1934-04-27 — Page 11

FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1934.

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1934.

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12,000 30th June 0,100 7th July

RAJPUTANA +*SOUDAN

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Lewis wrapped the plant in his handkerchief and put it in his pocket. They entered the wood. The air was still more sultry here than outside, and the stillness even more oppressive. There were no birds and not a vestige of bird life.

This exploration is evidently a waste of time as far as birds are concerned. remarked Lewis. ' At that moment there was a rustle in the undergrowth, and five pigs crossed their path and disappear cd, grunting. Lewis started, and, for some reason he could not ac count for, shuddered; he looked at Stewart, who appeared unconcern- ed.

"They are not wild," said Ste- wart. They walked on in allence. The place and its heavy · atmo sphere had again affected their spirits. When they spoke it was almost in a whisper. Lewis wish ed they had not landed, but ho could give no reason to himself for his wish. After they had been walking for about twenty minutes they suddenly came on an open low white house. and à прасе They stopped and looked at each other.

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"Where is the chimney?" cried Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London,

Hemburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp &Lewis, who was the first to speak. Hull.

It was a one-storeyed building, with large windows (which had no glass in them) reaching to the ground, wider at the bottom than at the top. The house was over- Bombay, Marseilles & London.

grown with creepers; the roof was

in silence by turned to him, only increased came. He tried with all his might Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, flat. They entered

Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & the large open doorway and found tenfold. He felt an unaccountable to rise and acream, and he could Hull,

themselves in a low hall. There physical discomfort, and inexpli-not move. Then

faintness came upon him, and he Bombay, Marseilles & London.

Then he realised what it was. remembered no more till he woke Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London was no furniture and the floor was cable sensation of uneasiness. ',.

Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & mosay.

He felt there was someone in the and found the sun shining bright- Hull.

"It's rather like an Egyptian house besides themselves, someonely. Stewart was lying with eyes Bombay, Marseilles & London.

Lewis tried to wake him. He 21 July Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London tomb," said Stewart, and he shi- 6,700

Hamburg. Rotterdam, Antwerp & vered. The hall led into a farther or something that was always be-closed, moaning loudly in his sleep.

hind him, moving when he moved, room, which was open in the cen- and watching him. He walked in-opened his eyes and stared with a tre to the sky, like the impluvium to the impluvium, but heard not-fixed, meaningless stare. Lewis of a Roman house.

none of the thousand little sounds, and then a horrible thing happen. It also contained a square basin hing and saw nothing. There were tried to lift him from the platform, of water, which was filled by

such as the barking of a dog, ored. Stewart struggled violently water bubbling from a lion's

the hoot of a night-bird, which and made a snarling noise, which mouth carved in stone. Beyond

generally complete the silence of froze the blood in Lewis's veins

He ran out of the house with two the impluvium there

a summer night. Everything was smaller rooms, in one of which

He returned to cold beads of sweat on his fore. uncannily still

He would have given head. Ho ren through the wood there was a kind of raised stone the room. platform. The house was Com anything to be back on the yacht, to the shore, and there he found pletely deserted and empty. Lewis for besides the physical sensation the boat. He rowed back to the and Stewart said little; they ex of discomfort and of something yacht and fetched some quinine. amined the house in silent amaze watching him he also felt the un- Thèn, together with the, skipper, ment.

mistakable

of impending the steward, and some other to the "Look," said Lewis, pointing to danger that had been with him sailors, he returned one of the walls.

ominous house. They found It of Do trace ined the wall and noticed that

He lay down and at last fell in- empty. There was to a doze. Aa ho dozed he heard Stewart. They shouted in the a subdued noise, a kind of bus wood till they were hoarse, but no zing, such as is made by a spin- answer broke the heavy stillness.

