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The Fog On The Blumlis Alp

further!

CONSIGNEES.

THE EAST ASIATIC CO.,

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are

POPIT

"AFRIKA"

and

(Continued from page 7.) to the summit of the ridge, he found

that be had wholly lost his bearings The Daniah Motor Vessel "Yes, by God!" Gordon answered, His Berres were so shaken that it seeing the impossibility of this im-seemed to him that he was lying

from Copenhagen, mediate vengeance. "I have my with abysmal precipices on every having arrived

Oslo, Rotterdam Hamburg consignees remedy, and I mean to take side of him, and he dared not crawl Gothenburg,

informed hereby now, you either up or down, lest he should

that all You're afraid of me coward; but you'll be more scared crawl over the cliff's edge into empty goods are being landed and placed at their risk into the hazardous and/or still when you stand up to my pistol space before he was aware of it.

extra hazardous Godowns of The Hong) st fifteen paces. I may not be able Yet he was resolved to live, if only and Kowloon Wharf & Godown

Kong to climb mountains, but I can shoot for the sake of his revenge.

where delivery can be obtain "I won't die till I've killed thated as soon as the goods are landed. straight, Heriot. You know that I

No claims will be admitted after the can shoot straight, Won't you?”

man," he said to himself, "even if I "No," he added, as a

have to sit bere and freeze till the goods have left the godowns and all goods remaining undelivered after the thought strock him, "you won't re-fog lifts"

2nd September, 1833, 4 p.m., fuse to fight me. You won't dare. Then he made his preparations to subject to-rent-

All broken, chafed and damaged If you won't stand up to me like a spend the night upon the slope. He

goods art to be left in the Godows man, I will shoot you like a dog, kicked little cleits in the turf in where they will be examined by and risk the consequences." which to rest his heels, and pushed Means, Anderson & Ashe on the lat

He meant every word he said, and the iron-shod point of his alpenstock September. 1933, at 10 m.

All claims against the vessel must George Heriot knew it. He was a farther into the ground, and sat be presented to

to the Undersigned with. coward, and his cheeks were blanch there, resting both his hands on it in ten days of the ship's arrival, or ed, though Basil Gordon could not that he might not slip. His feet they will not be see it for the mist. Then his fears were wet; the temperature was suggested an idea to him, and in the scarcely above freezing point, and white darkness of that fog he saw falling fast; there as barely table by his one chance of ultimate de-spoon of brandy left in his flask, and liverance from danger.

he had nothing to eat except a single "You needn't be afraid," he said.stick of chocolate. He ate it and will meet you and fight sipped the cognac, and so tem- you, when and where you like-al-porarily stayed the faintness that ways supposing that you get off this was coming over him. Afterwards, mountain alive. Under the circum- he got out his pipe, and filled and stances you will hardily expect me lit it, and so waited for the dawn.

the way down. The to show you

No one but those who have been track is a little awkward in the fog. benightd on the high Alpa will fully I hope you'll find it.”

realise the horrors of that dreadful; So speaking he turned away and bivouac. Only a man with a con- disappeared into the mist. For a few stitution of cast-iron could minutes his feet were heard plung-lived through it. But Basil Gordon ing in the loose and treacherous had a purpose to live for, and shale, and then there was no sound ported him. save the noise of the streams that Towards the morning he can out of the glacier and bounded slept down over the rocks in cataracts.

*1

"At last," he

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of a

after da remaining undelivered

it sup-are being landed and placed at their risk into the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's go- even downs at Kowloon, where delivery noise little. The 2

with his may be obtained as soon as the goods thunderstorm minged

are lazded

No claims will be admitted after Left to himself, Basil Gordon dreams, and he fancied that he was

the Goods

Godowns, have left the had but little notion of the proper chasing George Heriot through the route to take to get safely down to mountains with his revolver. Then and all

1st September, 1933, subject to rent. be Kandersteg. By daylight he could he awoke to find that the mist had will

All broken, chafed, and damaged have found the way easily enough scattered, and that the snowfields of

examined on with ordinary caution. But now the of the Doldenhorn and Weisse Frau Goods are to be left in the Godownz,

where they will be unnatural darkness of the fog were crimsoned by the newly-risen Thursday, 31st August, 1933, at 10 a.m. by our Surveyors Messrs. Ander- was beginning to be complicated by sun.

said to himself.son and Ashe. the natural darkness of the night,!

To comply with the General Bend- and he could barely see his hand be-"Now I can go down to Kandersteg

ed Warehouse Regulations consignees Revenue Officer in fore his face.

and shoot him.”

Dinet was attend

dutiable when damaged After all, he found he This face.

Fortunately, he had taken nowhere near a precipice, and now goods are examined.

All claims must reach

us before general survey of the track before that he could see the way he was!

