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"Then you would hardly recognise the man if you saw him now p

Hardly. Was he long out here "Amany years. When a crtise was over- ho passed from ship to ship.

What became of him at last ?"

Jan Ketono eagerly and his oyes glisten.

Thon her father's erimo hasn't overslonded the girl's life as it did her mother's " he says.

Nobody has ever thought of remembering It gainet her."

"But, the relatives of the murdered man-1

"God knows, my lad! You soon loss sight appose he had relatives P

of a man at the whaling."

I dare say he's dead by this time."

Ay dend ouangh, no doubt.

The young fellow nods his head.

They can't forget it, can they ?".

"Well, that is the best that sould have he left behind him. happened to him.

Do you think so, now ?"

"I do. You're right, Jan. There was a mystery about the man."

"I thought se much, may Ind-" "He had committed a crime; a murder-man-old elaughter, at all events".

To tall you the truth, Fam the only relative.

You!" Jan has risen to his foot. “I'm his son,"

*

"Then the man my old comrade killed--—”.

He was my father."

There is silence for a moment, and then, the men saya, "You must forgive me, my lad." Why, what have I to forgive non for?" For talking of my old friend. It's only natural, you must hate the very name and ...thought of him."

Was it ever found out?!? "Yes; supiolon tastanced on him at last but he had gone before that."

Then his wife-was she dragged into the mesh, too p

CHAPTER III. Twenty years have passed, and we are on the deck of a whaling schooner, called "The Hockle," lying off the coast of Greenland. The captain is a strange man of whom little is known. He is called Jan the Loslander." and the impression is that he came from Iceland. He is one of that sort of whom sailors say, They've got neither father nor mother,"

She was, poor thing. The dead man and ho meaning that there seems to be nobody belong. had a dispute at an auation. Some hours later. the old sexton going home late at night heard a to them. int ha

as good as whaler as ever throw &

new, alone, and much agitated. Next morning da, and a good man as well. Indeed, he isy, and came upon Larry's wife in the dark- the recognised referee of that.whole whaling it was found that Larry had filed." feet. What with the ice and the fog, and the hard work, and the bad shots, the men think they want a drop of "blue rain" sometimes to keep their spirits going; but if ever there is a rumpas over the drink, it's Jan the Icelandor who has to settle it; and if ever there's a crime and blood in split, it's Jàu who has to be judge And jury.

This man, this saint of that lawless commu nity on the Greenland seas, is Larry Clough. He is now fifty-five years of age, and looks much older. He has never attempted to return home, having been waiting for the message promise by his wife. At first be used to watch for the mail boats which brought letters to the men, but nothing ever chrae for him. And when an

English whaler pat ap alongside he would be the first to board her, with How's the old country, shipmates?" And then, What part, boys as if thinking, perhaps, they hailed from the part he came from, bat no one ever did. On line nights when the work of the day was done, he would lean over the bulwarks and Ice House Street, Top Floor. Pernment look south over the sun, as if trying to catch Enlargements; Groups, Views, ste; Deval-sight of his own little country, to which he

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But that was long ago. Since then he has from ship to ship, concealing and finally passed losing his identity. He has had luck, the schooner Heckis bolongs to him, and he is reputed to be rich.

of pe

"Has nothing bean leard of him since " "Nothing. Justice was slow in those days. no telegraphs, no railways, you know."

"So they gave up the search, did they!"-

Well, there was a warrant for his arrest, bat heaven knows if anybody wanted to catch him." "I suppose the thing has got forgotten at last

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"Quite forgotten." "Nobody talks of it now?"

Nobody.

Then if my old shipniate were living still and thought of going back

No, to tell you the truth I don't hate him," "You don't?" "I can't."

"How so "

You'

've heard me talk of

my sweetheart?"

"Well, that's Larry Clough's daughter. We're going to be married, and that's why I came out here. My father ind ships at the whaling, and I cama to square up kis old business. And now that it's done I'm going home to be married and settle down."

