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DEARTH'S FARM

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CONSIGNEES

LLOYD TRIESTINO.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

"I wont to sak a kindness of the next man was not altogether, or Motor Vessel you," she said. "Will you promise even mainly, a physical difference.

"MARIN SANUDO"

to answer me quite frankly?" I In effect, she said: "If you scru- From TRIESTE. VENICE, BRINDISI, wondered what the deuce was com-

ing, but I promised, seeing no way tinise the features more carefully. out of it. "I want you to tell me," you will find them to be far less] she went on, "whether you see any-extraordinary than you now aup- thing queer about me, about my be- pose. haviour? Do I say or do anything that seems to you odd?"

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ance, magnifying his facial pecu- But she was not to be shaken so liarities." jeasily out of her fears, whatever they were. "And do you find no- thing strange about this household early days of her marriage Monica

either?".

"Your marriage is an unhappy one, but so are thousands of others. Nothing strange about that."

answer.

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Goods have left the Godown, and all had shared this love of horses. Goods remaining undelivered after the "Nothing strange at all," I assur-Later, of course, she came to detest 15th inst. will be subject to rent.

All clafras against the vessel must jed her.

them only one degree leas than she be presented to the Undersigned an or

beforu 24th inst. or they will not;

the That is be recognised. detested her husband. saying much. Only a few months All broken, chafed, and damaged

Goods are "What about him?" she said. And before my visit matters had come the the left in the Godowns. they will be examined on the her eyes seemed to probe for an to a crisis between the two. With-14th Inst at 10 am. by ear sur out giving any definite reason, aheveyors, Messin. Goddard & Douglas.

Emp. of Asia the case of dutiable cargo, Con- I shrugged my shoulders. "Are had confessori, under pressure, that signees are requested to Inform you asking for my opinion of your he was unspeakably offensive to Imports & Exports Office that they husband? delicate thing to her and since then they had met have such goods for examination. discuss,"

No Fire Insurance has been effect- only at meals and always reluctant-led. "We're speaking in confidence,|ly. She shuddered to recall that Bill of Lading will be countersign- aren't we?" She spoke impatient-interview, and I shuddered to im-jed by ly, waving my politeness away. agine it. I was no longer surpris- "Well, since you ask, I don't likejed that she had begun to entertain him. I don't like his face; it's a doubts of her own sanity. parody on mankind. And I can't But this wasn't the worst. understand why you throw yourself worst was Dandy, the white horse.) away on him."

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I found it difficult to understand from the teeth In a grin, unmis- She was enger to explain. "He why a white horse should alarm her, takably a grin, of malign intelli- wasn't always like this. He was a and I began to suspect that the gence. The gesturo vividly recall- gifted man, with brains and an Im- nervous strain she had undergone ed Dearth to my mind. I had agination. He still is, for all was making her inclined to magnify described him as equine, and if know. You spoke of his face-now trifles. "It's his favourite horse," proof of the word's, aptness were how would you describe his face, in she said. "That's as much as say-needed Dandy had supplied that

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"Yes. And I hope not to see him again."

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1 couldn't help being tickled that is unhuman.. It never does "He's come back," Monica mur- by the comedy of the situa- any work, It just roams the flelds'mured to me on my return to the tion; # man and 3

woman by day, and at night sleeps in the house. "In, I think. He's gone! sitting in solemn conclave neck-stable." Even this didn't, to my to le down. Have you Been ing a word by which to describe mind, scém a very terrible indict Dandy,?" Mon., 6th Feb., 1938 another's man's face, and that, man]ment.

If the man were mad on her husband. But her air of horses, what more natural than his tragedy, though I thought it ridicul-petting of a particular favourite?) ous, sobered me.

a fine animal, too, as Monica herself} But I was to see him again, twice)

again. The first time was that I pondered her question for a admitted.

same night, from my bedroom win- while, recalling to my mind's eye "Roama the fields," cried my poor dow. the long, narrow physiognomy and causin urgently. 'Or did until these cousin's looked out upon that grassy Both my bedroom and my

the large tooth of Dearth,,

last few weeks, Lately it has been hill of which I spoke............... At last I ventured the word I had kept in its stable, day in, day out,; 28th Jan tried to avoid.

