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(Continued from page 7.) carrying home a skull in the box-

know.

but there was no

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doctors are fond of collecting such things. It had rolled out and lay near his head, and it was a remark- face growing more and more like a ably fine skull, rather small beauti-Steamer, skull with two little. coals for eyes; fully shaped and very white, with per- and after about five minutes or so, fect teeth. That is to say, the upper

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perfect, though it may have been less, old lower one at all when I first saw it. FROM ANTWERP & PORTS. Bumble would suddenly begin to Yes, I found it here when I came shake all over, and all on a sudden You see, it was very white and polish-CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby he would set up an awful howl, as ed, like a thing meant to be kept under informed that all Goods are being if he had been shot, and tumble out asiass

sy case, and the people did not landed, at their risk Into the Godowns of the easy-chair and trot away and to do with it; so they put it back into and Godown Company, Led at Hour- it came from, nar what of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf | hide himself under the sideboard the bandbox and set it on the shelf of joon, whence and/or from the wharves and ile there, making odd noises.

the cupboard in the best bedroom, and delivery may be obtained, Considering Pratt's looks in those took possession. I was taken down to here, unless notice has been given 48 course, they showed it to me when I

Optional: Cargo will not be landed last months, the thing is not sur-the beach, too, to be shown the place hours prior to vessel's arrival, but prising, you know. I'm not nervous where Lake was found, and the old carried on from port to port to the or imaginative, but I can quite be fisherman exp

the skull beside him. The anly point he could not explain was why

extende woman into hysterice his head the skull had rolled up the sloping Goods have left the Godown, and all No claims will be admitted after the looked so much like a skull in parch- and towards Luke's head instead of foods remaining undelivered after the

rolling downhill to his feet. It did 29th inst. will be subject to rent. ment.

not seem strange to me at the time, All claims against the vessel munt At last I came down one day be but I have often thought of it since be presented to the Undersigned on or fore Christmas, when my ship was for the place is rather steep.

before the 8th June, or they in dock, and I had three weeks off. When he fell down, or was thrown be recognised. or they will not, Bumble was not about, and I said box struck the ppened the band-

down

-whichever

leve he might have sentía sensitive this and thPigined just how he was ly- anal part of call to which the option:

.

All broken, chafed, and damaged casually that I supposed the old dog off, and the thing came out and ought where they will be examined on the

and the lid

cama

Goods are to be left in the Godowns, was dead.

to have rolled down. But i

didn't It "Yes," Pratt answered, and Iing it, and turned with the face to veyors, Messrs. Goddard & Douglas.

was close to his head, almost touch-9th instant at 10 am. by our sur- thought there was something odd

ward it.

any it didn't strike me signess are requested to inform the In the case of dutiable cargo, Con- in his tone even before he went on odd when the man told me; but after a little pause,

"I killed him," could not help thinking about it after- Imports & Exports Office that they he said presently. "I could not picture of it all when I closed

wards, again and again, tili

have such goods for examination,"

No Fire Insurance has been effect- stand it any longer."

eyes; and then I began to ask myself ed. Luke why the plaguy thing had rolled up

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Hong Kong, 22nd May, 1933,

I asked what it was that could not stand, though I guessed instead of down, and why it haded by

stopped near Luke's head instead of well-enough.

anywhere else, a yard away, for In- “He had a way of sitting in her stance. chair and glaring at me and then! You naturally want to know what howling." Luke shivered a little that at all explained the rolling, at started and locked round as if you ex- conclusion I reached, don't you? Nong "He didn't suffer at all, poor old all events. But I got something else pected to see a ghost" standing behind. Bumble," he went on in a hurry, as into my head, after a time, that made you?

uncomfortable.

if he thought I might imagine he me feel downright had been cruel.

Oh. 1. den't mean as to anything and I like to think that I am--when "I put dionine i

I may be all wrong about the skull, into his drink to make him sleep of there may not be

There may be ghosts, I can. It may be just a fine speci supernatural!

It there are, soundly, and then I chloroformed I'm not inclined to believe that they men which Lake got somewhere long him gradually, so that he could not can hurt living people except by ago, and what ratties about inside have felt suffocated even if he was frightening them, and, for my part, I pebble, or a ett may be nothing but dreaming. It's been quieter since than a fog in the Channel when it's thing.

rather face any shape of ghost a or a bit of hard clay, or any- crowded. No. What bothered me was Skulls that have lain long in the

then."

Land I have

creep

I wondered what he meant, for just a foolish idea, that's all, and I ground generally have something in- the words slipped out as if he could cannot tell how it began, nor what side them that rattles, don't they? not help saying them.

made it grow till it turned into a No, I've never tried to get it out, what- I've under certainty.

ever it is; I'm afraid it might be stood since. He meant that he did I was thinking about Lake and his lead, don't you see? And, if it is, I not hear that noise so often after poor wife one evening over my pipo don't want to know the fact, for rẻ the dog was out of the way. Per and a dull book when it occurred to me much rather not he sure. If it really haps he thought at first that it was that the skull might possibly by hers, if I had done the deed myself. Any- is lead, I killed her quite as much as old Bumble in the yard howling at since. You'll tell me there's no sense body must see that, I should think.

never got rid of the thought the moon, though it's not that kind in it, no doubt; that Mrs. Pratt was have the consolation of

as I don't know for certain of noisé, is it? Besides, I know buried like a Christian and is lying all utterly ridiculous nonsense, that

of saying that what it is if Luke didn't.