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And you two children intend to forget the cruel old feud?"

Why not? Love is stronger than kate all the world over. My little girl loves me and I lore her, and if there's anything between us wall, we are going to wipe it all out for over and for ever

Jun sizes the young man's hand. God bless you my lad! God Almighty bless and love

There is hardly anybody alive who remem-you!" hers anything about it."

I think if I were ho-that is to say, if he's still alive-I almost think I should be tempted -but his poor wife, did she never hear from him "

"Never, that I know of."

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My comrade used to sand things though. I've seen him mysalf-mouey and things to someone--somewhere. Did nothing ever reach her?

No. Should have heard of it if it had. Fact, we always though it strange he never triod to communicate with her."

"Perhaps ho was waiting for a sign from har first to tell him it was safe; that the olond had blown over; that he might write at all events,”

Well, yes, perhaps. Of course he wasn't Not that he gas man to be afraid of any going to run his head into a balter." thing, but he couldn't want his wife and child to be disgraced."

So you think he was that sort of man do you, Jan p

But do you know you

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at length a young Englishman has come ont to the whaling. He is called Harry only, for family names aourt nothing where families are ne soconut. He is five-and-twenty years of age; and very bright and affectionats. Jau is greatly drawn to him. The young man tells the old one about his sweetheart, and even show's him some of her love lettare. Her name in Lucy, and they are to be worried as soon as hear the first that ever came from my old friend's

country?" returns home All the tenderness of the old maan'a starved and hungry heart goes out to the Joung fellow.

"You speak English as well as an Englishman, Jan. Ever boss in our conatry!" qays Harry

*Once. Yea. I was there anos.

Long ago Fol

́Â---many years'ago;

་

"Ton, Bfteen; we mich so that?”

Are, or more.

What port was it?"

Whitby.".

You'd see changes at Whitby since then, " "No doubt

*The railways, and the falegraphs, and and I don't know what.

"What's the railway, my lad?"

The railway? How shall I describe it? A sort of steamship that runs on the land."

Ho

fast does it geten knots-fiftown?" "Yes, and fifty to that, Jan." "You must be flying like the angels then,

the my lad. And wh■ Us

telegraph p An electrical invention for sending messages on wire. You can speak from London to

minute now!". Edinburgh in less than

"I do I think I do.

"Am I? It would have been strange enough, too, if he'd been here still and I'd been the first to come upon him."

Wouldn't it What questions he would have asked yon after all these years-about his wife, for instance. She's sure, I suppose, isn't the

"Ah, no!

Nop

She's gone, poor soul!"

* Gone!"

Dead and buried these ten years at least. **-- Ten-years-dead-boried.

"Pined away seemingly-waiting, waiting- for the word that never came.

They had been sitting in the cahin, and the old man has risen to his foot and then dropped back, and his head has fallen on the table,

What's this? Fainted? Hellon, there!" No, no, my lad, it's nothing. I'm all right. Yen touched me on a tender place that time though. You see I lost my own wife, and unne to hear of it just as it might be this way. I was on a long crtise, and was thinking of going back when the news reached me. A shipmate came along and told me--like this exactly, as it might be you telling me now-and she wa

dead and burled."

Way that's as quick as the lightning, my Là

"It is the lightning, Jan." “Wonderful! But I'm too old to get it into this cruise, is it ? "

head."

my

Wouln't you like to see it, thoughs"

"I'm not good enough my lad."

"Why, what do you mean, Jan?”

"People nowadays, having the powers

of

teed to be in my time, my lad?”

Then that's why you are not going home.

I're nobody to go to now. Home is home to me no longer."

And maybe that's why Larry Clough and you became such friends; you had that much

in common with the poor miserable creature,

(To be continued.)

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angels, of gods, aren't people better, than they ayat so, just so! You say my old comrade: TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

Not that I know of, Jan."

