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THE HONGKONG DAILY PR 88, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26r. 1903
AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN- SURANCE CO.
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OF AIX-LA-CHAPELL
THE Undersigned, having been appointer AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Bates.
REUTER, BRÖCKELMANN & CO.,
Agonta Hongkong, 21st April, 1897
THE WESTERN ASSURANCE COM PANY OF TORONTO, CANADA. INCORPORATED 1851.
Cash Security
...£625,719
Total Lossee Paid *** ...£8,769,240 THE Undersigned having been appointe AGENTS for the above Company, ar prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
WM. MEYERINK & CO. Hongkong, 18th May, 1903,
1494 THE BOMBAY FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
THE undersigned, having been appointed THE
AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to accept RISKS at Current Rates. HOTZ, S'JACOB & CO.
¡2160 Hongkong, 30th July, 1900.
n var present stock of l'innor and Muzical PONIX FEE OFFIC
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Mmo. Patti says that the Apollo never has given her the slightest trumble and that the new concert grand is one of the most wonderful and perfoot pinne-players that she has ever seen."
Hongkong, 15th elober, 1904.
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The Undersigned re now prepared i GRANT POLICIE of INSURANC· against FIRE at Curent Rates.
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO
Agents for the Phenix Fire Ober. Hongkong, 17th August, 1397. THE STATE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, OF LIVERPOOL,
HE Uadersigned AGENTS of the above Company are prepared to ACCEFF RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
W. G. HUMPHREYS & CO.
(2783 Hongkong, 3rd August, 1903. NORTHERN ASSURANCE CO
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A LURKING PHANTOM: A STORY OF LOVE AND MYSTERY,
Y
JOHN BLOUNDELLE-BURTON (Author of "The Hispaniola Plate." The Year One" "Vanished Rivul," &c.).
CHATTER XIV.
THE END OF THE STORY.
We sailed for Bahia," Augustas continued to read, and all went well enough with us on board the Promised Land until we were off Cape Hatteras. Meanwhile, Farness and I had got nearly as intimate as we should have been if we had known each other for ten years. We shared the supe cabin, which, since the ship was nesd only for the tropics, was large and roomy. and every day, for several hours, Furness practised his sleight of hand in manipulating the cards, and did it so well now that, although I watched him like a lynx. I could scarcely erer catch him out in a single instance.
If they have go "any money in Bahia, 1 used to say to bim in a whisper (for the cabins were all clogs together, and parsons in one of them could hear others talking in the next, we ought to capture it all. I hope they have got plenty."
Nevor fear. I have every information. It is a seaport city full of enormously wealthy people, merchants nad so forth, and with Indreds of persous cuming into and going out of it daily. It is also full of clubs where they gamble all night long, at faro, kino an baccarat, and, as you know, the man who takes the bank wins! That is with lack corrected by judgment. Therefore we shall win."
But as you know now, Mark Furness was not to wia i cent in Balts, or even to see that place. No more was I. When we were some where in the region I have told you of, a frightful plsion took place in the eaging room: so bad a que, indeed, that a part of the ship's side was blown out and she began to a pretty fest as she filled. I was in my berth and received no barm whatever, sines our cabin was on the apper deck; but Furness, who had just left the doctor's cabis, where he and three others had been playing cards, was struck on the bead by a tool box failing off the bridga, and staggered into the cabis s frightful sight. His head was covered with blood Hers Augustus paused and murmuring to Lady Bottrell, who had turned terribly white, but these details are unnecessary." omitted THE Undersigned are prepared to accoptaar further account which Challis might have given of the man's wounds. Then he First Class Foreign and Chiness RISK'S
continued. against FIRE at Current Rates.
"I am dying.' Furness said to me as he fell Also to accept proposals for LIFE ASSUR.
into the lower berth, this is the end of our ANCE. Prospectusos ou application.
