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„NO. 2—” COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON.”
[BY JOHN SAMPAN.]
NOT:All names in this story are The cultured voice of John Lister had lost all its pleasant tones of savoir faire, and was actually husky with astonish- |ment as,well as anger.
You unspeakable young cad!" WBA all he seemed to be able to say.
The youth addressed-by name John Harrison (the older man seemed some what aggrieved that even his Christian name should be borne by someone so out of the pale of all that was possible in civilisation) opened his mouth as it to reply in equally wrathful terms and shut it again; and there was a full minute's pause, during which the two glared at each other like the proverbial cave men. Then the younger spoke, in a very low and polite tone, in which, however, contempt, even greater than that of his companion, was distinctly audible through its civility.
"You have a pleasant advantage over mc." he said. Being able to insult me as you feel inclined, knowing E am not likely to give you back what you deserve, as you are Madge's foster-father. So 1 suppose that's that!"
He finished coolly enough, spun on his heel, and left the other man, astonish ment at such audacity plainly getting the better of even his unger now, alone in his sumptuously-appointed amcking-room, in his luxurious house on one of the loveliest crested hills of the Peak, Hong Kong.
John Lister put out his hand and touch- ed the bell, with the air of one who could not think of anything better to do; and when the white-coated boy appeared silently and suddenly before him, he put his question with the same air of
bewildered amazement..
"That young man," he asked. "Have
80 7"
"Have go," the boy responded placid ly, making his exit as noiselessly as he Had appeared.
Just as well, too!"" snorted his
fictitione,
que
presence of whom his own juniors shiver- ed in their shoes. Then, no wonder his disgust was almost incredulous at this this presumptuous young as he didn't quite know what to call him somehow! To think of a youth of admittedly only 13 years of age and equally admittedly. almost nothing in the way of salary, with a mother who, he said, had only arrived in the Colony that morning, to be looked after-presumably a widow and depen- dent on his or her own devices for a livelihood-a youth who confessed to having, in the main, paid for his own cducation, though he spoke proudly and adoringly, of his mother's chorta in that direction, whose father was possibly using the term to imply legitimate re lationship-only a myth-a youth who, in short, and worst of all, was a miser- able reporter on a miserable local rag of a newspaper to think of such daring to aspire even to the kindly alances of the taipan's adopted daughter! Al because he the youth-being well- favoured and presentable in appearances and
(thus much 31r. Lister grudgingly allowed), had the good sense to save a charming girl from being trampled down and perhaps killed in a maddened Chinese crowd, after being tipped out of a ricsha by a desperate coolie who had in some way excited the anger of the mob and was fleeing from them without thought of what became of his luckless fare. Accordingly, maiden and worthless fortune-hunter had dared to meet and become friends, and more than friends, till it had culminated in the wretched Christmas Eve party last night, when he had actually caught them in each other's arms, giving kiss for kiss, under that tamarind tree! Oh, it was all unthinkable! So unthinkable that he had packed Madge off, sorely against her will, to have her Christmas tifin and tea with friends, while had interview- ed the major culprit in the crime, and told him what he thought of him, as we have seen. And the up-start had not been crushed by all scorn, that was
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and a young woman were coming towards them, walking slowly, engrossed the one
His Worship, however, found that the in the other's attentions. And if Mabel defendant was guilty of a serious breach Lister only knew the one by light, to her of the Prison's Regulations, in that he husband they were both extremely and took into the prison, articles of a private bewilderingly familiar, bewilderingly, nature without lawful excuse. that is, considering the sudden altering A due of $75 was imposed or in default of life's entire values to him within the six weeks' hard labour... last hour; for they were his adopted daughter Madge, and the youth he had known as John Harrison, at whom he HEALTH BULLETIN OF EASTERN
PORTS. had hurled contempt for aspiring to be the adopted son-in-law of his own
The Health Bulletin for Eastern ports raaguificent self-and now! Why hadn't some instinct whispered to him? Of tor the week ending December 18th. course, those were Mabel's brown eyes, states: and that was his own straight figure with the aquare shoulders!
