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ASAMA MARU

CHICHIBU MARU

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4th Sept. 18th Sept.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

Fate The Eavesdropper

(Continued from page 7.)

"Idiot!" wan

his friend's com ment. "Your Fate is no fencer if she fancies she can make a button drop off!"

CONSIGNEES.

CONSIGNEES NOTICE.

SEA STEAMSHIP CO.

"Touche!" gasped Marten "You've The Steamship, got me this time . . . old man!”

"Frank for Heaven's sake He lifted off his friend's mask.

"KILNSEA”

"Oh, my God!" sald Agnew again having arrived from Antwerp and "Here let me

And he Forts of call, Consignees of Cargo

"It can't

Bee..

er

NO

delivered

"One Dever knows," retorted began with shaking hands to undo are hereby notified that their goods. are being landed and placed at their Wednesday, 6th Sept. at 10 a71. Į

risk into the Hongkong and Kowloon Wednesday, 4th Oct. st 10 am. Agnew, putting on his own mask, the buttons of the fencing-jacket.

... be much," said Mar- Wharf and Godown Company's Wednesday, 18th Oct. at 10 am and they fell on guard.

ten jerkily. But his face, under the downs at Kowloon, where The foils dicked and flickered in sweat of combat, was of a queer may be obtained as soon as the goods

Landed

will be admitted · after the strong light as the confict went pallor, Agnew's ingers, clumsy are

have let the Godswns, with haste, struggled with the in-the remaining undelivered to and fro with thude of the numerable buttons up the left side and all fighters' soft-soled shoes and now of the jacket, which seemed as if after Friday, 1st September, 1933, and then an exclamation. Harten, they would never unfasten; his eyes All broken, shafed, and damaged

will be subject to rent the better fencer of the two, and all the while hold by the stain Goods are to be left in the Godowne,

examined on. seldom touched, never in their fre surrounding that tiny square hole where they will be

on the breast. But, though the Thursday, 31st August, 1999, ■ 10 quent bouts found Agnew an esay

up so am. by our Starveyors Mesars. Ander- white surface showed It opponent, for he had endurance and horribly, it did not seem

and Aaha [pertinacity, and, when he did get

To comply with the General Band- ed Warehouse Regulations consigneça | home there was usually no doubt,preading.

Revenue Officer in about the hit. At the end of five "Don't be in such a... blue must have

attendance when damaged diable minutes or so the combatants stop funk!" went on Marten, with an at- goods are examined.

All claims ped as though by mutual agreement, tempt at laughter; and added, much

must reach and took off their masks, both some more faintly: "Fate... you were Friday, 8th September, 1933, or they

will not be recognized... what out of breath.

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right..."

Agnew gave. a short choking "By George, you've no light hand. laugh. He had forgotten their con-signed by old chap," remarked Marten, laugh-versation. "Yes." he returned, with ing, as he rubbed the top of his another spasm of merriment, "the right arm.

cured thing has broken. some way "I'm awfully sorry," returned his above the button-That was the assailant penitently. "It was very downstairs door; someone's come clumsy of me to hit you there." in!"

"Ob don't apologise. You're fully difficult to keep out, you know.! [Have you kept count of the bits?"

"Three against me

and

two against you,"

"No, no! You can't stand "The Danish Motor Vessel "Sure? I thought you got me Agnew was now three times?""

•

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Gothenburg, Oslo, Rotterdam and touch you three times in the next!

"Nonsense--there's nothing much Hamburg consignees of CENTO five minutes!"

bereby informed

that all wrong only the shock; I'll drive are "Not if I can help it," retorted home and no one will know not risk into the hazardous and/or being landed and placed at Marten; "but come on them." And an accident. Give me a hand!" extra hazardous Godowns of The Hong they began again.

And, setting his teeth, he scrambled Kong and Kowloon Wharf Godown

Co. Lid where delivery can be obtain Scarcely a minute had elapsed be-painfully to his feet and stood un- fore Agnew, after parrying an at- certainly with Agnew's arms rounded soon as the goods are landed.

No claims will be admitted after the tack in sixte, disengaged and got him.

goods have left the godowns and all

In a neat riposte. "One" he ex- The footsteps, which had paused goods remaining undelivered after the claimed as Marten recovered. They on the landing below, could now be 2nd September, 1933, 4 p.m., will be

mounting the last subject to rent. both laughed, and stood an instant heard briskly

until Agnew flight of stairs.

