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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1936
To-day's Short Story
So Mach By
Good
THE first mate of the Nyassa quite capel was: gone too gentle with shinocer
nk H. Shay
of strangling 3 *When Sireturned.
EAGES CHARGE. DF ABDUCTION
Sequel To Girl's Disappearance
AFTER WHOLE YEAR
The diappearance of a 14-years the stowaway as he jolted him she was gone to Buenos Aires,
|oid girl is spearmaný last had a aft to the bridge-deck, where look you $1200.
{sequel at "Romford last month, Captain Allan was carving a ship-model for his seven-years-| "He took some finding; for he when Walter Bert Buss, aged old son. Not that the stow-bad- infioential friends: but I cafe proprietor, of Bethy
His found him be the police found London, was charged with abduct- away invited gentleness.
fing the girl, NING face was scared and ridged and me That is al” - grimy: his brow was shallow "What good is it to escape?” and receding his body was that asked Allan: "They'll get you of a warped gorilla.
*
Supt. Kaights said that the girl
domestic –servant living. jagain, mài.. Where do you want) Cowper-road, Rainham, met Ross Jon February 15, whenï heistoyped. go, anyhow
his car to ask her the way. She saw Ross an other occasions and "Straight into the liam's mouth, told him there was doinestir trou- ble at home. He then asid: that
To France, my captain.” *Allan shrugged.
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"Well?" Captain Alan asked. and instinctively put himself be tween the stowaway and Peter, since the boy was the apple of his
Hoor Shang Nara- - Kobe Yoko leye and he had no wish for him
"There was one who betrayed he could find her a job with his
Kong hai
hima Bonolulu Victoria to look an unpleasant thing.
is still employez.pat
Leave Arrine Louve Leave Leave Leave Arrive "Found this lamp slowed down the to the police and he
-Mar. 14 in the chain-locker, sir," Mr. For slive," marked Pierre. A friend from Man And Wife-
They went in the car to Ilford, &/Russia Feb 26 Feb. 23 M. Mag. 3 Max. 5
5/Japan Maz 6 Max. 8
Man. 11 Mar. 13 Mar. 19 Maz. 14° tesque reported crisply: "I bet of that one, see you. In the same
trade. I hope to make a settle-where, it was alleged, they hired
Mar. 20-Mar. 22 Mar. 2a Maz, 25 Mar. 28
April-6 The's a Der's Island-runaway.”
Apr. 8 Apr, 10 Apt. 17 Apr. 23 Captain Allan nodded. Then hement Aboard the prison ship a room, and Ross said the girl/Canada Apr 5 Apr 5
pictured a meeting with that one was his wife. They stayed at the £/Rumia. Apr. 17 Apr. 19 Apr. 21 4p. 23. Apr. 25 15 |said:
May 6 May 8 May 14 May 19 E/A readHe was too yile to live 'sien, place two or three days, but it was £/age by it for LEXU
May 15 May 17 May 19 Hay 21 May 29 - I killed the wrong_man.
So Ifact suggested that any relations Canada Kay 29 May 1
Inne +3 June ~5 June 12-June: jtook place.
F/Buna Sube-12 June 14 June, 16 June 18 June 20
June 29 escaped....*
The girl was seen leaving a E/Japan June 26 June 23
July 1 July. 3. July 9 July 16 cinema at ford by her brother, Canada Inly 24 July 20
Jnly 10 July 12 July 14 July 16 July 18 who took her to the police station. K/Euses Aug. 7 Anz. 9 Aug. 11. An. 13 Aug. 15
July 29 July 31 Ang. 7 Ang. A warrant was issued, but Ross E/Japan Ang. 21 Aug. 23 Aug. 26 Aug. 28 Sept. 3-Sept. could not be found until he sur- rendered the previous night at Hackney-
Time to so aft, Peter, and the log":
The boy acudded happily Away- His father sentinised this human blot discovered aboard a perfectly sound, well-cam shin.
*Frenchman?" he asked. Puf- ed lips opened to reveal (ugly} broken teeth. The answer was al
TOWL
Pierre *Of no country—now.” Lacoste stared stolidiy at his bare. broken fest.
Was
TO-MORROW'S STORY"
To-morrow's story will be "The
Uncooked by H. A. Manhood.
Goose,"
A shiver shook Captain Allan, because of the cold vindictiveness in the stowaway's voice.
"How did you get here?" Cap tain Allan spoke a lingo that he]
Peter flastered bimself
French; actually it was a polyglot mixture came andding forʼard, curly hair of Spanish, Chinese and Hindus-flying, face aglow. tani, with a very occasional Gallic (word thrown in; but Pierre
cepted the tone rather than the
words.
ac-
"I-escaped," Pierre admitted sullenly. "Overboard, m'sien, when a country ship was near They accepted me.”
Since there was no actual rab-
Ross was remanded. bail being allowed.
