddard & Douglas
comply with the General Bond- the midst of all that baffling en- I can't cheat Experience like this ed Warehouse Regulations consignes tanglement of winding streets, the My idea is that with all the points must have a Revenus Officer in a
the engine will tendance when damaged, dutiable windows of the House looked out set the same way Like the eyes of an ambushed crea-always travel along the same lines. goods are examined.
No Fire Insurance has been effect But I can't get all the points set ed.
Bill of Lading will be counter- The whole adventure seemed to the same way. him so unreal and fantastic that he "There are hundreds of 'em, signed by,
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD. had not mentioned it to a living thousands, millions. Yet p'r'aps
Agents. soul. One is, perhaps, to under-some only are essential--my parti
Hong Kong, 18th August, 1838. stand that fifty years of spiritual cular emotional tone, I expect. Now, desiccation nad rendered Noble In-last time I was here I was thinking. timacy almost impossible to Mr. about when I was a little boy, and Hammond.
a long, black hearse when Nurse)
fure.
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It is a weakness of such natures died (I must make a note of that) to keep diaries, often displaying a]. .. lamentable introspective power, and]
Sir Windrop Winton leant over Mr. Hammond's journals were and tapped on his guest's shirt- doubtless of this description. The front. "I tell you," said he, "it is Motor Vessel, notes that he had made in the taxi-so. You may agree with me, or, of may not, but it was drive to One Tree Hill be carefully course, you revised and rearranged. He became most undoubtedly a case more and more conscious that he precise description. I should swear had undergone a unique and pro-lit on my death-bed." bably valuable mystical adventure: |
of that
"Yes," said Hammond, dreamily,
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In particular, the blank in his re-"such a nice death-bed. A brown membrance of what had happened blanket with funny figures on it like CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby an that astonishing night was alto- little men marching. They covered informed that all Goods are being gether
with a white landed at their risk into the Godowns inexplicable. It grew her over, of course,
perfectly of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf steadily clearer that whatever might sheet when she
and Godown Company, Ltd, at How- have occurred in the grey house was dead something out of line with ordinary Under the weighty disapproval of loop, whence and/or from the wharter Optional Cargo will not be landed fact, something parallel to it per- Sir. Windrop, and no longer think-delivery may be obtained.
Circum- here, unless notice has been given 48 one with it noring of laying traps for haps, but neither contrary to it; a kind of vacuum instance, he walked out into the night hours prior to ressel's arrival, but Experience, as ne phrased it to him- and strode quickly down the pave carried on from port to port to the was blowing, al port of call to which the option
extends. self. How, he asked, could he ment. A cold wind justify or refute this astounding and it caught Hammond's neck-wrap conviction? How, if the House so that the ends flapped streaming really existed, could be work his past his 'ears.
Anal
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown, and al Goods remaining undelivered after the 22nd fast, will be subject to rent.
All claims against the vessel most
be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 1st Sept., or they will not be recognised.
way back to it, step by step, through Again an ineffable sense of nigh all the mazy turns by which it had elation caught his spirit, and under been left?
the windy, starlit heavens his mind His first scheme smacked of the seemed to flash back into that
All broken, chafed, and damaged rather obvious and uninspired mysterious, breathless state of won Goods are to be left in the Godowns, methods of the detective. The der and airy trance. Only once or where they will be examined on the at 10 am by our sur notes that he had made had been twice before had he struck it-a 22nd instant written in a violently jolting car, state that lay full of childhood revora. Mesara Goddard & Douglas.
In the case of dutiable cargo, Con- So much appeared quite plain and memories and pulsed all aglow with
signees are requested to inform the matter-of-fact; could ne, thought the vibrant joy of one who lights Imports & Exports Once that they Hammond, by noticing the way in suddenly and unexpectedly upon which nis pencil had scrawled out something long lost.
have such goods for examination
No Fire Laurance has been effect-
by Bill of Lading will be countersign-
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of Cavendished tions of the turns that the car had towards the bottom made as
being Square, and reached the spot where the notes were
before he had found the taxi. A written?
Slight reflection showed that this sudden dismay came upon him as he noticed that nothing was to be seen plan was utterly impracticable.
As the impossibility of discover-of the strange vehicle or its driver. ling the House became ever more Had he omitted too much? Were apparent the strange fascination the circumstances too dissimilar for that it held for him increased, and history to repeat itself? No, that
Time Meridian 120 deg. E (Zone--| with it the conviction that he had was his old, wrong idea, ridiculously stumbled into an experience of the naive and crude, born only of a 3): coh. is midnight, 12h. Is noon. 16th Sept highest mystical significance.
moment's madness, the idea of trap-Heights are referred to the datum of It was nearly three weeks after ping Experience as one might trap the largest scalp Admiralty chart of his adventure that Hammond's idea a hare or a mole. It was the mental the place and should be added to
depths, unless preceded by an asterisk|||||| came to aim. He had been whirled state that set the cue, that counted,) when they should be subtracted. 22nd Aug 22nd Sept. away to the grey house on the night and that alone. Other conditions of the seventh, and this was the were adventitious and unessential. twenty-sixth. He was standing in Yet, no taxi. his little plot of lawn, in Calthrop-
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As quickly as it had arrived his
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gardens looking at the last yellow dismay was ended. Behind him, leaves fluttering from the trees creeping swiftly, with a curious 6th Sept. 6th Oct. when suddenly the thought occur-absence of noise, came nosing a long,
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red to him; · “Why try to work black taxi with a tall figure at the Tues. backwards to the House from One steering wheel. He wondered whewed, 23 18 181 18 27 99 burn from June to sporth China Forts and Japan and re- Tree Hill Why not set out from ther the driver wore the the original starting-point in Queen wrinkled mackintojh, and Anne-street?" Assuredly, having those were flapping scarves that he lost his first arrow, he must shoot could make out streaming from the Fri.
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that, dropping in upon its tide at the seemed to open to him spontaneous- psychological second, he should pass y and be found himself sunk inside once more through those strange and upon the cushions. Quickly the bewildering things that he bat half door slammed to, the driver threw in the clutch, and the queer blinds remembered.
With a feeling of high elation he fell, plunging him into darkness. purchased a pound's weight of small Again. They were off.
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