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COLONEL QUARITCH, V.C. A TALE OF COUNTRY LIFE.
HY I RIDER HAGGARD, "AUTHOR OF “Kize SOLOMON's "Mines,"
**ALLAN QUATERMAIN" "JE85,”
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How First Published.]
CHAPTER XV.
THE HAPPY HATS.
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with his extravagant wars and his continual de- hanging over the back of a chair, Me. Quest's that your mistress has been bring mands for money, which had to he met somehow sya dering over, this cost, was presently porapany, Ellen, he said coldly
At last came the ornahing blow of caught by the sornar of a torn fap of an suve-Yes, sir, just a few-lady friends in to obser bis darth, and with it the certainty of the ex lope which projected from one of the pookatų. har up a bit," answered the wonsu, with her tinotion of the meals line of the de la Moilea and It was of a peonies blush tinge, in fact of a line abominable simper; pour dear, she do get that she said that for a while she bed bellerod her which was much affected by his wife. Tistan will you away we much had no wonder and father would never hold op his head again. But tog for a moment to hear it anybody was coulag, then all these money troubles, and she night by ble vitality was equal to the shock, and after he stepped to the coat and extracted the letter. night working hard for hor living. Ofton and while the debts began to come in, which although It was in his wife's handwriting, so he took the affan have In Is erging ever it all
Ab," said he, heating in upon her aloquenco, he was not legally bound to do so, her fatherberty of hastily transferring it to his own wonlu insist upon meeting to the last farthing poolants. In another minuts Edward Cousy an-I suppose that the Indy: friends smoke digare. Well, clear away this meas and Imvo me--stop, for the honor of the family and out of respect tered, and the two men shook hands. for his son's memory, and there was more trouble "How do you do, Quest?" said Edward "I give me a brandy and soda fret. I will wait for This is a troublesome world enough, but thanks about money, that had gone on and on, always think that the old man la going to pull through your mistress." to that mitigating fate which now and again getting worn as the agricultural depression this boat. He de helpless but koon as a knife. The won stopped talking and did as she wan interferes to our advantage, there do come to deepened, till things bad reached their present and has all the important matters from the bank bid for there was a look in Mr. Quest's eye which most of us times sed periods of our existento position. All this sho told him bit by bit, keep referred to him. I believe that he will last she did not quite like, So having placed the which, if they do not quite fulfil all the conditions ing nok from him only the last development of year yet, but he will asarouly allow me out of his brandy and woda water before him the left him of ident happiness, yet un rear enough to that the drama are the part that Edward Cossey had sight. He preaches away about business the to his own reflections. eat to permit in after days of our imagining played in it, and suù enough it made him to whole day long, and saye that he wants to com. Apparently they were not very pleasant ones, that they did so. I say to most of us, but in think of that ancient house of de la Molle ranishraunicate the fruits of his experience to mo be. He walked round the room, which was reeking of doing so I allude chiefly to those classes oeming into the night of ruin,
fore it is too late. He wishes to see you, so if pathol de some such compound, well mixed
with the odour of stale cigar smoke, looking sh monly known as the "upper," by which is unclear. As she told him something of bar own life, you will you had better squis up." stood those who have enough bread-to put into how companiouless it had been since her brother Accordingly they went upstairs to a large and sently at the gee-gaw ornaments. On the man- their mouths and clothes to warm them, then went into the army, for she had no real friends taxurious bedroom on the, brat foor, where the topicoe were some photographs, and so them, to bis disgust, he saw one of himself. With too, who are not tha prosons unbjsota of remerso- gbout Honhom, and not even un acquaintance of stricken man lay upon a patent couch. “ tes and hideous ailments, who are not daily her own tastes, which; without being gushingly | When Mr. Queet and Edward Cossey entered, something as near an oath as he avor ludalgod is, agonised by the sight of their famished off. nc, were decidedly artistic and intellectual. In lady, old Mr. Cossay's eldest daughter, put he sainadit, and setting fretoit over the gas, wait- spring who are not dammed to best out their should have liked" abs sald," to have tried to do down a paper out of which she had been reading ad till the fistas began to search bis dngers, and lives against the machouse bars, or to see their something in the world. I daresay that I should the money articla alend, nat, rising, Informed then aug it, still flaming, down into the grate. Then he looked at himself in the glass over the hearts' beloved and their most cherished hope hare Iniled, for I know that very few women Lor father that Mr. Quest had come. | wither toward that cold space from whenes nomest with a rudense that is worth having. But "Mr. Quest P" said the old man in a thin voion, antelpiece-the room was full of mirrors--and merkage comes. For nos unfortunates, and for till I should have liked to try, for I am not Ab, yos, I want to sea Mr. Quast very much. Ingbed bitterly at the incongruity of his gentle- their million-unubered kin upon the globe--the afraid of work. Bat the current of my life la Go away now, Anna, you can come back by and meat, potable, and even roosteppearance, viotium of war, feroine, slave trade, oppressio, against it, nod the only thing that is open to me bye, business before pleasure-most instructive, in that vulgar, gaudy, vicious-looking room.
