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THE STRANGE CRIME OF JOHN BOULNOIS.
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I have come to see Mr.. Boul- nais," said Kidd.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1913.
just outside the gates of Pen- dragon Park-as close as it could be without being actually in the grounds.
(To be Continued.)
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Mr. Calhoun Kidd was 'a' very
"What is Pendragon Park? young gentleman with a very old asked Calhoun Kidd. Fice face dried up with Sir Clande Champion's place- own ugerness, framed in blue-haven't you cime for that, black hair and a black butterfly too?" asked the other pressman,.
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I've come to see Mrs. Bou-various proofe of quality at various This was in allusion to a great pois." replied the other," but times? Moral fraues, questions journalistic declaration attributed but cateli bor at home." And of state or nation, may serve. As to Mr. Kidd himself, that he he laughed rather unpleasantly. Lowell says: "guessed the sun would rise in
"Are you interested in catas the west yet, if American citizenal did a little more hustling trophisin?" asked the wondering
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"I'm interested in catastrophes
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With that he spat on the floor; sat, somehow, in the very ect and instant one could realize that the man had been brought up as a gentleman.
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His name, which came out in the with a spirit of willingness to do Thus, when a very unobtrusive course of talk, was James Dalroy; the best that is within him! How Oxford man named John. Boul-ho was son of n bankrupt Irish it stirs the inmost chambers off nois, wrote in a very unreadable landlord, and attached to a pink the soul to activity-thie thought review called "The Natural Phi-paper, which he beartily despised, of communion with the maker of losophy Quarterly" a series of arcalled "Smart Society,
id the all things! ticle on the alleged weak points capacity of reporter und of some- These are great spiritual crises of Darwinism, it flattered nothing painfully like spy.
in the lives of men. As one writer corner of the English parers: "SmartSociety, "I regret to say. eays of the feelings which accom- though Boulnois' theory (which felt noue of that interest in was of a comparatively stationary Boulnois on D.rwin that was such
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moments, nursing my ioner weak- Boulante quite gigantically scross Sir Claude Champion was ness in a vain hope of escaping! its pages. By the paradox alrea:ly known to the readers of the ultimate disclosure of my soul's quoted, articles of honest intellig-Western Sun as well as Mr. unsoldierly nature? Be sure God ence sad enthusiasin were pre: Bulnois. So were the Pope and will not have it so. The hour Bented with headlines apparently the Derby Winnor; but the idea approaches-it cannot be evaded. written by an illiterate maniac of their intimate acquaint- headlines such as " Darwin Chewe ance ship would have struck Stand! Stand upon thy feet! CASSUM AHMED, Note; Dirt; Critio Doulnois says be Kidd as equally incongruous. Show thyself a man! "Self-fulfill- Jumpa the Shooka" or "Keep He had heard of (and written ment, self-realization, is demand- nois,"
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Catastrophio, says Thinker Bon-about-nay, falsely pretended to ed of thee; no mere self-assertion, 33/4. WELLINGTON STREET, The Only European
And Mr. Calhoun Kidd, know) Sir Claude Champion as but the measure of thy inner val
of the "Western Sun" was bid "one of the brightest and weal- our and worth. Pray for readines41, NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON. den to take his hutterfly tie and thiest of England's Upper Ten "O my soul, that thou be not found lugubrious visage down to the as the great sportsman who raced wanting, but that the years grant tle house outside Oxford, where yachts round the world; an the ed thee shall have been used t› Thinker Boulnois lived in happy great traveller who wrote books harden thy thews and strengthen ignorance of snch-n title.
about the Himalayas; as thethine heart for the ordeal," That fated philosopher Lad politican who swept constituencies
Along with the test, however, consented, in a somewhat dazed with a startling sort of Tory comes a new sort of strength with annoner, to receive the inter- Demooracy; and as the great which to bear it.
viewer, and bad named the hour dabbler in art, music, literature, "And the spirit entered into me of nine but evening. The last and, above all, acting. Siri when he spake unto me," says of a summer sunset clung abou. Claude was really rather magni Ezekiel, and set me upon my Cumnor and the low wooded ficent in other than American feet."
hille; the romantic Yankee was eyed. There was something of The spirit of the Father waite both doubtful of his road and the Renascenic Prince about his ever to enter into each heart; to inquisitive about his surround-omnivorous culture and restlere strengthen oach heart and better ings; and seeing the door of a publicity; he was not ouly a fit it for the struggle that must genuine feudal old country ino, great aminteur, "but an ardent be made.
the Champion Arme, standing one: There was in bim none of That spirit is the great helper. open, he went in to make enquiries. that antiquarian frivolity, that It comes quietly, like the still, In the bar parlour, he rang tuwe convey by the word "dilelemall voice that sounded from cas bell and had to wait some little | lants "'; That faultless falana the busb..
time for a reply to it. The only profile with purple-black Iralian "I am the Ld, thy God,". it other person present was a lean eyes which had been soap says.
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man, with close red hair and shotted so often both for "Smart With the finite on thy side, loose liorany-looking clothes, who Society and the "Western Sun" what is there to fer?
Dover
But, potence, how canʼat thou fail ?.
call, but thy trembling will be
Thou shalt tremble at this great Latest lost in the remembrance that He who is strong to help will help. "Fear not, I am with thee."
was drinking very bad whiskey gave every one the impression of With the Maker of all things but smoking a very good cigar. a man eaten by ambition is by a supporting thee with. His omni- The whiskey, of course, was the fire, or over a disease, choice brand of the Champion though Kidd knew a great del Arms; the cigar he had probably about Sir Claude, a great deal brought with him from London. more, in fact, than there was to Nothing could be more different know, it would
have than hie cynical negligee from crossed his wildest dreams to the dapper "dryness of the young connect so showy an aristocrat American; but something in the with the newly unearthed founder alert expression of his blue eyes, of Catastrophism; or to guess that and his pencil and open pote Sir Claude Champion and John book, caused Kidd to guess cor-Boulnois could be intimate rectly that he was a brother friende. Such, according to "journalist,
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