Friday

8th September, 1933, or they will not the fog came on, and knew that he easily able to clamber up again to

be recognized. No Insurance will be effected. must first follow the line of the the place from which he had descend-

Bills

of Lading will be counter- lateral moraine, and then ascend to ed. Nor had he any difficulty in the left, instead of taking what, in recovering the track. Some rough

L. EVERETT, INC,

Agenta. the dark, would have seemed the steps hewn in the rock indicated the more obvious course of descending beginning of it, and ordinary care

Hongkong, 25th August, 1938, to the right. For the route to the enabled him to follow the remainder right led only the cliffs down which of the route. There were some

streams the glacier

foam and chalets on the Oeschinen Alp, and a tumble, but where no human foot can small body from one of them in- find a place to stand;, while that to dicated the little pathway that winds] the left leads to the beginning of along the cliff high up above the that intricate system of grass slopes Oeschinen See. Basil Gordon fol- which constitutes the one puzzle of lowed it without accident until he the descent.

reached the little inn kept by the

Aome

signed by

comm

UNKNOWN MEN MAKE MEDICAL HISTORY

(Continued from Page é).

Widespread

reforms

the

To get there it is necessary to boatman at the further extremity of medical curriculum are not pro

bable; they are inevitable. Already cross all these little glacier cataracta'the lake,

out the curriculumn is so hopelessly aforesaid. By the help of his alpen- The boatman himself was stock a man can leap across them upon the lake; but his wife brought overcrowded with subjects that, as and une professor has put it, it is like jin places. To

of them, Basil Gordon wine, bread boulders, convieniently situated, butter, and honey, and set on the Chinese puzzle once taken apart, serve as stepping stones; But, as kettle to boil to make tea for him. It cannot be fitted together again. be could not see his way, Basil He ate and drank, and, though still The medical student of 100 years ago had to cope with a mere handful Gordon had to wade through them stiff and miserable, felt revived.

After he had paid the bill, strolled of subjects. Bacteriology was not with imminent danger, where the stream

being out on the beach. The boatman was yet known, radiology, aclentiâc sur- ran strongly, of washed off his feet.

rowing back to the shore, and, as gery, anesthetic and psychology, but a few of the many It was an inexpressibly tedious Basil Gordon stepped down there, to name process. At times he stumbled over the keel was just grating on the subjects now studied, were unknown. The great physicians of those stones he could not see, and bruised pebbles. himself and nearly sprained his In the bows of the boat lay a days were the men who studied their ankle. At other times be sank near-ghastly burden-the dead body of a craft in the wards. They learned 1st Septly up to his knees in the damp man. The face was hidden by the from observation to read clinical scientific know- shale, which seemed to threaten to boatman's coat; but Basil Gordon pictures. Their 16th Sept.

re-ledge was limited; but their wisdom quicksand. At drew the covering off, and absorb him like last, however, he got finally clear of cognised the features of the man was often great. the moraine. The ground was who had deserted him on the moun-

·Conquest Of Cancer? The rapid increase in medical 22nd Sept.-harder and the rocks were fewer, tain, meaning that he should die

20th Oct. and he was able to clamber up the there.

"I found the body there," the knowledge will in the future in- A system already Considering his inexperience, it boatman said, pointing to a stretch évitably lead to was almost a miracle that he had of silver beach across the lake, three making its appearance in America. There the general practitioner is got so far in safety. However, he quarters of a mile away. had only just reached the point at Basil Gordon lifted the field-glass being replaced by the firm of prac which the real difficulties begin, he carried, and swept the cliffs with tonera, surgeon, physician and He now faintly perceived that he was it. What had happened was clear diagnostitian. It is the simple re-

specialisation. in the midst of a series of low to him beyond doubt or question. In cognition of the inevitability of parellel grassy knolls, and that in his confidence, George Herlot had

6th Sept. 6th Oct.

anal ascent.

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the hollows between the knolls lay lost the way without knowing he had If the present rate of expansion the beginnings of steep grass slopes, lost it; he had started to descend of medical knowledge proceeds 'un- by one of which it was necessary the wrong grass slope, and, in do- checked during the next century, its 5th Sept for him to descend. There was ing so, had slipped and fallen. And, promise to suffering humanity in- 5th. Och nothing to guide him to the selection when once a man begins to slide, cludes the conquest of cancer and 3rd Sept. of the right one, so he sat down and down the steep grass slopes of the the elimination of tuberculosis. "It reflected for a while. Then he Deschinen Alp, there is no further preséges in the sphere of preven 19th Sept. started, experimentally and can hope for him. Neither his alpen- tion, the conquest of all mental dis

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posture, managed to prevent himself Gordon said. "I will see that some fences? from falling farther, For five or one is sent from Kandersteg to Thoes are questions upon which ter minutes he sat there feeling the tech it. There will be no dificulty medical opinion differs to-day

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