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Crummel
"These are the relations of the. [deceased,” said the widow, look- Beyond her black-clad figure the ing coldly at the group. maza caught a glimpse of a mar- row iron bedstead
"Ah, yes; quite so," returned Beneath the the visitor, advancing into the
white coverlet the outline
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word with the old. mán. laside, missus.”
of
parlour and placing his
case on the centre table.
a
attache
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RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
Violin and Pianoforte Recital from Studio ZEK. Programme 1230-2.13 pm-European recorded programine
12.30 p.m.--A Jazz recital by Harry Boy's Tiger Ragamuffins,
1245 pDe Groot and his Or- chestra.
human form could be discerned. On the foot of the bed lay
The following programme will Seating himself, he faced the be broadcast to-day from the bulky object of brindle hue. three relatives of the defunct Hong Kong Broadcasting Station "What do you want?" asked the Crummel and surveyed each one Z.BW. on a wavelength of 355
closely through horn-rimmed spec metres (845 K.C.'1). "Tha's my business. I want a tacles. They, meanwhile, watched Stand him with an uneasiness that be-
came more and more apparent;
The widow Walker seated her- Without moving from her posi-self stifly on a chair close to the tion, the widow eyed him slowly door, after a swift and inimical from head to foot. Then she look-glance at the three intent faces ¦ed him steadily in the face. by which she was confronted.
"He's dead" she said solemnly. "I am the late Thomas Crum- "Time, too." growled the man. mel's solicitor--Mr.
Pecker, of "All the same, I'll see fer meself," Pecker. Fecker and Pecker," said he added, making to push past. the fresh arrival. producing
"No," was the firm reply. "No bundle of documents. one before the doctor. I have my orders."
મ
"Here." he said, waving a slip of paper. "I have the names of the surviving relatives of the de- "im!" ceased--all of whom. I believe, are attempting to present.
curse
"To bades with your orders -*** an' the doctor too, shouted
Paulin, thrust the woman aside.
1 p-Local: Time Signal and Weather Report.
1.03 p.m.-Instrumental Variety. 130 Reuter Press Bulletins. Local: Weather forecast, time
announcements.
and
1.40 pm-Richard Tauber (Tenor).
1.50 pan-Dance Music. 2.15 p.m-Close Down. 3-8 pm-European Programme. 5-7 p.-A Relay of the Hong Kong Hotel Dance Orchestra. "I do not propose to read, to
p.m.-Selections from Light Instantly there was a heavy you word by word the deceased's Opera and Musical Comedy. thud, as the brindle-hued object will-as I fear its legal phraseo-Vocal Gems... dropped down from the bed and, logy-ahem-might puzzle rather with a vicious growi̟, rolled rather than enlighten you.
But I will Selection Girl than walked to the woman's side instead inform you of
my late and fixed a pair of savage, blood-client's two bequests. shot eyes on the intruder.
(Continued On Page 11)
The widow Walker stooped and laid a restraining hand on the bull-
dog's massive collar.
"You'd best go," she said calm- EXCAVATION DRAMA
him."
"I might not be able to hold
Paulin glared down at the ani- mal with eyes as savage as its Own.
"Hell!" he said in a gust of pas- sion. "Td like to put me foot in its ugly mug,"
the
The dog seemed to sense threat in the man's hoarse voice. [for it uttered an answering growi
and strained on its collar.
IN EGYPT
Opening Of Ancient Tomb Postponed
FOREMAN STABBED BY LABOURER
was
Just when an entrance about to be effected to an ancient
A
Les Cloches de Corneville
(Planquette) Vocal Goms
Viktoria and her Hussar Selection-
Musical Comedy Gems
1.30 pax. From the Studio.
A Violin and Pianoforte Recital by Jose Radesky and Mona MacLean.
Programme
1. La Por Pille... Losey.. 2. Chocolate Soldier-Selection
3. Violin Solos-
Strass.
Spring Song .. Mendelssohn. Tranmerei
Schumann.
4. Selection of Popular Songs
5. Waitai Poi
Dorothy Foster.
Arthur Hill
Ô p..-Local: Time Signal. Weather Report, Stock and Announcements.
Quotations
8.05 p.m.-A Relay from the Po
"All right," the man muttered Egyptian tomb newly discovered | Hing Theatre (Chinese).
at
was stabbed in labourer.
11 pa-Close Down. as he turned towards the stairs.
near the Pyramids, by Prof. Selim
6.05-10 p.m.-European Programme| "But I 'aven't faished with
Hassan, Professor of Egyptology from Z.E.K. on a frequency of 640 that blarsted mongrel
yet." be added loudly. pausing in his de Cairo University, his foreman kilocycles.
the back by a 8.05 p.m.-Derickson and Brown scent and glowering upwards
11. Over somebody else's. Shoulder. the woman.
12. The Little Dutch MilL The injured man was hurried to 3. One Morning in May. hospital. Then Prof. Hassan him. You oughta be in pictures.
8.18 pm Hawaiian Music. self began to feel unwell and the attempt to open the tomb had to be Rock me in a cradle of Kaina
Maybe it's the Moon. postponed.
On the Beach of Waikiki. The tomb that of Kaum Baef. Flo Hanakahi
"That's as may be," she return- ed. withdrawing into the bedroom, and closing the door quietly and firmly after her.
When Bill Paulin re-entered the his 6th July parlour his scowl announced
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non-success.
“'E's dead." he grunted.
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a son of Chefrem, a king of the Kohala March Fourth Dynasty and builder of Hosolulu March.
Pm-Marek Young Crummel, the dead the Second Pyramid-was the sec- Orchestra. man's grandson, got slowly to his and unearthed in this district in the past fortnight. At the begin
Feet.
Weber and his
Songs without Words-Potpourri. Contrasts-Potpourri of Famous
Melodies (Robrecht). Forest Idyll (Esslinger).
"I never see "im," went on the ning of the month Prof. Hassan: seaman after a moment. "I would brought to light the tomb of ave, except fer that curs'd bull-princess, believed to be a daugh News Bulletin (Copyright by Reu dog. Come at me, 'e did. I'd ater of Chefren. kicked is ugly mug in if the wo Iman 'adn't 'bin there."
2.
9 pm-A Relay of the Daventry
ter). Prof. Hassan made several in-
9.20 p.Variety and Dance teresting discoveries about the Music.
Piano Solo tomb before his work was
made
Hooray for love
Patricia Rossborough.
Frances Day.
Silence greeted the brutal boast "Well, watter we do now?" he ended. He found marks
-80x
roared suddenly. "Go out, and by robbers, who had tried to dis- Comedy Fox-Trot buy flowers, I s'pose. Unless we've cover an entrance to the tomb. A My Lord, the Carriage_waits
con-Song-Swing 17th Maybin brought 'ere fer somethink false door facing east had
Jelse. If we 'ave, I wanter know fused them, and they concluded)
w'at it is."
the tomb was empty.
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He had barely finished speaking when slow steps were heard de- scending the stairs. At the same mament there came a quiet-rat- Itat at the street door.
Almost immediately the parlour door opened to admit the widow Walker, followed by a small, mid- dle-aged man, bald of head, and soberly clad in black.
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