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THE CHINA MAIL.

LLOYD TRIESTINO INGEL Continued from page 7.)

FLOTTE RIUNITE LLOYD TRIESTINO-MANTINA ITALIANA-SITMAD

PASSENGER EXPRESS SERVICE®

S.S. "CONTE VERDE" for Shangbai 8.9. "CONTE VERDE" for Italy & London

6th July.

16th July,

Freight Service.

M.V.. "HILDA" for Italy via ports M.V. TERGESTEA" for Shal & Japan

9th July. 12th July.

Dodwell & Co., Ltd. Agents

YNE

YK.L

N.

SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghal, Japan Ports and Honolulu.

ASAMA MARU

TAIYO MARU

CHICHIBU MARU

SEATTLE & VANCOUVER.

Wednesday, 5th July at 10 a.m. Sunday, 16th July at midnight Wednesday, 2nd Aug., at 10 am

HIKAWA MARU (starts from Kobe) Monday, HIYA MARU (starts from Kobe).. Sunday,

17th July.

30th July.

LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM via

Singapore, Penang, Colombo & Snez

SUWA MARU

FUSHIMI MARU

HAKOGAKI MAKU

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.

KAMO MARU

KITANO MARU .....**

Saturday,

Saturday

8th July. 22th July

Saturday,

5th Aug.

Saturday,

Saturday,

22nd July. 26th Aug.

Tuesday, 11th July,

BOMBAY via Singapore, l'enang, & Colombo.

TANGO MARU

SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu,

Los Angeles. Mexico and Panama.

NEW YORK, BOSTON vía Panama.

LIVERPOOL via Port Sald, Beyrouth, Istanbul, Piraeus, Genoa

-and Valencia.

+ DURBAN MARU (calle Barcelona) Sunday, CALCUTTA via Singapore, l'enang & Rangoon.

15th July.

+ PENANG MABU

Saturday,

8th July.

BHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA,

TERUKUNI MARU

† AKITA MARU (Moji direct)

Wednesday, Thursday,

KITANO MARU (Nagasaki direct) Friday, HAKUSAN MARU

Friday,

6th July.

6th July. 21st July. 21st July.

Telephone 30291... (Private

exchanges to all departments).

For further information apply to:-NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA

† Cargo only.

S. K.

SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION,

NEW YORK via Japan, Los Holks! Maru

Mon.,

Angeles and Panama, Cali

Direct at Cristobal, Puerto,

Colombia, Boston Philadil-

phie & Baltimore ........

RIO-DE-JANEIRO, SANTOS, Santos Maru

MONTEVIDEO & BUENOS Rio de Janeiro Mara

Wedy

AIRES via. Balgon, Sin.

Expore, Colombo, Durban,

Port Elizabeth and Capa

Town

MOMBASA, ZANZIBAR, Arabia Marn

DARES SALAAM, BEIRA, Manila Maru LOURENCO MARQUES,

Mon.

DURBAN, PORT ELIZA-

BETH. LAPE TOWN,

& SOUTH AMERICAN

PORTS in Singapore - A Colombo

MELBOURNE,^- BRISBANE, Brisbane Marn

BYDNEY WELLINGTON Melbourne Maru & AUCKLAND. direct.....

Ang

CONSIGNEES.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEPS.

-FORTHBRIDGET.

the

Tesdad

there secretly, at the risk of the] thing - too... Have they starved whip, running the whole distance thee Thy mother shall feed Steamer as though for her life, glancing | thee." back over her shoulder to Bes She sank on to a stool to suckle From ANTWEEF & PORTS. whether she was pursued. Mercf-the child. While opening her robe ful God, how they had played with she trembled with fear lest the informed that all Goods are being CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby the child; tears of laughter rose child should refuse its nourish-landed at their risk into the Godowns to her eyes at the thought." She ment. & drag

of the Hong Kong and Kowloom. had pretended to be a dog and to

The child looked at her wonder- Wharf & Godown Company. Ltd. bite the child: the bow-wow comes ingly and gravely. It was used whares delivery may be Kowloon," whence and be bow-wow .... And then she had to, lying alone, gazing at the cell- Optional Cargo taken the child's foot or band in ing, used to crying with no an here, unless notice has been given 48 her mouth and fondled it gently swer to its plaints; it was new bours prior to vaznel's arrivals, but carried on from port to port to the with her teeth. The child had to it to feel someone talking and anal port of call to which screamed with mirth, laughing its fussing with it. It failed to under extends will be admitted after option the

first laugh a queer little crow stand what the occasion demanded, No like that of a young cock, and draw Restlessly its head moved to and ing its legs and arms into a knot fro, the tiny hands and feet the 29th instant, will be subject to had endeavoured again to reach stretched forth to ward off the claims against the vessel must stranger. Finally, ́its mouth Would the child still suckle. at twisted awry.

her mouth. with its toes.

