THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1934
P. Q 20.-British India The Twisting of The Rope Bridge_ Notes
Apcar and Eastern 2 Australian Lines
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
CARGO FOR
TAKING
STRAITS, JAVA, HURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c.
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)
8.8.
Tons Hong Kon
From
About
1934.
1*
1 BURDWAN
RANCH! NALDERA +*SOMALI
15,000 29th Dec. 0,000 6th Jan.
17,000 12th Jan. 16,000 26th Jan,
7,000
CORFU
RAWALPINDI RAJPUTANA **BANGALORE
2nd Feb.
17,000 9th Feb. 17,000 23rd Feb.
· G,000
Destination.
Hombay, Marseilles & London.
is bay, Mars., Havre, London H'barg,
Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hol. Hombay. Marseilles & London.
- DO
Mars., Havre, London Hamburg
R'dam, Antwerp and HuB. Bombay, Maravilles and London.
-DO-
2nd Mar. Marseilles, Havre, London. Hamburg
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. Marseilles & London
CHITRAL CARTHAGE
15,000 9th Mar 15,000 23rd Mar.
•Cargo only.
† Calls Careblanca.
DO
Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con stantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khadivial Mail Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
1934,
*TILAWA
SANTHIA
4th Jan.
10,000 24th Dec. S'pore, Periang, and Calcutta.
... 10 sim. 8,000
DQ-
Calls Rangoon
t Call Port Sweetenham
B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation 1st and 2nd class passengers.
NANKIN NELLORE
7,000
1924.
for
:
(Continued from Page 3.) or sun or stars or shadows of oven- (Continued from Page 9)
Figuring, on the basis of the Ing, or any earthly thing." "Han- "What good are you when you rahan," said the mother then, strik-information disclosed, that West cannot make the best girl In the ing him on the shoulder, will you had only four clubs, South row house come out and dance with you? give me a hand hóre for a minute?" decided to play the hand upon the And go now the whole of you," she "Do that, Hanrahan," said the basis of a normal break in the said, "and see can you bring her woman of the neighbours," "and help heart auit. He led the King from But as to make this hay into a rope, for his own hand and Weat discarded away from the poet's talk." Oons would not listen to any of you are ready with your hands, and a diamond.
South now knew that West had ther, but only moved her hand as a blast of wind has loosened the
not led his fourth-beat club, if to send them away. Then they thatch on the haystack.” «
"I will do that for you," said he, asmuch as he had no hearts he called to Hanrahan, and said he had best dance with the girl himself, or and he took the little stick in his must have had a five-card suit or- hands, and the mother giving out iginally and this apparently was let her dance with one of them.
Shen Hanrahan heard what they the hay, and he 'twisting it, but he clubs. With this count on the
to change his plans. were saying he said: "That is so, was hurrying, to have done with It. West hand. South was compelled will dance with her; there is no and to be free again. man in the house must dance with her but myself.”
*
He led the eight of spades, West The women went on talking and covered with the nine, and Dum- He stood up with her then, and giving out the hay, and encouraging my's Knave was taken by Eata's led her out by the hand, and some him, and saying what a good twis King. Had East, at this point, re- of the young men were vexed, and ter of a rope he was, better than turned another spade, South could some began mocking at his ragged their own neighbours or than any-not have fulfilled his contract.
East, however, not realising the coat and his broken boots. But he one they had ever seen. And Han-
no rahan saw that Cons was watching difficulties he was creating for his took no notice, and Dona took notice, but they looked at one an- him, and he began to twist very partner, led the Queen of hearts. other as if all the world belonged to quick and with his head high, and West was again forced to discard. themselves alone. But another cou-to boast of the readiness of his dropping a club, and the Ace la ple that had been sitting together hands, and the learning he had in Dummy won the trick. The. De- like lovers stood out on the floor at his head, and the strength in his clarer now laid down the Ace of And as he was boasting he diamonds in Dummy and returned the same time, holding one another's arms.
feet to went backward, twisting the rope Dummy's last diamond, playing the hands and moving their
But always till he came to the door that King from his own hand.
