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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1934
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robe. Only then did he realise that he was clambering over 'the' Elated by his triumph, he paid floor with his head near the carpet, her losses and called for champagne his hands outstretched in front of The girl plied him skilfully with him. He stood upright with ́ dif-i wine, and presently he was more ficulty and reached a shaking and drunk than he had been since the for brandy.
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beginning of his era of prosperity, It took him two hours to strug- They took a cab to the flat gle into his clothes, and by the Grey felt that he had reached the time by was ready to go out it was pinnacle of triumph.
He switched on the light and girl crossed his threshold.
ruom
WAS
which they entered lavishly illuminated, the shaded into moderation by fabrics, The room, ornate over-furnished, reflected The girl gave a gasp of delight.
For the first time the cat seemed
nearly dark. He crept along the the street. The shops were closing. He The saw nothing of them until he reach- ed the corner, where he halted ab lights ruptly, with a queer sensation of In- costly tense hunger. On the cold marble and before him lay unappetising alaba of raw fish. His body began. to quiver with suppressed desire. An- other moment and nothing could have prevented him seizing the fish, Jaware of something unusual. It in his bare hands, when the shut- stretched itself slowly and stood up ters of the shop dropped noisily regarding them with a fierce light across the front of the sloping mar-
ble surface. -
in its eyes.
money.
Egypt has a new minister to the United States, Ibrahim Ratib, whe has the title of Bey.
POTTERY FACTORY- IN KIANGSI
$1,000,000 Capital
Mr.
The girl screamed.
Grey knew that sometning had "For God's sake take it away!" happened, that he was very ill. Now! she cried. "I can't bear it! that he could not see the vision of can't be near ib. Take the yellow cat, his mind was a that damned cat away!" And the blank. Somehow he retraced his began to sob wildly, piteously, re-foot-steps and got back to his room. treating towards the door.
The bottle of brandy stood where are planning to establish a pottery Chinese official and merchanta At this Grey lost all control and, he had left it. He had not turned improvement factory in Kiangsi cursing wildly, shouting bestial on the light, but he could see it with a capital of $1,000,000. things at the oncoming animal, plainly. He dragged it to his lips. Tu Tsung-yuen has left for Nan- seized it by the throat.
With a crash it went to the floor, chang to interview the governor of "Don't don't cry: dearle," panted while Grey leapt Into the air, that province with regard to the Grey, holding the cat; I settle age with nausea. He felt that he this swine soon enough. Wait for was choking.
plan. With an effort. he me!"
And he staggered through pulled himself together, to find that the open door.
it was beyond his power to stop the Grey ran through the deserted ghastly whining sound that issued streets. The cat had subsided un-from his lips. He tried to lift him- der the clutch of his fingers and self on to the bed, but in sheer ex- Banbay, Mars,, Havre, London, Ham-lay inert, its yellowish fur throb-haustion collapsed on the floor,
burg, R'dam, Antwerp and Hull. bing. He scarcely know where he where he lay still in an attitude $145,000,000 Last Season Bombay, Marroilles and London, was going. All he realised was an not human.
overwhelming desire to be rid of The room lightened with the the tyranny of this wretched crea-dawn and a new day passed before drought amounted to $145,000,000
Losses during
Itst season's turehe he held by the throat.
the ibing on the floor moved. Some in Kiangsu, Cheklang, Anhwel, At last he knew where he
was thing of the clarity if vision which Chili, Shantung, Hupeh, Honan, going, Nor far from Grey's new comes to starving men now possess Kiangel, Hunan and Shensi, accord- establishment ran the Prince's ed him. He stared at his hands. Canal, that dark, sluggish stream The fingers seemed to have with-try of Industry.
ing to returns made by the Minis- that threads its way across the ered; the nails had almost disap- fashionably residential district of peared, leaving a narrow streak of
-DO-
'bay. Mars, Havre, London B'burg,
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-DO-
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DO
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--- DO
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DROUGHT LOSSES
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Down the silent bank he scram-
the out-lying West. To the canal hornish substance forming in their mess which surrounded him. he ran, and without heaitation he place. He tore himself frantically threw the yellow cat into the water-towards the window. In the fad-bled headlong, towards the still The next day he realised what ing light he saw that the backs of water. The dawn's pale radiance he had done. At first he was afraid, his hands were covered with a thin, threw his shadow into a grotesque half hoping that the superstitious almost invisible surface of coarse, spasm of fear would pass. But a yellowish fur.
pattern. On the edge of the canal vivid picture, swam before his eyes, Unimaginable horrora seized him. the sticky crumbling earth, his head he halted, his hands embedded in the broken surface of a sluggish He knew now that the scarlet shaking, his eyes searching in agon- dream...
thread of his brain was being strat-ised appeal, into the depths of the "You're & coward," she taunted ched to breaking point. Presently motionless water. him. "Why don't you act like a it would snap.. man? Go to the tables and see for yourself that you can still win in [spite of your crazy cat notions!"
