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EARTHQUAKES
(Continued from Page 8)
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE TWO TRAVELLERS
(Continued from Page 12.)
"You're taking a holiday, I expect, said the stout man, setting down his glass.
"Where you making for?"
"Oh, I'm not quite sure....
Ipanion with pink-rimmed eyes burn-} Hing with an unnatural sheen. Ho heard himself replying casually that it would be a good idea to do what, Mr. Mortimer suggested. He wouldn't
"That's it," returned Mr. Trumble, accept his invitation to dinner, but would be very obliged for being put returning the stare stonfly..
down somewhere near Bournemouth.
Some other apprehension knocking at his mind. Was Mr. Mortimer travelling
alone?
If he were a police official he would "Bournemouth? Now, that's a nice ably have someone with him. place for a holiday, Bit muggy in vaually travelled in pairs. But Mr. the hot weather, but always something Mortimer's car was innocently empty going on. Where you staying?” except for amall leather handbag and
Bournemouth."
"I don't know yet." How was hojone or two newspapers. to escape from this pertinacious ruf- Mr. Trumble took fian?
"You haven't got a car, have you?" "No" said Mr. Trumble.
"Walking, eh? Or taking a coach when the fancy seizes you?"
"Something like that."
his sent beside him, and the car bowled off along the crisp road to Salisbury. Only when the journey had been going on for a little while did Mr. Trumble realise that there was not the least chance of carrying out his plan before they "Well, you probably think I've got reached Salisbury. There were too a bit of cheek, but my business has many cars on the road. They loom- made me Sociablelike. You can guessed into sight just when he was try how lonely it in
when ing to devise some excuse sometimes
to make you're away from home, Don't think Mr. Martimer stop.
It would be madness, of course, to Mine's I've caught your name yet.
twist round in his seat and gink his Mortimer. Harry Mortimer."
"Mine's Giles," said Mr. Trumble, fingers in the fellow's throat while he That was an insane impulse "Pleased to
to meet you, Mr. Giles, I drove. took a fancy to you on sight. I could There must be some way out of this tell there was something on your mind which way did the Bournemouth rond MCEN. Perhaps beyond Salisbury...
am
ro 7 He was not sure, but he could replied Mr.bet they would be main roads all the
WAY:
THE REAL CAUSES FORbit of a character-reader, I
Nothing bad, I hope?"
"Nothing at All," Trumble hastily.,
The other nodded and emptied his At Salisbury Mr. Mortimer did not glass. That's
all right, then," he stop, and Mr. Trumble breathed easier. Maid reassuringly.
At Wimborne he thought it was time Other factors, however, do como Mr. Trumble detected a slight air of they had
a drink,
Mr. Trumble Bombay, Marseilles & London.
For the last half-hour his Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, in. We might imagine, for in-expectation about his companion which Agreed.
to ignore, but courage had been vozing out from the Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull
the Himalaya had become so great conspicuous. He asked him to have ends of his fingers. He felt as weak Bombay, Marseiller & London.
as water.
He had only one thought. that it would be easier for the another. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, rocks to respond to the pressure by Over the second drink Mr. Mortimer To escape from this man.
to all else. Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & initiating another mountain range embarked upon further details of his His will was palsied
career and domesticity,
Murder Was ridiculous-impossible. with another boundary fault some-
Tell
Besides, there was no need to put his you what we'll do," went on Bombay, Marseilles & London.
little later, "We'll neek in the noose for what he had Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London where between the Himalaya and Mr. Mortimer,
Hamborg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & the source of the pressure.
Nothing was worth that. RO down to Bournemouth together. done,
went into an hotel” Oh, I'm not tacking myself on to you
with Hull.
What would happen supposing for the evening-I'm staying the night Mortimer, and while Mr. Mortimer the weight of the Himalaya were at my sister's-she don't live many was ordering drinks walked straight the hotel and out into a yard reduced? The answer is, obvious miles from there--but we could have through the
A turn to the right and ly, that the compressional force, a bite of food together and have
back street, with no one was in e chat
You haven't got anything
He began to run, run until it
stance, a stage when the weight of he would have liked
dared not. He must not do anything soles of his feet, dripping from the
Hall.
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10,000 27th May 8,000 10th June
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2nd June
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to
Save you a
Не
Re
WAR
Escape.
