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THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1933.

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The Shilling

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"I'm glad you dropped in, Milbury," said Harrison, as they filled their pipes. "I think ital do us both good to talk things out"

"Decent of you to ask me," return- ed Milbury, in a manner somewhat formal. "But surely we haven't got to talk about this terrible business any more?"

THE CHINA

"Why not?" asked Harrison, "After fall, it's in both our minds. We can't} think of anything else. If we pretend to forget it, the pretence will recoff on our own heads, and in the night we shall remember it, and remember it the more vividly, In the night, Milbury, when we want to be asleep.

Milbury shrugged his shoulders. "Perhaps you're right."

m вате M," said Harrison.

"Isn't it strange that when one's friends die one always has a sense of guilt

Milbury looked

up In surprise.

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"Oh, surely you do. I think it must be a universal experience. One re proaches oneself with not having been kinder to the dead man. One remem- bers all sorts of things one might have done for him and neglected to do. And one remembers how one fun of him behind his back, or bit of scandal about him

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on

of. it, Take

poor Prynne, now. Twenty-four hours ago we three were sitting round your fire, and Prynne was talking about his Clare.

Well, perhaps it's not quite true to say he was talking about her, but somehow or other he managed to fill the place with the thought and sense of her. Didn't you feel that?"

"I don't know that I did," answer- ed Milbury. His tone Was dry. He seemed to deprecate this conversation.

"I felt it myself very strongly. Poor old. Prynne; he almost bored one with his happiness. After all, Mil- bury, we may as well be honest about it: there's something damned irritat ing about fellows who're in love and going to be married. There's a BOTT of infernal complacency about them, Idon't think? They seem to be for

you

And ever smiling to themselves. though they wish you well, or at least don't wish you any harm, they don't really need you or tuppence

care

you.

about

fiittle pe got their own sickle!

to live in, and they're not, asking us to share it. Don't you feel that? Not waiting for an en- awer, he went on: "And its worse than irritating it's positively infuriating, when one happens to want the same girl oneself. You'll agree there, any- how."

Milbury rose to his feet. "If you don't mind, Harrison, I think I'll go upstairs now and turn in."

"Oh, come!" protested Harrison. "The evening's only just begun."

"I know. But, to tell the truth, my drar fellow, your conversation gets on my nerves.

over-excited and appalling Italking to enrgive mem

nonsense.

་ ་

So If you'll

Oh, as you please." Harrison, too, got out of his chair. He looked at his friend steadily, "But before you go tell me this. Are you in love with Clare Henshaw?"

Milbury, tried to laugh the question

but the laugh turned to bitter

He said: "I am not."

away.

nean.

"No

B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for surged to be indignent, at the

1st and 2nd class passengern,

remarked Harrison coolly.

"She's a very charming person. How ever, you're not in love with her. why did not want to get rid of Prynne 74

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"I'd give half the years of my life to have him with us now, alive again.” "The idea of the murder, Milbury, its whiteness, "You see this. pretty Harrison gazed at him shrewdly. It came to you in a flash, didn't it? thing? I cut it off the cord of your pyjama transers. Notice the brown 2nd May Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney and for a moment there was Chance favoured you. In fact, I'm in- that is where it dipped into the

MI- of compassion in his eyes. bury, I think perhaps you would. But clined to believe that it was the coffee dregs, at the bottom of one of it's too late to feel that now. What's chance that put the idea into your those unwashed cups, when you learn- done is done. That's what you've hand. Chance favoured you, and ed across the sink to put a fresh shill- been thinking, I dare say, for the bet-Chance betrayed you, the slui! Ining into the slot of the gas-meter. · It Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japas ter part of this day."

fset, to-day has been a series of dis was with that shilling you murdered Milbury Milbury affected petulance. "What asters, bain't it? The first was Mr. Prynne. A novel weapon. the devil are you driving at?" Rodger's being taken ül in the night You're quite, a pioneer."

