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"Never been on the Gulland be fore, I suppose?" he ventured at last, when the boatmen had dia charged their load and were evi- dently ready to be off.

"No, no, I haven't," I said, and hesitated. I felt that the invita tion must come from him,

Ho boggled over it by saying. "Dashed awkward place to get to, and nothing to see, of course.

FOUR EXPEDITIONS

TO ARCTIC.

Soviet Seeking To

Open Trade Lane.

London. The Soviet Govern.

held my gaze again, but now without that inquiring look of his. Rather, ha scomed to be looking for sympathy. "He was a splendid chap, and he was ing.

"I told my houso-maaler," he said. ment is nothing if not enterpris- With a žen which leaves very decent about it; took it all quite mest older nations far behind it is seriously and advised me to consult an endeavouring to develop the re- oculist, which I did. I went in the

he

eyea.

that

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holidays with the patner-I had given sources of its territory in the trouble and he took me to the best populated areas. him a more reasonable account of my North as well as in the more man in London. Ho was tremendously tiens are planned for this year. Four expedl- Interested, and it proves that don't know if you're at all keen must be something in it. that One leaves Kiranak and is to on- on fishing?"

it can't bo

Toally

Imagination, because courage trade with an area raund found "Rather," I said with enthusiasm.my

defect in the mouths of the Lenin. Another eyes, something quite

sorger "There's deep water on the to him, he said.

new from the same base is directed to He called it the Siberian Islands, whilst a other side of the rock," he went new form of astigmatism; but, of on. "In the right weather you get couras, as he pointed out, no glasses third aims at the River Hatanga. splendid bass there."

would be of any use to me." He stppod.

The fourth is the most ambi- and then added. 'It'll be absolute Copley hesitated, and dropped his tious, and. Its objective is the ly top hole for 'em this afternoon" shpetim, you know," he opening of a sea route between "Perhaps I could come back tionary. learned that definition by Archangel and Vladivostok with "I began; but the boatman heart; I often puzzle over it still the establishment of trading interrupted me at once.

a cor- centres on the way. direes of lines

to be indit een "Yew can coom back to-morrow, while those of lines transverse to the

It will have the services of an sure "nough," he said. "Tide only former are distinctly seen. Only mine ice-breaker throughout. In addi serves wance avery twalve hours." is peculiar in the fact that my sight tion to these, 28 vessels--includ-

"If you'd enre to stay now

is perfectly normal except when I look ing 12 British-have been engag- back began the hermit.

at anyone over my shoulder."ed on a trading expedition to the Thanks it's awfully good of could see that he hoped I might under- within the Arctic Circle, from our He looked up, almost pathetically. Kara Sea, one of Russia's outposts you. I should like to of all things," I said.

1

"Is A

taipsing

quola the dic-

stand without further explanation.

I had to confess myself utterly mys-North-East coast ports principally. The ships sailed in convoys of five

I stayed on the clear understand-tified. ing that the boatmen were to fetch me the next morning.

*

*

I frowned my perplexity. "But between July and September.

"I said.

don't see

They took out 20,000 tons of He knocked out his pipe and began machinery and stores for works in to scrape the bowl with his pocket- At first there was very little that knife. Well, mine is a kind of moral Siberia, and will return with

natigmatism, tos," he said. seemed in any way strange about it gives me a kind of moral insight. ly for this country.

"At least 30,000 standards of timber, main- The bunker the man on the Gulland. His I'm afraid I must call it insight, I've coal for all the ships except those name, he told mc,' was William proved in some cases that

Ho

under the Runelan Aag, but Includ- Copley, but it appeared that he was ty deeply engrossed in the scraping out ing the ice-breaker, was obtained dropped his voice. He was apparent- no relation to the Copleys I knew of his pipe. He kept his eyes on it from this country.

Wireless and And if he had shaved he would as he continued.

seaplanes are being used to advise have looked a very ordinary type "Normally, you understand, when I shipmasters as to the beat route of Englishman roughing it on a look at people straight in the face, I to adopt, and it is said that only holiday. His age I judged to bo see them as anybody else sees them experienced captains have been between thirty and forty.

But when I look back at them

oh! employed. Only two things about him over my shoulder I see

their vices and de- struck me as a little queer during fecta. Thoir faces remain, in 蟲 our very successful afternoon's fish-sense, the same, perfectly recognis- ing. The first was that intense ap-able, I mean, but distorted-beast- was my brother praising stare of his, so if he tried ly. There to faithom the very depths of one's

Claude-good-looking chap, he was- The P. & 0..6.. Kidderpore left

but when I saw him being. The second was an inexpli-

that way Shanghai for this Port on the 19th he had a nose like a a parrot, and cable devotion.to

looked sort one particular he

of weakly voracious instant at 6 a.m. and is due here form of ceremony. As our int}-

and vicious. He stopped and to-day. macy grew; he dropped the ordin-And one knows, now, that he is like arrived at Kobe on November 18 shuddered alightly, and then added: The R.M.S. Empress of Russia ary formal politeness of a host; but that, too. He's just been halamered (Fri.) at 3.30 p.m., left. Kobe on he insisted always on one obsex on the Stock Exchange. Rotten aort vance that I supposed at first to be of failuro it was . .

