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SATAN'S CIRCUS Continued from

"Really," I said, "It's time you came back."

page 7.

| became, aware, of some strain or ten-

Bion among his listeners, and, wheel-} "Oh," he replied. "I don't expecting round, stopped abruptly in the The little group you to believe me. Why should you? middle of a bar.

scrambled awkwardly Its feet

to I wouldn't have talked if you hadn't

Move Brandt murmured in her low asked me about the Circus Brandt, voice. I'd just have said I was glad to be home. But as you aåked me,

"Don't let me interfere with concert, my friends. Go on, route

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Sunday, March 5. Aeneas, British str., 6,256 tons, Capt. W. K. Wallace, from Singapore, Holt's Wharf.-- B. & S.

Oh, well, one day I'll tell you why I Anatole "that's a lively song you were General Lee, American atr., 2,7921

a

left them in France. It's not

But I won't tell it pretty story. to-night. I avoid the Brandt as a bed-time topic-I've been dreaming

|about them lately,”

singing. Where did you pick it upt"

Anatole, standing respectfully before her, was silent. Mme Brandt did, not look at him or seem to concers herself with him in any way, but sent her ob- lique eyes roving over the empty seats of the great tent, yet somehow, โท

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on

The circus crossed to Spain and be

tons, Caph A. D. Hensen, from Shangbai, Kowloon Wharf-States S.S. Co.

Hai Ning, British str., 832 tons. Capt. E. Walker, from Swa- tow, Douglas Wharf-Rouglas. & Co. Hilda, Italian str., 2,974 tons, Capt. B. Tarabochia, from Yoko- hama, buoy No. A7--Dodwell & Co.

Kalgan, British str., 1,566 tons, Capt. J. Taylor, from Swatow, buoy No. B14.-B. & S. Kulmerland, German str., 4,367

tons.

from Capt. Kutlert, Manila, Kowloon Wharf.—Jeb- Kumi Sang. British str., 3,341 tons,

sen & Co.

Capt. Field-Hook, from Singa- pore, Kowloon Wharf.-J.M. & Co. Prosper, Norwegian

str., 1,377 tous, Capt. E. D. Knutsen, from Saigon, buay No. B16.-~~- Yuen On & Co.

Shantung, British str., 1,568 tons,

Cant. J. Beck, from Canton, Taikoo Dock-B. & S. Tținegara, Dutch str., 5,788 tona,

It took me some time to coax the some curious way, it became obvious to Juggler's tale from him. One morn-her listeners that she was stubbornly we were walking determined to drag from him an an ing, however, as along the Unter den Linden, in pale swer.

Anatole at length muttered: but radiant spring sunshine, he con-- ARI

"I learned tho sented to tell t Translated into

song, Madame, English, this is the story:-

board a Portuguese fruit-trader many! While the Circus Brandt was tour. years ago." ing Northern Africa, when it was. ining heard him speak.

Mme. Brandt made no sign of hav. fact, only a few days from Tangier,

After this Incident, however, she bes a man arrived asking for work. He

gan to ennloy the odd hand on various was, he said,

an Alsatian. and had been a stoker, but his ship had aban-jobs about her own living wagon, with the result that he had less time to sing doned him at Tangier, and he had and not much time even for his work

seeking a

This sincer been was interviewed by Carl Brandt into and vial as he was. 2000 con- the menagerie. Anatole, good-hum- himself, who had been accosted by him on the lot. They were a curi-ived a violent dislike of the proprie

treas, and he tank no pains to hide it they stood usly contrasted pair as talking together outside the steps of from his friends, who were incidental

ly

in hoarty agreement with him on palatial living wagon his point. Everyone hated the Brandts the Brandte The Alsatian was fair, a big, hand-

with thick, blonde many feared them. some young man hair, a tanned skin and honest, rather Carl Brandt was id, blue eyes. wwarthy dark; he had a smooth, dart-gan to tour Andalusia. Several perfor

too, but emaciated, wasted, and ng black head like a snake's head; mera left: new acts were promptly en hix long face was haggard, and yelged. Carl Brandt had always found casy to rid himself of artists. Ten ow as old ivory; he wore a tiny dark

dark minutes before the show was due to mperial beard; his black eyes were

Capt. P. Welde, from Amoy, everishly alive in heavy purple hol-open he would send for some unlucky

buoy No. A4—J.C.J.L. ows, and his teeth were sharp and trapezist and, pointing to the man's an broken and ratten. He was said to garatua, complicated and heavy, slung

CLEARANCES. drug and indeed he had very much up to one of the big poles, he would

March 8.. While say casually: he appearance of an addict.

"I want he two men were talking the deer other side of the tent before the show Tchekam, for Kolhow.

you to more that to the Chengchow, for Canton. of the wagon opened and Mme.