surg, over-population, and the curse of com is to try and make both ends west apon an in-though, that suddon fal: in American railways. Buddenly he be thought him of the letter in Rate petition, the rays of light must be for indeed come that is always growing smaller, and to save But I thought it would come and I got omay his wife's handwriting, which he bed stolen from in and far between. only just sough to aayo my father, poor old door, from a much worry and Son clear of them," and be sniffed with the pocket of Edward. Cosesy's boat. He draw them from utier hopelesswana. And even to the as I can. ink that. I am complaining." she rubbed his hands if he had not been physically inable glove of the sofa, mut down sad com. |
satisfaction and looked as though he would have it out, and throwing the tengour and the inter favoured ones the well warmed and well fedt, who
wenced to read at. It was, as he had expected, are to a great extent lifted by fortune or by want on hurriedly, or that I want to rush inte incapacitated from so doing. thair yatire strength and wit above the degrade plansare seeking, becaues I don't little of that Mr. Quast came forward to where the invalid a love letter, a wildly passionate lore letter, tions of the world, this light of happiness is but goes a long way with zae. Besider, I know that lay He was a gaunt old man with white hair breathing language which in placas almost sa the gleam of stara, uncertain, fitfal, and oon. I have many things to be thankful for. Fer and a pallid face, which looked simost ghastly in touched the beauty of poetry, rows of undying tinually lost in clouds. Only the unterly selfish women har auch a kind father as I hare, though contrast to his black all skall cap. So far affection that wars throughout redeemed from er the utterly ignorant can be happy with the de quarrel at times, and of course we gannet se Mr. Quest could see, he appeared to be slmost vulgarity anderen from silliness by their utter happiness of savages or childron, however pro- have everything our own way in this world, and fetally paralysed, with the execption ofthis head, sarueshmeas and self abandonment Had the sperous their own fire, for to the rest, those I daresa that I do not make the best of things. aeck, and left arm, which ba could still more a letter been one written under happier circum- who think and have bearts to feel, and imagina. Si at times, it does seem a little hard to have little. His black eyes, however, were full of life stances and innocent of offence against morality, tion te realise, and a redeeming haraan sympat by todd auch a narrow life, fist when I feel that and intelligence, and foamed about the room it wild have been a beautiful letter for Passion to be touched, the more weight of the world's ! 1 could work in a wide one."
ut its highest has always a beauty of its ora. without ceasing, misery pressing round them like an atosphere, Harald looked up in her face and saw that a How do you do, Mr. Quest ?" he said, "sorry and restored it to his pocket. "Ths Roma
He read it through and then carefully folded the mere echces of the groans of the dying and tear was gathering in her dark eyes and in bis that I can't shake hands with you, but you see has a heart," he said to himesit, no ens our the cries of the children are sufiaient, and more heart In registered a vow that if by suy means have been stricken dewa, though my brain is than sufficiens, to dull, ays to destroy, thy pro it ever for within his power to improve her lot be clear enough, clearer than ever it was. I think. doubt it. And yet I could never touch it, though raise of their joya But, still, even to this finer would give everything he had to do it. Butal And I ain't going to die yet-don't think that I God knows however much I wronged her loved sort thera co come rare periode of almost com ho said was:
am, because I ain't, I may live two years more ber, yes, and love her now. Well, it is a good plate happineskil sammers in the vom!
