THE
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30тH 1903
PUBLIC COMPANIEC CHINA LIGHT AND POWER CO,
LIMITED.
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JALL BIOHTS RESERVED.] A LURKING PHANTOM :
A STORY OF LOVE AND MYSTERY,
BY
JOHN BLOUNDELLE-BURTON (Author of " The Hispaniola Plate," "The Year -One,” “A Vanished Rival," &c.).
CHAPTER IX.
LADY BUTTRELL.
HAREHOLDERS are reminded that the Now larue of Capital must be applied for before 1st OCTOBEL next, after which date any anellotted shares will be dealt with as laid down in the Artioles of Association.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Managers. Hongkong, 24th September, 1903. UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the N
THIETIETH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the 8OCIETY will be beld at SPECIALLY AND MOST CAREFULLY ite HEAD OFFICE, No. 1 Queen's Build-ful companion and friend had been forced to ings. Hongkong, OR THURSDAY, the Sra OCTOBER, 1903, at Noor, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together DIRECT FROM THE FACTORIES, with Statements of Account for the year 1902 and for the half-year ending 30th June, 1903, and of declaring Dividends, etc.
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"I" Muud said with a smile, à joke that, in ber honest girl's heart, was only made in the sndeavour to cheer her mother up, "should be an Honourable, until I, too, became a peerves by marriage."
"An Honourable!" and, as Lady Bottrell echoed the word inwardly, her hand went to her heart as though to still some gedilon pang in it.
Where is your father!" she asked faintly, now. Then she added, ns an excuse for leaving. Maud, "I must see him, talk with him about this before he sends bis asceptance to the Prime Minister."
An Honourable! She, Maud. She who, by hor own mother's nation, was deprived of that sory hour which even a beggar's child possessed; who who, by law and custom and nange, had no father, no standing, no, rank for When the cab deposited Lady Bottrell at ber recognition, since the man who was known bouse in Park Lane after that interview with as her father could by no possibility be her Ira Challis, she intended to go straight to her lawful father if Mark Lambert was alive on the own rooms and at once tell Béverine of what she day Sir Geoffrey Buttrell want through a form
of bad learnt-Séverine, the one soul in sli the marraga with that other. And she had Reen Mark Lambert's picture, taken but a short world who knew her secret and in whom she could confide. Yet, she recalled bitterly, sadly, time ago; the picture of her real husband grown how long it had been since she and her faith old aud grey and worn; the picture of the man alive a few on the past though thought to have ever allude to the unhappy subject. In the ded twenty years ago. passing of twenty years, in the period when she Ład gradually emerged from the loveliness of her girlhood, of hor eighteen years, to the ripe, fall splendour of her meridian, that subject hat gradually faded away from their minds and conversation; the orror, the secret, bad disap
He is gone out. I do not know where. peared into what was now almost oblivion.
Are you not ready for your lanch? "
"Not yet. I have been busy-all-the- Iliad gore leaving no trace behind, nothing that was ever likely to be unearthed now, morning. I-I will have something in my own
nee
Go on with your own lunch." With the oxception that, somewhere in existence,
She reached those roums, composed of a dres was the register in which Rhoda Clastreg'z
ing room upening into her bedroom and that into Secretary 19613 marringo with Mark Furness Lambert
a little boudoir, or sitting-room, beyond which inscribed; that Benewhere in Somerset Hous
was Bolfray's room-a charming little suite wasn copy of that entry, there was-the two women bad often said before they coaned to talk decoratesi and kung srith the choicest cretonnes of the matter-no witness, no knowledge, oi and tapestry obtainable Rooms that none but
A rich
I possibly have had at her dis- woman could left. The Registrar who married that marriage Ibero and Lambert was dead long since, they posal; none cut a woman who possessing nothing
and the wish. know; the clork was probably dead as-herrelf, had a cica busand to gratify ber every A rich husband, ane refuted, who had mariage; Lambert himself was dead. And stored those rooms with everything thattheheart of any woman could desire or the mind of any wo- twenty years had passed and gone; it was not
Dina coactive works of art in all forms, civice likely any person who had ever known Khoda
chins, pictures, glasses, decorations, everything. or her husband-who had never been aught to
A husband who would draw cheques for any her but a husband in unmo-would chance upon
wish she could possibly have-yet a husband- that sutry either in the original or the dupli-
from whom she could not demand the money
from di grace-from rain.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from the 28TH SEPTEM BER to the STX OCTOBER, both days
By Order of the Boarit,
W. J. SAUNDERS,
Hongkong, 18th September, 1003. ""
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. TGENERAL MEETING of SHARE THE TWENTY-SECOND ORDINARY HOLDERS will be held at the OFFI ES of the Undersigned at 12 O'CLOCK (Neon) on THURSDAY, the 22ND OCTOBER.
