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Then suddenly, with a little gig- gle, she twisted the mirror round. and Nikians saw before him parti of his own wild and sorrowful face, Nool'e plump, and part of Koba round, childish one pressing against it. Giggling still. Koba twisted the mirror back, then round again, then back and round and round till Nik- inas, who saw his face only on Sun-i days, in a small cracked piece of looking-glass that Toontje kept in a drawer, was like a drunken man in his bewilderment.
And because his heart was emptyi now of all sense of righteousness | and sin. of all fear of justice and of vengeance, there swept into it aj wild tumult of desire that was but another madness.
Three weeks later, while Niklana's tobacco still hong in its shelters. calm inscrutable Toontje went, a woman in a black calico gown and sunbonnet, to the farm of Mijnheer! van Reenen, which lay an hour by foot from Platkops dorp. Here An
Lieut.-Commander
dries van Reenen, a rich man and Settle,
a hard master, respected and feared. failed to establish but loved by none even among his phere record. own family, was dying slowly of
alone in the
bladder. Toontje's
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From TRIESTE, VENICE, BRINDISI, PORT SAID, BOMBAY, COLOMBO & SINGAPORE
CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby Informed that all Goods are being anded at their risk into the Godowa of the Hongkong and Howloon Wharf and Godown Company, Ltd., at Kow. loon, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.
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All claims against the veusel mar, be presented to the Undersigned on or
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before
not be recognised.
or they will
and damaged
All braken, chafed, Goods are to be left in the Godowns, T.
where they will be examined on the who last munth narrowly
by our sur- instant, at 10 a.m. 8th new strato-veyora. Messrs. Goddard & Douglas.
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No Fire Insurance has been effect. Bill of Lading will be countersign- DODWELL & CO. LTD. Agents Hong Kong. 2011 December, 1933.
father had been one of his many between them. The moment passed, bijwoners, on lands that he
and as if it had never been, the jed. had owned and afterwards sold, nuijwoner's wife, calm. inscrutable,ed by the Kombuis-a valley which lay to said to her master:
My Mot the north of the district among the
"Mijnheer, see how it is. Zwartkops foothills.
Ockert is now sixteen years, and if Not for many years had Toontje Mijnheer will but trust has tobacco; visited the farm, and not once since to Ockert and me, so soon as it is her marringe had she spoken with dry, after the first dewy night, wel The master alone When she came will strip and afterwards do all as to the house the old man ant out it should be done till Niklaas comes on the stoep in a
Mijnheer big iron-wood
jagain from the Kombuis. ehair made specially for his com-knows that such a madness will not last, and Mijnheer knows that I will Have I not served serve him well.
fort.
His fore was grey and drawn, and
he answered her greeting with an Mijnheer for more than Niklaas's | abrupt, bitter "Good day." In herve-and-twenty years? And what
tall is it that I ask of him now but stilE &
Ito servo him?**
Kombuis this youth in the patient woman, se quiet speech, so controlled
had been movements.
in
her
in
all
her
free
"And is this then all that you will
old and have of me," asked the
ΓΙΑΣΕ
beautiful to him as a roe-buck in glowly. "You that once lived for
the mountains. But he did not now me in the Kombuis?"
in her only remember it, and saw
"Mijnheer, there is but one thing
The bearer of news about that last passion of his life, his tobacco.
"How goes it?" he asked. "Mijnheer." answered
more.
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tained. to tho self has sent Niklaan up
No claims will be admitted after thr Toontje. Kombuis, to see how the Hallander Goods have left the Godowns, and all "The tobacco dries well. Bat look works his tobacco....
Gooda remaining undelivered after
"
how it is! Five and twenty years In a flash, in that passion for hus the 6th December, 1933, will be subject has Niklaas worked for Mijnheer, tobacco which through all his to rent
and a good servant has he been, but months of terrible dying was still now a madness has come upon him and up to the Kombuis with Koba Nooi he has gone, and is working
All claims against the steamer mus
to hold him, Andries van Reenen & be presented to the Undersigned on agrer l'azed up afresh.
**And 10 Ka ve your
husband
or before the 29th December, 1933. or they will not be recognised.