The artist would perhans laugh, Brandt appeared on the threshold, shinbing the director was making some Restum, for Swatow.

her husband what the stranger obscure joke. asking

Hozan Maru, for Swatow. wanted of him. She herself was, in-

Brandt would then continue, gently: Dell Maru, for Canton. cidentally, a remarkably handsome

"You had better hurry, don't you Kaying, for Swatow. Iwoman, erfully

no longer young. I think?" She wa

but gracefully

The artist would protest indignantly. Sinklang, for Canton. made, with quantities of shining blue- Iblack wided eyes,

can T Kwai Sang, for Swatow. "It's impossible. air. How hair, delicate features, oblique,

and one of those mave my aparatus in ten minutes1" Baron Saltoun, for Whampoa.

Brandt would then watch him, sneer: Hiram, for Swatow. onaque white skins that

Look ing. for a few seconds. Then he would Hai Hing, for Singapore. 'ke milk. Sho hind

but was no all black and white. Even her lips away, saving survely:

"Discharond far insubordination," Chung King, for Swatow. were pale, not being painted, and her and walk off to telegraph to his agent Svale, for Swatow. face was heart-shaped against the for a new act. shadow of her dark hair. She wore

General Lee, for Manila. Mme. Brandt took a curious perverse! Rio de Janeiro, for Saigon. white in hot comehow one never pleasure in teasing Anatole. She knew

and black in North, but noticed that she was not dressed in that he feared her, and it amused her Helikon, for. Saigon. colours.

She seldom looked at the to send for him, to keep him standing, Hilda, for Singapore, nereon to whom she was talking, 30

aoin her wagon while she polished her that

when she did it was rather halls or sewed or wrote letters, ntter- 21st Apr. shock.

Her voice was low, and shely indifferent to his presence,

After never showed her teeth, making one about ten minutes she would look up. imagine that they must be had, like

lancing at some point above his The following warships were in her husband's.

head, and ask him, in her soft, languid port yesterday-

Basin. Tamar, voice, if he liked elreur life, and whether chat for some time casually asking he was happy with them. She

would searching questions about suddenly she he other performers, then would look direct st him. with

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Both Brandts stayed talking to the Alsatian for about ten minutes in the 17th Mar.hot eunahing. It was impossible im

6th Apr. eavesdrop, but once the Alsatian was heard relierating rather warmly that he was a stoker by profession. Final ly, however, Carl Brandt took the man

6th Mar.

stranom, branding siere, while she said:

"Better than tramp ships, isn't it,|

then you were as a stoker, I suppose!"

Sometimes she would add:

off to the head keener of the menach? You are more comfortable here perle and said that he was to In given work. The Alsatian for his part said that his name was Anatole, and that he was used to rough jobs. Soon afterwards the circus went on Lowards Tunis.

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Always, when she dismissed him, his) The now hand, Anatole, was a good-hair was damp with sweat. natured, genial, simple fellow, who

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the tent-men and grooms, but also The Circus Brandt wandered gradual with the more democratic of the per-y northwards towards the Basque dur-country, until the French border WAI ing the tedium of long

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11th Mar. making him to them, for he had across France into Belgium and Hol- a rich and beautiful voice. Generally land, then back again. The Brandts

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"HECTOR" The R.MS. Empress of Asia will but before the circus entered French ter gotten French music-hall songs, but bef

**ÔÀLØHAR** sometimes he favoured them with ritory Anatole gave his notice to the leave here for Victoria and Van- snatches of roaring, racy, impudent head keeper. He was a hard worker couver, B.C., via Shanghal, Naga- ballads couched in an argot with and so popular with his mates that the saki, Kobe, Yokohama at noon on which they were every one unfamiliar.

liar. keeper went grumbling to Carl Brandt,

to an increase of salary: March 17 (Friday). After annual

atay

On show, when Anatole was shouting one Anatole of these coarsely cheerful songs

one occasion, before the evening who refused i

In-

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overhaul she will berth at the Mme. Brandt was in the wagon when Kowloon Wharf at 5 p.m. on Tues- side the Big Top, the flap was sud- this news was told to her husband. She denly opened to reveal Mme. Brandt's said to Carl: "If you want the Alsa,day, March 14. pale, watchful face in the aperture. tian to stay. I will arrange it. Leave Instantly, although some of the it to me. I think I understand tha small audience had not seen ber, a trouble, and, as you say, he is a useful curious discomfort fell upon the gay man." party. Anatole, whose back was turn-

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she pursued,

"Betler than this?" Bitching at her work.

"Yes, Madame." "Yet," she continued idly, you were happy with us in Africa, happy in Spain. Why not, th, in France?"

"Madame

She snapped a thread with her teeth, "Why not in France, Anatole1" There WIE no reply.

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Suddenly she flung her sewing to the/her Cargo will not be landed

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him,

Anal port of call to which the option hungry look that he had never before seen there. Her eyes burned him, like

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No claims will be admitted after the rely moving her lips:

She said, pasting Goods have left the Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the scarcely will tell you why you are afraid 10th inat will be subject to rent. of France, shall 1 Anatole? I have presented in the Undersigned as or All claims against the vessel must guessed your Becret, my friend

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