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THE CHINA MAIL.
Fate The Eavesdropper
(Continued from page 7.)
"Idiot!" wan
his friend's com ment. "Your Fate is no fencer if she fancies she can make a button drop off!"
CONSIGNEES.
CONSIGNEES NOTICE.
SEA STEAMSHIP CO.
"Touche!" gasped Marten "You've The Steamship, got me this time . . . old man!”
"Frank for Heaven's sake He lifted off his friend's mask.
"KILNSEA”
"Oh, my God!" sald Agnew again having arrived from Antwerp and "Here let me
And he Forts of call, Consignees of Cargo
"It can't
Bee..
er
NO
delivered
"One Dever knows," retorted began with shaking hands to undo are hereby notified that their goods. are being landed and placed at their Wednesday, 6th Sept. at 10 a71. Į
risk into the Hongkong and Kowloon Wednesday, 4th Oct. st 10 am. Agnew, putting on his own mask, the buttons of the fencing-jacket.
... be much," said Mar- Wharf and Godown Company's Wednesday, 18th Oct. at 10 am and they fell on guard.
ten jerkily. But his face, under the downs at Kowloon, where The foils dicked and flickered in sweat of combat, was of a queer may be obtained as soon as the goods
Landed
will be admitted · after the strong light as the confict went pallor, Agnew's ingers, clumsy are
have let the Godswns, with haste, struggled with the in-the remaining undelivered to and fro with thude of the numerable buttons up the left side and all fighters' soft-soled shoes and now of the jacket, which seemed as if after Friday, 1st September, 1933, and then an exclamation. Harten, they would never unfasten; his eyes All broken, shafed, and damaged
will be subject to rent the better fencer of the two, and all the while hold by the stain Goods are to be left in the Godowne,
examined on. seldom touched, never in their fre surrounding that tiny square hole where they will be
on the breast. But, though the Thursday, 31st August, 1999, ■ 10 quent bouts found Agnew an esay
up so am. by our Starveyors Mesars. Ander- white surface showed It opponent, for he had endurance and horribly, it did not seem
and Aaha [pertinacity, and, when he did get
To comply with the General Band- ed Warehouse Regulations consigneça | home there was usually no doubt,preading.
Revenue Officer in about the hit. At the end of five "Don't be in such a... blue must have
attendance when damaged diable minutes or so the combatants stop funk!" went on Marten, with an at- goods are examined.
All claims ped as though by mutual agreement, tempt at laughter; and added, much
must reach and took off their masks, both some more faintly: "Fate... you were Friday, 8th September, 1933, or they
will not be recognized... what out of breath.
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Agnew gave. a short choking "By George, you've no light hand. laugh. He had forgotten their con-signed by old chap," remarked Marten, laugh-versation. "Yes." he returned, with ing, as he rubbed the top of his another spasm of merriment, "the right arm.
cured thing has broken. some way "I'm awfully sorry," returned his above the button-That was the assailant penitently. "It was very downstairs door; someone's come clumsy of me to hit you there." in!"
"Ob don't apologise. You're fully difficult to keep out, you know.! [Have you kept count of the bits?"
"Three against me
and
two against you,"
"No, no! You can't stand "The Danish Motor Vessel "Sure? I thought you got me Agnew was now three times?""
•
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"Nonsense--there's nothing much Hamburg consignees of CENTO five minutes!"
bereby informed
that all wrong only the shock; I'll drive are "Not if I can help it," retorted home and no one will know not risk into the hazardous and/or being landed and placed at Marten; "but come on them." And an accident. Give me a hand!" extra hazardous Godowns of The Hong they began again.
And, setting his teeth, he scrambled Kong and Kowloon Wharf Godown
Co. Lid where delivery can be obtain Scarcely a minute had elapsed be-painfully to his feet and stood un- fore Agnew, after parrying an at- certainly with Agnew's arms rounded soon as the goods are landed.
No claims will be admitted after the tack in sixte, disengaged and got him.
goods have left the godowns and all
In a neat riposte. "One" he ex- The footsteps, which had paused goods remaining undelivered after the claimed as Marten recovered. They on the landing below, could now be 2nd September, 1933, 4 p.m., will be
mounting the last subject to rent. both laughed, and stood an instant heard briskly
until Agnew flight of stairs.
All broken, chafed and damaged with dropped points
goods art to be left in the Godown, uddenly took the offensive with "You can't stand," reiterated where they will be examined by Iconsiderable vigour, whereupon Agnew in despair. "It's madness, Messrs. Anderson & Asha on the lat
there ensued an encounter which ajand what does it matter?"
September, 1933, at 10 a.m. maitre d'armes might have consider- But Marten paid no heed, "TI jed a trife too much of a scrimmage.it in the corner there... switch It terminated only as Agnew drove off that light he won't see. his point home with force fair and You send him off sharp." square
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on his opponent's breast. It was sorely against Agnew's "Two!" he called out triumphantly. better judgment but there was no by
But, even as he shouted, he won-time to argue. To gether they got [dered why the supple blade should to the bench in the recess by the shorten inatead of bending-why he gas-love. Marten sank down on it should feel none of the familiar with his back to the door; and apringy resistance; the foil was Agnew had scarcely withdrawn his scarcely curved and yet... He re-hand from the switch before the revealed the covered as quickly as he could, but door opened and
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ROLLAR-SKATING TOLL
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5th Sept.
the end of the foil seemed caught. smiling face of M. Lablanc, the club 5th Oct,
Was Marten playing a trick, holding fencing-master, la over coat and lit...
for he had put up his left bowler. Hardly knowing what he 3rd Sept.
hand to mark the hit ... was Mardid, Agnew took a few steps to-1,000 Casualties In Central Park 19th Sept.
ten....
wards him.
?
"Marten, Marten, what is it?" he "Ah, bonjour, messieurs!" said 1st Sept. cried in a sudden agony of horror the Frenchman gsily. "Vous faites 20th Sept. and fear. For Marten's foll had done assaut 7**
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A summer madness prevalent in clattered to the floor, and he him- "Yes," answered Agnew, and the form of roller-skating is add- 8th Sept.self, with his chia thrown up, was tried to add something else, but his ing handrede daily to the lists of reeling backwards; his right hand tongue was dry against his palate, major and minor casualties in
"Bon!" The little twinking eyes Central Park here. out, cluthing at the empty air. 10th Sept.
Then, with a sound like a sob, he went round the room. "Mais M.! 3rd Sept. swayed sideways, dropped heavily Marten, qu'est-ce qu'il a?”
"Marten? (to the floor, struggled up on one
Nothing. 7th Sept. elbow and sank back again. Next resting."
instant Agnew's eyes fell on the end But even with the light above
Members of the local police of his own foil, which he was still him extinguished, the attitude of
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**Tiens! il 器 Pair d'etre bien number of serious fractures is
alarming. fatigua!"
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"No," stammered Agnew. "No- not this evening."
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