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1933

DAN

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11.000 21st Oct. Marselles 15,000 4th Nov.

JRDWAN

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ARTHAGE BANGALORE

LDERA ORFU BHUTAN

RANPURA

•BEHAR

RAWALPINDI *SOUDAN

COMORIN

CHITRAL

SHIVERING SAND

and his mate's wife and children, and

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24. The expenditure estimates I soon got up and left him to finish for 1934 total $33,442,695, of which after which I served out our usual "Leave that to me," says I, and paallowance of rum. I made no answer 39,591,950 Is for Public Works down at his side some victuals and.}*** drink that I had brought out with me or toast, artend, & mr led my tot Extraordinary and $100,000 for

I carried my tot le- tu my own chamber'

"And bì the meantime," I says, "pet for teast; instead, and sat down on work in connnexion with the New

that food into you and be more of my bunk to drink it at my Telauze.

man.

remem-

made no reply to that, but fell After that I remember lying down for Govtrnment upon the victuals like a famished wolf, my usual forty winke and feeling more

than usually pleegy, and then

Sterling, commitments have been while I turned back again to the light- house,

u had a motion in my head, ber nothing until I woke find myself provided for in the estimate on the

staring

Jezreel Cornish, whose sharp at and I was going to put it into shape at

nose and ferrety eyes were very close basis of $.=1,18/3d. ance. There was nothing for it but to keep to my face, it did not take a moment

to these two men apart. That Cornish and thoulders with a rope that press the 1934 budget position."

reuilse

The following is a summary' ofļ that I was bound about would kill Chiddock I now had no doubted somewhat unpleasantly, and that

no more than that Chiddock would

my revolver was have killed Cornish if I had not knock-

was in Cornish's right the revolver out of hle hand. Now, hand

"You

'made a mistake in That revolver had given me an ider.

Setting me

exl

the

alt.

arms

1, being the only man of the thres 89 to that cupboard, Graburn,' he with

a weapon, was certainly master of said, sneering at me. "I drugged the

coffee and the rum. situation. And accordingly, AN soon as i re-entered the lighthouse, And as for locking me like a gaol- went to my own chamber, secured and thinks nothing of coming down » bun- you forgot that a man like me leaded my revolver, and turned Into

drew-foot

I told you should the living-room to speak, with

rope. thority, to Joxreal Cornish

Mordecaf Chiddock.” kitt

"You've murdered him" I gasped. Jezreel had finished his eating, but he still sut at his end of the table.

"I'm murdering him!" he says, as 2001

"Ho's a staring at his staring moodily at the empty niate. I

ever sat down at the other end; when he death in the face. I'm a merciful at last looked up it was to look man, Graburn, I'm giving him time to straight into the barrel of the revolver repent. Come and see Sim die.. And

"What's what's the meaning t

-quick!” that?" he growled.

more ways than

20

60

Revenue.

Ordinary Land Sales

Total

-30,531,020 1,200,000

$31,731,026

Expenditure

Ordinary Extraordinary Spacial

29,760,745

3,591,950

Total

100,000

$39,442,095

These figures foreshadow a de |ficit of $1,711,070 on the year's {

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He suddenly menaced me so menit. "The meaning, Jezreel, my lad, ie ingly with the revolver, that I struggl. working but past experience shews Chat,

to my feet and let him half-pull, that a measure of under expendi "I'm master herein half-thrust me from the room. Bays I,

He because I'm the one but especiall; forced me across the living-room, and{ture is inevitable and justifies′′ 'a |·· that's got a weapon.

man of the three through the double door, and down the reasonable confidence (especially if the man outside are not going to meet brightest

Now, you and tar

neet stair upon the plateau of rock into the It's your turn for duty; you'll go ever remember night

and aliverest moonlight the present rate of exchange is that stair, and I shall lock you in. When Oct Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg.it's your hour for coming off T's and besuitful that you'd have maintained throughout 1934) that liners at rates a tow as those offered, you today,

calm and Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.

let wondered any human being could have the budget should balance. you out; but you'll not see him. bead anything but good thoughts in his & London,

cause he'll be locked up, too, Marseilles & London.

unti

The financial position at the end] you're locked in

heart between then and sunrise. But your own chamber. Harburg. You and him, Cornisit, are to do berel Cornish was no longer a human of 1934 indicated by the foregoing Bull.

being; the devil had taken possession estimates is as follows all the work this next London.

Ing to do nothing but th; I'm g of him. & London.

play gaoler and London, Hamburg.uk until the bost comes and Lakes

Hull.

Now you can just up to your duty, and I'll draw the bolt on you. Gel under way, Cornish!”

And what

if I don't?" he saya,; looking

There's bu ifs in this case," way

6,000 11th Nov.m Antwerp &

16,000 18th Nov. Bombay, Marseilles &

2nd Dec.

9th Dec.

15,000 4800

17,000 16th Dec. 15,000 30th Dec. 6,000 8th Jan,

16,000 13th Jan 15,000 27th Jan. 3rd Feb.

17.000 16th Feb

Antwerp

Bombay,

4 London. Bombay. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,

dam,

Antwerp & Hull. Bombay. Marseilles

arseilles & London, Bombay, Marseilles &

& London. Marseilles, Harvre, London,

Hamburk.

Mies London.

Rotterdam,

Loudon. London, Hamburk,

Bombay Hull. 17th Feb. notterdam, Antwerp & Hull.

17,000 24th Feb. 4,800 3rd Mar,

15,000 16th Mar.

16,000 24 Mar

Harte

Bombay, Marseilles & London, Marseiller, Havre, Londen, Hamburg.

Botterdam Antwerp & Bull. Marseilles & London. Marseilles & London.

one of you off.

1.

"Come!"

He stared hard at me and the volver for a good minule, then le pushed back his chair and got up.

"I want some tobacco out of the cupboard," he says. "I suppose I con Ret that?"

"You can get what you like out of the cupboard," I answered him, "so Jong as you get upstairs thereafter.

remember I've got the drop on, Cornish. He mumbled something that

And

"Come and see Mordecai Chiddock Actual excess of Assets being x murdered of Graburn," he says, chuckling as if it was all a joke. "Come and hear him abegging and spraying

over Liabilities as at 1/1/33

for mercy-Mordecal what naver hadAdd Bovised Estimate no mercy on man nor woman! Come

of Revenue, 1933

I tell yout" and he dragged me along

$12,847,082

33,027,000

$45,874,062

if I had been no more than an in- fant. "Now look at Mordecal Chid- dock, facing of his death like the Deduct Revised Estimate brave sailorman he is

of Expenditure, 1933, 32,564,281,

From the point to which he dragged

"the

1994

of what Cornish had done. In the out- Estimated Surplus Bai- me I could see all the devilsh ingenuity line of the rock on which Shivering Sand Lighthouse stood there was Add Estimated Revenue

ance at 31.12.33' $18,309,801 might have been cut through a you crescen-shaped indentation "which

cut into a cheese with tin scoop. Wej stood on Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Carga to Con- couldn't catch, and going over to the which had been fastened about

edge, of one side of this;} on the other, dangling from stantinople, Pireaus, Smyrns and other Levant Ports by steamers of the cupboard where we kept our general waist and under his armpits, the bright Khedivial Mall Steamship Co.

stores, went in. He mumbled and grumbled all the time he was in the moonlight shining full upon him, inng cupboard, and his face was angry and Mordecal Chiddock, a swaying, trembl-Estimated Surplus Bal- scowling when he came out. But being figure against the silent, pitiless

* Cargo only. +Calla Ca ablanca,

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

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TALMA

TILAWA BANTHIA TAKADA

BIRDHANA

1923.

8,000 20th Sept. 2.80 .. 10,000 14th Oct 10,000

28th Out. 8,000 11th Nav. 7,000 24th Nov. 8,000 9th Der.

Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Bingapore. Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

B.I. Apcar Line stedmers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd class passengers.

1001

rope Doduct Estimated, Ex-

hi

pénditure 1934

marched straight off to the door of rock behind "fla waist in the

tantern, and in another second I had turned the key on him, "

on

advancing tide, and he would soon be

abmerged and drowned!

•

31,781,625

$45,041,426

33,442,635

pcat 31.12,34 $41,508,731 |

25. The Revenue figures for 1934 Indicate a set back which is

I felt myself seized with a Now, I ought to tell you what this fury at the sight of this specimen not surprising in view of the gen- lighthouse was like. Some fifteen miles from the mainland,, it stood Cornish's

trade depression. cruelty, and turned on him eral

Though agaunt, bare rock which rose behind with a feeling that would have mani- certain receipts hold up satisfac- a permanent bank in the sea, that had fested itself in an attack on him if torily, others, more particularly long been known as the Shivering Sand had not been bound.

"You devil!" I cried. "Yo-those which reflect directly the re- because of the strange motion of the water over it..

But he raised the revolver, and for duced spending power of the in- The entrance gained by a stone stairway, which led second I thought my time was come dividual have reacted unmistakably to double door zone twenty fest he said, sulienly.

