THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST · 24, . 1957.
THEN COMES ORDEAL-BY-THIRST
"So he's been making friends with you, has be?" said George and Instead of showering when I asked who "ae" might"be, he Wenl On: "From about The made of Utiren välige to a bit Both of the prison-that's his beat. Ay, he1⁄4"_a_stinking old nusince. But mind you, there's no read harm in him.
"fe” la clost, according to George WAS DR
absurd ghat known 1u the villagers 24 Tewasteaing, or One Leg, whose Jabit for several centuries if nd ten to walk-or, enthur, hop-let particular stretch of Tabiteus Every night of the year, without exception, scaring everyholly UIT who saw Alin gö by.
George Hoke of him with a ront of affectionate irritation as if he really existed, It was tod riideulous.
The creature's
harmless
Dheard nothing about him
when I had the prison and the rest house built where they nre," he sold, "otherwise, 1 might have chaten somewhere els. Or I might not. What's the odds? The creature's bara- lew.
"Anyway, there was I one dark night, when in from the roadway crashed that sthle ing thing and hit me like wall, Solid,
!!
were right. Thol's what I said to myself as I fourtht my way through it
the
KIT
P1 adimit the any a denneus
Kave #e shudders at first. But I thought sumo mini-ul-i-gon was taking a rive uul of me. So 1 dishea back into the house, ratelwa up a hurrieste lanip and startel running hell for br@her towards the plan. The reek was as thick a fost that way.
hutin't
fur, though. patter and u
before 1 and a
rush from ahead. ted a pret
xי
of a "prizai
charging full
guard coat
out of the darkness and throw unwelt al mo, gibbering like a cockates. As I struggled DER clutches I caught something about someone entleg One Leg who'd gone hop-hopping past him into the prion yard. Well
..there was my clue, 'Is it One Lo that raised tada alink?! } shouted, 'Yes.' Je screamed, back. "One Leg.... the phos!! I waly stayed to call him a blunky fool, and belted on.
Whole "crowd had gone mad WHEN I Fother the prison
*
yat nething else hel
- slatted. The whth, guwd in-
ride las mis lock-up lad ROM mad.... raving mad....yelling their heads of........ and the natễn
E them ninglox test:yes spalis the cleare was ke thunter.
J
The ghost began a
stampede
the
Down Into grottoes FO tho women of Hanna- ไป with their torches to Iook for pools of rain water,
"They'd all seen him hopping
"I knt w
padlock your tune, but h's still going who I got d the dope about the wouldn't last if that went on;
streng In Uiboa. One of the One Leg. I heard crack like a platai leg whe never gavd a damn fer
o One Leg. 1 came up to the yard entrancë) and I was down gatter the feet of a mantine mop stampeding out into the
hexla.
13
in a jail
“You could have knocked me down wits a feather if there had been a corpse in sight,
op the gangway between the "But hadn't gonz 50 slepa There when a new hullaballon fromt Would you belive it He beds, so they claimed. was siceping like a baby when i wasn't light, but they'd seen the lock-up stopped me in my
Lim, Fiscle! I said 16 that, tracks, got to him. Hadn't hear a round and said he couldn', soll d Anterea backed me. piekał myself ti nel
A thing. though the place was made a beeline for the lock-up still humming
that 'One At to knock you semeby explained ran hul way down the goneway down. But he go: going quiii. La coly brought his saintly between the beds, swinging my entneh when I told him the odour along for the particular Jamp around: found not. a soul new.
of the deczasod, and hunted the friends there; charged but again busa for those idiots if the, of course, it was is clear
and
I'mm "What with this and that, surprised you didn't hear of a friend's death in Utirou after the old stinker put it across
Ou
I told him then of Anterca.
"Well....well...think that now," said George.
Anterea
of
14
and
It was all very puzzling nam Lamp had not day, I call there
reached him
never was any real harm in old One Leg."
“IT time. Yes....there ho ew rest house built on the other
was poor 'Arikitus this was-roiled off his bed on the our up against the far end wall where my lamp hadn't reached him--quite dend. I reckon it was just heart disease,"
sat silent a long tinic; then George sold reßlesilvély:
Antever's house in the corner of like crack of dawa. They came a mud. the yard.... why, what's the willingly cough at -ún-up",; Whith deelased? t wanted matter now??
ali bart 22. prisoner comed to know. Oh, anyone who dies I
ra bol upright and Arikitour. that's to say--and we within the mils of his beat," exclaimed "Anterea?" When I had a due paw-way togellier says my elever friend he turns
We "Yes, the round Anterva's shack, wälting it on as soon as the soul has repeats it, he said. heart
Retired before for him to tur warder.
That's left the body.'
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
DO YOU ALWAYS PRESS LIKE
THIS HERE?
"NO THIS IS THE ANNUAL CHES TOURNEY WEEK BETWEEN GAMBITA
AND PHILADOR.
EVERYONE PRESSED, AS CHESS PIECES FOR THE
TOURNEY.
up.
BUT ENOUGH. GO BACK TO YOUR
COUNTRY.
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
OUR TAPERS ARE IN OUDER. WHAT IF WE
REFUSET
YOU'D MON-- SGUVS BETTER MODERN
NOT! ENOUGH!
CONTINUED
He was furious when I had a
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