Then sending for the rest of the ning wheel or a shuttle on a loom,

A regular "I think the house is modera, and more strongly, than ever he crew, Lewis organised

LIGHT AND FOOL-PROOF, remarked Lewis. "It was probably felt that he was being watched. search over the whole island. This

London. built by some eccentric at the be-Then all at once his body seemed lasted till sunset, and they return-

Society 'women are going to take

London. B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for ginning of the nineteenth century, to grow stiff with fright. He sawed in the evening without having

The long search which the War 1st and 2nd class passengers.

who did it up in Empire style."

"Do you know what time it 180me ane enter the room from the found any trace of Stewart or lessons in the art of living.· ́

any other human being. In the

Office has been making during impluvium.

A "School of Citizenship" for the past years for a type of light It was a dim, veiled figure, the night a high wind rose, which soon EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, said Stewart suddenly. "The suu

has set and it's growing dark." figure of a woman. He could not became a gale; they were obliged wealthy women of leisure is to be machine-gun to supersede the

"We must go at once," Baid

distinguish her features, but he to weigh anchor so as not to be opened in the grounds of Weston-war-time Lewis gun appears to be nearly ended, for it is believed Lewis: "we'll come back here to had the impression that she was dashed against the island, and for

they under birt, a well-known girla" school.

that a suitable gun has at last. morrow." They walked on in si strangely beautiful; she was bear-twenty-four hours

The "puplie" wilį live in during been found. ? 7.000 30th June Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney &lence. The wood was dim in the ing a cup in her hands, and she went a terrific tossing. Then the

The gun which now appears twilight, a fitful breeze made the walked towards Stewart and bent storm subsided as quickly, as it term and will have course in trees rustle now and again, but over him, offering him the cup. had come. the air was just as aultry så ever.

house most likely to be adopted is one now, been comparatively little civic of a pattern which has, up to pre-known. It is designated as the "Z-B", and is of Czecho-Slovakian Jorigin.

Till recently, it was generally

Danish gun, with which several would either be the Madsen foreign armies are equipped, or else the Vickers-Berthier, the gun with which the Army Com- mand in India is now equipping cavalry.

*SIRDHANA

TALMA

TILAWA

SANTHIA

"Calls Rangoon

NELLORE TANDA NANKIN NELLORE

• TANDA NANKIN

- 1954.

8,000 20th Apr. 2.80 p.m. 10,000 13th May

10,000 27th May 8,000 10th June

7,000 7,000

1934.

4th May. 2nd June

3rd Aug. 7,000

7,000 1st Sept. 7,000 20th Sept.

Singapore, Port Swettenham, Penang,

Rangoon and Calcutta. S'pore, Pang, Rangoon & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

Melbourne.

there were traces on it of a fad ed painted decoration.

"It's like the wall paintings Pompell, he said.

д

LESSONS IN ART OF LIVING.

'School Of Citizenship'

In England.

and business.

"| Czecho-Slovakian Model

Tested.

Something in Lewis prompted They made for the island once everything from bables and The shapes of the trees seemed him to cry out with all his might, more and reached the spot where keeping to social hygiene, Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan fantastic and almost threatening "Don't drink! Don't drink!" He they had anchored three days be- government

in the dimness, and the rustle of heard the words echoing in the air, fore. There was no trace of the cedure. and Hong Kong to Australia.

the leaves was like

shume just as he had heard the voice in laland. It had disappeared. to Sydney 19 days. Bong Kong

When they reached Teneriffe the Frequent connections from Australia with the following The Union 8.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New mean. Once or twice they seemed the boat; he felt that it was im-

to hear the grunting of pigs in perative to call out, and yet he next day they found that every settled but it is expected that the thought that the gun selected Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

the undergrowth, and to catch could not: he was paralysed; the body was talking of the great tidal

The P. & 0. Royal Mail Steamers to London and

The P. & O. Branch Bervice of steamers to London via Suez,

The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and sight of bristly backs.

London via Panama Canal.

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

MANTUA

TILAWA

TANDA

BHUTAN

1984.