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They were safe! The past was buried beneath that would, that night, save him and her child TURKISH
that dust with which Time powders all things. Atlast they almost fyrgot that such a past lind ever existed. Lady Buttrell had been able to forgot it until yesterday.
Canton Insurance Office Limited. Hongkong, 26th September, 19.3. [271 HUMPHREY'S ESTATE AND FINANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
A now, with all that past re-opened before NOTEXTRAORDINARY
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that in her, with all hor original fears awakened to GENERAL fresh life, Lady Bottrell was making her way PLANO-PLAYER MEETING of HUMPHREY'S ESTATE swiftly by the footman at the door, she wa AND FINANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, that the man, although still gravely decorous, will be held at the COMPANY'S OFFICES, had a smirk upon his fuco which was abul, Nos. 38 and 49, Queen's Road Central, Victoris, and which, undanbtedly, it was not becoming for She was Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 31st day of wall-trained servant to spruce.
however, 100 agitated to take any notics of this OCTOBER, 1903, at Noon, when Sabjoined Resolutions will be proposed, ris breach of discipline at the moment, but as ab 1. "That the Capital of the Company be passed the dining-room she observed the but ler come out of it, and this man's face was also increased from $1,000,000 (divided into radiant and bore such a pleased lock upon it 10,000 shares of $10 each) to $1,59.000 (divided into 150,000 shares of $10 that, in spite of hor freshly arisen trouble, Lady
Battrull could not refrain from anying oach) by the creation of 50,000 new
"What is the meaning of all this smiling and shares of 310 nach to be offered and if necepted to be allotted to the prelous being? What, pray, has happened to cause
il pi shareholders of the Compay at par is th ratio and proportion of one b share for every two old shares in the Company held by the respective shareholders thereof, thio myable on gach of such new shares respectively to be paid at such time or tires and in such manner as the Company by its General Managers may hereafter de oraine," 2.Thut Article No. 82 of the Articles of Association of the Company bo choc led and the following Article
"Miss Mand, ay lady," the botler said, substituted thocefor:- The remuneration of the GeneralMiss Maud will to you and he kald to deer of the dining room back as though feeling Masagors shall be $1,000 parannom (which shall cover office rent but unt perfectly sure that Laly Bottrelt and is salaries of Secretary and other daughter would instantly enter that rooms to discuss the pleasant news on account of employees) and a commission of 5
which his fuco was stili wreathed in smiles. per cent, of the net profits of the Company for each year that such profils amount to 7 per onnt, of the Capital of the Company.
Adulian Patti (Baroness Ceterstrom) has ivou another great testimonial to the Apollo Plano-deyer. She was so delighted with the instraust that was purchased by her last year pent this seat testimonial is even stronger than the first out whe gave.
Mme. Palli says that the Apollo never has Iven her the sFghtest trouble and that the news oneel grand is one of the most wonderful and perfect piano-players that she has ever seen.
(2484 Hongkong, 3rd September, 1983,
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ngkong at 10 pan.
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Dated this 24th day of July, 1903.
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THE SHARE CERTIFICATE No. 4,072 T for one hundred shares, numbered 37,601 37,700 inclusive, standing in the register in the name of Dr. THOMAS BENNIE of Foochow, will make a Special Excursion Trip to Macue, having been lost, NOTICE 18 HEREBY SUNDAY, tha 4TH OCTOBER, 1903, GIVEN, that unless the said Certificate be Leaving ber usual Wharf (at the Western end produced at the offices of the Compary, 39 and at Wing Lok St cet) 19.30 .. and return-40 Queen's Road Central, Victoria. Hongkong, ng from Macao at 7.30 1.3. the same evening. before 25th October 13, a new certificate for tho said shares will be issued and the old certi- Meal Refreshments may be obtained on board.ficate will thereafter be held by the Company
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"My ludy." the butler said, bowing and smiling again, Sir Gigaffrey has received some pleasant news. We can't all help being pleased ouretres, my lady"
"Pleasant news! What news?", Lady Bot- trell exclaimed in wonderment.
The butler was about to mply when, befor he could speak, a girl, tall, giaceful and ex- quisitely pre ty, her face being, as her father often said, the exact replica of what her mother's had been when he first saw her, en me down the stairs.
Lady Bottrell and Mad dit indord do u the ran supposed they wond. and no socner wis the door shat bell them than Mand exclaimed:
Oh! what do you think! Father has been offered a peerago for his services to the party."
