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CONSIGNEES.
THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD. COPENHAGEN.
That library must have been a de-was mad d Russians are always tight for, I can tell you, he knew sympathe with madmen.
The Danish Motor Vehiel his subject and bad spent a fortune "My be humoured me, too:
**SELANDIA. un it; so much, indeed, that he had He was honest fellow, but still having arrived from New Weat- never been able to gratify his ex-scared out his life.. All the time ninster, Aberdeen, San Francisco and treme passion for a private string he kept talking of plots and Los Angeles, consignees of cargo are hereby informed that all goods are quartette. Apart from this he was schemes get me out of Russia: being landed and placed at their riak happy, in a hermit, sedentary way, himself, of course. The idea into the hazardous and/or extra playing and poring over the scores was to k down south towards hazardous Godowns of The Hong Kong in his collection with the snow-light the Crin and the Caucasus, and and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co. outside.
then....You see the ideas? He Ltd., where delivery can be obtained.
2 soon the goods are landed. Above all periods in music he used to he and sprawl on my bed No claims will be admitted after the loved the eighteenth century; above by the r talking, of the plans goods have left the Godowns and all all musicians Mozart. And the he'd ma all the possible outlets goods remaining undelivered principal treasure of his library was and the bbable cost..
after
the 1st October, 1983, at 4 pan. will ba subject to rent.
All broken, chafed and damaged goods are to be left in the Godown, where they will be examined by September, 1933, at 10 am. Messrs. Anderson & Ashe on the 30th
be presented to the Undersigned with- in ten days of the ships arrival, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be countersign- ed by
JOHN MANNERS & CO. LTD. Agents.
a volume of Mozart manuscripts "I prided to listen; he meant which his agent had discovered in it all soil; but somehow it didn't Vienna. The purchase nearly ruin excite My brain was numb; I'd ed him; he had had to bid against left mypart behind in that room the German museums; but at last of mine As long as it excited 11 All claims against the vessel must he got them and carried them back didn't it to move. What's more, in pride to that sad country house if it carto the point, nothing could of his. He had them bound sump-move-All that I wanted to hear tuously, he told me, in elegantly was ne......news. And there tooled leather, with his armorial wasn't hy. suppose he was bearings, poor dear; on the cover. afraid jask questions. Among these manuscripts was the "Iru can tell me what's hap- Suite for Strings which contained pened my manuscripts,' I said, 'I' dias the Caucasus, Not be- The war hardly touched him, before. h not going without them." said. In the eastern part of the "At t his thick brain seemed to province there might have been no realiset he could do nothing with war, and, in any case, he was too me. had to make an attempt. old and too frail for suldiering.
He got touch with a peasant who Even the first outbreak of the Re-came to the city in one of volution left him undisturbed until]my oidhīta.
that delicious minuet
Mereshtile Bank Bldg. Hong Kong, 24th September, 1933.
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the peasants completed what the "Thawas how he spotted him. town-workers had begun. He saw The pent was a stupid fellow and his district isolated by a blood-red | much- drunk to inform against ring of fire and rapine; but still he him. house, he said, had been] The Steamship, hung on; he thought he had no looted and burnt; before they'd enemies. Then came the thing he burnt they'd carried away most CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being called the Nakaz-the peasant man- of the rniture that wasn't too landed at their risk into the hazard date. He excused himself for heavy. Good firewood, you know. ous and/or extra_hazardous Godowns troubling me with names:
As forne books, he knew nothing of The Hong Kong and Kowloon "That was the decree," he said, about'm. He wasn't interested Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., whente and/or from the wharves delivery "which abolished the landlord's in suchings. He couldn't read. ownership of land. It didn't mat **No Vladimir Mihailitch,' said may be obtained.
No claims will be admitted after ter, In the very least, to me. All I the baft, you must see reason. the Gools have left the Godawos, and. wanted was to be left to myself and Let's awhile the money lasts." all Goods remaining undelivered after my music. As for the peasants, "Ife furniture's been re- the 27th September, 1983, will be sub- *Leamer
they knew I'd never done them any moved, fold him, 'it's quite possible ject to rent.
All claims against the
harm.
that themanuscripts are still exis- must be presented to the. Undersigned "But they went mad, you know," tence. /robably they're somewhere on or before the 11th October, 1983, he went on, bis eyes widening, "quite in the strict. I shall wait here or they will not be recognized. + mad. They were like a pack of till yojind them.'
