1935-03-06 — Page 10

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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1935

Something In Common

¿Continued from Page 9). was happening in there, how · shá had stared weakly at the fallari ob- quiet and timid am always clipped fact, then cleared her throat, then short, as though she regretted havmildly clicked her tongue, Tchk, ing said what she had said. Before tehk, tehk," before that slow, corset and after saying anything at all she creaking stoop to pick it up. In cleared her throat and looked at another moment she would come in him in. that mild, uncertain way, to lay the table, see the rock-cakes, He settled back in his chair and bub- the bread, the apples, put them The SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports and Ronolulu.

bled through his pipe, sending un-away, then stand, reflecting. even ropes of blue smoke knotting door opened and she went to the Wednesday, 20th Mar. at 1.a.m.

the ceiling,dresser. "Tchk, tehk, tehk.” The Monday,

let Apr. at 2 a.m. themselves towards Wednesday, 17th Apr. at 10 am Though he appeared to be relaxed, thin hands tugged at the bellying every nerve was atrained to break skirt. Mr. Leach hoisted his pas ing point, and he could hear the per, but was unable to concentrate rush of blood going through his upon it. In a moment he peeped fears.

He was waiting for it, wait-over the top.. ing for it, waiting for it. Ah, She was folding the paper bags there it came, the click of the door carefully in four, smoothing, them going home and then the door out with a. soft crackle, stuffing opening again for three inches to them into the top left-hand drawer, enable Mrs. Leach to adjust the felt which was already so full of them draught-shield with the toe of her that she could have kept a grocer's shoe. Then click again.

shop going for a week. The apples

SEATTLE & VANCOUVER,

TAIYO MARU

CHICHIBU MARU

TATSUTA MARU

HIKAWA MARU (starts from Kobe] Saturday, HIYE MARU (starts from Kobe). Saturday, LONDON. MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM

23rd Mar. '6th Apr,

HAKUSAN MARU

Saturday,

16th Mar.

HARUNA MARU

Saturday,

30th Mar,

KATORI MARU

Saturday,

13th Apr.

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Porta

ATSUTA MARU

Saturday,

23rd Mar,

KAMO MARU

Saturday,

27th Apr...

BOMBAY vin Singapore, Penang & Colombo.

'ANYO MARU:

Monday,

11th Mar.

* †TOYAMA MARU

Thursday,

28th Mar.

TANGO MARU

Thursday,

11th Apr.

SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan. Honolulu,

Los Angeles, México and Panama.

HEIYO MARU

Monday,

8th Apr.

NEW YORK via Panama.

†NAKO MARU

INOSHIRO MARU

Saturday, Saturday,

› LIVERPOOL, via Port Said, Beyrouth, Istanbul,

and Valencia,

ILYONS MARU

Friday

15th Mar

†CALCUTTA MARU

Thursday,

†MALACCA MARU

Friday,

7th Mar. 15th Mar.

- †MURORAN MARU-

Friday,

29th Mar

KASHIMA MARU..........

KAMO MARU Nagasak direct)

Saturday, Friday, Wednesday,

CALCUTTA, via Singapore, Penang. & Rangoon.

SHANGHAI, KORE & YOKOHAMA,

YASUKUNI MARU

+ Par

Saty

Telephone 30291

6th Apr. 6th Apr. Piraeus, Genoa

10th Mar. 22nd Mar. 27 Mar

S. K

SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

NEW YORK via Japan, Los Kina Maru..

Angeles and Panama. Call Kwansai Mara

Sat., Wod.,

Direct at Cristobal, Puerto, }

Colombia, Boston Philadel-

phia and Baltimore'

RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS Renton. Maru

MONTEVIDEO & BUENOS Rio De Janeiro aru

Thurs Tues.,

AIRES

VIA

Singapore,

Colombo, Durban, Port

Elizabeth and Cape Town

MOMBASA. ZANZIBAR Arabla Maru

Wed.,

DARES-SALAAM, BEIRA, Manila Maro

Wed..

LOURENCO MARQUES.

DURBAN, PORT ELIZA-

BETH. CAPE TOWN,

SOUTH AMERICAN

PORTS via Singapore & Colombo

MELBOURNE,

BRISBANE, Sydney Maru... SYDNEY: WELLINGTON Brisbane Maru & AUCKLAND direct

He heard her pottering into the were being piled in a low pyramid kitchen. Now it seemed to him on the blue and gold fruit dish, tha that when people other people rock-cakes laid one by one in the moved about, they just, well, moved fold biscuit tin. Mr. Leach hid his about. Bet simply" was about face again. Bear it he could not. the place, making those stupid, 'ner-Rigid and tense, he stared at the She ladders of print and listened. For- vous, uncertain little sounds. was. She was alive, a bony, dishe-wards to the table, backwards. -to veiled, peering presence in his the dresser, clinkinga. rattlings, house. Sometimes as he was going fumblings, soft, inefficient

Move-

to work in the mornings he would menta. Throat being cleared. Tchk, come upon her in the passage, herlichk, tchk.'

sleaves rolled up, crawling about on "Beer for you, dear?"

