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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1933,
LLOYD TRIESTINO ESCAPE
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had belonged to it ever since he Drinks! Would he have a drink? first came to London, more than No, certainly not: Marrable knew thirty years ago. He was a crea-well enough that he never took ture of habit. He knew that he anything. He was aware, in the could not manage to exist now inner recesses of his brain, of a without dropping in there at tea-curious glowing heat. He could time and having a rubber or two see it with his mind eye tiny afterwards, with a night, out on red spark deep down. Parhaps it Thursdays, when he stayed to dine was as well that he had settled to informed that all Goods are being CONSIGNEES of Carre are hereby) and played on till about eleven. go into the nursing-home the next landed at their rink into the Godowns It was Thursday afternoon." The day. Otherwice-probably : this of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf last Thursday, before his operation was just how those things happen- and Godown Company, Lid, at Kow- --perhaps the last Thursday he ed. After all, a murderer as dot, whence and/or from the wharves
delivery may be obtained. would ever spend thore. The next a different being from the ordfa- Optional Carro will not be landed day he had to go to the nursing ay man: he was often merely one hers, unlzan notice has been given 48 roem, and it must be confessed the of ourselves who had been pester-hours prior" te vessel's arrival, & but did not like the thought of going ed and bothered until be simply carried
on from
call to which the option axtenda to think of it more than he could until something went cr-rrack 'In No claims will be admitted after the help, but it kept recurring. They his head, as his own had gone. Goods have left the Godown, and al would keep him there a day or two, Well, if Marrable meant to stay 16th inst. will be subject to rent. :
Goods remaining undelivered after the "getting him ready" for the knife, he would have to go home, that was as though he were some sort of all. In his present state, be said sacrifice; and then one morning to himself, he simply could not stand they would wheel him into the it. Of course his last evening had operating-room and stick stupefz-been wrecked, but that was only ing things into his mouth or over what he might have expected. Mar his goss, and do what they liked rable was absolutely certain to come with him when he was all uncon in just that very night of all others: acious. And then-he might wake he might have known it. The sound up again or he might not. And if of his voice behind him was almost he did, there was always the ter- more than he could bear. He was rifying thought that he might conscious that he could not keep the awake to horrible agony-and muscles of his face completely under death. If he was going to die ha control. Sellar, his partner, he (would 'rather die without coming thought was looking at him rather round at all. But he did not want arrowly. And as he dealt the cards to die. He had always hated he could see his hand shaking. death.
"I'm on the verge," Fontifex said Still, it was Thursday, and by the to himself, "absolutely on the edge luck of things he had got just the of a breakdown. I wonder what I sort of rubber he liked. A plen- ought to do."
had flown off and was lying in the Wednesday, 4th Oct. at 10 a.m.sant four, if they could keep it He started to walk back from the gutter. Marrable was quiet enough Wednesday, 18th Oct. at 10 am. from being broken up by intruders club along the Embankment, slip since that silly pretence of being a now. Not a sound had he uttered Perhaps the last evening's bridge ping away quietly at the end of a Wednesday, 1st Nov. at 10 am he would have for a long while: rubber, with Marrable still sitting
policeman. Dams him! possibly the last he would ever there and making a nuisance of him- He became suddenly conscious of have. It sent 8 cold shiver self all round. How blessed it was the knife still grasped in his hand. through him when he thought of to get out into the open air all by it was as though it stung him, like And how quiet it was a snake, and he hurled it out over himself! He could not help saying some there! Cleopatra's Needle, and the the parapet into the river with a thing, after winning the first rub Belgian memorial opposite. Surely gesture of repulsion. That was the ber, about that being his laat night that woman's neck was ridiculously luck of the thing, too; just the sort for some little time. They were all long!) How well he remembered of thing that would happen to him most sympathetic, and he was the Zeppelins coming over!. He had of all people-that he should have tempted to go Info details a little watched one of them from his win-boen holding that knife, ready in (minimising it all, of course, in a dow up in the Temple there, with its shaft, at the precise moment Ho Kalf-humorous way) when he was all the shelfs bursting round her when Marrable came along.
ware suddenly of that hated voice silvery, cigar-shaped thing caught just had to strike out at him. The jjust behind him. It gave him quits in the beam of a dozen searchlights: purest nervous reflex action. But→ ja start, for he had nover heard Just such another night as that. they would hardly be likely to ac-
Marrable come in.