bit of evidenes, if ever I dare to use it. It is s *Don't be downhearted, Misa de la Mollo. the doctor says that I am sure to live one pestrous climate of our years, gress-fringed Things cbango in a wonderful way, and often cast. A lot of mossy can be made in a year if game of bluff between me and her, and I expect wella of water in cur desert, pice northern lights they mord when they look worst. You know you keep your eyes open. Once I mades tundred that in the end the boldest player will win." breaking in upon our gloom. And strange as it he wont on a little arvonely, "I on an old and twenty thousand for Cossey & Son ie one place, stifled him, and going to the window he He rose from the sofa-the atmosphere of the may seem, these breedths of happy days, when fashioned sort-of individual, and I believe in year; and I may do it again before I dis. I may the whole questions cesse to torment, and a man Providence and all that sort of thing, you see, make a lot of money, ah, a lot of monor," and hit throw it open and stopped out on to the balcony. can trust in Providence and without en qualify that things gonordly come pretty straight invoice went off into a kind of thin scream that
It was a lovely moonlight night, though chilly, ing thought bless the day that he was born, are the long run if people deserve it."
and for London the street was a quiet one. was not pleasant to listen to very frequently coonnoted with the passion that
Taking a chair he sat down there upon the balcony and began to think. His hoart was is known as love; that mysteriota symbol of our double nature, that strange tree of life which, "Forbaps," she said, "but I suppose that we
softened by misery and his mind fell into a tender with its roofs sucking their strength from the do not deserve it. Anyhow, our good fortuno is
groove. He thought of his long-dasd mother. dast heap of hamarily, yet springs aloft above long while coming, and the mentoration
whom he had dearly loved, and of how he ad to say his prayers to her, sud of how she sang car highest level, and bears its blooms in the dropped.
at all had considering the times. I thought hymns to him on Sunday evenings. Her death very face of Leaven.
Still her friend's strong belief in the efflescy of should have had to sell that old de la Molle up, had seemed to choke. all the beauty out of hie Why it is and what it means we shall never Providence, and gouerally his masonline stardi- but I hear that he is going to pay us off. Can't being at the time, and yet now be thanked God know for certain, but it does suggest itself that near, did cheer her up considerably. Evon the imagine who has been fool enough to lend him that she was dead. And then he thought of as the greatest terror of our being lies in the strongest women, if they have any element that the money. A client of yours, ab P. Well, he'll nitar lovelinese, the uneakable identity, ud onu be called feminine loft in them, want some loss it, I expect, and servo him right for hie the soursed woman who bad boen bia ralu, and unchanging self-completeness of every living beds of the other sex to lean on, and Ida was no pains. But I am not sorry, for it is unpleasant of bow ske bad entered into his life sad corrupted sul, so the greatest hope and the intonaest exception to the rule. Besides, if Ida's society for a house like ours to have to sell an old client with a vision of Belle, Baile sa he had first men and destroyed bim.” Next' thero ross up beföre Estural yearning of our hearts go out towards had charms for Colonel Quaritch, his socisty had up. Not that his account is worth much, nothing her, a maid of seventeen, the only child of that thest union which it ita fire heats, has the almost if not quite as much obar for her. If at all-mors troxbly than proft-or we should dranken old rilage doctor, now so long since THE Undersigned having been appointed strength if only for a little while to malt down may be remembered that on the night that they not hate done it. Be's no better than a bankrupt, dead, and of how the right of her had for a while Agents for the shore Company, are the barriers of our individuality, and give to the first wet she had spoken to herself of him as the and the Insivenes court is the best place for stayed the corruption of his heart because Le grow prepared to GEANT POLICIES ssinat of losing its sance of Roulade in converse with thought was a passing que, and it may be safely thereof. There's an insolvency court specially masus, and the woman rose up in his path spain, soul something of the power for which it yearns kind of man whom we would like to marry. The him. The world is to the rich and the fulness to love her. And then he married Bolle by to FIRE AND LIFE at Current Rates.
