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the top of the mountain. That I saw that this was the roof of an meant another thousand feet of immense Corrie, dropping another The Danish Motor Vessel- fairly hard going, and when I got three hundred feet to a slope of there I might have been the only heather. It was a
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savage bit of having arrived from Portland, New man in the world; and I'm not go rock, even in the June sunshine, Westminster, Seattle, San Francisco & ing to tell you that it was the finest with a tilt to the right towards the Los Angeles, consignces of cargo are Wednesday, 10th Aug. at 10am view in Scotland, because I change bead of the glen; and as it was hereby informed that all goods are
belug landed and Wednesday, 6th Sept. at 10 am. my mind about that every time I 80 quite unclimbable, I decided to work into
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towards the left, where the path hazardous Godowns of The Hong Kong enough, with the Carra below me bore away from it towards a belt and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co. Ltd., where delivery can be obtained 4th Sept.
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Meallan Dearg across the way, and I had seen all day-they were still goods have left the Godowns and all
half a dozen other mountains be-
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yond it. Altogether I was feeling a goodush way below me and for goods remaining undelivered after pretty pleased with myself, especial- the first time, as I felt the ledge the 16th August, 1933, at 4 pm. will be All broken, chafed and damaged ly as I had come upon a pair of above me, I picked up the sound of subject to rent. red-throated divers nesting on the the river below. I followed the goods are to be left in the Godown, edge of a small tarn; and, after eat-path for about fifty yards down and where they will be examined by
August 1983, at 10 am. ing my sandwiches, I curled myself then left it, working back towards Messrs. Anderson & Ashe on the 14th at last found a All claims against the versel must up under a warm bit of granite and the corrie, and
crevice on the left side of the pre-be presented. to the Undersigned with- went to sleep.
cipice- from which I could command in ten days of the ships arrival, or "I must have slept for a couple the whole of the corrie. It was the Fire Insurance will be effected.
will not be recognised. of hours, for when I woke up it was just what I wanted. I judged I
Bills of Lading will be countersigu- four o'clock-three o'clock by
was pretty well out of sight, and led by Nature's time-and the glen was so having settled down between JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD.,Į still that I might have been staring couple of boulders, I got out my
Agents. at a picture. I hadn't seen a soul,
at list, to my great glasses, and of course, since I left Invercorrig satisfaction, located the eyrie. It but now there wasn't a sign of a was upon the farther side of the movement anywhere, not a cloud or corrie and partly hidden from me a breath of wind, and I was far too by a projecting bit of rock, but IĮ high up to see the movement of the could just-see "the heads of-two river.
young birds, and I felt that my "Well, I lit a pipe and was ponder trouble hadn't been wasted. I was ing turning back on my tracks, when also commanding, I found, about a Steamer I saw a speck of darkness detach it-mile of the glen, though the loch at self from the horizon; and getting the foot of it was out of sight; and my glasses
on to it, I followed it this is what I am coming to-I saw From TRIESTE. VENICE BRINDISL across the face of Meallan Dearg a man fishing what seemed to be the PORT SAID, BOMBAY, COLOMBO, and across the glen to somewhere highest salmon pool of the river.
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below me. Then I saw another "It was at the, bottom of a little
Mercantile Bank Bldg. Hong Kong, 8th August, 1933.
LLOYD TRIESTINO. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
"CONTE ROSSO".
coming up the glen, high above the fall, of which I couldn't see the top. CONSIGNEES of Cargo; are hereby river from the direction of the loch. But I watched him casting for a few informed that all Goods are being and-well, to cut it short, they were minutes; and then-somewhere landed at their risk lato the Godowns a pair of golden eagles; and that about six o'clock it was—I saw of the Hongkong and Howloon Wharf whence and/or from the wharves was a pair of golden eagles; and fellow with a rucksack coming down and Godown Company. Ltd., at Kow ¡that was quite enough to make me the shoulder of Meallan Dearg.. At]. very may be obtained.
change my plans. I didn't know first I could only see him through Optional Cargo will not be landed the country. But I had any amount my glasses. He
unless notice has been given 48 was waist- here,
hours prior to vessel's arrival, but of daylight-I had been fishing the deep in heather, and the side of the carried on from part to port to the night before till after eleven--and mountain was in shadow; and it final part of call to which the option if there was an eyrie about, as took me two or three minutes to extendime will be admitted after the hoped and suspected, I meant to find him again after I had had an-Goods have left the Godown, and all have a look at it, if it was at all other look at the eyrie.. But he was Goods remaining undelivered after the possible."
levidently coming down into the glen. 9th inst. will be subject to rent.
All claims against the wessel must "He had probably climbed over, I imagined, from the road along the be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 18th inst., or they will not recognized, chafed, and damaged
Wentworth paused and I saw his eye meet Chiltern's.
