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THE WOMAN ON THE
DERELICT,
BEING THE STRANGE LOVE STORY OF JOHN BRAMWELL,
GUY BOOTH BY.
(Author of "Dr. Nikola," "My Indian Queen," ke., &c.)
"Mins Alexandre," I said, for by this time she had become accustomed to the name, you have ben below too long. Will you not allow me to take you on deck this evening! The fresh air will do
you good."
"I will go if you wish," she answered, obedient as usual to any wish I might express,
"Then please sue that you put on something warm," I continued, "for I fancy you will find the breeze chilly."
Without another word she roso nad made her way to ber cabin, Hail any stranger changed upon as of that moment and had seen her crossing the caddy, he would have found it difficult to believe that there was anything the SINOPSIS-John Bramwell, after knocking matter with her. In a few minutes ske returned, about the world for many years, arrives in clad in a warm cloak and with a lace mantilla, Sydney from San Francisco, and being disthe gift of the frivolous widow, wrapt about charged from his ship looks about for further her shapely head. The brig was heeling over work. He calls at the office of a shipping a bit to starboard, so I offered her my firm, is appointed mate of the schooner arm. Sh. took it without hesitation, and we "Britomart," and the following day sails for ascended the narrow companion together. It Apia. Two years pass away. One day, white was a lovely night, and the little "vassel was Bramwell is sitting on the verandab of an spinning along before a spanking breake, throw-
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hotel, a man appronebox and enters into ing off long lines of phosphore cout foam from conversation with him. It appears ho is either bow. It was a night on which it was owner of the schooner Kittiwake," to which god to be alim. Overhead the stars blazed out, some mystery attaches, lying of Apia. Heus Jackson said, Like lamps upon the Thames invites Bramwell to go with him and look over Emiankment." It was a poor simile, bat in a his vessel. Learning that he is thinking of certain sense it hit the mark, leaving the "Britcmart," Giles Farringdon. as As we left the companion sight bella sounded the Kittiwako's ownor is called, Decanules and the watch below came tumbling up. A big him to take command of bis ship Furing- man, Dane I believe, took the wheel and dou turns out to be ob opium amagg!or the fellow he had relieved went forward, Her 1349 and pearl poacher. After the two haveing made his report Jackson touched his cap
experienced several adventurous years, Bram- to Miss Alexandra and went below.
I am well decides to visit England. Leaving the ship not a romantic man, as I have already said, but at Honolule, he starts for London on board I don't mind telling you that I can feel the the Hallket." On the voyage
touch of these soft fingers on my arm even now. douel vessel is sighted, and Bramwell has I led bar aft sul we stood together at the Horriba dress which he cannot banish from his taffmail. Up to that moment she had not thoughts. Nearing the wreck, the captain apokon. I glanced at her as she leant with her. sagree that it be searched, and Brunwell elbows on tio rail and came to the conclusion geis permission to accompang thn rate on his that I had never seen so beautiful a pretave. orrand. After taking a good look at the ship She was grace personified. As she stopped to from the boat the man go aboard, and are not took down on the wake, ber hands were clasped. by u ghastly right-a mau pinned to the deck as if she were praying. The bubbling water by knives through bis throat and handa. The seemed to have a strange fascination for her; captain of their vessel is sent for, and on his for when I spoke to her she did ust appear to arrival the seure is continued, with the result boar nie. Suddenly she stood upright and that a woman is discovered locked in one of the turning her back to the rail, looked forrard. cabins, bat in too dazed a condition to give any What she saw, or what she thought she saw. I information. Bramwell baring decided to take
shall probably never know, bat sorer hud I seen charge of the vessel to Plymouth, the aptainnuything so queenly as her attituds at that arranges his crew and offers to accommodate moment. It would have been worth a fortune the girl on the "Hulkes," but she refuses to to her on the stage. The lugs she had draped leave. At last they start on one of the strangast shout her head had fallen back, and a coil" of voyages man ever heard of
black hair lay upon her shoulder. Then sho CHAPTER VI.
turned to me and seizing the by the wrs, said, Look! Look! Do you see the blood" With her left hand she poin ed to the exact spat where we had discovered the man pinued out, us described in the previous chapter. There was nothing there, of conse, but that she beliored she saw it, I shall unser doubt.
