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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST Gru, 1910.
Ada Northests turned from the prison doors with a heavy heart. A short note from the Governor said:
Dear Madam,-
Robert Montgomery Northeète, con. vict No. 740., is very ill. You will be permitt od to see him for 30 minutes to-day or to-morrow between 9 am and 6 p.m. Soo rufes enclosed.
Yones obediently. "Victor Farqalarsen
moan
live
"Do you think I want to lose the most pre- Mason. I saw how easily you might fall.to cious little parcel in the whole world," he says, proverty. I do not warn you, I know you have. and she playfully poufs a modest protest against your poor mother's stubborn will. But your being called little
Iriond is too weak to fight the battle of life in Oh.
if only I could reward you as this cursed age of steel. I must propare for your you deseraggle,
future. I bave started to day, and I shall add Roggie suggests a kiss as an immediate instal. to your dowry an often as I can. Even if I am ment, which she promises to pay as soon as they discovered it will asko no difference. But I can reached a secluded corner of the parks. Never afford to ignore so light a risk. Unfortunatoly life, heedless of future trouble, the present was were there such lovers, forgetting their lot in heart is rotton. The doctors say I can not a paradise in which they rovelled till the most long. All the mouer I can get will be put here in foreign bank notes and easily realised earth they trod became a vision of delight, ant bonds. Try to boilove your father loved you the streets the way to autold joy.
For
one more tha
more than all else, more than money, more then reached the road fooing London's great HydeThere was no signature, and no Hat of the solitary moment they vore
separated, as they honour, more than life," Park. Reginald saw a child fall, and hastened securities and notes Reginald made a rapid to save him, just in time to earn the mother's calonlation and was spellbound to find the amount
his heart was writli Ada, and he exceeded £80,000 gratitude. Bat hurried to whers he had bardly a moment ago Ho stood motionless for a long time, lost in Her half-day journey to the convict station loft her. He heard a piercing scream-a dying reverie, Hardly knowing what he did he placed had been wasted, her hopes were blasted on the motor-car had thrown her down, and a neythe entire contents of the safe in his bag, fooked threshold of the prison. Courict 74C, was dead. crowd was soon gathering around the uncan-up the safe and left building, too dazed to Ada Northcote was a Bmotherless, fatherless scious girl. With eager care he lifted her speak, and hardly conscious of the road ho trou. orphan. There was not a word of regret er ez. mangled form, and with the friendly help planation. Prison rales are adamant. In dus liceman he carried her to the both of a pale found himself at home instead of ratarning
by. to the office where he was
dae. gure sho would receive an intimation by Ant new followed a period of sorrow and afternoon he spent in his own rooms, the battle- The whole Latar this came with the sam of three shillings waiting. Ads way slowly nursed back to conground of conflicting emotions. Never did he earned by convict 74. during the four ineaths valescence. Reggie was a constant visiter at for a moment doubt his duty, or what Ada would ke had been in gael. His clothes, and a fore useless the hospital, and day by day Ada loved him do when he told her. And as the thought trifles, only interesting as souvenirs, were also more more. When he recovered suficient. lingered forwarded. Afterwards Ada learnt through ady to leave the hospital, she was delighted
langored in his
his mind of what a man could do released convict, who had known her father in measure to find that her Reginald had found a Why tell Ada at all? She would be contented lighted beyond with £80,000, a terrible e temptation smalled him. ргіном.
where he had with the conviction. bat that he had received many spent all the time he could
jewels. She would never knew paltry kindnesses from the doctor and most of the oth instead of the terrible bill for rent which she £30,000 he could satisfy every desire of his life. With er prison officials, who are obliged by the neces exported to have to pay, there was a small (very He would invent some plausible Hea to nities of their position to show an unimpression small) balance waiting for her. But she was to her for his fortune, for he never dreamt, in able front, bound up with red taps, to the outer too weak to work world. At least his end was peace.
a home where for a few short the world for him. When he thought of her, of Ada was twenty years ok By this time she
соки she could regain her health and strength her love and innocence, had learnt
bo to think of de rely on herself, perty since hor father went to prison was a
for her only pro. by careful nursing.
ceiving her, and after one awf
fal hour of mental Reggie took her into the country one Satur small sum, the proceeds of the sale of a few ba day afternoon, and left her in charge of one of smiled through his tours. For rafety's sake be
Liza anguish temptation passed away, and he longings of her mothar. Her father's solicitor the are
sweetest nurses he had ever gosti, He saw took back the bonds to the safe deposit, and kept had recommended her to open a small shop with her on the next Saturiny. She was covoring ont puly Ada's letter from her dead father and which Ads managed to at least keep the wolf a little of her lost colour. She sat in the beak the jewels of her dead mother. from the door if little elsc.
tiful orchard on a low chair, and he bent over, and kissed her.
snd
that he had never been well since his girl to take her place at the shoy, nimeof, and any more than he chose to toll-
to
Robert Northcotn's crime was us sudden yielding to temptation-bis guilt was as real a his
Poalmont was well-deserved, Flavel in a
Apare
Hor
account
hospital had fonal, the doctors at the his worst moments, of deserting the only girl in
Ada" he said, "I have a secret to tell you,' Oh, Reggie," she said, "have you got married while I've been ill?
