1935-09-12 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1935

Talisman Of Happiness

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"Power!" she said again. cap tivated by the sound of that fateful word. "I am not vain, Harry, but I've seen myself in my mirror. I now I have it. Power! The power to do with men what I wish

She was directly before him NOW. He looked down, with melancholy severity at her flushed face. He jeald · find nothing, to say. · She touched him lightly: Her lips smiled.

Hate behind a polite nod. Harry shook his head. Training" was strong in him.

"Nonsense.” he said lightly- Nothing at all. Toom

"Don't use your passenger's tone with me, Harry," she cut in quick

I will not have it!

"You wouldn't understand, my dear," Crone- urged with faint mockery You must not bother

“Harry******

Bancrott's-eyes passed from her face to the smiling taunt of the "Thanks, Harry," she murmured other man. What he saw there You always listened to my trou-sent an incredible blaze of anger!

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She turned away and went out without once looking back The Fou must know, we've popped a boiler and it cuts my steam in chief engineer stood motionless, two.

staring at the swinging curtain. And what do you do, Mr. Ban- The elusive fragrance of her pre croft," that extremely polite and sence still lived in the cabin. It frigid voice wanted to know in haunted him. The ship was pitch-obvious amusement, "what do you! ing in earnest now. He tore his do in a case like that?" eyes from the doorway and reach- "You crawl into hell through a ed for the speaking tube. Had

furnace fre door and make ra to talk to someone about things pairs". he. understood. That starboard boiler. Holding all right? Good.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS watch her. He would be down

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·From

About

Toas Hong Kong

Destination.

He turned on his heel and strode out.

Refused' a masseur's license by Mayor, LaGuardia of New York, on the grounds that Germany is discriminating against Ameri- cans, Paul Kress, the "Mr. K." of the international incident, waren a farewell to New York:as her sails for Germany. A big crowd. of Nazi sympathisers bid Him bon voyage.

Harry joined his engineers. again later to look round.

Pratt, who had been peering intoj In the "Talisman's little saloon, the furnace, straightened up and where the half-dozen passengers looked gloomily at the steam-gange dined, Laura Kendale bubbled with needle. He cursed softly. The charm at the thief engineer's ship was rolling. nów, in deep, table. A deliberate and sparkling savage swings, clanging like a charm. M. Paul Crone, president smithy shop below. The shaded had to come. When I saw them of the traditional perfumery bear- lamp before the water glasses flew carrying him along- ling his name, enjoyed it immense from one precipitous angle to an- "Well, it no longer amuses me

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7.000

Bombay. Marseilles & London...

burg. Botterdam.

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Antwerp

&was not confused. He knew ex-

more

6,000 12th Oct Bhay. Mars, Havre, L'dan bg. Hy in a grave, middle-aged obesity other. The men seemed hopeless-Laura Crone's voice was harder of enjoyment. His relish was the ly trapped in the web-like shadows than that gale out there. "I was keener because, shrewd man of of the gratings over their heads. →

silly ever to have allowed this 9th Nov. Marseilles, Havre, London, Eam commerce that he was, he alone! Well, Chief" said Joe, waiting crossing in a broken-down ship so Steam right away! Those chaps that you might see your friend actly what was going on. And on the bridge didn't know what Friend, indeed! Seems looking at the golden beauty of the steam and heat were. No. They like a lover, the way you-" giri opposite him with that know-had no idea of what they did to

Harry tried to sit up. But he ledge upon him, he sensed fully the a man. And there was Harry couldn't He didn't know it, but power of his wealth and his station quietly pulling off his uniform coat Laura's eyes flamed wide again, as in life. His little eyes glowed. He and hauling on a boiler jacket if an exploding thought had reveal- could afford his luxuries. But Gold stripes weren't any good for ed to her an instantaneous and Harry Bancroft was in agony- that sort of a job. With a line fast splendid freedom. Her face was

A perversity in pleasure made about him Harry knew, too, white with decision.

