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THE MIGHTY WATER
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"The flood will come," he pre- sently announced. "When it does come it will be a bad flood. I must go up the valley to see what is the; matter."
His wife was afraid for him. he should meet the flood-but Cas-
saved herself by going to the rescue of her mother.
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"And now I must warn the people them believe me, whether they will
avery one of them. I must make Chartered Motor Vessel
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for not.
I must tell them all to $9 From TRIESTE, VENICE, BRINDISI. up on to the hills and stay there till the great water has gone by,”
PORT SAID, SUEZ, MASSAWAH, That was his task, and he gave ADEN, KARACHI, BOMBAY COLOM par, knowing the danger, neverthe-his day to it. He did not even stop, BO, PENANG & SINGAPORE via less insisted upon going.
as he passed, to climb the hillock to his own house.
here.
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CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby could informed that all Goods are being the landed at their risk into the Godow
"The danger," he said, "is not for. me only, but for all the valley. I must find out what has happened in not say-It must break down
Presently-bow soon be order that I may warn the valley dam that held it back, and sweep, of the Hongkong and Kowloon Whart But, as for you, you must not stay like a huge tidal wave, down the and Godowa Company, Lad, at Kow. you would be afraid. Besides, there prepared for it.
Though you would be safe, narrow channel which Nature had, whence and/or from the wharves
delivery may be obtained. So he strode on, Is your mother."
Optional Cargo will not be landed Her mother was a peasant woman every hamlet, and at every wayside carried on from port to port to the
drenched and dripping, stopping in here, unless notice has been given whose house was close to the bank house, telling what he had
prior to vessel's arrival, bu
of the stream, in one of the lower
foretelling
port of call to which the option what was reaches of the valley. If there was feeling that the safety of the valley
to happen, extenda. danger for anyone, there would beras in his hands.
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown, and si danger for her.
There were some who believed," 23rd instant will be subject to rent.
Goods remaining undelivered after the "So you must go to her, and take said Christian. "and there were her away," said Caspar. "You must others who did not believe, for he be presented to the Undersigned on or All claims against the vessel man not, bring her here, for fear lest you was speaking to slow-witted people, before the ist
final
meet the flood upon the way. Take who had never heard of such a thing not be recimo, or they will|
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her up to the chalet on the pastures, before. They could understand the Goods are to be left in the Godowns. chafed, and damaged and stay there with her till send danger of the avalanche, which came where they will be examined on the you word.
And we must both be from near at hand; but they could 23rd instant, at 10 am. by our sur quick, for, when the food comes. it
not understand the danger of this veyors, Messrs. Goddard & Douglas will come suddenly."
water coming from so far away. My signees are requested to inform the In the case of dutiable cargo. Con- So they went down the hill, and father had often to storm and swear Imports & Exports Office that they took their several directions in the at them, and take them by the have such goods for examination. rain. They did not even trouble to shoulders and shake them, and ask No Fire Insurance has been effect- lock the door or remove their money. them if they thought he was fool.
"I will take all eare," Casper pro-enough to walk all that way downed by mised his wife. "There are few the valley, soaked to the skin, to places where 1 cannot climb the hill warn them, if there was nothing far enough to escape from the water for them to be afraid of; and so as Wednesday, 1st Nov. at 10 a.m. if I see it coming."
they knew that he was not a fool Wednesday, 15th Nov. at 10 m. | He had no need to try, however, they were persuaded," Tuesday, 28th Nov, at 10 e.m. for the water was not coming even The cottagers began their exodus.
yet; and though he walked fast, a From every hamlet, so Christian side in case the descending flood fast as a man might on that soaked told me, there issued
should meet him on his walk. and ill-kept mule-track, he had to of men and women and children, He went slowly, for he had been walk for four hours before he found carrying as much as they could of walking in the cold rain ever since the obstruction which had dommed their belongings and furniture on daybreak. Hia limbs were stiff and the streant. Then-but one can their backs, and streaming up the had been stiffer ever since he had best tell what he saw in Christian's mountain paths in the pouring rain, stopped to reat and drink. He stret- worda.
to seek a shelter in the chalets and ched them, however, and strode on barns on the pastures.
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"It was at the gorge, where be tween the two cliffs there is only room for the torrent and the path.
a procession
Hong Kong, 17th October, 1933,
A few remained, of course-there the chilly ringt; and still the barrier are always a few who refuse to be- held, and sull the mighty water was At the tops of the two chiffs are lieve in any danger which they do pent up. glaciers-whal We call hanging not see, and a few who hold their "At last!" he said, as the rocky
| glaciers,' because they he on a steep somes and goods so dear that they eminence on which his inn stood
siope, and fragments of them can vill risk death rather than leave loomed in sight. easily break away. Blocks of het them Rut Caspar eould which have fallen from the glucier) vait for these.