Mr.
being no longer balanced, would special to do, have you? Bet you'll be dawned on him that he must attract push the Himalaya further up the glad of a lift, anyway. boundary faults until equilibrium bit of travelling expenses for one Altention to himself that way. Then was restored.
thing. What do you say to that? he pulled himself up and started to
Ac Mr. Trumble's stomach was slowly walk rapidly. Now, it is quite evident that Larning over and over.
the corner of n He hoped he road he saw a bus waiting. Going up the weight of the Himalaya 15 did not took an sick as he felt. He to it, he saw with gasp of relief that being reduced every day, and thought if he felt much worse he went in his direction. He would more especially during the tor would collapse in a faint altogether. be able to reach Ringfleet after all- rential rains of the Monsoon, by All
All his well-though-out plans were and about the time he had planned to being brought nothing by this well-be there. the agency of the weather.
meaning but garrulous aid fool. And
in the bus now, waiting for Every drop of rain has its in-was he such a fool as he appeared? to start, finitesimal effect, but anyone who Queer to
force himself on a complete He must not do anything unusual.) has watched whole
hill-sides (ger, as he Was doing. Some- He must behave absolutely normally. Something Take a stroll in the evening, perhaps crumbling away during a
rain-ting suspicious about it. he had got suggesting
They would an ulterior drop in the local inn. storm in the Monsoon, or has seen motive. Where had that car come
never connect him, when the hue and
an, with a flood sweeping down on to the from? Odd that it should
appear ery began.
OUSE
a missing cashier call- plains with its thousands of tons of the void, and that they should have ed Herbert Trumble, who had disap-
this sequence of silt, will have
a house in Streatham. no difficulty in[10
of meetings, on this peared from particular day, when Mr. Trumble was He felt in his pockets furtively for estimating the lightening effect on se anxious that no one should ace him the horn-rimmed glasses
had pre the Himalaya.
The
heavier.
As
Ee
in
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or remember anything about him, viously worn down there. He would Mountains Lighter
Odd, that was, if Mr. Mortimer was) put them on when he left the bus, all he pretended to be.
He knew where this But suppos- some quiet lane. disintegrating action
ofing the car had been rapidly obtain bus stopped and where to get off. water freezing in the clefts of ed in Woking, and his twists and turns Would the conductor
recognise him 7 rocks. the alternate expansion and had been followed up unobtrusively, He was standing just outside the bus, contraction caused by the appear with Mr. Mortimer having plenty of whistling and looking about.
time to telephone through to head- were two or three women in the bus unce and disappearance of the quarters, giving a report of what was carrying marketing baskets, two men. warming sun, and the impact of happening. Ifeadquarters, Suppos-as ordinary looking and unobtrusive B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for rain and hail, are all minor agents ing Mr. Mortimer was 4 detective? aa himself. He hit his lip and com 1st and 2nd class passengers.
in auch
By now sweet was streaming down posed his features to a mask. denudation. But thei
Three-quarters of an hour later Mr. #couring of the torrents, rivers, and Mr. Trumble's body under his clothes.
To hide his agitation he turned four- Giles was greeted kindly by Mr. EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, glaciers, the landalips, the bursting square to the har, gulped down his Vaughan. He went upstairs and dams and the roaring floods not drink, and asked for cigarelles. By changed into an old suit He had only remove vast quantities of the time he had torn open the packet washed and was feeling helter. Some
one and of cigarettes, lit material from the mountain region deeply, he had a better command of waited for him, up and gone on
inhaled miles away Mr. Mortimer would have to above the boundary fault, but de- himself. He thanked Mr. Mortimer Bournemouth, He would think him a Brd Aug. Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & posit a large proportion of it on for his offer of a lift, but said in the queer sort of a fellow, but would soon
the plains below the fault. The circumstances he would just jog along forget him. It was absurd to sup
pose he was a detective. He, Herbert mountains thus become lighter and in his own way. lighter, and the plains heavier and were not to be thwarted so easily. fie dead now, thank God!-he, Mr. Giles,
But Mr Mortimer's kindly instincts Trurable-but Herbert Trumble insisted that Mr. Giles must have a had been alarmed unnecessarily. It had
disturbing-more than denudation proceeds, read-jift; he wasn't looking at all well; he been
that, justment is effected, as we have mightn't be aware of it, but he had darned terrifying-but the worst was looked just as if he were going to over now. He would do a bit of seen, by the mountains being push-pass out a few minutes ago. Sup-hing to-morrow. There was that The Ualon 8.9. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via Newed up the inclines, or, if we like posing they got along?
bream he had hooked once who Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
to Imagine it so, by the plains Mr. Trumble's will was as wax in had got away. He knew the hole he The P.&O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and
being pushed down the
unexpected dilemma.
