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15.200 6th Apr. 4,100 13th Apr
CORFU
1*SOUDAN RANCHI
NALDERA **BURDWAN RANPURA
RAJPUTANA
*+SOMALI
MANTUA
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17,000 4th May 16,000 18th May. 6,000 25th May
*17,000
1st June
17,000 16th June
7,000 22nd June
11,000 29th June
Destinatium.
Marselles & London.
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Antwerp & Hull. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
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Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hail, Bombay, Marseilles & London.
• Cargo anly. † Calla Casablanca.
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TALMA
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
SIRDHANA TAKADA
TILAWA
1985
8,000 29th Mar. 10,000 12th Apr.
'pore. Tenang and Calcutta.
8,000 20th Apr.
-do- -do-
7,000 10th, May
10,000 24th May
B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd class passengers.
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THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1935
THE MANACLED MAN
[Continued from Page 10).
He sat up on the edge of the bed again after perhaps three-quarters of an hour, "rolled and antoked an: other cigarette. He got up then, went to the window and stood for a
moment before he picked up his coat
and put it on, patting the revolver in its pocket, reassuringly. Walk- ing on the balls of his feet, he cross ed the room and knelt once more at
the door.
The man in the other room evidently had turned the wick of the lamp, well down. He could still be seen in the dim light, however, sit- ting in the armchair with his feet up on the other one. He made no Hormick movement, no sound.
roae after a Ittle and went back to the window Catlike, he stepped out through it, without any noise, to the ground.
He took several rapid steps, keep-{ ing close to the side of the house, then turned with his back against it. His gaze searched all about. Each stump and stone, each bit of underbrush, every tree was familiar to him. He waited for several min- utes, watching and listening. No [sound or movement could have escaped him. Finally he made his way to the front of the building.
The revolver was out in his hand now. He skirted the porch and dodged into the shadows at the side of the room where the prisoner was being kept, The window shade lacked only an inch or two of being flush with the sill, but, by stooping, he could see into the room. The door connecting with the front room had swung partly open. Hormack remembered the faulty catch. He could see through into the front room.
The officer still sprawled out on his two chairs. His shoes were off. His shirt was opened at the throat, He had finished smoking and his pipe lay beside his revolver on the table at his side. He was, quite obviously, sound asleep.
No Bound came, from within. Shackled as he was, there seemed little chance that he would cause the Government man any alarm.
Hormack moved out a short dls- tance from the house and stopped again.
For a time there was nothing. Then suddenly his head jerked up. Had that been something that stir- red ever no little-a darker shadow among the shadows?
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1. Two-word titis of picture 18. A decade
14. Silent, alang
15. Fifth letter of the alphabot
16. Neuter pronoun.
18. Motion
21. Printer's measure
22. Jutting rock
24. Sound of escaping steam
25. A fold in cloth...
26. Hawaiian pita for roasting 27. Ballot
28,
Wormlike letter
29. AS
80, Atop
81. Letter that follows
32. Eighth lotter
13. Yes in Spanish
84. Kind of fish
85. Initial letter of alphabet
38. A Spring month
38. Fate
40. Thibetan gazelle 41. Clue
45. Was before; marriage
48. And in Latin
47. Riar in north-west Mexico
49. Royal Navy ....
50. Letter preceding ◊ /
51. Object In view
52. Wing
54. Letter following S
55. Peculiar natures of people"
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2. Letter preceding S
3. Neuter pronoun
4. A beverage
5. Part of a foot
6. Letter following R
7. Letter preceding
8. Andy's. partner
9. Firearm
10. Printer's measure
11. Letter following, L
12. Letter following S
17. Man's shortened name
19. Note of the. seule
20. Exista...
21. Consume
28. Country of the Soviet
25: World's largest elty
26% Earth
27. Useiezn
87. Decay
39. Over partic
41. Residence
Not out
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44. Streetcar, British
47. Slight drink
48. Beverage
51. Fart of to ba
53. Indefinite article
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than noon to- Convinced at last that his eyes
Upright, he stood for an instant office. not later
He leaned forward, raising his
instinctively. gen
Long, quick strides took him to the edge of the clearing at the spot where he had, for an instant; seerned to see some-
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had deceived him, he moved off be with no power of motion, before morrow. tween the trees with the soundless turning his head. The moon was stealth of a hunting animal. But up now, and he stared dazedly at he did not go east, turning, instead what he saw. His mouth sagged is he recognised the man
2nd Apr. Manila, Rohaul, Brisbane, Sydney directly south, directly away from open 7,000 7,000 3rd May Melbourne & Hobart,
the road. Gradually his speed in-atanding, there a few yards from 7,000
creased as he left the house behind, him.