Again she saulters! :—“Lok! Look! the blood! See how it stains the dock !'
on FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 121. All the "TIT-BITS" of bis two programmes, including the Screaming One Man Force
"ELECTRICITY," will be presented.
Box Plan open at Watson's Kowloon Dis. pensary.
Admission.........$3, $2 & 81
Doors open at 8.30. Overture at 9.. Note,This will be Freear's last appearance in Hongkong. Canton this Thursday.
Hongkong, 8th February, 1904.
WANTED.
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HINESE CLERK, must be Good Panman description of that strange voyage, for ther- is
and Quick at Figures, Apply
THE SINGER MANUFACTURING CO. Hongkong, 5th February, 1904. | [427 WANTED LESSONS IN RUSSIAN.
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CREDIT TERMS RUSSIAN; alight previous konw-
ALSO
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Hongkong, Wth January, 1904.
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PROPOSALS FOR FROZEN FRESH
ledge.
Address--
No. $87, Care at Daily Press Office, Hongkong, 5th February, 1904,
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It is not my intention to give you a long
Bo much else to be toll of grastar fut rust that it is necesowy for me to bi na comiemt bɔh of | your patienos and my spaso. In order, how- || ever, that you may undratal events as they progressed, and see them in their proper light, it is imperative that I should give you a bit outline of how we fared,
“I tried to reason with her, but in vain. The To begin with, the brig not only proved bornly answer I could get from her we: The self fast but also an excellent aan hout. From blood; the blood:" the moment that I actually took over command of her it seemed as if my luck had changed. The breeze, of which Jackson had warned soe, prored to be no passing z phyr but was safli. cient to carry us merrily over the Equate, thus enabling us to cross the parallel of 10 degrees BY & of
After that ticked up line Y & Young Man of certain experience, N. in 25 degrees W. without any difficulty
Apply by letter to-
Hongkong. 6th
"D P. M."' Care of Daily Press Office. February. 1904,
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
the MILITARY AUTHORITIES that GUN PRACTICE will be carried out from Lai-Chi-Kol in a West by Southerly direction at ranges from 1,900 to 3000 yards” at Barrel Targets, commencing at 2.30 P.M. on TUES Lay, the 16th FEBRUARY, 1964, if the
is clear. rouge
By Command,
A. M. THOMSON, Acting Colonial Secretary, Colouint Secretary's Offles,
Hongkong, 4th February, 1904. [434
AND FROZEN FRESH MUTTON Headquart, ra Division of the Philippines. Offieo of the Chief Commi-eory, Manila, P.I., August 54b, 1903,-Seated proposals, iu triplicato, will be received at this Office until 11 o'clock, a... March 19th,NFORMATION has been received from 1904, at which time and place they will be opened in the presence of the attending bidders, for the furnishing and delivery of six million six hundred thousand (6,600,000) pounds of frozen fresh beef and four hundred and eighty phonsunil (180,000) - pounds of frozen frosh ution to the Subsistenco Department at Manila, P., during the year ending Juno 30, 1905. The accopted beef and mutton will bo admitted free of Customs duties. The Uzitod Stutes reserves the right to decrease the amount called for in the contract, by not to exceed 40% upon resserable notice to the contractor; or to increase the amount called for, with the consent of the contractor. Each proposal must be accompanied by a Bidder's. Guarantas in the amopu: of $20,000, or by -certified cheek for that amount on a bank of approved standing in Manila. The bidder to whom the emptract is awarded will be required to give bond, the penalty of which will be fixed by the Chief Coramissary, Information furnished en application. Envelopes contain ing proposals should be marked: 'Proposals for frozen fresh beef and frozen fresh mitten for FY. 195, to be opened March 19th, 1904," and addressed to the undersigned-HENRY G. SHARPE, Colonel, A.C.G., U.S. Army, Chief Commissary.
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NOTICE 10 CONTRACTORS.
CITY OF MANILA.
OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL BOARD SECRETARY'S OFFICE.
EALED PROPOSALS will be received at
this office until 12 o'clock Nuor, of the drst day of June, 1804, for the construction of the superstructure for a lift bridge over the Binondo canal in the City of Manila, in accordance with plus a file at the Office of
the City En.ineer.
