10
The Adventures Of
ROBIN
THE HONGKONG
HOOD
Lady
THE STORY THUS FAR: King Richard, leaving for the Crusades in 1191, put England under a Regency, mistrusting his Saxon- hating brother, Prince John. At a jousting match before the latter, Sir Robin of Locksley, a swashbuckling young Saxon, worsts the Norman Sir Guy of Glabourse thereby winning the disitke of
cap Fitzwalter, Sir Guy's sweetheart. King Richard is Aferlan
arize tured abroad and held for Rancom and Prince John plots
otherwise torments" the Saxons. He overtaxes and the crown. Robin does many valorous deeds to protect them and finally de- Prince John puts a price on nounces Prince John as a tratior.
outlaw. Robin bands together the victims Robin's head ar an
John's cruelty, wears them to work for the restoration of of Richard and goes toita them to dwell in Sherwood Forest. When Sir Guy and his retinue go by with pant treasure, Robin taker it and further humiliates them. To bait Robin, Prince John, the High Sherif of Nottingham, and Sir Gay Robin wins the prize but is at once. put archery contest, plan an
Marian works Lady a dungeon to be hanged the next day. with his Merry Men to free him. While on the scaffold he es
The knights and their men pursue him but fail to get him. comes in duguise to meet While they wrangle in the Castle he Lady Marian. As they tell their love for each other he again eludes hta pursuers and rides back to Sherwood Forest and the Merry Meu.
capes.
CHAPTER XI
TELEGRAPH,
WEDNESDAY,
The Concluding Instalment
the
who have how only with their ar eagerly, "where is King Riebord?”
the men
Richard
poor
11
the
ward!"
the
all this,
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1.
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5.
Mines, 7 cts. n. Hong Philippine Mining
P. 34 sa.
Antamok, P.
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She's been condemned.
to the block
for warning us "John wouldn't dare lo execute the King's
exclaimed Richard,
Consolidated Mines, P. "You underestimate him, Sire! I
Demonstrations, P. -- we're to save Lady Marian
P and
P.
pose you hand it to mel. If & weight "But you don't have to search for
sold Robin,'
tall more than a just amount I'll share it Richard, with those who have lessÏ"
stranger quietly. "llo's in good
in
England!" "You think I hand my purse to hands-the best hands every rough lout who asks for It?" All stared at the speaker, who
H.K. Steamboats, $20 n. raised his bow at arm's stood with his hand at the fastening Robin length and twenty of his green.
Indo-Chinas (Pref.), $60 n. of his cloak, Jils men behind him. clad followers jumped into the road
Indo-Chinas (Def.), $24 11. "What do you mean," asked Robin
Shell Bearer, a/- 80/8 n. and covered the
"Here!" As "We're
un- he spoke he
Union Waterboats, $0 b. outlaws Yows.
Docks Eta cloak and stood re- to eat but the fastened the
1.K. & K. Wharves, $1201⁄2 n. King's deer, father," said Robin in vealed in the gleaming garb of the his chest was em-
H.K.
Docks
$19% n. grinning depreciation, "while you Crusaders. On
cintlem of King II.K. Docks
$191 have property, rents and silver. So blazoned
Richard. Robin knelt. Much mo- again holding out his hand, R
Providents (old), $7.18 sa. Providenta (new), $0.00 lloned weakly that his message was your purse!"
New Engineering Sh. $3.00 m.. Anished. "Prince. John.. not at Richard looked speculatively
Shanghat Docks, Sh. $128 n. and at their master and e's getting the Bishop o'..
Kallan Mining Adm., s/- 17/3 n. proclaim 'Im then and quietly, "But I've traveled Black Canons to..
Raubs, $9.70 far on the King's business, and the King in Notting'am ... tomorrow
Venz: Goldfield, 33 n. silver pennies I have left equal no low did
you learn more than sixty mares!"
Much?" "What," interjected Robin quick-
Marlan over'card "Lady "in your
atitude toward Kink They've took 'er for treason "I love no man better!" "By that speech, Sir Abbot, you "Spoil, why should he, Your save half your money! Give me The scene changes to a barren and
the Keut Highness. sald Sir Guy suave only fifteen marca for the poor, and ian Du poverty-stricken Road. The only cheer in the room ly, "Richard hasn't an army with the rest you may keep and wel-
If he had we'd have heard come." is the big fire that rears in the fire-film
He's stopping as the Bishop "Then I am free to go?" place casting dancing shadows across of it!
"Any friend of Richard is free the candle-light. The place is de informs us, at this Kent Road tavern
then if Richard happened to in this forest..