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but there was no let-up on his wari- The stocky fellow was wearing no ness. Twice he halted abruptly, handcuffs no leg-irons now. He North: thinking he had heard an unusual had no hat on either, and one could. noise. The second time he even re-see that the black eye and the scar tracted his steps for 80 or 40 yards on the jaw had been wiped off like to investigate. Finding nothing amiss so much paint. A competent-look- after carefully searching about, he ing Colt's .88 was in one hand as he West:-- resumed his journey even more advanced casually, hurriedly on account of the delay,
"So Jimmy's story of finding the H-10
Sun Deck Swimming Posi- Coming to a stretch of higher swag finally got you to: digging, ......... D.--
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ground with but few, trees, he al- eh?" The stranger flashed a light most trotted in his growing haste. over the scene and kicked zelde East:-
Five minutes later he again paus- Hormack's revolver. "I certainly ed abruptly, glanced cautiously all had a wait for you, though. Began around, then swung sharply to the to think you never would leave the
C.
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The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Bouthampton and left, crossed over, and stopped at house, My partner came in and
London via Panama Canal,
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SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN,
1935,
*BJUDAN
TALMA
CORFU
NELLORE RANCHI
SIRDHANA
BURDWAN
TAKADA
NALDERA
7,000 20th Mar,
10,000 zlat Mar. 14,500 21st Mar.
7,000 3rd Apr.
17,000 4th Apr.
8,000 4th Apr. 6,000 17th Apr!
7,000 18th Apr,
16,000 18th Apr
Cargo caly,
S'hai, Kobe, Yokohama.
Amoy, S'hai, Moll, Kobe & Osaka, S'hal, Kobe, Yokohama.
Shal, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama, Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Amoy, S'hat, Moll, Kobe & Oake.
S'ani, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. Amoy. S'im!, Moji, Kobe & Osaka,
Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama.
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notios, All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans or Punka Louvre Bystem Steamers on London and Australian Idnes are fitted with: Laundrie Parcela menstring, not more than 3 cu. ft. will be received at the ny's Office up to Noon on the day previous to s Bafligg
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the foot of a gaunt, storm-twisted unlocked me right after you went to South': Ipine. Pulling away a pile of loose your room, and a good thing he did, brush, he dropped to his knees, put I guess. Told me he was pretty the revolver, down beside him, pro- sure you'd doped him.” duced a sheath knife and began pok. "Aw, he'll be okay, snarled ing and prodding the ground with Hormack "Only a sleeping powder." South having led the diamond Ten, its heavy blade, loosening the sólk "He'd better be all right. You est must unguard his spade King, enough to scoop it away with his nearly caught me napping that one for otherwise Dummy's third heart hands.s
time, too, while I was trailing you," would win a trick.
The task grew easier as it pro- He dropped the fathlight on the South now throws the five of gressed, the earth finally becoming soft earth, the light still aglow. It hearts from Dammy, his effort to BD soft that he was able to discard gave him an idea, and he wedged it entabilah it having failed and East the knife. He tolled that much into the pile of soll so that the is able to throw a spade without faster, pawing away the dirt with circle of light encompassed fear, since he still has two sujls
to be Hormack
securely guarded: both hands, seeming suddenly seized with a sort of frenzy. At last, This done, he stepped clasar, gun Even when South leads the heart bending lower with a hoarse ex-alert: The big fellow simply stood Queen, East is still in no difficulty clamation, he scraped about franti-there with dropped jaw and in but when South finally plays the caily, jerked and tagged, at some believing eyes. There was a glint Leart douce and wins with Dummy's thing, and started to rise, clutching of metal In the light and the click Ace, East finds himself finally un it In his hands.
of handcuffs:"
able to withstand the pressure of Oddly excited,
› Federal rófficer, too, Hor. tima. His unfortunate predica sack, he
is the same as was West's two plays before. He cannot throw the club for
In what he was doing, the noise suddenly
hurtled,
bou
about
Dummy' deuce.
forced to
Ho
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Shanghai - Kobe
Will Sail for
Yokohama
Honolulu
San Francisco
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March 23rd.
Noon, SATURDAY
Arrives SHANGHAI Monday Morning
March 25th.
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