At first he refused, vehemently:
..
Unless unless. The yellow cat the yellow-cat.
And there in the water he Baw alone could save him. To this last human thought he clung, in an were his arms, while the yellow cat He stretched out the hings that agony of terror. B.I. Apear Line steamers have excellent accommodation for but it gradually dawned on him
stretched out its claws to enfold Unconscious of movement, behim in the broken mirror of the 1st and 2nd class passengers.
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That night he received a vocifer- ous welcome on his return to the Green Balze Club.
It
was as he feared. He lost!
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Then suddenly an idea came-to him. Supposing the cat were still alive? Why hadn't he thought of that before? Why, there was a saying that every cat had nine lives! For all he knew it might
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Viscount Snowden's Attacks KAIPING COAL
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"I thought this post would ng his old comrades.
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suit him admirably. He would | These personalities colour the not have much opportunity for whole volume, which, besides be- squandering money, but he ing a valuable historical record, is would be able to do a good monument of political egotism many small things which and self-righteousness.
Lord got away.
would improve the amenities Snowden was a very distinguish- AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND for a cheap Holiday into action. He hurriedly left the
His feverish impulse crystallized of Government buildings and ed Parliamentarian, but he did
public parks."
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Lord Snowden says that he never poses, and the features of his Sun Deck Swimming Post Passing toxicab.
After what seemed interminable had much faith in "rich men who Budgets which he prizes most- delay he reached the spot where he came into the Socialist party and the abolition of the McKenna and had madly flung the cat away from at once became more. Socialist Safeguarding Dutics have been the Socialists. Sir proved by later events to be acts brought home to him the futility of Oswald, he says, was the Prime of fanatic folly in the cause of searching for the animal here. This Minister's special protege.
& One-sided Free Trade which is "An intimate social rela
now dead and damned. tionship was established: be
He is rightly proud of his tween them such as never triumph at The Hague, where he existed between Mr. Mac championed British interests as Donald and the plebeian mera-Canning or Palmerston ✨ might have done, and looking all Europe bers of the Labour party."
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The thing prayed on his mind laļ the days that, followed. Exhaus tive Inquiries failed to discover the least trace of the yellow cat.
Night after night he wont to the tables, lured there by the madden- ing thought that if only he could win he would drug the torment and lovingly than the Wasp of THE hourglede van be at peace. But he lost
pener
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Fear Of Trade Unions And then a strange thing han-suggests that his Chief increas Again, in the late autumn of ingly lost the "common touch" 1931, he magnificently redeemed and if he did not come to hate the weakness he had shown for One night, returning home across the profanum vulgus, he at least two years in not taking a firmer a deserted stretch of the park, ha experienced a queer, Irresistible fm kept it at arm's length,
stand against his colleagues when S'hai, Moji, Kobe, Oaks, Yokohama. pulse to lift his feet from the grass The day after the National ha realised on what a dangerous and his friends hastened to obeyer and a director of A City com- Government was formed he slope the country's finances and withdrew the consent which pahy, was at Woolwich County came into my room at Down- stood. Ing-street in very high spirita. I remarked to him that he blank refusal of the Socialists, to In these pages he stresses the
they had previously given in Court ordered to pay is a week in Cabinet to cute In Unemployment would now find himself very face up to the dangers disclosed
respect of 418 Pay popular in strange quarters, by the May Committee He replied, gleefully rubbing over, he underlines the his hands, "Yes, to-morrow son why nearly all his every duchess in London will flinched
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and make for the gravel path. Hồ
resented the impulse, fought against it; he was cold and worn out, and atting across the grass he would by cutting across. save many minutes of wearing tramping, But, the thing-like mysterlous blind Instinct-persist- ed, and in the end he found himself [running, trading ginger
sodden grass. The nex
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lived in Ast at Blackheath, for
which his father paid.
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¿seventy, years to pay the debt.