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To-day's Short Story,
THE CHINA-MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1934.
O.-British India WILFUL MURDER
Apcar and
Eastern &
Australian
Lines
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND), MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
TAKING CARGO FOR STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c.
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9.3.
RAWALPINDI
**BANGALORE
*KIDDERPORE COMORIN
- RAJPUTANA
+BHUTAN
Ton. Bong Kong
From
About
1934.
17,000 6th Oct.
Noon. 4,000 13th Ock
5,300 15th Oct. 15,000 20th Oct. 17,000 Erd Nov.
6,000 10th Nov.
16,000 17th Nov. 6,100 24th Nov.
CHITRAL **BEHAR
CARTHAGE **SOUDAN
16,000 Irt Dec. 7,000 8th Dec.
RANPURA CORFU *BURDWAN
RANCHI NALDERA
17,000. 18 15,000 29
re
17,000 12th Jan. 16,000 26th Jan.
6,000 5th Jan.
Destination.
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull, S'pore, Penang, Cho, Bbay, Karachi, Bombay, Marnelles à London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marsellles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. Marseilles & London.
Bombay, Marvelles, Havre, London,
Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp Hull.
Bombay, Marseilles & London.
Bombay, Marseilles & London.
--- DO
B'bay, Mare, Havre, London H'burg Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hall.. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
DO
*Cargo only.
+ Calle Crabianca.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
1934.
†TILAWA SANTHIA
10,000 12th Oct, 9,000 27th Oct.
* Calla Rangoon
1st and 2nd class passengers.
S'pore., Penang & Calcutta.
--- DO
+ Call Port Swettenham.
B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation
for
HE court-room was crowded.
Thot sourness increased
with every minute. Volces whis-: pered and feet scraped loudly upon the dusty wooden floor. An apple rolled from an unknown pocket and was laid, after argu
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "The Thief Of Time," "by Leslie Gordon Barnard..
By H. A. Manhood
noine. It was built soundly, but by a man with a twisty, mind, for 'tis full of unexpected holes and corners jas ́any walnut. It was in one of these closets under the stairs that I'd planted the solid box of a safa bought hastily years before I'd any-
ment, upon the clerk's littered huge, scarred hands under his jacket thing of worth to be keeping in it. desk, pending inquiry.
tail, and scowled and shrugged bis "Rounding the heel of tre stairs Faraway market sounds could be shoulders so that the dusty broad this night, I stepped over my old heard like a preliminary chorus.cloth buckide convulsively. Why hound on the mat, and made for the Sometimes a wagon bumped and rattled past the building, arousing Here was another batch of 'em,
bother about such pettifoggers? kitchen.
"And then I pulled up mighty shiny! tremendously. important quick, and wondered at the church- buga, led by a miserable beetle of aybloom that was in that same closet. clerk.
Just like a religious picture it was
strange, throbbing echoes and caus- Ing the window frames to shake with a kind of fear. Flies rubbered ceaselessly up and down the grimed yellow walia with. feverish whining
The clerk's volco was astonishing-to the eye, just a square of candle- as of biting saws.
ly like the raap of a grasshopper, a light with a kneeler in the middle. A dog, chained
lonely grasshopper, for the court-I was muddled for a moment, and to a post in the yard adjoining the
Eh, then I thought that someone was court-house, howled miserably from om had become very quiet.
what? Questioned, the farmer tampering with my safe, and covet- time to time, raging in its hungerghook back a thistle-tuft of hair, ing the mortgage money in its belly. and fear at the pigeons wheeling and stared intently, momentarily "I was -minded to step aside for bewildered. Thoughtfully scratch-my gun, and then I remembered thei
overhead, the sound penetrating the court-room like clumsy arrows alm- ed at the prisoner, whose dog it was.ing his unshaven chin, he consider- unsociable nature of my old hound. with He knew who was inside the closet, Listening to the dog, the prisoner, ed, speaking jerkily, but
and if he did, I did too. So I a massive, bruise-cheeked farmer of increasing force and felicity:
"How long had we been wed? waited, and presently I heard the middle age, imagined methodical Yes, yes, to be sure, ya'll be need-soft ticking of words, just the tail] cruelty and wanted to protest, but did not for fear of drawing sting to know that. I must think. end of a prayer, something like this: further attention upon himself,
A labouring man hasn't much time Please, O please, Adorable Lord, was characteristic of their stupidity for anniversaries, and 'tis easy to do this thing for Thy ever humble that they should haul a dog along forget what's easy come by in the servant.
It
You could have downed
as a witness. True, that the dog struggle for a living. Best forgot me with a puff to be hearing my had hated his wife, and had bittenten, such matters are, to my think-old woman spouting so meekly.
"A bit amused, I stepped into the her either before or after deathing for there's not much worth in
my
A
he could not remember when ceremonies, or in anything that a picture, and there she was, exactly-but, even had the dog man remembers or thinks, only in Annie, a-kneeling and a-praying in caused her death, its presence was
what he does. Learning's like a her oatmeally way, her candle stuck) second handle to a jug, naught but on the black iron of the gate. unnecessary.
