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. [ÁLL RIGHTS RESERVED.) A MAN OF FEW WORDS.

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D. MACLEOD MALLOCH.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 23RD, 1910. · ·

and weel I know that the old man wal talkin' plain borse-sease. So too son I want. Bogstavelled-East, and West, and North and South in a big tramp on a time charter. 1 shipped as third engineer, at Ban goon, the Flest died a fever, and I moved up a peg. After anither

at Bombay; and says the

year

I'm a little that way mysel',' says I, drawin' his cailin' carda. How do ya angtred this myself up. I saw fine I had made an imprsa. man pi son at I should be sorry to boommode lady, as I'll jist be going, apologies for my intrusion, and away I went.

"I hadna gotten sbune three hundred yards friend, and his two damaged retainers. Eh, sira! The look he gave me !

I tell him how I had knocked his mightiness over by accident; but I said no word about Nouraysha. For I kented the skipper world has given no help. In fact, ho

The cosy bar-parlont of "The Stoorm" Pegged out wi' fover the Second that was, frag the gate when I met my soowlin' Arab would likely has stopped, the whole business.

Public House, Rothesay, looked very inviting one

wet ovoning in early June. The hour was 8.5er tae me, 'M'Phedran,' says lie, Ye're a

lad if yo keep away frae women an' I jalouse ye already kon somethin' o' both. Ies wire hore tellin' me tae get anithor First engineer. Ye're young, 'Thadrau; but, laddie, I draw tao ye. The job's yours. Die me credit,'

Ginour said ho. **Heathen! Kays Ι. *An' we want oor several ways.

When I got back toe the ship, says the skip per too ne

an, Dugald, I'm glad tie see ye back. I've had a kind o preemoneetion of trouble no unconnect wi' women. I hope ya want slow shore. Ye kon we mustn't has ony treuble wi the untises; at least na until the coals aboard.

Weel says he, this coulla' is done wit you keep below till for I canna afford tus sacrifice my chief engineer the an Arab's in- jured dignity.

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cold silence was the recognisii recaption for the oye an' the pride of life wal attempt tae next day; an the averin' found me ashore aging through tho, bushion and cut at the

skirt.

„Lat_Munchausen Club," chiefly because of the † o'on had a gout the Pilgrim trade, We knock-leave my mark on some o' them minded tao gave me a sort o'tug in passin', but I hardly

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the

outside of the Firth of Clyde; and who now fod-forsaken African-unt witich for resito sides meself was the lucky word; but he glared-like Warlock, and wont, i

parser; on the

ed on

bit

That night. I-ield-my-sound all the story anns L

as I expected, he agreed tas help me throughs.

p.m. and the parlour contained a solet assor

So I wont below an' kopt myself" bpay blage of the elite of the officers of the various

about the engines a day. Thut at night I was Clyde river steamers then in the bay, or lying

away tae Nouraysha as soon as the skipper'? at the pier for the night. This bar parlour was

back was turned. That night we arranged the rendezvous of a sort of informal club, com-

"Eh, nits! I could have hugged that skip.

everything for the flight. Cassim and Nort posed of officers of the said steamiers; and was held store it to their use by the landlord. The per. Yo see, he was a Goran man himse!". It's

aysha were to gone down the the quay affor dark the night before we sailed; an

would- club had no actual constitution or membership, a bad place Govan when he's the Clyde

hide them on board till wa salled in the mornin', bat it was well understood that captains, chief The fun I used to he withe lassos on the Clyde

I wad has tao tell my second: but he was a kindly engineers, Brut mates, and senior puraere were banks but you ken. Eh! tut fut! I'm

Eight years, sir,' says I. Coal first, lad fras Partick, au would die onything for the only persons eligible for admission. No digressin".

after, if need be. An, I furned into Wool, onyhow, there was I, Chief Engineer, my bank, But no te sleep. I couldna get that offer of inferior rank dere intrude himself in-

So that night I was as happy as a King, to that sacred cirile. If he did, he was soon at the age of twesty.siz o' a 7,000 ton high girl's face pot o my mind's eye; and I kept and I didn't stay ower long wi Nouraysta nude to fell so uncomfortable that he would class carge steamer Yo'll easily understan' I tearin' her voice, in a manner so tse spoak. In. We didna wishes company for thn risk discovery, and we quickly retreat. In fact, he was frozen out. A was full o' good resolutions. But syo the lunt fae, I thought o her all night, and the most o hoped tae enjoy ench

rest our lives. Bas I went off early, introlors. The eligibles always referred to assert themselves; but for a while I kept them wa

a capstan bar for companion. These Afri-

gate their asemblage as The Club; but Irreveront sair handden door.

can gentry are maloscions, revengefu" devils; furthest frse the house. One of the bushes junior officers had been known to refer to it as Timas got land, and freights scarce; saa wa

and if I was the beattacked I and

it. But when I was halfway Las noticed it alleged extraordinary tales i that emanated there-ed about from Bombay to the Persian Gulf, Weel, Providenes spiled a great tactition harbour who should I meet again but Ibrahim. Frota.

