1934-11-20 — Page 10

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1934

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berate way it had drunk the milk the night before. Ita emaciated as neither whisky (which he got by appearance plainly revealed that it arrangement with one of Grannie's was starving: yet it devoured the walters), brend nor cheese, which fish methodically, as though now formed his usual diet, require much assured of a regular supply. cooking.

Grey, turning the five-pound note The cat moved and, jumped noise-In his hand, wondered whether the lessly on to the floor, cautiously ap cat had after all changed his luck. proached the gas-ring, by the side But his thoughts kept reverting to of which it stretched its lean Fellx Mortimer...... yellowish body. Very softly but The next few days left him in no plaintively it began to mew. doubt. At Grannie's that night!

In what assertedly was described as a "fight," Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin, former President of Ceba, hurriedly left Havana for Niami, Fla., after police protection had been. withdrawn from about his home, According to reports, he plans to continue his Cuban poll tical activities from his American refuge.

Grey. cursed it. Then he turned fortune's pendulum swung back un to the cupboard and took out a mistakably. He won steadily. cracked jug. He moved the bread "Your luck's changed-with a lor to his own plate and poured out vengeance!" said of the "regulars"

the little milk it contained in the of the shabby genteel saloon. {shallow bread-plate,

"With a vengeance," echoed Grey, The cat drank, not greedily but and paused, wondering, with the with the feree rapidity which be-superstition of a born gambler, if significance in the tokens hunger and thirst. Grey there were watched it idly as he poured whisky phrase.

His success was the prelude to inta a cup. He drank, and refilled the cup. He then began to undress, the biggest slice of luck, to use his carefully, in order to prolong the own phrase, that he had ever known. He gambled scientifically, not losing life of his worn dinner-jacket.

The cat looked up. Grey, taking his head, methodically banking a off his shirt, beneath which, having proportion of his gains each morn- no veat, he wore another woollen ing; planning, scheming, striving to shirt became uncomfortably aware reach that high-water mark at of its staring yellow eyes. Seized which, so he told himself with the

Market Facters with a crazy impulse, he poured the gambler's time-worn futility, he whisky from his cup into the rewould stop and never gamble again. The following telegrams were

ceived by Mesars. S. E. Levy and Somehow he could not make up Co. from Reuter:-· mainder of the milk in the plate.

"Share and share alike," he cried. his mind to leave the poverty- stricken: room in the fashionable "Drink, you'

BROKERS TEND TO BULLISHNESS

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re-

Favourable factors, prior to the

1. Steel Operations at Youngs-

Then the yellow cat snarled at mews. He was terribly afraid it opening of the market:- him; the vilest, loathsome sound; would spell a change of luck. He and Grey for a mornent was afraid. tried to improve it, increase itatown last week are estimated at 35

Then he laughed, as if at himself comfort, but it was significant that Per cent, of capacity.

2. The market displays reals for allowing control to slip, and he bought first a basket and a

cushion for the yellow cat. finished undressing.

The cat went back to its place at For there was no-doubt in his in trade and industry..

3. The determination that trade the foot of the bed, its eyes gleam, mind that the cat was the cause of ing warily in Grey's direction. He his sudden transition from poverty will co-operate more actively with restrained his impulse to throw it to prosperity,

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tance on the combined improvement

the Government's recovery move- |ment. yn

4. The technical position is be- lieved to have been strengthened by the recent corrective movements.

Unfavourable factor:--

1. Peralatent pressure on Util-] ties in addition to rumours of the possibility of a dividend cut by the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. at their forthcoming meeting on Wednesday.

out of the room and clambered:be He fed it regularly, waiting on it! tween the rough blankets without himself as though he were its will- ing servant. He made a epasmodic molesting it.

attempt to caress it, but the cat By daylight the cat was an ugly, anarled savagely at him and, fright- If the cat It had not ened, he left it alone. misshapen creature. moved from the bed. Grey regard-lever moved from the room, he never

saw it go. ed it with amused contempt..

Usually the morning found him He accepted the situation philoso profoundly depressed and irritable. phically enough. He would talk to For some unaccountable reason he the cat of himself, his plans for the

Wall Street was active and steady felt now almost light-hearted. future, the new people he met-for

He dressed, counted his money money had speedily unlocked more with minor fractional gains predo- minating. American Telephone & and decided to permit himself the exalted doors than Grannie's—all luxury of some meagre shopping in this in the eloquence derived from Telegraph issues opened with a the adjacent market, which supplied wine and solitude, he would pour block of a thousand shares at prices the most expensive restaurant pro out, into the unmoved ears of the unchanged from Saturday's closing prietors with the cheapest food. cat, crouching at the foot of the quotations.". Traders are watching The cat, still crouching on the bed. And then, without daring to Utilities with the closest Interest.