JURY LIST 1994.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that Pursuant to the Provisions of the Jury Consolidation Ordinace, 1887, I have this day cansed to be posted, at the chief entrance to ta Court House, a List of all persons ascertained by me to be liable to serve as Jurora.
The said List will remain so posted until THURSDAY, 18th instaat, in order that may person may apply by notice in writing to the requiring that his name or the name of some other person may be respectively either added to or struck off from the said List, upon cause to be duly assigned in such notios.
ABATHOON SETH, Acting Registrar. Supreme Court. Houso,
Hongkong, 3rd February, 1904.
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and keeping her well full, cross A to the north westward as easily as the most exacting skipper could desire.
Long vs this we had lost sight of the "Hallket, to whom the brig. could show a clean pair of heels. Wherever she had boos built, and my own belief was that she liiod from New Zealaud, she did credit to her de siguer. Why men, who must surely have known her worth, had been such fouls as to abandon bor, I could not for the life of mo understand, though I hoped to do so later.
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With the intention of distracting her thoughts I proposed that we should walk, With her usual childlike obedience she did so, but I noted every time we passed the spot where the man bad sin she shrank away, and gat, I plugs you may word, there was nothing to be seen.
Thinking it might choor har I began to talk to ber of other matter of my life at sea-of the various places I bud visited-aud of the adventures I had wot with. She listened, but it did not take much to sun that she was not intorested.
"I am afraid you do not hear what I am saying to you, Miss Alexandra," I romarked seine what inrty-for I was a little chagrined, I must confese, that she should still remain só silent.
The sou?" she repeated-still in the same- monotonous voice. Yes, I am fond of the sea.” Have you over done a voyage before? I asked, hoping that by putting the question in
casual way,
Yes," she auswered, “I heard yon-but I'm afraid I did not understand." Here she Good ferings favoured us, inasmuch as we put her hand up to her forehead, as if she were were extremely lucky in our ship's company in pain, and at once I began to up-raid wys If Jackson proved himself what I had hitherlu for my cruelty towards her. To ebauge the known him to be, a hard-working sai a gions subject 1 adopted, the commonplace, and on- officer. Hickson mde a compalent bo'sun.quired whether she was fond of the seu ?” while the crow themselves were not only up to their work ba proparet at all times to do it, As for Mrs. Flanagan, words fail me when I attempt to describes her. Bho managed after part of the regeel as if it were a first-class boarding house, and gave anremitting car by both day and night to the fortante girl whom we had determined to call Miss Alorsudra. Possibly her husband might have been a better enok, so far as savoury dishes were concerned,away the cobwebs in her brain. but a Jackson and I were accustomed to make the bat of things, and were always as hungry her on that score, en hunters. we did not find much fault with
As for Miss Alexandra herself, I can only say that there ppeared to be little or no change in her conditio, and, by the way, that, soli-kuns condition puzzled me fors tlain I can tell. He bodily heith appeared to bo ns goud as it could, possibly be. She ball afe and slept well, a d' in a measure seemed to tɛka an interes' in wint wn on about her. The thing that puzzled mak, however, was her total forgetfulness of all that had transpired previous to our dis- covering her on board the ship She would still sit for hours at a time, gazing straight
before her as if she were watching things that we could not see. It is a strang thing when you come to think of it, and goes to show what enricus anonendies we human beings are, that while I should bass pitia her under any WEES of the city of Victoria circamstances, I fear she had my compassion in much larger degres on account of her beauty. and in the Eastern Division of Kowloos are I am willing to confess that women have not had
reby notified that ander No. 5 of the Domestic Cleanliness and Ventilation By-laws much to do with my life. As a matter of fact, any domestic buildings of such building badly passengers or travelled in one until I I had never served on board a ship that carried Bids will be received (Is) for the delivery which is accapind by tubers of more than one joined the allot." As for th lady pas-
family shall, unless specially exempted by the and orection of the structure complote in overy Board, be CLEANSE LIMEWASHED board her there was not one, and I say respect and ready for use; (ad) for the delivery at the wharf in Mauils, fra from all one throughout to the distortion of the Board it adriully, so far as beauty was concerned.
during the months of Jaundry and February,
essity of Clesplines in its efforts to stamp The Sanitary Bord being convinced of the but Plagne is delermined to rigorously prosecute gay owner in default after the 29th February.