To comply with the General Bond- wolves infected with rabies. In the "Heouldn't see my point of view,ed Warehouse Eegulations consignees
most •have a
Revenue Officer in at middle of the night my bailiff-is I surse it was natural. He flew tendance When damaged dotiable that the word? came bursting into into temper with me. Quite vio-goods are examined. my bedroom. A good fellow he was lent, was! Throwing away your All broken, chafed and damaged but he was the one they'd got their life ad mine for the sake of those Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the knives into. Vladimir Mihailitch," old ta of paper! But he couldn't 26th September, 1933, at 10 a.m., by he said jump into your clothes at mo me. Of course I was mad. Messrs. Goddard & Douglas, ance; we've got to cut and run for you find those books,' I said, it. They're after both of un.will go to-morrow." Hurry up! No time to spare.' He And the weeks went by. showed me a flare in the sky; they'dney was running away like sand burnt his house already,
ian egg-boiler. He used to watch
Our
ed.
No Fire Insurance has been effect-
Bill of Lading will be counter- signed by
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD., 'Agenta. Hong Kong, 20th September, 1938.
"I lost my head. You see, I'm in such an odd way that I began not used to emergencies. Wait one suspect he was planing to rob moment, I said, 'while I get myk. 1 hid the rest of the money in manuscripta." 'Manuscripts, hely boots. I'm afraid I did him an opened it. Your manuscript right Tanid. 'Is the man mad? MoneyJustice. The poor fellow died lat-enough! "What'll you take for the
and jewels are all that matter; and, in the Crimen. ~
fot?" I said. He screwed up his for God's sake be quick!"
"Then one day he came back to black eyes: "Fifty roubles?""
*
"I tried to explain to him that the he flaming with triumph. “Vladimir "My bailiff looked cunning. You book was more valuable than any-Mihallitch, he said. I've found see, Vladimir Mihailitch, it wouldn't thing else in the house. He began hem! I've found them!'
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to storm at me. I'm a nervous man," jumped out of bed. I threw God in heaven I shouted, You know, and easily frighten my arms round his neck and kissed I'd gladly have given a thousand!' ed. 'Books?' he said. "Why, if youhim. Tell me, for God's sake, tell ""Gently, gently,' said the bailiff. get away with your skin, you'll beme,' I said.
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There's a little hole there kept by What's more, he might have picked "It was true. We could hear thelt an old Hebrew--worn clothes, brass up a few extra roubles by inform-|| voices: they were beating on the candlesticks, scrap-frón, brekening against me. No, nò, I gave |door. I ran towards the library china... God knows what rubbish the books; another, kick. "I'll give he couldn't stop me; it was all myThere he was, sitting on a pile of you fiteen," I said, "and that's life. Then came a crash of glass books: handsome books, Vladimir more than they're worth." "Make They were in, at the big window Mihailitch, in leather bindings. it twenty," twenty," says he, "and over the piano.
chance, thought I; the let me see your money." He dragged meJust A away. Just in time. Four night merest chance! So I scared the old And there he'd got me. I In woods and fields. It was Novein black spider away and had a look hadn't ■ kopeek, on me! I asked ber, and a big, moon shining, that at them. Never tell me again that him for credit. He laughed at me. 20th Oct. made the open country dangerous there's no such thing as Pro-You catch a Jew giving credit to a 27th Nov.1 nearly died before we reached vidence! If I hadn't know them by stranger! "Well, keep them for Kiev. Perhaps it would have been them a kick, to show how much I me,” I said, and I'll be back in better.
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And at that moment, that very quite right about the money but skinny... ángers: "It's a beautiful even with the money we nearly binding," he said: "a very wealthy moment, Vladimir Mihallitch,, a starved. The peasants had got theif binding." "I- laughed at him... Be- great lumbering lout of a movlik, land; it intoxicated them; they sa lieve me, Vladimir Mihallitch... came along the street with a bar no need for work. Result, nothing "I could stand it no longer row. He saw I was after some- || to eat. No, I'll say no moré about Where are they? I broke in. thing, and wanted to see what it that. You've heard all this before Where are they? It was life and was, These fellows are full of 'm not the only one.
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