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THE CHINA MAIL.

Prodigal Radical

LLOYD TRIESTINO THE RED ROOM

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ed to

an

an Age

were

I door and fallen headlong down the (Continued from Paga 9.)

steps I had just ascended. That matter-of-fact phase. They seem- had been the end of his vigil of his belong to another age, gallant attempt to conquer the older age,

when ghostly tradition of the place-and dif-never, I thought, had apoplexy things spiritual ferent from this of ours, less cer- better served the ends of superati- And there were other and and tion. tain; an age when omens

to the witches were credible, and ghosts older stories that elung

room, back to a timid wife and the beyond denying.

tragic end that came to her hus band's jest of frightening her.

room

were

Their very existence was special; the cut of their clothing, fashions

And looking around that large born in dead brains. The orna- ments and conveniences of the shadowy room, with its shadowy: and about them

ghost-window bays, ita recesses ly-the thoughts of vanished men, alcove, one could well understand which still haunted rather than the legends that had sprouted in participated in the world of to-day. Its black coners, its germinating My candle was a little But with an effort I sent such darkness.

vastness, thoughts to the rightabout. The tongue of flame in its long, draughty subterraneon pas-that failed to pierce the opposite sage was chilly and dusty, and my end of the room, and left an ocean' candle flared and made the shadows of mystery and suggestion beyond cower and quiver. The echoes its island of light.

I resolved to make a systematic] rang up and down the spiral stair-; case, and a shadow came sweeping examination of the place at once. up after me, and one fled before and dispel the fanciful suggestions of its obscurity before they obtain- me into the darkness overhead.

I came to the landing and stopped ed a hold upon me. After satisfy- there for a moment, listening to aling myself of the fastening of the rustling that I fancied I heard; door, I began to walk about the then, satisfied of the absolute room, peering round each article of silence. I pushed open the baize- furniture, tucking up the valances covered door and stood in the cor- of the bed, and opening its curtains,

wide. I pulled up the blinds and ridor.

Emma Goldman Deported to Russia for her radical activities some years ago. Emma Goldman is in Toronto, Canada, awaiting resuit of her application for a visa to permit her to re-enter the United States. She is planning a lecture tour of the country.

CONVICTS SCARED BY DEATH RAY.

Installed In French Penal Colony.

The effect was scarcely what examined the fastenings of the expected, for the moonlight, com- several windows before closing the ing in by the great window to the shutters, leant forward, and look- rrand staircase, picked out every-ed up the blackness of the wide USED TO KILL MOSQUITOES, thing in vivid black shadow or chimney, and tapped the dark oak

Port of Spain, Trinidad. The installation of a "death

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more some anxious moments until they There were candles in the sockets the mantelshelf, too, were

candles

china

candlesticks. learned that its destructive rays: of the sconces, and whatever dust,

All these I lit one after the other. were to be directed at mosqui had gathered on the carpets or upon the polished flooring was dis-The fire was laid-an unexpected toes.

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determined The authorities disposition to shiver, and assist in the eradication of mal- when it was burning well, I stood aria among the prisoners. Tests round with my back to it and re-carried out in France showed it garded the

had capable of killing millions of room again. I corner of the wall. but its shadow

pulled up a

chintz-covered arm-disease-carrying mosquitoes in á fell with marvellous distinctness.

chair and a table, to form a kind 10 mile radius. upon the white panelling, and gave of barricade before me, and on this

the impression of someone lay my revolver ready to hand. crouching to wayiny me.

My precise examination had done Gourdon, daughter of the inven-

tor. I stood rigid for half a minute, me good, but I still found the re- nerhaps. Then, with my hand in moter darkness of the place, and| The pocket that held my revolver, its perfect stillness, too atimulating

advanced, only to discover

for the imagination. The echoing Ganymede and Engle glistening if the stir and crackling of the the moonlight. That incident for are was no sort of comfort to me.

on

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Д

tuhl

The machine bears the name of

a young French girl, Germaine

Reuter.

CONSIGNEES.

lime restored my nerve, and a The shadow in the alcove, at the THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD. porcelain Chinaman

and in particular, had that unde- table, whose head rocked silently inable quality of a presence, that

COPENHAGEN,

as I passed him. scarcely startled odd suggestion of lurking living The Danish Motor Vessel

me.

"CHILE" thing, that comes so easily in

having arrived from Copenhagen,

Oslo, The door to the red room and the silence and solitude. At last, to Gothenburg.

Rotterdam, steps up to it were in a shadowy reassure myself, I walked with a Antwerp Hamburg, Algiers and Genoa consignees of cargo are hereby in- corner. I moved my candle from can le into it and satisfied myself cormed that all goods are being land- side to side, in order to see clearly that there was nothing tangible ed and placed at the risk into hazardous and/or extra

the nature of the recess in which there. I stood that candle hazardous Godowns of The Hong Kong!

I stoood before opening the door. the floor of the alcove, and left it

and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co. Here it was, thought 1, that my in that position.

Ltd., where delivery can be obtained predecessor Was found, and the By this time I was in a state of

Es soon as the goods are landed, memory of that story gave me a considerable nervous tension, al- No claims will be admitted after the sudden twinge of apprehension. Ithough to my reason there was no goods have left the Godowns and all glanced over my shoulder at the adequate cause for the condition. goods remaining undelivered

the 19th February, 1934, at 4 p.m. will Ganymede in the moonlight and My mind, however, was perfectly be subject to rent- opened the door of the red room clear. I postulated quite unre- All broken, chafed and damaged rather hastily, with my face half servedly that nothing supernaturali goods are to be left in the Godown, turned to the pallid silence of the could happen, and to pass the time where they will be examined by Messrs. Anderson & Ashe on the 17th landing.

I began to string some rhymes to February, 1934, at 10 am.

after

I entered, closed the door be-gether, Ingoldsby fashion, of the! All claims against the vessel must hind me at once, turned the key I original legend of the place. A be presented to the Undersigned with- 21st Feb. found in the lock within, and stood few I spoke aloud, but the echoes in ten days of the ship's rival, or

they will not be recognised. with the candle held aloft, Bur- were not pleasant. For the same No Fire Insurance will be effected. veying the scene of my vigil, the reason I also abandoned, after a great red room of Lorraine Castle. time, a conversation with myself ed by in which the young duke had died. upon the impossibility of ghosts 25th Mar. Or, rather, in which he had begun and haunting.

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