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THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1934.

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THE CROSS

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me

In a low voice. ""I won't go into all the details! he said to of what happened next, but not "This is good-bye,"

***No! I cried. 'No! And I even for the price of unconditional release would I go through that in-pushed him from me as though an terview again, and see my poor embrace from me would set the seal mother in terror of uttering a word on his condemnation. 'You're not that might force me to turn traitor guilty, you're going to be released

that's all it is."

"You're wrong,' he said very

or compass my death."

"From that day, onward, Andrei|

By the merest chance Jack, a Sergelevitch slept Atfully, his quietly, and walked out of the door. "I stood there stricken into, im- three-year-old Dalmatian dog, gaiety was brittle and unreal I who was once feted at a big New think he lived in dread of being mobility; from the shadows at the room I heard York Hotel for one of his many confronted again with his mother far end of the deeds of bravery, was saved from or sister in Gornef's presence, nor hysterical' weeping..

"Suddenly, hurried steps sounded, death in the lethal gas chamber could be hide the horror with

exécu- outside, and a soldier rushed in. and a homeless mongrel's grave which Marga, the woman

tioner, Inspired kim.

He ran up to me, and thought my in a Brooklyn stray dog ceme-

too. But I was about hour had came "I haven't yet told you tery.

Marga, although I have recurring mistaken.

"'Ibanof wants the cross that hel Jack, who is attached to one of nightmares in which she haunts me. the New York fire stations, was Marga was a Lettish peasant who gave you this morning," he cried. rounded up with other stray dogs had been a servant-girl before the "I fumbled in my pocket, and my on it. So great had in Central Park, the Hyde Park Revolution; then, having been hand closed of New York, and would have singled out by some Soviet, she was been his joy when the enquiry had gone straight to his death, had promoted to the post of executioner come to an end that morning that not an attendant at the lethal in the pay of the Tcheka. In her he had forgotten to ask me for it. chamber building noticed a small course jersey and leather breeclies, I was about to give it to the soldier badge on his collar. It bore the she was a familiar sight to the when an agonising thought pierced letters "U.F.A." the initials of prisoners, for there seemed to be my brain.

"Andrei wanted the cross to kill the Uniformed Firemen's Asso

a peculiar fascination to 'her in ciation, to which Jack was ad-passing her spare hours amongst himself. But supposing that he mitted at an Association ball. in her future victims. She would lean were wrong in believing that he recognition of his ability as A

heavily against the wall and smoke was about to be executed, wouldn't fire-fighter.

silently. Her daily appearances I, by sending him the cross, com The attendant made inquiries were an added horror to the terrors pass his certain death? He was master of his destiny, but was I of the various New York fire of our existence. stations and finally succeeded in "Andrel had forced himself not its master? finding the dog's station. Alto take any notice of her; but now,

reman rushed down to the build-when he saw her stringy hair cut clutching him fronztedly. I shout- ing in which Jack was being held short like a man's, her blubberjed:

and claimed him,

"I seized hold of the soldier, and

"By your hope of heaven, by all

蕉

that you hold sacred, tell me if]

lips, her low forehead and crooked Jack's accomplishments in-shoulders, he shuddered with

clude the ability to climb a lnd-sick repulsion. Once he involun-Ibanef is going to be executed." der, drag a fire hose, carry notes, tarily confided to me and bring lunch for the firemen obsessed him.

that she

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"He stared at me stupidly, and replied' with obvious sincerity:

""May I be struck dead if I

&

ing a big fire which keeps them was until now,' he said. "But now know. We're not told what's going from their meals. By just lis-I know that the face of Fear is the to happen to a prisoner. I was in Lening to the bells of other fire face of Marga, and when I think the passage when he asked me to may kill me with her come and speak to you. I must be engines speeding to the fire after that she an alarm has been put in. Jack damp, filthy

paws one night, my off sharp, too, or there'll be trouble. ""Walt→→ wait A minute, I can tell whether, when it ulti-flesh creeps, my reason totters. If engine is going on a long trip or before I die.' mately sets out, his firestation's she does execute me. I shall go mad stammered.

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a short one, and thereby knows "Andrei, Andrei'.. whether he should jump on the

it.

"Everything was whirling round my head: Andrei, Marga, the cross.