He then led a small diamond, keep time with the music. Hanrahan turned his back on them wes open behind him, and without
as if angry, and in place of dancing thinking he passed the threshold which West was forced to win with And no the Queen, and West returned a he began to sing, and as he sang he uns was out on the road.
South now cashed his ea- held her hand, and his voice grew sooner was he there than the mother club, which South won with the louder, and the mocking of the made a sudden rush, and' threw out King.
turned another club, again forcing young man stopped, and the fiddle the rope after him, and she shut the tablished diamond and then
West into the lend, and West, who stopped, and there was nothing door and the half-door ́and put heard but his voice that had in it bolt upon them.
she held only the Queen-seven She was well pleased when the sound of the wind. And what
Oh, Death's old bony finger Will never find us there.
2
re-
of
Even after his partner's failure:
PRESIDENT LINERS
TO
NEW YORK
offer a Choice of Routes
,་་
11
Sail through the Suez, via Europe to New York. Or sall through the Panama Canal, via San Francisco, Los Angeles, Havana. Oz, go mant quickly of all, via Seatte and thence across the continent by train, but go by President Liner. The luxurious way that is so economicall
SAN FRANCESCU, NEW YORK THE SUNSHINE ROUTE 48 Days To San Francisco Vla. Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama and Honolulu
Fortnightly sailings:—
Pres. Coolidge ...Dec. 29, 9.00 a.m. Pres. Taft ......Jan. 6, 8,00a.m. Pres. Hoover ....Jan. 26, 4.00 a.m. Pres. Pierce.....Feb. 13, 8.00 a.m. Pres. Coolidge Feb. 23, Noon
EUROPE, NEW YORK Inquire for round-trip tickets to Europe in connection with Lloyd Triestino Via Manila, Bingapore, Columbo, Bombay, Suez and the Mediterranean Pres. Harrison.....Jan. 5, 8 a.m. Pres. Hayes
Pres. Johnson
Jan. 19, 8 a.m. Feb. 2,84 Feb. 16, 8 am. Preu. Van Buren...Mar. 2.8 a.m.
Prea, Monroe
SEATTLE, VICTORIA THE EXPRESS ROUTE 17 Days To Seattle Via Ehanghai, Kobe and Yokohama
Fortnightly sallings-
Pres. Jackson ...Jan. 4, Midnight Pres. McKinley ..Jan. 18, + Pres. Grant .....Feb. 1, N Pres. Jefferson ..Feb. 15, ሁ Pres. Jackson 2..Mar. 1,
MANILA
THE MOST FREQUENT
SERVICE
NEXT BAILINGS
Pres. Jackson...Dec. 29, 6.00 p.m. | Pres, Harrison Jan. 5, 8.00 a.m. Pres, Taft. Jan. 8 6:00 p.m. Pres. McKinley Jan. 12, 6.00 p.m. Pres. Hoover.....Jan. 17, 9.00 p.m.
BOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES AMERICAN MAIL LINE“
by playing the Queen of die NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD
This
he sung was a song he had heard or had done that, and laughed out loud, spades, was compelled to concede
and the remaining tricks. had made one time in his wander and the neighbours laughed
But they heard him lugs on Slieve Echtge, and the words praised her. of it as they can be put Into English beating at the door, and saying to return a spade to the fifth trick, words of cursing outside it, and the West could have defeated the con- were like this:-
mother had but time. to stop Oona tract by playing the Queen of dia- that had her hand upon the bolt to monds under South's King. open it.