Nor more happy and contented?"

Can't say they are. In fact, some folks

are always lardeating the loss of the good old times they call them, "'-

But these changes you speak of, are they everywhere in England now

***Everywhers.

Even in the country places?"

from.

it

even in the little country town I come

Where might that be, now ?" wye Jan. "Down in one of the south counties." "What do you call the place?"

Rizoaks!"

"Sixcake! Do you know I've heard of Six. aks? Lon't that where there's an old country hure and a little country inn alongside of

It is; but every country place in England brings forth twins of that art, you know."

"But there's the status of some old good ma standing between them, isn't there P

There is the status of good old Father Clough."

"Father Clough! That's the name. I thought I should remember it."

You som to know a good deal about my country, Jan."

Do I may lad? Well, I ought to, if I don't. I've had English sailors off and on all my life, you sea." A

Some of them from our parts, too?"

Y

Yes, one,"

Who was that, now ?".

loft a

child behind him in the old country ?

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No. Shares Numbered.

In the mane af.

She is alive, isn't the "

Alive, and well and hearty.

young,

"A girl of fourteen or fifteen, perhaps, " "Then some good soul must have taken cars of the child?'

When her mother died she would be quiés.

wouldn't she?"

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"Bhe'll be quite a young woman now." "Oh quite quite.”

Married perhaps, eb?"

"Not yet but maybe she will be before long."

The young follow dives into his pocket, and brings out a crumpled letter.

"Look here, Jan. Came by the last mall. Don't mind showing you. You'll not laugh at me, will you? See both sides crossed-just like a woman, isn't it? Expecting you here soon' -the darling! Buch a wosky, weary time since you went away not half so long as it's bean up here, het my bottom dollar on that."

Jan nerveasly holds out his hand and

saya.in

a gnavering volcs," Might I now--would you lef an old fellow-I used to get that sort of thing myself once just to bring the meruery of old times-oh p

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Let you look at the letter? Of course I

“A poor man, who seemed to be in fronble of will. There you are," and he puts the letter

sort." In trouble U

some

Well, I thought so--there was a kind of mystory about him-he never went back to England that I know of."

What was his name!??

He never told me that. We called hire the Englishman."

"How long ago is it P It is twenty yestra

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Jan grasps it in his trembling fingers and

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FROM

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tries to read "Come home to me soon, dearWITH A NAVAL BRIGADE

Lmor" But his oyen are wet, and he cannot see.

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Fair, fan't it? Yellow hair with a golden bloem in it?

"That's Lucy to the life. You might have known

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"I was talking of your sweetheart, my lad, Must be the same, though must have been but I was thinking of my wife, God rest her"

Larry Clongh

You know him then P

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Goods not cleared by the 18th inst., at 4 P.I., will be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurancs will be effected by me in say case whatever.

All damaged packages must be left in the Godowns, and a certificate of the damage ob- tained from the Godown Company within ten days after the vessel's arrival here, after which no claims will be recognised.

H, A. RITCHIE,

Superintendout. Hongkong, 10th May, 1901, NORTHERN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

STEAMSHIP “ TACOMA."

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FROM TACOMA, VICTORIA, YOKO-

HAMA, KOBE AND MOJL... .... ..... HE above Steamer having arrivod, Con- signees of Cargo are hereby requested to. Bond in their Bills of Lading for countersigna- ture, and to take immediate delivery of their Goods from alongside.

Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel will be landed and stored at Consigness' risk. and expense

DODWELL & CO., LIMITED,

Agente.

Hongkong, 30th May, 1901.

SINGING, PIANO, MANDOLINE, AND GUITAR.

IGNOR CATTANEO, having returned

to the Colouy, has resumed Tuition TERMS

810 per Month. (Two LESSONS PER WEEK). Application may be made by intending Pupils through the ROBINSON PLANO CO.

Hongkong 22nd April, 201 (1078-1