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LLOYD TRIESTINO

FLOTTE RIUNITE LLOYD TRIESTINO HADITIMA ITALIANA-SITMAR

WILL DESPATCH

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FOR

SHANGHAI

3rd AUGUST,

ROSSO"

1933.

10 P.M.

Dodwell & Co., Ltd. Agents

YKLINE

N.F

CHICHIBU MARU

THE CHINA MAIL

THE TUNNEL

(Continued from page 7.) Besides that, the prison was old

ago

CONSIGNEES.

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THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.

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

The Steamship.""

and antiquated. Upon the main- land it could never have existed. Then, with

a bracing of his It had been extemporised half a muscles for the ultimate assault,

century

from the ruined he began again to battle upwards, stronghold of some fallen noble and as his body strove and strug house and served since then for gled. Pietro's mind, released, fed

the incarceration of ladrones and skimming backwards.,

occasional banditti from the hills.

“BENLAWERS” In a kind of vivid dream he saw

His own cell had an earthen CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby himself as he had stood eight years door.....

informed that all Goods are being] ago, desolate for the first time

It was in the night that he had landed at their risk into the hazard- within his cell, gazing with unsee worked. At first he had used alons and/or extra hazardous Godowns of The Hong Kong and Kowloon ing eyes upon the truckle bed, the nail and after that the taper of Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., whence freshly littered straw, listening in the chisel blade which he had pull-and/or from the wharves delivery a dry anguish of despair to theed from out its wooden socket may be obtained.

No claims will be admitted after fading echoes of his gaoler's tread.

The blunting and the rusting of For an unreckoned time his mind the other end would have aroused the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after had frozen in a curious suspension

suspicion. A hundred pitfalls by the 7th August, 1938, will be subject to of emotion. Within it none the

in wait for an unwary step, Arent. less the feverishly imaged details hundred far-off chances of detec- All claims against the steamer of his trial bad revolved grotesque- tion had had to be envisaged. The must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 21st August, 1933, ar 1y.

smallest things disclosed a lurking they will not be recognized.

He came of humble but aspiring menace, the veriest trifle might All broken, chafed and damaged stock. At twenty-five he had in-betray him instantly. Even the Goods are to be left in the Godowns, herited from his father one of the cleansing of the chisel-end, still where they will be examined on the small quicksilver mines by Veggia. more of his own person, required 5th Aug. 1985, at 10 am, by Messrs.

Goddard & Douglas. He had married, bought a villa elaborate thought and preparation. To comply with the Geners! Bond. near the coast, The mine was Impossible to use his drinking jed Warehouse Regulations consignees managed by a Sardinian named water: he had had to lick and must have a Revenue Officer in st ¡tendance when damaged dutiable Torriani, a bitter, yellow-visaged afterwards to spit.

bur-roods are exkained

No Fire Insurance has been effect- The ed with Bill of Lading will be counter-

It signed by.

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GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD., Agents. Hong Kong, 31st July, 1933.

man, whom gossip credited with a

With the deepening of his

Егове. One row fresh obstacles passion of Pietro's wife. morning Torriani vanished, but opening had to be covered fortnight later his battered body boards and then with straw. was discovered at the bottom of a became increasingly an arduous disused shaft. Pietro was arrest-task to free his clothes and body led.

of the soil that covered them. liking His trial dragged throughout the Finally, he had feigned daming heat of a Sicilian summer for lying on the earth to cool him-

A self. His warder, fortunately, was tunnel, from being a means to an towards a pre-destined end.

the end, had grown itself to be an over- thousand nothings had declared jen unsuspicious giant from

mastering passion, filling his days SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports and Honolulu.

thousand nothings had declared plains of Lombardy. Thursday, 3rd August at m'night his

that guilt-forgotten jests

There came one day the rumour and nights, absorbing his whole Like a difficult and an un- Wednesday, 16th Aug. at 10 am turned bewilderingly to subtic of an inspection of the prison. In being. Wednesday, 6th Sept. at 10 am threats, the raked-up story of some each cell old straw was to be re-grateful child it called unceasing fatuous, years-old altercation over moved and fresh laid down. Pietro lly upon his time, his labour and cards, innumerable significant and spent a night in the meticulous his loving care. His life was de- sinister mischances. . . . . Pietro,plastering and levelling of earth dicated to its service. He was be- calm throughout three torturing upon the boards that hid his tuncome its creature and its slave.

Once there had been excitement. months, broke down at last before nel. It was not, however, until

weary in the prison. A man was pardor. his lawyer. "But," he had cried, week had lengthened into

finally ed. He had been a convict-longer- "they don't understand! You see? [week that the Inspection They don't understand. I'm inno- took place. And, meanwhile, all than Pietro-fifteen years. cent, I proclaim it, innocent?" The his work, was at a standstill. The lawyer, shrugging wryly, had with matter cost him full two

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a bitter smile replied: "Ah, well, delay.

Jas it happens you're a lucky one.

Fresh evidence had come to light, months' and he was free. A miracle!] There had been a glimpse of him

&

his

So through six years of striving, as he passed unsteadily along

had he toiled on I can tell you that you've escaped planning,

un-corridor in a grey shirt and tros- the life term. They're commuting daunted towards his distant goal. sers, his face vacant, staring. He it to forty years." That irony, Beneath the semblance of a bowed did not look happy. Liberty had however, was lost upon Pietro. dejection he had developed animerely dazed, bewildered him. Pie- he had tro felt no envy. Not thus to him Now, as his fingers tore away amazing cunning. True,

that should freedom .come at length. the over-roofing earth in their made the tunnel, but truer exultant fury, he felt a dim amaze the tunnel had made him. He had Not as a gift-Pitero should com- ment for these early days. What given it of his best, and as remand it! had his life been like, how had be quital had acquired courage and And now, at last, the time bad lived at all without this hope, this enterprise, resource and swift pre-come, the time towards which his secret and engrossing dream of vision. His wits were tempered every thought had strained, bia liberty, to nourish and sustain danger-sharp.

every energy been bent....A few jhim?

Of dire necessity he had achiev-more moments and he would have Quite plainly he recalled the jed the very refinement of dissimu- left the tunnel. It would be по birth of his idea. Two years or lation. Amongst his keepers he longer his. In the midst of more had passed since his convie was held to be a man whose spirit feverish labours a sudden chill tion and he was busy boeing a bed had been broken by his troubles.passed down his spine, a shudder of garlic in the Governor's garden. He had overheard them once a4 almost of dismay. Such jobs were granted in reward they discussed him. Their words His tunnel! Like the recurring for good behaviour. Raising his had made him chuckle. He, brok motive of some splendid symphony, eyes a moment from his work he en fie who had wrought a tun-it had run through his life, inform- had looked up and seen the sun-nel with the sweat of brain and ing, unifying. He had served it as light glitter on a pane. He had body, the ungrudging agony of an artist served his art, a priest been long enough within the prison years! He was above them all, the his faith, a worshipper, a devotee. to realise that a little further to clods, the fat-cheeked swine fed For years on end he had assessed the rear beneath this pane was dolts! He worked more gleefully each day by nothing but the hand- situated his own cell. In a flash that night for knowing how he had fuls of brown earth be carried it had come to him. He could be outwitted them.

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