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THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, MARCH

1935

BANFF BEAUTY WINTER QUEEN-

a fast running horse; mushing with a team of huskies; skating; or aki-ing on com.a the mountain trails all under the heading of real sport... according to Miss Dorothy Stan- durias dish, who reigns this year the winter sport season in the Canadian Rockies. Visitors from many United States cities as well a from Canadian centers are en- joying all the thrills which only this area can provide, and which reach a peak during the annual Bontt Carnival held this year February, 18-17 inclusive,

Ski-foring behind

DRIVER KILLED BY STRIKING BRIDGE

Fatality On British Express Engine

DRIVERLESS TRAIN AT 60 M.P.H.

The Devil And Dan Tyre

[Continued from

2.) Ipopulous. There appeared round.

He was obliged to lift the chain the bend of the plerhead a yacht and carry it free. Fearful of re-driven by her motor-power, and maining an Inatant too long in the symbolised for Dan by the dancing moonlight he carried it only auth-Hght that hung in her rigging and ciently far round to clear his line, was redected pensively on the atill crent backwards to the edge and Bea. He reached up and grasped sank out of sight again. A secund the cold metal of the first fink: fathom came away with the mirs stood so for five long minutes, cur- culous oase of a thing in a dream sing all yachts that ever served the before the first careless link toppled idleness of gentry, all schooners, all from an overlap and rang like steamers, all craft that ever made barren the fruitful solitude of his bell

He aped up the ladder with the particular scas. His neck ached agility of a spider. He was Indeed with so much looking up, his eyes acutely sensitive to the whole vast swam with so much gazing into the swimming radiance of the sky, and web of the moonlit. universe,

Nothing had atirred in the world his heart was sore to find so casual but that single malign link; noth- thing as a length of chain prove ing was moving but the moon deeply rooted in the nocturnal Nearly two fathoms lay clear, a t-arth

The belated yacht passed wide of tle more and he could have reached]

him, without recognition, and nowed the chain with his band. Knt he was shocked to find himself con-out an inside mooring off the remote fronted anew with his problem of shore of the bay. But the three bright eyes of the Selene still gazed the wound spring. Just as soon as steadily in his direction, their res the reversed coil had come away to its full length the pull on the nextflection winking from the water

with a fitful intelligence. coil was. at once with the wind And now the night went to pieces

He had!

again. This was a trial to Dan

Bround him. Eleven o'clock sound- Tyre, whose dim sense of man's ed from the crown belfry of the overlordship taught him that it lay

steeple above the town. with him to order at least the overstayed his time; presently the direction of inert things.

late train would wind round the "The Devil's in it!" said Dan.

hill, run swiftly in on the straight | But with delight he perceived, and wake his whole neighbourhood from the total extent of the cable to activity. Already be could hear that one more reversal must suffice the porters wheeling their barrows And in the glare of this discovery along the concrete platforms under His privacy was he remained blind to his funda the glass roofs. mental error. Why did he use threatened from a new quarter. A line at all? Why did he not free the fuss and throbbing beyond the far chain, lead it with his own two end of the pier told Dan that the hands to the edge, pay it carefully pilot's launch was putting out. He down into his boat, and finally de-could not see her and as her usual. scend with the important end of course lay due west he did not` ex- it safely in custody? The answer pect to see her.

is, he would then have had to work

Nevertheless his field of vision

all the time under the direct eye of scawards was immediately filled by the moon, and abandon his native the great bulk of the incoming darkness.

steamer, with lights aloft and on

In his simple fidelity to a pre-deck and a long chain of bull's-eyes determined method he was now repeated on the swoon of the moon- forced to discard the very secrecy lit sea." Under excuse of the late which had committed him to it. hour she had pushed beyond the The two fathoms he had won had threshold; but to recognise this! to be carried back on their tracks trespass helped Dan little, who was and right round the parent coll in trespassing himself. order to release a third length: She was moving and not on the 'An engine-driver was killed in an This operation completed, the sav-tide alone: she was light and stond express train travelling at 60 miles ing inspiration might have come to so high that her single propeller Brd Apr. an hour when his head was struck him. Instead, there came the sound could be seen lazily heating the

by a bridge near Bedford.

The train, running from Lai cester to London, thundered on for several miles through the gathering dusk, with the driver dead on the footplate, before the horrified fireman brought the' en- gine to a standstill.

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time the pilot was put on board, the He dropped back into his pit and launch would be committed to a course on her return that would took up his taak afresh.

The chain came away in all bring her perilously near to the very sweetness. With his perfect in modest orbit he asked of his gods stinct he measured it link by link for the successful prosecution of his as the long end left the serpentine design.

commo

coil again and cropt towards, the All this was too much for Dani He pulled up the train near: 7th Mar group of platelayers some distance Parapet. His fortune had begun to Tyre, the intrusion of the ship, the 9th Mar from Irchester, Northamptonshire, elate him when he was staggered intolerably authoritative

where the accident happened, and by another stoppage. The heel of tion made by the still invisible the bollard above him was an inch launch, the advent of the train, the asked them to inform the guard

or two sprung from its seat, form-fifteen minutes he had already 20th Mar. The passengers were not told of the ing a crevice between the wood and wrestled with the inherent obduracy

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the stone floor of the Die. In this crevice the first link jammed.

The vital forces of his thrifty Unaware, down below, of the

nature being concentrated on the actual cause of the check, he whip dual problem of speed and secrecy ped his line adroitly and was, bl 289- he became the extreme of caution: ed in the set, for the chain came without asking what would happen free. But this light act of violence when the weight of the chain ba- A scheme Involving the expendi-cost him a fine agony. The Areteen him and the parapet became ture of about $680,000 to speed up two links took their liberty with a the railway service between Felping leap, came suddenly into sight on greater than the weight of the tail- and Tientsin is now under con his black skyline, toppled over and end creeping with a ripple of its sideration. The scheme attempts to struck their cheerful, sncidental est inks on the surface of the pier, he took in the chain deliberately. ent down the time taken in the bell

band over hand, reciting a ribald} The sound took blm by the Paternoster as he told the big pre- * train service between the two cities by 45 minutes.

throat. The distant steamer he had observed, long passed from view, at clous beads through his fingers. He this moment sent him a late greet- even had the monstrous wit to pass ing in the succession of tired ways the first end over his shoulder, that which passed under his keel and the chain could be paid in amidshipmen made a little ruah and rustle among and so keep his boat trimmed. the dead piles of the pler before

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The long breast wares from the Tel. 30333. the leg. He lost patience and be- gan to pull more nervously big steamer had all but spent them- Link after link knocked noisily selves when they reached him. on the parapet and increased his Lifting his keel gently and spread- agitation, And the moon was climbing in a matter of broken water on ing, the shadow behind him was the deeps around him, they rocked diminishing, the light on the bay, in his boat and, as before, displaced an the sky, in the whole world was car. This disorder of the sens un- strengthening. The stars were infanned him. He hung on the paling, but the stars had never held chain. At once the shain sprang to any menaça for him. He had not life. Between him and the parapet remarked before that while all the were fifteen feet of sleepy metal; yachts within the bay were housed above were some seven feet of free ain to which fix file mistinctive and dark, the schooner Selene car fied a headlight and sidelights, and movement, he communicated his own

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