It rose from a few yards until al-| "Equine, I sug-enting Its head off and working up. Igested.

energy enough to kill us all." This most level with the second storey of "Ah!" There was a world of re-sounded to me like the language of the house, and then abruptly curved lief in her voice. "You've seen it hysteria, but I waited for what was; away. Somewhere about mid- "The day you came, did night, feeling restless and troubled She told me a queer tale. Dearth, you notice how pale I looked? I by my thoughts, I got out of bed it appears, had a love and under-{had had a fright.

and went to the window to take an As I was cross- 4th Feb. standing of horses that was quite ing the yard with a pail of separat-airing.

unparalleled. His wife, too, had ed milk for the calves, that beast. I was not the only restless' crea- loved horses, and it had once broke loose from the stable and ture that night. Standing not pleased her to see her husband's sprang, at me. Yes, Dandy. He, twenty yards away, with the sky 19th Jan.

3rd Feb. astonishing power over the cren-was, in a fury. His eyes burned for background, was a great horse. tures, a power which he exercised with ferocity. I dodged him by a The moonlight made its white flank 20th Jan. always for their good. But his miracle, dropped the pail, and ran gleam like silver, and lit up the eyes 1st Feb. benefactions to the equine race were back to the house abrieking for help, that stared fixedly at my window.

made at a hideous cost to himself, When I entered the living-room my For aixteen days and nights we 27th Jan of which he was

utterly unaware. husband feigned to be waking out lived, Monica and I, in the presence Monica's theory was too

fantastic of sleep. He didn't seem interested of this fear, a fear none the less real

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even for me to swallow, and I. as in my story, and I'm convinced that for being non-susceptible to defini-

and Glasgow tion. you know, have a good stomach for he had planned the whole thing."

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warning. The for perception, into the likeness of particular woman, and I sald BO. utterly unfounded ides that I was;

NEW YORK SERVICE. the horses with whom he had so "You don't know him yet," retort-making love to his wife had taken complete sympathy. This was Mr.éd Monica. "And you don't know root in the man's mind, and every Dearth's notion of what was hep-Dandy. Go and look at the beast. day his manner to me became more pening to her husband. And she Go now, while James is out." openly vindictive. This was the pointed out something significant The farmyard, with its pool of cue for my departure, with warm that the difference between him and water, covered in green slime, its thanks for my delightful holiday;

manure and sodden straw, and its but I didn't choose to take It. smell of pigs, was a place that wasn't exactly in love with Monica; seldom failed to offend me. But but she was my comrade in danger, on this occasion I picked my way and I was reluctant to leave her to across the cobblestones thinking of face her nightmare terrora alone. nothing at all but the homicidal The most cheerful room in the horse that I was about to spy upon. house was the kitchen, with its red- I have said before that I'm not a tiled floor, its oak rafters, and its courageous man, and you'll uder- great open fireplace. And when to stand that I stepped warly as the evenings the lamp was lit and nesred the stable.. I saw that the we sat there, listening In comfort lower of the two doors was made to the everlasting gale that. raged fast and with the more confidence Found the house, I could almost have unlatched the other.

imagined myself happy, had it not I peered in.

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On this particular night I had *** Monica and I were victims of some with intention, about his fancy for | astounding ballucination.' I had

no fear at all of Dandy after having the kitchen mantelpiece; but at inst keeping a loaded rifle hanging over seen him; and it didn't alarm me sickened of the pastime, and the when, presently, his frame quiver conversation, which had been sus ed, his eyes opened, and he turned tained only by my efforts, lapsed. 1 to look at me. But as I looked late stared at the red embers in the his eyes an indefinable fear possess grate, stealing a glance now and ed me. The horse stared dumbly again at Monica to see how she was for a moment, and his nostrila dilat enduring the discomfort of, such a

Although I half expected him

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to tear his head out of the halter ance. The cheap alarum clocks and prance round upon me I could rum docks have

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not move. I stared, and as stared, the horse's lips moved back

(Continued on Pags. 11.)

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