PUSTAU & Co. its kind. For alone we are from infancy to aid that she had not sizeo ontertained any provided for de la Molle and his like-empty old arul he learnt that his wife habed him with all
Hongkong, let April, 1885, death-we, for the most part, grow not more serions ides of marriage in connection with windbags with long sounding names; let him ga the energy of her passionate heart. Then came FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, OF 1877 nor together but rather wider apart with the Colonal Quaritsk. The only person whom there shers mid make room for the man who have made degradation after degradation, and the abandon-
Kiang-ping IN HAMBURG. widening youre Whers go the sympathies bei sermed the slightest probability of her marryl money-hee! hee! hea!" Anil puce more his ment of principle after principle, replaced only
Recorder tween the parent and the child, and whors is the was Edward Cossey, and the mere thought of valoe went off into a sort of sera.
THE Undersigned, Agents of the above White Clond plase old love of brother for his brother? this was enough to make the whole idea of
Company, are Prepared to ACCEPT The jubilble fates are continually wrapping matrimony repugnant to her.
Bere Mr. Quest, who had had about enough of by a fierce craving for respoutability and rost, T unround and round with the winding aheats of one!
this sort of thing, changed the epavaraation by long, long struggle, which ever ended in new
PUSTAU & Co., But this notwithstanding, day by day she commencing to comment on various business lapsen from the right till at length he saw him-RISKE at Current Rates. solitude, and one may know all our heart are found Harold Qaaritch's society mors congenial. transactions which he had been conduct by a fury from whom there was no escape. And self a hardened schemet, remorselessly pursued
Agents. He who made it. Wearoset upon the word as tau Herself by nature, and also to a certain degree bobalf of the house. The old man listened with pot he knew that under other circumstances he
Hongkong, 16th January, 1884. 1.167 Fidello stars are set upon the sky, and though, in follow by education, a cultured woman, she rejoiced to the greatest interest, his keen black syes et might have been a good and happy man-leading THE LONDON ASSURANCE Her ing our fated orbits wa pase and pass, and each find in sim an entirely kindred spirit. For tentively fixed upon the speaker's till at last an honourable life. But now all hope had gone,
Kwang-lee shine out on cach, yet are wa the same lonely beneath his somewhat rugged and unpromising Mr. Quest happened to mention that amongst that which be was he must be till the end. He
Kwongmang lights, rolling alone obedient to laws we cannot appearance, Farold Quaritoh hid a nature of others a certain Colonel Queritch had opened an leaned his head upon the stone railing in front
| Peking nuderstaud, through those great spaces of whisk considerable richness. Fow of those who aa-account with their branch of the bank. nong may mark the lit..
of him and wept, you wept in the anguish of his Rociated with him would have believed that the
know that name. Was be ever in the 105th burden of bis sins, and yet well knowing that "Quaritch ?" said the old man eagerly I coul, praying to God for deliveranse from the
poetic, or that he was a ripe and finished scholar, Foot ind, what is more not defold of a certain dry "Yes," said Mr. Quest, who know everything he had one to boss for. For his chance was
about everybody, he was in ensign in that one and his fate fixed regiment during the Indian Mutiny, when he was badly wounded when still quite young, and got the Victoria Cross. I found it all out the other day."
Ida shook her head a little dorbtfully and
sighed.
Only, says the post in words of truth and man had a site to bi nature which was almost beauty-
Only but this in mure-
When a helved hand is laid in ours,
When jaded with cha ruch quil gara
Of the interminable hours,
Our eyur own in another's eyes road clear
When par warta deafened earT
hamour Then he bed travelled far and seen much vi men and mannera, gaśkering up all sorte of' quaint, odde and onde of information. But perhaps above these accomplishments it was the man's transparent honesty and simple-minded nosa, his love for what was true and usblo, and his contempt and scorn for what was mera and baso, And what wo man we may and what we would so which. unwittingly peoping out through his
In by the tones of a loved voice caressed,
A bolt is shot bok omewhere in our breast,
And & det palse of tecline atira ngiin—
know.
