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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1935

COBRA'S REVENGE

FOR INSULT

Strange Tale. From India

POWER OF "MANTRAS” TO, AVERT HARM

Two widespread beliefs of India, that a snake will wait to take ita revenge for an "insult, and that it can be prevented by "mantras" from biting a person, are illustrated. by an extraordinary" story. which comes from Bina, 100 miles from Calcutta. The facts, it is alleged, are vouched for even by some sceptical Europeans.

and

A constable of the watch ward department of the GLP. Railway, posted at Bina, when on His way home, saw a cobra cross his path, and playfully throw a stone, which hit the reptile, but did it no

harm.

...

Thereafter, It is alleged, the same cobra-though how it was identified as the same one is not stated- visited the constable's house every day to take its revenge for the in- salt.

It was unsuccessful until one day when the man was asleep. His wife came in and found the cobra coiled | on his chest watching Its chance to strike when he awoke.

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THE SHUT DOOR

(Continued from, Pagė 10)

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yours! You can't help that, can you? Oh, it would be so dreadful not to be yours!"

"Don't be afraid," Malcolm raið quietly, "I'm yours as much as you're mine. A good deal more, perhape!" He put the rest of his life into the She said: "Oh, yes! Do let's. her of that not even he, himself.

kiss he gave her. No one could rob

Then he rowed back to the land-

he did, while the "mantra-man" did He'll know I'll be all right with ing-stage opposite the cafe, where his stuff, resulting in the cobra you!"

all the Italians were looking sympa. moving slightly aside...

That stung Malcolm out of his thetic and all the English people The unfortunate constable, with trance. He had always repaid truth deeply shocked. the strain of the ordeal, became un- with honour. That was his creed.

The Commander said something conscious, and in that state he told You could not let anybody down, curt about it being high time they the "entra-man" the whole story, and as his creed was short and the were all home. It was apparently stating in his trance that he had pinch had never been too dire, he one o'clock in the morning. been threatened that if he did not had hitherto lived up to it.

Under the hard electric light Mal- build a dais round a particular

he hesitated. Chloe com caught a glimpse of Clara's neem tree, the cobra would visit felt his hesitation, and said urgent blank, well-bred face, as rigid as a him again and again, until it got ly, with the swift, fluttering pres- wooden doll's. its chance of taking revenge.

sure of her hand upon his arm,

She was being rallied round by all For some days after this, the "Oh, do-do come!" Apparently the Kensingtonian English in the constable delayed building the dals, she felt no hesitation!

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His thirsty lips found She shivered and gave a little gasp, and then clung to him, as if she always been the leader of sheep to ordered and drank three stiff whis is England didn't take divorce

It felt queer to a man who had of the others spoke to him Malcolm Peggy? were clinging to life itself.

His heart changed in him, and Malcolm felt furious, and yet at the

have a flock turn against him. kies; one after the other, threw off the years. She was so same time, unusually subdued,

Hghtly. Every friend he had would He felt better then; but not much think he had behaved abominably. young! So slender! So alive! He A scheme for irrigating the sur- felt mesmerised as if he were would have made short work of the out speaking to him. Finally the code did to you-it hit back! But If he hadn't been subdued he men went to bed, one by one, with-by. That was the kind of thing a batter-only angrier. The other He himself would think so, by and rounding land from the wells may twenty-more deeply mesmerised, panting little toad at his side, little toad went off-after an In-how could he bear to defraud Chloe turn the desert and into arable for the self-consciousness of youth "Look here," he would have said, sufferably familiar farewell, as if of her dream?

had left him.

He lived, for those few minutes, I want to be alone!"

"do you mind dropping behind a bit? he knew what Malcolm was up to without a thought of self.

