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search Harrison for the key of the
In the case of Harrison and Joe hand-cuffs, and then escape. the test was quickened by the fact Escape? That might not have that each began with a grievance been too difficult when his crime against the other, a grievance of was no greater than the compara- which the steel links that bound tively trivial offence of stealing! them together was a perpetual re-the squire's `game. There would (From Our Own Correspondent] minder to Harrison of the use-have been no very ardent search Canton. To-day-lessness of Joe's resistance, to Joe for him. He could have got away. The mystery of high coal for the meanness of Harrison's mo- to his married sister's in South prices has been solved by a high tives in arresting him. And as Wales and stayed there till the fuse official who turned sleuth. This the slow hours dragged by, this was over. gentleman. Mr. Yeung Hei-chik self-justification steadily heighten- But now he would be wanted head of the auditing departmented to the pitch of exasperation.
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sought to change to a position of could be no escape for him now.) A conscientious and upright
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With a sudden effort, Joe strad- Another plan is that coal mer! By that time Harrison's thirst åled the lax mass beneath him chants should submit tenders for had become unendurable. Joe Had and, still encumbered by the hand- the sale of coal." This will save drunk much more recently, was cuffs, gripped Harrison's belt, and the revenue officers the trouble less beavily clad and had not had raised the body nearly out of the of buying coal direct and will Harrison's three-mile tramp sand water. Then, getting à Bombay, Marseilles & London enable the financial authorities to subsequent stalling of his quarry purchase, he lifted the body until avoid unnecessary expenditure. under the mid-day - sun. Wherefore he could clasp it to him face to Straits; Colombo & Bombay.
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now nearly up to his Admiral Chen Chak's regime-temperately, still trying to keep knees in mud, but a fierce gust of Now less than one half of that himself in hand, that they should energy had possessed him, a fury jamount is sufficient.
go down to the river and have a of desire to get the body of Har Įdrink, Joe seized his advantage by rison up to the comparatively le- Ja surly (and blasphemous) re-vel ground beyond that slope down which not five minutes earlier they And then, in an instart, all self-had sad madly rushed. restraint was thrown aside.
And suddenly a great strength "By God, if you won't come. I'll came to him, the power of one make, I'll make you," Harrison ex-whose every faculty is intensely ploded, and with an instinctive dis-fconcentrated on a single object, a like to fight lying down, both of strength, great as that of a mad- them rose to their feet For a moman. In cold blood, with, all his ment they stood glaring at one an-reasoning faculties alert, it might - Northern Rhodesia is this week other, their faces less than a foot have taken Joe a quarter of an Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, Lon-changing its capital when Lusa- apart, before Joe attempted hour to heist those 170 lbs. of ka, a own planned and built short-armed blow and had his left dead weight up so steep a slope. from the bush, takes the place of wrist seized by Harrison's right inspired by singleness a purpose; Livingstone.
hand. After that the fight, begin with reason temporarily in abey- The Legislative Council Champing as a blind, objectless wrest-ance, he accomplished the task ing 5. Marseilles, Havre, Loaber. and Administrative offices ling, gradually resolved itself into ander two minutes.
open in Lusaka to-day, and even-a struggle by Harrison to force And it seemed that he was still tually all central official activi-Joe down to the river. ties, conducted during
inspired when his goal was reach- 24 rears at Livingstone, will be were fairly evenly matched, bat tion he put his hand into the poc
the last in physical strength the two ed Without a moment's hesita-| transferred there. The progress Harrison was perhaps a stune the ket of Harrison's trousers that of settlement and mining in the heavier of the two, and he had the contained the key of those accurs-! territory has left Livingstone farther advantage that in the direc-ed handcuffs, and when, free at San far to the south of the Northerntion in which he wished to go the last, he had liberated his left hand, Rhodesian main population and ground sloped down hill to the he set to on the work of resuscita- the transfer has been effected river, the sole objective of the pretion with the certainty of an ex- with a view to present conven-sent struggle. Harrison furiously pert ience and future need. It is ex-desired to drink, Joe, his resent- pected that Lusaka will steadily ment now flaring into hatred, was had ever beard as to the methods At that moment everything he develop as a centre of mining and farming activitiesBritish Wire-i
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"Oh, well, you can please your body, the "Well, then? Why don't you?" self about that," our of Harrison. They wrestled, whole of Joe's being was the ex- Joe shook his head. Td sooner roughly, and got to his feet. "But Bob replied stambling against the trees, some-pression of a single-hearted pray- times staggering as far apart, asjer. He had no
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Ian't going to arrest you. Walk thought then of those linked hands would permit, saving himself, but only of saving. Twenty minutes earlier, their home and give yourself up, at others bound in a close grip-Bob Harrison.