"The unparalleled confounded check Of course, I don't blame him for admir ing the kiddy's cat may look at king, I suppose, But-Intentions en- tirely honourable!' Had every bope of making a home for her bye and bye! Good lord! He talked like a novel writ
John Lister rang the bell again, saun- ten in Mrs. Henry Woods' salad days! tered to his dreasing-room, allowed his I believe he actually thought, because I
boy to help him on with his outdoor insisted on his coming to the house to things, and strode out into the bright, explain himself, instead of waiting inblen Christmas air. It was four o'clock my office for the interesting interview, now; he should have been having a cosy, that I was inclined to favour him a festive tea with Madge and her friends; fature foster son-in-law! And now. It was abominable the way Fate-treated suppose I shall have a perfect hell of him, this lucky yet luckless taipan, the time with Madge! They actually admit only consoling factor in the situation ted last night that they have met six was that Madge and her would-be lover times since that ridiculous riċsha affair a
were as lackles as he and that wasn't as
And so they walked and talked, while † BREACH OF PRISON DISCIPLINE. fortnight ago! Who was to suppose such consoling as it might be, after all. He people were going to be at that Peak Club took the tram down to the city: his the latening hours of the Christmas after-
INDIAN WARDER FINED. show last night Xmas Fancy Party luxurious car was ready for him at the noon closed in around them. It may be in aid of Waifs and Straya! It only lower terminus, but he waved it aside, given to only one man and woman in a
"The case in which an Indian warder of women who have enough to eat and wear and walked on, through the Cathedral thousand to love as John and Mabel themselves could be taught to mind their compound, and slowly, steadily, down Lister, with a love that was a fresh and the Victoria Gaol was charged with own business instead of eternally getting Battery Path towards the half-deserted ready to bloom again in the autumn as giving 5 envelopes to a prisoner employ up these charitable stunts for others city streets. He didn't know exactly it had been in the gay young spring, ed at the Printing Department of the who only vote them a nuisance with their why he went; but anything was better four and twenty years gone by; but the gaol, and with offering a bribe of $5 to patronage, there would be lear trouble!" than the house, after that upsetting years slipped away with the tone of a Warder Collins to conceal the fact, was voice, the twitch of a mile, and le brought to a conclusion yesterday after- He sighed involuntarily." Charitable "interview. entertainments always took him away in Half-way down the Path, under the them just two people to live for each noon at the Central Magistracy before thought, even against bis will, into the spreading banyans, he stopped, and star- other all over again-just they two!" Mr. B. E. Lindsell. past, when he also had been a junior," ed at a woman who was slowly approach-
a breach of But as they turned a corner of the road Mr. J. B. MacCallum, for the defence and had met the girl who was his wife ing him And she, seeing him, stopped they paused; for they were not the only admitted that there was
so serious that the Superintendent of the for a few brief months, at a Charity Ball, at the selfsame moment, and their eyes Europeans along that particular road prison discipline, but the crime was not A Christmas Eve affair it was too, like met. She was, to a casual observer, a nor even the only lovers! A young man
mentally. this disastrous one last night, only in very commonplace person; for her clothes
Gaol could not have dealt with it depart- London, and very long ago. Yea, twenty were obviously cheap, and she was small four years ago exactly how the time and slight, and past all the freshness of went! He had been married a couple of youth, to one looking closer her somewhat. months later, and lived for another four tired and faded face still showed pathe in a youthful paradise, until the day tically brave traces of real beauty, they quarelled. It seemed such a lame, Suddenly, John Lister's face, which had ant-of-date word, but that was all it grown pale and grey, finshed a warthy was-just the sort of quarrel in which red in boyish excitement. Instinctively lots of married people, he felt sure, in- he lifted his bat he was always first of dulged every day or two, just to give all a gentleman, no matter how great his little variety to the monotony of martial perturbation and beld out a hand. existence. Of course, he knew he had lost There was nothing at call strange in the his temper-he still lost it, he admitted, mighty taipan of a mighty business house occasionally. If there had been the strolling down Battery Path and pausing slightest suspicion of a man--a third to speak, to a lady there, even though party in the business he would have had she be not dressed quite to the demands nothing to condemn himself for. But of expensive modishness. But it was not there wasn't. It was just one of those quite within the bounds of convention stupid and most dangerous of all-for him to hold her hand as though his domestic tiffs concerning the price or were a fur-gloved vice, and to call her quality of face-powder or Worcester "Mabel!" in a voice that was full of sauce, that cause more wreckage on the joyful and incredulons triumph conjugal sea than all the cruelty or im- morality that ever existed out of modern, novel pages or off the screen. Mabel had threatened to leave him. And she had gone. As soon as he discovered her de parture he took the trains trife asham- ed of his childish outburst to the house of her aunt, her only living relative, with whom she had always made her home. Of course, she would be there, and be glad to make it up." And she wasn't.
