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BEYOND THE WALL

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things one could do. No need to pay He was very worried all through

to go to a theatre or a football breakfast. Had he dreamt it? In match. Just walk in. He would the cold morning light the idea of just walk in.

walking through a wall to test a Henry giggled and turned over. theory did not seem very appetising. Three minutes later he turned over He was not left in doubt för long, again. Funny idea that about however.

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With reference to our Notles to wa.king through a wail. Henry Mr. Gilman, his next door neigh-Consignees In this Paper dated 2nd, Dykes got out of bed and turned on bour, paid a short visit after break-instant, Consignees of cargo are Would Mrs. Dykes be so hereby notified that the cargo the light at the risk of waking his fast. wife, who was sleeping soundly. kind as to come and see his wife, shortlanded has now been ro Henry walked up to the wall and She had been reading in bed the turned by the same vessel from felt it. Yes, it seemed hard, and, night before at a late hour-a habit Shanghai and has been landed into! the green distemper looked very against which he had often warned the godowns of the Hong Kong & uninviting. But, when an unim- her. She had had some sort of Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co.. aginative man begins to have glim-stroke-imagined she had seen a Ltd., at Kowloon. Delivery may meringa of imagination there is no head sticking out of the wall. He be obtained on presentation of stopping him.

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He was obsessed now with one hend very much like Mr. Dykes'a. Iden. He withdrew · à couple of He believed Dorothy was ran down. yards and walked up to the wall. but He would send her away to re his courage falled him at the critical cuperate. Mrs. Dykes hurried next moment, and he put out his hands to door. save himself. Once more he tried,

It was then that Henry Dykes but it was no use, for he just auc scribbled a note to Thomas lles. ceeded in banging bis toes against That note has since come into my the wall and coming to a full atop. possession. It read: "Dear Tom,- "What this needs," said Henry, it worked. Seeing's believing, 80 "ia courage and determinatoin and if you'll pop round I'll show you— will power." Firmly, he withdrew 'Sesame Dykes." for the tenth time, closed his eyes,

That night, when Thomas had and approached the wall with cour arrived, henry related to him the age and determination. This time events of the previous evening, in it was his knees which were knock-detall, stressing Mra. Gilman's ed. He opened his eyes to find him-visit. At last Thomas saw light. self looking into a room strangely It was thought transference. Henry like his own. but somehow he did had dreamed it all-a dream aug not in the least feel surprised. He gested in the first case by some for- looked down at his feet, but could gotten article he had read, and later see only two or three toes protrud-by a cry from the next house. In ing from the wail below him. He vain did Henry try to make Thomas tried to push all his body through,; understand that he was opeaking but something seemed to be pre- the truth, that he knew it hadn't venting him. He believed it was his been, couldn't have 'bien, a dream. pyjamas, but before he had very, But Thomas was adamant. much time to think he heard a pierc- Henry began to lose his temper, ing shalek. and caught a glimpse of excusable perhaps in view of the a figure disappearing under the bed trials ha had been through in the clothes: the book which the figure last few hours. Now his face was had apparently been reading drop-pale, his eyes blazed, and his hands ped to the floor with a thud. Heary twitched. "I show you,” he hastily withdrew his head... and snorted, and began to undress. his feet.

· Thomas was 'alarmed.. Some ter- The shriek must have awakened rible calamity must have overtaken Mrs. Dykes, who, unaware of the Hears he was obviously out of his Mon, 6th Feb., 1933 real reason of her disturbed peace, mind. He wondered whether he inquired what Henry thought he was ought to lock him in, and fetch a doing. He muttered some excuse doctor, but the thought of Henry which must have sounded convinc- dashing himself against the wall ing. for Mrs. Dykes groaned and caused him to hesitate.

So he turned over. Henry switched off walked up to the now unclad man, the light and climbed into bed, but and laid a hand on his shoulder, but atill not to sleep: there was far too Henry shook it off with a sound re- much to think about.

sembling the snarl of a dog. shock he realised this was a corner Why, he asked himself, bad only

Stripped of every vestige of cloth house, and the wall an external one. his head gone through the wall? Ing, Henry looked at Thomas. "So Thirty feet below was the concrete That it was rather an unusual I'm a liar, am I? I don't know the of the back entrance. Slowly he thing for anyone to poke his head difference between a dream and a descended the stairs trembling through a brick wall without ill fact, don't 17 I'm a fool, am I?! violently. Still he could not think' effects did not occur to Henry in Well, I'll show you,”

clearly. He reached the kitchen, bis present state of mind. He sup- Thomas looked on in horror as and stood with his hand on the door) 4th Jan. posed he hadn't any control over the Henry walked up to the wall. He knob Wasn't there something he atoms of his pyjamas, That was stepped forward involuntarily to ought to do call a doctor or a why the pyjamas didn't go through catch him on the recoil, but to his policeman? 10th Dec. A disturbing thought--for here was

amazement and terror, Henry He was the last person to sce a new problem. To visit a theatre vanished before his eyes... he Henry Dkyes... He opened the cheaply would necessitate uúdreas melted into the wall..

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