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TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1919,

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the 1st July, 1919, at 11 am, at Kwong Tong Cheong's Shipyard,

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ONE COMPLETE SET FXGINES

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passenger in the train, and a passengers could overlook her beauty crowd of threatening Bolsheviks had and I, at least, could not miss the approached her. But she, chatching charm of the Russian speech in which her revolver, bad talked to them for from time to time she addressed her more than an hour of life and death companion. Both of us were writing, and politics/till they, astonished at and it was more than an hour before, her strange speech, had gone away we came into conversation together. I at an unlit railway junction, the apon sore chance question of hers. and left her unmolested.. Once again, found that she and her mother were porters had come into her carriage by freshly escaped from Petrograd night and taken away her luggage. having driven forty miles and But she had pursued them and join- walked six through the snows of the, ed her fellow-travellers with her; Finish frontier. Now she was com and so,jumping under railway trucks ing to England to join a sister there, in the dark, she and her company and probably to marry an English had caught up the robbers and car- Iman. I helped the two of them, as ried her belongings triumphantly best I could, through the difficulties back. Three times in the course of of Scandinavian travel; and several her journey she had been formally times, when her mother had gone to asked in marriage-once by a doctor rest between stages of her journey, travelling: homeward from

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the girl and I explored the streets of Austrian prison, who on her refusal foreign cities, and I listened to her had wept bitterly. But at length. stories of the life from which she after many days' journey, she had had so lately escaped..

come, protected, ke Una, by her own single heart, safely to her mother's house.

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So the three of us travelled as companions, till the night came on which we were to strike the English coast. It had been an uneasy cross to secure their escape, realising that In Petrograd she had set herself ing, and most of us had kept our their money could not last them for berths. But towards evening the wind and the sea and when I stricken with typhus, and while stil many months longer: She had been went to find out if I could give her weak had walked the long tramless or her mother any help the girl asked me if I

streets of Fetrograd in search of would take her permits that would allow her to on deck to see the first lights cross the frontier. All her family of England. I, too, had planned had told her that she would kill to watch for them, for we were her mother if she tock her away. heading straight for that line of Once again she had danced before Northumberland beaches which, out the

..Bolsheviks-great lovers,

of all the beautiful counties of Eng she said, of the theatre in a land, most often haunts me in foreign parody, this time, of the ballet. But lands. So I promised to bear her at length she had got into touch company, if she woke; and when, in with one of the secret organisations the first morning hours, she knocked which, for a price, will convey on my door we climbed together on refugees across the frontier; and so, to the deck and sat in shelter from after six months' waiting, she and the North Sea wind, watching the dim her mother, leaving Petrograd itself lights of England across the bows of, with only a small basket, by virtue our voyaging ship.

of some permit to go and seek food, i Then it was that she spoke most had escaped across the frontier and vividly of the life which she had left came safely to Helsingfors. behind her. Little more than a year! before she had gone by herself apart was flashing clear in the darkness By this time the Longstone light to live in a mountain cottage in the ahead of us. The girl ceased her South of Russia. A very old peasant

and his wife had looked after her, story, and we sat side by side in setting out for her each morning through the falling sea towards the silence, while the ship ploughed baskets of fruit for her daily land that now for both of us was bread: and she had given herself home. She, I think, was wondering up to wandering in the mountains, what lay ahead of her beyond those attended. only by a that was half a wolf, whom she under the spell of her talk, looking geat dog firm, shining signals. But I was still had called upon once only to backwards, as through a window protect her from a band of wild momentarily discovered, into the gipsies.

But with him she had voiceless and perplexing shadows of strayed about the hillsides alone, Russia.

climbing after flowers, lying and

watching small animals at work

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AT ONCE.

Mathers everywhere are finding Baby's Own Tablets, the Canadian childrens remedy, immensely valuable for their little ones. Here is what one American mother says:-

ing snakes and tortoises and bringing GAVE HER BABY RELIEF them home into her room, to the dismay of her aged hostess, who dis- cussed with her whether she was not really a with. She had made her room, she said, into a garden of changing wild flowers; and there be tween her wandering she had reed a multitude of books. From time to wind colis

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