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THE CHINA MAIL.
The Day Of The Sortie
(Continued from page 7.)
"AN
LETTERS & RADIO.
Addresses Which Cannot
Be Traced.
POST OFFICE LIST.
Half an hour later he was outed to the hellograph message: again with a white face.
He also started Thore well, don't worry."
A Genoral Post Office notifies. was something wrong.
that journal which told everything, Insurance
Nar, without which this story could ed correspondence, etc., waiting even about his imaginings and Badri tion gives the following unclaim- not have been written. The old copy-
at the Post Office and also book was the parallel.
Then started a
un-
The morning he waily routine. Each claimed radio telegrams at the
for stores and a
tant rifle fre.
into the village
was out of the question. Yes, he had been getting thinner lately but hadn't thought anything about It. He was on his way now to 808; a distinguished physician. doctor had rang up and made an of it as reconnoltring. Later he went
paper. He thought Radio Telegraph Office.
Mr. M. A. Ancott, J. A. Bristow, appointment for him. He had de along the cliff path, imagining the clined to toll him what was the rarefed atmosphere of 10,000 feet and O. A. Rarnert, Remy Busola, Mr. mattor: - "Go and see Sir Arthur the Mahal Valley: and without effort D. Beacon, Boor Chew Sek, Mr. Perks; he's the best man in London, he heard the whistle of bullets and dis-
James Carnegie, Jr., c/o Mr. H. G. at this sort of thing."
It was extraordinary for how much Machenry, Sir Arthur received him wit of the day this dream possessed him.
Companhia Aurora kindly, old-world courtesy and Often he had to put it hurriedly aside Timorense, China Sales Corpora examined him with meticulous when the baker called evory other tion, Miss Dunham; Mona. Jean afternoon; or once when a small boy auddenly appeared and said, "I want Dubois, Messrs. Diethim & Co.. my dog," pointing to Budri Nar. The Ltd., Garmon Thomas Evan, A. mongrel changed owners for a half-
Glilas, Mr. G. Goldebaef, H. A. crown.
Sometimes his brain tired of fan-Gibbons, Mr. G. Houx, Mrs. Halden, tasy, and he found himself staring at Miss Anne Higgins, Mr. W. W. La] naked truth dogmed man playing Hamlyn, c/o I.C.C.N., E. G. Jamie- at soldiers, a boy living in a world
care.
"Are your people here?" he ask ed at last.
"No, sir. My people are in India; and, in any case, I don't want them to know about this."-
"But have you no relations in
this country?"
of imagination, a worthless fellow of
"Excuse me, sir, but I am going no use and out of everything: These son, Kwong Yuen Than, Mrs. D. J. to keep this to myself as far as fits of depression came in the even- King, Mrs. Cora C. Lyle, c/o C. possible. Please tell me the truth," ings, and to counter them he wrote Wilcox Lyle, Mrs. C. Lansdown, After a pause Sir Arthur said in his journal, communing with his Miss Edyth. Meikle, A. Majied, Mr. slowly: "Well, it's about
B. Mills, c/o C. Cook, Victor Mar- One night the longing to see his rell, Miss Florie MacDowell, W. C. serious as it could be."
parents nearly overcame him. He "Does that mean I am going to visualised them in the room-his Mok, J. Michaud, K. Nishiyama,
die?"
26
"How long will it take, months or years?"
"Months."
own flesh and blood.
father, kindly and rather grim, and Messrs. R. Okada, Maria Ines "Yours is an exceedingly. rare his mother, grey and wistful, just as Santiaga Lista de Correos Ochoa, disease and there is no recorded he had seen them leaning over the Mra. Agaton M. Ocampo, Mr. P.
sido of the departing ship, |case of recovery."
He saw M. Penhalluriack, Mr. P. C. Plal- them with such clearness that he
put hand out his
to touch them. Hellard, A. K. Rhoden, W. G. Robinson, started looking up passage routes in Sui Honk Kit c/o Swatow Export- the paper.
не could be with them in ing Co., J. R. Stewart, Mr. E. N.
Lir. Ha "Thank you very much, sir. How three weeks if he went by the night Sager, c/o Burns Philip & Co., Ltd.,]
even began to pack. But In сато the figure of soldier in
in an old-Messrs. Strong & Co., Miss M. The physician waved the ques-fashioned uniform, bringing with him Templeton, The Union Embroidery tion aside, and the robes of office something of that atern resolve that Co., Mr. E. A. Underwood, Mrs. seomed to fall from him.
seemed to match the mountains among Marry Watson, Mrs. Hiram Woos- which he died.
as he had to
much do I owe you?”.
No
He
"Come and let me introduce you and his people, it should be a clean, ter, G. E. White, Misa Anne Yep. to my wife, boy. Bring your traps sudden cat; not a laceration.
Registered Articles. round here and make this your A fortnight panned. The spring air Associated British Picture Corp. home for as long as you like. and Bawers, the glorious freshness, Ltd., Mr. R. N. Alabrecht, Chan Siu Then you can cable your people and the sea calmed him, and enkane-Hing, A. L. Dodge, Mr. Fuks, Sal- and make arrangements." He laid ed rather than spoilt his day dreams
tin Gastone, R. C. T. Espero, Robart his hand on young Dig's shoulder, of the snow-clad hills..
