1934-06-19 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1934.

P:$ 0.-British India The Shuttlecock Of The Ritz-Ritz

Apcar and Eastern & Australian Lines

TAKING

(Continued from Page 10)

"What is the set lunch to-day?" asked Kinroyd, ́-

were

strolled round to the front of the "For three months we lay in machine. A flexible metal ladder chains in cellar, and then we were dangled from the open door of the tried by picked delegates and con- pilot's cockpit. Kinroyd sprang demned, Instead of killing us at up it, pushed back a sliding panel once, however, they made Wander- "Carte?" La creme de Pettrom, and entered the long saloon. Mr. ing. Jews of us. We were allowed Delices de Sole Veronique, Carre

Levin was in the act of sinking to keep the money we had stolen d'Agneau Chatelaine," began the into a seat beside one of the great and to ga free. Only, we man, with an astonished look.

with a told, that we` windows. He looked up

must go alone" al- "So," Klaroyd cut him short start when Kinroyd touched his ways, that we must live in hotels "But you should try to disguise! arm.

always, and that we must never your Italian accent better than

"We start half an hour late to stay in one place longer than that" and he turned on his heel

day."

twenty-four hours. I wept tears and went out into the foyer. Tak-

The Innocent remark clearly had of joy when I was released. I re- ing out his card-case. he selected

to change my name, ba- a card which bore simply the in-some frightful significance for Mr solved

Levin. He jumped

at an come • naturalised Englishman, scription "Mr. J. T. Kinroyd." and, electric shock and turned blue obliterate the past. Life seemed so calling a page, instructed him to about the lips.

unspeakably precious and my take it up to

returned. Mr. voice was

"It goes at eleven, then?" His punishment so easy and magnani- GULF,minute the bay

almost inaudible mous..... Levin could see no one.

whisper of fear. "He did not even - ask who

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"I was soon disillusioned, how- ever, and I suffered all the tor- "It is too late," muttered Mr.ments of the damned. To know "Non, monsieur,"

Levin. He stood up with a jerky loneliness, terror and the appre- Kinroyd replaced his case, en-movement. "I must go by another hension of death! Never to have tered the lift, and got out at the airplane. Where can I find an-a companion, a friend, or a home!!

floor, Approaching Mr. other airplane?"

To have to go on like that, to go Levin's door, he knocked. No voice' "At Le Bourget Aerodrome. It on, ill or well, without pause from within bade him enter, but is a half-hour's run by car, and respite, and to see the implacable after some delay the door was it will take you ten minutes to get face of a sworn and deadly enemy opened by Mr. Levin himself." The

a car,"

[everywhere one turns every day of man had the appearance of

Mr. Levin fell back. He Jay one's life! Can you imagine for stricken by a mortal malady, but

limp. mouth open, eyes staring an instant what that means? Have he was composed.

urma hanging over the sides of his you ever fled in nightmare through "Yes?" he asked, evidently mis-chair. Kinroyd saw that some una dark forest, full of hidden My life has been like 6,000 93rd June Bombay, Marsellles, Havre, London taking Kinroyd for someone con-known terror was torturing him to snakes?

the limits of human endurance. He that "I should like the pleasure of

|said, bending over him:

"Five years ago my companion five minutes' conversation with

"But I have a plane here." ・・ in crime was executed. He con- you," said Kinroyd,

"Get me away by half-past ten,"tracted a fever in Seville, but he "What do you wish to speak to exclaimed Mr. Levin, starting up, dragged himself from his bed at me about?" inquired Mr. Levin "and I will give you a thousand the end of the day. He had not sharply,

|reached the outskirts of the town "Italians." said Kinroyd.

"Come, then." Kinroyd led the before he collapsed. They had Mr. Levin's face became distort-way out through the cockpit panol: followed him like wolves, and on Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marzellles & London, ed by a violent spasm of rageMy machine is in that hangar. the stroke of the 24th hour they Bombay, Marsellies, Havre, London, "You

Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Italian, and slammed the

devil!" he ejaculated in But," he added, "I will take you stabbed him in the breast and in Kull.

Kinroyd, who was not astonished only on one condition."

"I have English banknotes here "I held on for two more years, at this reception, turned away, and for a thousand."

and then I conceived the Idea of Banbmburz, Hotterdam, Antwerp & him. They exchanged a prolonged Marseilles, Havre, London, found a walter standing beside

Kinroyd shook his head.. travelling only between two cities. "No. I want to know, firat, why That promised more rest; but after stare, cool on Kinroyd's part, sinis-you By to Paris from the Italians I had tried it a month they Inter- in London, only to fly back again vened. I might live in two effies, "A fourth Italian, I perceive," to London from the Italians in they said, only if at other. So I said Kinroyd pleasantly.

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were lifted from my existence. I wished to ascertain whether the "Oh!" cried the other, turning a suffered still, but my life was en- peculiar conditions he divined inflaming glance on him. "I re-durable, Twenty-two hours the Paris hotel were duplicated in cognise you! It was you who of every 24 I was at rest, and free. London.

A brief Interview with the hotel came to my door. Who are you? Now-it is the end. I have been in one place 24 hours and 25 min- What do you want?" [manager secured for him the table

"I have told you,” replied Kinutes. They will kill me, reserved in the restaurant for Mr. royd, with a slight shrug: "Time shall be glad to die. For now that every other evening. Ha is getting short, Mr. Levin; you It has come, I realise that death is waiter at dinner that night had a have only two minutes now. I am nothing, and the fear of suave, impenetrable face, and perfect French accent. Kinroyd regard me merely as an inquisitive.

no one you need fear. You may is the shadow of my death."