TURNER & CO., expedition. Here,' he continued, putting his
Agents.
hand in his pocket, and taking out feably a Hongkong, 3rd September, 1903. [2073 large note-book, What is in this masy ba of some use to Rhoda if you can ever send them to NORTH BRITANCE COMPANY.
JOHTH BRITISH AND MERCANber with an account of my end. There are the thousand pounds I told you of inside it in American dollars. She may as well have them es I. They are no good to me now. The other stuff you can destroy. Then be fell back gasping in the berth.
TOTAL FUNDS AT 31ST DECEMHz, 1902 £16,378,771.
0
AUTHORISED CApital... £3,000,000 0 SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL 2,750,000 0 4 PAID-UP CAPITAL (I
687,500 0 0 II. FIRE FUNDS.........
2,887,215 11 10
The Undersigned AGENTS for the above Company, aro propwed to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Carront Rates.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
Agouts.
[1888 Hongkong, 19th June, 1903. SALAMANDER FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.
TH
THE Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT FISKS against FIRE at Current Rates,
HOTZ JACOB & CO.
149 Hongkong, 2nd April, 1800
NEW ZEALAND INSURANCE COMPANY.
FIRE AND MARINE.
ESTABLISHED 1539.
.....£1,000,000.
CAPITAL.
that moment I saw floating along by me one of the boats that had fallen out the chooks. though bottom upward, and I managed to soramble up to it and wit astride of it or the keel
Well, you know the rest now. I was saved by a passing schooner laden with fruit, and taken into Jacksonville, and you know what happened to me there, and that I was contenced
to
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When I was saved from that ship I gare the name of Mark Furness, because I know there were some letters of introduction for Furness from New Yorkers, who thought he was a fair and square man, to one or twe rich merchanta on tho in Bahia; and because, while I was keel of that upturned boat, I had made up my mind to go to Babin as Furgers if I was saved. That was the only reason why I took his name, and it was only after I had been in prison Home years that I recognised that, if ever I got out of it, I could make a far better thing of NELISTA CIGARETTES ARE MANUFACTURED FROM THE CHOICEST not being Furgoss, but, instead. a man who conld assert that he was alive. For, leng TURKISH TOBACCO. PACKED IN AIR-TIGHT TINS OF FIFTY.
before this I had found out ouongh in that pocket-hoa-basides the dollars-to tell me that he had married a young girl named Rhoda Chantrey who, as I learnt Intor by picking up a copy of the Times three months old, had now married a man who was heir to a baronetcy. And if I hadn't read this I should have sent her what was left of the money, which wasn't much, however, as I bad had bad luck.
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In that pocket-book wore entries of the mar riage and the place where it encarred; a like- ness of the girl herself and a photograph of bias the photograph that I got manipu lated later by a photographer, who used to do fanny things. semetimes, and had ouce har n
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year in Sing Sing for wanipslating National NOBEL-GLASGOW EXPLOSIVES,
State Bank notes.
"Well, I did the seventeen years and a half, and I grew old and desperate. The man who went in to Jacksonville Gaol-ons who was not much more than a reckless card-sharper down on bis luck and ready for any fraud came out one who was now ready for anything that would enable him to live. And since I had never expected to ever came out of prison again.
was indifferent to what I did, short of killing another man and getting hung for it. If evou got a lifer again I was no woran off than before.