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her breast? She became hot at the "Doesn't it want anything? thought, the blood seeming to thic- Good Lord, 'does the child refuse ken in her head. If only the me?" might try once only one little It was as though she had lost time, she would bear the parting her child, as though a second for even a whole year to come. If time. It was torn from her. enly she might once give herself child did not know her, feared her. to her own child, become one with She was without a child... it, body and soul, feel blood unite with blood...

“Tilu, come here.”

Tilu came running towards her. "Tilu, go and fetch my son, for a little while only, does thou heart" "Not I, the mistress might hear of it."

"The mistress will not be here for a week. Dost expect the news will carry to another parish!"

"The others might tell." the nursery. Tilu, listen, I will "Not they; we shall take it to

give thee this silver clasp."

Ingel began to unfasten the-lit- tle silver ring at her breast. The girl swung on her toes before her, watching Ingel's fingers.

"When thy time for confirmation comes I will give silk for thy hood, as sure as I live." "Mottled silk?"

"And therewith silver lace; go Dow as quickly as thou canst”

"Well, if thou bearest the whole blame. Say that thou broughtest it thyself."

The

"Shall I take off the clasp-per- haps sonny is afraid of it, Put on an old shawl-there, now does sonny know his own mother?”

"Does it want to ride so: Soit, soit, Sorve rauda.. kapp, kala- randa... *

Steadily the boy refused all blandishments.

Nothing she did could bring smile to the child's face.

all Goods remaining undelivered after the Gooda hava left the Godown, and

be

An

presented to the undersigned on or before the 8th July, or they will not be rece chafed, and damaged

All broken,

our sur-

Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 25th instant, at 10 mm. by reyors Messrs. Goddard & Douglas. the case of datiable cargo, Con- signees are requested to inform the Imports & Exports. Offes that they have such goods for examination.

¿No Fire Insurance has been effaci-

Bill of Lading will be counteraign=" ed by

DODWELL & CO, LTD. Agents.

Hong Kong, 23rd June, 1933,

planted into the wilds to work for others again as a colonist farmer. Grave, prematurely aged, the

She stood staring at the two burden of its race child lay in her lap, as though the children with startled eyes. Mother- already by hood awakened a power of pro- heavily upon it

phecy within her, she became a "Sonny grows up to be a man, beseer, saw visions of the future. comes a fisherman at Sorve. Bring Her heart was nigh to bursting at silvery fishes from the sea. Mother the thought of her son's fate. cleans the fish and lays them ip the sun to dry."

Hate arose suddenly in her soul, although as yet she knew not what This, too, failed to attract the she hated-bitterness, desire for child. Ingel wept and sobbed in revenge. She asked nothing for despair. All at once a new thought herself, willing to be trodden in awoke in her little, innocent the dust, but for her son she crav thought.

jed a better lot.

...

She mocked and gloated over the child.

"Mother will dress her son in

Then suddenly she snatched the fine garments, a gown of lace with little baron from his cradle and blue bands."

began to strip him of his finery The girl sprang on her errand, The thought tickled her so that with pitiless fingers, in feverish climbed like a cat over the garden she rubbed her hands in glee. She haste. Skyblue robes, addown- wall and disappeared into the began to search the drawers in edged smock were flung aside. The fields. Ingel went to the nursery which the little baron's clothes and laid the child she bore in her were kept, casting a medley of tiny such hard treatment.

child cried in her grasp, unused to

arms in a cradle lined with blue garments on the floor-silken, silk, whose elderdown feathers woolly, knitted, lace, tiny socks, rags around it-garments hardly She wrapped her own child's

sank at the lightest touch.

