The Archive · 1925

Stil Ready to

£85 At North Station ready to go. vPield equipment, one banans, 1 two-thirds of a packet of cigar-eftes, but no matches.

8.42. Somebody's bodyguard heralds the: approach.of somebody. He "approaches and is: duly talled in the train, A sedan chair bringing up the rear is taken-on to the baggage van.

I-follow the: chair. with an eye comfort on the trip but 1 portly Chinese about four inches broader than the inner dimensions of the chair was there before me, 9.10 More trumpets, sta Fear of the train and relayed to the engine. This may be taken as a sure sign that something is about to happen or has already happened, 342 At North Station ready to go. So is the train. We go. 920 Have passed Markham." Road Junction, ro the train must soing to Soochow. There wa no way of being certain about it before.

(Note, "From here on all times given are "conditional" and subject "to Shange "without notice 'Phe' alt thick''that he put. a pers loud over the" crystal of my" watch) 9.25 Hn route, In the baggage van, with my portly friend bulging from the sedan chair and about 30 so-called soldiers strewn About on the floor. A' slight} odour noticeable.

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