They would probably show the a hindrance in the face of life and safe for altar plece there's truth Judge its teeth and produce in- death. If books were trees. T'd for ye! 'Twas downright funny to honour 'em, but 'tis t'other way see her there, oozing prayer În a numerable photographs of the
What a gang! Not teen years, near-abouts.
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Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, wounds upon the dead woman, round, more's the pity: good trees lowly, God-help-me voice, her thin, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp afterwarde publicly questioning in- go to make paper and walls and dusty-looking lega sticking out numerable doctors: "Now was this warmth for thin-blooded fools who behind like the props of an old plc- possible?" They didn't quite believe haven't wit enough to be planting ture frame.
"She seemed to scent me all at tree is his own explanation; it was much and understanding that a
stouter than any man and much once just as a drowsy cat will scent itoo simple.
They wanted to give him a chance more sensible in its food and drink a mouse, and all the softness-before- of being thought insane, if you
and pride o death. No, thanking God in her hardened, and she could credit such idiocy! Wasn't Fe kindly for the reminder, I've not dropped her bands, staring poison- at all. the law like a snake that often lost track of the issue, as ye put it.ously, saying nothing
"I'm remembering now turned to bite itself, 'to convince
that Cured of astonishment, I laughed at Annie and me had been wed thir-her. itself beyond doubt of Ita Own
A tidy cxistence? Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con-
"Hey, Annie, can ye be certain| antinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Lavant Ports by steamers of the one of 'em equal to a day's labour spell. You want to hear my story? sure He's latening to ye??
"She didn't like that at all. Khedival Mail Steamship Co.
on the farm Odd that they were Well. I'll be telling ye from the allowed to live, to feel the sun and beginning, my way, If ye'll excuse Snatching in her legs she creaked to her feet: 'Don't dare, Simon, to walk on grass and make a profes- my bluntness. sion of judging men.
"Just thirteen years ago our speak blasphemy, lest, His hand Listening now to the tireless flies, banns were called without bitch in should fall upon you!'
I disremember "Her eyes were reddish with he thought angrily of the saw lying Taspeen Church. idle on his farm under Silversag the name of the parson, but ye can anger, and there was an uncommon Hill; he had been building a new write down that he'd a lardy-white edge to her tongue which only made Hearing me barn when the accident happened, head bald as bald, and a nose like me laugh the more. the finest barn within twenty miles a pump handle. Annie and me, we laugh she whisked round with a it was to be. Now tools and nails travelled the old road as do most great nettling rush of air and hook- would-rusting, timbers warping who've a living to scrape, losing ed up the candle, standing stiff, When matching the candle, ye might say, and bond-stones falling away. God pleasure in the first year. damn them all for Interfering the gloss was off the apple we with her cold-sheeted body and passed the time o' night without flaming head. I'd never seen her fools!
The ricks, too, walted to be much music, glad enough to sleep like that before, and I talks to her thatched; rate
"Come, Annie, quit your foolish- "And when the cattle ware,bonies all staring white. Mouthing them. Then there were the hun- first years. Most of my holding, ness, and let's to bed, eles ye'll be plagued and smut was in the wheat, a prayer she was as she lay în dred saplings waiting to be planted land and buildings alike, was plas needing to pray to this God of 'twas His care that saved the half agony, but I was desperate to be & for wind shelter in his old age. tered with mortgages, and I had to yours to be curing ye of a chill'
freeing her, and wasn't noticing "That not her off again. Her To be sure!' Two calves were due (he counted be sweating to clear them off.
her mutterings. I strained at the "Twas He who hauled the safe, but there wasn't a move in it. the weeks on his fingers, remen-Anale helped, I'll say that, helped head rocked Hke an old loaf, and she bering physical details; the brindled the more willingly maybe because anorted a bit deep down in the nar- wagon and team from the bog and Annie finished her
prayer and cow should throw that very night; no christenings were ever called for. rawness of her breast and chopped was lamed for His pains? opened her eyes, hating me with she was daintily bulk and would She was a quiet sort of body with off a slice of her mind
"Aye, even though He knew them "May God in His Infinite Mercy He'd be receiving no thanks,' be sure to need a helping hand to never a song in her, not even in full
"I said something to comfort her Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan strain against), and two score pigs summer. A bit religious she was, forgive you for your mockery."And 'twas He most likely who as I worked at the safe, but she and Hong Kong to Australi,
were ripe for market after weeks but her hands were clever and she'd After all He has done for you, you cleared Stony Acres and brought wouldn't be accepting comfort from Hong Kong to Sydney — 19 days.
of careful fattening on meal and common sense enough to be know- deny His very name!'
crops to the light? Aye, I thought me. She just sneered with the AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND for cheap Hollday.skim.
