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CONSIGNEES.

LLOYD TRIESTINO.

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(Continued from Page 7.) "You mustn't imagine that you can go into a disturbed spot such as this and expect to see about ten ghosts in as many minutes. Even reached Laymer's.

"MONCALIERI”

It was exactly five o'clock as they From TRIESTE, VENICE, BRINDISI,

Tea was ready.

PORT SAID, SUEZ, MASSAUA; ADEN, BOMBAY, KARACHI, In the case of such a busy hive as "Do you still want to go, 'Jim?"

COLOMBO, PENANG Pailton there are many quiet asked Lander abruptly.

AND SINGAPORE. periods, and some people simply can- "Sure, Bo!" replied Brinton light- not 'sce ghosta." The odds fire very ly.

CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby "Here's the key," said Lander, informed that all Goods are being much against your desire being granted, though, if you are psychic, smiling, "the Open Seasame to the landed at their risk into the Godowan The electric of the Hong Kong and Kowloon the atmosphere of the place would | Chamber, of Horrors.

Сотаркву, Ltd., at affect you at once."

light is turned off, so all the light Wharf & Godown

Kowloon, whence and/or from the we shall have will be produced by harves' delivery may be obtained. "How?" "Well, you've often heard of peo-my torch. One last word of advice. Optional Cargo will not be landed ple who know by some obscure but If you want to get the best chance here, unless notice has been given 48 infallible instinct that there's cat of a thrill, try to keep your mind hours, prier to vessel's arrival, but carried on from port to port to the However, quite empty-don't talk as I per-mal port of call to which the option in the room. Just so..

Con-extende I'll certainly give you the chance. sonally conduct this tour. It won't seriously disturb me. Icentrate on not concentrating.

"I understand what you mean," can get the key in the morning from the woman who looks after it, sald Brinton. though I need hardly say she doesn't sleep there.

"Well, then, let's get a move on." There is no need for said Lander.

It

An idea suddenly occurred to a caretaker. was broken into.

found Brinten. "How will you be able to once, but the burglar was dead in the dining-room, and since show me over it if you've never been then the crooks have given it a wide inside it?" berth."

"It really is dangerous, then?" "Beginning to feel a bit prudent?" "No, I shall feel safe with you." "Very well then.

"You needn't worry about that," replied Lander.

.

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown, and all Goods remaining, undelivered after the 23rd instant, will be subject to rent

All claims against the vessel must be presented to the undersigned on or before the 4th March, or they wil not be recognised.

Hong Kong, 18th February, 1938.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns where they will be axamined 23rd instant, at 10 am. by our surv veyors, Mesira. Goddard & Douglas. The fog was thick by now, and In the case of dutiable cargo, Con- they wavered slightly as they grop-signees are requested to inform the After coming ed their way down the lano, com-Imports & Exports Omes that they No Fire Insurancs has been effect- back from golf we'll pay it a visit.pressed by high hedges, which led have such goods for examination.

When they reached it ed. It will be dark by five, and we'll to Pailton.

BUI of Lading will be countersign- make the excursion about six. The Brinton's eyes turned up to observe chances of gratifying your curiosity the windows on the second floor.ed by

DODWELL & CO., LTD., I'd bet And then Lander, stepped forward

Agents. will be better after dark. ter tell you something else. I never and placed the key in the lock.

As the door swung open. the fog, quite know how these places are go- ing to affect me. Before now, which seemed to have been crouch- have gone off into a kind of tranceing at his heels, leapt forward and and been decidedly weird, my dear entered with him, and inundated the Jim. My sense of time and space passage down which he moved. The inside, something becomes distorted, though for your moment he was asgurance I may say," he added, advanced to meet him. He opened smiling, "I am never dangerous a door on the left of the passage eyes on the lucrative business, and when in this condition. Further and flashed his torch round it. The amended their statutes to allow a Jim, he similar three months' qualification more, you must be prepared to make fog was in there, too.

for citizenship. Small wonder that; acquaintance with a mode of exlat-could feel, was at his elbow. ence in which the ordinary laws of This is where they found the the Nevadan attorneys were alarm- jed, and took steps to keep their own existence which you have always burglar-it's the dining-room." known abdicate themselves. Bierce

His voice was not quite under State pre-eminent by bringing in called his famous book of "ghost. control. "Quite a pleasant room; the six weeks' law.

rackets,' this

stories, "Can These Things Be?" smells a bit frowaty,"

we shall

WHERE THE WEST IS STILL "WILD.”

(Continued from Page 8.)

The little Unlike some other

10th Apr. Assuredly they сал. Now I'm beam wandered from chair to dosk, one has the full support of the sounding pompous and pontifical, settling for a moment here and whole trading community. On a but some such warning is neces-there. Then he shut the door and rough calculation, each candidate sary. When I touch that front stepped along the passage till the for divorce spends two months in door to-morrow I may become in a ittle beam revealed a flight of the State, qualifying. for citizenship sense a stranger to you; once inside stairs, which he began to climb, and attending Court proceedings. cross a frontier Into He still heard Brinton's steps com-The money which these visitors, region with its own laws of time ing up behind him Up on the first with their attendant witnesses and and space, and where, the seeming-floor he opened another door. "This friends, bring into Nevada is a 24th Feb.ly impossible can happen... Do you is the drawing room," he said. "The highly important economie factor in

understand what I mean and still

Proctors' cook was found dead here a State whose chief industry- a stand- want to go?"

in 1921." Round swung the tiny mining-is virtually at "Yes," replied Brinton, "to all

beam. fastening on chairs, tables, slili.

But if the divorce clientele is still your questions."

He shut the door, desks, curtains. and began to climb another fight a fairly steady source of income, the ¡of stairs. He could hear Jim's gambling boom has collapsed like a On pricked balloon. You enter Reno's feet pattering up behind him. the second floor be opened still an principal street under an illumin- other door. "This, my dear Jim, sted arch, which bids you welcome! is the nasty one; it was from here to "the biggest little city in the Amy Pendexter fell and broke her world." To-day that welcome seems to mock the town's quenched galety, Reno is desolate, as only a city of pleasure can be when the pleasure- seekers have departed.

6th Mar.

"Very well then," said Lander, "I will now get out the chess-men and discover a complete answer to Rett's opening which you sprang on me last night; so you shall have the 6th Mar.white pieces."

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"TINDAREUS".. The figure in front of themselves by dispensing illicit of the Buckinghamshire fields. As keyhole?" they walked homewards it climbed him remained motionless.

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passed Nevada by has come at last. As the figure still remained Thirteen banks closed in a single motionless, Jim Brinton lit a match day, and the State woke up to find and peered forward..... And then itself poor. There were only The recled back.

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