There jenu be seen lying in the bed of the] wher hamlets. further
be routed; gorge at any ume; but this time he valley, to
Bot
He straggled up the path, drug- were ging his legs rather than walking down ready to drop, and only persevering other by the constant effort of the wil
11 was much more than a fragment men to be warned who perhaps Presently, turning a corner, he saw
unless dim light shunning.
save
It was light within the house,
of the glacier whith had fallen. would not believe the tale
"There had been on ice avalanche hey thened 11 from an eye-witncas.
"So they are there," he said. "So such an lee avalanche es you and For their sake he strode on and on-they are
there, and I shall #have never seen. Somewhere, It took him the whole day.
It them." (high up and out of sight, the glacier | was not till nightfall that he had splet in two; and all the lower sat down to rest; and even then he half of the glacier, mixed with snow did not rest for long. He had meant but dark without, so that the etrang- and with the rocks which it had to turn out of the valley, at last, ers could not see him; and the roar- torn away, had come tumbling down and chimb up to the chalet to whichng of the wind through the tree- into the chaani. The whole defilee nari hidden his wife take her ups made it impossible for them to hear his footsteps. He came up to was blocked by a great white wali. mother; but he had hardly sat
"I took my father a full three-down to drink a little wine, to give the window and leant against JE, quarters of an hour to chimb to the aim strength, when a lad from one and then stopped, astounded.. {top of the barrier in order to see of the hamlets which he had passed what lay beyond it. And what lay through ran up and told him nows beyond it was, of course, rising which once more roused him.
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The men, as he had expected, had forced an entrance. lighted lamps, and foraged for food and drink. The Juen of waters. The glacier stream "Two men!" he cried. "Two men remains of the meal which they had was held up by the barrier. It had have just passed up the valley! We devoured were on the table. So far, been held up now for many days. Itried to explain, but could not make so good; but what were they doing was being fed by this mighty storm hem understand. They did not now? Caspar, used only
to deal of rath, and by all the snows that know the language. They laughed with honest men, could hardly be- the storm was melting, and by all 31 ms, and walked on. They are go-lieve the evidence of his eyes the hundreds of rivulets andy, doubtless, to your inn."
"Thievea!" he murmured. *"To LIVERPOOL SERVICE. ¡eataracts which he sw pouring "They must be going there," said think that I have came home to find ||"LYCAON" (down the cliff wherever he turned Caspar, "for there is nowhere else thieves!" 3rd Nov. his eyes. All this mighty water for them lo go;" and then, after a
An empty inn-an inn to which, 18th Nov.pressed against the barrier, and the pause: "I must turn back after they felt quite certain, the innkeep
barrier pressed it back. It was them, and try to tell them"
er would not return that night! And [spread out into a huge lake as far Not that he was afraid for the innkeepers even the poorest of as the eye could reach, and the inn, or fof anything that he had left them always had money stored 27th Nov.level of the lake was rising, always in it. The strangers would be wel-away! So they had argued, and 24th Dec. rising."
come to break a window to enter, Caspar had fallen upon them in the Such was Christian's picture, re-and to make free with the larder. very midát of their search for produced as his father had described Doubtless they would leave money money. The box in which he kept on the table, as he would do him-his money was in front of them. For the moment Caspar could see self in euch a caso, to pay for the They had prised it open, and were 7th Nov. there was no danger. The barrier food and the damage.
helping themselves to the coins and But their danger-that was what notes under his very eyes. This was too weak to move it. But the croubled Caspar, He had set him- was his reward for risking his life. pressure was always more and more, self the task of warning and saving for them. and the resistance was always less the whole, valley; and here wore He was unarmed, and they pro- and less.
gnorant men who had missed his bably were armed, as smugglers The time must come-how soon warning and slipped by
generally were. Whether they were depended upon whether the Fohn "It is my duty," said Caspar, pull-armed or not he would be at their]] and the rain lasted-when the daming himself together. "I am tired. mercy if he tried to scramble would yield; and then there would but no matter. I must go after through the window. His gun was 19th Oct, be nothing to stop the rush of the them, and tell them."...
inside the house, no that he could Brd Nov. water or even to divert it. Ita So he took another pull at the not get at it. And if the flood course would be marked as surely wine, to steady himself, and set out should come and the flood might as if it were being poured through on yet another tramp.
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"My inn? Will it be safe? I they will be safe! Bun., (noon) 22 Oct think so. It ought to be.
It was doubtful even whether Sun., (noon) 20 Oct stands so high.
ItThe weather began to clear a little was in bis power to save them now. And yet I don't as he walked. In the distant moun- Disturbed in their plunder, it was know. I should be afraid for any-tains, indeed, the storm, was still likely enough that they would shoot 2nd Nov, one who was there," was Campar's raging as furiously as ever; but in or stab him before they understood
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the valley the rain had stopped. The his meanings, Amerika p W35" his wife had been there he clouds were blown bück, and the aky will stand a little way back, in TAIPING would have been in a greater hurry and the stars appeared. The moon, the dark, and shout to them," be de- CHANGTE to remove her than to do anything too, would pressally an alses for though the
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