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(Continued from page 7.) Paul-could we not say something
else 7—or nothing, ignore it?"
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They discussed, then dismissed Changte, British str., 2,579 tons, She watched him as he walked
Capt. Gambrill, from Manila, across the room strong, splendid, the question. Of pure Aryan stock,
Burschi was not that. There was Holt's Wharf. B. & S. was alone. Jewish blood on the mother's side. Hai Hing, Norwegian str., 1,455 The door shut. She
tons, Capt. 0. S. Olsen, from! Her brown, soft eyes turned again Could they suppress the fact? But
Swatow, buoy No. C2. to the letter that lay there upon her it was not possible. They were not
Thoresen & Co. sewing table. Why did it make her obscure people-Paul was high up heart beat more quickly! But now in the Law inevitably someone would official say something. Someone would re- you never knew-these papers....She looked at the direc-member about his wife's other
Burschi's grandmother... tion:
They discussed it again. "Yes-we must answer truthfuliy", nonestly," Paul Brusching decided. "It would
:
"An Herrn Assessor Brusching,
Arco-Strasse 8/111,
Emmenfurt."
"Destroy the letter."
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not be fair to the boy Kwayo Maru, Japanese str., 2.744 Ile must be told. 1
tons, Capt. S. Tabi, from Helene looked round startled. It otherwise,
Miike, Taikoo Sugar Refinery seemed as if a voice had spoken. will tell him to-night."
Wharf.-M.B.K. But no one had spoken.
herself her inner mind. out her hand.....
to her
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August 11.
it was It seemed to the young mother as She put if someone had stabbed her in the heart. She was not ashamed-it was not that. She had been proud; "But if I burn it, what use will of her mother's Jewish origin-it that be? It will have to be answer- had вестед
Interesting, jed all the same..., besides it may be
romantic, until lately, when that nothing! I wonder when Paul will
passion of hatred had swept through! come in? I am foolish."
Helene took up her swing again. the country against the Ancient
Race. But it was curious, she re-hutou, for Yokohama. She pictured Burachi to herself,
flected, they nad never mentioned it Cape St. Andrew, for Culcutta. working in his room. He was very to the boy. It had never occurred Empress of Japan, for Shanghai. proud of that room. All his treas to her-her mother's father-Bura- Haining, for Swatow. Bures were kept there. A stuffed chi's great-grandfather. Surely it Hang Sang, for Swatow. owl Onkel Hugo had given him-a
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cavalry sword, These hung över
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was absurd.
But she had had that feeling of Marly, for Bangkok..
Newchwang, for Shanghai. premonition when the letter came. Fresident Cleveland, for Shanghai She recalled that now.
Scotland Maru, for Dungun. Suddenly Paul Brusching seemed Wing Wo, for K. C. Wan.
to pull himself together.
"Mucken-we are making a moun-
Wednesday, 16th Aug. at 10 amphotograph of herself and Paul as the paper-give it to the boy to take
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Helene Bewed busily-her right hand drawing the needle in and out almost with the regularity of a machine. But her thoughts were with her son, not with her sewing.
Suddenly a quick footstep crossed the hall, the door opened.
"Ah, Paul. Good evening." Helene
rose and welcomed husband. He laid his hands on her shoulders, and looked down into the softly rounded race, the brown eyes that smiled at him. Then his own eyes went round the room.
"The boy back?" he asked, How alike they were, she thought. And already Burschi's voice had faint tone of his father's. And his eyes-his hair-that quick, decisive
back to-morrow. Finished, done with!"
B
RUSSIA.
(Continued from Page 6).
Paul Brusening began to whistle
gay Lune one of Strauss's lions and they sold to us nearly Waltzes.
£20 millions worth. Moreover, it is "I'll just go and have a look at row known that the Russians use Burschi," ne said. "He maybe British credits and cash in buying| wants some help. Those Greek American and German machinery.
Why do we do it? There is a herverbs."
He went whistling from the room. French word for which there is no The sound comforted Helene. equally forcible English equivalent, Helene listened as he crossed the namely, engoument, a madly per- hall. Then she took up her sewing. verse longing for something hurtful. To-marrow, first ining in the morn-The British trade unions and the ing, she would go to Knopf's and British working classes have. get the stuff for the brown shirt. engoument, a perverted passion, for How boys loved dressing up, men, Bolshevism, and it is to please them too-she thought indulgently. Paul that Mr. MacDonald has for the himself would be perfectly happy if third time put his neck inside the he could dress up in a uniform. Bolshevist noose. They were af more of lass children, "What are you thinking of?" "Burschi and you" Helene an-nen-more or less! swered. "You are growing as alike! A smile stole into ner face. She as two peas. He is working," she laid her sewing aside, and going to
manner.
added.
:
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Twice have Russian trade, agree-] ments proved fatal to his Govern- ments, as would this one, for even The British 'workman is beginning to know something about Bolshevista, but that Mr. Baldwin keeps him in office.
opened it and listened. Bcross the hall, from heard them room, she
the door Then her gaze fell on the letter. From A small crease came between her Burschi's eyes. She turned to the table and laughing together. took it up.
Those ignorant class-warriors who still believe that Russia is a vast market for Qur exports, a huge future field for exploitation for our
"It's my own silliness!" Sne am I. foolish The sooner it was opened, and she chid herself. "I knew its contents, the better. It woman. These instincts, intuitions industrialists, I implore to read Mr.
-Donsense!" How happy tney Mark was nothing at all, of course.
Her husband seated himself. He were together, father and
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so long as the present political and chosen as Standard-economic regime prevails, the 160 She also had seated.nerself. Shejhaving been Look up her work, but her hands re-bearer, They were all three very million Russians are economically mained motionless upon her knees.guy at supper.
"AENEAS“ valueless, for they have no purchas But all the time there was ang power, and can have none, for She could not sew...she sat wait-
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the paper. The clock on the writ-Was it a premonition? A ing-table had an unpleasantly loud times she suppressed it, telling her members would only take the trouble
self she was a foolish woman.
to realise this they would, see that Now Paul was telling him..
British capital could be more profit. That clock, it ticked maddeningly ably employed in any other part of again.. Curious, she had never the world, and that trade with Rus
tick.
Then she saw a frown gather on his forehead.
"Paul-what is it?"
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"One of these damned papers to noticed how harshly it ticked. She sia is, like the World Economic He held would change it for the little silver Conference, one of our Socialist fill in. Theré, look at it."
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eyes. Blue-blue, not brown like-the father of her son. 6th Sept her own. --
6th Oct.
She raised her eyes and looked at. him.
“Paul-——"
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"No...What did he say?"! Paul looked at his wife. "He said nothing."
"Nothing at all?".
"Nothing. He was quite silent-
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"But, Paul-it was only on one might not like it," she decided. "In it the first thing. It already was. side, my father was Christian, of some ways," she went on, musingly, a shirtlerd
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