All broken, chafed and damaged with dropped points

goods art to be left in the Godown, uddenly took the offensive with "You can't stand," reiterated where they will be examined by Iconsiderable vigour, whereupon Agnew in despair. "It's madness, Messrs. Anderson & Asha on the lat

there ensued an encounter which ajand what does it matter?"

September, 1933, at 10 a.m. maitre d'armes might have consider- But Marten paid no heed, "TI jed a trife too much of a scrimmage.it in the corner there... switch It terminated only as Agnew drove off that light he won't see. his point home with force fair and You send him off sharp." square

All claims against the vessel must be presented to the Undersigned with- [In ten days of the ship's arrival,

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on his opponent's breast. It was sorely against Agnew's "Two!" he called out triumphantly. better judgment but there was no by

But, even as he shouted, he won-time to argue. To gether they got [dered why the supple blade should to the bench in the recess by the shorten inatead of bending-why he gas-love. Marten sank down on it should feel none of the familiar with his back to the door; and apringy resistance; the foil was Agnew had scarcely withdrawn his scarcely curved and yet... He re-hand from the switch before the revealed the covered as quickly as he could, but door opened and

ст

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Mercantile Bank Bldg. Hong Kong, 26th August, 1933.

ROLLAR-SKATING TOLL

IN NEW YORK

5th Sept.

the end of the foil seemed caught. smiling face of M. Lablanc, the club 5th Oct,

Was Marten playing a trick, holding fencing-master, la over coat and lit...

for he had put up his left bowler. Hardly knowing what he 3rd Sept.

hand to mark the hit ... was Mardid, Agnew took a few steps to-1,000 Casualties In Central Park 19th Sept.

ten....

wards him.

?

"Marten, Marten, what is it?" he "Ah, bonjour, messieurs!" said 1st Sept. cried in a sudden agony of horror the Frenchman gsily. "Vous faites 20th Sept. and fear. For Marten's foll had done assaut 7**

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A summer madness prevalent in clattered to the floor, and he him- "Yes," answered Agnew, and the form of roller-skating is add- 8th Sept.self, with his chia thrown up, was tried to add something else, but his ing handrede daily to the lists of reeling backwards; his right hand tongue was dry against his palate, major and minor casualties in

"Bon!" The little twinking eyes Central Park here. out, cluthing at the empty air. 10th Sept.

Then, with a sound like a sob, he went round the room. "Mais M.! 3rd Sept. swayed sideways, dropped heavily Marten, qu'est-ce qu'il a?”

"Marten? (to the floor, struggled up on one

Nothing. 7th Sept. elbow and sank back again. Next resting."

instant Agnew's eyes fell on the end But even with the light above

Members of the local police of his own foil, which he was still him extinguished, the attitude of

NEW YORK station report that the casualties holding. "My God!" he said under that figure was surely ... not usual;; his breath, and singing it down with and evidently M. Leblanc thought to date number at least a thousand. "ADRASTUS“ A gesture of the extremest repulsion, so, for he said-but casually, and! While the majority are confined to snatched of his mask and was on his with a twirl of his little moustache, minor scratches and bruises, the knees beside Marten.

**Tiens! il 器 Pair d'etre bien number of serious fractures is

alarming. fatigua!"

"I'm all right” said Harten Many of the devotees arrive in hastily, in a queer, breathless voice expensive limousines. As toon 22 and without turning his head or the gentlemen and ladies, often in moving.

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"No," stammered Agnew. "No- not this evening."

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Agnew was speechless; he formed his lips to say: "It broke, but no "No, no," joined in Marten, turn-sound came. The two men stared ing his head a little this time. "Be at each other, the same apprehen- sides," he added, half to himself,sion looking from the eyes of each "we have fin... finished.”

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not go he must tell him. However, head, was rising stumblingly from T. AUSTRALIA. Calling at Mills (P. Hail; Thursday Is. Cairas, Townsville.. the little fencing master was going; his seat. And in another moment, he had only looked in to see who having steadied himself by one hand was using the salle, he announced, against the wall, he had come and started for the door. But as he straight, and even quickly, into the turned to bestow a parting glance an glare of the electric light, and stood Agnew, standing like a statue there with it beating down on his in the middle of the room, his quick fair, crisp hair and ashy face, one eye saw the foil lying on the floor. arm across his body Agnew sprang forward, but it was I assure you, Monsieur: Lablanc,” too Inte; the Frenchman bad picked he mid slowly, that it was & Pure

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