Tho gave me back my things when I did come out; my old clothes-which startled me when I looked at them again; my pocket-book which had been Farness's, and which I did not remember the colour of, and also its remaining contents, part of which were about fifteen hundred dollars in notes, two or three twenty dollar gold pieces, &o. And, also, Furnesa's photograph, the marriage certificate, and so on. Then my scheme of what I might do if ever I got free, which but wainred all the time I was in prison, came back to me in fuil force, though as a matter of fact, it had never been out of my mind. Now, I eat about putting that scheme into practice
I got nearly three hundred pounds in ex- change for the dollars, which, if kopt off gambling, would last me a year, and thie I swore to do. Then I bought my ticket for Eng- land, scand class intermediate, by a cheap line, after doing one thing that was necess ry, This was to obtain a sight of the very latest book dealing with titled people, such as the Peerage and Baronetage, and son whether Sir Geoffrey Brull's wife was still alive. If she bad not bear, my chance of yours would have fuller for London and put the plan in operation which through. Finding she was still alive, I started you know of. To do this I felt it necessary to go to a large, fashio cable hotel and live expen- sively, yet I had the satisfaction of knowing that, if the thing worked out well, I should sonte in possession of some funds and, if it didn't, I could change my abode at any me
Meanwhile, there was an awful score taking place on board. Women-and inen, too, for the matter of that!-were screaming and shrieking: the ship was rolling and plunging horribly, siasm and smoke enveloped us; yet. through it, could be seen great stroke of fome As for the boats, they could not be lowered. springing up from below, and out of her sides. some of them wero even burat away from the ropes that held them in the davits, and they ould be heard falling with a heavy splashing thud on to the water below. And, at this time, the captain and matas, were calling out to the people on board to seize uty lifebelts they could obtain, and throw themselves overboard,ment, while they added that it was the only chance of safety.
I profiled by this, remembering think, just under the bridge. there bung two lifebelts and, on going in that direction, found that one was still there, the other having probably been taken by some passenger or sailor. Then, slipping it over my shoulders, I prepared to jump from the sido of the ship the next time she rolled over, since each time she did so she wont deeper and dooper as that it seemed as if her bows would go right under the waves and that she could Dever right herself again. Yet before I did this I determined to have one more look at Furness. In his way he bad been good to me. He had given me food and money, and this when there was no one else who could or would do it and,
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I did change if later, though not through want of money but for security's sake. I had got all I was ever likely to get, and wanted a place from which I could depart un- noticed at any moment. Also, I thought I had boen recognised by one or two Americans at the Cosmopolitan, who might have told a little tale about me before my name was Ira Challis.
"As regards the sablegrams, everyone of them was written by mo in London on some forms I obtained. They did well enough to impose on a women.
his is my full confession, and I write it in exchange for my liberty, promised me on your honour. Beyond living pretty well for four or make nothing out of the scheme, five months and Luly Bottrull will not have lost soything by it winch she will feel. Therefore I hope she will forgive me.
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86 "But whether she does or not, I wish to write meant to help me towards making money, I did not like to leave the poor man there all down a few words more. They are sincere ones. alone without one more word, and I went back Ir my heart of hearts I bitterly regret the to the cabin at the risk of my life, since all above misory I cansed her, and I do declare that, over the deck, such as the smoke-stacks, the masts and over again, I almost desisted from what I and blocks, and all that was on the bridges, was doing when I saw the grief she suffered was falling about and meant terrible injuries, through me, and still more when I saw that she trusted me. Aud this I will swear, and I workt if not sudden death, to thos they fell on.
awear it on my dead mother's body if I could, "But, when I get into the cabin I saw I might have spared myself the trouble and have that, bad I got safe away with the money I have hastened my departure. Furness was now quite paw resterad, I not only woult uever have mo- oron I, who had not seen much of death up till at once, before long I would have enlightened this time. could tell that. His even wera glassy, her as to the truth so that she might once more his month was open, and there was no pulse, fael safe and secure. I would have done so the Hongkong, 4th March, 1963.
minute I was in a safe place myself.-Ira He was gone,
Challia."
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"And it was time for me to be going my way, tou. Many other wore themselves gons, though there were a lot of women und children left behind. Well; somehow I got over the side of the ship as she rolled, and dropped into the water and then, what with the lifebuoy and my paddling with my hands and feet, which I was able to da vines the sea was as smooth as g's, of I
managed to get some quarter of a milo
her before long. And it was a good thing for me in one way that I did so at the Lime, for not long after I sw more flames and smoke spring up from where she was, 'beard fresh ontbreak of aries and screams then soma terrifio sounds and thumps and a hissing noise like steam escaping. and I knew that the 'Promised Land' had disappeared for ever.
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