Dow, a
She went to a 11th cabinet is hor boudoir little buchef or chest, standing on squat lega; a thing that, when bought in Paris for a larg sum by Sir Geoffrey, had the reputation used by
Francis I. as a receptacle for the insdy of having puce stood in Chenorax and bean. Jove-letters ko was in the habit of weiving. Exept that, now, it had cunningly inserted into it a notera patent Brush lun, it was the same as it had been in the days of the wild king. The same, only more sate.
she
From it, from a little drawer at the buck which feither from its wood or owing to the pressace there, in far of days, of some sahtlo perfume), omitted a strange sent, she took now jukat, a part containing a few letters and al noce known them by heart and, oven now, a photograph. The letters she init ando had no forgotten their form and phraseulogy though her unce and love for the writer hai long since departed-bat the photograpă sħe tool close to the window and regarded it loog nad steadfastly. The photograph of a dare, bandsome man with jet black hair ad moue tache: of a handsome face marred only by the eyes being too near together and a mord or less insoleat expression on the fac Yet still the sat man, tao kama pose as is the photogril of the man shown by Ira Chaliis for thate
Undoubtedly the same man, the morning.
bd bon man whoNE photograph Singletou Gelas ut in Boston so ready
she whisperest. "It is he!, He" Alive! It is no deception, no fand, so ra murkahte likes. It is, Mark Lumbert him- self. Yet," paing more olly at the pacince now, what was he doing all liess years, where was he that by bad madu z gu? What was hu doing that he shoull have kept the very clothes hs were when this photograph Was faken, t wear again when that other one was taken in America. For they are the same. The
very sama!!
taken
y
11e!
Then, suddenly, sho stepped back from the "Oh! mother, father bas had such a de-window, her face white with lurror, fresh horror at the thought that spring swift a lightful letter from the Prime Minister."
lighting to her mad. A recollection of what The Prime Minister!"
My God," "Yes.
she had sometimes heard te re d. she whispered, has he been in prison all those years, as he bat lately been released from pison? What is it they do with prisoners clothes, with their belongings? Keep them until they ee out and then return them. Oh! Oh! Ob!" she waited. Can this be so! To all the other disgrace, to all the other shume and humiliation, must this be sudden?
"Great heavens!" Lady Bottrell murmured, "A peerage! Surely he is not going to take it
"Not going to take it, melhor! Way why shouldn't he take it! Isn't father as good, and fifty times better, than a dozen men who have had peerages conferred on them of late
June And you-you, toy own beautiful Must I go from Inush nd sach us Geoffrey to
mother is there a pocross in all the land whose like that? From a gentlennan, an honour.
Then, suddenly, she braced herself, sho stond looking firmly at the photograph and spoke as though the original stood before her
opca more.
as well as you
The A peorage will grace, the Coronation, when it happens,able man, to such as this?
Coronation!" Lady Bottrell repeated to herself as she sank into the great leatlier Chesterfi-id that ran along one side of the dining room, while she hardly heard tbe iapooent talk of her child as she contioned to gire utlerance to her pleasant thenghts,
A parago for them! The Coronation at which she would be a more prominent woman of society
than before. And all the time, if the blow could not be averted, she, the rew puoress, the woman who would be photographed and hare her photograph exposed for sale in a hundred shop windows, and reproduced in doz-us of illustrated papers, woul be cowaring, sheltering in some place, any place, in which she could find refage. Any place where she, who was no more Lady Bottrel: then ber housemaid was, could hide her head. She, who. although all wakuowingly, all unwittingly--had brought shame upon her husband and worse than shame-dishonour-on the innocent girl before her,. On her daughter.
"Never," she said. "Nover. You shall never claim mo aggiu. Navor! Never. Not while And again there is d-ath to step between us." she said flrmiy" Never."
bat
the
Ab she thought to herself, al: if she could die now as she sat upon hat sefa; if sho could unt shut her eyes and so pass away from world, what happiness, what relief it would be! There would be no more fear, no more sorrow for her-and-und-or child, bor bus- band, would be sate. For, surely, she thought, surely that other--her true, her lawful hestand
was not so vile-bad as he had once been, bad as ho stil might be as to be willing to blackmail that husband, as to smirel and befoul' the birth of her innocent child when she her. self was dead und in her grave. Surely he who had loved her ones, though he had so soon ro. placed her, surely tas man whom she bail ones loved so fondly would spare her that, if only because she was dead. Poor, dastituto, as ba might be, he would not burl disgrace and dis- bonour on her grave eren it, by so doing, his might enrich himaet.
Why do you take it like this, mother?" she board
Mand saying now. "Why should father refuse the honour offered him? after all, we are so happily situated that it can bring no trouble or bother on us.”
"That is the reason why I de take it . You have said it. What do we want with any higher rank than we possess? No duchess has greater advantages thau I, no dake's daughter more than you. We go everywhere. The highest in the land, eran last night, was as courteens to me as he would have been to any peerose. And your father! His position, if not his rank, is a great one,"
Thuga, eren as she spoke, she remembered that byond Mark Lainkort, there was stil wae other was knew her secret. One who, consequently, held nor in his hand, who could denounce horns easily as Mark Lambert could himself do.
The lawyer, Ira Challis.
To be continued.)
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