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THE CHIKA MAIL SATURDAY, JUNE 22 19

"CLIVE OF Going To Market

INDIA

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A Middle Course

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the hick had to give Kunts twenty dollars back, so be had to hand it Just as the nigger was passing over, eh? - How, haw, haw under the shade of the awning the Their big, yellow teeth were bared wo white trackers looked quickly in a grin at the cop. The cop at each other, then one sprang grinned back, clucked his tougue in which defeat would forward at the nigger's back, the at his horse, and started going, up].

mife-flash that followed was dull the street. The truckers." stood prove the rain of British hopes because of the shade under the awhile, pale around the mouth, not To retreat would be little better

Jawning.

looking at each other. Then they

To cross was to provoke an en-! gagement in adverse circum

STANCES

disastrous moral effect. A miť

than an admission of failure, of But Dave heard the groan and went back to the jobu

the sob, saw the big negro fall The semi-circle was still there.! | die" course remained to stay softly, heavily forward One of The two started working, breaking where he was entrenching him the truckers started whistling sud-through the crowd. loading self at Eatna and seeking to` denly and went quickly out upon seriously. strengthen himself by alliances

the sidewalk to see if the argu with disaffected native princes.

stil in ment up the street was For once he sought help to bear

Then someone bent down "He's not sleeping.” The crowd went quiet They rolled him over.

On the

a responsibility. He invite, Aress. He came back and

nodded to his partner. ed the advice of the Council at Under the shade of the awning, sidewalk was the red masky juice Calcutta What he received was stretched out to his full length, of grapes, with slimy seeds stick- so indefinite and contradictory the negro lay quiet. He lay faceling to the pavement. They felt his

that it provoked him into the

pedition miscarry....

group

contemptuous rejoinder that he down against the sidewalk, his pulse

rose flattened against the grey "Call a doctor!”. could perceive in Drake's answer

The cry shot up the bustling. only the intent to clear himself cement. Wiping the blade, neatly

man's back the trucker who had The crowd pressed forward, India Persian Gulf, West Indies, Red Sea. Egypt. Constantinople, at Clive's expense should the ex- and thoroughly against the fallen street

He then summoned a council done the stabbing cleaned the filling, curious. Down the street of war at which himself, be rot blade, darted next door, placed the the cop on horseback, turning in

new the counter, and then the saddle, saw the knife on Jed for delay. Ten members sup-

banched together and, thinking an-- ported him. Captain Coote with came back

Both truckers started whistling other argument was springing up. six others voted for an

imme

jerked at the reins and galloped diate advance. But still his he a quick tune, flatly.

On the wagon-seat the small up to the scene. sitation was not conquered, and`

bis "Look, be must have tripped over! he went off alone to take further boy, his eyes popping from

head, was breathing hoarsely. He that opened crate and killed him- thought

He fell right on the bax;

S.S.

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*P. & O. SAILINGS

From

Tons Hong Kong

About

1935

MANTUA

CARTHAGE

†BANGALORE

11.000 29th June

14.500 13th July

6,000 20th July

RAWALPINDI

KAISER-I-HIND

BHUTAX

17,000 27th July

11.000 105 Aug-

6.000 17th Aug.

*RANCHI

*BEHAR

17,000 24th Aug.

6,900 31st Ang

NALDERA-

16,000 th Sept.

6,000 1413 Sept.

**SOUDAN

RANPURA

RAJPUTANA

†BURDWAN

CHITRAL.

17,000 21st Sept.

17,000 5th Oct.

6,000 12th Oct.

15.000 19th Oct

Destination

man's shirt.

the his shirt.”

...

To the soldier in him who had was conscious that the argument self. performed the miracle of Arcot the street was still going strong, you can see the grapes sticking to the decision for which he had but his eyes were glued on

at - Then someone, a little more given his own rote must have negro's broad. quiet back, on

the others, felt Bombay. Marseilles & London.

been repugnant. In delay, as he blotch of red which was spreading curious than Bombay, Marseilles & Londen. now considered further, he could slowly, staining the centre of the around exploringly until his fingers came in contact with a clear slit Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, Lor-see only defeat Better, then, to

don, Rotterdam. Antwerp & take his chance of this at once. The two truckers, still whistling in the shirt; and on his palm, as

remembering that the prize to be loaded up again and rolled eight he drew his hand away. won was of incalculable magni- rates apiece inside the store. The sticky liquid darker than the juice tude: And so, in spite of the de- doorway was very wide, with a from grapes.

"He's been knifed!" cision of the council of war, he two-inch stair in front of it, and

The cop got off the saddle and reached the resolve to go for they had to grunt a bit s they ward, and on the following morn forced the wheels over the obstacle took charge of the situation.

