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THE CHINA MAIL
The Man Without A Job PRESIDENT JOHNSON
(Continued from Paga: 9.)
AT BOMBAY
Largest Ship To Enter Inner Harbour.
evidently going to be a little con- strained. The inspector coughed The inspector grinned. "I'll get dryly, and took a note-book from his 'em together at Lugg's cottage, pfbar pocket. The two red-faced men
San Francisco. lunch," he said. "That suit you?" eyed him with suspicion and drew
Word has been received "Perfectly," replied the doctor, closer together. Boyd became aware Wednesday, 24th Jan at 10 am. sleepily." "I'll have a sandwich at of a musty smell in the room. Captain W. O. Konimeister, Com- Wednesday, 7th Feb. at 10 am. the pub. and be along about a quar-Evidently Lugg was not a believer mander of the Dollar round-the-
in open windows. Wednesday, 21st Feb. at 10 am, ter past two."
SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports and Honolulu.
TAIYO MARU
CHICHIBU MARU
TATSUTA MARU
BEATTLE & VANCOUVER.
HEIAN MARU (starta from Kobe) ..
Friday,
22nd Jan, 3rd Feb.
HIKAWA MARU (starts from Ko bé). Saturday, LONDON, MARSEILLES, AN'I WERP & ROTTERDAM vis
Singapore, Penang, Colombo & Suez.
Los Angeles. Mexico and Panama.
HAKUSAN MARU...
Saturday,
HARUNA MARU
Saturday.
KATORI MARU
Saturday,
20 Jan. 3rd Feb. 17th Feb.
JYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.
KAMO MARU
Saturday,
27th Jan.
KITANO MARU
Saturday,
24th Feb.
BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.
TANGO MARU
Thursday,
11th Jan.
†MEYEBASHI MARU
Monday,
SOUTH AMERICA (West~ Coast) via Japan,
BOKUYO MARU
Monday,
29th Jan Honolulu. 26th Feb.
NEW YORK via Panam3,
TAKETOYO MARU
Wednesday,
and Valencia.
DURBAN MARU
Monday,
15th Jan
CALCUTTA vin Singapore. Penang & Rangoon,
MORIOKA MARU
Monday,
15th Jan.
†PENANG MARU
Monday,
20th Jan.
SHANGHAI, KORE & YOKOHAMA,
KITANO MARU (Nagasaki direct). Friday,
19th Jan,
LYONS MARU
KASHIMA MAKU
Monday, Saturday,
15th Jan.
20th Jan.
Telephone 30291.
17th Jan.
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BAIGON & BANGKOK
Direct at Cristobal, Puerto Sanyo Maru
NEW YORK vin Japan, Los Hokuroko Maru
Angeles and Panama. Call
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Wed.
24th Jan 21st Feb
Colombia. Boston Philadel-
·
phia & Baltimore
RIO-DE-JANEIRO, SANTOS.
MONTEVIDEO & BUENOS Rio De Janeiro M.
Thurs.,
Sat
gapore, Colombo, Durban,
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Port Elizabeth and Cape
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Mon., Tum
The inspector moved heavily off up the beach.
from
The Inspector was looking at a world liner President Johnson, that his veasal had broken three records stubby poncil with an expression of
when it passed through the locks Dr. Royd lay where he was, his disgust. That over his eyes. He' might have "Anyone got a knife?" he asked.into Bombay's inner harbour.
It was the largest liner ever to been asleep, but he wasn't. He was No one had. Then Lugg, pleased at trying to find some explanation of the chance of being able to be of use negotiate this difficult passage. The how the blood came to be on the to his superior, darted across to a records were for length, draft and
tonnage. fragment of bottle-glass." It little bookcase, and took from the
The President Johnson is 615. couldn't have splashed. The man's top of it one of those metal contri- right hand had been flung out to vances for making use of defunct fest 4 inches long, with a gross tonnage of 15,543" und denwa 85 one side, and the piece of glass" lay razor-blades.
feet, 6 inches. There was only a just beyond it. Odd. Really very **Will this do, sir?” he asked. odd, indeed. Dr. Boyd could make The Inspector proceeded to shar-hair-breadth lee-way between the nothing of it at all. He sat up, and pen his pencil with it, and to talk ship and the sides of the famous watched the little sails beating back at the same time.