The advantage is all on your side, I And that was all there was in the
fancy," said the older man quietly, little memory; from that day to this she had
ghosts of boyish mirth playing round his been as completely lost to him as if he
handsome mouth. "For I had certainly had stood beside ber daisy-trimmed grave.
no idea that you could claim acquain- He had lived alone for some years. And How he started! Dear heaven, was tanceship with my wife!"
returned her husband,“At then friend-his only real chem--had everyone in the universe surnamed Har- The Rev. Richard. Cameron and his least, I don't know the lady, but the man been killed, he and wife together, in rison, just now?
wits
pussed the party a little later as is young Harrison, a reporter of six `a motor accident, and John: Lister, more
Then after, you see, when I'd used they sought their waiting car; the months' standing on the Daily News-it desolate than any widower, yet proudly up all my little scrap of money, and
Camerons were on their way down to | rather puzzles me--I didn't know, he was keeping his desolation to himself had managed to get a position, I couldn't Christmas dinner with friends at one of a friend of theirs old John O. Lu, sa adopted their only child, a little girl very well charge it--the people who were the colleges.,
you call him, is generally so-oh, well, of five, to shower on her all the love be kind to me would have been suspicious-
There are the Listers," said Mre it's no use conjecturing, we may know might have given to his own fream and so it just dragged on, and when Cameron. “We can't stop, as they have some day.
The Compliments of children. Her nurse, a decent, elderly John grew older and was known by it; strangers with them, but I must call to the Season, he called cheerily across woman, went with ber, and had brought the only thing to do soemed to be to wish them a Merry Christmas, even the road, as the others saw them and her, long after a year on more ago now let it always be his name-and-and-oh, though it's two parts over now; doesn't smiled and bowed. -out to Hong Kong to ber, festes father, I know that part of it was wicked or indge look beautiful today! And, dear The same to you!" called back John when her school-days were at an end, weak or whatever you like to call it-old John C. L is generally so hard Lister, with a very unwonted heartiness He had been sent out to his firm's Heng but I have never yet told him the truth and haughty looking, it's quite nice to in his voice, Kong office during those school-days; he thinks his father died-it was so aim and from being a junior, he had lessly stupid, the real truth, to have to risch bound by bound, until now when tell a modern sensible boy 12. Madge, was eighteen, and beautiful Yes, yes! He understood of course enough to cause a second siege of Troy So aimlessly stupid ¡". The truth is so if necessary-ho was the high and often more stupid than a falsehood can haughty, awe-inspiring taipan, in the possibly be.
Bbe
They walked slowly round the quiet ness of Albert Road while they talked.
"I knew you would find me if I kept to my proper name," she said, in answer to his query." And I couldn't bear for you to, then-I-was so angry!" smiled slightly, with a quivering lip. Especially when I knew that I was to be the mother of your child.”
She was looking away from him, and did not see the awe in his eyes as the said it
So I took my mother's maiden name knew you wouldn't remember being that it was Harrison."
"
"I thought you had to go to "your office, John Bo the young man's mother greeted him.
thought you were at Lady Fawcett's having tea, Madge!" Thus the young lady's greeting from her guardian.
The alleged John Harrison looked in almost beseeching perplexity from his mother's face to that of her companion, as the latter very gravely held out his hand. ** I'm afraid you have a distinct advantage over me this time, my dear air," he said For I had no idea that acquaintance of my
you were an mother "
"Yes,
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see him look so approachable and pleas The same to you, a Merry Christ- sant! And who are the other people, mas!" He had to say it, if the day Dick do you know? Mr. Lister so selwere well-night over; Compliments of dom seems to be taking people into his the Season" was a very courteous with car in that homely, familiar fashion. but a Merry Christmas!" suited him
{, best just 'now
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