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Yet all the time Harrison was Not antil Bob had begun to of them had been furiously intent want to." Canton, to-day steadily gaining ground, working breathe again, had been sick and upon obtaining his own object by "Nice sort of policeman, aren't- The anti-plague campaign spon-islowly nearer to the lower edge of was slowly recovering his wits, brute force. Now Joe was regard-your Joe taunted him. sored by the Municipal Bureau of the wood, until at last only two or did it occur to Joe that his own ing the man whom he had saved! "Very like," Bob agreed, and Manila, Ecbant, Brisbane, Sydney Public Health, which began on three trees stood between him and original problem was still
un-with a deep tenderness, and Bob's turning his back on Joe, began a Wednesday week is proceeding very the open ground that dipped steep-solved.
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"How did you get me up here?" If Joe had not made that great, Joe watched him for a few mo 20 hospitals in the city which have the near prospect of defeat, decid-half-dazed Bob asked when he was save him, Bob would have
It was then that Joe, foreseeing was the first question the still that almost miraculous effort to ments, and then sprang up
been followed him. “You ain't fit to go been requested to co-operate in the ed to change his tactics He made able to sit up.
dead by now. Wherefore as once back alone," he said as he determined lurch and sought to drive
Besides sending a large quantity of embrace
Joe, casting his thoughts back they had passionately desired one alongside of him. "Catch hold of the trunk of a young over the events of the past twenty another's injury, so now they not my arm serum to various hospitals and larch with his left arm, failed to minutes, found his memory of the less passionately desired one an "I'm all right,” Bob said. “But clinics for injection, the Bureau has hold it against the force of Hargreat effort to carry Bob up the other's benefit. Nevertheless there wobbly for a minute, that's all No Additional Charge for Deck Cabins. Sun Deck Swimming Poolrinted a number of notices with rison's forward impetus, was darg-slope was almost completely a, was still a problem to be resolved. Less than an hour before ther
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further warned against careless before he was violently wrenched not been the Joe Batley known to "You won't do me no harm by another's eyes with the half-as- drinking of cold water and are par away by the momentum of his own himself and his friends, but the getting away, Bob began again. hamed tenderness of friends who ticularly requested to kill rats and Harrison's now falling weight, instrument of some transcendental "No one need know what's hap-were about to part. flies and mosquitoes whenever and and then found himself plunging purpose.
"I shall be all right, old pened. Til say I came and spent wherever possible, so as to reduce past all hope of recovery down the germ carriers. Central Fress.
"Got you up somehow," he said, all day looking for you, and Bob zaid short steep slope straight into the
be- After that came a great silence, couldn't find you. They can
"See you over the hill, anyway, river. Harrison of necessity went though the air was full of sound,lieve that easy enough.”
Joe replied. in first and the drag of the hand the strange, melancholy cry of "Ah! but suppose it came out
"Better: not," ·Boboreturned. brought, Joe down on the the curlers, the chuckle of run- somehow as you'd got me and then "Good-bye, old mat, and good top of him fo
ning water, the faint crash of alle me off?" Joe returned.
Black" And now the advantage of posi- miniature waterfall twenty yards "How could it come out, you Hiver near the bank was not more dilent chirp of grass-hoppers, the a touch of irritation. tion was completely reversed. The further down the stream, the stri- dama fool?” Bob inquired with than two or three feet deep, but high-pitched singing of innumer "Dunno. It might. How'll you Harrison had fallen face down-able insects... But in the minds explain getting so wet and all Canton, to-day, wards, and with Joe's weight on of Bob Harrison and Joe Batley "Having to cross the river.” With a view to improving irriga-top of him, was unable to rise, there remained a memory of hu And what about your wrist of a strange sense of defeat. It tion and increasing agricultural Joe, his head well above water, man shouting and struggle that Joe, said, looking a little ruefully was as if he had been offered production, the Agriculture and had an easy task to keep his ad- had now wonderfully ceased and at his own, still red and bruised refused a great opportunity to be Forestry Bureau has issmed onders versary - under, for the unlucky left an immense stillness
from the chafe and pressure of gin a new life. that farmers are to form irrigation Harrison, panting for breath as he Several minutes passed before the handcritis.
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ever, the lence by saying. “Well, what are “Soon go off, anyway.”
***And look at yourself all par we going to do now? out all kinds of irrigation and drain- soft mud below gave
chase for the exercise or his TT come quite.” Joe replied.mnd. work
"Back Along of me?" Bob in Bob grinned. “Sh how Joe the best of his passion now quired on a note of surprise. ous I been in the rapidly dying out, suddenly real- "Ah! Joe agreed.
my-duty lised that the body below him had
Give yourself up, d'yon mean?" ceased to ma
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What for?
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"Sure to
“Good luck"" returned Joe, and
shook hands.
after a moment's besitation, the
But as Joe watched Bob, wa mroe steadily now, thread his way jup through the wood, he was
For a time he stood
once he made a move orer after all, he would
the village. Then ja shrng of his thi red back to the rive
four
ser side of the forest.
THE END