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Tuesday!ado HONGKONGATELEGRAPH OSIM October 15, 1940.

By Walt Disney

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"We Are Not Alone

FROM THE NOVEL BY JAMES

HILTON

THE hill heaped behind, with the dark shape of the Knoll farther still behind, the gradient spinning them into shadows of cold air under trees, and then into the bright glassy moonlight of the level. And after miles of

this, keeping a good rate, David began to whistle in pure enjoyment. He often did

Bo as he went about the country-side at night, and if people heard a whistling cyclist they sometimes said: "But that's the little doctor."

So now he went on whistling till the beginning of Crooms- bury Hill made him save his breath, and a few yards higher forced him off his machine al- together.

"This is a sleep one," he said, affectionately, to the earth and sky, and then paused in the midic of the road, feeling in his pocket for pipe and touneco and matches. "But we're doing fine-we'll easily catch the ten to twelve. Are you tired?"

my

No. but it hurts my knee a

"It's not for now-just through Lissington village and, over the next hül. I know all the country around here. You must have been a baby when I first put up plate. Hundreds of miles away in some German village I've never heard of, you grew up all unknown to me, all those years- to fall over one night and break your wrist in Calderbury. If you hadn't come here and done that I'd never have known you at all, That's a

funny thing. And it's funnier still to

that shouldn't have missed knowing yo

Some German village, wasn't it? Tell me about it.".

think

I

"It was a city, really-Konigs. berg. My parents both died whän- I was young and I was sent to schoolthe school 1 ran away from"

can

"We're at the top of the hill now. Belter Jurap on again. We go on talking." But at the foot of the hill there was a bad patch of road and crossing it too fast and with the added weight the back tire suddenly deflated. "We'll just have to puts on and walk David said. He took the machine

a field

and gale in

hid it in a hedgerow, Lent was limping and the Junction lights seemed far away s

arm

"Under arrest for the murder of my wolfa?”

"They're killing usmbuj we are not alone!”

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on the wheatfields, wakening the birds. He roused her and they passed on together. It was ten to six when they approached the Ho entrance to the ticket office. knew that the train would take them as far as Chartham, where they could buy the tickets and pick up an express for London. They arrived at Charlham at nine-thirty and had breakfast at the Rallway

sudden soft glow of the electric Hight her eyes melted to his glance. "Du kleiner Doktor" she mur- mured, dreamily. "Where are we going to? Where are you taking meri

Then

remembered she something he had told her she must not speak during the journey in case auyone should hear her foreign accent.

in the

middle of the afternoon, and

Arms. The morning papers had. They reached. London

Lind come in, and everyone in the coffee room was talking and

prophecying.

Most of the way to London Leni alept again, but this time the train was crowded and the leaned her head against his shoulder while he talked with the other people in the compartment. He sometimes stole a glance at the head so limp against his arm; it had been a long way to the Junction for her-poor child, let her sleep. But once she half- wakened, roused by the crash of the train in a tunnel, and in the

might Harbin Americans

some of her weight on him. "Just matter of stepping out

said, but when still a long way off they heard the train they had aimed for puffing out of the station. They had six hours to. walt-nb bardahin on summer night

that the or the road heaped Into a dry bed of bracken. was a big clm growing there. So when they were tired of walking

down

own on the turf and

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To Leave

TOKYO, Oct. 14 (Reutor). American residents in Harbin are preparing for evacuation, says a Japanese report

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my walked with the crowd on

the platform by the sides of the Train two men sprang forward and gripped each of them by the arm.

The little doctor - watched the autumn sunlight move over the floor, and when the last yellow bar disappeared he knew it was late afternoon

heard the Cathedral chiming five, and á warder entered with ten and bread and butter for himself and for the two other warders who had to stay all the time.

According to prison rules he was never left alone, day or night; but the warders were kindly fellows and tried to efface themselves as much as possible. They played cards or read newspapers or yarned together for hours, not worry- ing the doctor by their pre- sence, though they were affable though if he chose.to join them for a game. They would not let him wear boot- laces, or braces, or anything ho might possibly hang him- self with; because, "of course, they intended to hang him themselves.

The request that David had made, more than once, was to see Leni. She was lodged in the fail at Manchester, twenty miles away. where there was more up-to-date provision for women prisoners. He hind not seen her since the trial, a month before, and when he tried to remember that last glance he had he could only see the court- room, dork the close ofan autumn afternoon, grey figures moving restlessly and meaningless- ly as reeds in a stream, and some- where, last amongst them, her strange eager face secking his in a bewildered stare, What had it all been

about?

whole

at

And he didn't

dive know-the proceedings of arrest, police ques- iloning, grand jury, prison, trial

all were shadows of a shape less fate. They let him read re- ports of the trial, and to these he now gave a half-ineroiulous seru tiny. He could not really under stand. Then he turned to the and that another day was that was dark with buger fantasy current papers and read news nearly over, Presently heMons, the Morne, the Afspe

Conflicting Versions

Of China Hostilities

When David heard on Thursday morning that - Leni ¦ was, to bê brought to see him that same afternoon his heart overflowed with

LOT. They let her come an

clothes, the same that she had known whilst balancing on the back of David's bicycle along the Marsland Road, But

Ther

different from then; she had the face was Hille

le crushed smile that he had seen 'first of all when he had bandaged her wrist at the Theatre Royal. She come forward, stumbl ing a little, leaning at last into his arms, as he stood. "Du kleiner Doktor

Oh, du kleiner Dokter She began to cry, and all at once it seemned to him that the whole world was crying, crying for lost, impossible love.

Her first words were: "David, whatever you did, I love you, David. I told you that once be for, but you took no notice." "When did you tell me?" "The day I danced for you."

"Yes, I remember that, I'

try to remember everything-I try and I try but I can't think what really happened." And then suddenly he said: "Lent did you--you didn't-- you didn't do anything did you?" She looked at him gravely for a moment and then answered: "No. Did your*

"I didn't olther. Did you think I did?" "I wondered." "I wondered, top." Then ho smiled. "Forgive me. How could euch a suspicion—”

"But if it's really true that neither of then, who?"

"Yes, that's the trouble, That's why they won't believe us. They have to find some

answer. And it's so easy to prove things by avidence.

She put up her hand and touched his face as

as a blind person memorizes. "They are go- ing to kill us, David, though we haven't done any wrong at all"

"I know." And he added, seeing beyond her, hundred of miles be- Fond

her: "We are not alone." "What do you mean?"

These things are always hap... pening. Don't be afraid of death, It isn't the worst we have to face-- only the last. No, no, we should fear birth much more if we could look altead 01 It. If there's a next

to And world I'll try

and you in it as found you in this "Ob.

I

David David! Why

It have

have to

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happen like this?" Presently a stronger entered the

room and pinioned his arms with

a leather strap; he submitted to this without word for murmur. Then he saw the Governor and the "Good morn Chaplain standing by. G ing," he said and smiled at them. erossed the gravel walk in the

chilly

•The moring air. He stood on

little platform. A white hood was put over his head. Tho", noose. slipped over it and he suddenly re- membered Leni, and her little crushed smile, and that she too the same morrent in Manchester "Come with me go with me,

I don't know where, but there are a few of us, we make a good comTM 'pany.already, we carry, love in our hearts, we are not alone."

(To be continued to-morrow)

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