He was a god to her, and that He

after he'd gone, and dared to sym-was what was pulling him towards knew that to Chloe the future meant after a time, was aware that the about for another half hour Mal-dragged by ropes of iron. But how But he didn't say it He even, pathise with it! A servant hung the lake, as if his soul were being no more than his own crumpled-up fellow's company had past meant to him. Her lips were

a sort of colm finally disrelesed him. reassurance about it.

long would he seem a god to her He knew that have to listen to the breathless pat- course, belleve him that he was life? How soon would be be sim- He didn't He told the man-who didn't, of this eager, avid creatura athirst for youth'a longing for the life it has never tasted can be as great as a

ter the chap kept up.

going to smoke. man's last longing before the rein and out of his mind as if he were

Malcolm's thoughts kept popping Then he went out into the dawn.

on the terrace, ply a wearisome old man7 treat of age, It was not wrong to alone. When he reached the hotel

The door of her future would be take what she gave him!"

locked again, and he would be the Something deeper than his code drink enough to forget those shock. There was a queer, cool hush over hand that opened it! The island

he would get drunk! Anyhow, he'd

The alcohol died down in him. lock upon the door. No longer the spoke in him, and broke down the ed sheep, and the curt, restrained, everything. Not a tree moved. Not one close to his feet, a bubble of The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and inaugurated, next year, a regular iron of his self-control. She lay half sentence the commander ha bird anng. The lake had faded pure gold. The sky was a faint..

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flower lies in an open hand. (5)

flung at him! What earthly right off into vapour but the faland rose azure. Was the night already over? The missionors, healed by M, Look here," he said, releasing affairs? What right had Clara to it were carved out of a single pearlight. He turned back to the hotel. Amaury de la Grange, French her a little, tonight if I come to be upset it upset she was? If only

had other people with your private solidly out of the grey mist as if

Had time itself decided for him?

He could not go to her in day- senator, predicted the co-operation you will you let me in? Do you he could get rid of this flayed alive war firing parties took out cowards The birds were making a horrible

This was the hour when in the of France, Great Britain and the want me to come?? United States in establishing such a "Yes! Oh, yea she whispered. He had always despised follows general had been in command of nightingale.

feeling!

and shot them. Several times the service. They stated that subaldies "I shall wait for you! You have would be necessary in the begin- only to call 'Chios. Fil' row you out who broke their codes. He had said one. An unpleasant fob, because ning, but that the enterprise would there now-and show you where it had never felt shame before! Now and you had the feeling that there what You are 17; and I am

they deserved all they got! But the cowards died like brave men, ugliness of the smoking-room, and Boon establish itself upon a paying 1st It'll be heavenly if you'll come!" basis.

She took up the oars and rowed he knew that shame was worse than mightn't be much difference. That is the reason why I am 12. $2, the strip of moonlight-over anything a man could do! It got she would guess that he could not again, but I shall never get you put Chloe would be expecting him coming to you. I shall not see you the long glitter of the reflections,

down into your vitals and gnawed Into the shadow of a garden. The at you like vermin, dream that he was nesitating who. Then he crossed out the last

come at once, but she would never of my eyes, nor out of my heart night was filled with the scent of What was it the child had sald,ther to come at all. He had the sentence. It was true; but it might myrtle. The delicate, cool air was as they were crossing the square unbearably sweet. Once more Mal. Ander the glare of all those hostile key of the boathouse in his pocket haunt her. It was no use trying She was 17. In 20 years time he to haunt a girl who had the world

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1935.

SANTHIA

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colm's conscience rode him. Her eyes

you

he

din in the garden-one was a He went back into the stale

"Look here," he said again, it's when you come we'll have a would be 12 and she would be 37. before her The Soviet in saying more. A beastly shame to com

Heavenly

His wife wasn't the woman to stand

He tunted about on the hillside During 1984, new accounts it's all wrong, you know

Bhe pa child! Perhaps scandal. She would divorce him, and found a boy to take the note to amounting to approximately £68, tied up. There's

that was all she wanted a sort of and he would only see Peggy every Chloe. Then he went upstairs to 000,000 were opened at the var-little girl ious savings banks throughout the cat

lark? But he now and then

his wife's room. knew it

His future had looked empty be- He was quite sure she was bot inted-or

fore, but at least it had looked sleep; but she had the sense to him and respectable and dignified. Madeleine

He with her eyes shut Tiresome hau been a married woman, ound him married

can

the USSR groping for his hand, laid it age

This sum is more than twice her heart. the amount deposited theri

1-vious year. On January

the total balance of savings-b deposits amounted to about £272,000,000

"Oh! but hat does all that mat

she

When

and

had got fato bed his eyes mech

are

bat

this girl of 17 was forbidden

What had

with

anically sought the hole in the mosquito netting; But there was no hole: Hia wife had bad if mended. THE END

And I never mar again, I'm Other men came in soon, but none child, five years older than his own