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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1934,

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From

About

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1934.

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$7,000

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CHITRAL

**BURDWAN

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CARTHAGE **SOMALI

NALDERA

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10,000

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Sante Fe. Argentina

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End Of The Argentinian Revolt.

With arms raised high above their heads, and with their faces 10 a wall, this group of rebels were rendered ineligible for further ighting in a rearguard move- ment by Federal troops who surprised them, A number of persons were killed in the Santa Fe rioting, but the loyal troons quickly put the revolters under subjection and the uprising had sabaided after a few hours of sniping and guerilla fighting in the streets.

The Woman's Ghost Story

[Continued from Page 10.)

the wall and approaching the centre

of the floor.

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"My heart did leap within me and this time the tears did come,

him.

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Wife Turns Tables On Husband.

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"A horrible laughter came gurgl-for I could not restrain them. 1 ing up in my throat as I heard him. laughed, too, for the way he called but the sense of pity was stronger me madam' sounded so odd, here

The bridge worm has turned! than the laughter, and I found my in this empty room at midnight in self actually leaving the support of London street, but my laughter man sued her husband, Conrad, Last spring Mrs. Rubie Bring stopped dead and merged in a flood for divorce, alleging that he of weeping when I saw how my

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ders. Afterwards she took les straightening up against the win. He had left his place by the win-one and so improved her game daw, you have done a kind act, dow and was kneeling on the floor that her husband asked her to re- That's the first attempt at sym-at my feet, his hands stretched out Bringman then filed a suit for turn, and she agreed. Mr. pathy that has been shown me towards me, and the first signs of since I died, and I feel better al- kind of glory about his head. divorce charging that his wife ""Put your arms round me and bridge errors with slaps and

punctuated her criticisms of hu a misanthrope. Everything went kias me, for the love of God!" he blows. wrong with me, and I came to hate cried. 'Kiss me, oh, kiss me, and my fellow men so much that I shall be freed! You have done so Reuter. Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con-couldn't bear to see them even. Of much already-now do this!" stantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the course, like begets like, and this Khedivial Mail Steamship Co.

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ready, in life, you know, I was

hate was returned.

came

A judge gave him a decree.—--

"I stuck there, hesitating, shak-then I was alone. ing, my determination on the "Finally I suffered from hor-verge of action, yet not quite able on the gas and struck a match to "The room was empty. 1 turned rible delusions, and my room be-to compass it. But the terror had

All fear had left me, and prove it. haupted with demons that almost gone.

***Forget that I'm a man

something was singing round me in, laughed and grimaced, and one!

and the air and in my heart Mke the joy night I ran into a whole cluster of you're a woman,' he continued in of a spring morning in youth. Not them near the bed-and the fright the most beseeching

voice I ever all the devils or shadows or haunt- heard. Forget that I'm a ghost,ings in the world could then have slopped my heart and killed me.) It's hate and remorse, as much as and come out boldly and press me caused me a single tremor. terror, that cloga nie so thickly and to you with a grost kiss, and let keeps me here. If only

someone

could feel pity, and sympathy, and perhaps a little love for me, I could get away and be happy.

your

Can

then

"I unlocked the door and went all love flow into me. Forget over the dark house, even into kit- yourself just for one minute and de chen and cellar and up among the brave thing. Oh, love me, love ghostly attics. But the house was me, LOVE ME! and I shall be free!" empty. Something had left it. I "When you came this afternoon they somehow released in the cen- thinking, wondering you

"The words, or the deep force lingered a short hour, analysing, to see over the house I watched you. tre of my being, stirred and a little hope came to me for the foundly, and an emotion infinitely won't detail, for I promised only me pro-guess what and how, perhaps, but EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, first time. I saw you had courage, greater than fear surged up over essentials, remember and

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perhaps tap

that love you have wards him where he knelt, and no longer haunted: thus borrow, the wings for

"But my uncle, Sir Henry, the my were in my heart at that moment, owner of the house, required an escape!'

genuine pity, I swear, and genuine account of my adventure, and of "New I must confess my heart love. I forgot myself and my little course I was in duty bound to give began to ache a little, as fear left tremblings in a great desire to help him some idnd of a story. Before Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan me and the man's words sank their another soul. and Hong Kong to Australia.

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"I love you! poor, aching, un-his hand to atop me. - 19 days. Frequent connections from Australia with the following -----

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"The man

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17,000

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7,000 23rd Mar,

7,000

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5th

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thing, that I felt myself in a kind ter, and turned his face up to me story acted on their imaginations, of wild dream that seemed likely to The light from the street below and I wished to make a better test stop at any moment and leave me fell on it, but there was. another So I invented for their benefit an- somewhere in bed after a night-light, too, shining all round it that other story, with the idea that it seemed to come from the eyes and you did see anything I could be "Moreover, his words possessed skin. He rose to his feet and met sure it was not due merely to an me to such an extent that I found me, and in that second I folded him excited imagination."

mare,

it impossible to reflect upon any-to my breast and kissed him full thing else at all, or to consider on the lips again and again."

"Then what you told me about adequately any ways and means of

ļa woman having been murdered, All our pipes had gone out, and and all that, was not the true story action or escape.

not even a skirt rustled in that of the haunting?' "I moved a little nearer to himdark studio as the story-teller paus-

"It was not. The true story in

in the gloom, horribly frightened, ed a moment to steady her voice, that a cousin of mine went mad in

explains. then,"

of course, but with the beginnings and put a hand softly up to her the house, and killed himself in a of a strange determination in my eyer before going on again. fit of morbid terror following upon heart.h

"Now, what can I say, and how years of miserable hypochondriasis. **"You'women,' he continued, his can describe to you, all you It is his figure that investigators prosch, you wonderful women, to pipea in your mouths, the amazing voice plainly thrilling at my ap sceptical men sitting there with see."

**That whom life often brings no oppor, sensation 1 experienced of holding garped tunity of spending your great love, an intangible, Impalpable thing so!"Explains what? oh, if you only could know how closely to my heart that it touched "I thought of that poor struggi- many of us simply yearn for it my body with equal pressure all the ing soul, longing all these years It would save our souls, if you but way down, and then melted away for escape, and determined to keep knew. Few might find the chance somewhere into my very being? my story for the present to myself. that you now have, but if you only For it was Uke nelzing a rush of All dates are approximate and subject to alteration voithout notice. spend your love freely, without cool wind and feeling, a touch of not see the ghost of the murdered Explains, I mean, why, I did All Cabins are fitted with Eisetrio Fans or Funka Louvre System.

definite object, Just letting it flow burning fire the moment it had woman, I concluded, Steamers on London and Australian Lines are atted with Laundries openly for all who need, you would struck Its swift blow and passed on. "Precisely," said Sir Henry, and Parcels measuring not more than 8 cu. ft. will be received at the Corn reach hundreds and thousands of A series of shocks ran all over and why, if you had seen anything, it pany's Office up to Noon on the day previous to sailing.

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marination: If you can to love me a l

heart gave another

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