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him take every opportunity of the evidently. You crawled in--but "Well you ought to know, Paul" chief engineer's company. He liked you were dragged out By the Harry had never heard that still that exciting feeling of compressed heels. Joe turned away, growling, strength in her voice, the voice of SAILINGS emotion between Lanra and that What a girl could do to a chap!

terested him. In a subtle way it before I keel over." Harry.grinned

Harry was the first man ever to Singapore, Penang, Rangoon and enhanced the value of her posses-faintly. "TH try to keep flat. So love me I can't forget And

sion, whetted his appetite for all you won't have too much of a job when I saw the future bliss he was to know.hauling me out".

"Loved-you?”.

M.S. "TAI a person leaping clear of a deadly fellow with the gold stripes. It in- "Well, Joe, I'll try to get it done danger "You ought to know.

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And it was a punishment for her, He pulled on his gauntlets. And j There was a tense sttliness in the too, for making him cross a wild just as he had told Paul Crone, he

room. Harry struggled to sit up ocean in such a ship when there crawled into hell through a furnace again. But Paul Crone had vanish- were all the comfortable liners to fire door."-

ed. The girl was laughing with a choose from.

"Stand by this line here, you silent and terrible courage. The ocean was wild enough, all fools!" Joe snarled at his wide-

Laura!"

cold and kept up without relief of

By day and by night the deep, rush-

men. Toen he glued his stare! She raised her finger to her lips

on

PING" 18th SEPT.

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12th & 14th Oct.

Zone 22nd Oct

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a's Buldings

NEW YORK STOCK MARKET

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6)

Agents

New York

29th Oct

LTD.

Telephone 23021

sales: Wheat: 22,685,000 bushels. Com: 5,770,000, bushels.

on Harry's boots..

and smiled. He watched her, The stifling heat and the stench fascinated. The stately grace of ing roar of the wind was a living of hot steeld gas hit him like her movement, and the tenderness presence. herding the waves a smashing blow in the face. and beauty of her face. She was savagely along. On deck it could Crawl, man, crawl! Lively. Can't right. She knew. She had the

"Cotton:---Prospects of clearing be faced, seen in odd moments of live in there for ever. That was immortal power. She seemed to

weather conditions are likely to weird revealing light. But in a place for fame and the burning neat towards that open porthole till

cause heavier hedging. We would Harry's engine-room all that how fire, not for men. Funny what men her head blotted the grey light. He

{favour scale-down purchases as ing and thundering was deadened, would do. Yon built an engine

the outlook for finished cotton- saw her lift something to it. It and the sudden, violent plunges of and you served it. It was your glittered shot points of fire to his that the recent leaders are reach goods is brighter. the ship took on an ominous mean- creation, in a way, and you be eyes. That Parisian purse, all golding levels where reactions seem lo- "Copper: A domestic price of ing as the floor plates dived into came its slave. The law of all

gical. We remain confident of a19 cents per lb. appears to be im- and expensive brocade, with 2 drunken angles. And there was creation. It was a good law. Fire pearl-eyed dragon's head for a further. Improvement în general|minent. that starboard boiler.

points and agony danced in Haz clasp. He saw it come up slowly conditions and we still favour Flash: Average daily petro- When it went at last, Harry felt brain The combustion chamber from her side between the thin. the constructive side for the long lemu production for the week a positive sense of relief. He Managed it, by heaven! Just room long fingers of her hand. With a

2,590,000 ending September 7 was pall. Business "done": wanted something like that, some enough to work Quickly though, slow and deliberate gesture shares

ated at 2,660,000 barrels, against "Wheat:--The market was thing to get his teeth into after quickly. The heat was like

| un-(2,665,000 barrels, the previous the slow torture of sitting opposite strangulating coffin of steel. No dropped it through the port into

the rannicy sea.

