4

Reasons why you must have ă G.E.C.

a

Refrigerator

THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1954.

If your kitchen la emal), this is the model for you: sturdy and compact with a maximum of storage space. economical in operation. Thermosta

leally controlled, with freezer and takus

tho tallest bottles. Exterior, white porcelain enamel, interior, unchippable plastic-on-steel. DE. 31. T $900

2. The cu. ft. refrigerator, a family

extra

Javourlie for таку у сага, kturage room, extra shek mea, larger freeter, special plastic meat or Stall tiller, a plastic salafur and thermostatic control cabinet interlor is it automatically wisen the door in opened.

DE. 51 $1400

3. If you entertain on a larger scalo,

this is the model you need. Tito 7 cu. ft, model has lely by ft. of shelf space, an ampie freezer with twu Reparate Compactirenta for Ice and frozen foods. Glam-covered plastic chuller for meat up fel, and a deep Kalatfor tur vegetables ani irul. Interior lights up when the door upened.

DE 70. $1550

The luxury G.E.C. Refrigerator la- Corporales every refinenicut and re- frigeration aid that could be desired, Extra large freezer and frozen tood locker, plastic chiller, two plastic Batadors with special glass cover plater, room fur even the largest bottle.

G.E.C.

TO GENERAL ELECTEN, CO.LTD. OF EVILAND

DE. 71. $1700

QUALITY

REFRIGERATORS

THE DRITIBU GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., LTD. Quern's Building

+

The Hongkong Anti-Tuberculosis As- sociation is entering another year in the war against tuberculosis.

Tel. Exi

the

In this great work, the Colony is taking its part with many other nations, in the universal effort to stay the heavy wastage of human lives Scientists, exacted by this grim scourge. doctors and others specialising in treatment of tuberculosis throughout the world have made great discoveries during the last few years, and the fruits of their labours are being made available to sufferers from this disease here in Hongkong, through The Hongkong Anti-Tuberculosis Associa-

tion.

Unfortunately, statistics show that the incidence of tuberculosis in Hongkong is more wide-spread than in most other parts of the world.

This grim fact does not dishearten the H.K.A.-T.B,A. because it Is constantly fortified in the knowledge that, from the generous support given by Covernment,

and charitably-minded bodies

merchant houses, down to the humble worker, it is obvious that there is a common sympathetic understanding that this is a work of mercy which must continue.

Chauges should be cressed and addressed?—— "HONGKONG ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION"

Health and Happiness can be restored

to manj sufferers if you wül GIVE THAT THEY MAY LIVE

PHOTOGRAPHS

SILES

Holmes jumped from the tree

by Adrian Conan Doyle

Great joy was felt by everyone on the Moon when a Moon Air Force squadron reported that the way the Earth-men were carrying on the danger of a visit by Earth Space-ships no longer existed.

London Express Service

Concluding the ADVENTURE of the DARK ANGELS

back. Quite a treasure trove, I am about to jump down and I want you both to watch the exact place where I land. Sol" He stepped to one side. “Now, what do you see?"

"Two small indentations."

"Precisely. The marks of my heels. Look wider."

1.000

"By Jingo!" eried the con- stable. "There are four, two! They are identical."

'THERE STANDS

THE MURDERER' SAID HOLMES

into the victim

himself of the Mola Vita, together, with

is an ugly word, only Mr Sherlock Holmes,' he sald but into his family. But the the penalties for breaking

"Save that the others are not quite so deep."

"Murder

"The man was lighter!" ejaculated.

I

quietly.

"Bravo, Watson. Well,

T

think that we have seen all that we need."

a

***There

atands the murderer

of Josua Ferrers,” he sold in a quiet voice.

Tonston stepped forward, a smile upon his pale face,

"You are wrong," he said steadily, "The Executioner of Josua Ferrers.”

For a moment, he stood be- fore us meeting our horrified atares with the serenity of one whose duly has been meritori- ously fulfilled. Then, with a rattle of handcuffs, the constabla leaped upon his man.

Tonston made

attempt

to struggle and with his hands accompanying his captor to the door when my friend's voice brought them to a halt...

manacled before him he was

"What have you done with

mon had been careful to cover them. his features with his hand, "And an ugly deed. Though despite the fact that he was "That Josua Ferrers Was not, perhaps, to the Malo Vitaș. looking

of this dread society not at Jorua Ferrers number but at his daughter, thereby there can now be little doubt," "What nonsense is this!"* The officer fixed Holmes with

auggesting to my mind that he Holmes added solemnly, as he his earnest eyes.

recognition by Miss closed the book. "What was his It?" he demanded. "Look here,

"Tut, I was relying upon your feared

we shall probably as much of Slefly to fil in Ferrers

sa by her offence, sir," he said. "I'm clean out of knowledge

never know and yet one may

The prisoner looked at him What's my depth.

all this a small details that I may father.

hazard a pretty shrewd guess.

silently.

mean?”

have overlooked. However, as "Next, it seemed to me that

the dismiss as nonsense ou

"Article 10 is surely among "I ask," continued Holmer, the cold deadly approach of the "Probably your

of this terrible sergeant's name

the Mala Vita's most singular "because if you have not de- rules, for it states simply that stroyed it then it is best that I And

from door to breakfast now, let us join the others."