Ipa By attacking the eastle!" serted but for the fruit old proprie-
to- honour er. killed there
me by sharing meat with me cried the King. Then, shaking his tor who has just finished serving he
to-morrow vaultk
"Na! Without an army head, meagre food and drink to the five night. England
"Gladly, but
who are you?" men who sit at a corner table in long haven new king..."
much
too strong! Your men would whispered Richard, who well knew, here left he killed uselessly!" "But that's murder?" and enveloping traveling chaaks.
"You gentlemen have traveled the Bishop, "I'll have nothing to do the road and walked into the green- wood with the stranger as he told fart" naked the old man humbly, with
nome. "retorted Sir Guy his
Richard Anid that it One of the Ave nodded. "Pin, "You'll do
United went on. "I with quiet menace, "what you're told seemed to him, he might have heard proprietor sorry," the
better food. There to do and that's very simple. the name. "Seem to have heard it." can't give you
your mouth
The laughed Robin. Ксер is little left to us these days
"Ah, now
remember! at how This will
be enough," said the Bishop appealed to John.
"ow long will you retain your does your loyalty to Richard set on tallest of the company and the old landford remarked the kindliness of Abbey," replied Prince Jahin coldly, a killer of knights and a poacher of
if Richard survives to find out what the King's deer?" ching at Luton was well sup- you've been up to, these years er misused the trust that Richard left he's Those I killed died because they'd 'Who's to plied", said one of the younger been away! Richard, Sir Guy?" them
..and the worst rascal of of the party brusquely, "How is
They beckoned Dickon, a knight the lot was the King's own brother." that?"
a whose spurs had been taken from "Ah," said the landlord with
"Then you blame Prince John?" "No I blame King Richard, whose faint, and smile, "but that is a Nor- his by Richard. Should he consent inun inn. They are all prosperous, to do the deed his name would re- job was here at home, protecting his Gisbourne or my brother's men will If it weren't for our blessed Robin appear on the roli of English knights people instead of deserting them to see I would have had to close these doors long ago."
"Robin
his deep voice.
quickly.
.?" asked the tali one
"Robin Hood, the outlaw, sir." "Oh, yes yes! I've heard of him, I understand he's quite a champion
sir
in
**
dispose
closed!"
. Unless you'd one, we've got to net
and the manour and estates of fight in foreign lands!" Robin of Locksley would support his "What,' cried Richard frowning, rank, "When do I start. Sire?" "At "you'd condemn once! How many men will you sattes?"
need?" "None, Sire! I'll do it bel-
the
Holy
"I'd condemo anything that holding England ter alone!" "Then King Richard dies the task of
to outlaws
... like to-night!" whispered Prince John in Richard
Suddenly
Much,
for
.!
ส
it's
"If the Bishop of the Black Canons going to the palace to morrow to perform the ceremony." Robin began thoughtfully, then, looking at said, "Suppose we visit him at the Abbey to-night, and let him suggest a way?" "It would relieve Morlan of im- mediate danger,"
Frinr suggested Tuck, "If John thought Dickon had killed the King
of this Dickon can be found?" asked "Can you tell us where the body
Richard. Much assured him he could. "Then," sald the King. "take my ring place it on ils per- son and have in moved to where
in-
admitting Robin's
him. That should be proof enough of my death! But how do
to you propose
Ret your band Cru- through even the town gate, with-
out left That, too," grinned Robin, "is
alarm?" matter for
for the Bishop to decide- me to-night!" mud ciation. Go back to the Ab- of the Saxons."
Whatever the Bishop did decide It was at this point that Will Scar- that night-he evidently was "He helps all people in distress, bey, Your Grace, and made prepara-
tions to proclaim me king, here, in let rode up bearing before him on timidated into Norman or Saxon." "Queer sort of fellow, this Rob- Nottingham, the day after tomorr his saddle the wounded Much-the-men-in the garb of irlars-Into the
Miller's-Son. Robin tenderly lifted How does one find him?" "I've no idea, sir de "said the
he stopped alarmed, him from the horse and laying him proccasion-wilch the next morning gates of gally through the gate the ground, knelt beside him, Nottingham for the coronation of old man, suddenly become susplei- gazing upward toward the stairway, on
Prince all glimpsed the vanishing examining his wound.
Hall was aus, "Would you gentlemen like where
Prince John. The Great "King Richard the Lady Marian. The
is," Kasped gorgeously decked-Prince John, the come more of our good brown ale?" form of
"In England
Sherli, Sir Guy and the other At
was Bishop was aghast. "You don't this moment the door
sup:
High Dickon to
knights and ladies were on hand. All thrust open and the Bishop of the pose that she ?" he began. "Prince John sent Black Canons burst in in
Sir Guy said Kent Rond Tavern last night.
but the Lady Marian who still lan- guished in her cell. ing rage, a half dozen friars at his grimly, "but after I've seen Your to kill the King ...
Will, take Afty men "['11
Then entered the Bishop of Black Prince Grace away. complain to
certainly shall
at once go to the Kent Road Canons and his retinue! Then cloaks John!" he shouted, "I'll have this And out!"
