CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1935

P. O.-British India SLEEP

Apcar and

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& Lines

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· TAKING CARGO FOR

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DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)

8.5

SALDERA

'+BURDWAN

RANPURA

RAJPUTANA

➡+SOMALI

MANTUIA.

CARTHAGE +"BANGALORE RAWALPINDI

† BHUTAN

KAISER-I-HIND

From Toss Hong Kong

About:

To

1935.

16,000 18th May

6,000: 25th May 17,000 1st June

17,000 15th June

-7,000 22nd June

11,000 29th June

14,500 13th July 6,000 20th July

:17,000 27th July 6,000 17th Ang.

11.000 10th Aug

17,000 24th Aug:

6,000 14th Sept

Destination

Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, London, Rotterdam,

Antwerp & Hall. Bombay, Marseilles & London.

DO

Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hul. Bombay, Marseilles & London Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London,

Retterdam, Antwerp & Hall Bombay, Marseilles & London.

Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Holl Bombay, Marseilles & London,

Bombay, Marseilles & London.

(Continued from Page 11).

Outside, the snow and wind lash-

led at the island. The storm in

tated Bardley," made things more complicated. Be. didn't look for, ward to being snowbabeda

He let the game go on for while. Then he broke in thing's wrong with my

of you boys ever had garage perience?

Except for Morgan they all “re-¡ mained stolid. He was now enjoy-/ ing Bardley's efforts to force a slip out of them. "Sure, we all had We all had garage experience. (anything you got." He roared with langhter and made the others laugh with him.

Quietly, but-immediately, Bardley said: "Queenie's had a litter of pups, Rampson Five fine ones."

"Fire?"

It was the boy called George who had spoken. The bit of seemingly irrelevant information-Bardley had picked up from the "lawyer had worked,

Young Rampson went white and half rose in his chair. Morgan stared at him for an instant. But in that instant Bardley had acted, sweeping chips., cards and gun to, the floor.

Ketti Gallian and Spencer Tracy in a' scené`from “Marie Galaxta,” com Deming was at him first Mor- ing shortly to the King's Theatre. gan was slower. Eardley, ready for!, him, waited for an opening. "Then

"Sleepy, copper?” "Not yet" - "You will be."

con-

he crashed his huge hand against the drone of the storm began to the man's jaw and sent him hurtling make Bardley feel drowsy. But it back against the wall Deming was only momentary and easily

shaken off. He had made Rampson Daylight was doubly welcome went down, insensible.

Morgan's hand was almost at the and Harry line up in chairs by Mor- that morning. It picked Bardley gan on the floor. Bardley stamped gan's side. He now ordered Harry up. He made the most of it by hard, and Morgan withdrew his to make him some coffee and pre-briskly ordering Harry to make the arm with a cry of enraged pain. pare food. Harry grumbled but set breakfast. Rampson helped "him, Bardley swooped down, picked up a plate of warmed beans, several dully, sick of the continued agony. the gun and covered Morgan, waving slices of bread and a cup of black Morgan gloated over the for Rampson and Harry to move coffee on the table. Bardley ate tinned blizzard: “One time it snow-

bia further in front of

They this meal with his left hand, stand-ed for two weeks straight, "copper.” obeyed, and with Morgan faced himling up.. Then he sat down again to *I like snow.” tensely...

his vigil.

That day was a nightmare for Now listen." Bardley said, “what Rampson and Harry slept watcher and watched. Demning Bombay Marseilles, Harve, London I told you about Rampson is on the their chairs, hat Morgan remained became delirious from the pain of

Hamburg, Antwerp, Rotterdam, & level" He addressed young. Ramp-awake to taunt Bardley. .

his broken jaw and howled impre- Hall

son directly. "Your uncle wanta "Ever sleep nights, copper? cations at thein all. Harry had bad + Calle Casablanca - Calls Port Sudan Cargo only.

"Don't feel like it to-night,” enough of it. Rampson himself Frequent commection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con-you back and wants to forget every-

Bardley grinned.. -

began to crack under the strain." tantinople, Piraeus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the thing.”

The boy wanted to get it over, one Khedivial Mall Steamship Co.

way or the other anything except sit there before the bulldog. man holding the gun.

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"They'll put me in gaol" The boy was scared.

"You will, Why don't you rope up and have a nap now?"

"I don't like the kind of rope you have here."

"He's one of us," Morgan barked, "and I'm here to watch out for him -even if he don't want me to. "You'd better get some other He's doing a little work for me ideas. about how you can get some soon get it? So he don't go back sleep," Morgan told him. "Because with any copper.”

“I don't care what happens,” he cried, "but I can't stand this.”

"Shut up!" Morgan told him. you're going to need it."

"You'l stand it, and like it. This "The only thing I can think of" copper ain't going to pat it over on He Bardley explained, “is putting you} me.” his outside and locking the door.”

“Yeh?"

"Then I'll have to take him." Bardley said "With this,” indicated the gun be held in hand.

It was entirely between Morgan and Bardley now—Morgan, Bardley, “Yeh?" asked Morgan. "And "The only reason I don't do that and the storm. And Mozgan could how you going to do that right is because there isn't any lock on afford to sleep. It the storm kept BL. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation "fo]now?" He looked out through the the door."