Learn a

any member destroy it myself, and that ua- who discovers the identity

of read." death. remind you, Watson,

secret

stripes, Constable Kibble. society, it will doubtless interest fatal prints from tree to doo

When we reached the house, the police officer showed us in-

to

sparsely-furnished a long.

WHAT HAS HAPPENED SO FAR

AFTER hearing from Miss Daphne Ferrers, how her

father had received three mysterious prints, oach showing angels dressed in black, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson sot off for his secluded estate in the New Forest. But they are not in time to prevent a tragedy. They find the body of Josua Ferrers under a cedar tree.. The throat hað bóon cút from ear to ear, Mr James Tonston, who had formerly managed the victim's vineyards in Sicily, télis Holmes how, from a distance, he saw Ferrore pût his hands to his throat and then stagger and fall. Both the local doctor and police. constable suspect suicide.

A

the

you to

facts."

Lew of

the inferred an intimate Dic, the penalty for

"Have a

care, Mr Holmes," "To you, Dr Nordham, and to Constable Kibble, there will appear to be gaps in my brief account," my friend continued, "But, I will address, myself to you, Watson, as you were prew.

during sent

Miss

narrative.

of

Ferrers's Josua

circuni ho

the Grand Master scribed habits, possibly an un- the challenged right house

sald

"Rest assured that the paper ght to enter the would

destroyed,” place the that Ferrers laid emphatle in is already and thereby card on the table without the structions on his daughter that James Tonston, "and that the necessity for forced windows her answer to all inquiries must Mala Vita preserves the secrets In parting be that she knew nothing of his of the Mala Vita. and smashed locks,

affairs, adding only that the take this word of warning to "From the first, certain name of the maker was in the heart. It is that you know-too.......

in Ferrers's features

Miss Ferrers's butt of the gun. ·

Though your life may Blogular narrative 1

be an honoured one, Mr Sher- stirred chord In my vague memory, but it was not until your remark, Watson, about a

"Not a gun, mark you, foot in the open grave that a the gun, which clearly flood of light burst suddenly dicated that the person receiv- into my consciousness.”

"It was obvious from the first that her father was hiding from some peril of so relentless a nature that even in the depth of this deserted countryside he went in fear of his Hio.

"As the man, had come from Sicily, an island notorious for 'he power and vindictiveness of its Becret Societies, the most likely explanation Was that

some

I

сет-

some

arms

much.

lock

Holmes, it is most uEXIM likely to be a long one." Then

but

in-

with a cold'.smile in his grey eyes he passed from the room.

Ing the message might be ex- It was an hour later and a pected to recognise some specific full moon was rising when my AS SHERLOCK

the words friend and I, after parting from to which Holmes

weapon paused

must refer. It is sufficient to Dr Nordham, turned our backs for a moment to add that the gun found beside upon Abbotstanding, now gaunt draw something the body of Josua Ferrers is and black against the night from his cope

ape unique to the members of the and not nut on 100, toward pocket, I glanced Sicilian Socret Societies.

at the others.

like some lean, eager fox- you pay particular regard that "You will recall that they chest and his pale

.

..

took

Beaulicu village, where, we planned to stay at the Inn and

chin

S the doctor and room with a groined roof. either ho had offended some

Nordham, who Tonston vanished Doctor

was such organisation or as a man Though the old room was rapidly **When he weat to the take the morning train back to writing at a table in through the par- window,

bar he had transgressed

deepening into dusk, a sullen assignation Ferrers carried the town. looked up at

our vital rule. A he made no at- red light from the last rays of gun with him not as a weapon terres, Holmeḥ was entrance. "Well, Mr Holmes?" tempt to invoke the police, the

+ through sun glimmering

but as peace offering valuable

shall long remember that galvanised into activity.

inclined to the latter suppost the window illumined the ab- *You are preparing your roon and For a while he circled the

this became a

воде Borbed

of Dr Nord- only for what is contained roll wonderful five roles walk expressions

orded up in the butt. Bearing white fire and deepest shadow

in lo

along a road all dappled with grass around the dead man remarked. "May I suggest that of the Dark Angels.

port, I percnive,” my friend tainty with the first appearance ham and the constable. Tons mind what we now

know, ton stood in the shadows, his in no doubt that it was a paper where the great trees ↳ met on his hands and knees,

folded across hia

"that named

the above our heads and the forest or document you do not convey a false im- were nine in number, Watson, eyes

glittering Grand Master of the Mala Vita diger peered at us from the hound casting for its scent, pression."

fixed immovably upon and which by some unhappy clumps of glistening bracken. and that the print, inscribed Holmes. Once he stopped and peered

had fallen chance

into fia with the numerals ‘8/3′ WES

during his Dr Nordham gazed atonily at nailed to a tree in the avenue

Bicllian

HOLMES walked at the ground very closely,

"It was to certain passages membership. To destroy it W?B *y.

