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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY,

NOVEMBER

27. 1937.

P & O-BRITISH INDIA-APCAR AND EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS

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BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS

SYNOPSIS

In 1842, a British patrol ship captures a slaving vessel. Cap- tain Nuggin Taylor and his mate, Powdak, are taken into custody. They receive brutal treatment from Lieutenant Tarryton. Tay for knowa that Tarryton is in League with the elave

and

80,

synilicate

tells him Later, Taylor conspires with the Naval Commissioner's. Once tü trap Tarryton In his slave acti vities, Tarryton deserts the Navy and gets ready to sail for America on the William Brown, Taylor is to take the same boat. En route to the dock, Taylor meets Margaret, Tarryton's st3- ter, and her maid Babsie, who is also booked us a passenger. lie escorts them through

wild crowd on the dock, Margaret is grateful and Taylor falls in love with her.

CHAPTER IV

"SOULS AT SEA

novelized by

RICHARD MATTHEW HALLET

from the Paramount Picture co-starring

GARY

COOPER

GEORGE

.•

RAFT

The tall thin man wrapped in ringing slap. So-there might bel shawls protested feebly; but the another way of recovering the fateful good-natured crowd thrust him for schedules. wird.

"Good.' Hesitating, mild, he closed

De Bastone spoke with bony fingers over the farmer'. A well-elled precision, as if slipping

CANADIAN PACIFIC

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at Noon Dec. 24th .Feb. 8th

EMPRESS OF CANADA EMTRESS OF JAPAN

into place the bolt that must bur DIRECT TO VANCOUVER, (from Yokohama)}.

man with on unilghted cheroot in his mouth it a match. Mr. Elding Taylor out forever from his dream glared at the flame with a strange of that head holoed by the noon. light in his slate-coloured eyes. Suo- "Good. And now, my friend Taylor denly he had the strength of mad-

... shall we say-at dawn to-mor ness. "Awtf," crled the furmer. His row?" form siekted, his knuckles rapped. on the table. He dashed down his head in shame.. Nuw the match wax out. Edding was more feeble than ever.

gister." Tarryton cried, coming from behind, infuriated.

"But Stanley, he was only" A hleeup eut her short,

yes.

Powdah, lurking on the fringes of the crowd, closed his fingers on the round arm of Babsie the maid.

"My little sea-anemone, that le nothing." he boasted, "Now as for me, I can kill ten men before break- tast to get up an appetite."

"Drop my arm. Mies Margaret says you are not a companion for me,"

I was only Taylor's bic-Babsie faltered. cup was a manter-plece,

"Miss Margaret again. 19 she so

EMPRESS OF ASIA leaves itongkong EMPRESS OF RUSSIA leaves Hong Kong

...Dec. 10th ..Jan. 20th

17 Days HONGKONG to VANCOUVER

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"You were only" Tarryton's rich na they say, this Murgaret? Building

These jewels you were speaking of

diaphragm buckled worst of all.

His sister's peal of laughter was... Where does she keep them?",

cut short by other herup. "He was only curing me of sea-sickness.

The dance is a cure for hiccups," Taylor proposed,

"Well, then, one dance... Stanley. nust show thy gratitude. One dance, Mr. Taylor, but you must not say anything."

THE William Brown with all sul set moved slowly across a calmn sea. Taylor, lounging forward, saw the pale violinist from the Red They danced, close-pressed, and Dragon playing softly for a flaxen he said nothing. The music stopped. haired youth to dance a folk-dance Shadowed, they clung together and

"Under the transom in her cabin.

In a small metal casket her father sent from India. Why do you ask?" "Sht must be careful, that's all, There is a lot of roughserulf on this ship, remember... My girl, you are prettler than the picture on a Spun- Is doubloon. There will be a mo011 for to-night's dance, and you shall dance with me, Indy in the moon."

