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4th May

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE UPPER BERTH

(Continued from page 7.)

"You seem to think I am likely to but I was overjoyed at the captain's offer to spend the night with me. He

DIESEL ELECTRIC TUG.

For Petroleum Lighter Service.

[doubt the story," said the doctor, accent for the workman and Henry Robb Limited, Leith,

..

him to do anything I requirare to build for the Union Ligh- smiling at the detailed account of

ed. We went below at once. I had terage Co. Ltd, London, a diesel the state of the porthole. “I do not all the bedding cleared out of the electric tug for petroleum ligh- doubt it in the least. I renew my upper berth, and we examined the

place thoroughly to see It thero was terage service. invitation to you. Bring your|a board loose

The vessel is to be 92 ft. long anywhere or a panel traps here, and take half my cabin." which could be opened of pushed aside and will be propelled by two We tried the planks everywhere, tap- Mirrleen diesel engines of 360 Come and take half of mine for ped the flooring, unseren took it B.H.P. cach, at 300 r.p.m., 121⁄2

the fit one night," I said: "Help me totings of the lower

to pieces-in. short, there was not a in. stroke, driving. British square inch of the state-room which Thomson-Houston dynamos in get at the bottom of this thing."

"You will get to the bottom of was not searched and tested. Every parallel, the power being ran]

thing was in perfect order, and we put everything

back in its place. Asmitted to a single B.T.-H. motor we were, Salahing

our work Robert, developing 580 B.HP. at 120 the steward of my passage, came to r.p.m. Pilot control is to be the door and looked in.

something else if you try," answer- ed the doctor.

"What?" I asked.

Well, ir find anything, air?" he adopted. "The bottom of the sea. I am go-asked, with a ghout the porthole,

ghastly ing to leave this ship. It is not Robert" I said, and I gave him the promised esvereignty and skilfully.

The carpenter AUXILIARY MOTOR

TRAINING SHIP. to did bla work

following

canny."

"Then you will not help me |find out--"

may directions. had done. he spoke.

When he

"I'm a plain man, sir," he said.

Reichsmarine.

"Not, I," said the doctor quickly. "But it's my belier you had better just To Be Built For German "It is my business to keep my wits turn out your things, and let me run half dozen four-inch screws through about me-not to go fiddling about the door of this cabin. There's no air, good never came of this cabin yet, Blohm & Voss has received an with ghosts and things."

and that's all about it. There's been order from the German Reichs- A four lives lost out of here to my own

remembrance, and that in four trips. marine for an auxiliary motor Better give it up, sir-beiter give it training ship.

The vessel will be 240 ft. inj up!"

"I will try it for one night more" overall length, 396 ft. in width; I said.

"Better give it up, sir-better give and about 1614 ft. maximum it up! It's a precious bad foh," re- draught displacement 1,500 tons peated the workman, putting his tools (compared with 730 tons for the

Niobe). in his bag "and leaving the cabin. on me.

But my spirits had risen consider- "Have you

any reasonable exably at the prospect of having the and made up my planation of these things to offer?" captain's company,

mind not to be prevented from he asked.

"Do you really believe it is ghost?" I inquired, rather con- temptuously. But as I spoke remembered very well the horrible sensation of the supernatural which had got possession of me during the The doctor turned sharply night.

An auxiliary engine of 500 SH.P. will propel the vessel at 6

"No; you have not to the end of the strange buto 8 knots.

not even

Well, you say you will find an ex abstained from Welsh rarebits and planation. 1 say that you won't grog that evening, and did stir, simply because there is not join in the customary game of whist I wanted to be quite sure of my any."

nerves, and my vanity made me an- "But, my dear sir," I retorted,xious to make a good figure in the "do you, a man of science, mean to captain's eyes: tell me that such things cannot be explained?"

WARSHIPS IN PORT

The following warships were in port yesterday;—

Basin. Tamar.

South Wall.-Veteran.

The captain was one of those splen)

East Wall-Moorhen. Persous, "I do," he answered atoutis. didly tough and cheerful specimens of "And, if they could, I would not be seafaring humanity whose combined Olympus, Odin, Otus.

courage, hardihood, and calmness in North Arm-Bruce, Witch, Par- concerned in the explanation.

dificulty leads them naturally into thian, Phoenix.

I did not care to spend another high positions of trost. He was not night alone in the state-room, and the man to be led away by an idle yet I was obstinately determined to tale, and the mere fact that he was

willing to join me in

in the Investiga-| get at the root of the disturbances.tion was proof that he thought there I do not believe there are many men was something seriously wrong, which who would have slept there alone, could not be accounted for on ordin- after passing two such nights. But ary theories nor laughed down as I made up my mind to try it, if I common superstition: To some extent, too, his reputation was at stake, a5 could not get anyone to share well as the reputation of the ship. watch with me.

It is no light thing to lose passen.

I

About ten o'clock that evening, as was smoking a last cigar, he came up to me, and drew me aside from the beat of the other passengers who were patrolling the deck in the warm darkness.

West Wall Vindictive.

DockTarantula and Sandwich.

No. 2 Buoy.-Medway. No. 18 Buoy.--Folkestone. Foreign-French Argus, U.S.S. Mindanao and Isabel.

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The doctor was evidently not ingera overboard, and he knew it. clined for such an experiment. He said he was a surgeon, and that in case any accident occurred on board he must be always in readiness. He could not afford to have his nerves

This is a serious matter, Mr. unsettled. Perhaps he was quite Brisbane," he said. "We must make right, but I am inclined to think up our minds either way to be dia that his precaution was prompted by appointed or to have a pretty rough The Steamship 4th May his inclination. On inquiry, he in-time of it. You see I cannot afford

to laugh at the affair, and

will ask

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after a little more conversation 1morrow and next day. left him. A little later. I met the ready?"

So we went below, and entered the Godown Co., Ltd wherice and/or from captain and told him my story. state-room.

As we went in I could the wharyes delivers av be obtained No claims will by admitted after 2nd May said that, if no one would spend the see Robert the steward, who stood a

hall Goods remaining undelivered after 20th May night with me, I would ask leave to little farther down the passage, watch the Goods have left the Godowns, and 1st June have the light burning all night, and ing us, with his usual grin, as though the 9th May, 1938, will be subject to

certain that something dreadful, was

"All claims against the steamer most about to happen. The captain closed rent "Look here," said he, "I will tell the door behind us and bolted it. bg presented to the Undersigned on or "Supposing we put your portman- I will share

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7th May you what I will do. 14th May your watch myself, and we will see teau before the door," he suggested before the 23rd May, 1933, or they "DIOMED":

Nothing will not be recognised. It is my belief that can get out then. Is the port screw Goods are to be left in the Godowns, All broken, chafed and damaged what happens.

"One

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a

we can find out between us. There ed down?" may be some fellow skulking on

I found it as I had left it in thewhere they will be examined on the 8th May, 1933, at 10 a.m., by Messrs. Indeed, without using board who steals a passage by morning

lever, as I had done, no one could Goddard & Douglas, frightening the passengers. It is have opened it.

To comply with the General Bond- just possible that there may be I drew back the curtains of the ed Warehouse Regulations consignees dotiable something queer in the carpenterunner berth, so that I could see well out have Revenue Oncer in st

into it. By the captain's advice 1 tendance when damaged ing of that borth."

lighted my reading lantern, and plac goods are examined. I suggested taking the ship's cared it so that it thone upon the white No Fire Insurance has been effect- penter below and examining the place, sheets above. He insisted apon sitting ed.

on the portmanteau, declaring that he wished to be able to swear that hed by had sat before the door.

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