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FAR EAST INDIA ITALY Express Passenger Service.

S.S. “CONTE ROSSO" for Shanghai .. 1st April. Italy (L'don) 13th April. Freight Service.

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IN.

SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports and Honolulu.

TAIYO MARU

CHICHIBU MARU

TATSUTA MARU

SEATTLE & VANCOUVER.

Thursday, 23rd March midnight Wednesday, 12th April

Wednesday,

26th April.

27th March.

10th April.

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TERUKUNI MARU

Friday,

HAKUSAN MARU

HARUNA MARU

Saturday, Saturday,

31st March. 16th April.

29th April.

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.

ATSUTA MARU

Saturday,

KAMU MAKU

Saturday,

25th March. 22nd April.

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TANGO-MARU............

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Monday,

Jat May.

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and Valencia.

1 LIMA MARU

Sunday.

16th April.

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+ RANGOON MARU

Wednesday.

# PENANG MARU

Saturday,

29th March. 8th April.

SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA,

+ TOKIWA MARU

GINYO MARU

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25th March. 20th March, 31st March,

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Mon.,

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KEELUNG via Swatow and] Canton Maru

Amoy (every Sunday)

TAKAO

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vis Swatow and Deli Maru Amoy (every other Thurs-

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THE PROMISE

(Continued from Page 7.)

One Sunday, three or four days after Marcus's arrival, the two men,

as A

CONSIGNEES.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

as. "BARUNGA”

From SYDNEY & AUSTRALIAN PORTS.

menace. Then Mount Rovella bent sitting face to face in the study on silently to the torrent, the torrent the ground floor of the establish- whispered some ironical mysterious ment, fought their astute duel with equal weapons. Both of them knew word to the factory which remained and revered the value of His Majesty

The above named vessel having arriv- impassive with. Its eyes wide open

ed, Consignees are hereby informed towards the valley where other fac-Money, because they had coveted it, that delivery of their cargo must be tories lifted the massive swords of gathered it together, defended it taken from the vessels tackle inmedi They were alike, too, ately the vessel is ready to discharge their chimneys. And the tinyent by cent.

same, and as far as the vessel can de- is father

like bis live? human beings became once more at 801, in their low stub the Consignees fall to take de- Between peace and war, human born foreheads, in their harshly livery of the said goods within the time outlined profiles, in the pru- and at the rate aforesaid, the vessel beings, unlike the earth and material

dent and tenacious cleverness that shall have the liberty to discharge and things, grow old.

store the goods in Godown at the risk Biellese race. Fresia's fine black hair was show-characterises the

and expense of Consignees.

All broken, chafed and damaged ing some white threads, now that The interview was a masterpiece of

practical common goods are to be left on board and will she had reached the age of forty astuteness, of

sense, of business foresight. On be examined by our Surveyers, Mesara. In her mouth, which had been so

Goddard & Douglas on application.. Next Consignees are requested to send in fresh and was now growing flabby the whole, they were agreed. nt the corners, her neglected teeth day they were to meet again. How their Bills of Lading for countersigna were turning yellow and decaying. did it happen that just at the gate ture immediately.

DODWELL & CO. LTD. For a long time Marcus had left off of the factory, grey under the grey

As Agents. writing to her. According to vari-sky of the sultry Sunday evening,

Hong Kong 22nd March, 1933. ous tales brought by returned emi Marcus should find himself face to grants, he was making a fortune In face with Fresia? Perhaps she had Canada, and had grown more Ameri-seen him go in, and had waited for The moment he saw her, he him. can than a Yankee, holding in a steel felt the certainty that she

was to him

the eyes the blood

bis face, дв in his veins; we do not think of these things because they are part of ourselves.

CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.

THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.

From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.

fist the threads of intricate business affairs. His silence had not din- couraged the woman in her fidelity. But of that long-ago promise she had drawn nourishment and life, her only reason for hope (and maybe a

They greeted each other simply. (vain one) to be with her in the

throwing of the apool between the Walking side by side, they took the The Steamship

tortuous part that leads uphill to

'BENMACDHUI" threads of her loom and the swelling

There was no one Consignees of cargo are hereby in of the litanies in church on festival Canton Viola. daye. Though everyone was quite about; the women were at vespers, formed that all goods are being land-

the men at the public-house.

jed at thair risk into the hazardous certain Marcus would never come

"Have you kept well all the time?" and/or extra hazardous Godowns of hack, Fresia's almost religious feel-

The Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd. whence and/or from jing was respected, and the silent Marcus naked placidly.

the wharve delivery may be obtained. creature with the dog-like eyes came little by little to be considered widow.

"Yes, but now I am alone. My mother is dead. You are thinner than you used to be, Marcus.”

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and the 27th March, 1933, will be subject all Goods remaining undelivered after

She made not even the most timid allusion to the silence of so many to rent.

All claims against the steamer meat years' length, to the promise that he did not remember. or perhaps be presented to the Undersigned on or wished to forget, or to the wealth, before the 10th April, 1933, or they

will not be recognised. opaque and shapeless mass, which All broken, chafnd, and damaged

On the contrary, one fine day. Marcus came back. Beardless. dried up, tanned, with bitter cruel fines like scars at the corners of hla eyes and mouth, perfectly dressed in an English suit of small tan and

!separated them.