ing that a prayer won't case a cow "She fairly howled the words at so! All my slaving and sweating middle of her face, and spat frog
me, shivering all over as if she and starving has meant naught at gishly at me. That fairly rasped A little neglect and they'd soon or fill a man. drop back. The men weren't to be "I never thought of her as beamelt brimstone and thunderbolts. all. Our prosperity is all His me, and I swore that I'd be curing No Additional Charge for Dock Cablus. Sun Deck Swimming Pool trusted with what wasn't their own lieving in anything but work and After all He has done for me! doing. Was there ever such a ber of praying once and for all,
a ferret-headed crowd, first food and sleep, like myself. I never "I was tickled at the idea and fool!!
that she should never kneel' again cousins to these gaping fools under even knew that she was used to then I was sorry for her, thinking "I gave her the length and in my house. I caught hold of her praying right solemnly every night she was a bit low in her mind and breadth of my mind there and then, body and twisted it, thinking to He muttered in his impatience, before bedding down. Regular as ill with overwork. I went to take but 'twas like water on, a duck's free her head, but It wasn't to be trying vainly to pick up one of the the clock she'd polish her belief, hold of her to be carrying her to back. There she stood, nodding in done so easily. She squealed a bit, and amber knots in the rail before him, mooning away out of sight for a bed, but she wouldn't let me Back time with the candle flame and as and I strained and strained with
presently easing his collar and cuff. minute or two before dousing the she hops like an old-hen, bumping empty of sense, imiling so surely, out noticing, overmuch how her ing his sweating face: A crust of light. Often I'd ask her what she against the safe never finching, pitying me, she pitying me That face was, changing colour. It was cow dung yet clung to his heavy was about and she'd straighten her-just standing with her face all was something I couldn't stand just as if she was eating some- boots; they hadn't even given himself and smille that well-scraped angry and twisted. A bit curious. My mind kicked a bit and I caught thing terribly sour time to find his best and lighter ville of hers:
foolishly so, I'm admitting,. I asks hold of her, shaking her as you'd "I thought maybe she was going I've her quietly: pair, so eager had they been to be Naught Simon,naught.
shake a truss in the hope of loosen to spit again, and I tried to twist S'hal, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. weighing justice
been fixing things, that's all at ull “And for what, Annie, were yeing some common sense.
d her face away from mine. I re- Stealthily he kicked his boots "That's about the only answer begging of Em this very night?" But was no good. She was member seeing the veine in her ghal, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Thama, together, loosening -- the
dung, she'd been giving me, and I'd be "That He lift the last mortgage too far gone in her fdictie belief. neck sanding out thick as honeys Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama,
shuffling it into a corner, if there satisfied, thinking she was meaning on this house, she snape back at Candle fat dripped over her hands suckle stems, but I didn't think it
and feet, but she were any seeds there they'd grow locks and bolts. Most times there me,
n't, sùm to was because she was nearly choked.. Amoy Shal, Moff, Robe & Osaka. now, by God! Seeds? Not a was no more than a yawn between He lift it! Has He found the potica, only smiled like the damned All at once though, she gave a
damned oge would be likely to be me and a grave-sleep, and I never money, then 7” ving in such a miserable coffin of questioned further, more's the pity,
NELLORE TANDA
7,000
7,000
1934.
2nd Nov. 1st Dec.
Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney
Melbourne, and Hobart.
(Buring, Fishing, Shooting, and Climates to auit all.. Your English
money is worth 25 per cent, more),
Orchestra carried-Laundry-Surgeon-Stewardess.
E&A Calsine and Service are unsurpassed.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following --
The Union 8.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New his eyes. Zestand, Vancouver, San Francisco, eta,
The P. & O. Royal Mail Bicamera to London and
The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London via Suez The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamerz for Southampton
London via Panama Canal-
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
*BHUTAN
NELLORE
*BEHAR CHITRAL TALMA
BOUDAN SECARTHAGE
SIRDHANA TANDA TAKADA RANPURA
BURDWAN
1934.
6,000 5th Oct.
Noon. 7,000
6th Oct.
6,100 14th Oct
Noon.
15,000 19th Oct.
10,000 - 1865) Oct.
7,000 81st Oct
15,000 and Nov.
Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
Shanghai, Hobe & Yokohama,a
Sharpbal Kobe and Yokohama
"
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8,000 1st NovAmey, Shal, Mojl, Kobe and Osaka 7,000 4th Nov. S'hal, Hoji, Kobe, Danks and Thums a place; unlike his own house; you else I'd have cured her of van
8,000 15th Nov. Amey, Shal, Moji, Kobe, Osaka. 17,000 18th Nov. S'hal, Kobe and Yokohama,
6,000 25th Nov. Stal, Kobe, Yokohama.
↑ Cargo only
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without All Cabins are fitted with Electric. Fans or Punka Louvre Syst Steamers on London and Australian'; Lingos are fitted with Lati Parcels mesturing not more than 5 cu ft will be recalwoda
Ome up to Noon on the day previous to sailing o
further information,.Passage, Fraight, Handboon, ste, appl
MACKINNON, MACKENZII
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she fell went soft and slack I saw then the candle, the light what had happened, and I tried to bring her back, but she'd gone too bit, maybe, I poked far.." That's about the level truth (darkness, finding the of the matter, and to my thinking. lighting it, oking to the blame is not all mine
Batter
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apologetically
loudly in the clerk smiled
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