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It was a long, a dreamless sleep ..for when he woke at length the sun had just gone down, the while the wind drove overhead and The Steamship dusk lay awfully upon the enormous the dry sand pricked his skin.
One face continually was near NCISCO vịa Shanghai, Japan Ports and Ronolału.
Consignees of cargo are hereby in desert, and the air was chilly. The Wednesday, 18th Oct. at 10 a.m. cold had waked him.
Quickly, as him: one pair of tender eyes; two formed that all goods are being land. Wednesday, ist Nov. at 10 am though on purpose, the red glow dear hands smoothed him; he smelted at their risk into the hazardous hazardous Godowns of ¡and/or extra faded from the sky; the first stars the perfume of hight brown hair. The Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf and His Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or from shene; it was dark; the heavens It was a natural enough. were deep violet. He looked round whole thought, in his misery, ran the wharves delivery may be obtained. No claims will be admitted after and realised that his sense of directo her in England-England where
sheltering trees, hemlock and honey- the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after tion' had gone entirely.
The Buckle in the hedges-while the the 19th October, 1933, will be subject Grent hunger was in him.
fresh grass, big to rent cold already was bitter as the wind there was soft rose, but the pain in his knee having hard black Desert guarded him, and eased, he got up and walked a little consciousness dipped away at little -and in a moment lost sight of the intervals under this dry and pitiless
To comply with the General Bond- spot where he had been lying. The Egyptian sky.......
It was perhaps five in the morn-od Warehouse Regulations consiguees shadowy desert swallowed it.
tendance when damaged dutiscie "Ah," he realised, "this is not an ing when a voice spoke and he start-must have a Kerenne Omeer
goods are examined. English field or moor. I'm in the ed up with a sudden jerk-the voice
The All broken, chafed, and damaged. Desert!" The safe thing to do was of that clairvoyante woman.
sentence Bed away into the dark- Goods are to be left in the Godow to remain exactly where he TYLS
word remained: where they will be examined on the find nees, but only thus could the rescuers
18th Oct, 1933, at 10 a.m., by Messrs. At first he wondered, butį
Goddard & Douglas. him; once he wandered he was done Water
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search-once explanation came. It was strange the party had not yet arrived. To keep effect were obvious. The clue was ad
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GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO. LTD., move, so he made a little pile of and so the thought came up into his
Agenta. stones to mark the place, and walk-mind. He was thirsty.
This was the moment when fear Hong Kong 19th October, 1933.
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Arst really touched him. Hunger
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not swallow. He Ite limped badly, and hunger was manageable, more or less-for throat could
day or two, certainly. gnawed dreadfully; but, after all,
An hour he lay there, just with the adventure was not so terrible thirst! Thirst and the Desert were The amusing side of it kept upper- evil pair that, by cumulative enough in him to choose the top of gathering since child-a mound where he could be most most still. Though fragile in body. suggestion
He lay two hours, his spirit was not unduly timid or hood days, brought terror in. Once easily seen.
be dis-three, four hours.......The heat imaginative; he could last out then the mind it could not night, or, if the worst came to the lodged. In spite of his best efforts, blazed down upon him like a fur- But the ghastly thing grew passionately nace.......The sky, when he opened worst, the next day as well.
He his eyes once, was empty......then when he watched the little group of because his thirst grew, too.
that stones, he saw
were had smoked much; had eaten spiced a speck became visible in the blue
in hundreds, thungs at lunch; had breathed
expanse; and presently another dozens of them, scores,
speck. They came from nowhere. thousands of these little groups of alkali with the dry, scorched air.
He searched for a cool flint peb-They hoveerd very high, almost out course, is thickly strewn with them.ble to put into his burning mouth, of sight. They appeared, they die- The original one was lost in the but found only angular scrape of appeared, they reappeared. Nearer were no and nearer they swung down, in Arst Ave minutes. So he sat down dusty limestone. There again. But the biting cold, and the pebbles here. The cold helped a sweeping, stealthy circles......little wind that licked his very skin be-little to counteract, but already he dancing groups of them, miles away neath the light clothing, soon forced knew in himself subconsciously the but ever drawing closer-the him up again. It was ominous; and dread of something that was com-tures.......
ing. What was it? lle tried to He had strained his ears so long) the night huge and shelterless.