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And thou he thinks he knows
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I am sure I hope you will, sir," said Mr. Quest politely.
Thank you; take that for good luck, you know. Well, woll, Mr. Qaset, things haven't deno se bad dows in your part of the world; ant
That's the ; that's the man," aid oli Mr. Cossey, jerking his head in an excited ma- ser. He's a blackguard; I tell you he's a black conversation, attracted her more than all the guard he jilted my wife's sister. She was twenty rest. Ide was no mere a young girl to be caught years younger than my wife-ited her a week The bills where his life reas
by a handsome face or dazzled by a superficial | before bar marriage, and would never give a rea- And the whereunto it geei
show of mind. She was a thoughtful, ripened son, and she went mad and is in a madhouse now. Sime Bush Indian summer of delight and woman, quick to perceive, and with the rare I should like to have the raining of him for it. forgetfulness of trouble, and the tragic con talant of judgment wherewith to weigh the I should like to drive him into the poor-house."
Mr. Quest and Edward looked at each other, ditions of our days, was now opering te Harold proceeds of her perception, and in plin, middle- Quaritch and Idadela Molle. Ercry day or almost aged Colonel Quaritoh she found a very porfect and the old, mani let his head fall back exhausted. "New good-bye. Mr. Qoost, they'll give you a stary day thay met and went upon their painting Kentlaman, sad, valued him avcordingly. expeditions and argued the point of the validity satanutide and Edward Cossey was sway in "I'm getting tired and i want to hear the rest of And so day grew into day in that borely bit of dinner downstairs,” he said at length.
To be continued)
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HELD OFFICE,
WOO LIN YUEN, Becretary.
Na 2, Queen's Road West,
Hongkong, 14th March, 1881.
THE
1562
CHINĂ FIBE · INJURANCE
COMPANY, LÍMITED,
ESTABLISHED 1870. CAPITAL TWO MILLION DOLLARS HEAD OFFICE--Hongkong.
PAID UP CAPITAL
ESREVE FUND BONUSES PLIT CLAIMS PAID.......
J. P. Boyland
sekansie
Aug. 31 Clas. Buker
406 Douglas Laprik & Co
Motohen & Ge
18
753 Douglas Laprsikˇ& Co 112
Denglas Lapraik & Do 223 | Butterfield & Swire 11:36
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294
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PARING VESSELS.
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Comet
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July 15 Waterhouse
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$7
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EE. ABRAHAMSON &Co, Sadakan, current rates. submit for inspection Samples of hard and soft TIMBERS stable for Whereas, Building and General purposes.
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'MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHIA, BOLE AGENTS FOR THE MIKE COAL MINE.
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INSURANCE COMPANY.
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|HE Undersigned, Agents of the abors Com. A. Wichherst Aug. 17 Brookwoldt THE HONGKONG AND KOWLOON FIRE at Carront Eates.
pany, are authorised to INSURE against Puento
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GILMAN & Co. Eilse
Aug. 17 Schwartz LIMITED.
Hongkong, lat January, 1882.
Aug. 15 Thomsen [29 Hita
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BUNKER COALS can be supplied to any
steamer lying in the Harbour of ooming
Acting Manager.
Company prepared to
1188 T
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Weet Point to an Steamer in the Harbour,
or otherwise of the impressionist doctrines of London, and Quest had caused from troubling, and that money article. You've done very well for art Not that of all this painting cams ans journeying together through the sweet shadows assay and Son, and Cossay and Son will do well alongside the Kowloon Wharf on application to thing very wonderful, although is the evening. the Colonel in the silones of his shamber would of companionibp, by slow but sore degrees they for you, for we always pay by results: that's the the Undersigned. wake out his canvas and contemplate their drew near to the ennlit plain of love. For it is way to get good work and make a lot of money. rigid proportions with singular pride and satiet common, indeed it is so uncommon as to draw Mind, Edward, if ever you get a chance don't near to the impossible, that a man and womann forget to pay that blackguard · Quuriteh out motion. It wee a little weakness of his to thing between whom there stands no natural impedi-pound for pound, and twice as much again for that he could paint, and one of which he wesent can lait for very long in those shadowed compound interest-boe I hea! hes!". somewhat tensions. He was like many another.
