MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1934.
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1933.
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17000 24th Feb. 6,800 3rd Mar.
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in the Rue Broca last night. The rip to New York conveniently and inexpensively. description fits exactly. He used to hang
The Thing In The Upper Room condut the dates and rus
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messages. It fan't easy to read in this cab; but there's probably| junaccountably fatigued. He caught) sight of his face in a mirror beside nothing fresh in this edition. They shop window, and saw an improve-haven't caught the murderer, any-
how."
he felt angry at the growing con- glass.
Altwater That indeed had brought
took the paper and
Marseilles, Barve, London, nothing else.
That, he persuaded
Berdam Antwerp & himself, was the case with his room; ment since he had lɔnked in his own
Hull.
Hull.
5th Mar Bombay. Marseilles & London.
16,000 19th Blv Bombay. Marseilles & London.
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of
4,008 20th May Bombay, Marseilles, Harve, London,viction that he had allowed himself him a shock. Worn and drawn betruggled to read it in the chang- yond what might have been expected ing light. A ponr old man had been to be overborne by fancy-by the of so bad a night, there was even found dead on the footpath of the spirit of fear
something more. What was it? Rue Broca, torn with a score
He had been identified-an He returned that night with the How abould it remind him of that stabs. resolve to allow himself no fool abjold legend-was it Japanese?-old man not known to have a friend indulgence. He had heard nothing which he had tried to recollect when in the world; also, because he was and had seen nothing; when sume he had wondered confusedly at the so old and so poor, probably not an thing palpable to the senses occur-baggard apparition that confronted enemy. There was no robbery; the * Cargo only. † Calla Combianen.
red it would be time enough to deal him? Some tale of a demon-pos-few sous the old man possessed re- mirror mained in his pocket. He must have Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con-with it. He took off his clothes and acssed person who in any stantinople. Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the got into bed deliberately, leaving saw never his own faca. but the been attacked on high way home
candle and matches at hand in case face of the demon.
In the early hours of the morning, Chedivial Mail Steamship Co.
of need. He had expected to find
Work he felt to be impossible, and possibly by a homicidal manise, and some difficulty in sleeping, ог
at he spent the day on garden stats, stabbed again and again with in-
No arrest had! least some delay, but he was scarce at cafe tables, and for a while in conceivable fury, well in bed ere he fell into a heavy the Luxembourg. And in the even- been made.
ing he met an English friend, who Attwater punbed the paper away;! took him by the shoulders and look-"Pah!" he said; "I don't like it.
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him.
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Attwater
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tances.
Attwater walked home
Queen's Balldings
acousin-
with
He
ENGLAND
Mr. G. K. Chesterton's Caustic Attack.
Dazzling sunlight through thered into his eyes, shook him, and do. I'm a bit off it I can't guess. But sud now there was nothing to do PRESERVING RURAL
but cross the water and walk a little window woke him in the morning, clared that he had been overwork it's no cure for the blues, this!"
in the boulevards. This they did,| and he sat up, staring sleepily about'ing, and needed, above all things, al "No," replied his friend heartily;
He must have slept like a good dinner, which he should have "we'll get that upstairs, for here we and finished the evening at a cafe log. But he had been dreaming; [instantly. "You'll dine with me,' are, on the quay. A bottle of the table with half-a-dozen the dreams were horrible.
he said, "at La Perouse, and we'll best Burgundy on the list and the
I'm best dinner they can do that's your light step, feeling less drowsy than His head ached beyond anything get a cab to take us there. B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for he had experienced before, and he hungry."
physic. Come!" 1st and 2nd class passengers.
was far more tired than when he As they stood and looked for a It was a good prescription, indeed, at any time during the day. went to bed. He sank back on the passing cab a man ran shouting with Attwater's friend was cheerful and was well enough. He felt he should "We'll have a cab," assiduous, and nothing could have been a little too much alone lately,
soon get used to the room. EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, pillow, but the more contact made newspapers.
He had:
the dinner. repeated, "and bettered his head ring with pain. He got Altwater's friend out of bed, and found himself stag-we'll take the new murder with us found himself reflecting that indu- and that hud got on his nerves.
was simply stupid, gering; it was all as though he had for conversation's sake. Hi Jour-gence in the blues was a poor pas-
drunk-unspeakably drunk net!" been
time, with no better excuse then a And last night's He bought a paper, and followed bad night's rest. Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & with bad liquor. fin dreams-they
had been horrid dreams; he could Attwater into the cab. "I've a dinner in comparison with this! remember that they had been bad, strong iden I knew the poor old boy 'Well, it was enough to have spolled but what they actually were was by sight." he said. "I believe he'd his sleep, that one-franc-fifty din.bright sun blated in at the now gone from him entirely.