And turned to able to readily absorb hedge sales week. Laura, listening to her studied strength in him. There it was face hitt

and proft-taking. We feel, how The Edison Electric Institute EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS a hiss and a roar that filled the that was a ship's blood Leaks husky softness, "I've made a choice, chases on small setbacks for sales increase of 120 per cent from the galety. Anything! It let go with that hole, leaking steam, steam Well Harry" she said, with ever. from the statistical point estimates weekly electricity pro- of view, the market warrants pur-[duction at 1,752,000,000 kw.hy an lower regions of the ship. Harry, wouldn't do. Drill it out, thread it.

on bulges although the Canadian corresponding period of last year. Sydney racing down the ladders, saw the plug it up-

wheat estimate is bullish. Total!

The magazine Standard Statis tics report:

*Cotton: Hedge pressure and

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4th Oct. Manila Bahan Brisbane, 2nd Nov, Melbourne & Hobart.

7,000 7,000 30th Nov

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CHITRAL

TILAWA

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TALMA RAWALPINDI "BANGALORE CORFU

→stem.

1935.

fire-room

you see.

**Laura ***

she

charms, Harry, to get your wish.

am sure of it now.”

may cause.

tim-

some

first assistant half-way down He was working instinctively,

"When I saw them carrying you already Joe Pratt stopped on the through a red haze of pain and heat!,

in here, I knew what I had to do.” lower gratings. The firemen stood and sweat that drained the strength you've thrown away your talis- the door. backed against the bunker, bulkhead from his arms.

man, Laura: You shouldn't have "That sea," he said before be the accompanying marketing of with popping eyes. The engineer His knees sagged. Wouldn't do, done it."

stepped into the alleyway, "that the new crop of the watch came diving into the that. Not yet Hang on Put 2 You must do that with some sea did catch him an awful whack" setback, but purchases are ad

wrench on that plug, you fool! It

They could hear vised on reactions. He was gone 20

Wheat 15,000 19th Sept. Shanghai, Kobe, & Yokohama

"Well, that's her, Chief." Pratt was heavy as lead. One turn.

him, whistling down the passage. 10,000 19th Sept. Amoy Shai, Moji, Kobe & Osaka screamed carelessly, above the din. Another. It seemed miles and

Whatever Harry meant to say The chief engineer looked at the timates are likely to be revised 7,000 1st Oct. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama,

“She's gone and done it.”

miles away from him, dim, through to that was interrupted by the first girl. 3rd Oct. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohamn. 8,000 3rd Oct. Amoy, Shanghai & Japan.e.

"Draw the fires under it Joea space shot with leaping flame- Shanghai, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Harry's voice was cold and calm points. Get it done. That was the assistant, who burst into the room.

He was nursing the knuckles. of ruefully, Yokohama

"We'll have to cut it out and blow thing It's your job, you know his fist

thinks her down. Hop it, Joe. I'll tell the Nothing else mattered. Except the pig he said, with the Old Man Down again straight Laura, Laura.

15,000

7,000 6th Oct.

Amoy, Shanghai & Japan.

10,000 1755 Oct 17,000 18th Det Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama

6,000 31st Oct. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. 14,500 1st Nov. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohams

"All's well on the PcO

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away.

atmost simplicity. "I met that

He had no distinct realisation of chap in the alleyway, Chief He He went back on deck. They coming to his senses. He seemed

things abo had been expecting something like merely to have floated from some

Lend I didn't like this, but not in that gale. - When dreadful abode of fever into the bé came down from the master's cool

his own room. Band-

and passed through the saloon, Taura, was there, a little white-faced, and Crone, who sto with his face close to a strezz

port.

She touched his arm

Iship had slowed already, ro

couldn't bang

chen: wit

hide.

on the setter

"You see, Laura,"

The present crop es-

downward later and we still ad- viss purchases.

"Silk-We are expecting in- fcreased production. We advise traders to withhold purchi ses. An extremely active demand for ray- on, silk has been maintained.

ROBERT