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The House On Big Faraway GOOD AUGURY
a
her you'll begin to imagine that you see her with her legs all limp, so I won't'tell you."
"Please."
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Natalie looked to Dr. Greerson, wanting to know, what he thought. She said: "So I called out: 'Are you He was eager to tell, really; and talking to yourself Bunay.' He he quickly 'made her sea Bertha of thirty- didn't answer. I found him star Bliven, a thin women ing at the empty road. I ran out something, of extra-ordinary vitality the buck way, ran around the other and a bitterness toward--Farmer,
The announcement to-day, that! Neither one of their two side of the corn crib, my eyes all Bleven. ready to see his old woman; but the babies had lived long, and she the Peninsular & Oriental 5. N. air was empty. She had evaporat-grieved for them. Perhaps he was Co. is selling £1,500,000 worth of weary of her grief. Once he thrash-its holdings of pound sterling ted."
"There's a footpath into the ed her with a bridle. Bertha's sis shares in the coal-exporting firm woods there," Dr. Greerson sald.ter Matilda, who was thirteen or of Messrs. William Cory & Son, He repeated this as if he thought it fourteen, would walk down the has created wide interest in
She road and visit.
came one financial and shipping circles. important.
Mesars. Baring Bros. & Co, Ltd., "You ran after her! Bunny ex-Sunday on her way to church, Ber- claimed. "That was damned tha wouldn't go. "I'll stay here the well-known bankers, are the purchasers, the price paid to the alone," she said. funny thing to do."
Kenneth sat up. His eyes were. Matilda had gone on for a mile. P& O. being over £5,000,000. bright with mischief. He picked There she stopped. For thinking It is understood that the shares blade of grass, said thoughtfully: of her sister's strange expression will be offered to the public to re-
ahe could not go on nor turn back, turn four per cent. per annum. "Scarlet stockings!"
On the original £1 basis, tho Bunny turned as if he had been In the end she turned back, re-i
passed the shares paid 15% per cent. for the slapped. "Yes. I saw them. Iftraced her steps,
smithy, over the little bridge, the Past three years.
The P. & 0. retains 70,000 saw her and I talked with her."
"Man, man, we believe you," Dr. long, bridge where the Bonacutt!
rushes over big stones, under the shares, thus maintaining Its long Geerson said.
Son, but the fact that it is ready "But you don't. Kenneth doesn't. chestnuts by the white school-association with Messrs. Cory &
to the
to sell so valuable an asset is Natalie doesn't. 'Hell, I've got feel house. When she came
to be a good ings. Doctor, you tell me, you're lower barn she stopped. Here one
generally held supposed to know something about had the first glimpse of her sis-
ters upstairs and down were tight the Far East.
Although the directors of the P. LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Beyrouth, Istanbul, Piraeus, Genoa the mind, you tell me why I should ter's house. It had changed. Shut-ugury for shipping prespects to
imagine that old woman."
You closed, all of them.
&O. have not yet disclosed their "You didn't imagine...her. saw her, actually in the flesh. We! She crept in the back door, eall-
they are planning extensive ship- all know that. But you were going ed "Bertha!" in the darkness. No full schemes, it is no secret that to show me the old mill dam, where one answered. She dared at last building for the P. & O. Co. and you plan the swimming pool. Come to call at the stair door. She went its subsidiaries.. on, the afternoon's already gone." up, one step at a time, and knocked.
"Sorry." Bunny, got up, looked at Kenneth.
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Sunday,
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Saturday,
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Kenneth shook his head. Been your dam.".
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Bunny and the Doctor started
During the War, the P. & 0. In the attic darkness she remem-lost 124,000 tons. These have bered the still clear noon-day that been mainly replaced, but new surrounded the house. She heard ships are needed to meet the in- her heart.
creasing competition of Con- From inside the bedroom begantinental shipping to China and
down through the timothy grass another pounding, rapid and irre- Japan.
gular, growing louder. It thunder- It is also pointed out that
toward the pond.
They were goon out of sight. Aed through the house. Matilda ran Palestine, in spite of a largely in- Bob White called, sudden as a pistol down and hid in the cupboard un-creasing trade with Great Britain, is almost entirely served by for- shot and that seemed to mark the der the stairs.
When Bliven returned, from eign ships, end of the day, though it was still hroad light. A chill breath ran church Matilda was lying on the floor, hands to her ears. To prove across the yard.
"Who was she?" Natalle reach-to her that there was nothing to ed for Kenneth and his band met be afraid of, that Bertha had mere- They were to be ly gone back to their mother's as hers, held it. married, or at least so they had she had often threatened he forced ex-Matilda to go back upstairs with planned for two years. Her
him. pression made him laugh.
ho was she? Nobody, dari-
Тиев
Thurs.,
24th Julying."
Sat.,
Tues.,
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Of course, Bertha was there in
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He tapped his forchead. Is the bed-room. The wire she had From TRIESTE, VENICE, BRINDISI, 23rd Aug. Bunny often followed by funny old used had cut into her neck; blood PORT SAID, BOMBAY, COLOMBO
women? Are you?"
lay long and thick down her Sun
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Consignees of Cargo are hereby in informed that all Goods are being land-
"No. Or," she smiled, parting day white, and her stockinged
ed at their risk into the Godowne of her red lips slowly, "or generally heels and struck great holes
In the candie-light the Hong Kong and Kowloon Whart I'm not. I do feel strange up- the plaster.
4th Augatairs. In the bedroom-my room her face seemed quite black. 4th Sept. now-whoever was there before "I suppose, it was," Kenneth me and who is gone now, is still ed. "One has to fill it here there, in a way. For years this there." house waited. Now we come. Still
10th July 31st July
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I wish I did." He nodded slowly. what for.
"Good story?" noticed goose-flesh; on her arm. An' actual shudder had run through her even while she smiled.
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"There history is silent."
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these old houses, creak-creak, back has he been telling you?" 13th July
"Stories." She stood very straight and forth." He smiled down on her,
LIVERPOOL "Know why? like a little girl. Good night, Doc- 11th July feeling superior.
Because the wide floor-boards extor, Good.night, Kenneth."
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ture changes. That's all. Bertha sunlight into that house of yours. thermal And fires going! I'm afraid it's Bliven's no more than a
jatill damp."
Night had fallen. They inched "Who's Bertha Bliven?" "She opens doors. She's in the along in second gear to the old Providence turnpike, a mile away, bedroom upstairs."
fearful lest tie-rod or differential On asp- "Yes, and if I tell you about strike, against a stone,
halt at, last and rolling smoothly, Kenneth said: "He ought to be paychoanalysed."
crack. Haw. Haw."
**My room!'
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