This namo, however, hardly did justice the Red Bea, and generally in sneh bits o the when he made me ongineer. I had mir senes

**Accursed. lex, spitting on the ground, to the members-for many of theat ware men worrld ca are nearest holl. Then we ran short than the approach that garden twico fras tho Then there's twa o' us, save 1. al s who had worved long pataide," that is to say, ' coal, un tried two or thron ports without same piat o' the Comass. See I made a wide an no vera particalar where I spat.

I any. An finally លង់ got

orders tạo go dotor, th investigations frae the opposome went ou Ibrahim. He didna say anither sought their easier duties of the Clyde Pass-to a

- the place. Fleet before going into a permanent and sons which ye will afterwards peresiva, I'll no man!I I found saither, but it was fast bolt his well-cured Consequently nation The there the wait a coal tramp,

in near was a bole ed on batred, But name, well- frequently, dories-10-tell which might and the pick up ony odds and ends & cargo we tinter, which served by the pan, Au- had tossed S40 I reported tas the skipper that all was rendy

my could find.

Wo steamed into the harbour on a Monday the canber wit the boat in

in my time. Sae after a in my department, an at the carje was to he night, and tind un tas a sort of jetty. For a wee bit manoeuvring got up on end, and all on board the next day, he said he should day or two my hands were full gettin the en-then laid slantwise against the wall jet where leave at six the mornin' after. Then I told the gines overhauled, and everything spick an I could see the top of a bush wad screen me second to have all ready for the start twelve span. For though I may has been a caules from cheertation. I shinned up in a meenuts. hours earlier if need be, au' I settled down to Liver at times, I hau sye been a careful engin an had a fine view o' thin

For there was wait eor.

things. Well, on the Wednesday night, there Cassim, and preserve us-there was my laconic Waitin' is a hard business in a matter o boing yet no sign of the. cool, I sold tas the and scowlin' friend, the Arab, skipper that I wad jist tak a bit daunder on

this kind, and the hours suply crawled Ma certis, says 1. If yo're wise. Dugald, along. I got through the night somehow, bat shure.

me lad, yo'l get back too the ship. I can see the day was worse. I saw the skipper ereing Right, Mao,' says he. But caw sanny, lad trouble if yo haver round this nost, my man me whiles as if he suspected something There's a fearsome lot of Mölammedans here- And it's like I would have gone; but jist at wrong. But as I didnt go ashore he said no- abouts, Also the women folk are no copay that momeat out comes a servant an' summons thin Mayhop he theoht he was mistaken, No' that yo can see much of them, for they're his master the the house. Oayway, he got The loud went on all merain; and after the mulled ap. But their eyes are bonny sparkan went, and afore I kenned what I was doing heat o' the day we were jist tidying up when den and beside the well, an I was gazing on- moan my trusty capstan bar were in the garane o' the men saya tue me:

****Thero's au Arab boy woutin' tas speak wi captured at that lassie again. My! How I

Fe, sir." There

Dever was her like before or since,

At yince I lad mind 'Casim on my heart An'

foll. Aa' sure enough-it was Cassini, nu a *Oh Ye musta't come bore," she whispered. boanto sight he was. His face was like death. "Hasrt's desire,

I canno help myself," says I, He shook like an aspen, An' his back clothes in my best flowery Arabic,

were a' blood. Will Burdy Lord "My

y have you slain," says she "I took him to my cabin, for he wng near "It's worth

Bayk I. An' from that

faintin', I poured some brandy into him. wo progressed fasonably, for I was an ardent It worked; ant ho gaaned out: man in these day. She sot Cassini tao watch My lord, Ibrahim, knows. He found your the house; and we conversed tas por natual handkerchief on one of the bushes in the garden. edification for half-an-hour, Then she sent me Mel The tortured; and evou

her."