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The creature watched him impas-

and he closed the door as softly as Mortimer and the gift that had tional improvement seeres to be in-

dicated. its erratic hinges would allow proved the turning-point of his

Night Telegrams aware that the cat's eyes still gazed fortunes.

The following telegrams were re- steadily in his direction.

In the market he obeyed an im-aively, contemptuously indifferent to ceived by Messrs. S. E. Levy and pulse to buy food for the cat, and his raving or. his silence. But the Co. from New York, by Router- at the cost of a few pence added a weird menage continued, and Grey's Du Pont de Nemour has declared portion of raw fish to his purchases. continued, and Grey's luck held their regular quarterly dividend of

65 cts, per share and 16 cts, extra. On the way home he cursed himself good.

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One day he had cause to

con-

The weekly business failures were

for a fool, and would have, thrown He was now within reach of that the fish away, the clumsy paper figure which he fondly imagined 208 as against 259 for last year, wrapping having become sodden would enable him to forsake his while the failure in mills was. 27.0. with moisture,, when he was hailed precarious existence. He told him-The Kennecott Copper Corpn. has by a voice he had almost forgotten.self that he was now, to all intents declared a dividend of 15 cts., the "Grey! Just the man I want to and purposes, safe. And he decid-same as for the two previous quar- seel"

ed to move into more civilised and ters.

The publication," in estimating Grey greeted, him with fair appropriate surroundings.

mill activity for last weeks at 28 per show of amiability, although, if Nevertheless, he himself procured appearance were any indication, the an expensive wicker contraption to cent. says that larger purchases of other was even less prosperous than convey the yellow cat from the gar-scrap and heagler commitments of himself. He, too, bad been an ret to his newly-acquired and, by finished products, together with in- 30th Jan. habitue of Grannie's in the old days, contrast, luxurious maisonnette. It creased activity in raw materials

but had long since drifted out on was furnished in abominable taste, have strengthened sentiment. the sea of misfortune. Despite his but the reaction from sheer poverty Loew's Inc. net profit for the year And then he had ended August 31 totalled $7,480,000 shabby appearance, he turned to had its effect.. Grey and said:

begun to drink more than was good equal to $4.50 per common share as "You'll have a drink?" Then, for a man who required a cool head compared with 84,084,000 equal to noting Grey's dubious glance, he and a steady nerve for at least part $2.15 per share last year.

E. A. Pierce Co.'s Report laughed and added: "It's on me all of a day which was really night.

In their market report, the right. I've just touched lucky."

A little later Grey emerged from gratulate himself on his new home. American Oriental Finance Cor the public house on the comer the For he met, for the first, time-in-his poration, correspondent for Misers. 2nd Jan richer by five pounds, which the thirty odd years of life, a woman. A. Pierce and Company New

other had insisted on lending him Now Grey divided women into York state:

"Stocks: Further liquidation in In return for past favours.

two classes. There were "the re- What exactly the past favoura gulars" soulless creatures with the Utilities followed the President's had been Grey was too dazed to in-gambler's fever and crook's alphabet speech on National Power develop Industrial issues were quire; as far as he could recollect and pigeons," foolish women, ment he had always treated the man with some young, most of them old, who stronger, with rather cheerful week- scant courtesy. He did not even re-flourished their eflly but valuable end trade reports a contribaling member his name, eve plumage to be plucked by such as factor. S

"Wheat: Firmness again was He was still trying to remember ba

But Elice Dyer was different. chiefly confined to, corn. Pressure 21st Nov. who the man was when he climbed

4th Dec. the stairs. He knew him well She stirred his pulses with appeared on moderate advances.

enough, for Grey was the type who strange, exquisite sensation Her "Cotton: There was a good de- 21st Nov. never forgets a face. It was when incredibly fair hair, flaxen as way-mand from Liverpool and the Trade. 2nd Dec. his eyes alighted on the yellow cat in corn, her fair skin, her, deep The market was small, with trading that he suddenly, remembered. violet eyes and her delicate carmine comined largely to switching.

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At first Grey tried to assure him- yellow, cat to a soul, whispered that self that he had made a mistake, he would, if she cared, show her the Again, bis better judgment, the mascot that had brought him tried to convince himself that the now proverbial good

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