Klaroyd looked in the direction of his pointing. finger. The lift at-¡ "I have

not time to tell you!"tendant had come round the corner. cried Mr. Levin. "I will tell you of his lift and was regarding him on the way across. We have only with a peculiar little smile. Be- a minute..."

the hind him, holding a broom "You might forget as soon as we porter whom Kinroyd had Arst started. Tell me now.. A minute suspected stood motionless, sweep- one way or the other won't ing invisible dust backwards and matter."

forwards along the smooth floor of

a

took one glance at him and decided that this was the strongest charac. ter he had as yet bad to deal with He said, as bearded Colchesters were placed before him,

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Delivered Bah! You are playing with me, minute stroken now boomed out, "You made a mistake, my friend.

| presaging the single zero clap. An You should have replied. By re-

[you dog!"

He sprang at Kleroyd's threst, inferne of win and sound engulfed maining silent, you gave yourself

but the alim young scientist easly the two men by the fringe of little away."

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"You are wasting time," said he lift ghaft. waiter, bending an

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"A student of psychology," said Kinroyd.

"Mind your own business," sald the waiter, softly, "or you will re- gret it." And with another touch to the table appointments and a alavish obeisance, he glided away, Kinroyd grinned. The enigma was no longer completely enigma, and yet the core

of it eluded him.· ·→

"BOOM!"

The

•

zero

nignal

Mr. Levin gazed at the big white struck. The whistling propellers

clock face up on the gong tower. dashed into invisibility. Rocking, He dropped his hands in a gesture the two-hundred foot machin

| thundered down the run, quicker. of ineffable despair,

to

"It has come," he muttered, as if quicker still, and at the edge, with himself. "It is the end. I the noise of a tornado hurtling, it shot off into space and rushed must die."

Turning to Kinroyd, he said in a steeply upward. The stage atten- calm voice:

dants and mechanics had gone to "I do not know who you are, or their shelters five minutes before. why you pursue me, but I will (the stage was a dangerous place After dinner he called at Sir satisfy your curiosity. It shall be to be on when the expresses were act on earth. Fifioon landing or taking off), and there Theodore's flat. That night he my last. alept peacefully in the bed at his years ago I was secretary of the remained only the four men who Associated Waiters and Hotel Ser- were watching one another. The

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Student's Free Trip Across France

SMALLEST POST OFFICE London apartment. Early the next vants of Italy. This was in the lift attendant drew closer inch by morning hê was in Paris again, and

Sydney. at ten o'clock he was talking to the unquiet days before Mussolini, inch, the porter swept his dust accumulating an diligently in his tracks, and out pilot of the

Ritz-Ritz 10.30 The society was

finance of the second lift there peered the Sydney claims that it possesses extraordinary fund to machine: The pilot was complain-| ing that he had had only twelve general atrike. At the last mo-pale, perspiring face of a man In the smallest post office in the world, It is in the south-eastern pylon of minutos notice of a change in the ment we withdrew the money from congruously in evening dress.

be All at once Mr. Levin' throw up the Harbour Bridge----Beuter, schedule for that day. The 9.30 the bank, for fear. It would

his hand. seized by the authorities, We Shai, Moji. Kobe &

machine had gone off on time; but The President and I were Yokohama

A journey across France and S'hai, Mofi, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama beginning with the 10.30, the fascinated by the mighty pile of Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama,

The two approaching mon stoping and continue its terrife half Switzerland underneath azz mainder of the day machines were Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

to start half an hour late, notes. We fed secretly, and got ped without ceasing to smile; the plunge, Far below there was a express train is the exploit of a

"Aren't you going to post up the way to England with the entire waiter came right out of the lift.

tresours. Without funds the "I shall escape, you, you fool crush of traffic in the broad young man found at a suburban In the midst of that station here lying, half frozen. A Hungarian student, he want- members were scattered. But a a snarling mouth. "You have im crush the erring secretary of the on the track.

"Stop!" he shouted,

change in the Customs office?" in-society was easily scrushed; its said Mr. Levin out of the corner of avenue.

Zurich.

"No, I shan't bother. The vendetta: was sworn, against", us, posed-your will. on me for fifteen Associated Walters, and Hotel Sorted a cheap trip from Paris to

quired" "Klaroyd

steward can tell the passengers su they arrive.

The lifts emitted to the giant air - plane, by way of two short cove gangways, but the unbr gitas panels in the fuselage wal

_clair View.

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terfor, where passenger [seen taking theậy bikra

y Kinroydech

and

down.

hin a year every Italian years. Now I will impose mina vants of Italy struck-and vanish-

Budapest. So he crawled under- [ed.

"'"'neath & rallway carriage-ind America, in England, on you. I die In my own way. My

"HELLO," murmured the chief, hung on. on the Continent was plodged curie, on youth afraid

sshes of Kinroyd made a sudden grab at when Kinroyd came into his office For 12 hours he clung there. him. Mr. Levin eluded 15) ran that afternoon. Has the altered Then, overcome with cold, he fell down the narrow passage-way, be schedule solved the mystery of from his precarious perch while bounded friend. Levin already?” Bộ thà train was travelling at full

rang to "It has," soberly replied the speed, Lasers prie

hangara,

1o (pody student of hamsa motives. “And Now he is in hospital, recover-

con. It has killed him.”-

Reuter