"Bit down," said Harrison. His and making Mrs. Rodgers late at your Harrison, returning the stained tas The Union 8.8. Company's steamer to the United Kingdoms via New voice was curt and commanding. Mil- flat in the morning, and so obliging sel to his pocket, seemed to lose in- bury sat down. We'll have a drink," you to lie in bed an hour or more terest in his story, There was a long Ausland, Vancouver, Ban" Franciscs, etc.

went on Harrison in an altered tone. beyond your usual

and palpitating silence. He sipped hi He went on a side table and began thinking, thinking about what

You couldn't get up; you were bury, who now learned forward with pouring out whisky,

Was ta feign sleep, because it

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time,

Bhinking hisky and gazed meditatively at Mil.:

way, bertelling oil to your plan that Mrs.

the

the

Prynne to turn

when. Oh,

in the lock to

bee

فه.

***I shan't fell ́

nald Milbury.

need to the H¢ £350 at once;"

his head drooping and his face hidden. en the key

When Milbury at last looked up it door rattling, don't you Rodgers, net you, should be first on was a strange face he presented to the Perhaps I did, said Milbury de- the scene of the supposed suicide eyes of his accuser, a face from which dantly. What about it ya

That not only rattled you, but it åt-fall confict had been smoothed, swWAY, "It was just before I left you both, tracted attention from me. You: see

the eyes shone a light as a mad. what I mean?

And then you were nessand

think You wain't it?

the police silly enough "No," said Milbury. "It wasn't."

to deny that you had gone will believe that

story. Harrison then you do remember making

•ack into the sitting-room after ro- asked mildly to the police," said| the remark. It was after I left, no moving the body you went there to Harrison; I shall tell it to Clare Ben 7,000 8th Apr,

to your 4 p.m.

doubt There seemed to be a storm Pointless denial. 7,000

Cik Apr. Amoy, S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Ouzka rising and the door had already loosen the tap, so to inake room show. And now, Milbury, sines you're Midnight

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Bal 6.800 18th Apr. Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama.

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Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 20th Apr.

to turn the koy, having proved by ex- same, and you pushed; table-leg he still lingered an though there were 8,000 21st Apr. Amoy, S'hai, Hoji, Kobe & Osaka.

against,

same tap. In fact, you something on his mind of which he rattion, lean locked door

too DB did much. You 4th May Amoy, S'ani, Mail, Kobe & Osaka.

let well must ease himself. "Clare in Staf Wouldn't Holl

Kobe & Yokohama. locked

Kilbury; you ought to fordshire, Harrison, 16,000 4th May

Shanghel,

Moll, Kobe, Osaka" & Y'hama ***Th

He recely alone. ak Milbury. B

“So I believe."" recely give up

murder;

toyou won't Shanghal Kobe 4 Yokohama,akkored bis g

from glass of whisky fro

Harrison's finesse for But I won't Sha

Moji, Kobe & Osaka: handu And is that, he asked the cleverer than I am Well, Kobe & Yokohama. Sammuly, the crime I am accused off lockder

locidents meant

ant nothing to Mall, Kobe Yokohama Do you Auspect me of wishing to be were merely pusling, an

the night

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{fire was burning

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quite 17,500 29th. June Shanghal,

Tokohama. Koba

“Well?" he said curtly, ning out. I remember thinking, on your nerves," Harrison,” 13th July Bhanghai, Kobe Yokohama.

Advising him to lock the door is a lily, that in half an hour or so it would risonald Wilbury, staring at A006 July Shanghai Kobe A Tokohama

the door, with a queer smile twisting 17,000

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Eo out with pop. And it did, didn't the

you to give me 10th Ang

self. But it wasn't harmless in the 12

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Imotive behind that ricament hat die enn Your tout to?Prynne, ada tion

why you lied about it, pretending thin the tap, wid

moming to think it odd that the door thing him

had been locked Billy

Milbury, when by

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