11,000 3rd May 10,000

4th May 7,000

6th May 0100 18th May RAWALPINDI 17,000 17th May

SANTHIA

DEHAR

KAIBAR-I-HIND

SHILALA NANKIN

SOUDAN

RAJPUTANA

BIRDHANA

TAKADA RANCHI NELLORE TILAWA CARTHAGE *BURDWAN TANDA'

8,000

8th May 8.100 80th MAY 12,000 81st

3,000 1st Jans 7,000 3rd June 6,700, 12th and 8,000 16th June

17,000 140 June

7,000 29th June 2000 28th June 17,000

7,000 8th July 10,000 18th July 6,000, 11th July 15,000 12th July 7,000 8th Aug.

Cargo only.

The actual details are not quite

words would not come. He formed wave which had caused such dame full course will last a year-Reu- "We don't seem to be getting them with his lips, but no sound age and destruction in the islands, ter. any nearer the end," said Stewart after

a time. "I think we've taken the

They wrong path." stopped. "I remember that tree," said Stewart, pointing to a twist- led oak; "we must go straight on They Shanghai, Mofi, Kobe & Yokohama. from there to the left." Amoy. S'hal, Moji, Kobe & Osaka.

walked on, and in ten minutes'

S'hal Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama me found themselves once more S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.

at the back of the house. It was now quite dark.

Shei

Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, M., Kobe & Osaka.

Kobe 4 Yokohama. S'hel, Moll, Kobe & Yokohama. Amey, Shal, Moll, Kobe & Oraka. S'hai Moji, Kobe, Oaks & Tokohama Shanghai, Kobe & Tokoharas Shanghai, Kobe & & Yokohama.

Moll Amoy, Stat,

& Osaka. Kobe Shal Amoy Moji, Kobe & Osaka. Shanghal Kobe &

Yokohama S'hal Moji, Kobe, Osaka, & Yokohama Amoy, Shal, Moil, Kobe & Osaka. Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama. B'hai, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama

All dates are approximate, and subject to alteration without notios, All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fanz or Punka Louvre System. Steamers on London and Australian Länse are filled with Laundries. "Parcels measuring "not more than s ́en. Ik will be reoslynd at the Coss pany's Office up to Noon on the day previous for salling,..

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Agizita.

"We shall never and the way now," said Lewis, "We had bet

They ter sleep in the house."

walked the gh the house into one of the farthest rooms and settled themselves on the mossy platform. The night waK warm and starry, the house desthly still except for the splashing of the water in the basin,

"We shan't get any food," Lewis said:

"Tm not hungry." said Stewart, and Lewis knew that he could not have eaten anything to save his life. He felt utterly exhausted) and yet not at all sleepy, Stewart, on the other hand, was overcoms with drowsiness. He lay down on the mossy platform and fell asleop almost instantly, - Lewis Ilt k pipe; the vague forebodings fi 'had felt in the morning had"; "ra-

U. S. Warship Destroyed in Pirates' Den

CAPAN

CHINA"

ZZA

The United Blates, rungost, Fulton, which was destroyed by fire at Bins Bay, on March 15. High tribute was paid by the discurs of the Fulton for the manner in which the Commander of H.-6. Winbart brought the destroyer, Alongside and anacted the rescue of the shores" and crew. (Inset): The scene of the disaster.

*

Now, however, tests over long period of time are claimed to have shown the superiority of the "Z-B" as regards both eff. ciency and fool-proof design, Router.

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984-Foot Apparatus On Eiffel Tower.

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It will be 984 feet high-just one foot shorter than the Eiffel Tower. The degree readings will cover 125 foot,

It will not be capable of register- ing temperatures itself but will au- tomatically take the readings of an ordinary small thermometer which will act as a "brain." Pa

At night the giant thermometer will be lit up for short periods

Ivisible for miles --Beuter,

two or three minutes. The VERY

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