Note-The boundaries of the abers Districts have been alteredand are now as follows:-
brances, of all the structural material and mnobinery of every sort, ready for the erection of the bridge complete..
Each bid shall be accompanied by (let) a stress shoot showing the maximum live and dead loud stresses in each member together with the greas and fist scations and the material of which each member is to be comp sed; (d) a cortitial check payable to the City of Msbila in the su of one themand dollars ($1, 0) United States currency, or its equivalent, us a guaranty last the cuntractor will within ten (10) days from the awarding of the contrast enter into contrust with the City of Manila for the faithfal performance of all the work shove specified.
A bond of ten per cent (10%) of the ascopted bid will be required for the faithful performance and completion of the contract within a period of twelve (12) months from the date of signing: the contract.
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THE EASTERN DIVISION OF THE CITY IS BOUNDED ON THE WEST BY GRAHAM STREET AND ENDICOTT STREET,
The Eastern Division of Kowloon is bounded ou the wit by Robinson Rond and a straight ine drawn froin the north end thereof through The Youusti service reservoir to the northern toundary of Howloon.
By Order,
G. A. WOODCOCK, Becretary.
Sanitary Board Office. 4th Jannery, 190 ›
PRINTED FORMS FOR BIDS, plans and all necessary information may be obtained at the Office of the City Engineer, Manila, P.I., Engineering News Publishing Co., 220 Broud- Tas way, New York City, and the Bureau of Insular; Affairs, Washington, D.C.
The right is reserved by the City of Manila to reject any or all bids and to waive any defects
By Direction of the Board,
JOHN M. TUTHER, Secretary. Manila, P. I., January 21st, 1904.
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it were a zastier of no concern. I might obtain some inkling of her extraordinary story-for extraordinary it most certainly have been,
Again her hand swopt her brow as if to brush
"I think-but I cannot say," was her answer. It all seems so foggs to me. Oh, if only I could wake up. 1 have had such terrible dreams!"
Here was my chance, and I bustened to avail myself of it. Since I had known her she had not said so much to me.
To be continued.)
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
RACE MEETING, 1904.
TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, AND SATURDAY (OFF.DAY). 23rd, 24th, 25th and 27th FEBRUARY.
ICKETS of ADMISSION tu the GRAND STAND and ENCLOSURE may be obtained from Messrs. KELLY & Walsh, L»,, or at the Gate. Price 37 for the
Mesting (excluding the Off-Day), or $3 per day.
Tickets for the Off-Day, $2.
No Gro ndanitted without a Ticket to be
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who was fit to hold half u candle to her. THE STEWARDS request the pleasure of prepared to admit that the vagneness of h provious history irritated me more than I can
eay. Since she did not know it herself, it was
impossible for us to tell who or what she was, rull som to indicate that he was unmarried, The absence of a welding ring from her finger One thing struck mo as signifient, and that
was the neatness of her devas, Wisther it was
because whatever she wore must inevitably mit her, or bus- she had natural tasie in drosa,. I cannot say, but the fact remains that with the simplest materials, she invariably pradoved a most artistic effect. And here I wosh relate a little incileal which, whenever I think of it aow, always strikes my as pecaline,
the presence of the LADIE- at tho GRAND STAND and EN LOSURE during the Races on the 3rd. 24th, 25th and 27th instant,
A Stand and an Enclosure will be reserved
fer Members and Members Wives and Families, Tickets for which will be sent out with the Members Tickets after MONDAY, 12th inst,
All Tickets must be produced to gain admission.
T. F. HOUGH,
Clark of the Course. Hougkong, 8th February, 1901.
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It YAR the third night after our taking over the brig, and I can rreall ovary circum- stance pans oted with it quite clairly. We dined at seven o'clock, that it to say if sue: a during the Race Days WITHOUT TICKETS 1136 male uld be called dinner. Three of us at which can be bad on application to the Under- down to it, Mies Alexandra, Jarkson and my-signed between MON DÀY, 15th, and SATUR- self............I had already made it a rule that Hicksou | DAT, 20th ios:. should stand the watch in order to allow the mate to partake of bis meal.
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