Goods are to be left in the Godowns, brown check. He jumped out of the,

But did it really exist, that 25th March, 1933, at 10

where they will be examined on the Biella train at the tree-embowered

Am., by It seemed that nothingMessrs. Goddard & Douglas. station of Valle San Nicolao

and wealth? looked round to recognise familiar separated them, not even the air, 80 To comply with the General Bond- bare and transparent did they ap-ed Warehouse Regulations consignees places.

must have a Revenue Officer in at- On the threshold of a cafe a fat pear the one to the other. How

dutiable tendance when damaged woman with hair on her chin glanced long was it since they had last met? goods are examined. at him for a moment, Indifferently. The day before? No, twenty years:

one

No Fire Insurance has been effect-

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD., Agents. Hong Kong, 20th March, 1933,

COPENHAGEN.

He took the stony path leading to ago, and Fresia's mouth had growned, the Campore, crossed-the-bridge-over flabby, her skin faded, and her hair Bills of Lading will be countersign-

ad-by the Stroma, paused

Marcus bore on a moment to was partly white. stare at the torrent which lashed his face and in his soul the hard- the stones on the shore with coldness wrought by a violent and gras- Nevertheless, she was jangry spray. He felt, more than ping life. he saw, his country, his own coun- the only woman for him. the try. At his shoulders Mount whom you can throw in a corner as THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.... Rovella, rough.and hard as its name, if she were an old tag and who for

lang time does not even intrude) already dark under the threat of night: the hills in front with their upon your memory; yet she stands The Motor Vessel vine-bearing summits still in the apart, waiting silently, humbly, Aun; and factory beyond factory; on faithfully.

having arrived (from Copenhagen, the horizon, dominating everything, she would have waited until the day Hamburg, Rotterdam Antwerp and the white peak of San Bernadino of her death.

was ignorant Genoa) consignees of cargo are hereby being with San Dolcino's cross cut clearly and rough, sulted in this, too, to informed that all goods

him, for he had no

landed and placed at their risk into the learning in the blue.

hazarious and/or extra hazardous Ibat of gain. From Campore to Valle Mosso he save

And Godowns of The Hong Kong and Kow bore in her dog-like loon Wharf & Godown Co. Ltd., where passed through flocks of factory-she hands coming home from work, eyes, in her submissive, caressing delivery can be obtained as soon as

the alenderness of her the goods are landed. None of the old ones recognised him. voice, in

if he had not come back

She

"AFRIKA"

are

No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be countersign-

by

JOHN MANNERS & CO, LTD. Agenta. Hong Kong, 21st March, 1033.

No claims will be admitted after the He knew none of the young ones. body, something that was necessary goods have left the Godowns and all He had come back, as he had vowed for his rest, since he was always on goods remaining undelivered after to Fresin and to himself, very rich. the alert, in arma, vigilant, in the 28th March, 1993, at 4 p.m. will be As then, and more even then then, noise of the metallic sound of money, subject to rent.

She asked nothing.

All broken, chafed and damaged He might have goods are to be left in the Godown, he was alone.

Firat in New York, then in left her there, callously, at the street where they will be examined by Chicago, then in the interior of corner, and she would have remained Messrs. Anderson & Ashe on the 27th

March, 1933, at 10 n.m. Canada, mechanic, shop-hand, secre- without protest.

He gazed at her for a long time.be presented to the Undersigned within All claims against the vessel must tary, inventor, partner in a doubtful! enterprise, always on the point of In spite of the handiwork of time, en days of the ships arrival, or they shipwreck but always keeping afloat there still survived in her the type, will not be recognised,

the indescribable expression which and engineering complicated com- mercial enterprises-gifted where had called his heart when he was

For the sake of thated 10th Apr. business was concerned with the twenty.

miraculous flair of an animal of prey. changeless expression she ber- he had never lost sight of his goal, self was changeless in his eyes, Hard and plastic at the same time, like the house where one grows up.. 21st Apr. he had known how to maneuvre and the place where one was born.

how to impose himself. Neither Calmly, like a man who takes up wine, nor luxury. nor women, nor the thread of a speech interrupted) friends had come in and corrupted a few minutes before, Marcus turn the hungry austerity of his life.ed to the woman and, neither sadly 26th Mar. He had been a perfect artist in or joyfully, said, "I am just going to Pletro Oddo's factory. When I and he

made had 6th Apr.wealth;

am the owner I will marry you." ase, to gain his ends, of all

do not which infringe too much upon the criminal code. To gain his ends! Not to enjoy them. How should he enjoy 5th Apr. them. When fortune in there you must count it, watch over it, place it Bo that it yields and increases, and AD treat it as something living that

can rot, run away, die.

19th Apr.

06

Д

means

Builder and slave, priest and 1st Apr. soldier, of his one wealth, he loved) 20th Apr.

it for itself, solid, ample, well In-}} 23rd Mar. vested and laid by; a magnificent

booty and lordship. He might buy! lan old wool-textile .factory 10th Apr. (why not, if it were possible,| the one that belonged to Pletro)

where he |Oddo,

had worked 20th Mar

bay) and he could re- 2nd Apr.

organise it and enlarge it, recruiting 20rd Mar. more workmen, increasing and per

fecting the machinery, putting fresh blood into the industry, managing, as a despot, men, Instrumenta; land.

"Pietro Oddo, old and tired, with-1 out sans to succeed him in business, might perhaps be glad to sell him the factory on good terms, He made the attempt.

Fresie made no answer, and they went on their way together.

From

14 Great Italian Short Stories," published by Ernest Translated by Benn, Ltd.. Alethea Graham.]

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