Bound

fearful and dubious to but which, none the lens, were teller's actual experiences in foreign

The mosting on the night in question was a full one and conversation was brisk. Suddenly the door was flung open and admitted a tall, in fact, I man, well up in years, but with a bodily Pery tal! framework speaking of enormous strength still well maintained. The IAN WRI romark. ablo. He looked as hard as a sal, and he was He had a sort of force prodatory

tory questioning look. A hard man to eroas, one would say, And yet, at times, his oys would soften and his month relax, and a droll, lorable

smile illamine bis lined and gnarled features. His nose was hook. ed; his cheek bones high; his mouth ordinarily

grim 1 while his square chiz, adorned with alors.

white gonton beard, betekmed a dour, determine can rely on mo, sir,' says I, an' off I od naturs. A scaman would at once have re-west. Binn, it was fine ashore that night. It cognised him as a Eugincér; and such_ko was; ----

A oborus of welcome greeted him. as wood to Cried about my voices,

to see ye. Give it a

typical Scotch Marine fair minds me think o' Ceylon's spicy broezes; } gazed termed mair frightened than verst,”

name, man;

Ye're vora kind, gentlemen, sera kind. I'm na' sayin' but what am gratitled to find ye can still koop a corner for a dour and engineer. Since yo'ro sa0

I'll just tako' a rap o'

Johnnie Walker."

When all had mottled down again, and pipes were lighted and going well, a bearded captais Baid

I see you've gotten the Raby out again, M Phedron. This'll be your first day for the season. What's sko, dolog w those new featherin floats P

itlarning a corner I ran fair and square against a binck-avised Arab. Me being heary, and strong, and hard, the Arab bounced off me like B gutty-ball, and fell back into the arms of two men who wore wi" him,

Dog! says ho tas me, when he got on his feet. Eh, sirs! He was an ungry man!

***Pig, mys I tao him. by way o' ropartse Shay Foxys lie to his attendants, pointing tan me.

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I kenzod it was her life, as weal na mína, if wa were since found out. Bae we arranged that. next night young Cassin should let me ja, the hole wood might betray me if I left it against the wall. An I thosht it indielo to make Cassin a present o' my sheath kaife; and thereby I made a friend.

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Map," said M'Phedran, "she's doing grand, She's jist going to show up all you boys this Niustem and a quarter knots did we do steady on the "down run this night. Man, how yo yo're botters. An I left him she's a fair trost. She's grand, I'm tellin' scowlin'!~~~

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fhis officer a' thin watch tus The Old Man's entertaining company in

3th for society. E wonder what it that made me

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that voice was jist liquid sweetness; jist the

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quintessence of beautiful sounds,

Now,

says I to mysol, Dugald, me led, unison.

this is worth mair than saperfeccial observation. Toed, I'd rather not tell it," ran. It's a tale wickedness and sin. But, asgore that man belang toe a beautiful

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Not at all, wag, not at all" enta ono of the ocht I, and the voice coming therefromtoin' i boken neck at the foot o' the hold. the body of one slave at him an' knocked

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skippers, yo call yer plain unvarnished täläs than all the namby-pamby cheerful foolishness ever invented. Bo up your glass and your pips, man, and let's have it."

Then says the voice of Wisdom to me,

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pit my bola o wood avainst the wall, and Paking dae anything that might inak. things deeffealt

There was Ibrahim as his two Podtaiha for the skipper. Howeit the thing was done

attendant friends; an theva-sorrow the day- I jiet tried toe dismiss it fras my mind. It

was Nouraysha. The devils had tied ropes 2 the tops of the four palro trees an' bont them | Anton was hard sse to das: for jist then I heard the sweetest voice singing that I erae heard an

down till the tops were half-ways to the ground. I have beard a a lot. Frae Nagasaki too Port

The Said I bse bad truck wi' wermen, and bounie This is the Sheikh Ibrahim, says he tue that by cutting a single rope the trees would be The ropes holding the trees were so arranged singers among them. But no human voice hae me. An' this in my chief engineer, Sheikh. released an would spring back to their usual I heard that could touch this yin. Ye may The Sheikh is giving me some carge, Mr. position. But the horror the thing was that Port Arthur Hangchow smile, friends; but yo'll no hae much smile MPhodman: an 'he wants to know how soon we by anither set of ropes one of Noutayslia limbs aboot yo when my story's finished. I spoken sail. Yo may has observed the collior is was fastened to each tree. These ropes Kiacchau

Weihaiwel but the truth. The voice was extraordinar" in the harbour.

elack when I first looked; m.t it was easy to see Imr

'nauthin' o' hand at

If she is a well-equipped ship,' says I, we that the moment the rope holding wont be Makden

Tsinanfu description; but

can post in three days

was severed the pair doomed lassie Right, ways the Old Man. Can ye have torn to pieces by the spring of the trees. In Bhanghai yara, a yarn," eriod the company in

your cargo on board in three days, Sheikh ? 8900nd, I was over the wall an racin' to- *** If Allah will,' says he, getting up the go, wards the two slaves for a life doarer than my "said 'Phod- A

An' out he went ecowlin' at me, and muttering own. If I could but reach them before the rope Tokohama tan himself.