"The old gentleman koopa.hie bead for business a man who could do a number of ftings ex-ways-there is throughout all nature an im seedingly well and oxs thing very badly, and polse that pushes over onwards towards ocomple-pretty wall," said Mr. Quest to Edward Comoy, an yet had there faith in that one bad thing than in leads to sympathy, and sympathy points the rath
tion, and from completion to fration. Liking soon as they were well outside the door. all the good,
Keeps his head " answered Edward, "I And still, strange to say, although he affected to love, and then love demands its own. This is should just think he did. He's a regular shark to believe ed firmly in his own style of art and the order of affaire, and down its well-trodden now, that's what he is. I really talieve than it and to. BRING CARGO serous from Korison hold Ida's in such cheap regard, it was little road these two ware quickly travelling.
Le knew I had found that thirty thousand for old to aby place on the Frays at the usual rates.. George the wily saw it, sad winked his eye with do is Melle be would cut me off with a shilling.” painting of the latter's that was most dear to
By Order, him, and which was most often put upon his soleme meaning, The Squire also saw some Here Mr. Quest pricked up his sapa. “And he'e sassi for purposes of solitary admiration. It was thing of not being wanting in knowledge of the clone, too." he went on," else that it is sizzost one of those very impressionist productions that world, aud after much cogitsilan and many long impossible to get anything out of him. I am not faded away in the distance and full of soft gray walks, he elected to leave matters alege-for the particular, but upon my word I think that it is tints, such as bir gont leathed, and hat a tres present He liked Colonel Quaritch, and he raibar disgusting to see an old men with one foot with a blot of brown colour on it, and altogether thought it would be a good thing for Ida to get in the grave hanging on to his money bags, - na (though asa matter of fast & oluror thing enougat married, though the idea of parting from her Ire his point view of art utterly anathema" troabled his heart sorely. Whether or no it This little picture in oile faintly shadowed out would be desirable from his point of view that kimwolf sitting at his eneel, working in the soft he had net, at any rate na get fully-made np his sho abould marry the Colonel was a poist on which gwy of the ay luton svaning, and Ida bad painted it and given it to him, and that was why he admired mind. Sometimes he thought it would, and some it so much. For to speak the truth our friend times the reverse. Then at times rogue ideas
Very queer, Mr. Cossey," said be," but do you the Colcael was going fast-siaking out of sight suggested by Edward Cossey's behaviour about of his former self into the depths of the love that the top would come to puzzle hit. But as yet know, I almost think that there must be some possesed his aul.
he was so mash in the dark that he could, come mistake? I do not believe that Colonel Quaritok
though he expected to float to heaven on them."
Hongkong, 21st April, 1888.
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"You," said Mr. Quest, it is a cartons thing LARGE STOCKS OF ETERY DESCRIPTION OF
to think of but, you see, money is his heaven." the study, that's queer sbont that fellow Quar
"By the way," said Edward, as they entered iteb, in't it. I never liked the look of him, with
is pious air."
He was a very simple-minded and a pure man. to do for so headstrong and precipitate a man, very good reason. However, nobody can tell, stid to no absoluta decision, st with anscustomed in the man to do things of that sort without a Strange as it may appear, since that first anhappy be determined to refrain from interference, and it is a long while ago." business of his youth, of which he had never been for the prosect at any rate to let events take their heard to speak, no lising women had been any natural course.
thing to him. Therefore, instead of becoming
further vulgarised and hardened by association
with all the odds and ends of womankind that a
CHAPTER XVI
max travelling about the globe comes in contact THE HOUSE WITH THE RED PILLARS, with, generally not greatly to his improvement, Two days after his receipt of the Basand letter
A long while ago or not I mean to let him | know my opinion of him when I get back to Bois-
ingham," said Edward, viciously.
By Jove, its twenty minutes past sir, and is this establishment we dius at the pleasant hour of half-past. Won't you come and wash year bands."
