1935-05-31 — Page 11

The Other Way

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And again the luck, or what? seemed to him luck just then, was with him. On the far side of the spur the wood had climbed the face of the hill and he was able to get fresh cover. Also, his cal culation of the distance had been' accurately made.

He had not gone three hundred yards through- `the wood, walking' slowly and warily, exercising every precaution against the making of mise, when he caught sight of the back of Joe Batley, not twenty yards ahead, bending towards his fire, toasting a fish on the end of

stick.

The covering of those twenty yards occupied Harrison as many minutes, and the fish was cooked and partly eaten when Joe foundi himself seized from behind and half-strangled by a grip on his throat; and before, he had time to recover himself, his right wrist; was manacled to Harrison's left by a pair of regulation handcuffs.

If was not until then that Har- rison began to realise the weak point of his plan. He sought to disguise it by saying, "All U.P.. Joe. No good making a fuss. You! come along quietly, now, and it'll be the better for you."

I'M GETTIN' TIRED HEÄRIN' MAGGIE ASK ME TO HANG THIS

PICTURE- I'LL DO IT

RIGHT NOW-

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1935 »

DADDY! LEND ME THAT HAMMER- ILL RETURN IT IN A FEW |SECONDS --

(BY GOLLY! I AIN'T AS STEADY

But young Joe was not such & ON A LADDER AS I USED TO

fool as that Come along quiet- y." he repeated with a ̈ sneer. "Likely, ain't it? You know as

I do that I get three months)

hard, for that job, with that--old) squire on the beach."

"I got to warm you. you know, Joe. Harrison began-

"That anything 1 say'll be used in evidence, I know." Joe inter rupted him. "Well that don't make no difference in this case. It was a fair cop, and if they get me I'm for it. all right. But you ain't got me vei, Bob, old man. Unless you reckon

three you can carry me miles to the inn."

They were necessarily sitting very close together, but they were far enough apart to be able to look one another in the face. and the long steady stare they exchanged after Joe's last femark made-fur-) ther argument.superfluous. In ef fect. Harrison had said: "I got you, my lad, and I'm going to stick and whatever happens;” to you. young Batley: "You may have got me, old man: bat you can't do any- Thing. now you have

For the rest it seemed to be just Until

a question of endurance.

one or other of them changed his mind or his tactics, they were faced with a talemate. A physi- cât straggle unless it were carried to the point at which one or the other of them was knocked out. would serve ΠΟ purpose Ard what chance was there of that? They were evenly matched physical- ly and each of them had but one

hand free.

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"Oh! well. Harrison saidat last, breaking the long silence dur ing which so much had been said: I wait fill someoné“ comes to help me."

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BY GOLLY!{M GONNA HANG THIS PICTURE

IF IT TAKES THE REST OF THE WEEK-

SORRY, SIR- BUT MR. DINTY

MOORE WANTS TO

TALK TO YOU-HES ON THE PHONE

Bringing Up Father

ALL RIGHT- BUT HURRY

HUH?

RATS! I FERGOT TO

AXE FETCH THE UP WIT' ME-

HEY! WHERE'S THAT HAMMER? DO YOU THINK I'M GONNA SIT: UP HERE ALL DAY?

HALF HOUR LATER

TM SORRY-YOUR-

DAUGHTER HAS GONE OUT AND 1 CANT FIND THE HAMMER-WILL. THIS DO?

WELL ITS BETTERN A SAW TO

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HELLO-HELLO! RATS! HE HUNG UP-

WHO TOOK

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IT-

MR. BILL DABARN NEXT DOOR ASKED FOR IT, | 50 | LET HIM

HAVE IT-

MAGGIE-WILL YOU HAND ME THAT AXE?

I'LL HIT YOU WITH IT F YOU DON'T

GET DOWN OFF THAT FINE TABLE-

"HANG THIS PICTURE IS RIGHT-OUT IN THE ALLEY IT GOES-

STATUS OF BRITISH THRONE

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A picturesque narrator might say that the King saved the country by telling the Prime! Minister, who was over-wrought and inclined to throw up the sponge, to "go to bed."

had Those who have honour to be brought in contact with the King officially know how kind and considerate he is to his humbler subjects.

the

Except the Papacy, and the Japanese Empire, where the pre- sent emperor is the hundred and twenty-fourth of his line, the British Crown is probably the stablest political institution in the world: There is no longer much glamour about Republican- Our self-governing. Dominions are always delighted to welcome one of the Royal Family; they feel it a real link with the home country.

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Let us not forget, what Their Majesties are certainly not for getting that our first gratitude must be paid to the Providence which has watched over our country at this most difficult time, and endowed our Sovereign with "the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.”

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