After a long fight against extra- dition from Austria, Capt. Ivan Poderzaj smiles as he boards® 8 Baer in Italy for his return to New York for trial for perjury. He is husband of the longmissing Agnes Tufferson, New York at torney.

LONE SPECIMEN OF ANCIENT COIN-

Han Dynasty Minting

RETURNED TO CHINA FROM

CANADA

her hard, sore knoos, hor hands red "Yest, please. Gót to have. my and soft with the soapy water, and spot of the needful." As though a barely controllable revulsion would she didn't known after twenty years sweep over him. And he would that he always had beer with his want to seize a big broom and sweep supper. A long pause while, she re- her out of the front door with It, turned to the kitchen, fambled, fid-when the foreign troops of eight bang her out of his life for ever. dled, turned ou the gas, appeared in nations entered Peking at the time But, instead, he would say, stoop- the doorway. "Well, here's the aup of the Boxing Rebellion, has been ing to kiss the cold, skin-smelling per, dear.”

returned to China by a professor In Canada.

A lone ancient Chinese coin, lost

The coln, which is 24 inches in diameter, was handed to the Pel-

cheek."Well, so long. Bet," and "Ah," he said, "smells a bit of all. she, smiling vaguely up from the right to me." He rose, knocked out level of the pail with its serum of his pipe on the grate, stretched. floating dust, would answer, Good "Well," he said, "just going ping Palace Museum through off- bye, Tommy see you supper-through to get a wash." time."

cials of the Canadian Foreign.Office. Lovingly he drew the bowl of his

The professor purchased the coin pipe backwards end forwards

from a stranger some time ago. and against the side of his nose. She

Chinese museum officials say the He winced. He stared. "Why, what's coin was minted during the Har ten-up. Bet?"

Dynasty.

23rd Mar. He sat back in his chair 10th Apr.waited for it, waited for it.

might have saved himself this sion had he, before she left the She turned away and Addled room, said: "Here, got matches 7" with the cruet, "Oh nothing." ONCE AN IMPERIAL 21st Mar.But it hadn't seemed worth it she said dully. He continued to 23rd Apr. Moreover, there was always the stand, staring, slowly rubbing the

chance that one evening, just one good grease from bis skin into the Jed to have a box by the gas-stove.[bowl of his pipe.

lag, she would have remember- Mrs. Leach awung round, her 6th Mar. Just one evening, he would have hands propped behind her on the 3rd Apr. thought, as the door opened, and table. "Oh, for God's sake go and she cleared her throat and said: wash," she screadied in a high, “Oh, Tommy, have you a match? I threadbare voice. "And don't stand acem to have mislaid mine." there doing that with your pipe ---- He smiled, "Got a sleve in that you'le driving - we mud....I tell you, head, haven't you, Bet? Here, driving me mad." cateh !"

Thurs.,

7th Mar.

Mon..

8th Apr.

BOMBAY & KARACHI via Tallin Mara

Thurs

Singapore, †Penang and Mantai Mara Colombo...

Fri.,

7th Mar. 8th

CALCUTTA vis _Singapore, Hamburg Maro

Belawan Deli, & Rangoon,.

Wed,

JAPAN PORTS

Havre Maru

FIL,

JAPAN via Takao & Keelung Panama “Muru-...........

Wed,

KEELUNG via Swatow and Canton Mara

Amoy

Bun..

Hozan Maru

Sun.,

Dell Mara...

Thurs.,

TAKAO via SWATOW and

AMOY

He threw over the box to her..

Like 'some scared seabird, alarmed

THE END.

RESORT

Malanyu Hot Springs...

As Public Kitchen

The famous hot springs near Malanyu, which once served as a popular resort for members of tha Ching Impala kivunt, have now been turned into a public kitchen fór farmera and inhabitants of the [neighbourhood.

Formerly the water in the springs was about 60 deg. F. but now it is

at the moment of alighting, ahe JAPANESE GRIP ON reported that the water from the

Jerked backwards,' her hands.claw- Maring feebly at the air. "There," ahe said, as the box fell at her feet with a little rattle. As she stooped to 2018 Mar. retrieve it the thin hair, course like shredded string, fell frawsily 8th Mar. over her face. She cleared her throat as she straightened herself and tidled the hair back with her 18th Mar hand. "Supper won't be Jong, dear,"

she said. 10th Mar, 17th Mar.

Mantal Mara Direct call at Marina goa, Bhavnagar, Kundla & Mandvi † Orita Porte Marked..

For Further Particulare

Please apply to

OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA,

Telephone 28061

SHIP & ENGINE BUILDERS.

SHIP & ENGINE REPAIRERS.

He heard the rattle of saucepans,

JEHOL

same springs is about 130 deg. F.

Bince the place was vacated by the military some time ago, the villagers

Two New Railways To have been enjoying free baths and some of the women are even cooking Be Built

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