Back in the apartment, Marian and
and cowls were cast aside and Robin "No need, Master "Much in and his Merry Men stood revealed- Robin hastily scribbled
I ended and King Richard! In the furious ay he must immediately terrupted weakly, "I
e won't murder clash of swords which ensued the to when even a High Churchman And King Richard and warning him Dicken
# no more..
Robin Hood--were Saxons led can't travel through the forests of the plot. She was about to send nobody
"And the King
by it by Bess to Much at the Saracen's
where is he?" victorious-Prince John was banish- safety!"
I don't know, master...
ed-Lady Marian ane rapped
rescued and the "Do you wish to go on after din- Head-when
Outlaw of Sherwood restored. ner, Your Grace?" asked one of the sharply. She thrust the note under
The men in Lincoln green monks.
a cloth on the table as Bess "No! We can't reach the Abbey swiftly disappeared, grened the door, gathering from all glues were "Arise; Robin, Baron of Locksley," to-night! I'll stay here! Tend to the Guy sternly accused Marian spoke. horses) landlord, get us food!" Here of having heard the conference the Bishop, wanting an audience, the Great Hall and when she re- Richard turned to the five at the side table, fused
skirls,
lower-
- don't
He
rascal's ears, no matter how! dares to rob me! Stelps my person
know
of jewela! What's this country com- explaining
ing
Sir
to
halled
I
a note to
some
him
in
"What!
"I
"Men
off..
commanded
"Earl of King Richard, Sherwood and Nottingham, and lord We've got
And of all the lands and manors apper- to ." said Robin grimly, taining thereto My Orst com- Te "and bring him here at once he had her safety! Little satisfy
for mand to you, my lord Earl, is to take to the
John Prince
take "It's no longer safe to journey any John, the Sheriff and the
presence of
ain marriage my dear ward, Lady - scour the countryside! Marian Fitzwalter!" other party where! Robbers all over!"
Friar Tuck-go into the town! Will, knighta.
Robin's Merry Men sent up a She "What happened, Your Grace?"
vas finally infuriated to the point of acknowledging that search every inn and cottage! Don't mighty cheer and
madly rang the Inquired the fall one, courteously.
"I just told you!" snorted His she had overheard and Prince John. Test day or night, any of you, till bella of Nottingham!" Grace Indignantly, "We were rob- threatened her with execution.
I am bod! Not a chance to defend our-
royal ward of King relves! He burst on us from am- Richard" she cried, "and no one but the King himself has the right bush
to condemn me to death!" "Who did?"
"
"Why, Robin Hood, of course!
1
Richard's found!"
"And it shall be a King who will Eat
There's no other rascal with enough order your execution for high trea-}
son, exactly forty-eight hours from
"Robin Hood," said one of the five now!"
guests to the tall one, "The same
The guards imprisoned her.
In the meantime Bess had brought
we we were speaking of, Sire!" The the news to Much at the Saracen's
Bishop
started
asked
murder
shot from a cannon hearing the word 'Sire' Head. Like a
he the little man was off to find Robin gally. "And what,"
your and tell him of the unctuously,
plot to King Richard. Much was fording & forest stream when he came upon
names be, gentlemen?"
"might
the interest of
Your
They're hardly important enough Dickon the man commissioned to do to deserve
the deed. Savagely he dragged him Grace, said the tall one evasively from his anddle. They fought with
where's our ale?"
knives till Dickon lay dead. The Bishop, as soon as he could the little man, sorely wounded, drag- Then do it gracefully, excused himself
on through Sherwood pleading a forgotten engagement at Red himself
Forest till Will Scarlet, riding by,
"Landlord
the Abbey, and left. The five at the found him. "Why Much," he cried, side table knew that his suspicions dismounting hastily,
had been aroused.
"His Grace, so-called, is a Norman, pened to you
Sire. Didn't you see ute dread in
"What's hap-
"Take me to Robin
quick.
the landlord's face when he and his 's matter of.
friars entered?”
"The same look, Essex, 'Uint I've death
seen on the faces of thousands since we returned. I never should have left
England. But this mysterious
outlaw, . He's given me an idea
Д
way
gasped Much
.. life, or
(Continued to-morrow)
CHAPTER XII
quick
The Bishop had no trouble King Richard and his nobles dls- in meeling him ...
as Abbot and monks, and he added with guised grim smile, "So let's be on our followed by horses heaped high with baggage, looked for all the world The Bishop of the Black-Canons like a great religious house travel- lost no time in getting back to Not- ing to visit one of its branches. The tingham Castle where Prince John, trip since leaving the Inn, had been Sir Guy and the High Sheriff heard uneventful and the hope of encoun- his story
with dismay. "Are you tering
Outlaw of
of Sherwood aure it was Richard?" asked John Forest seemed a fortom one.
the
In a hoarse whisper, his face ashen. But suddenly. nt a turn "No doubt of it. Your Highness. moonlit trail, a
of the
the figure leapt and one of those with him was Essex from the shubbery and stood with
wardly, Jogged on, till the stranger
. and another, I think, was Pem- lifted hand. Richard, chuckling in- brokel"
The Lady Marian appeared for moment
his horse's bridlo and re-
on the stairs ond shrank back in the shadows, listen-Abbot! Traveled far?"
the orked agreeably. "Greetings, Sir
ing eagerly.