He would get him again. this
All the lay in. inclines
while, at
at the back of his brain, a voice And whatever happened he impress- The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and under the mountains, for the was hammering, pinting, screaming,ad this upon himself firmly he was
movement is relative. In Bome "Get away from him." But how not going to read the newspapera. places, we may Imagine, friction How could be
be behave naturally-slip It was a warm, dusky evening when along the faclined planes prevents away on some excuse and be sure that he want out soon efter nine o'clock. smooth continuous movement, and the man would forget all about him; Kept light astonishingly late in these never link him up with the missing parts. The local inn was only just the rocks advance in a series of Mr. Trumble whose name and descrip- along the road. It was an old-fashion- jerks.
tion would be in the papers in a few ed place, with a yard at the side for Where Shocks Come
|days' time? And there was that cars to draw in. As Mr. Giles drew S'hai Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama
stendily-growing conviction that this near his heart performed an astonish- Shai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.
Each jerk Initistes a vibraton man was not a commercial traveller ing leep a leap so violent that it Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
which is sent out in. all directions at all. This man had to be silenced almost tore itself out of bis breast. Amoy, Bhai Mojl, Kobe & Ozaka. in the form of an
His face was stricken, the eye pro- Shanghal, Mojl, Kobe & Yokohama. shock. Vertically above the Bource Mr. Trumble's mind in the past, yard the only one there.
earthquake somehow,
Many dark Impulses had generated trading. He recognised the car in the Shai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.
It was Mr. Amoy
Shai, Moji, Kobe
of these jerks the damage is fre- but never the impulse of murder. Mortimer's. He saw Mr. Mortimer Shal Mojl, Kobe, Czaka &
& Yokohama quently inconsiderable, since bulld- Now It sprang out, strong, ruthless just outside the inn talking to FILM BIOGRAPHY Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. ings simply rise and sink, in a and imperative. This man must be policeman. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokou
& Yokohama.
vertical plane; 8 Amoy. S'hal, Mojl, Kobe & Osaka.
Httle farther stopped. Amoy, S'hal, Moji, Kobe & Qunica Shanghai Kobo & Yokohama
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He clamped his hand round away, however, a horizontal com-glass, turned and stared at his ponent comes into play and may
cause immense destruction.
Along the southern edge of the
J
What was left: Iis knees quaked. com-it had dissolved into thin air.
his of his resisting power vanished as if
Shillong plateau of Assam there WORLD'S SUPREME runs another series of faults, and
It is movement along these which causes the innumerable shocks felt in Shillong.
As a rule they are quite small and comparatively harmless, but occasionally, as in 1897, owng per-
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HoFamous Producer's New "Ball" Thrown Through
walked forward stumblingly, dragging his feet over the ground. He stood u paze or two away from the two! men, his lips moving.
Mr. Mortimer
WAA
apeaking In
friendly fashion to the policeman a
Thought I was saving
Production.
London.
Alexander Korda has bought the
of bother," he said, "but this short rights of Mme. Nijinsky's life of
Window.
Vienna.
A man was sitting peacefully in
his home at Moedling near Vienna.
'Buddenly 's' hand grenade hurled
in through the window. It landed
He has in mind Charles Laughton The man rushed to the window
cut has led me somewhere where I've her famous husband in order to lost my bearings. My aller Hves
She's a Mra, Jennings, at produce it first as a play and later on a soft cushion and did not ex- Hollywood. near here,
The Croft, Little Ninnix, Perhaps
¡plode. 68 a film. Greta Garba is the world's cle- you could out me on right way."
Mr. haps to some obstructive friction, verest vamp-this is the opinion
Øllea dragged up, the fork is severe. The 'quake of of Theda Bara; the "Queen" Mortimer had his back to him, and did to play the part of Diaghlieff, the and found children looking regret- not see him tili he turned round, famous" director of the Russian fully after their lost "ball," They |last January, which was felt mort vamp of silent films.
want to give myself up," asid Mr. Giles,
bomba
Next in order of merit come;
Mr.
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that part of the Great Boundary tharine Hepburn, Jean Harlow, Fault in the Churia Ghati, or foot-Joan Crawford, Dorothea Wick. Thills of the Nepal Himalaya.
Reuter
For further information, 'Pazzago, Freight, Handbooks, etc, apply to 1- Nepal," seems to have originated in Marlene Dietrich, Mae West, Ka-police in a cracked velce, to the ballet, and. 'John ́Gielgud to play had been playing "catch" with the
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he was whispering the words now
Em Herbert Trumble," Nijinsky himself. As
It is intended that Merle Oberon) - They had fosind it in a ditch. It want to rive myself up for shall play the part of me, was one of the typo used in the emberalement at the London and Pro-Nijinsky Reuter.
present fighting-Reuter. vincial Bank, Clerkenwell.