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"I never did like houses an locks on them.”

“Anyway, you might catch cold That night Bardley had gone 60 "I wait until it's over," Bardley out there. You look sort of deli-hours without sleep, 48 of them and tip-toed over to Bardley A told him.

standing a wracking guard over a his side he grinned. The very With a laugh Morgan planked "You ain't any picture of health man ever ready to jump at his slowly one of his hands wept down throat the moment he closed his to the dangling gun. He grabbed] 3rd May Mazila, Robaal, Brisbane, Sydney down on one of the chairs. "You're yourself"

going to have a long wait, copper. They glared at each other, two red-rimmed eyes. His movements it wrenching it away. Melbome & Hobart

This is a blizzard.”

strong men paying each other's were becoming slow and beavy Morgan stepped back as Barder Bardley stood, calculating the physique a left-handed compliment. Coffee no longer had any effect on jumped awake and raised his hand, men, the storm, the cabin. On the Bardley welcomed the dawn. It him; it was like drinking war expecting it to be still armed. Then four. Deming began to groan made him lose his drowsiness. He water. Keeping awake had become he realised, and lowered his arm. *Take care of him, Bardley order-made Rampson and Harry prepare a purely physical effort. There

Morgan levelled the gnat, him. breakfast.

was nothing to work on mentally, The others, awake now, looked on Zaguier monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japased Rampson and Hanya

The two men examined Deming Throughout the day the ferocity nothing to interest him in thought curiously. ead Hong Kong to Australia.

and lifted him into Hong Kong to Sydney — 19 days.

the of the stom did not lessen. Be-His brain thirsted for sleep, m-

"Caught you

you that time, copparit The Imchin "It looks as if his jaw's tween the gusts Bardley could see stimulated except by his perve And take a look!" Morgan waved Gneisenau, the third ship built for broken, Harry announced.

that the lake was freezing over racking witch.

out through the window.the Far East Express Service of In the middle of the night "Mor-1 Young Rampeon stood about, in-To keep himself awake be took to

Eardley saw that the air had

the Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen, decisive. Bardley could see the boy striding up and down his end of the gan woke from several hours sleep cleared. The lake appeared “solid, didn't know, what to do or what to froom Morgan slept in his chair, and yawned prodigiously.

covered deeply with a blanket it had will take place at the Act. Gest think- He was caught. He could-Deming, groaned. in his bunk and-"How about forty winks,

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wondering if Morgan was going to Bampson played cards Barber Don't need ten,

re for a man who had fought and lost on May 17, 1935 be able to help him.

did not try to persuade the boy any plied

First a sense of relief. He could *You will” Bardley began to explain to him more. It was now entirely a ques

{go, now. And take, Rampson with Morgan sat watching him, spread-him. He would make the boy the details of his uncle's discovery tion of the storm. Once it waK on the real thief. Rampson looked over Rampson wouldn't give him ing a dirty grin over his blotch af trudge over the lake ahead of him. absolutely at the floor dully, without respond any trouble, no matter how glum bela, mouth Rampson and Harry Then, still with Rampen, be would for cor

had become.

snored in their chairs, Morgan drive back to Virginia and the the First That night, after 24 hours of yawned again and closed his eyes reward. "Shut up!" Morgan said. "You

which lat take him. Why don't you do men, Bardley first began to feel an asleep,

“Too bad, Morgen, Fre got this.” Bardley was beginning to wonder acute desire for sleep. Morgan Bardley listened to the breathing this himself ge Morgan was right seemed to realise this, for he asked: of the men, to the storm outside. As he spoke he reached for the gum Potsdam, the other two vessels for

How about some sleep, copper to the soft hiss of the stove. All sling under his cont It was a blizzard which was blow-

"Never use it,” Bardley retorted three noises hired the terrife desire had only just disappeared Jing, stronger, steadier by the "You will”

for sleep. His eyelids were heavy Morgan pulled the trigg By virtue of the gun

As the endless, repetitious hours with a yearning to shut down their gam he held. Then Bardley could hold them for a cer-wore on Morgan's prophecy became exacting duty if even for a few low click Bar tain length of time. But if the

more inevitable. Bandley's eyes, in mim storm kept up for several days the

of contional cups of black

Hours element of sleep would enter into

heavy, were calling for

increased agony the situation

from overslept, to make him em

remained brain

ded sleep, ominously sh for it. And finally-

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MANTUA

TALMA

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ing

Bardley

This

in, toa” is about: 18,000

is an innovation in the

(can't talk him into it. You got to ceaseless holding a gun on rebellions In a moment he was ostensibly? He turned in the grinning MogTM| German Far East trag

minute.

He sat down himself - He need all the energy he posse He tried to talk to young Ban again, the boy would not listen, neither would Moryan let Bardey

bject to alteration without notion, try to make him.

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TACI

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y's eyelids drooped dow k-up again with Dra their overpowe

Fingers

and Bardley's

ed his own gun. VT-pulled” the

still two days ago,

His Morgan' zwone.”

at the window re- through the bri the itself in the

made an ear

dawn app iley slept, his head hunched Bardley, but own on his

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