No, you silly little goose, as if I could over marty or ever love anyone except iny Ada. No, dear, my secret is for you as well as for us. I'm almost tigh now, I've had & rise. I've got a salary of three pounds a week, and I want you to murry ne,"
of enormous opportunities he had abs od his trust and defrauded his dupes for years.
- પ નવા By
opening a large nu
nuraber of retail shops his companies had succeeded sudor Northcote's magnificent, organising skill, and with a few pationcs a fortune honestly acquired might hars boon his own. From first to last his defalcations ancunted to many thousanda
of
Ada broke down, with the surprise of his end pounds. At least a hundred thousands pounds he don proposal, and her joy at his good fortune ought to have acconisted for had been purloined, how her father would have snoored at a thre And not
not only
did no other person have his oppounds a weak husbaul" for his daughter), portunities for theft, but he pleaded guilty and and the rest of her sondonce was drowned in Darling, darling," was all she could say admitted everything except the details. It was impossible for anyone to trucs how be had gind tears. Beggio understood. He ciaped \SCOTCH WHISKY spent the veel amount of his defauit. He was her hand, and neither spoke for a few minutes prored to have gons often to race meetings, and Then Ada stood up, and kissed him, saying
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Reginald had rightly predicted Ada's judg ment. Without
reproach against syllable of her father, and
with
acceptance of her dead mother's dowry, she instan
instantly decided that motley was not and never could be hers, With Reginald's Co-operation her old friend the solleitor, who rejoiced at the they consulted opportunity of restitation of so much money taking the police anthorities into his confidence he made the most of his fuir client's self-
f-denying courage and Reginald's excellent servico. Ali unsought, high tributes to his merits bogat to shower on Raggie, Robert Northente's creditors, with the bulk of their losses unex pectedly restored to them, considered how best and her future husband. A valuable appoint- they could assist Robert Northcote's daughter meat was offered him, and before many years hud slapset Reginald Mason had risen to as high a
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there are half a dozen other directions in which what all girls say under similar circumstances. Hosition as his father-in-law over helt landa India to Siberis, in which Europeans reside, PLAN OF HONGESW (SHANGHAI) with Inset he was found to have wasted soine thonunda of You have made me very happy." pounds. But his here showed no signs of
a long interval Ada became serious
02-
living up to but not beyond his income. Ada
travagance, he appeared to all his friends to be, too, have a tocret," said
You? Impossible!"
::
her father, for he was always good to her. but his coldness repelled everyone else. He
Yes, it is my father's secret as well as mine," seemed to live for his business alone. His heart, she said rather sadly, and Reggie too, became his son, his life were wrapped up in the exten. serious as he listened to her curious story. sion of these big shops which did not even My mother died many years ago. I remember bear his same when 19
Was their in- her well, for I loved her dearly, She al spiring genius, and now they seemed to waya promised she would give me a wedding. mock Ada every time she passed 1 their brilliantly
present, and my* father told nie long after al lighted fronts. Every branch shop med to died that her last thought was to zen ind him speak of the dead man. He had had his hand about my wedding present. Isn't it strange, en every key, as it were. Part of his
vory
kail bech to mingle the accounts of all eo dear, over since my mother's death, my father..
43-
unde ma promise to wear this koy and locket round my
She showed Reggie a ribbon round her snowy white throat, and then with sidanly modesty she blushingly unfastened the top bat tons of hor bodice and revealed a golden lookot and a key which she said she had worn " once & day" ever since her father first gave it to her.
in a common fand, Monoys from shareholders, accounts receivable and payable, wages funds, had oll exclunged their actual amount with cheques Ho had drawn on banks where he had accounts: The moneys actually stolen was no ror treeable by the numbers of bank, notes or otherwise
The prosecuting counsel and the judges were forced to admit that no calculating But why once a day you ask? Let me finish scoundrel had over half so cleverly before hid my story. My father usually carried this key den his traces and nude recovery so impossible. himself, but every night he took it out The few thousands actually discovered as paid pocket and wade me wear it as you saw it, aide away to his own house agunts and others, were sido by side with my mother's locket. The locket found to be represented by cheques on banks used to open, but one day soon after I first told where he had various accounts, but the money father that I loved you she blushed agaia as paid into the banks to meet these cheques bore she said
this)he
"he borrowed the locket no traceable resebblance to moneys. The judge, in inftititing and returned it a day or two later closed up and
in inflicting the maximam looking as if it had never been
of his
from me
santenco, rumarked that he was ridding society will be your wedding gift, het
and since then I have often wondered, bat, waited till now to speak. I have never told a soul before, and now, doar, let me give you the key and locket for you to unravel the mystery if you can."