Keen better daya.” stared He rubbed his eyes and amazedly down at the table: where the crooked dagger lay with its bird's head and red stone eye. It
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gazing at it yesterday, and yet he would have sworn that he had flung and that same dagger into a drawer. {Perhaps he had-dreamed it; at any rate, he put the thing carefully into the drawer now, and, still with hial ringing headache, dressed himself} and went out.
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As he reached the next landing the old engraver greeted him from his door with an fnquiring good- day. "Monsieur has not slept well. |I fear?"
In some doubt. Attwater protrat-} ad that he had slept quile soundly. "And as yet I have neither seen nor heard anything of the ghost,” he added.
"Nothing?" ́ replied the old man, with a lift of the eyebrows, "Nothing |xt ́all? -It is fortunate. It seemed to me, here below, that monsieur was moving about very restlénaly in the night; but no doubt I was min. taken. No doubt, mlao, I. piny felicitate monsieur on breaking the avil tradition. We shall hear no more of its monsieur has the good fortune of a prava heart."
He smiled and bowed [hat: It was with something
meraud book that hi Attwater descending
“Altwater Jopl
"Who?"
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ner.
Altwater left La Perouse as gay "The old man who was murdered as his friend. They had sat late,
Spain's Beautiful Princesses.
Rome. A portrait of the beautiful daughters of the former King Alfonso and Queen Victoria of Spain, made during the girla "wait in Italy. They are the Prinessses, Beatrice and-- Maria Crist- tina who were, the guesta of Their M-iraties, the King and Queen of Italy, during their stay in Bomb. The girls also visited bar Royal: Highness, the Duchase Aosta, before returning, to Fontainhlaan, France, where they are brings
It!
UGLY HOARDING · DISGRACE
London.
The Council for the Preservation of Rural England does a great work In challenging the jerry-building Again he slept quickly and heavily and hideous advertising which dis- and dreamed. But he had
Bort. No Agures so many of the beautiful awakening of another
open roads of the home counties, in window to lift his heavy lids, and particular, and it is gaining support
an
as morning bell from St. Sulpice daily. opened his cars to the cheerful noise
of the city. He swake gasping and. Not long ago Lady Oxford broke staring in the dark, rolling face-a lance against the petrol-stations, downward on the floor, catching his with their nightmare-ish paint and breath in agonised sobs; while
through the window from the screaming catch-lines, and the re- stroets came a clamour of hoarso sult, has been a considerable im- cries: cries of pursuit and the noise provement to the treatment of these of running men: shouting and places. In some areas, prizes for alatter, wherein here and there a
voice was clear among the rest artistic design have actually been "A l'assassin! Arrétex!"
won by, the owners of roadside pumps.
He dragged himself to his feet in the dark, gasping still. What was{ this-all, thin 7 Again a dream?
Mr. G. K. Chesterton, himself a
His lege trambled under him, and countryman with a cottage near The sweated wilk, fear, He made for Beaconsfield (when he is not taking the window, panting and feeble; and his ease in one of those Fleet Street then, as he supported himself by the
sill, he realised wonderingly that be inns he loves so well) made a was fully dressed that he wore caustic attack on ugly posters at even his hat. The rumming crowd meeting organised by Lady Dash- straggled through the outer street wood, wife of England's premier and away, the shouts growing Baroast, at West Wycombe Park. fainter. What had wakened him? Mr Chesterton said that the". Why had he dressed? He remem, right answer to people who put up bered his matches, and turned to hideous advertisements calling upon grope for them; but something was people to buy their curious foods already in his handsomething wet, was to put placards on the opposlts sticky. He dropped it on the table, wide of the street, saying--Blank's and even as he struck the light, be Cakes are Filthy, or Blank's Wine fore he saw it, he knew, The match is Fink."
sputtered and flared, and there on "It is becoming a serious ques the table lay the crooked dagger, tion Mr Cheaterton declared, smeared and dripping and horrible."Whether poater advertising is not | Blood was on his hands the only filthy and degrading, but also Bouther England match stuck in his fingera, Caught anbani
at the beart by the first grip of an lawful surmise, he looked up and SAW
in the mirror before him, in the last flare of the match; the face of the Thing In the Boom,
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