"Too for to be patient with delay. "How like my dear brother this now...!" answered the supposed . multered Prince John churchman trying to hide his amuse- venomously. "Ife couldn't rol in ment.
Durenstein, like any decent man "Perhaps it is the weight of your he must purse that wearies you so early in pop up here, to spoil our plan!" the day!" sald Robin curtly. Sup-
would!
But not
THE END
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continues to Increcst,
**BURDWAN
Figures for the end of September
indicate that half a million
more
people are unemployed compared
RANPURA RAWALPINDI with September 30 last year. This +SOMALI figure represents an unemploymen: Kaln of 60,000 since August 31.
EXCHANGE
Selling
T.T. London Demand T.T. Shanghai T.T. Singapore T.T. Japan T.T. India T.T. U.S.A T.T. Manila
T.T. Batavia T.T. Bangkok
T.T. Saigon T.T. France
dt på
CANTON CORFU
• Cargo only
TALMA .18 2%
SIRDHANA .18. 2 SHIRALA .170 nom. TILAWA
SANTHIA
Tons
6,000, 8th Oct., a
7,000, 14th Oct. |17,000|15th Oct. 17,000 29th Oct.
6.000 8th Nov.
17,000 12th Nov, 17,000 20th Nov, 1,000 3rd Dec.
15,500 10th Dec.
14,300 24th Dec.
Dastination
a.m. B'bay, M'scilles, Havre, L'don, Hull, H'burg. I'dám Be A'werp. Straits, Colbo, B'bay, & K'chi. Marseilles &c London Marseilles &
મ
Loaden.
B'bay, M'sciller, Havre, L'don, Hull, H'bg, 'dam & Awerp. B'bay, M'seilles & London. Marseilles & London.)
B'bay, M'soilles, Havre, L'don, Hull, H'bg. R'dam & Aʼwerp. Bombay, M'ailles & London. Bombay, M'seilles de London.
↑ Calls Casablanca · All vessels may call at Malls
BRITISH INDIA APCAR BAILINGS (SOUTH)
10,000
8,000 22nd Oct. ,000 5th Nov. 10,000 10th Nov.
Port 6 Oct., 10.30 a.m. S'pore,
Penang, Rangoon & Calcutta,
Swattenkam
DO.
DO.
DO.
DO.
8,000 3rd Dec.
BJ. Apcar Line Eteamers have excellent accommodation for lat & 2nd class passengaw
.03
108
8224
.2934
2014
.59%
5445
14034
NELLORE
Ifn TANDA
.11
NANKIN
79/2
129
•1/01
Buying
1/3
do.
T.T. Germany T.T. Switzerland T.T. Australia
• nos L/a London
4 m/c D/p
4 m/s L/C U.S.A.
4 m/s France
30 d/s India
U.S. Cross rate in London
EASTERN & aubthalian BAILINGS (SOUTH)
7,000, 4th Nov."
4,000 2nd Dec.
7,00u31st Dec.
Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Bydney. Melbourne & Hobart
Regular monthly sailings from Ikong to Shanghai & Japan & Ikona to, Austrália.
1/3.5/37) NELLORE
.30 | SHIRALA 11.80 RANPURA .84% .4.70
PALESTINE TOLL
AT HIGH MARK
Jerusalem, Oct. 4. Total counties in Palestine from Saturday to Tuesday mid-day were 140 dead and wounded.
This is the highest figure since the outbreak of the current disorders.
RAWALPINDI *SOMALI TANDA SANTHIA
CANTON
Hong Kong to bydney-13' days.
BAILINGS TO BHANQUAI & JAWAN,
7,000 8th Oct., 4 p.m. Shanghai & Japan.
8,000 12th Oct.
17,000) 14th Oct,
17.000 28th Oct. *0,000) 28th Oct.
7,000 4th Nov, 8,000 9th Nov.
15,000 11th Nov. Cargo only.
Japan
Shanghai & Japan.
Shanghai & Japan.
Shanghai & Japan. Shanghai & Japan.
Japan.
Shanghai & Japan.
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice, – parceân measuring not more than 5-e.ft, will be received at the Company's Office, up to moont on the day previous to sailing,
For Pamege Rates, Handbooka, Freistīt, etc, apply
ET MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.
Connaught