"There seems lock. up the creek. It was all so full of he said, "to be some difficulty about) peace, this picture before him, this case, which, at first sight, seema- so full of peace and the quieted simple enough."
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The R.M.S. "Empress of Canada"
CONSIGNEES.
pleasure of life. The warmth of Then he droned on, going over the the sun beating down, like some whole story again, and Royd's attan-will leave here for Victoria and kindly and approving God and tion began to wander. The answer Vancouver, B.C., via Shanghai and healthy, happy people enjoying It wasn't there. It wasn't possible to ports at 4 pm. on January 16.- But, behind it all, something which get at it just by making these yokels had gone bad, as it were......like tell their story all over again. The a bit of meat left too long in the answer lay far deeper than that. larder.
Right away down in someone's mind. Try to imagine oneself a bit of where one of the infite number of meat left too long in the larder.... cogwheels had suddenly Defused to wanting, tremendously, to be ando duty. That was where the an- awfully good bit of meat, a trium-jower was. phant success as a bit of meat.... The doctor gave up trying to Jia- and then....laft too long in the ten, and let his eyes wander round larder.
the room. Evidently a neat and
LLOYD TRIESTINO.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
Steamer
"CONTE VERDE".
At this point Dr. Royd rose quick-tidy man, this Lugg. Everything ly to his feet and strode up the was in its place. The pictures were: From TRIESTE, VENICE, BRINDISI beach in the direction of the public-jall completely in line......How add PORT SAID, BOMBAY, COLOMBO &
SINGAPORE. house. Why on earth, he thought, that the pictures should all be in to himself, was he cursed with the line Because it must mean, kind of mind to which absurd turally, that somebody put them CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby Pictures informed that all Goods are being phrases suggested even more absurd right almost every day.
landed at their risk into the Godowar ideas?
will never atay just right unless of the Hongkong and Howison Wharf He drank a pint of beer, and someone in looking after them. nd Godown Company, Ltd., at, Kow tried to digest two disgraceful ham The doctor's eyes strayed towards toon, whence and/or from the wharves
delivery may be obtained. sandwiches. Then, after smoking a the bookcase.
pipe, he walked slowly down the What I want to get from you, ittle street towards the cottage in-the inspector was saying, "is exactly habited by P. Lugg.
It was a what you saw on the roadside when jnice little cottage, built of int, you came to the help of the con-
with a neat little garden path, flank-stable."
Optional Cargo will not be landed here, unless notice has been given 48 hours prior to vessel's arrival, bat carried on from port to port to the final port of call to which the option
extenda.
No claims will be admitted after the
Goods remaining undelferred after the 12th instant, will be subject to rent.
All claim against the vessal mmsant
he presented to the Tindersigned on or before the 21st instant, or they will not be recognised.
ed with asters and yellow daisies, The red-faced men looked at each Goods have left the Godown, and al with a backing of really lovely holly. other, helplessly. Then one of them hocks. A vivid blue of lobella, too, spoke slowly, eyeing the other with {claimed one's grateful attention. suspicion.
The door was open, and he walked straight in to the little parlour. There was a large photogravure of 5th Feb. Queen Victoria over the mantelpiece, and a photograph of the local war memorial beside it. The whole room gave the doctor a deprossing feeling that its owner was obsessed by a said, gently; "You're quite right to sense of duty.
describe it as looking like a boat
6th Mar.
Mon.,
5th Feb.
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SYDNEY; WELLINGTON
& AUCKLAND direct
BOMBAY & KARACHI via †Havana Maru
Thurs.,
Singapore, 11Belawan Deli, +Yoneyama Maru
Penang & Colombo......|
Tues.
CALCUTTA
via Singapore. ] +Celebes Maru
Sat..