"50, You are reaching for the

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"Bounds," Tarryton cried. "The English government surprises you in the act of slaving and you say that

Overstop bounds."

with 14 pretty peasant girl. The said nothing. But his eyes tantalized moon, Mr. Powdah?" youth's mother, Mrs. Martin, sat her. Then he said, "if I could get n knitting, with now a smile for lier toe-hold on the moon, I would bring son, and now an amused glance at it down to make a halo for your old Schmidt the toy-maker, who head. It was against the moon 1 wound up a woolly lamb and placed saw it first

it on the deck: The Imb took a stiff"But Captala Taylor, you promised step or two, and felt over with a not to talk," Jittle "Ba---." Schmidt's little "I I promised not to say anything," daughter Tina seized it to her heart. he jested. "That is different. I am

"He had not got sea-legs yet. He a, man of my word too."

brittle

Babsie whirled out of his arm. The sun went down and the moon rose, bad prophesied. The as Powduli quarter-deck, lighted with red flares and lard oil lamps, was alive with little. music, But the ship rolled The flaxon haired youth, George Martin, wrapped in dreams, lingered by the rail with his peasant giri.

It in liite "Alleen.

u book," he

only half made," Schmidt "You are trifling with me then?" whispered book perhaps. But short

chuckled.

"Your broiler at least is not in a

may have happy endings," "Like our destinies," the Never-trifling mood. Look, he is conspiring books

with

ith his friend D'Artagnan there... Alleen said. They returned to the end Clark said a little sadly.

In fact, big with bottle courage, dance, and Margaret took their place The Reverend was not alone in thinking that his destiny hung by a Tarryton was on the point of advaric-alone by the rail, in dove coloured atin und silver slippers. She grip- thread. Stanley Tarryton Ing to the attack again.

ped the rail hard with both hands. came und plucked Taylor's arm.

"I have the honour to ask you again for the schedules I gave you.

"The schedules. But I swore to you not to part with them to any one," Taylor said blithely. "You are quibbling sir."

"I was never more serious. Re- member, the firm is still Taylor and Tarryton."

"The firm is dissolved," Turrylon grated in a fury.

"Then the papers remain with the senior partner," Taylor said ghity,

"Easy, my friend," de Bastonet the swordsman cautioned him.

"But she dances with him acain. You see?"

"Perhaps it is the same dance. The dance of He, M'sieu."

"He has betrayed me, What it itį.

he who caused Margaret to were break with Martiset? It was. I'll tear his shirt,"

"Even goddesses are subject to mal de mer," a voice said in her car. It was Taylor, with his sympathetic eyes, and his adroit hands. He look- ed slim, powerful, Intriguing.

"Leave me, I beg of you," the giri murmured.

"Not until I cure you." He opened. a chamols pouch under her nose. He shouldered Taylor impudently "This is Kali Saggi. The gamboes nway from Margaret.

make it out of roots, and herbs. It NOW you are overstepping cures nauseo, but-It may give you

hlecups." bounds, Lieutenant."

The Bagers of his left hand closed

and turned his back on Tarryton, "Bounds," Tarryton cried. "The

A thick voice cried pridefully, English governmeal surprises you in on the back of her neck, he pushed "Who can touch my knuckles to this the act of slaving, and you say that

I overstep bounds. bench?"

A Yorkshire farmer. squatted on "You are not the English govern- one side of the bench, challenged allment, remember, and you are not on comers to the farmer's hand-grip. English soll. This is an American A huiking allor tried and. failed. shup, and I am on Amerfest citizen. Crash. is knuckles split on the oak. Besides, the English government ex- Next?

oncrated me."

"You try it, Mr. Edding," little Tina Schmidt coaxed.

"Liar."

Tarryton slapped Taylor's face

the pouch against her nostrils.

"How dare you?" Margaret tried. "You, a slaver."

"A slayer, but I dare my duty al- ways. Confess, the queer feeling is gone."

"Why... y-yes, it is gone," Mar- garet confessed, surprised.

"I'll teach you to lay hands on my

(To be Continued.

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