When they came out again for an- "It may have been a nail from while other haul they looked sharply up the box" he said.

one broke All of them stared down at the Suraj and down the street;

from open a crate, pulled out a bunch of calm-faced dead nigger. Then the grapes, and, bending down, jammed cop, raising his head, turning it the bunch against the nigger's sharply like a proud horse, looked back

jabort

Hall Bombay, Marseilles & London,

Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles Havre, London, Ham- berg, Rotterdam, Antwerp &

ng he crossed the river. Bombay, Marseilles & London.

On that same June 21, Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, Lon-Clive was celiberating,

don, Rotterdam Antwerp

ud-Dowlah, advancing Hall

Meersbedabad, occupied the lines Bombay, Marseilles & London.

north of Plassey.

Holl

&

Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, Loz- don. Hamburg, Antwerp, Bat- terdam, & HO Marseilles & London

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1935.

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Dave started bawlinz "Be's only a kid, he don't know anything,” someone said.

The trackers whistled softly. Five minutes later the police

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The grapes, bursting, sparted "Say, you," he yelled at Dare of crossed the river red juice all over the fallen man's the waxon seat, did you see any- When Clive

They rolled him over, so thing happen around here?" on the morning of June 22 he shirt.

message from Meer that his face stared at the sky. The two trackers started whis- Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, Lon-received a

them took another thing their their tune louder than don.

Jaffer advising a detour and 'and one of B'bay, Mars. Havre L'don. Hoz

surprise attack. He replied that bunch of grapes from the opened over and turned their stares to Pdza. Awazo, & Hall

march straight on crate and placed it right under the wards the kid on the wagon, Bombay, Karseilles & London he would

Plasses, and that it Meer Jaffer nigger's hack. They laid the crate frowning, boring him with their

Then gate. should fail to join him he would nearby on the sidewalk. make peace

with Suraj-ud-Dow they folded the fellow's hands on his chest, propped the limp head Through torrents of rain they upon the low stair near the door

asleep, and toiled forward. and at one way, as if he were o'clock in the morning of June loaded up again," whistling briskly. 23 they encamped in a mango Dave started shivering. He ambulance arrived and the body The crowd a mile of the Su- looked at the calm brown face of was carried away. grove within

The big fellow, broke again, and after a han one badar's lines at Plassey: There the prone negro: the men lay down to snatch what stretched out, appeared to be of the truckers went inside for a

against the sidewalk. Singapore, Penang, Rangoon and rest they could after their weary sleeping. But the broad chest did bucket of water and sloshed it

march through fifteen miles of not rise and fall.

A boss came out, irritated, and mud and flood, while Clive, quar-At the next load the two true- tered in a hunting-lodge, was con-kers, coming from the shady dark-waved his fistful of shipping tic- sidering his dispositions for the Dess of the store, strode to the kets at the two truckers, bawling He commanded forces corner to listen to the wrangle them out, telling them he was a more considerable than be had there, and remained in the crowd man short now. "Snap out of iL ever yet led into battle: 1,100 until a settlement was reached. he said savagely, and went inside The truckers, silent, not * EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (S.) British, assembled from various In the end, his face sagging, the again.

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000 led by Suraj-ud-Dowlah sup- genial, and the small crowd broke, slipped on the purplish wet of the Then someone saw the nigger on sidewalk, and the other sprang ported by 50 pieces of heavy ar

the sidewalk-sleeping when there forward to catch him.

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Monsieur Law was on his way was such a big load yet to be to join the Subadar with a taken inside the store. All at grocer and his older son returned, French contingent, to reinforce once laughter rippled the street, a they found Dave unnerved and the 50 French troops commanded release from the harsh tension of whimpering, nervously biting his

one nudged the prone figure with getting on the wagun, attacked his pried a few grapes loose between ison with questions, wanted to know the thin slats of the crate and of- the tip of his boot.

In the big half circle wholesalers what was wrong, what was

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matter, but the boy only bawled of the first berries Union SS. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom

the harder At the carb the two!

Dave sair the stain The weather had cleared and from and joking. viz New Zealand, Vancouver," "San Francisco, etc.

whirling around, wet brother's face and a their lips and whistled toward the gon seat, frowning and drilling:

their stares.

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1935.

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5th July 2nd Aug. 7,000 SISE ANG.

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trackers detailed with the

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RAWALPINDI

TAKADA

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1935.

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7,000

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6,000 10th July 20,000 sh

"BRITAN

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nocer jerked at the reins, shouted He had done all his ordering and horseback about the wrangle, get-now was going from wholesaler to ting the lowdown on the deal "So wholesaler to pick up the go the wagon swing-out froRN

of horse and foot, of elephants and of heavy gum drawn

to haul in the crated grapes negro teams of ozen Clive's own line were talking genially to the cop was drawn up against the go grove. Its left resting an river, the British troops, forming

and sheltered, they could play their the centre and the sepoys guns the fiatrics

The enemy advanced wit

Andy Shanghai, Moll, Lobe & far fung

Kobe

Kobe

Shanghai,

his old

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