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THE CHINA MAIL.
Republic of Portugal ROMANCE OF CRACK
23 ANNIVERSARY OF
PROCLAMATION
To-day's Celebrations In Hong Kong.
MACAO OBSERVANCES
To-day Portugal celebrates the twenty-third anniversary of the proclamation of the Republic.
I Hong Kong the occasion will be observed by an
official reception at the Club Lusitano ut 11.30 by the Acting Consul General for Portugal, Mr. Pedro Vicente Botelho, to which His Excelleney the Governor, Sir William Peel, K.C.M.G., officials
of the Government and leading General
Antonio Oscar residents of the Colony have Fragoso Caramona, President been invited.
A ball will be the Republic of Portugal. held at the Club in the evening. MACAO CELEBRATIONS. The celebrations in the neigh- louring Portuguese Colony of Macro will be of a more elabor-! ate nature.
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other vessels have been trained un- der him.
He owns a picturesque little farm in the Aland Islands. and there, he says, he would much rather be than driving wind ships round Cape: Horn.
He is going to retire now, and à new master will take the Parma out from London. The new mas-- ter is 33; the new chief mate is 24; and the oldest of the crew ini 20.
The Herzogin
Cecilie and the Pamir, shapely fouranastere, are al- ready on their way to Australia, and the Swedish training-ship Abraham: Rydberg passed down-Channel the other day. Soon the Parma will be def after them, outward-bound to South of Australia, to race around the Horn
aguin scupper-deep with grain.
NOBODY'S HOUSE
Contranet from Pad M
A1 6 a.m. the "Reveille" will sounded at Government House by the Municipal Band, roll of notes. She knew the value Mrs. Park's gaze lingered on the which will then march through of money. Besides, she was alone
the city.
went straight to the library dour, while he flung open and passed
light. on the crest of the following candie
The man
he
The library was a along room in an At 8 a.m. the official ceremony might be dangerous to thwart.
on the great house with a man at angle of the house. A long row of windows fronted the hearth, and of hoisting the national flag wil
"Come," anid Royds, "here are two more faced the door. The walis out al be carried
Government are five-pound notes.
Take them were of oak panels stained a maho- House, and at
noon a salute of and act like a sensible woman. Then any colour, but in that dim light 21 guns will be fired.
shat go to the library, and you they looked black, as If they were A formal reception will be will make me a fire. Is there any jhung with funeral trappings. "held at Government House.. at furniture there?"
the lingered between which His Excellency Lieut-
"No," multered the woman, her door and the first of the windows, Colonel Miranda, Governor of gaze atill on the roll of bank notes. Mrs. Park, half-closing her eyes, Macao, will receive the officials "Then, if you will permit me, I hurried across to the fireplace with of the civil and military depart-will take a chair."
the seuttie. He seemed to be search- ments and leading residents of
He picked up the notes again and ing for something. the Colony. In the evening a transferred all of them but five to found it.
Presently
ball, to which many Hong Kong breast pocket. With these five "There's a hole in one of these residents have been invited, will the advanced and pressed them into panels," he announced. be given by His Excellency at the woman's hand. Her fingers Mrs. Park's heart gave a leap. Government House.
closed over them.
"Yes," she stammered. "It's a- A Happy Country.
"I'm doing wrong," she_muttered. a bullet hole. The shot lodged After many years of political "You're doing right. I get the there after-after-" strife amongst the national truth to-night if I have to summon parties. the Republic was firmly the devil himself.
"Yes," he said, quietly, "I under- Now come andjstand.” He crossed the room with established in 1910, after a help me make a fire in the library."the chair and sel it down at that hort, but decisive. rebellion. She turned heavily away without corner of the hearth which faced Since that time Portugal has a word and went to a cupboard, the door and the damaged panel, Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Cun-been one of the happiest coun- from the bottom of which she took "And that afternoon, over twenty staatioople. Pireaux, Smyrna and other Levasi Ports by steamers of the tries in Europe and is to-day the bundle of firewood and on old years ago, I was sitting here-" Khedival Mail Steamship Co
envy of her neighbours.
sheet of newspaper, which she drvo- There was a crash as the scuttle Much of the credit for this is 'ped on top of the contents of the fell from the woman's hands. All due to the wise and careful half-filled scuttle. Then she li aher horror and amazment expressed administration of the President, candle in a brass stick and motioned itself in one thin, muffled scream. General Caramona, and the able him towards the door He picked "You were sitting there! You! assistance of the Premier,up a chair as he followed her. Gerald Harboys! Gerald Harboya, Senhor Salazar. who also occu-i The house was very still as they the murderer!" pies the position of Minister of passed through the kitchen and pas. He answered quietly: "Gerald Finance.
sages leading to the hall. Their Harboys or Stephen Royds--God the uncarpeted floors help me, what does it matter? Mur- Throughout the present world footfalls on crisis Portugal has been able to rang out sonorously through the derer or not--only God knows! But present favourable
hollow shell of the house.