Reggie accepted the tank with emile and more kisses.
•
of the
the most dangerous criminal who ever occupied a position of trust.
His dau
daughter had torer shared the proceeds of bis misdeeds, but she indeed suffered more than her share of his punishment, Now she was de- pressed and disgraced, reduced to the bumblest of homes, afraid lest oven that should be lost through the righteous injustice of those who
*** boliere
Two days later Reggie was alone in his room. in rengeance to the third and fourth with the key and the locket before him. Teud- generation. Her night had but one bright star, erly, lovingly, he handled the locket, knowing she loved and was beloved. When her father's well that he could easily penetrate to its my- forinnes seemed to be high and promising great-stery, but reluctant to lay forcible hands on an er heights Reginald Mason had woood her, and object prized so dearly and worn in such intim- won her affection, although he was penniless.ats proximity to his beloved. Overcoming bis Reginald had a heart of gold, the brain of an seraples he used the sharp steel tool he had intelligent thinker, and the hands of an honest.
est procured for the purpose, and, as he had guess- He had often brightened her hears whoned, within the golden charm was the frigid reserve of her father would have froz written small but clearly on a fragment of eu a less words undured daughter into indiffer- ence. Her father had neither welcomed parchment. And this is what it said: repulsed Ada's suitor,
My own dearest child,- and Ade, was grateful to him for tolerating one who had no pretensions to wealth. With leor father's downfall Ada's
Üл.
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.on
for this
a message
Mason, and no one else to Botolph's Safe De The key will admit you or Mr.
friends had mostly vanished. Reginald had it If you go alone you must give your nome clung more closely. Her new dependence mother). Your loying
as Miss Jeanie Bryon (the name of your dear bim seemed to bring into being ambitions to which hitherto he had been a stranger. He be
"Father." came excited over the idea of winning
Reggie's thoughts ran away with him. Who frail, suffering, Ianccont girl the world's re- could blame that sinful father if he had put in spect and a place worthy of her
charno geatle o-Kafe keeping the few triflos of little worth which ter. Reginald Mason
was one of nature's once had been her mother'e? Fred from the gentlemen, and to this fine man a temptation prying eyes of detectives and is yors, safe from was to come such as fow could resist. A poor danger of sharing in the general loss, these fer mon in love, a man who know what countless souvenirs of an innocent woman should be
be bold joys wealth could buy, a man who saw the im. in store for an innocent girl's probability that honest opportunity would ever
day at lunch time POR
gift. Next maks him rich-to him came a chance of gain strolled leisurely into Botohiks great under
all- honour.
-AUTO
safe deposit, where a
asked him his naine sud business. Questions belug answered satisfactorily and reference being
ad made to the number shows on the key the re- gister showed that Mr. Mason was one of the Parties fully described as entitled to access at any time. to Safe No. 1563A. A fer
minutes later he was in a snug little private room alone and opened the safe without au offert. A balky safe No. 1663A. The key fitted amoothly package, open and unsealed, was the first thin to meet his eye. Below this was an unenveloped letter, and the remaining space was occupied with the for jewels of small value and other in teresting triffee. Ho sat down to read the loiter, and for a moment the earth trembled, and he felt as in a dream, for this is what he road:
"Dearest Child,
KP.
Acta, I've come to take you in the park said Reginald one spring evening, and Ada with as nor approach to a smile as she could summon told him he must wait a few minutes longer The
won't close till eight, she said. "It isn't
closing day, and I've only tak. on four shillings all
If it wasn't for long, Saturdays I I don't think I could live a month on my monthly takings here."
But I thought those advertisements I wrote for you would have made things better.
Yes, they would, dear, only you see I haven't any money for printing handbills, lot alone ask ing newspapers to say what you want them to
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"Well, it's eight now, dear, so give the word and up go those funny little shatters"
signal is given with a kim, over the coun
The
tex, the chop is closed, the fill is cleared without
Here are your mother's dear souven. irs, which I dare not keep at home or you might
any great effort, and Reginald holds one hand not, receive them at the time she (dear woman)
the
ia
they
while Ata closes the door and looks it with her wanted you to have them. I am a thief, and disorgaged hand. Soon
lost to one day I Bre
be discovered, although I do not consciousness of all the world-lovers in think it likely, for I am clever enough to steal
may London. It
eight months sines her wisely. Do not curse me till you know all father's death, To-night. she ban think of eve aron d me poverty such as I too have suf Reggie only he has become very dear to fored. Your mother and I have known what Why didn't you leave me when all the it was to be without a meal, and I am determin rust did," she asks him, serenely conscious of ed you, my only child, shall be spared such a what the answer will be.
possibility As soon as you met Reginald
her.
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