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THE CHINA MAIL.

LLOYD TRIESTINO THE CURSE

FLOTTE RIUNITE LLOYD TRIESTINO-MADITTIMA ITALIANA-SITMAR

FAR EAST INDIA ITALY

Express Passenger Service.

... 4th March. S.S. "CONTE VERDE" for Shanghai S.S. "CONTE VERDE" for Italy (London) 16th March.

Freight Service.

M.V. "HILDA" for Italy

about 1st March.

Dodwell & Co., Ltd. Agents

N.

KLINE

SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports and Honolulu.

ASAMA MARU

TAIYO MARU

Wednesday, Friday,

15th March. 24th March.

SEATTLE & VANCOUVER.

HEIAN MARI (starts from Kobe). Monday, HIKAWA MARU (starts from Kobe) Monday,

13th March.

27th March.

LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM via

Singapore. Penang, Colombo & Suez. FUSHIMI-MARU—...

HAKOZAKI MARU

TERUKUNI MARU

KITANO MARU

ATSUTA MARU

+ MALACCA MARU

KAGA MARU

Saturday,

Saturday,

OF GAIN

(Continued from page 7.)

allows if only he could recover the knife. He was desperate now,

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. Motor Vessel

"MONCALIERI"

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at the end, struck down the lane, and came out at last on the high-

are being between him

Rising to his feet, he crossed to-CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby way. Six hours lay

landed at their risk into the Godowns and dawn. He must cover at least wards the door of the room. There informed that all Goods

time he made out the electric switch. of the Hong Kong and Kowloon twenty miles during that

room Wharf & Godown Company, Ltd at Another moment and the more if possible.

If only be could establish some which he had scarcely seen hitherto, Kowloon, whence and/or from the

far sort of alibi. From away chequered as it was by darkness wharven delivery may be obtamed.

Optional Cargo will not be landed across the darkened landscape came and patches of starlight, sprang in- here, unless notice has bean given 48 bours prior to vessel's arrival, but a beam of light. A motor-car. to view.

He looked swiftly round. The carried on from port to port to the Perhaps he could get a lift?

his extend He put the thought away from him table, the chairs, the sideboard, the final port of call to which the option No claim will be admitted after in a panic. He was mad to think mantelpiece-to each in turn of such a thing. In the "comb-out" terrified gaze wandered in search of the Goods have left the Godown, and that would follow-wasn't that the the missing knife. It was nowhere all Goods remaining undelivered after phrase they always used?-the to be seen. He moved across to the the 23rd instant, will be subject to

rent

All claims against the vessel most driver of the car would be certain desk. He was in the act of opening to be found and would describe how one of the drawers in the wild hope be presented to the undersigned on 01 he had been stopped near the scene that that damning piece of evidence before the 4th March, or they will of the crime by a man who had ask-might have been put away there for not be recognised.

safely until the arrival of the police, ed for a lift.

when he happened to look over the back of the desk,

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Gedowns, be seen. He

where they will be examined on the He mustn't even

23rd instant, at 10 am. by our sur- looked round in a panic. There, at

Slowly in the space between the reyors, Messrs. Goddard & Douglas.

In the care of datiable cargo. Con-

the the side of the road was a ditch.

as the desk and the wall the figure of a

signees are requested to inform He flung himself into it

that they Its big moon face Imports & Experts 06co beams of those headlights flashed burly man rose. round the bend of the road. Hard- was unshaven, and he blinked his have such goods for eżamination.

No Fire Insurance has been effect- glare of the electric

ed, ly daring to breathe, he lay there eyes in the

Bill of Lading will be countersign- listening to the greasy sound of the light.

"All right, guvnor. It's a fairled by rubber tyres on the farmac. Not

DODWELL & CO. LTD. Agents. until the rear red light had vanish-cop: You ain't no good with a ed over the rise did he venture to knife, and if I hadn't cracked my my head on the back of that table you wouldn't have copped me so easily."

move.

The thought that his mind had that he had been so uncontrolled actually considered the possibility of stopping that car and asking for a lift revived all his feelings of acute panic. It proved to him conclusive ly that he was not in a normal state -not able to weigh the effects of his actions.

As he finished speaking, from out- side, clear and distinct,. came the creaking of a board. Roderick Sten- house glanced at the man behind the desk.

"Lie down on the floor, man-lie flat down so you can't be seen!"

Hong Kong, 18th February, 1933,

HONG KONG TIDES

Feb. 23 to Mar. 1, 1933.

Time Meridian 120 deg. E. (Zone- 8); och it midnight, 12h. is noon. Heights are referred to the datum of the largest scale Admiralty chart of the place and should be added to depths, unless preceded by an asterisk His voice, though no more than (*) when they should be subtracted. He crouched down on the edge off the ditch with his back to the hedge, a whisper, had a ring of resolution' his gloved hands pressed to his and authority. The man disappear- think think!ed behind the desk. Roderick Sten- head. He must What had he done that he ought not house, tearing off his kid gloves,[.. to have done, or what had he left moved towards the door of the undone that he ought to have done? room. He had almost reached it Once more he went over all the when it was opened and a tall man Lad pyjamas dressing-down details of the murder, and then step in by step recalled each incident that halted on the threshold.

Roderick Stenhouse smiled at him. had happened since his flight from

Saturday,

Saturday, Friday,

4th March. 18th March. 31st March.

Date

High Water Low Water Standard Ht. Standard Hit.

25th February, 25th March.

11. Feb.

Times.

M. F.

Thurs. 28.

10

Fri.

1st March. 11th March.