was out I might yof save her. But it was not Hyogo God be mercifu' the me, I don't regret ma so-

"When to was gone, says the Old Man, to be. The slaves had their backs tae me, but Robe tion; no, not in one solitary jot er tittle. Forge

"D'ye ken him P

the arch-flond, Ibrahim, say mo comind. The see, boys, the man was of the vera spawn o

Cut, he

he shouted. A scimitar: Satin uu it's in my mind that the Almighty

trees sprang up. The

There was a borrible rending patized me to remove him from the sort

Bound. With a roar, I seized those two glaven earth. Dayway I did remove him; and I don't

on smashed their skulls together. My strength sleep any the less sound nichts. But it's

of Samson, an was the strongth wwer end a tale for var first gatherin' in the elab there was a low, arched doorway. A garden, I was standing by the main cargo hatch, an' if heads were liked crusted eggs. Tombin-came Chamalpe

I hadna managed the grip a rope had been at me with his scimitar, but I hurled

Thon sizing in "A wee while after, a big lamp of "coal from him to the ground. nowhore in particular whizzed past my ear, by the fest, I swung him round my head as a what the skipper said aboot avaidin' wrenen." 'A' verra fine, says I tae Wisdom, but a bit Twould have been ill for me if it had hit me; man swings bacamer."

the keek at a lassie con des mé nas tarru, nor her an' worse for the man who throw it, if I could either.' 'Go

Go yer ways, says Wisdom tae me. bae soon him. But deesil a bit o' him could I Tao Hell sold I, an' hurled him crashing M Phodran lled his glass liberally as toAn' ano I will when I've had my bit look at seo. All the Arab porters seemed as busy as down the well. For the time ye might count whisky, and sparingly as to water. Thon hay the lassie,' says I Fine I kenued I should has bees. I didan like it. It remind me o' Ihre four I listened. Then there was a splash, ing got his pipe in good working ceder, and passed on but I

I was

only twenty him. But the work went on without further

a moment I stood bewildered. Then Manila chief engineer

and fu'

pride.

incident and

the plam dat

wi a cry v trees, comfortably in his chair, and bögan

clean-up and my tea, and Went off to her

horror" I his yarn.

kind o pass 3

wi' my shoulder and as fuck see Neuraysha, for that was the laurie's name wild, demented kind of mat that reached *Weel, gentlemen, though we a' keu vin would have it the bolts worena drawn. Then I All went well that evening. She told me the the steamer stark an' bloody man. The anithar weel now, yet I don't think any oye found mysel' in a beautful garden wi' palm trees, had been married to Ibrahim for a

& year, can las keaned anything of me when I was a and all manner of shrabs and flowers. Process- that his tempor was awful, and his treatment skipper asked no questions, but proceded to Singapore, Penang, Malaosa, Prov. Wellesley

we were fairly half-way home, an' Ţ ]. Johara laddie. An' my legs, I was a laddie too! I served din'n bittie farther along the walk and roend i ermal. Her beautiful arms were covered with "ot delay. An' when I next really came a double apprenticeship, first as ship-builder, an a

atura, I came suddenlike on the very centre o' braises; and twice he had scourged her. I was in my bunk wi Caasim tao attend tae me. Pahang then as ongineer. Those were hard years; and the whole place. Man it looked restful. There would have wrong his neck if he had come be. Paix Ind dio, ho died of a chill when he they hardened mo. It pleased God to make me was a great big well in the middle, wi a sort o

nthoo. tween t

But I didn't jist kon what to London. a sort of second edition of Samson. I can way windluse arrangement for heavin' up the buckets. | dsa. I7

I wanted the lasie; sul I couldn't stand But lookin' back I try to hope that Nenray Buitenzorg this LIQ wi'oot vainglory,

. for youll kev me as a Four beautiful young pa the well was the the ither hand, aho was his wile. But I didna | gave no cry, un' it was a swift denih. But the! were arranged like the thocht o' that brate ill-treating her. Onsla was unconscious at the end. Leastways, she I was in what strong man now. Judge ye then

la corners

в кошате о which prime. I. and guid

while

centre. An' these palmie mair follows. But sot much store by heathen religions services. hochto Ibrahim even at tais time aye raises my Wir spare the parts and easy, venire. Any others pal

kind of small-summer-She neither did they spare the vittles tae keep ine honse or pavilion, near the well, fist bir enough was almost white din kon what her Linssion: It's a curious thing though, if reconste | French

was. But

just beauty itself, der it, that man hated me from our first meetia', parentage was. tao the mark. At twenty-four years of age to be a shelter free the sun. In the pavilion her nat

and nature all sunshine. I left hor that though little expectin' how our acqnaintanceship there WAЯn my

like on af

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