She made a sign to the would have permitted East to gain fiddler then, and he began a reel, the lead on the third round of dia- and one of, the young men asked no monds with his Knave, and West leave, but caught hold of Oona and would not then have been caught brought her into the thick of the in the end-play. dance. And when it was over and the fiddle had stopped, there was no sound at all of anything outside, but the road was as quiet as before, As to Hanrahan, where he knew the
In the high hollow townland Where Love's to give and to spare; Where bought have fruit ond
hlossom
At all times of the year; Where rivers are running over With red beer and brown beer. An old man plays the bagpipes In a gold and silver wood; Queens, their oyes blue like
ice,
Are dancing in a crowd.
WORLD'S SMALLEST WATCH REPORTED STOLEN
What is claimed to be the smallest
he was shut out and that there was watch in the world has been stolen neither shelter nor drink nor by smash and grab raiders. With girl's ear for him that night, the about fifty other watches it was And while he was singing it Oona anger and the courage went out of taken from the window of a firm of moved nearer to him, and the colour him, and he went on to where the watchmakers in New Bond Street, had gone from her cheek, and her waves were beating on the strand. early one day last month. Made Jeyes were not blue now, but grey, He sat down on a big stone, and of platinum, the watch is worth with the tears that were in them, he began swinging his right arm 295. It is one-eighth of an inch in and anyone that saw her would have and singing slowly to himself, the width by half an inch. thought she was ready to follow way he did.always to hearten him- him there and then from the west self when every other thing failed to the east of the world.
*. * *
him. And whether it was that time rope had changed in his dream Into But one of the young men called or another time he made the song a. great water-worm that came out out: "Where is that country he is that is called to this day "The of the sea, and that twisted itself singing about? Mind yourself, Twisting of the Rope," and that about him, and held him closer and Oona, it is a long way off, you might begins, "What was the dead cat that closer, and grew from the big to EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, e a long time on the road before put me in this place?" is not known. bigger till the whole of the earth and skies were wound up in it, and you reach to it." And another said: "It is not to the Country of the But after he had been singing a the stars themselves were but the 28th Dec. Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & Young you will be going if you go while mist and shadows seemed to shining of the ridges of its' akin. 7,000 lat Feb. Melbourne, and Hobart
with him, but to Mayo of the bogs." gather about him, sometimes com- And then he got free of it, and went Oona looked at him then as if she ing out of the sea, and sometimes on, shaking and unsteady, along the would question' him, but be raised moving upon it. It seemed to him edge of the strand, and the grey her head in his hand, and called out that one of the shadows was the shapes were flying here and there between singing and shouting: "It queen-woman he had seen in her around him. And this is what is very near ue that country is, it sleep at Slleve Echtge; not in her they were saying. "It is a pity for bare hill behind it is, or it may be out to them that were behind her. daughters of the Sidhe, for he will| in the heart of the wood."
"He was weak, he was weak, he had find no comfort in the love of the And he said out very loud. and no courage." And he felt the women of the earth to the end of clear: "In the heart of the wood; strands of the rope in his hand yet, life and time, and the cold of the oh, death will never find us in the and went on twisting it, but it seem- grave is in his heart for ever. It Sun Deck Swimming Pool heart of the wood. And will you ed to him as he twisted that it had is death he has chosen; let him die,
come with me there, Oona?" he said. all the sorrows of the world in it. let him die, let him die."
But while he was saying this the And then it seemed to him as if the
Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japas is on every side; it may be on the sleep now, but mocking, and calling him that he refuses the call of the and Hong Kong to Australia.
Hong Kong to Sydney 19 days.
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND for a cheap Holiday. Your Bagh (Burfing, Fishing, Shooting, and
money is worth 25 per cent, maro).
Climates to suit all.
No Additional Charge for Deck Cabins.
Orchestra carried Laundry-Surgeon-Stewardesà.
B & A Crizine and Service are unsurpassed. Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-
The Union 8.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom vis New two old women had gone outside the Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and
The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London via Soes
door, and Oona's mother was crying,
and she said: "He has put an en- Can we not
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and chantment on Oona. London via Panama Canal.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN,
TALMA *SOMALI NALDERA NELLORE SIRDHANA RAWALPINDI BANGALORE TAKADA RAJPUTANA TANDA SHIRALA CHITRAL
1934.
