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THE

Was opera-box

THE CHINA MAIL.

MAD PALACE

(Continued from

Pago 7).

Palace. been set The second door of the room led of the door was not a bare, coldgun to settle on the Mad

obediently affame in the great-baro- to a small balcony arranged with room, but warm life glowing with Already candelabra had

At one of the long tables: two chairs like an opera box. This invitation.......

When he had the door half open mal hall. overlooked a great baronial hali!

They were whose flagstones were bare except he realized the mistake his day at the tired Comandir Polka. By

heavy dream had possessed him into mak- his side stood Doran. for several long tables and chairs, but whose walls were coming. He faced a golden-haired girl, discussing their position in relation

with pletely concealed by dark tapestries.startled, ankle-deep in white fur. to the main body of the army when fright, the disturbance at the door came. At the far end of the hall was a staring at him half raised stage with footlights and half with wonder. She stood there, Looking up they saw Baron Rostov down. her face drained of its blood, fire-struggling wildly with the guard. velvet curtain, which

rooms hight fackering the slim line of her His loud excitement made Doran's

heart stand still. Thirty of these

The Comandir called to the guard, strung along the corridor surround-side, animating it.

"Solotain golova." Doran's mur and the old man rushed into the ing the great hall.

A of

whimper. The Comandir ordered Doran to mur

That was all he Then draw up the men with their packs "Golden head". still on their shoulders in a long line could say or do for a moment.

"Your daughter?" the Comandir Then he he took off the conical lambskin on at one side of the hail.

Finally he gathered

asked.

By

of addressed them. He said the usual his head.

The Baron apat lie things a Comandir with an aching enough will-power to back away.

"Wait!" heart tells his men after they had

They stared at caen other deeply, frenzied indignation, went on vitu- been through much. He spoke of a palace in which they found respite. scarcely realising that the word had perutely about outraged hospitality. He B&W the The Comandir cut into the middle No matter how unusual they found been said by her.

was more

saw

Up to the table he came in room.

"Dishonoured!" he shouted. fury. "My daughter!"

"Obescheshchena! your men!"

one

the

it. they must respect it, for it was colour seep gently unck under her of his wrath. " what you say is her true," he said, "the man will be white skin. He the house of a great dvorianin. In

cise. executed. Does your daughter give particular must they respect the lust fright change to something

He knew then that he should step his name 7** door in the left corridor.

But Doran waited tautly while "Let no man approach that door,"backward and swiftly away. the Camandir warned. "Remember he entered the room and closed the Baron choked and his yellow eyes

burned. is our door after him. that our disciphne which glory is Ivictory."

That told Doren what he wanted to know. The girl whose voice had so drawn him was behind that door. He knew that she was, after all, real, and that he wanted to hear her sing

as atret in defent as in;

jagain, to see her.

men 10

roon,

But she wil Get your

He cursed him-

"She gives none! "Who are you?"

his be nade to give a name. Iself for the hoarse idiocy of

men! Get them all!" voice.

"I am Luba." "Luba!"

She questioned him great, clear eyes,

"I am Dorun.“ "Doran!"

with

The Comandır considered. "Do you know anything of this, her sergeant?"

Though he swallowed and looked between the two men, Doran ana- wered firmly, "Nothing, sir."

"Uld you hear anything of this My nature last night?" "No, sir."

Assigning the

"I heard you singing." he told her. Doran was careful to begin at the

practice. my "That was very end of the right corridor and

Even so the appor- father does not think well of it." work around. tonment lacked four doors of up-It was not with her breathless words proaching the forbidden

"Curious. Baron Rostov's daugh- one. It that she was shaken as she went on Ler occupies the inst room of the under- the strict Her father the palace on

not be would was then Doran's to choose a room to explain her life. She was being left corridor. We were to billet in

He stared at the re-taught all the operaz. for himself.

We have broken our per-hoped some day to have a company standing that she maining doors, each moment

was of his own again in the palace. She molested.

Ex-agreement-f what the Baron syn sunded more from logic. not one to think hightly of an order was to be the prima donna. which mean! denth in disobey. 'ne could at least have his hope, ̧expectation.

He

But cept for her early girlhood in Mosis true." his cow she had been here all her life. He was the first man from the out- and side world she had seen for nearly Doran put oown his caftan pack in the room next to the last three years. one of the corridor.

"Yea, Comandir."

Here." "Order out the men.

tottered hurriedly Baron The

had been away after the order

UR B

He stuttered something about his given. He was there when he heard some-lown hfe, then of his nationality, of

Suddenly how he had adopted hers. one enter that inst room.

There simply, he pleaded.

Once

again Doran lined Then, single ribbon of soldiers in the ball in palace. Little muscles "Will you sing of the

This face worked against his will as

came the sound of voices. was the thin rusp of the old Baron. for me?"

