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name until it was hung on a peg

of his mind,

TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1934

FIRE IN KOWLOON.

PAPER DYER'S SHOP DAMAGED IN MONGKOK

to the ground and first floors of Firo caused considerable damage"

230 Sni Young Chol Street in the Angeln topk a step toward Mongkok District shortly after Pablito. She was between him noon yesterday when the contents and the dour, he saw, shaking.of the Hing Cheong store, paper "And you, the fruit of sin, rob dyers, were completely destroyed. my children of their bread!" she ncroamed. Pablito's mouth

was dry from hunger and fear,

"I get their filthy money, a few centavos and fower pesetas, and you eat you eat!" She raised her stick.

Alittle inter Angeln stood erect, the stick still gripped In her hand, "Never have I given to you this hardness of beating" she half shrieked triumphantly. And in saying this sho was just.

Whon the night was black and, real and Pablito found he could manage to move he crawled from his corner of the shack. Outside,

sick and dizzy from path, he had to pause. He was going; he would not come back. He lurched, swayed onward. After a bit he found a path he kraw and after a few feet of travel on this he cank, unconscious, to the hard beaten ground.

The outbreak occurred in the roar part of the premises and at 12.31 |p.ti, a messago was received at the

Kowloon Fire Station. Apparatus. from both Mongkok and Kowloon Stations was despatched.

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The Inflammable material on the ground floor was well alight by the time the brigade arrived and con- aiderable damage was caused the house. The contents of the

floor word. ground

completely destroyed and part of the first floor was affected.

The fire was subdued in half an hour.

is my wife and my child!"

Norrla Noyes, having assembled a chair food, carried Pablito to by the table. The boy gulped down the food, stuffing it into his mouth with grimy fingers,

The man was again making queer noises but now Pablito didn't mind. Noyes had said in Engliah, "Unless you mend your ways you won't make a good club

As Pablito sank to the ground. a gentleman who knew himself to be Norris Noyes wat by a stickyat Princeton" Then he laughed, table staring into an empty glass. Around him was An unpleasant din; nhove him roonis where sailors and dock-hande hurried eagerly.

Jake, the proprietor of the dubious place, said. "Anything more, Mr. Smith?"

Noyes answered in a voice that

not quite steadily, for laughter was almost forgotten by him and It hurt a bit to recover it.

Pablito picked "What means this?" be asked.

un A fork.

"Es una tenador," said Noyes. "They have great importances to people who are not tall enough lo ace over sma!! measures."

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Then he rose. He had thought that through drink he could dim his ache for a world he had known He wanted a deep chair in a good club: the right to walk fearlessly where he would; shop windows: theatres; warmth; good food. But he had only his shack and the loneliness there.

"Come again, Mr. Smith," said Jake.

"probably shall," said Noyes bitterly.

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Pablito felt the arms that were around him tightening.

With the passing of a week Pablito's fear began to evaporate in the warmth of kindness. "It in a good place," he remarked again and again in his low class Spaniali, and it was good place. The water on either side of the island was shallow, providing two paletten of riotous colour. At the narrow end of the island that stretched to ward the sea was deeper water and there the boat was dragged to a steep, businosa-like looking beach; At the wider and flat end of the faland was inundated land reach- ing, to the tracks at low tide was high.

The man lifted the child and awoke to eat and ate again when Pablito's life was simple. He carrying him, walked a long way the sun was in the middle of the over a train track and down cmbankment. Then he

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Inid sky. At night there was another Pablito in a boat and after step-meal and then he went to bed. plug-into-it-pushed It-of-Pablito Between these maala-stretched tried to get out but the man caught hours for play and peace—utter- him and held him closely.

pence! After quite a litle trip the matin Pablito. one morning said to Some weeks after informal adop- beached the boat, lified Pablito Noyes, "The wind makes the trees acain and carried him into a shack turn in their beds and they where, for a little time, with stretch- lantern lit. be sat by Pablito un a couch. Pablito kept patting his arm. He didn't know why, why the man had sea water in hising English, with other more im- even when he said, "We'll stick Together"

the small blond boy who was journ

Noyes looked for a long while at

what will come to you, I don't portant things. He said slowly, know. All I can teach you is kindness and the classics; to acc Nayes rosa; the child be fed and cared for. Pablito-and perhapa,

must the truth if not to speak the truth

from looking around, saw a shiny thing example, a

my bad loathing of strong on a shelf ticking. Pablito asked drink." what I was in his low-class, but; Pablito arose from his heela ready, Spanish, and in faltering where he had been squatting and Spanish Noyes answered. "The stretched. The earth was awake; driver of civilized slaves, a clock. One ents, works, loves, sleeps at its bidding and the clock hands and my inclinations have never Ingreda!"

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a train had pounded by and the smoke that it snorted had drifted away high, clear and almost trans- parent instead of hanging sulkily low. This meant to Pablito a long day of play in the sunlight.

"Breakfast now; breakfast," he said loudly and in English.

"We are becoming civilized."

The books Pablito was to learn by heart he saw as boxes; there were chaira, a bed, table and a stove that Pablite recognized by the tre in ft. There were pic- said Norris. "Shall we have it tures, too. One of a wenan and sent In from the Club, old man, or a child made him murmur. "Laknock up something for Andre Santissima de Christor selves?" Noyes said wearily. "No, not It

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