To comply with the General Bond-
tobacco there for the Hollander." Niklan you ask me this," he cried.ed Warehouse Regulations consignees "Nikluns" In the Kombuis"A fool that could leave his tobacco must have a Revenue Officer in attend-
ance when damaged dutiable erted his master, incredulous. And and you for Kobs Nool"
are examined. he added in a sudden blaze of un-
"Minheer! Mijnheer!" answered ger. "May his soul burn in hell and Toontje, "did not marry the foul
to save the master?"
Koba'a also."
"Mijnheer." and the bijwoner's
Again the old man's mind went wife in her quiet level voice, "may slowly back to the past. "God for God forgive him in his modness, give me that and many but is it for Mijnheer and rac to things," he said. "Go. judge him?"
other
goods
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No Fire Insurance has been effect. ed.
1 will say
Bill of Lading will be countersign. ed by,
"Fool." thundered the old man. That night Toontje made up a "are you then also mad ?**
small bundle of clothing "Mijn-Niklaas, end
with great labour
for
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD. Agenta. Hong Kong. 20th November, 1933.
And Toontje answered: heer knows that once I was mad. wrote him a letter. This letter sho Mijnheer knows how my madncas slipped into the bundle, but in the ended. Did Mijnheer never him- middle of the night she rose, with-j self go up to the Kombuis? Or it drew the letter, and after adding a sing-song voice:
no, then, Niklaas! 17th Dec. is that he has perhaps forgotten?" simple sentence again inserted it. 24th Dec. "Toontje!" cried the old man, his Nett day she took the bundle up to me and my mirror alone, or I aise
mind moving, slow and bewildered, the morning market and, finding a
tobacco his 14th Doc. from
"Toontje!"
"Andries!"
to
"Ach
Leave
one day will be sending your clothes
the past.wagoa
Kombuis, after you like your wife Toontje?" there from the
The bundle which Toontje had gave it to the driver to deliver to Niklaas. And to those that stood sent him was stowed away on top of the mud, wall under the thatch, For a moment their eyes met, and by her she said: in that moment the secret which "Look now!
Up to the Kombuis and because of Koba's jeers Niklass Toontje hid in her heart and Nikhan the master sent Niklaas, to see had never opened it.
This meeting, for Niklas, Wes laas had never fathomed, lay bared how the Hollander works his to-
bacco, and the lands by the river be the beginning of a vague uneasines about Koba which steadily increas has left to Ockert and me."
Up in the Kombuis-that mostled as her disappearances from the beautiful and most isolated of all hut became more and more frequent the valleys amung the Zwartkop and prolonged. In the factory also foothills-Niklaas, having abandon the bijwoser was far from happy, ed his wife and his childres, his and there was constant friction bo-
tween him and his new master. lands and his tobacco, his con-
No man in all the Kombuia valley science and hin God, now lived in a mud-walled, one-roamed but with knew more about Platkops tobacro Koba Nool and worked for his new than Niklaas had learned in his long service with Mijnheer van Reenen, master the Hollander.
The Hollander was a young and but he parted with his knowledge ambitious man who had built to the Hollander in a spirit of bit- contemptuous niggardliness amal factory in the valley and was ter working tobacco there in ways that which not only the young man, but were new and strange to Nikians, Koba Nool, resented.
One day Kobs said to Kobe's ways were also strange to him, and, as the fever of his mad-strangely: "Ach no, then, Niklanif ness subsided, it seemed to the Did I not bring you here to plesse bijwoner that this plump, pleasant the Hollander, and now you will not and rather greedy woman, with her please him!" gente chatter and her little giggle,
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"Ach no, then," answered Kola, from him than did Koba's talk,
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Hollander is, who would not wish to to him as was-her-mirror.
The mirror she kept in a little please him? Rich he is and all, cardboard box shaped like a coffin, and did he not need such a man as and there came a day when Niklas you, that knows all about Platkop found her down by the Hollander's tobacco, when I brought you bare to gally painted house flashing her help him?"
began Nildans mirror in the sun. When question- "But, Koba," ed she giggled, slipped the mirror again into its box, and sald; în her gentle
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