Friday,

10th March.

the bungalow. His self-examination He had drained the cup of fear to was reassuring. Ho had left no the full. Life had no terrors left clue behind him. Now if he could for blm. only put twenty miles between him and that neighbourhood before the Idawa broke1

24

Sat

Sun.

"I'm most awfully sorry, sir, but

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5.5 17 30 1.2

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47

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12 30 54

Wednesday,

Saturday,

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secing a light in this house I ven-Mon. tured to call in spite of the lateness Tues. He rose to his feet. He was in of the hour. I'm very near starv- the act of stepping out of the ditching, and I thought perhaps you Wed. when some reflex action of his might give me a little food. I rang brain that had declined to function the bell, and as I couldn't get any a moment before made him pause, answer I took a peep into this room. his body stiffening .... The knife! The fact that the window was open; ....Heaven, what a fool he wast and the light was on looked to me He had left the knife there, and the suspicious." knife had his initials engraved on the little steel plaque let into the horn of its casing..

It made the gallows a certainty if The left it there. With infinite patience the police would trace the knife from its place of manufacture

Times.

H. M.

03 03 4.5

F.

11 0.4

18 55 3.1

20 40 7.0 18

0144

10 24 4.6 03

0.4

1 2 1.8 14 41 27 64.9 04 14 0.6 25. 10 50 47 T 26 23 15 25 25

22 06 7.4 40 10

28.. 11/15 5.1 04 40

44 6.9 16 08 23 5.2 05 00

6.2 16 54 2.11

05 29 1.6

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The man spoke for the first time. "Devilish suspicious! Trying to bluff it out, are you, my lad7"

Roderick Stenhouse continued to Six 3,000-Ton Vessels

gallows, no For H.K.-Canton Route. smile. There was no hunt, no "comb-out.” ·

"I expect it does seem rather a

to the shop where it had been sold. tall story to you, sit, but it happens

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The construction of nine steamers And that shop, they would argue, to be the truth. You can search me ranging from 3,000 tons to 600 tons, was as likely as not situated in the if you like, and if you have any the chartering of three 3,000-ton neighbourhood where the murderer valuables in the room, please see if seagoing vessela, and the standard- isation of freight rates are all in- had lived or was still living. There they are missing."

Without another word the man cluded in the China Merchants would be a "comb-out"-how he hated that phrase!-for everybody pushed past him zad-made straight Steam Navigation Company for the with the initials R.S. Inevitably for the desk. There from a box hejexpansion of the Yangtze and south- they would discover that an un-took a key, which he inserted in the ern sen port services. The plans, employed clerk named Roderick lock of the drawer that Stenhouse drawn by Mr. Chao Yung-tai, head Stenhouse, whose names conformed had closed. The fact that the of the marine department, have been with those initials, had left the drawer was open and therefore the submitted to Mr. O. S: Lieu, Gov- key would not turn seemed to puzzle ernment-appointed managing direc- tor. It is understood that these wil 10th Apr. neighbourhood recently.

He must go back and get the him for a moment.

"Must have forgetten to lock it!" again be presented to the board of knife. Dreadful as the thought

directors for discussion. was, it must be done. Clambeling he muttered.

Pulling it open he rabbed the wad Of the nine steamers to be built, out of the ditch, he reeled up the

was moving of notes, turned them over swiftly, and three vessels to be chartered lane. Once more he

through the garden, and then dropped them into the with the approval of the board of furtively There was the open window of the pocket of his dressing-gown. His directors, six 3,000-ton vessels will

be put on the Hong Kong and Can-with room just as he had left It. In his sleepy face relaxed.

"There was two hundred pounds ton route, while the remaining six] frantic anxiety to waste no time he never paused to remove his boots, there, my lad, and if you'd wanted steamers, one 3,000 tons, three, but by leaning over the, flower bed, to pinch it you could have done it 1,000 tons and two 500 tons, will be vaulted across the low sill, He was as I'd left the drawer unlocked for passenger and freight services not startled by the soft thud that There's nothing else you could have on the Yangtze, Mr. Chae holds that there are immense. business oppor his feet made on the carpeted floor. taken."

He looked at Stenhouse closely.tunities for the shipping firm in The dead could not hear.

There was a grey heap on the The other bore the Inquisition with both the Yangtze and Hong Kong services should these two routes be table which he did not recollect hay-out flinching.

I believe you! efficiently maintained. Prior to the ing seen before. He put out his · PAR right

Instantly Boems to me I owe you a good turn. drawing up of the plans lengthy dis- hand and touched it. 6th Mar the blood seemed to turn to Ice in Rather asking for it, to leave the cussions were held with Mr. Lien his veina. It was the table cloth electric light on and the window and Mr. Ho Muling, head of the which he remembered had, alipped open with two hundred quid waiting business department, in connection T. AUSTRALIA. down, so mercifully covering the to be taken. Come along into the with the steps to be taken for the kitchen and I'll give you some grub. standardisation of freight rates features of his victim.

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was only one possible explanation. When, an hour later, Roderick that experta should be sent to the There must have been somebody Stenhouse made his exit from the various ports along the river to Bayey else in the house somebody who bungalow for the second time-on make a detailed investigation into 26th Feb bad discovered the body. He drop-ala pocasion by the front door-the present Traight charges. At oglap service is being 6th Mar.ped cowering on his hands and with a square meal under his waist-present the

lasses and poured through the lege cost and a pound note in his pocket, of the table.

A burly man two miles wwAY WAL There was nothing, there. Fran- sxcavating a sleeping pison for he crouched there, wolf in a haystack with a kn

the

perfectly still. Already the murder.

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