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LEGEND AND LUCK

(Continued from page 7.).

CONSIGNEES...

LLOYD TRIESTINO.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

Half-swimming, hall-fluttering, made, with their grey stones crum-. Steamer, the swan made for the bank. Dolge bling and the cranny.

the matted ivy choking

A last feuble quiver, and the pike tay still. Dolgo took a firmer grip,

Where swam off downstream.

от

The empty

"GANGE" had certainly saved her life, but her window-frames, like the eye-sockets From TRIESTE, VENICE, DRINDEI,

every nook only remark was another sibilant of a skull, soem to stare regretfully PORT SAID, BOMBAY, COLOMIO

AND SINGAPORE. hies. One leg held stifly, she hop-at the desolation beneath. ped and

Luka quickened his pace. Although swayed through some

in plped carols cheerily, and the CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby undergrowth and disappeared,

world sparkled in its robes of frost, informed that all Goods are being he could not repress a certain uneasi- landed at their risk into the Godowns ness. Local tradition was strong, and of the Hong Kong and Kowloon held that the ghost of the White Lady Wharf & Godown Coripany, Ltd., at still place. willow sent twisting roste through hated thew the legendy child Kowloon, whenes and/or from the

wharves delivery may be obtained. the mossy bank he landed.

His

A past Lord of Borey had gone

Optional Cargo will not be landed tho Civil hend swung from side to side, his out with the Cavaliers

here, maless notice has been given 18 tiny eyes watching for danger. War. Later, with

price on his head, hours prior to vessel's arrival, but he had sent word to he lady that he carried on from port to port to the Everything was still. Dragging

would return under cover of darkness Anal port of call to which the option the pike, he scrambled across the

Eve to hide in a secret extends. Christmas roots, darted through what looked chamber of the abbey until the hue No claims will be admitted afto! the Goods have left the Godown, and like a tuft of matted grass, and and ery had died.

At night his lady went out to meet all Goods remaining undelivered after vanished. When he emerged, tak

him by the stream, Hours passed, the 9th instant, will be subject to ing to the stream once more, he had and there was no sign. Ho had been rent. left behind a well-fed mate and killed in an affray with Roundheads All claims against the vessel must When at last they be presented to the undersigned on or threa very satisfied youngsters, curten miles off.

brought the news, the poor wife re before the 18th instant, or they will ling up safely to sleep

faxed to believe it. Night and day not be Safely? Had Dolgo scen

a dark for a week she stool who never Goods are to be left in the Godowns,

recognised. the stream All broken. chafed, and damaged blue form, well sheltered by a haw-valting for the husband

Then her heart broke and she where they will be examined on the thorn bush, and a pair of grey eyes came. watching in triumph, he might have died, but her spirit returned every 9th instant, af 10 ane by our sur Christmas Eve and for a week linger-veyors, Mesars. Goddard & Douglas. been less merry as he breasted the ed sorrowfully, at the appointed spot, In the case of dutiabla cargo. Con

Of course, in the brave gaiety of signees are requested to inform the the "Gray Crow at Cothelford.

ord, Imports & Exports Office that they everybody used to dub the tale "dang- have such goods for examination. ed nonsense" and laugh in a slow,

No Fire Insurance has been effect. wheezy way. But scarcely a labour-ed

stream.

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"Well, now!" Luke Purvis, poacher and longer, came out

its truth.

from behind the hawthorn ander for miles around would have car- Bill of Lading will be countersign- slapped his knee. "Dang 'un vured to go alone after dusk and teeted by

DODWELL & CO. LTD. tho zmartest otter I ever did zee!"

His red face widened with a grin.

Agents. Hong Kong, 3rd February, 1038. He felt more than pleased.

With the ruins left behind. Luke] soon reached Dolgo's holt. Climbing down the bank carefully, he made his Here was the answer to a puzzle inspection, chuckled to himself, and of weeks and months. Here was added vigorously.

"I'll tell Mizter Ward to-day. Zure the thief that had robbed his night-us zunrise. "ounds 'I 'ave 'ee bevore] lines in the past, ay, even plunder-much longer, my beauty." ed his rabbit-traps of late.

He turned away, smiling grimly Bince September had he suffered This Christmas, it seemed, was to be

Dolgo's last on earth. from this marauding." At first

rare near

Ever

tween

cuba.

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en the peggles. A scuttled for cover.

A

Past a

dark moor-hen A tordid Jack drifted temptingly near, but anxiety! held him from the lure of food.