10,000 29th. Dec. 7,000 28th Dec.
16,000 28th Dec.
7,000 3rd Jan. 8,000 10th Jan. 17,000 11th Jan. 6,000 "24th Jan, 8,000. 24th Jan. 17,000 25th Jan. 7,000 2nd Feb. 8,000 7th Feb. 15,000 8th Feb.
Cargo only..
Amoy, S'hai, Moji, Kobe, Osaka.. S'hal Kobe and Yokohama,
S'hai, Molt, Kobe and Yokohama,
get the men to put him out of the [house."
"That is a thing you cannot do,' said the other woman, "for he is a poet of the Gael, and you know well if you would put a poet of 'the Gael out of the house he would put
a .course on you that would! wither the corn in the fields and dry
S'hat, Maji, Kobe, Osaka, Yokohama,up the milk of the cows, if it had Amoy, S'hai, Moji, Kobe, Osaka,
S'hai Kobe and Yokohama...
-DO-
Amoy, S'hal, Moji, Kobe, Osaka, S'hai, Kobe, Yokohama.
S'hal, Moji, Kobe; Osaka, Yokohama. Amby, Shai, Majl, Kobe, Osaka. S'hal, Kobo, Yokohama.
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notion All Cabins are atted with Electric Fans or Punks Louvre System. Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries, Bl Parcels measuring not more than 8 gu. ft. will be received at the Com- pany's Office up to. Noon on the day prurious to aslling Kelemen For further information Famage, Freight, Handbooks, etc, apply to P. & U. Building Connaught Rd C4 Hong Kong agents.
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,
to hang in the air seven years."
THE END.
BREMEN
Will despatch
M.V. "NEPTUN'
.on
5TH JANUARY, 1935,
to
SYDNEY direct-15 days.
Tel- 26378
For Further particulars. apply to
MELCHERS & CO.,
Queen's Bldg.
Canton Agents:- JEBSEN & CO.
General Agents.
BARBER-WILHELMSEN LINE
MONTHLY SERVICE
*To
NEW YORK, SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES.
and
PANAMA CANAL Ports. -
Next Sailing
M.S. "TAI YANG"
on
JANUARY 18th
Excellent Accommodation
for 12 Passengers.
DODWELL & CO., LTD
FOR RATES AND INFORMATION.
AND FOR SATISFACTION
Queen's Buildings
TELEPHONE
TELEPHONE
27761
OUR TRUCKS.
ARE
AT YOUR SERVICE
"God help us," said the mother, CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE
"and why did I ever let him into the house at all, and the wild name ho hast"
"It would have been no harm at all to have kept him outalde, but there would great harm come upon you if put him out by force. But listen to the plan I have to get him out of the house by his own doing, without anyone putting him from It at all
It was not long after that the two women came in again, each of them having a bundle of hay in her apros. Hanrahan was not singing now, but he was talking to Oona very fast and soft, and he was saying
house sparrow but the world is wide, and there is no true lover that need be afraid of night or morningí
COMPANY, LIMITED
繪光
PHOTO
SUPPLIES
Cameras Films,
Plates, Papers, etc.
Developing Printing and
Enlarging
AT 24 HOURS-SERVICE-
PHOTO TAKEN DAY NIGHT.
THE KWONG KWUI CO. LTD.
Photograph
74, Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong
Tel, 23170.
KING'S
Agents
Telephone 28021
GIFTS.
Photographs are not a gift you give to anyone but they're the ideal gift for those you care about and those who cars. about you. And when you have them taken by King's Studio you've got a real gift, an artistic, beautifully finish
ed picture that really does you Justice. We
take · portraits "and
enlarge all kinds of photos at
the chespect price. The beat work you can ever get in town.
STUDIO
相影
星費
NAWAN
Queen's Road C
@Manager: