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THE CHINA MAIL.

Redegonda's Diary

Continued From Page 7).

death and filight our happiness and our despair.

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"RENWYVIS"

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"All was there, set down in those before Redegonda visited me in my pages, all that had never happened small lodging at the far end of the to me in reality, and yet exactly as town, and I knew such intoxicating it had happened in my imagination.

Consiganes of curgo are herely to bliss the like of which paltry reality And I did not find that at all 50 farmed that all goods are being land. had never brought to me.

inexplicable as you, my dear fellow, ed at their risk into the hazardous to find it at this and/or extra hazardous Godowns of "We did not lack dangers, either. seem clearly Lo season our adventure. It hap-motion. For it came over me that! The Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf and Godowa Co., Ltd., whener and/or from pened once in the course of the win-Redegonda had loved me as I had the wharves dery may be obtained

No claims will be admitted after ter that the Captain galloped past loved her, and that she had thus

power of the Goods have left the Godowns, us as we were driving, covered with acquired the mysterious

sil Goods remaining undelivered after furs, along a country road into the realising in her own imagination

the 19th October, 1933, will be subject night: and already there arose in the adventures that took place in to rent.

since ahe, being # All claim against the atramer musi my mind a foreboding of what was mine. And

than I to the be presented to the Undersigned on m soon to come upon us with the full woman, was nearer weight of destiny. In early spring springs of life, where desire and before the 2nd November, 1993, or they it was reported in the town that the fulfilment are one, she was probably will not be recognised.

To comply with the General Bond- Dragoon regiment to which Rede- profoundly convinced that she had ed Warehouse Regulations consiguses gonda's husband belonged was to be really felt and done all that was set must have a Revenue Officer in at- tendance when damaged dutlacie transferred to Galicia.

-down in her little violet book.

goods are examined. "But there was yet another thing our-despair "My-nay,

All broken, chafed, and damage boundless. Nothing that could en-that I thought possible: that the Goods are to be left in the Godowns ter lovers minds in such extremity, whole diary was nothning more nor where they will be stamined on the nothing was left unsaid: we would less than a deliberate revenge upon 18th Oct. 1933, at 10 a.m., by Messrs.

(Goddard & Douglas,

No Fire Insurance has been effect. fly together, die together, or sadly me, a revenge for my irresolution

How-in not letting my, and her, dreams ed acquiesce in the inevitable.

a reality; yes, that her Bill of Lading will be countersign- over, the last evening came without become our having made a definite resolu-sudden death was the work of her ed by

GIBB, LIVINGSTON a Co. LTD.. Agents. tion. I was expecting Redegonda in own with, and that it had been her! So as to intention in this way to get the my flower-decked room.

Hong Kong 12th October, 1933. be prepared for all emergencies my teacherous diary into her deceived trunk was packed, my revolver load-husband's hands. ed, and my farewell letters written. time to dwell upon these problems;;

"That, my dear fellow, is actual for the Captain there could be only WARSHIPS GATHER IN fact.

For so entirely had I been one-the natural-explanation, and I placed myself at his disposal in mastered by my madness that I net!

the words appropriate merely thought that, on this, the last

occasions."

Wis

But I had

jevening before the regiment went "Without attempting.

of my mistress would be able to

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street. Yes, in my impatience was on the point of rushing forth to find Redegonda, clasp her to me, and, with the right of the lover and This beloved, claim her from her hus

band-until at last, stricken as

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PERSIAN GULF

(Continued from Page 6).

As are the

Wednesday, 18th Oct. at 10 am,

"To deny anything?" interrupted

Britain's Service To Persia Wednesday, at Nov. at 10 am. come. but I actually expected her Dr. Wehwald sharply. "Oh, even if I could not, as of old, summon up such

India, and the British Empire in her shadow picture, dream the slightest prospect of success,

it and beyond Asiatic watere, sup- heavenly creature into my arms; no, would have seemed to be deplorable. ples the clue to Britain's vigilance For the Gulf, I felt as though something unoc-

For felt myself entirely respon.in the Persian Gulf. WILD countable, perhaps frightful.

A hundred sible for all the consequences of an which is now a casential a channel holding her at home. umes I went to the door, listened adventure that I had wanted to of air communication down the stairs, looked out of the experience, though I had been too Red Sea and the Suez Canal as naval arteries, is, in a sense a frontier of cowardly to try. 'I am anxious, window, strained my eyes to

Ever since India was pacified it Redegonde approaching along the said the Captain, to dispose of our India.

business before Redegonda's death,

in the has been a cardinal feature of Im- 16 known. It is now one morning; our witnesses can meet at perial policy to create and preserve Until three, and by five o'clock the affair Peace and order in the Gulf. should be over. I again nodded as 1868 it was the Indian Navy which fought the long and bitter fight a sign of understanding,

with pirates gun-runners, "The Captain departed with a

Then the Royal though by fever, I sank down upon cold salutation. I put my papers in įslave-traders. !my divan.

order, went out of the house, fetch-Navy took over the difficult task.

The cleansing of the Gulf, indeed, Then suddenly-it was near mid-ed two acquaintances of mine from night-the bell rang outside. For the office out of their beds-one was 18 one of the most remarkable in- the ring at the bell, you must under-

ja Count-told them no more than stances of Par Britanica anywhere. stand, was no longer imagination.was necessary to get them to des- There may be in Teheran to-day It rang a second and third time, and patch the affair as quickly as pos- tendency to depreciate the services its tinkle, shrill and not to be denied, aible, and then walked up and down of the British Empire to Persia, to the fact, for instance, awoke me to the full consciousness the Central

Square, upposite the "verlook of reality. But at the same modarkened windows behind which I that, but for Great Britam, Tsarist ment, as I recognised that until this knew Redeganda's body was lying, Russia would surely have attempted || evening my adventure had been but and bad the clear conviction that to swallow Persia; or to forget that a strange succession of dreams, the fulfilment of my destiny was Arab pirates were no respecters of |felt a rush hope awake within me upon me. At Ave in the morning, Peratan territory.

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first

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to my house and now stood outside Captain and I faced each other, still maintain a watch lest the pri- upon my threshold, and that in 8-pistol in band.” other minute I should hold her very

"And you killed him?"

mative folk of the Gulf relapse into barbariem, deserve the gratitude of Such statements are self in my arms. In this delicious "No. My bullet grazed his tem-mankind.

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The truth is that, had all opened it.

heart.

I fell dead on the spot, as matter.

Imperialtams been as blameless as "But it was not Rodegonda that the phrase goes."

that of the British in the Persian stood before me; it

Rode "What!" was

I gasped, turning

would be happier yonda's husband; he himself, as perplexed glance on my singular Gulf the world

and a securer pince to-day. real and as living as you who sit neighbour. But there was no one. at the other end of this bench, and Dr. Wehwald was no longer sitting he stared into my face.

in the corner of the bench. Indeed,

"There was, of course, nothing I have reasons for thinking that he for me wo do but to let him come had never sat there. On the other into my room, where I invited him hand, I at once remembered that sit down. But he remained in the cafe yesterday evening there

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standing, and, with an expression had been much talk of a duel in Approaching A Record.

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MORE SILVER IN SPURIOUS hps, he said:

been shot by a cavalry captain of

THAN IN REAL COINS 20th Oct "'You are expecting Redegonda. the name of Teuerheim. The cir- 27th Nov. Unfortunately she is prevented cumstance that Fran Redegonda, on

New York from coming. She is, in fact, dead." the very same day, had vanished

With counterfeiting on the la- 'Dead!" I repeated, and the world into space with a young lieutenant! stood still. Unmoved, the Captain of the regiment roused the com- crease, spurious money is being continued: An hour ago I found pany out of their serious mood to seized in the United States this her sitting at her writing-table, a sort of melancholic amusement, year at a rate which will exceed 7th Dec. with this amall book in front of her, and they were all inclined to sus-the 1982 record of $540,538 estab- which, to avoid any possibility of poct that Dr, Wehwald, whom we lahed by the Secret Service. The misunderstanding, I have brought had all known as the paragon of increase in counterfeiting is at- with me. She probably died of correctness, discretion and refine-tributed to the depression and the fright when I came so unexpectedly ment, had quite in his own style fact that the good effects of the Into the room. These lines here Are-half willingly and half against his N.B.A. have yet to be felt sub- 8th Nov. the last she wrote. Look!"

will, paid for another's happiness tantiully in the underworld.

The country has experienced "He handed "me a small open with his own death.

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Thursday 19th Oct. hour, while the Captain sat motion- and other dangerous matters, and I thought it better to set down the less on the divan; I read the whole foresaw inquries as to whether the history of my noctural encounter

CHANGTE history of our love that sweet and story was true or fictitious and exactly as it happened, fully realis-

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CHANGTE autumn morning when I first spoke were possible or not and I should will, even so, 'doubt its truth-In| TAIPING_ to Redogonds in, the wood; our first haye had before me the painful al- that widespread mistrust which an- klas: our walics; our trips into the ternative of figuring, in accordancs thors, though" with less reason than country: our hours of bliss, in my with my answer, as an occultist or a most other people always seem to flower decked room; pur- plans for fraud." Finally, therefore, I provoke,

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