the churchyard where they put

her, It and that it's perfectly monstrous to Mira, Prait died a natural death and only a noise, after all, and a noise suppose her husband kept her skull in that the beautiful skull belonged to never hurt anybody yet. But he her old bandbot in his bedroom. All Luke when he was a studentiin_Lon- was much more imaginative than 1 the same, in the fece of reason, and don. But if I were quite sure, I be am. No doubt, there really is convinced that he did. Doctors do all indeed I do, most certainly. As it is, common sense, and probability, I'm Heve I should have to leave the house; something about this place that I sorts of queer things that would make I had to give up trying to sleep in the don't understand; but when I don't men like you and me foel

best bedroom, where the underaland a thing I call it al Then, dont you see? If it really|

You ask me why I don't re throw the only into the confounded bugbear" {t} phenomenon, and I don't take it for was her skall, poor woman,

bat please don't way of accounting for granted that it's going to kill me, is that he really killed her, and did it doesn't like being called names.

his bu

having

It call it a as he did.

in that way, as the woman killed her There! Lord, what a shiek! I told Besides, what is there to prove that husbands in the story, and that he was you mot You're quite palo, man. FIL Luke killed his wife?.. 1- would not, afraid there might be an examination up your pipe and draw your chair even suggest such a thing to anyone some day which would betray him. You nearer to the fire, and take some more but you. After all, there was nothing see, I told that too, and I bellove it drink. Old Hollanda' never hurt any. but the coincidence that poor little had really happened some fifty or sixty body yet. Mrs. Pratt died suddenly in fer bed years ago. They dug up the threa] We should not have heard the thing

• few days after I told that story at skulls, you know, and there was D'again if you had not seld that I'm dinner. She was not the only woman smali lump of lead rattling about in pretty sure we should not. Oh, yes, who ever died like that. Luke got each the doctor over from the next parish, woman. Luke remembered that, I'm cidence you are quite welcome, but one. That was what hanged the If you choose, to describe it as a coin- and they agreed that she had died of sure. I don't want to know what he I would rather that you should not call something the matter with her heart, did when he thought of it; my taste the thing names again, if you don't

Of course, there was the ladie. I never ran in the direction of herzura. mind. I may bo that the poor never told anybody about that, and it It must have been

rather grim woman hears, made me start when I found it in the eh?

and

perhaps it I wish I did not see the whole don't you know? Ghost - Nol cupboard in the bedroom. It was

80 distinctly new, too little tinned iron fadio must have happened.

Its thing

just as everything don't call anything a ghost that you

He

I'm in broad daylight, and that raitics

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little

huria her,

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that had not been in the fire more night before she was book, it the can take in your handa and look at||

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than once or twles, and there was sure, sfter the comin had been shut, when you shake it. Do you now? But lead in it that had been melt- and when the servant girl was asleep, it's something that hears and under- ed, and stuck to the bottom of the I would bet anything that when he'd

fried cleeping in the best bedroom

bowl, all grey, with hardened dross got it he put something under the stands; there's no doubt about that

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on it. But that proves nothing. A sheet in its place, to all up and look when I first came to the house, just 22 one country doctor is generally handy like it. What do you suppose he put because it was the best and the most

man, who does everything for him-there, under the sheet?

comfortable, but I had to give it up. self, and Luke may have had a dozen I don't wonder you take me up on It was their room, and there's the reasons for melting a little lead in a what I'm saying. First I tell you bed she died in, and the cupboard is ladle.

He was fond of sea-fishing, that I don't want to know what hap- in the thinkness of the wall, near

the instance, and he may have cast alpened and that I hate to think about head on the left. That's where 22nd June sinker for

It f night-line; perhaps it 19th July was weight for the hall clock, or thing to na then I describe the whole likes to be kept, in its handbox

you as if I had seen it. I'm!

used the room for a fortnight like that, A31 the same, quite Eure

that it was her work-bay after I came, and then I turned out when I found t

Find Tather queer that he put there, I remember, the, and took the little room downstairs sensation, because it looked so much bag very well, for she always used it next to the surgery, where Luke used like the thing X-bad- described when of an evening. It was made of brown to sleep when he expected to be called I told them the story. Do you under-plush and when it was stuffed full it to a patient during the night. 7th June stand? It affected me unpleasantly, was about the size of you understand... was diways a good sleeper short 6th July and I throw it away; it's at the bot- Yes, there I am, at it again! You right hours is my does. I could toin of the sea a mile. from the Spit. may laugh at me, but you don't live not leen after three o'clock in the You see, Lake must have bought it here alone, where it was done, and morning in that room- quarter pa in the

village years ago, for the man you didn't tell Luke the story about to be accurate as a matter of fast, pells just such fadies still. I suppose the melted lead. I'm not nervous, I timed it with my old chronometer, they are used. In cooking. In any tell you, but sometimes I begin to feel which still keeps good time, and it was cafe, there was no reason why in in that I understand why some people always it exactly the sainst Was quisitive housemaid should such are.

I wander whether that 6th June thing lying about, with lead in it, alone, and I dream of it, and when

hen the hour when 5th July and wonder what it was, and perhaps that thing screams-well, frankly, It was not what y

talk to the maid who heard me tell don't

have beard. If the

to like the nudes any more than it had been that I could not have You understand me, 24th May Now that Lake Pratt is dead and thing, but it doesn't like that. It for a few seconds in the empboard, and to get of the start and a moan and hard breathing Brd June gone, and lies buried beside his wife, wants to be there in its place, in Mrnary circumstances, I'm'aura

with an honest men's tombstone at Pratt's bandbox, in the cupboard in

could never have waked This

the I should not care to air up best bedroom. It's not happy any-suppose you are like me in that, and head, 1st June anything that could hurt his memory where else. How do I know that! Be- we are just like other people who have 20th June

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