+Belawan Well,
*Penang | +Himalaya Maru
Fri.,
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Fri..
Thurs.,
12th Jan. 11th Jan.
Sun.,
Sun.,
and Hangoor,
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"We comes on the bloke,” he safu, "where Harry "Lugg 'ere ad left 'im. E were lying "alf in an 'alf out of the ditch, an' I saw at once a
were a stiff 'un. ' 'ad a 'ole in is throat like a boat?
The doctor leant forward, and.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns where they will be examined on the 12th instant, at 10 am. by our surveyors, Messrs, Goddard & Douglas. In the cass of datiable cargo, Con- signees are requested to inform the Imports & Exports Office that they have much knoda for examination.
Bill of Lading will be countersigy-
DODWELL & CO. LTD. Agents Hong Kong, 6th January, 1034.
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.
From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.
They were all there when he came In fact that is an extremely vivid No Fire Insurance has been effect- lin. The Inspector, sitting in the and accurate description of the ed window, one eyebrow raised slightly shape of the wound. But it wasn't ed by above the other, and his lips pulled a hole, you know. It was, when It 18th Jan down like a sulky child. Lugg him- started, just the opposite to a holo;} 30th Jan.self a little atiff and awkward in his it was a neat straight line. And
position as host, in front of the fire- that is causing the difficulty,"
The two red-faced, men regarded· red-faced Two large and 20th Jan. place.
2nd Feb. men sat resentfully on the extreme hirm without any gleam of under- edges of two kitchen chairs. They standing in their faces.
Lugg's bath seemed a little relieved at the small dark eyes lit up with some. entrance of Dr. Royd. He, at least, thing that approached Interest.
"The fact is," put in the insper- was someone whom they knew. This damned policeman from Cran-tor, "that in the opinion of the doc 14th Jan wich put the wind up them. Baltor it is a case of murder which we
hanged if they'd have gone along to are investigating.” give Lugg a hand if they'd known The word had an almost electrical The Steamshin,
"BENLAWERS” effect. The eyes of the red-faced CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby jall this was going to come of it,
The doctor gave an all-embracing man bulged. They became voluble informed that all Goods are being nod, and Lugg rather awkwardly and incoberent. They pointed out, anded at their risk into the hazard. pushed a decrepit basket chair to eagerly, that they were never out and/or exits hazardous Godowns wards him. Royd sat down,
and of the constable's sight the whole of The Hong Kong and Kowloon Whart & Godown Co., Ltd., whence offered his pouch round,
At last the inspector was and/or from the wharves delivery There time. The meeting was able to persuade them that they may be obtained.
were not under suspicion, and they No claims will be admitted after subalded into vague mutterings. the Goods have left the Godowns, and “Murder, sir?”, said Lugg, and his all Goods remaining undelivered after
the 12th January, 1994, will be voice took on a certain note of im portance,
24th Jan.
KAISIA.
were no takers.
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All claims against the stemmer "I'm afraid so,” replied Dr. Boyd. must be presented to the Undersigned "You see, the blood on that piece of on or before the 28th January 1984, glass is inexplicable from any other
or they will not be recognized,
comply th
the General
Boud point of view,
ed Warehouse Regulations consignees "The doctor is prepared to swear,” must have, a Revenue Ducer – In st.
goods are examined:
said the Inspector, "that the wound topdanca when damaged datable was not made with the glass."
All broken, chafed and damaged "And," added Royd softly, "that Goods are to be left in the Godowns, it was too far away to get splashed," where they, will be examined on får "Naturally, air" said the con-11th January, 1984; at 10 am, by stable, "I never thought of that!" No Fire Insurance has been efect
Mesara, Goddard & Douglas. "Naturally," agread the doctor.
Then the iden is, sir, that dur- ing the time I was getting help and |getting back again someone did the |man in 199
Royd dug out the bowl of his pipa and started to refill it. I suppose," he said, "that one in driven to that conclusion
But what for winte "That "?" mid, the doctors
Bill of Lading, will be counter signed by,
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