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NANKING'S FIRE The Treasure Seeker

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Nanking, January 11.

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no more seen that day. But in the ກ. When he came back from his tent morning there is was, again, as with the weapon the bird seemed to bright and excited as ever, obvious:| know at once that he meant busily full of the news of some find. nesa; It fluttered away to a fartherNow we will just see where It tree, redoubling the volume of its leads us," said Jeff. "I'm willing to Measures for the improvement chattering Jeff followed it, and bat we shall get as good a crop of of the fire-brigade service in the bebind him came the boys casting honey as before."

But the boys would not go with Capital were adopted at a meeting dubious glances at the determined yesterday participated in by re-figure of their master. The bird him; they refused point-blank to presentatives of the leading civil- hopped about in a tree, till they leopardise their lives by inviting |ian organisations here.

came up to it and then darted off treachery. Jeff upbraided them for Six reorganised fire-brigade with curious, dipping flight to an-cowards and fools. Nefthor scorn stations, according to a resolu- other, where it awaited them with nor abuse had any effect, and he was tlon, will be established in the obvious impatience.

obliged to undertake the adventure alone. Eastern, Southern, Western, The bush was too thick for Northern, Central and Hslakwan straight-forward progress; Jeff kept districts in Nanking. A resolu- to the game trails, using those

The bird conducted itself precise- tion to raise funds for the pur- which led him, nearest to the linely as usual. It darted off through chase of modern fire-engines was indicated by the guide, and the bird the busb, impatient and noisy, re- also adopted.

seemed quickly to understand this turning repeatedly to encourage the The meeting was presided over procedure; it returned again and twittering. Jeff proceeded with follower with its loud, hysterical) by a representative of the again to those trees towards which caution, keeping his gaze on, the Bureau of Public Safety. (Che the men could tread in greater bushes ahead and the surface of the kial Agency).

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trail, ready to deal with any contin- |gency. Although he did not believe Despite his scepticism Jeff kept the natives' stories he would not fail his eyes open for "achelm," but he a prey to over-confidence, for in did not see any creature which this country danger was a constant might harm him. At the end of companion on every walk abroad. half a mile the honey bird perched The bird led him farther than In a big podocarpus tree on the usual; at the end of an hour Jeff edge of a glade and there it stayed was still plodding along the winding chattering like a flaherman's reel, trains, his face trickling sweat, his evidently unwilling to go farther. ears full of the monotonous, metallic PERMANENT PENSION SCHEME Jeff stepped up to the trunk and chatter of his guide. Then, the peered aloft among the green bird flew off down a narrow path The White Star liner Titanic branches. Round a high fork a leading to the river, sank while on her maiden voyage, number of insects fitted, weaving The ground sloped sharply, the on April 15, 1912, with a loss of a mazy pattern against the sky, trall became a veritable tunnel 1,513 lives, and a Mansion House "There you are, Saidi; there is a through stiff, thorny bushes, Under- Fund was at once started for the hole in that big branch. Climb up foot was shale and gravel showing relief of the relatives and depen-and get the honey."

jnolapoor, but Jeff could see the path dants of those who died. A sum The boys kindled a little fire in had been used by big beasts going of £415,212 was collected, and which they ignited bundles of green down to water. This was no cauas the number of beneficiaries imme-[aticks bound together with bark, for alarm; there was hardly a path

with diately after the tragedy was Armed

these improvised in this district without indication 2,296.

smoke torches they climbed into the of the passage of pachyderm or "On December 31, 1933, there tree and set about chopping, an large carnivore, for at night the were 276 people receiving. allow entry to the hive with their pangas. place was populous with game. ances, chiefly middle-aged' women In ten minutes Saldi had brought Still, he trod 'carefully, for it was who were widowed in youth by down several pounds of dripping apparent that an encounter with a the disaster. Between £15,000 honeycomb.....

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and £20,000 is paid out each year, Throughout these operations the path would be a at present, but the fund is bird had fluttered about in the tree, He passed through a small glade, and periodically revalued, and adjust twittering with excitement which plunged again into the labyrinth.. ments are made. Its present bordered on hysteria. "All right, The bird was close before him. value is assessed at £808,669. A old man, we won't forget you!" darting from branch to branch, scheme of permanent pensions is Jeff called to it. He took a small never pausing for an instant, and by now to be drawn up, The fund portion of the comb and laid it on its behaviour Jeff, assumed that the will cover, if necessary, another a stone in the clearing As he hive was not far ahead. 69 years.

walked off along the path to camp % helooked back to see the bird

Suddenly he beard a snort a few оп the atone eating yarda in front of him beyond a bend voraciously,

în the path. He knew the origin of For the next few days the men it; the way was blocked by a rhino used the honey bird to replenish ceros coming up from water. And] their larder with sweet stuff at that Instant Jeff noticed in a Every morning when Jeff, emerged patch of loose sand the spoor of a from his tent, the first sound to full-grown beast, and of a young greet him was the shrill summons calf. He had to deal with a rhino At a private sitting the British to come and see what the honey-mother and her young one; Olympic Council accepted Ger-eater had found. He always, gave honey bird had betrayed him ind the many's invitation, to participate the finder a share of the spoil, but He began to steal back along the In the 1936 Olympic Games to be he began to wonder if there were path, treading with the utmost care held in Berlin.

any foundation for the natives be to avoid making a noise. But the lief that the bird, if unrequited for rhinoceros and smelt him; she came its labours, would seek vengeance. walking quickly round the bend, a One day he determined to put it to great grey creature whose flanks the proof chiv

brushed the thorns on either side. According to a report from Saidi demurred, asserting that She filled the trail like a cork in the Swatow, police there have raided bad luck would come, but he was neck of a bottle. Directly she saw and seized machinery and two obliged to obey his employer, the man she broke into furious men in connection with a coun- The bird at first seemed astound- shorting and charged him terfeit coin manufacturing planted at the fajustice, then It began to Jeff had little time to make up his The plant had been engaged in flutter over their heads shrieking mind; he fred in a hurry. The bul turning out $20 worth daily of and scolding, and Jeff really thought let had no effect. He dared not the big Yuan Shil-kat type of to hear in Ita voice a new, threaten take time for another attempt, lest silver dollar of which more than in note. It returned with them to it should also prove futile. He ran $20,000 have been circulated at catbp, wherevif-hovered about the with panic speed, the monster ten, 50 per cent discount to the clearing for some time, chattering paces behind m agents.

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