The shaft of green zodiacal light hide the thought and bury it out of for sounds of feet and voices that the sight. The utter fuulity of his tiny it seemed he could no longer hear that bung AO strangely in
faded strength against the power of the at all. Hearing had censed within western sky for hours had away; the stars were out in their universe appalled him.
And then he knew. It was the Then came the water-dreams, with bright thousands; no guide was any-
The merciless sun was on the their agonising torture. He heard- where; the wind moaned and puffed sun. among the Bandy mounds; the vast way, already rising. Its return was that......heard it running in sil- ahout of Desert stretched mockingly like the presage of execution......very streams and
It came. With true horror hetgreen English meadows. It rippled upon the world; he heard the jackala
watched the marvellous swift dawn with silvery music. He heard it ery
break acrosS the sandy Bez. The splash.
He dipped hands and feet And with the jackals' cry came
AA and head in it-in deep clear pools suddenly the unwelcome realisation custern sky glowed hurriedly
crimson fires. Ridges, not of generous depth. He drank; with that no piny was in this adventure from any more, but that a bleak realty noticeable in the starlight. turned his skin he drank, not with mouth
endless series, like flat-and throat alone. stared at him through the surround- black in
Delicious! ing darkness. He faced it at bay, topped billows of a frozen
Wide streaks of blue and yellow fol Ice clinked in effervescent, spark He was genuinely
Thought fort.
gloss. "I must be calm dowed, as the sky dropped sheets hug water against blocked in him.
His of mauve light upon the wind-eaten swam and plunged. Water gushed and think," he said voice woke no echo; it was small and cliffs and showed their under sides. freely over back and shoulders, gal- dead; something gigantic ate it in- They did not advance; they waited lons and gallons of it, bathfuls and stantly. He got up and walked till the sun was up-and then they to spare; a Blood of gushing, ery-
and sank; they stal, cool, life-giving liquid................ nguist. Why did no one come? moved; they rose
The pony had shifted as the sunshine lifted them And then he stood in a beech wood Hours had passed. long age found its stable, or had and the shadows crept away. But and felt the streaming deluge of In an hour there would be no delicious summer rain upon his it run madly in another direction
shadowa any more. There would face; heard it drip luxuriantly upon He worked out possi- altogether?
be no shade.
a million thirsty leaves. The wet The bities, tightening his belt.
The little groups of stones began trunks shone, the damp moss spread || "DIOMED" cold was searching; he never had
It was horrible. The units perfume, ferns waved heavily in boen, never could be warm again: 10 dance.
broken, huge expanse dạy round the moist atmosphere. He was the hol sunshine of a few hours ago
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Unfamiliar with hardship, he blazing bell to come. Already the tain torrent, fresh from fields of Thursday 19th Oct. knew not what to do, but he took monstrous Desert glarea, each bit snow, dashed foaming past, and the his coat and shirt off, vigorously famihar, since each bit was a re-jspray fell in a shower upon his He dived-head rubbed his akin where the dried petition of the bit before, behind, on cheeks and hair. perspiration of the afternoon still either side, It laughed at guidance foremost....... Ah, he was up to the neck......and she was with him; caused clammy shivers, swung his and direction.
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The frantic thing was in him now, The voice, however, was not hers.
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it alive a blindly heaving desire in closed his eyes. There came sweet it to reduce him to its conditionless, unconsciousness.. jawful dryness. He felt-yet know- A sound in that instant was ing this was feverish, and not to be audible, though. It was a voice- believed that his own small life voices and the thud of animal The specks lay on its mighty surface, a mere hoofs upon the sand. dot in space, a mere heap of little had vanished from the sky as my. stones. His emotions, his fears, steriously as they came, And, as his hopes, his ambition, his love-though in answer to the sound, be mare bundled group of little unimi-made a movement-büt an automa- portant stones that danced with ap tid, an unconscious movement. He parent ctivity for a moment, then did not know he moved. And the were merged in the undifferentiated body, uncontrolled, fost its pre- surface underneath. He was in-carious balance. He rolled; but be eluded in a purpose greater than his did not know he rolled.
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