The lad, Geoffrey Carrington, 15 years of age, son of Mr. W. Carrington, of Jardine, Matheson & Ca., was slowly dying from heart trouble from which he had suffered for a considerable period, and Lawaiting the model junk "which he earnestly required to. go_along with the other steam and™ sailing yacht models on the mantle. piece of his room. The model, however, was delayed through th? death of Mr, James Magill, of Magill & Ca., forwarding agents at 9 Hankow Road, In his conscious moments Geoffrey re-pentadly asked for the model and his mother and cunt were at, their wits end to know what to do. In the mornings, at the postman's knock, the lad would eagerly say "Here is father's ship, it's come. But every day he was disappointed.
The lad grew very weak and persisted in asking for his toy until Mrs, Carrington wrote to the Port of London Authorities ex-platting the circumstances, "and begging the officials to endeavour to trace the packing ease containing the model.
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