COAL
FOR SALE AT MODERATE PRICE,
No. &, PRATA CENTRAL. 1529 UARANTEED the best Quality HOL- desen, alse PUNCH, CURACAO, PER JLANDS GIN, in Stoni Bettis, at $5 100, ANISETTE,
per
Hongkong. th May, 1881,
SUMMER TIME TABLE.
THE KOWLOON FERRY. STEAM-LAUNOK
"MORNING. STAR ".
Runs Deily ass Ferry Boat between PEDDAR'S WHARF and Tar-Ta-Fav at the following August
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BREBOH LOADING GUNS, 12 Dore, the
GOOD ENGLIRE DOUBLE BARRELED: This Time Table will take effect from Beniarig
the 1st June, 1888. latest Improvement, In Boxes, with everything complete. Price, $45, do ko.
J. K. SCHEFFER, 21-23. Pottinger Street. Hongkong, 5th July, 1888.
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Kingmort
his faith had had time to grow up stronger even from the Tiger." Mr. Quest announced to bis thes before, and he once more looked upon woman wife that ho was going to London on business Mr. Quest got e vory good dinner, and con-
young man looks before he has bad experience sounested with the bank, and expected to be away trary to his custom ho drank the best part of a t of the world, as a being to be venerated and for a couple of nights.
battle of old port after it. He had an unpleasant almost worshipped, sa something bolter, Brighter. Ele lang bed straight out. "Really, William," business to faos that eroping, and felt as thougle Large and varied Stock of best Descriptions.
of MANILA & OTHER CHARE, TOBACCO, purer than bimasif, hardly to be won, and when aba said, “ you are a most consummate actor. I his nerven required bracing. About ten d'alook
CIGARRITES. won to be worn like a jewel prized at once for wonder that you think it worth while to keep up he took his leave, and getting into a hensom bade value and for beauty...
Wholesale and Retail et Moderate Prices. the nece with me. Well, I hope that Baith in the cabman drive to Stanley-street, Pimlico..
INOTECTION RESPECTFULLY INVITED, Now this is a dangerous state of mind for a not going to be cary expensive this time, bo where he arrived in due course. Having danis
SILVESTRE ARLEGUI & Co., man of three or four and forty to fall into, be- osuse we don't seem to be the rich just now, and sed his cab, be walked down the street. tili be,
Proprietors. cans it is soft state, and this is a world in which you see there is no more of my money for her ronched a small house with red pillars to the
1090 the softest are apt to get the wort of it, and at to have.".
Hongkong With May, 1888. doorway. Harn he rang the bell.. "The door was four and forty a man, of saures, should be hard
& C 0. Mr. Quest winced visibly beneath this bitter opened by a middle-aged woman with a curing WING TAI enough to get the batter of other people, as in-astre, which his wife uttered with a smile of face and a siper. Mr. Quest knew her well SHIP'S COMPRADORES, STÉVEDORES; deed he generally in
infantile innocence playing upon her face, but Nominally the Tiger's servant, she was really her When Harold Quaritoh, after all that long he made no reply. She knew too mich. Only jackal, and in return for the intelligence she lent interval of years, first set eyes again apon Ida' in his heart be wondered what fale als would to the okano received bar portion of the prey. FRESH PROVISIONS Butelier face, he felt u en:ious change come over him. mute out to im if over she got possesion of the "Ia Mre, d'Aubigné at home, Ellan ?” he sud. All the vague ideas and more or less postiral as whole teath, and the thought made him tremble. No Bir," she snewared with a ximper, “but pirations which for five long years had gathered It seemed to him that the owner of that baby lace she will be back from the Music Hall before themselves ronul about that memory, took shaps sald be terribly merciless in her vengeance, and long. She does not appear in the ascend part. and form, and thongh as yet he would notquite ood that those soft wbito hands would close round the But please come in, you are quite a stranger. faw it, in his heart he knew that he loved her. And throat of a man she hated and utterly destroy here, and I am sure that Mrs. d' Aubigné will be
m the days went on and kuvame to know her bet him. Now, it never before, he realised that very glad to see yon, for sha bays been dried-
ter, he grew to love her more and more, till at Between him and this woman there must be en-fully pressed for munsy of late, poor dear; so- last his whole heart went out towards his late wity and a struggle to the dough; and yet bely knows the trouble that I have had with found treasure, and she grew to him to be more atrangely enough he still loved her!
those sharks of tradesmes.".