"I could find no words to say to What should I do? Leave him to engine and ride with it or whehim, I was weighted down by Weber mercies? Force him to curse ther he should merely run behind knowledge that his strength was me with his last breath as madness sapped. The last gust of fresh air descended on him when she con- fronted him? Or should I send At the fires Jack has entered had gone from our prison....

him the means of death while there! burning buildings with the best. "Days dragged by. Ibanef re- of the firemen.

ceived dozens of calls to Gornefs still remained a chance that he was When the alarm is sent in, and presence. He would return with mistaken and that it was freedom

which awaited Him! the engine at his station is ready clenched teeth and

to dash out into the street. Jack cheeks, and mutter to me:

colourless

"The soldier was growing im

runs outside and, by barking "The same questions, again and patient.

"Well, what about that crosa? 1 must be off, I tell you."

"Somehow or other, I managed, to gasp:

furiously, warns pedestrians to again and again..... halt and wait until the engine is "But after the last of these out before passing across the enquiries, Peniak, who

was with doors of the station. Once ahim, said to him in the corridor:

""Tell Ibanef that I've lost it, child ignored the warning, and Your Excellency's sister is im- and ask him, above all else, to for- walked right into the path of the prisoned here. She asked me to give me.'" huge red engine. Jack leaped at give your Excellency this cross, The narrator the child and pushed it to safety and she asks your Excellency to with a convulsive shudder, Again just in time.--Reuter.

SEEKING DIVORCE

AT 93.

ended his story

take care of the tiny knob in the

conscious of the or- we became centre of it.'

chestra's blare. Through the glass "That night, Ibanef whispered to panel we caught glimpses of a dark- me exultantly:

haired woman dancing, her half- "'Marga won't get me now naked body swaying this way and

In this There's poison concealed

that, her movements filled with eroas, and if the

worst comes to melancholy and a proud resigna- the worst, I'm not afraid."'

tion. The young man was talking!

Man Wants To MarryHe thought for a minute, and to himself:

23-Year-Old Girl.

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"I was released a few weeks inter **You'll look after it for me with no questions asked, as reason- when Gornef sends for me, won't leasly as I had been arrested. I did everything I could to find out Sixty years after the death of his you? It'll be safer.'

"Shortly after he fell asleep, and what had happened to Andrei, but Arst wife, Ivan Galsik, then aged

by his even breathing I knew that I could discover nothing. To this his dreams were less troubled. day, I don't know whether I saved "A new day dawned, that awful him from death or increased its my whole life was to horror a thousandfold. I escaped day when end. Andrei awoke before I did, across the frontier, but even in this Now Ivan is applying for and when I stirred he told me that free air the erpes that I wear divorce on the ground that Barbora he had again been sent for, and round my neck seems to choke The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers. for Southampton and has nagged him for the whole 12 confided the precious cross to my me...."

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the dance more abandoned, and as he gets his divorce he will marry "My sister's been released, he there arose a chorus of sodden their 23-year-old servant giri-said. Gornef must have realised voices. The young man st Reuter.

that he would get nothing out of table might have been drunk or He stopped questioning me in possessed; he sat with his head the middle of the proceedings buried in his 'arms, and in a wail- the's obviously sick of the whole ing' cadence, repeated two names:

"Andrel Marga........”

me.

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"We talked till long paat mid-day. No-one interrupted us but Marga, who leant as usual against the wall and smoked aflently. As she was going, Andrei stared defiantly at her, and it was at that moment that

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the guard came in and shouted: Staggering Story From Much Precede Reading Railwayman's Record Of

"Come on. Ihanaf, you're want- The new seaside resort in Osloed.' [Fjord, Inglerstrand, has just bean The room was suddenly stock opened with great 'ceremony; atil. Andrei had half-risen, In

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Ninety-six years of age, with a record of 79 years in the service

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Hon of Cruelty to Animals, and the cry-"Hail Hitler be archanged-Beuter. Gorner means to be revenged. Beuter,

There is to be a ing ground, and a modicinal

Ibeen discovered.—Reuter.

He points out that, far from being too old, he has the enviable. record of being on the job nearly every day at the railway works.

Mr. Moran has a nob, who hai boan, with the railway, more than fifty years-Beuter,

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