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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1934.

P.& 0.-British India DEATH IN SPRING Diplomar's Fiancee

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that. But I haven't heard the cuckoo yet, have you? It seems late this year."

He broke off, a little exhausted

He went on talking again, talk- by talking, and leaned back his head against the wall of the huting of the past, his youth, his and let his gaze,rest again on the shooting days a time when he bright green wood and the flakes had lived foyously and he wanted of trembling sunlight. It was to go on living; he knew that he warm and sheltered in the hut, and was dying, and he hated the thought the breeze came in at the doorway of death. He made long pauses full of the sweetness of the wood and rested and breathed carefully as he spoke, as though trying to breaking into life again.

There was a silence. I looked sustain the life in him a little over towards the fox-holes; the longer,

mound was still deserted. I heard A young fox came

over the

a sigh. And suddenly, out of his mound and trottled away in the meditation, the old than was eay-shadow and sunlight under the trees; he saw it and pointed it out Ing:

with his thin white forefinger, and we watched it vanish by the pool.

"I should like as many more

"When I look at this wood.L.have immortal longings in me."

A moment later he went Jn,

(muttering to himssif, as though he years to live as foxes Fve helped to

had forgotten we were there:

"The stroke of death is a

lover's pinch which hurts and

desired."

kill" he said. "You're young. I

a envy you."

is

He talked a little longer; he seemed to grow tired, and present- He rose also. ly we rose to go. He stood amazingly straight and tall, only bonding his head a little, like a great hollyhock. He shook hands, holding our hands in his Abone-cold fingers for a long time.

He broke off and lifted his hard from the stock of his gun and said with a tremor of excitement in his voice:

"I used to know it all. A long time ago-sixty years Ego. young girl I knew was Cleopatra. I didn't act, but I knew the part. I used to shut myself up and learn it."

"It has been a great pleasure,” he said.

"It has been charming," I said. "I hope you will get a shot."

"Thank you. I shall probably miss in any case.""

We said good-bye. "Good-bye." He gave us a slight

his gun. Ha!

Fraulein Gertraud Luther, daugh- ter of Dr. Hans Luther, German Ambassador to the United States, who is engaged to marry Herr Ger rit von Haeften, attache of the Ger- man Embasry at Washington, She ia 19 and a graduate of the Victoria School in Essen.

THRILLING CHASE AFTER TRAIN.

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A young fox suddenly trotted 6,000 23rd June Batnbay. Marseilles, Havre, London over the mound, snoffing among

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the elder bushes, and I watched Hull Bombay, Marsellics & Londos him until he disappeared by the Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London pool. The old man went on talk bow, leaning on

Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp &ing again, telling us of the girl smiled at Irene with his wonder- who had taken the part of Cleo-ful entrancingly bright eyes, full of gallanry and life. Finally, just Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marselles, Havre, London patra.

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He talked of her gently and me-as we were going, he said:

"I hope you don't mind if I say Hull.

ditatively, half to himself, some- Marseilles & London.

something to you-a little advice. times quite absently, and then a Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, little shyly when he recalled sud- If you wish to do anything, do it. Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp &denly that we were there. She Do what you feel you must do.

The night express swept had been a dark, brilliant, capri-Don't listen to other people. You're cious creature, with all the eager, young. Let them go to the devil through Ockelbo, Soederhamn. passionate, irresponsible gaiety of It's your life, not theirs. If I had It was noticed that the under- a young girl just opening her eyes listened to other people I shouldn't part of a goods truck was on fire. be up here this afternoon. I

Two young men set off on a to life. He talked of her for 鑫

motor-cycle to chase the train long time, breaking off, forgetting, should be in bed. Good-bye."

He took off his hat; his thin, and warn the driver. meditating-his voice by turns

After some miles they caught | dreamy, and tremulous with the silver-yellow hair shone beauti- effort of remembrance; sometimes fully; he came to the doorway of it up and, going ahead, waved a the hut to watch us depart. We dash lamp until the driver saw he repeated 2 line or two of a speech, and sometimes he moved walked down the riding, and once he signal and stopped the train. his hands and tried to describe to we turned and saw him still stand-The fire was soon extinguished.

For their prompt action in us how beautifully she had acted. ing there, still hatless, but when

There were things he rememwe turned a second time he ad averting a possible disaster the two young men have been re- bered perfectly, such as a yellow vanished into the hut-again.

We said a few words about him warded by the rallway author silk dress she had worn, a certain way in which she would stand and and I-thought again of his intense ties. Reuter. click her fingers when angry or blue eyes, his perfent courtesy, the perplexed; B winter afternoon story of the girl who had been when he had stood on his head In Cleopatra, the way he had learned ped. The shot went racing through the snow again and again, just in her lines by heart, and the way he the trees and rattied the air. A S'pore, Pang, Calcutta & Rangoon order to amuse her. He had for- still longed for summer to come. I blackbird screamed and we heard

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gotten how long the play had run. thought of him lying in bed and the rabbits scuttling. away to hid- but at the end of it they had run shooting sparrows through the ing, rustling the dry leaves. The nway to the Continent together. open window, and of how he could shot spent itself at last and the had wood was calm with a silence that There

had been days of sweet, not bear to lie there and

dragged himself up into the wood was like death. beetle happiness.

for another shot before he died. We listened for the sound of the He spoke of her always AL

We struck away from the riding second barrel, but it never came. Cleopatra, as though too shy to mention her name, and he went for and walked diagonally through the We walked on again and came

a narrow path. We of the wood, and crossing a field. a long time unfolding his tale, los- wood along

the thread and picking it up came upon the shell of a sucked of young wheat we heard the again uncertainly, until it was like blackbird's egg, and Irene picked it cuckoo calling for the first time some old picture, sewn in silk, or up and walked with it in her hand, that spring.

I wondered if the old man had] admiring its coloura,, another century.

There was suddenly the report heard it too, and how often he traced over the pattern of the gun-of a shot in the wood. We stop-Iwould hear it again. breech with his long, bony fore-) Anger. The girl was dead; he did

His voice trailed off at last; he

not want to talk of her again. We

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The old man sat sunk in medita- tion, his chin dropping towards the anemone he had threaded in his buttonhole. He suddenly looked oider than ever, an immemorial figure overburdened by the weight of a thousand years, the wrinkles of his face eternal. Suddenly he turned and looked at me wonder-

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