coverlets, swaddling bands,

She holding together tattered shawl, What if the child should refuse began to dress the child in them, a soiled shirt, a few old rags. Her her breast; what if it closed its seeking constantly anew-nothing gentle, pliant nature suddenly chubby lips and turned away? Per seemed fine enough for her child. turned fierce and pitiless. haps she would be a stranger to it. The whole drawer she turned up- Or what if it had died of lack side down, searching for what she of care and unsuitable food? No desired." A robe of gold it ought to one would breathe a word to her; have, like a king's child. not until much later, when the She was as happy as a maiden in the rags of a labour-slave." | stranger child had been weaned, bedecking herself before

would she be allowed to visit the ror. It was a delightful game, like the little baron's degradation; It She enjoyed hugely the sight of little grave in the cemetery at dressing a big doll for a plaything was as reparation, compensation Jamaja.

At last the child was dressed, for the whole of her race. Coarse Her unrest grew. Only once had gaudy rascal, dancing in her arms. words welled over she waited in such agony-for her No one would take him for a serf

her lips, the sweetheart who had filed from con- girl's child, a poor outcast, so like earlier have shocked her.

very hearing of which would {scription to a grest, foreign - ves the baron's child, he was. She sel. Then she had run to and fro placed the children side by side in on the sand of Sorve, in an agony the cradle and compared them of shame, alone, abandoned, watch-No difference whatever; anyone ing the vessel recede into the hori-might be mistaken, so gallant win

the appearance of both.

zon.

ای

a mix

She curtaied deeply, kissing her! child's hand: Good morning Gracious Baron

“Rag doll-scarecrow! Art thou now.comfortable sleep thou once

Tile burst in sweating and vale She raged at her flercest when with fear, d

"All is lost the masters have unexpectedly come home, the mis- tress is already on the staircase."

:",.

Tliú opened hurriedly the door.

Ingel's brain became at once "Ingel, take thy heir."

clear, as though she had been sous- She snatched the bundle from the 10th July girl's arms, danced it along the What should she do now, strip and heat vanished within the mo

ed with cold water. All passion. room, crushed it to her breast, the child again? Its' former rags ment For the first few moments it was lay spread out on the bed; an al- enough for her to know that the most physical aversion made her

"Where shall we put the other child lived and that she could hold shudder to look at them; to touch "And goodacst known.

child "walled Tiiu in distress. 19th July its tiny form in her lap, them even with the finger-tip

But

immediately afterwarde seemed unbearable. An unpleasant eight of the little baron.

“A cry broke - from her at the doubt and instinct dread of the odour pervaded them. alien hands that had nursed the A thought entirely new to her "Now thy back will be warmed, child awoke in her, and with it a awoke. Why should one child lie Ingel; not for anything would" I desire to criticise, an impulse to clad in rags and another in silk? be in thy skin. find fault.

Her brain reeled as the thought Ingel had dropped on to the bed, The light weight of the child as-developed. Never before had such deaf and blind to all around her. tounded her. She could lift it ideas entered her mind. Who With eyes half-closed, beads of easily over ber head; it seemed to would dare to weigh God's works? perspiration on her forehead, she be without weight in her hands. Still, it was alrangs that the other seemed to be fighting out a battle She swung it to and fro as though shild should remain in this soft within her, w 5th July appraising its weighty! cradle and later trip 5th Ang How light. It had become light all the borough, large hardly twenty pounds a les always have ancient food, though Like a bundle of feathers. only gooselfver and honey were She began an agonised search for good enough for it. But the other Let the mistress come, site said, shortcomings, complaining, almost her own, would return to the black slowly and with calm. The mis weeping at the same time. She sned, chimneyless hut, play for a tress will beat me and drive me * on the highway, Let her whip me 2nd July undid the garments that wrapped year or two on the shore of Sorve, and drive me away. I shall take 20th July it round, examining and criticising pursuing stickle-backs in the

ws, and then-slavery,

my child and go.. rat as shepherd boy on the unds, following, the ited by the rain and" Then 2# still fan-

4th July 19th July

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10th July

"Hasn't seen water for

2nd July"

Sunday,

912 July

Swalow

each in turn

9th July "Poor boy, haven't they even

and only half-grown

"Hurry, the mistress is coming;

can hear steps in the corridor." Ingel stood up. She had made her decision.

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