She looked long into the steady many emotions churned within him. I Then there was another, tinkling out This consciousness like bits of what-set of his face. Her eyes not leav-Something boiled inside him at the tered glass. Back and forth they ing his, she began to move her lips. thought of Luba's being humillated A peasant love song followed softly before the men. If he could have In the stopped the old Baron's mad rush went with Doran listening to one)

the from her slender throat.

midst of it, still watching the man for expiation now he felt he would to whom she sang, she seated her. gladly face a firing squad. self on the piled bearskins.

only for the sake of hearing other. He couldn't hear audibly what was being said, but it something about music.

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The brittle ping tartled him pleasurably.

Was

There was a noise outside in the Duras stood looking down at her foyer, a girl's cry of pain. Doran his wanted to call out against it. But it was another thing he was forced dagger 11 sense of discipline like

Tear-to call, anking fast into his flesh. ing him from war, it penetrated his

spinel fascinated. The song bit at

of A

But it aroused! him-first to rigidity and then to a Trembling of his hand us he worked whole being, inciting the new urge

that owned him.

"Smirno!"

jumped auto- The line of men And when the malically to rigid attention. Doran Doran's tea was sweetened with & song was finished and the girl smiled became rigid himself; he stared! harmony briefly up at him, he was no longer straight ahead, not daring to turni magic us if the hidden from the next room was being pour a soldier, could no longer ignore the lover his eyes to see the girl being:

12 become ed into him, unte

steady stream floading him.

|exquisite haste to be a man.

dragged into the

room. He had He knelt quickly in front of her ears only for Luba's low, strained

cool hands, refusals to point out the man.

His only feelings were for her. The top of the spinet and song and kissed both her was like a crash. He wanted it to!"It was beautiful, Luba," he whis

on the old The Baron's pered.

"As beautiful as you are and the dull, fierce wonder of what

to happen was going go on and on for ever.

yourself." Ifaint words made a greater crash.!

Her eyes went down for an in-Baron began to force her down the "Is it this one?" he The song had not been done well

When they came up again line. of men.

But from the girl came There was no depth, no emotion. Itstant. must be sang again, this time with they rested on something that glat-demanded.

She reached bitter silence. tered on his breast.

Down the line they came slowly feeling.

Here and there the Once more spinet and song were out. He looked down at his Cross

Baron pulled a man from the ranks rudely stopped; and this time Baron of St. George which rested on the toward Dorai.

an animal being picked for more ups of her fingers. accusation 3rd Nov. Roslev's

slaughter. "It's this one," he cried. 18th Nov. clearly to him. "No, No! Not like

(Continued on Page 11).

came

that! It's stupid! Empty!"

"But Father———"

"Maybe there never wil be any-

"You must be very brave," she like Haid.

"Perhaps only lucky."

She stared at him. "That is not

20th Oct. thing." The Baron was bitter and so, Doran. You are too proud of 27th Nov.sorrowful, a man speaking of his fit. I can see that, and how much most precious interest which has yet it means to you. You must tell me

what you did." shown to him no value.

be something! "No," he said. "That has nothing mast "There

Instead, I will sing There must!" The old man was to do with us.

"Work! Dubravuɛkkā to you?** infuriated with resolve.

"Dubravushkal What is that?" Grow! Experience! Feel! Do you

His throat answered for him) you hear? You must feel! Feel!"

Muffled, but richly, he There was a stamping of feet, the vibrantly. alamming of a door, and then volced the Cossack army song. Hel silence.

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The Steamship

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Baron Rostov had gone could see her thrill to the moving Consignees of cargo are hereby in sway. Doran felt cheated and an-rhythm, tingle to the stirring words. {formed that all goods are being land- and/or extra hazardous Godowns of 6th Notagonistic toward the old man. He He spread the notes. upon her like od at their risk into the hazardous The Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf and wanted to go to the girl and tell the folds of a warm cloak.

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off, laughed gally.

"Like this," he said.

be subject

The He taught her, while the firelight to Claims against the steamer must

"Luba

All

within him..

That night he sat alone in the Fri.

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Comandir had long gone to Ma wavered over them both, and until

He she could sing it with him through be presented to the Undersigned on or bearskins, the men to theirs.

will not be recognised. Tuesday

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ad Warehouse

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10th Nov. front of the palace, another at the selves closely kneeling, face to face. To comply with the General Bond- must have a Revenue Omeer in at

dattacle atables. Now he was free to seck as if in prayer.

Lendance › when, damaged Bun, (noon) 22 Oct. the sweet proximity. he had arrange-

She drow in her breath with a

goods are examined. He mounted the Ban., (noon). 29 Octed for himself.

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This palace was his, and from the healtated. Then their hearts flew where they will be examined on the

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