Past a line of willows,

gaunt, he had put it down to stoats The atter was puzzled. He had re-where the banks dropped a sheer eight drooping sentries, through the narrows or weasels But when, one dawn, turned from a cruise in Bovey Pool, feet into as he found a trap gone and the pinwhere the stream widened out be-Past the gridiron sluice, relic of some depth of water. great frozen meadows. At the mouth former human experiment. itself pulled up, he knew he muat of his holt he paused, sniffed. His put his lurid blame on something lps drew back. Came a low sound

und copse, carpeted by sable dead leaves, bigger and stronger. Both foxes of anguish, and his eyes grew curl-walled by twisted trunks a-giltter with crystal stars The murmur of the and badgers were

the ously purple. His kem scent had de- ripples he made wove into the winter stream. And he had never thought had been here while he was away twig and stealthy bird-movement..

teeted an enamy presenco. Something music of the wilds, a blend of cracking lof an otter taking to such land skulking round the home of his tiny

piracy.

He found what he wanted in an Now he knew better. This otter Spine hairs bristling, he entered the overhanging. bank, a mile below the was the great beast whose fame had holt. Mate whistled, cubs whimpered arrows. It was a room sanctuary, spread right through Gothelford, noisily. Savagery faded from Dolgo's screened by old roots and a lacework Hare, when the wide jawa. A soft light entered his of dead weeds. the fighter many hounds remember-eyes. He nosed the cubs gently, gave short winter day had fled, he would He could not be his mate a kind of reassuring rub on bring his family. Moving by daylighe Uth Feb. ed to their cost.

wrong, for he had seen the queer her silky head, and went out to the was too perilous, with the restraining

There were for signs of intru- burden of three youngsters, white patch on Dolgo's tail, a patch lon-only a slight dent in the frozen Lately: he had grown to time his described by the few members of mud, bruised grass-blade.. Luke movements by a certain signal. Just| the hunt who had caught a fleeting Purvis had been very careful to avoid outside Cothelford was a small paper quarry. giving scent. But the veteran Dolgo mill, and the voice of its labour reached 24th Fob glimpse of their elusive

Why, only yesterday in the market-read ominous warning. The holt was down to the holt. It was a disturbing Some enemy knew sound, fraught with a sense of danger. no longer safe. place, he had overheard Mr. Ward, the secret.

Not until the voice was stilled did master of hounds, say he would An adept at Anding sanctuary, the Dolgo feel complete freedom in the

So to-night's move would not: give fiver to catch that "Red Devil," etter hed often saved himself by cun- stream.. as Dolgo had come to be termed,

A year ago, when they had start until the mill had stopped work. "Luke Purvis," said the poacher for him, he had changed his holt nearly six.

been relentlessly combing the stream The employees knocked off at half-past

bank

Bing.

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to himself, "thiz Chriz'mas every night. Once he even apent two Satlaffed, he scrambled back into the | brought 'co luck. "E'll go to Mister mug days in a disused mill-wheel.. stream, short legs cleaving the current

Ward an' tell un. Mebbe they'll

Now, from deep in the obscurity of with a leisurely streke. Overhead a

zure.

fix a worry vur Boxing Day. They'll his animal brain, sprang the urging queerly yellow grey marked the sky, of experience. Small eyes anxious, he where the weak winter sun did its best 18th Feb.cotch 'un this me, yur

allpped into the streim and swam to pierce a damp lat. There was 19th Feb. El get rid of that danged trap-rapidly with the current, searching for less glitter on the gemmed bushes now, robber an' vive punds in the ar- another holt in which to hide his for a faint warmth had laid its dis- family that night. Skirting a bunch solving touch on the rime. But in the 20th Feb.gain."

colourless horizon, there was promise of of dead, withy bushes, shimmering He rubbed his hands delightedly, spears under their costing of rime, he snow later and a white Christmas for

Cothelford. and gazed across the stream at passed again through Bovoy Pool. A

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10th Feb. Dolgo's grass-covered holt. Even few redwings rose from the haw

12th Feb. 19th Feb:

knowing where to look, and at that thorny, whore they had been feeding

short distance, he had to admit that

it was marvellously concealed.

"A-zmart 'un to be zure, but I'll got I'll get 'ee, my beauty," said]

9th Feb. Luke.

Dociding to make an inspection at close range, he followed the bank for a quarter of a mile upstream to the old wooden bridge above Bovey Abbey. Hero ho crossed the ratten planking passed a stretch of open ground where Reldfaros hunted desperately for s breakfast, and came invel with the abbey ruins. A dismal sight they.

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