November 19 (Sat.) at 6. a.m., and

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the merely conventional business "And then Denison, my house-mas-was due at Nagasaki on Sunday at of giving precedence.

ter, you know; auch a decent chap. 16 a.m. She left for Shanghal on Nothing would induce him to go in never looked at him, that way, until Sunday at 1 p.m... front of me. He sent me ahead oven the end of my last term at school. The P. & O. e.s. Malwa left Sin- as we explored the little purlieus of had got into

Into the habit, more or loss,

bia rock-the only level square yard of never looking over my shoulder, you gapore for this port on November

on the whole island was in the floor of see. But I was always getting caught. 19 at 4 p.m., and is due hore on the hut. But presently I noticed that That was an instance. I was playing November 24 at about 6 a.m.

still discovery

I

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this peculiarity went still further and for the School against the Old Boys The B.I. 8.8. Takada will leave not turn his back on me Denison called out, 'Good luck, old Amoy for this port on November that he for a single moment

chap, just as I was going in, and 24, and is due here on November That

intrigued one. I forgot and looked back at him

126. the explanation of mad- I waited, breathless, and as he did ness-Copley's manner, and conversa- not go on, I prompted him with "Was tion were so convincingly sane. But I be

'wrong too?" reverted to an elaborated these other Copley nodded. "Weak, poor devil.Į two suggestions that bad been

I His made, eyes were all right, but they were (Continued from previous column). could not avoid the Inference that the fighting his month, if you know what it were," man must in some strange way be mean. There would have been an ing humanity atraight in the face?"

I asked, "going about look- afraid of me; and I hesitated as to awful scandal at the school there, four "The temptation is too strong" Cop- whether he flying from some form year after I left, if they hadn't hush- anid. "And it

ley

stronger. perhaps aed it up and got Denison out of the Curiosity, partly. I suppose; but part of justico or from rever Alta, Elther theore

theory seemed to ac- country.

ly it's the momentarily for his intense, appraising stare. "Then, if you want any more in-superiority it gives you. You sco I inferred that his longing for com- stances, there was the oculist-big, them like that, you know, and forget panionship had grown 40 strong that

kets

"

et

And then he had determined to risk the possibi- chap he was. Of course, he made how you look yourself.

mu look at him over my shoulder to after a bit it sickens you. lity of my being an emissary, sent by test me. He asked me what I saw, "You haven't

I said, and some-to me--exquisitely romantic and I told, more or less. He was aim-hesitated. I wanted to know, and yet person or persons who desired Copley's ply livid for a moment. He was a sen-I was horribly afraid. "You haven't," death. I recalled, and wallowed in, svalist, you see; and when I saw him I began again, "er-you haven't-er some of the marvellous imaginings of that way he looked like some filthy old looked at me vet {the novelist,

that way?" "Not yet," he said, "Do

You suppose "Probably. You look all right. of But then so did heaps of the

should look to:

bog.

"The thing that really finished me," he went on, after a long interval, "was

But the explanation of it all came without any effort on my part.

He sen me out of the hut while he the breaking off of my engagement to course. prepared our supper-quite a magnif- Holen. We were frightfully in love others."

ent meal, by the way. I saw his reas with

another one

"You've no idea how and I told

as you, that WAS my trouble

and

"Absolutely none. I've been trying sup rather

roman sentimentally

man.to too. She believed it WEB

son at unce; he could not, manage all her apathetic,

that business of

She

I

cooking and laying the very table without turning his back to me. pose One thing, however, puzzled me a little, fle; he drow down the blind of the some sort of spell that had been

WAY

$5, but I can't."

wouldn't care...T" "Not now." he said sharply, "Fer-

29th Nov. little square window as soon as I had put on me. I think, anyway, she had hans, just before you go."

gone outside.

theory that if I once saw

Naturally, I made no demur. I climb truly and ordinarily over my shoul

"You feel fairly certain; then...1"

He nodded with disgusting convic-

ed down to the edge of the aen-it was I should never have any more troubletion.

a glorious evening and waited until the spell-would-be-broken kort but I went to bed, wondering whether he called me. He stood at the door of thing. And, of course, she wanted to Helen's theory wasn't a true. one; and 23rd Nov. the but until I was within a few feel be

I didn't resist her if I might not break the spell for poor of him, and then retreated into thee the person

much. I was infatuated, .I suppose. Copley. room ard sat the wall with his back toAnyway, I thought she was perfection

and that it was simply impossiblo, that

The boatmen came for meason

We discussed our afternoon's sport I could find any defect in her. So, I after eleven next morning.

as we had supper, but when we had agreed, and looked that way." I had abakén off some of the feeling finished and our pipes wore going, he

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"I don't see why I shouldn't tell of despondency, as though the telling me overnight, and I had not repeated you."

of this final tragedy in his life had my request to Copley; nor had he offer brought him to the indifference of dead to look into the dark places Tof my Like a fool, I agrest. eagerly, when pair. I looked," he continued, fan out might so easily have stopped him... zaw a creature with no chin and place and we shook hande warmly,

He came down

on after "It began when I was quite a dd, watery, doting

faithful, slob found cry.

but he ing in the surden, and all I could to bezy thing-ough! I can't

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Anyway,

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loathing I had zeen | soran- on the face of an idiot.

A thought occurred to me. "Have child who was just going to be sick ly seventeed. ( Ewan salamed of it, of you ever looked at yourself, in the dropped down into the boat, and course. I am still-In

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away from

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pining to ask a questions,

and fold:

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there he said.

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