He learned against the parapet and cept that if they got him in the "What Old Ponty going to have looked down to the smoothly flowing dock, with some parchment-faced jan operation? Hope it'll improve river. Something pressed against old judge sitting to try him, Mur- his bridge, chi Say, that's not his chest, and he felt in his pocket der-they would call it. 'Murder! bad idea. Never heard of a man for the cause. Of course! be had Pontifex felt he could not stay having an operation to improve his quite forgotten it-the Swedish there another moment on any con- bridge before, did you?”
knife that his nephew had wanted sideration. He was seized with a And he cackied in his silly, high-for a birthday present: he had look panic. Fortunately, there was not pitched voice, while the others ed in at Thampson's and bought it 2 soul in sight-unless that was a laughed. That was one of the only a few minutes before going to figure of a man in the distance things that irritated Pontifex so the club, meaning to send it on from slinking along by the other side of much-the immunity of the beast there. Well, it would have to be the road, towards Charing Cross.
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from the common laws of civilised, sent from his rooms now-or the His instinct was to run-run away life. The other men never seemed nursing home. Murderous-looking as swiftly as he could-before any- to think he was saying anything things, those Swedish knives! You one appeared. He took two or three Jungentlemanly, or likely to be re-opened them out and stuck them in steps, but no! it would never do to sented. Even Sellar, who was his that solid wooden handle and they be seen running, especially at that partner, gave a sort of chuckle, and were firm as a rock. You could stab hour. The first policeman who saw said something about the only a man with a thing like that. Just him would obviously wonder whist [operation thes was likely to im-as well, perhaps, that he had not was up, and stop him, and begin prove some players be knew. remembered it a few minutes ago at to ask questions. What he had to These fellows did not seem to the club. If it had been ready in do as to get back to his rooms in the realise that Bridge was
Temple as soon as possible without
game his hand-like that-
demanding intense concentration A hand clapped him roughly on attracting attention. He would of all the faculties-if you pretend the shoulder, giving him such a turn up the next dark street and get led to play at all.
start that for a moment he went into the Strand, where there was "Sorry, partner," he said," "Offquite dizzy. Then came Marrablo's always traffic enough to make a man course I had it sitting. Such a row voice.
inconspicuous. And, by the grace of going on I simply couldn't think," "Now. then, none o' that. Will God he reached the Strand, up the "Ponty, old man, that's a rotten, you come along quiet, or shall I 'ave next street, without meeting anyone 18th Sept. excuse, and you know it" Mar to tyke yer?" And then that high, at al 3rd Oct.rable spoke in a sort of high- cakling laugh. **.
There was Big Ben striking. It\}} pitched chuckle, as though he' were
It was the laugh that finished was only ten o'clock yet. A few iramensely amused. For one mo him. He could not stand that noise.minutes before he had been sitting ment Pontifex was aware of a sud: It oppressed him as 22nd Sept den blurring of the sight, as actual physical pain
though at the bridge-table playing a rubber, had abot with Marrable close behind him. Why 20th Oct. though a film had come over his through him, spurring him to sud-should he not go back there? He eyes. He saw the room through a den action. He turned and leapt at wanted company. Besides, It might russet cloud. His fingers twitch the man like some wild animal. As possibly be useful if he got back ed. Suppose now just suppose he he leapt he fancied be could hear a in time to cut in again for the next 6th Oct. prang at the man suddenly, from sort of snarling cry of rage; it rubber, No one had seen him go behind, when no one was there, sounded quits outside himself, and out, so far as he knew at the 7th Now and got his hands once firmly on yet he felt, somehow, it proceeded Camisis the hall porter was often that bulging neck, and held on! It from his own mouth. Marrable, away from his post at that hour of seemed to him he could feel the compared with himself, was a big, the night; he might easily be able vaat bulk of the man struggling powerful man; but the attack took to slink in again and hang up his underneath him at drstand him so much by surprise that, he hat and pretend he had only gone then gradually growing still. Oh, went over with hardly a struggle or into the other room when they had 5th Oct yeal he could be trusted to hold on a sound. His arms went up and cut him out. At any rate, he would waved in the air as he tried fran- be in the light and the company of The cloud. before his eyes faded Hically to maintain his balance: then his fellows. He turned round. “ 19th Bepl
All Och slowly. He came to himself his foot seemed to catch in some Of course, at the worst, it was all That must be what they meant thing and he went over backwards, an accident. He had never meant to when they spoke of "sssing red," Fentifex on the top of him. He Had kill him,» The merest outbreak of he thought. Well, there was a rad- got a firm grip of his collar with nervous irritation and no wonder 20th Sep dish tinge about that murtis reel his loft hand at that fret leap, and
2nd Oct. sensation of colours. And it was with his right, holding the B
Foat And End Oct.exactly as though something had knife, he stabbed twlos, ferpaly; 24th Sept gone in his head. He could almost they by on the pave
{hear the anhpky With It wantahad, could revalled In the
21st Sept
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10th Oct. In moment, all the old Inhibi- woul 17th Baptions the defensive, walls of civili, stop 24th. Bapt. sation that had been growing inp round him alnce the days of his chlidhood. He sormad to see. down into his real self-and- jiy, different wolf from say, he known before, CLEA WWith
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