ARD
-COAL-MERCHANTS.
SHORTELT NOTIOR, " No, 25, PRATA CENTRAL
※豬炭煤司县泰榮
--FOR SALE:
AT WHOLESALE PRICES. ACCONE'S SHERRY, FORT,
OLARETS, CHAMPAGNE,
df NATIVE TYPES, copies of which are obtainable
of VIEWS some NEW SCENES and Photos,
Kati
in hisStudio or stMesars. KELLY & WALSH'S,
IVORT MINIATURES of Superior Quality and THE of Excellent, sud High Finib. PERMANENT ENLARGEMENTS of PHOTOS. and Tixws and reproductions of the same on Paper, Canvas, or 1200 Opal
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toad life more then aught had bees or could be. Mr. Quost reached London about three c'élosk, By this time they were upstairs in the draw- | HOCKS, BURGUNDY Blue and happy were thom days which they apontand his first act was to drive to Cossy and Scr's, ing-room, and Bilen had turned the gas up. The BRANDY, WHISKIES, ALE, STOUF. in painting and talking as they.wandered about where he was icformed that old Mr. Cossey was room war well furnished in a certain gaudy style, MACHINERY, PIANOB. the Boleh Castle grounds. By degrem Ida's much-botter, and having heard that he wascoming which woluded a good deal of gilt and plate STOVES, and TRICYCLES, slight bat perceptible hardness of manner were to town bad sent to say that he partionlarly glass, Evidently, however, it had not been SCALES, BICYCLES, BET away, and she stood out what she was one of the wished to see him, specially about the Honham tidied since the Tiger had left it, for there on PAINTS, OILS, VARNISH. sweetest and most natuist women in England, Castle catatos. Accordingly Bir. Quest drove on the table were cards thrown this way and that PIANOS
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(Per inst Mail's Adrise) 27&GA ERGLAND, SCOTLAND, and [EXLAND, Pethần («)...................... Hazkow Price 45 They cuntain, besides complete Chauveler (v.)..............Manila.
and with it all, a woman having brains and force to the old gentleman's mansion fa Grosvenor- Jumidat an array of reply soda water bottles," "SINGER" SEWING MACH GAB Trades Lists of all piacon is the United King-Protolasi, Bosgkong.. of character.
street, where he asked for Mr. Edward t'ossey. glasses with dregs of braady in them, and other SODA WATER MACHINERY, Soon be discovered that her life had been any. The footman and that Mr. Edward was upstairs, debris, sich as the ends of cigars and cigarettes, ENGINES VELOCIPEDE HORSES Special Lists of Merchant Shippers, with Altonower (a.)......Shangbai, ke thing but an easy one. The constant anxiety and showed him into a study while he went to and a little copper and silver money. On the EMPIRE LUBRICATORS, ICE MAKING their Specialities and Export Market about money and her father's fairs had worn tall bim of the arrival of his visitor. Mr. Quenteofe, too, lay a gorgoona tea gown resplendent MACHINES, BICYCLE WHEELB FOR ker down and hardened her till as she said she glassed youd the luxuriantly-furnished room, with pink astin, also a pair of gold embroidered JINRICKSHAS. RA. began to feel as though she had no heart, Jeft, which he saw was occupied by Edward himself, slippers, not ever nical); end an odd gust de Apply to Then to be heard all her trouble about her dead for some letters directed in his handwriting lay Suede, with enth an extraordinary number of and only brother Jarani, kow Hearty she had on the desk, and a velveteenloanging soat that, bulions-that it almoet locked like the cast of Joved him, and what's sore trouble he had Egn | Mr. Quest recognised as belonging, fahim was skin of a brown quake.
VESSELS AREIVED AT HOME (Continued.) Glamorganshire(s)Bankowy July 28 July 16 Bonvenue is.......Hankow...July 24 July 18 July 90 VESSELS EXPECTED AT HONGKONG,
Corrected to Date,)
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.....July 20
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