THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1935
The Ghosts Of Beverley
(Continued from. Page 10.)
A young man and a radiant girl
RAPPA, turned towards Tom... with every
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symptom of astonishment:
What are you doing here** de-
manded the girl-
"I might ask you, Tom return. ad. "We happen to be the tenants of this place.".
"Oh!" The girl was surprised. "I didn't know my father had let the house. My name is Miss San- derson"
"I engaged the place through- Morton and Co," said Tom
They're father's agents. Oh, 1ị say," cried the girl, we've got to Lapologise for coming in like this. I actually got Boger-Mr. Calthorp
to climb through a window and flet me in. He did say there might jbe people here; but I always thought it was empty-it's my jfault entirely. You see, I was born here; and knowing the tame
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thought I'd like to see the place. Father would never bring me, so I got Roger to come. Do you mind Imuch?"
Not at all,” said Edna "It's natural you'd like to see the place where you were born.”
"Father wouldn't talk about it: that's why I didn't ask for the key." said the girl
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Throughout the broadcast Dr. Dafoe, who is in charge of the babies, made explanatory com- ments. while brief addresses were also made by Judge Valin. OPEN THIRD CLASS
All Ships A peremptory rap at the door president of the babies board and Mr. David drove them into silence. It was of guardians, repeated. So queer a feeling had Croll the Minister of Public Welfare for the Province of seized Tom that, had it been night,
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Edta threw a startled look at with iron-grey hair smartly ent to whom the hospital was open Bombay. Marseilles & London Marselles. Havre, London, Ham- Tom. The pair liked their visi-stood at the door.".
at any time were the babies" &tors, who were induced to "have "My name's Sanderson," he said- father and mother, who are
“I must apologise for troubling free to come and go as "The place, must have been let you, but my daughter tells me she wish."
Resentful Shriek before some time long ago." Edsa was bere yesterday. She had a remarked suddenly. Her curiosity{queer 'story —“
The babies voices as they demanded satisfaction.
He stopped suddenly, his eye, squealed and screamed
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a woman who came in here yester-going past Tom stared intently plainly andible, and listeners
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-the one you're on now. She says doing, be pushed by, striding and splashing mingled with an she lived here, once."
along the little hall into the sit- occasional resentful shriek "That's funny.” The girl's ting-room- When Tom reached the nurse inadvertently duck-
"I've always the doorway, where Edna joined ed" one of her charges. face was puzzled. had the idea that the place was him clinging to him, it was to see Dr. Dafoe recalled how at Dever let.
Father didn't like let-Sanderson standing in the centre their birth all five weighed only ting it What was the woman of the sitting-room, staring down 13 pounds. "They entered the like?"
world." he said, “facing appar at the grey lady... "Like
of older. you only
Helen! Eer sobs were com-lently hopeless odds, and it still. course," said Edna. Tom looked ing as she crouched in a chair, seems wonderful to me that to- at her surprised at the way she but she made no other response day they have grown into fine said it. It was not until after the "I thought you might be dead healthy children. young people had gone that he let it be known that you were "They are in bed now," he concluded. "gazing round-eyed realised that Edna' was secking dead, and I almost believed it."
The grey lady looked up, deat this microphone. Five can- desperately for a satisfactory ex- planation of the grey lady. fiantly, the tears vanished from dies are burning on their fire "We'll have to leave this place. her face. She laughed a little little cakes, but all good things
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harshly.
Zone "Well, George, you've found me the quintuplets, like all good out! I suppose I'm a trespasser babies to go to sleep.”
"Helen came herec anim-
"Don't be so absurd! You don't, believe in ghosts!"
“I don't believe in ghosts; tut if)
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(Continued from Page 8.)
No Formation Flying Even more interesting are the reflections in regard to the most spectacular feature of all The
"SOLD BY LORD MOYNE Lord Moyne was often refer machines, few in such perfect red to as Mr. Walter Guinness formation at Mildenhäll that they'
It was this sort of wretched after the divorce, and, went to On the way down your life aboard will be as you wish, quiet of gibe that caused trouble between England I thought you
were hectic for the E. & A. will humour your every whim.
NEVER YET ACCOMPLISHED romance that had re happy”. And by the way, there is no additional charge for Deck Cabins and them; the
BY A WOMAN "Of course I was happy!" Again) turned to them was spoilt; but, of course a Sun Deck Swimming pool, az Orchestra and a fine
for once. Tom did not make the the hard, defiant langh "And
The Channel swim from possible breach worse. In his you've been happy, too.” financial struggle the cheap rent, "I married, he said, quietly. England to France, which has the saving of the expense of fat "But you couldn't part with the never been accomplished by a parties, was a consideration. He dreams of the old place! You kept woman, will be attempted this. hoped to keep the cottage: and he it closed up." She said it in year by 25-year-old Miss Eva
Morrison, of Boston, US.A realised the grounds · for Eina's triumph.
She has gone to Deal to see nervousness. So next day he was "As if my life was buried here; home early, having his reward in a mausoleum of dead hopes," he Harry Pearson and Billy Kel Edna's cheerfulness as he helped said evenly, staring at her all the lingley, two Channel-swimming
Live her with the washing up of the time. "I couldn't
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made up my mind that if I can ture, carpets, and tapestries was tirely out of the question Lord ped by silence. The grey lady dreams might have been
tinding now. If we had not been not get Pearson and Kellingley completed, yielding over £9,000 Pitcher, visiting Farnborough at that time, demanded its de Sydney was there!
to assist me I was going back Most of these possessions She had come in silently and so careless!”
on the next boat”
Ivelopment. was seated, staring out at the
The defiance melted into sobs as
Coxswain's Faith
have been in the collection of It was pointed out by Lora beauty of the view, as if she had her head bent on her arms again.
Pearson, who is the coxswain his father, the first Earl of (then Colonel) Trenchard, that forgotten that the house had oc cupants. Edna - dung to
Tom's is the use of pretending. The only "I have really retired from p
"No; I was never happy! What of the Walmer lifeboat, said yeagh; and a party of contin- there were serious obstacles to dying in formation owing to the farm, as he turned to look at her real happiness I can remember is loting Channel swimmers, but rental dealers came over especial widely different performances of
of the days when we were here would like to get a woman acrossly for the sile
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Tom strode Izto the room to face her.
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The grey lady rose, Storming towards them.-
quickly
COM-
given by Mr. Roffe for a possible to introduce flight and
here-position as matron of a school, at rison. She will do it if any 16th century Ispahan carpet, squadron formations which have
Westwood When I found this woman can sitting place was untenanted I came here;
*
I had always kept my key. I used beto ride over, leaving my horse in you sometimes
ith a ruby field, and this col been developed to high efficiency lector paid 425 gns for a pair of by all air forces.
panel with
the gully: I had a way of my own it was Edna, her eyes brimming atte Your wife told me I might through the fence. George, with tears, who drew Tom away, broug answered the grey lady, pithecould sometimes dream I was "It looks as if we will have to M abre: gat tically.
happy again, when I was here.” |book for a new home," be "Oh, that's all right. But how? She was on her knees before ed awkward in the You're Mus Sanderson, aren't him now, but he lifted her very emotion
gently, and put her back the
you?
"I was" Mrs. Sanderson,” she returned
A cold tingle ran through Tom veins.
hope you do not min coming here," said the grey wristi *Your wife
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*we will find one like and
both let our real happin
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Kin coloured
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Over
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Part
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