"Perhaps you're not a bird-lover,"
No
north of Loch Bhuin; and Len Tore the
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he smiled. "But there was some minutes later I saw him waving to 1hing rather thrilling to be there the man at the salmon pool. The Goods are to be left h the Godowns. alone with a couple of golden eagles other man stared at him for a where they will be examined on the
by our 6th Sept on a June afternoon in the heart of moment and then waved back, and 19th instant at 10 a.m.
veyors. Messrs. Goddard & Douglas. 6th Oct. the Struan Forest; and I sat there saw him pointing up the river. He In the case of dutiable cargo," "Con-i
for about half an hour considering was fishing on my bank, and ap- signees are requested to inform the my tactics and waiting for them to peared to be signalling to his friend Imports & Experts Office that they'
a lead. where
have such goods for examination. cruise again and give me
the across he could get Just below me, for a couple of hun-stream. Then I forgot them both No Fire Insurance has been effect- dred feet or so, there was a steep, as one of the parent eagles came Bill of Lading will be countersign-" but not very difficult piece of rock over the skyline beyond the corrie; ed by 5th Sept. and below that a broad ledge of bog, and for the next few minutes I was!
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Hong Kong, 3rd August, 1893. granite boulders. To the right this eyrie with a mountain leveret for 3rd Sept. seemed to pan out upon the shoulder the larder. of the mountain, but to the left it' looked as if it were sloping towards
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"To be exact, that was at half-inquiry on a Mr. 'Croome, who had I generally keep notesibeen found drowned in a pool on the the glen; and just as I had made past six. up my mind to get down to it, the of that sort of thing for my bird Carra. eagles appeared again over its diaries; and when I looked at the "I read it carefully--I was pretty river again, I saw the man with the short of reading matter up there- farther edge.
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"I marked the spot and waited rucksack, just coming down to the and saw that the date of his death 16th Ang, while they hoverd over the glen and near edge of the pool. I saw the was June the 6th; and the pool inj then cruised westwards out of sight; fisherman greet him. If I had to which he had been found was at the and a quarter of an hour later I guess, I should say that he was a head of the glen at the foot of was down on the ledge with the little surprised to see him; but they Meallan Dearg and just under Ben crest of Ben Na Garve behind me, obviously knew one another-or 30 Na Garve. He had been staying, it I now saw that I could get back to it seemed to me--and then they dis- appeared, at a lodge on Loch Bhuin,|| wards Invercorrig without going appeared towards the tail of the the guest of a General Henderson;] and it was General Henderson him- the way I had come; and, in fact, pool.
"This was hidden from me, and I self and a ghillie who had found him there seemed to be traces of a sort of sheeptrack or path following the never saw the fisherman again. But there about half-past eight. ledge and crossing the shoulder of ten minutes afterwards I saw the "The Inquiry was very brief. Mr. up the glen the mountain. It can't have been man with the rucksack; and after Croome had gone
hesitating for a moment, I saw him salmon-fishing. Nobody had scen leave the river, apparently with the him since ten o'clock in the morn- intention of climbing Ben Na Garve, ing; and it seemed quite clear that]
"By then the first eagle was away he had somehow slipped, and owing again. But the second had returned to his heavy waders been drowned and was hovering over the eyrie; in the pool.
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"But what about the last person? aelf away and started back to In- vercorrig. But he had spent the That struck me as a little odd, night there, for I saw him the next though very possibly there was morning, starting out just as I had nothing in it. But it had evidently begun to sbave; and I saw from the been a friend of his; and it was visitors book, when I came down, difficult to believe that he didn't that he was a Mr. Smith of Leeds, heard of the accident and death." I "This was the end of my leave, read the account again. Being a and a week later I was on the high local paper, it was important news, T seas. Meanwhile, however, I had and the inquiry had been fully re- left behind me at Invercorrig a ported. But there it was. Nobody couple of bird books that I valued; had seen him since ten q'clock; and and when I discovered it, I wrote to the friend, who had been with him Mrs. McKenzie, the innkeeper's wife, at half-buat six, hadn't, as you and asked her to forward them to would have said, come forward.”
Wentworth sipped his brandy and me. The parcel, arrived in due course. But it was three months looked again at Chiltern. **** before l'opened it; and I was thenThat was in October," he said; fifty miles beyond rail-head up the "and I was several thousand miles Ignacio in the heart of Bolivia. The from England. Do you think it was books had been sent out to me my duty as a citizen to have taken wrapped ft. brown paper, but under any steps neath this they had been packed in
local newspaper, and my eye was ight by the account of a public
Then you didn't?" said Chiltern.
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