I shall learn to-night. Light that Budget
To the woman this shattering of fire, woman, and leave me." la silence which seemed almost sa- She left him, and stumbled blind- her
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1933
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Don't look like
"I remember....I remember......
and to maintain contentment amongst her people. She has cred was a new weapon put into the ly back to the httle vulgar room be- been well supported by Colonies in Africa, South Amer-nerves cried out in protest at each stronger than terror drew her back and the East, some of them of the man's heavy steps. Around to the outside of the library door. actually having been able to show a credit balance during the her, in the shifting penumbra bo. there tremblingly to wait and to lis- past financial year.
yond reach of the candle light, above'ten. her in empty upper chambers of the Harboys, to give him his real
vern, and those long talks under the, right! And you said--I remember house, all manner of sleeping hor-name at the last, settled himself on time-trees in the Close on summer now-Give us a peg, Jerry. I'm froz Maceo has struggled bravely rors, shapeless abominations of the the chair and at first busied him-nights? And study teas?
And en. There's a devil of an east wind.' against the many difficulties en-night-world, seemed to waken and self with the building up of the going up to Lord's?"
Peter! Peter! countered during the crisis un-listen and draw near. The silent fire. Then he took a revolver from der the guidance of her Gov-house seemed full of stealthy movo-Jhis coat pocket, and placed it upon
He babbled on, while kaleidoscopic that! I'm remembering ...remem. ernor, Lieut.-Col. Antonio Josemont, and each blotch of darkness the mantelpiece within his reach, pictures passed before the eyes of bering. Oh, God, have mercy..... Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong Shanghai and Japan Bernardes de Mirands, who, in was an ambush peopled by the lewd This done, he looked out across the his memory, Cool, dewy morning. have mercy!"
the six months of his governor- phantasms of her mind. The man room with a steady gare.
and the cricket éleven tumbling out A hoarse scream echoed through ahip, has already been respon-walking behind her seemed
of houses for fielding practice: rown the room, a chair reeled over with a to be The Sirelight wrought strange The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom vis Newsible for many developments and without nerves, or he had so stimu-patterns among the shadows, but in of languid boys in dim classrooms crash, and then followed a frenzied
improvements in the Colony. įlated them as to bring them entirely the swiftly changing measuṛea
of and a scratching of pena; bright shouting. His Excellency the Governor under his control.
this shadow-dance he found nothing sunlight, and white shapes moving is also endeavouring to carry out Evidently he knew the house, for of what he sought. Presently he of a green award; crowded touch- damn you! when you turned · your The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and several schemes which he has injhe passed her in the hall taking the began to speak aloud, quietly but lines, and the scrum forming, and back on me... ¡like that.
mind for the welfare of the lead in the procession of two, and very distinctly, so that the shiver-goal-posts standing up stark against shot rang out; then another. Colony, including the connection ~
ing woman outside the door brought grey November sky, in each and Then silence, enfolded Nobody's of Taipa and Colowan to the ments in the city waterworks, a her hands to her tightening throat, all of them he caught a wavering. House and its one living inmate, a city, development of the har-plan for a Botanical Garden. A "Peter, Peter." The tone was al-vanishing glimpse of Peter Marah. swooning woman, who clung to the bour and the small Industries, forestry expert is now on his most wheedling, "Can you
"Poter!" hear
he cried out again hk balustrade,
Won't you
It was half an hour later when the completion of the Macao-way from 1ision to take charge me? I'm sitting in just the same "Can't you hear me? Shekki
come back. Mra, Park forced herself into the motor-road, improve- of the work.
place that I sat that evening, with come to me? You do my bad leg resting on a stool. Here They all say so. That woman hears library. The red glow of the fire am I, and here's that damned re-you. You-in your scarlet coat. as was still dancing on the wallo and volver. Now, Peter, won't you you came In that evening. I remem-door For a moment one ruddy a fantastic They say you're always ber....when I saw you lying there am seemed to take
shape-ke the prostrate figure of here that you can't rest because the blood scarcely showed, your best friend abot you. Did I was sliting here waiting for Muriel. man in hunting pink. shoot you, Peter! My mind's A} I heard you both come up the drive, Harboys lay crumpled and face blank- blank! For twenty years Muriel was laughing at something downwards across the hearth, the I have been trying to remember, I You were both talking to the groom rolver still in his hand, the ugly have not known peace day and night outside. Then, I heard you in the wound in his temple mercifully hid- for twenty years, Peter. Oh, come hall, and. Muriel ordered tea and den. To that end had he remem and tell me I want to know-to went upstairs. And I thought: bered.
She doesn't come in to me me, I'm Where there had been a bullet know. There's something, wrong, Als der Peter. I couldn't have done it. How crocked. It's all Peter, Fetar, Peter, hole in one of the panels the police
Lendon vis Panama Canal.
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1935.
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could I have shot you, boy By God! I said, 'I've been blind next morning found two. They He relapsed into silence, his gake well as lame. The things, I've seen were side by side and scarcely an never leaving the space between the which they pretended were nothing inch apart, door and the first window. After a The things I haven't seen, but long minute his voice broke out heard of in whispers and hints. All ¡in a moment' my brain caught fire. again, clioked and almost tearful.
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Is it because you hate me that Damn you! I said, "I'll teach you you won't show yourself Peter? Was to make a cuckold of a lame man!'
here on the 8th, instant at about 6 I made? And did I do it after all? Then you came in.” THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION. One way or another 1 heard him utter a boarse cry The R.M.S. "Empress of Aula
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want to end this agony to-night. Ob. "Tetet! Petar Oh, God, I'm leaving Yokohama on the 4th is duo God make him marciful to mel beginning to remember! You stood at Hong Kong on the 11th Instant Peter. We'd been friends so long, where you're standing now,: touch" at Noon, and bounds for Manlia on School
don't you remember. Ways, ing the handle of the door, - That's the same evening at 6 p.m.