*Keep

a civil tongue, Mr. Graburn," during the current year and their above the when you passed

"It doesn't

estimated yield In 1934 has been door you found yourself in das living matter to me whether you live or die. toom, which made a half of the cit all, I'm not murdering Chiddock; T'a exchange is also a factor in the EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South) other half was divided into four xcg carrying out justice on him. Nice to reduction but this provides compen- but I don't want to murder you. After discounted accordingly. The rise in space of the lighthouse: Die ments, each forming separate chamar him, isn't it?" |bers. A winding stair went out

general, swinging in the rising sations elsewhere. the living-room into an upper room; not ten yards in front of us had values in the Colony may be ex- which we used for stores,

caught sight of me and burst into pected to remain comparatively Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & and suchtike; where it nardoor, the one entreaties were mingled with the most justify the expenditure programme roon frantic entreaties for help.. Bat these stable and the Colony's resources to the other was a strong door, the one that I had accured against Cornish's awful curses and blasphemies" I "had | descent

ever heard, and suddenly Coralsh be contemplated. Above that was a stair of eighty, gan to add a demoning - laughter and nine stops to the lamp-room and I fearing to them."

1933.

NANKIN

7,000 30th Sept.

11 am.

NELLORE

TANDA NANKIN

7,000 7.000 2nd Dec. 7,000 30th De

NELLORE

7,000

3rd Feb.

STANDA

7,000 3rd Mar.

and Hong Kong to Australia.

Melbourne.

tern,

"

of

The wretch

Bea

Loan-Works

In

Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan shone out to warn all craft away from knew exactly where the water would future loan and on 30th June, 1985, from which revolving light head left above the waves at last, I drawn on in anticipation of a There was nothing but Chiddock 20. Surplus balances have been

Hong Kong to Sydney 19 days.

So long an I

rise to, and that in another five minutes the total amount advanced was s was master I saw no difcuity in keeping Chiddock and he would have gone, And ↑ Gorniră

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பர.

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place was fitted with good strong locks; strike him He laughed aloud-s de Aerodrome Net-credita on Cornish's I resolved to it bolt vilish laugh that shade my blood turn deducted). from a

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from duty I would lock the other in his said. “I'll go, nearer and whisper room; "when", the released man was few words of parting to him. It'u safely locked up I would let the other be a friendly thing to remind him of

would let the other what a lot of friends he

of friends, he'll meet pre this being settled, and Cornish sently."

secured, I went to the door and He made off towards the point whenc Section: called to Chiddock, telling his; that

Chiddock was hanging, with the evident Preliminary Works 36,713 would, now be safe for him to enter. intention of calling over the edge infs: Filters

came to the foot of the stairway, the wretched man's very ears

he came near, just as if Proviso

¡Gorge Dam Sitanghal, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama,of him the more I knew what an at-

cringing and

fearful; the more I saw had it in mind that he should b Shanghai, Kobe Yokohama rant coward

As things torn Shanghal. Moji, Kobe & Yokohama, stair and

halfway down the

DYGT the

y which Caldytam Tuk Catchwater rope by explain

was secured. He pitched head Bhai Moj Kobe Amoy

Osaka Shanghal Kobe & Yokohama

fore be would consent to gather is heard his hand strike on, the ledge

Bis foremost over the edge of the rock, Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama.

thinge together and Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama

, beneath, and aw him cleare Chiddock, his chamber, "this to your faced water like a Shanghai, Kobs & Yokohama.

You know the Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama,

the arrangement

Inor Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

Tetrnel Cornish Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghal

& Yokohama

Arnoy, Shel, Molt Kobe & Osaka,ed out. I and to. I had done seeing his victim "dialba, New, Gaol; at; Wong Ma Kok 69,612}{

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··6,405,271

"And 'Anticipated ......... Expenditure,

during the 8 months end- hearing ing 1st December, 1988,

Ting threw me things are you'll do one Plans 955inal, diopair, from Chid-): áncluding; a gum of $450

in two. And keep to what Fre" ar

“Jesreal. Cornish loose

on

ve you for be

[you]

to

may have been income up00 authorised for, Sea ness Taller fainting was

yourself, crawled to the edge of the rock

Chang the rock head dang

You op pad karti in Jooked; into the toys, Chiddos

chocking that

-HWAY, Cornish whin ba's roused

I made no answer to that, but

o

about the job of fixing the bolt on the. Corniku

outalde of Corniah's door. And will me,

this and other things: by afternoon

ponared quietly, and at the sexal time

I began to busy, myself in making ready ordeal Chiddock at watching mi

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