But he was getting very short of Hawse, (c/o American Consul), His Messrs. Independent Art Associa going uphill. morning
and looked towards the door so 49 breath, oltre into the village tion, Progressive Trading Co., Mrs.
+
not to face him,
"Thanks awfully, air. You are had to be done with subtlety. He very kind, but I don't think I will." dragged himself up the small hill, E. Shuster, Mr. Francisco Salvador, Two days later he was in a train, and lay down out of sight just be- Sze Hing Wine Shop, Tinly wotwine bound for Cornwall. Everything fore he reached the crest; then after Mfg. Co., O. Testa, The West River was settled up; the authorities at rest he walked jauntily down hill, Transportation & Boats Co., Tin
and did his shopping. Coming back Chee Yan. Sandhurst had been notified, that he strolled very slowly, pretending to
Unpaid Correspondence.
فا
ני
Poste Restante Correspondence.
he would not be returning and the read his paper. necessary medical certificates sent. This warned him that he ought tol Mro. W. B. Harris, Long & Dam- His great friend, Gough, who was make some final arrangements. He mache Jewellers & Exporters, also of a Gurkha tradition, had had an uncle, a retired Civil servant, Dhan Singh, been let into the secret and was who lived at Cheltenhami; an unexeft- going to send him R.M.C. station. person with whom, as a boy, he had always done his best to Avoid ery so that he could write to his staying. He sent him telegram: people in India without raising Sharkey Cove Station, St. Aubrey." dangerous ill. Come at once to suspicion..
He put it on the sideboard in
the cot- Now he was on his way to the tage sitting room, with the money for west country to eke out his 'month' sending it, and put a notice in largo in the little cottage where he had letters beside it: "If anyone finds me spent a happy holiday with his message." Then he wrote an explana- dead or very ill, please send this parents the last time they were tory letter, to await his uncle's ar home on leave.
rival. It particularly naked that the Any thought. of London or Journal should be forwarded to his theatres or dances was repellent to people, unread and registered. There him. He wanted to be out in the was a. second request: "Look after my hai,
dog, Budri Nar open, alone.
The cottage was on a cliff, look- It was the twenty-third day since Ing out over the Atlantic. Steps, his coming. With "Old Dig" that cut in the rock, led down to the had been the Day of the Sortie. He beach which, at the time of the sat on the edge of the cliff with year after the westerly gates, was Budri Nar between his knees, gazing deep in seaweed. The village lay out to sea. He wished he could go ant to face a sudden bullet. TO- half a mile inland and the railway morrow be know his imaginings would station five miles beyond.
bo less
real. There was no twenty-
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Journal of rope and the other holding the injur A cranky old car deposited him fourth day in the yellow
led lad, he waited. and bis luggage at the gate, and his boyhood.
Voices behind him startled the Suddenly the thought flashed on went rattling away. He was alone
There were four boys carrying a young
Bik. whole twenty-third day! tage had been got ready for him. on the cliffs beyond. "Damn it why being swelled with gratitude and can't they leave the poor brutes thanksgiving. Aloud he kept saying.
at last, and could think. The cotrope; they were after scabirds' eggs the mind: this was the Bortle
19th Nov. It was full of happy memories," he thought. Budri Nar ran "Oh, thank God for the Sortie, 1
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after them, but came back at God for the Sortie!" kit inside and opened all the doors
in a whistle, his tail wagging low
heard the words, the
boy Dimly Then he strolled apology. and windows.
which he couldn't
dn't understand but re Westerly swell, breaking membered
Later 29th Nov. aut into the garden, which was an The long
Meanwhile, in his strained position. overgrown tangle of Bowers, and on the rocks below, held his eyes, weeds, enclosed within four walls while als mind wandered. Yes, Old every muscle in young Dig's body
Dig had had the better part
seemed to ery aloud for mercy. of loose stone.
was as though each nerve and Suddenly and splendidly it struck
and
implored the control 22nd Nov, bim, almost with the force of Inspire the boys, red in the face and scar brain to let go.
And the brain ed revelation, that this must be like
ed to telegraph back orders, relentless undermentiered p the little fart of Jondola; and that he gasped: #Bob's fallen over the and inexorable, to hold on Newm nycliff, mister Young Dig followed and was like "Old - Dig"" ng tale, at any him along the path, walking slowly, again would they be asked to do any} rate, that he was doo
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the
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ainer
he new Die was not
those years
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whistling He might be dead," he whimpered. He could last out now. And, through an
eternity, they held a 8th Dec. Tooked over the sea, which tay like a was not answered; breath awarde
At last the clothes-Has arrived and mirror under the setting son, and waw clous.
Die young Dig shouted to the boy t
to hold only the now-covered hills and vast Arrived at the spot young Dig on to his leg. Then slowly be pulled spaces between them; eastward, where looked over and a small figure himself up, and Joined the répen,
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heels in, and then went and gradually the injured lady ed hos Budri NarThen he went in over the edge, As he went down the drawn up. For a second the Instinct of and repay meal, and Batch Nar, rope the bought truckim, a half-preservation asserted itself and
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