1940-05-24 — Page 17

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 24, 1940

Mrs. Hall presenting the shield

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to Miss Chan Yin-kan who won the High Jump at Heep Yunn School Sports.

An unusual shot showing students of Hoop Yunn School giving a tennis courts were opened on display of marching when their new Saturday.

One Winter's Night

perious, official knock

sounded

like the remorseless hammer strokes of the crack of doom.

step of the front door. But-it was not the police after all! Almost as bad, but not quite. It was Smith, one of the carmen from the warehouse. His words came to Griggs as though from a great distance:

(Continued from Pape 16) The way he'd taken off his coat and

A moment later, white faced and doubled back on that policeman had. been because he was flustered, really. shaking horribly, he was facing a tall, the door- True, it had been a lucky sort of flus-official-looking man across ter, in a way, but an expensive one! The copper hadn't recognised him as the man he was pursuing, but it had cost him, Griggs, a cool two hundred pounds! The whole of his ill-gotten gains, so that he had ruined his good reputation, and what was left of his life (for he did not deceive himself. Discovered or not the rest of his life by that was going to be haunted nightmare!) for just nothing-except to get his own back on the old firm!

He tried to feel triumphant about that but couldn't manage to feel any- thing other than very miserable, and dreadfully frightened.

His reputation, now. That had al- ways been a good one, everywhere. People had said: "A good fellow, old Griggs a hard-worker, and as honest as the daylight."

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"Hullo, George. I got a message from Mr. Wells-he says will you be good enough to step along to the ware- 'ouse as soon as maybe. He wants to see you, important."

And from an even further distance he heard himself replying:

"All right. Alf-I'll go along at once."

Mr. Wells, was the senfor partner- not the one who had sacked Griggs. And His name wasn't Wells at all.

the Senior when Griggs crept into Partner's room, he was vaguely puzzl- ed as to why Mr. Wells should greet him with a genial, almost an ingratiat- ing, smile. Not a bit as though he was a suspected, or detected, thief,

It was on the tip of his tongue to burst out: "All right, Sir-don't take .1" no further trouble. I done it. But before he could salivate his dry throat into working, Mr. Wells spoke

They wouldn't say that of him any longer, not the last part of it. And the first part didn't mean much when you were in prison

you always had to work hard in prison, anyway,

he reckoned. They saw to that.

Maybe they'd give him twelve months-maybe six-perhaps three, At the best, being a first offender and | first:— an old man they might "bind him over" and then he'd have to face all those people who had thought him an He honest man, and respected him. didn't know which would be the worst, prison or that!

The next day he did not dare to go out. As usual he remained in hed until well after mid-day, and then rose and had a meal. But the food went down again almost untouched, and Mrs. Woods his landlady, noticing this, and also the fact that he did not, as usual, go along to the "Crown" for his pint before they closed at 3 o-clock,

ill. commenced to wonder if he was She hoped not-she did not want to lose so good a lodger.

Meantime the object of her not en- tirely disinterested anxiety was crou- ching over the fire in his room, with a face the colour of the paper he was reading with wild extended eyes:-

"Clerk, embezzled £25 of his em- ployer's money, three months, Goods train guard, stealing ten pounds of tea-six months, after thirty years' service loses his pension as well. Man

stole a loaf from a baker's cart. Said he was starving, but got a month's hard labour!"

If that was what they did to poor devils like those, what would they do to him?

And then, suddenly, his heart seem- ed to stop beating. The breath fought-

reeled in his throat, and the room about him in a mad whirligig of red- and-yellow-and in his ears that im-

"Oh, hullo, Griggs I sent for you because. I've decided that it was a bit of a mistake on Mr. Trent's part to without a think it economy to do

And 1 damned night-watchman. funny thing, but last night-the very first night you were not here--we had an attempted burglary!"

"Attempted burglary, 'Sir The words

.?"

burst from old Griggs' throat almost like an explosion.

"Yes, They came in through the window, but seem to have been dis- turbed. They went off in a hurry and all they took with 'em was one of Duff's dummy packets! They left the real envelope on the floor! Ha-ha! So there was no harm done. We haven't even bothered to inform the police. And we don't want it talked about, so keep it to yourself. And if you'd care to come back to us, I shall per- sonally be very pleased-and we'll say nothing about the bonus you had you can keep that!"

Mak

And that is why, since that day, old Griggs has attended chapel every Sun- day, and why he made that bequest "to the service of God, and especially for the assistance of first offenders against the law,"

For it is truly said that: "a fellow feeling makes us won'drous kind."

Mrs. Dowbiggin, wife of Lt. Col. H. B. L. Dowbiggin, had her earrings snatched in Pennington Street at 9.30 a.m: yesterday."

(Continued from next Column.) tween the United States and other commercial American countries in aerial navigation and the creation af new American lines.-Havas.

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