SAYED FOR THE BIRDS
Wimbledon Borough Council has refused to allow the erection of "Fifteen and a half since eight flats on a site which has become bells, sir," he reported. The log-la bird sanctuary in Lingfield-road, clock was as familiar to him as near the Common the grubby palm of his own hand. Being a boy of winning ways he
stood beside Pierre, and, uzappall Pierre, uncomprehending. went ed, took the curled fingers of the on eating. This ship, he reflected, murderer in his own soft grip. was bound east. The incredible' I shouldn't do that, Sonny," foulnesses of the prison-ship had cour in Captain Allan's voice, hemonstrated his father, seeing eaten deeply into his soul, reaffirm-
Mr. Fortescue retarding.
Bating the deep-seated intention to lifted dog-like, pleading eyes.
Peter was a natural child, apt to destroy Jacques Laquelle. Nothing “Innocent, of course?" said
form his own likes and dislikes. other than that appeared to mist- Allam "All right, Mister-carry
"Let's keep him, Dad" he sux-ter one jot to him.' I'll call you
Igested
His dulled mind, relived the tar- "Watch below, Sonay-this is ments of the prison-ship. ship-struit.”
“Now, then, you get yourself a Obediently the boy let go the holystone and a bucket of sand," gnarled paw, frotted sway to his commexuded Mr. Fortesize, return- father's cabin, and coiled down oling, and follow me"
The mate walked away indig- manty. The old man was too. soft, was Mr. Fortescne's opinion-he dida't know how to keep men an their toes.
|
the settee.
"I killed a man," said. Pierre
He made himself understood by "He had stolen my girl, you under-
"There's a pretty useful reward gestures and odd words of the stand, my captain. You will ask why an ogre like myself should given for returning escaped com- seaman's lingua Franca; Fierre
viets sir,” Fortescue mentioned was duly equipped. have a girl-ah! You never may What shall I do, sir? Iran him tell how love comes. She was of
down in the fore-peak?. There'1
Mr. Fortescue led him aft to the the gutters too-as myself. Beakely be a French warship but wake of the hurrying freighter poop deck whence the creamy ten by a step-father of no heart. But love brightened her-ah, she is him" was beautiful. Beautiful”
showed straight as a line across "No need for irons, is there the sparkling ultramarine of the
Captain Allan remembered that Mister Allan had always known see
his mate to be as mean as they "You can now kneel down and
scrub your knuckles of ed the ste
his dead wife too had been beau-} tiful Peter was her image, hence made them. his devotion to the curly head
"From the look of him, sir, he's
fit to cut loose and savage us 21”:
"How long since you
fed?"
instr
Used to servile toil all his life. ¡Pierre obeyed.
Well?" he asked. There was a tim of cigarettes on a skylight; he
Captain Allan was again hack helped himself; on impulse he Allan asked Pierre.
The Nyassa was two and a half}ing away "at his ship-model when passed one to the stowaway:
"A long time since you smoked, days out from port: that Galf Peter roused from his afternoon isn't It His saswer came in the port where Pierre had left the canir as by ship-law ordained Sun, 23rd Feb. long inhalation, the slow ejection black-manned coaster, to climb up The bridge-bell struck eight times: a rope on the freighter's off side and Feter's work was plain before of fragrant smoke
Always at watch-end hel This one took my sweetheart" and slide below with the agility him. growled Pierre. "It was while 1 of an cel after the thick tropical seadded aft for the log-reading. made a voyage, you comprehend night had fallen. Pierre placed that it might be fairly entered in chart-house. m'sien. I could give so little. He his hands across his stomach with the log-book in the
Always he climbed the rail "reck- offered much-and gave he gave a vivid gesture.
"Tell the cook to find him some-lessly to draw in the out-rigger rain. So I killed him with these thing, and turn him to." said on which the log-clock was car hands Extended; they appeared
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"He ought to be put in frous. This time he slipped in his zeal siz,” insisted the mate earnestly because he was watching Pierre He felt a trifle nervous, because from Devil's Isler" M he had rough-housed the stowaway The convict heard his zwiazed unconscionably ever since his preyelp. He saw the little body jaence in the foul-smelling, clammy falling-falling into the cardied; chain-locker was reported to him wake, in which triangular fins}" "Do 35 you're told" snapped slithered uncannily Perhaps he Allan, after another look at remembered the confiding grip of Pierre's eyes. "There's a lot of the little hand in his own. good in most folks, Mister, even i you don't think so.”***
"Hola!" he yelled." Then he leaped to the rail and dived. "You get it in the neck for har Captain Allan saw him bouring these Devil's Island looked for Peter, missed him. He fugees, grumbled Fortescue, obey-Iran to his, cabin for his rifle, ing. And, out of earshot, he said shouting: "Man overboard al to Pierre: "One break from you. hands!
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I looked saliciently intimidating. triangular-
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