with. bls then, rising to his feet, he Holmos. "I fail to understand on December 29,

in this book, a forerunner of Heckothurn'a

useless. He had seen the name Secret Societies and

upon his breast whipped his lens from his you," he said. "Can you not be

WOR→ ha doomed. But,

and · It was not that my momory was recalled

until we Wore pocket and proceeded to a more explicit?"

was alw by Dr Watson's words," my though his own life

descending 1218 searching examination of

The "Very well. What are your

next visitation

friend continued. "Here is what ready forfeited, he was playing for the life of his daughter.

hill above the the trunk of the cedar.

a law views on the death. of Mr place on February 11, exactly the author has to say on Suddenly he stiffened, and Josu Ferrers, of Abbotstand- six weeks and three days from certain socret society which was Ferrers can have no idea of the village, that he broke his slience,

introduced

actual identity of the assassin It was little enough that ho Bielly acti into December 20, but this time the first ing?" at his gesture the constable

angels, six in number, were some three centuries ago. This who had been selected for the said then but for some yeason

formidable

work: beyond the fact that the his words'have nained in my ho organisation, and I hastened to his side. "Tut gir, there is no ques- nailed to the front door.

writes, aptly named the Mala Unknown must of necessity be mind, Holmes pointed with his tion of views. We have both

"On March 24 came the third Vita, communicates with its a fellow-member,

"You know me sufficiently vanal and medical evidence he handed the that Jesus Ferrers Anger to

and last appearance, exactly six mombers through a variety of committed'

"Concealed in the fork of the well, Watson, to nequit the of to the police officer. suicide

weaks after, the second. The signs including angels, demons glaes

by cutting his own.

above the prearranged all false sentiment, said he, dreaded heralds of death, again and the winged lion. -.

meating place the murderer lay "when I confess that there is Unine in mumber but now with- knot," he said quietly.

out inscription, lay on the very

"The candidate for member in wall as a leopard waits for: an urge upon me tonight to "A remarkable man, this Mr "What do you sce?"

platter of the master of Abbot ship, if successful in his trials sheep and, when his victim walk for a while in the ruined Ferrers," Holmes observed,

standing.

of initiation, which frequently halted beneath him, he drew cloisters of Beaulieu Abbey. It "who, not content with commit- "Looks to

knife and leaping to the was the abode of men include that of murder,

fakes his like a

Who T Απ

listened: to

died Miss oath of fealty with one foot in ground seized him from behind lived and hair, sir," replied Constable ng suicide by cutting his jugu-

lar vein, must continue to Ferrers's voice and calculated an open grave,

and cut his throats Pan

themselves and with each other, Kibble, gazing through the sever the rest of his neck with the dates rapidly in my mind,

"When he had. searched lens. "No, it's not a hair. an ordinary clasp-knife, until I was dismayed by the dis "Punishment or intraction of Ferrera's body for the paper "We have seen much evil

in the It's a brown thread."

words of Mr Touston covery that the final nine of the the society's rules is relentless and eventually found it in the our time, not least of which here he had cut: his throat Dark Angels assuming them to and, where death is the price, bult of the gun, his loathsome the misuse of noble qualities "Quite so. Perhaps you would always felt that,

literally from ear to ear. I have represent the same period of three separate warnings are task was completed. He forgot, such as loyalty courage and

were I to time, as the first, brought kindly remova it and place it commit murder, I should avoid date to May 7.

the given of the approaching doom, however, that in doing it he determination for purposes that Today!

the second following six weeks had left his heelmarks on the are in themselves ignoble In this anvelopɑ. Now, Walam, errors of that kind.”

and three days after, the first, turf and two threads from his the older grow dem give me a hand up." Holmes:

I knew then that I was too and the third six weeks after brown twood coat on the rough forcibly is it burne MY FRIEND'S Ja. But, if I could not save the second. 2-1.

Berk off to triển scrambled into the fork of the

words were fole her father, I might avenge him troe' and, supporting himself by

lowed by him and, (with that object, I aktselor. "Tollow! moment of tense ed the problem from a different ing, pa siletice, Then Dranga.

by our Staff Photographers Examine the edge of that throat.

Ribeiro-Antonio Wedding

Farewell Party to 1.C.I. Chairman Confirmation at St. Andrew's Church Indonesian Cocktail and Dinner Party Inauguration of the H.K, Aircraft Engineering Co. Kowloon-Canton Railway Children's Party D.C.S. Preparatory School Sports St. Louis School Art Exhibition

H.K.A.A.F..Annual Dahce

SOUTH CHINA

allablé at

me

the branches, peered about him,'; Hat what have we herein hé ohuckled. “Afresh scrape "the trunk," "fadas of mud" in the

on /

ING POST. LTD fork end mother, mall, tired

material singing de

Nordham

زیار ها

tree

weeks, and

the final wAITS= ther period of six s

- the

Sherlock Holmes

manbér

ཀམ་

Unik ustas. These moonlit "wOK

Deace with.

Share This Page