THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
HIS BIG STORY.
EDWARD
BY
HUNGERFORD.
(Concluded from last Saturday.)
He drew closer to the shivering
EXTRA
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1913, 1,30 P.M.
that the Frenchman old the truth, high Greek; but there was some and that possibility was certainly thing about this wild eyed Ameri-
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respec-
militant force as well as a persua- CHINA'S VICE PRESIDENT sive influence-"I came not to send peace, but a sword."
operator had been dozing, but be
Moral warfare makes men hard, was quickly wakened and staring
but superficial peice makes men soft. to be preferred to the probability can journalist that was convincing at the reporter
Christian conflct in its of blowing the high-powered and spoke more than human ton-
To-day we have many kinds of crystalisation means character. engine of the Little Rufus to gues, so the engineer fussed at tions at him. A wire into the duces a new type. Each new fought, and, therefore, 1 sm Leavy was shouting his instruc- Christians. Each generation pro- There are real battles to be smithereens and landing in the the cylindera again. Leavy was Banner office,-it was decent of class necessitates a label, and through proaching serious on cold waters of the bay.
again throwing the words and him to have the line oleared, Very well; I'll let you tackle sentences helter-skelter upon the and the reporter's hand went who are cultured," "well-to-do" The modern Christian has no therefore we read of Christians How to Control the Temper.". it," said I avy."You'll have to ocean-sprayed pages of his copy-desper into his inner pocket and
pad.
consecrated," "amiable," "well- temper worth proaching about. keep her up to the notch."
brought forth a thick, water dressed," "educated." The engines of the Little Rufus soaked roll of paper. There was table,"
Ho goes off into a spasm of wrath He took another drink as the throbbed as even Cap'n Joe had the story, and there was a twenty-"lovely," and so forth.
wealthy, **beautiful,"
over the loss of a collar button, Little Rufus pushed of into the never suspected they were capable dollars bill for a bonus if there
remaine calm and unmoved amid He dimly rememtared where bay, and still another as her of throbbing. They were were no delays in the sending. Just at the present time there the slaughter of innocents. The seems to be a demand for a now trouble is that the Church bas be bad left Cap'a Joe; his me-engine began its quick, nervous hands, now, that know how to
Then Leary went caroming brand, namely, "the fighting been satisfied to expond its wrath- group around the fire, when a moty had not played tricks with vibrations. They seemed, to his control, a trained mind that bad
"the fighting on little eins, while great er mes fall, ismiliar figure loomed out of him to right, as it sometimes did inexperienced ear, to and true, conceived many such as they soross the waiting-room of the Christian," the indistinct, rain-shielded mus: those days, end her found and Erhaps the Frenchman he The put-put of the other at depot, which was lighted only by saint." We are looking for the have festered in the body politic, Nichole-Nichols of the Report, the man, whor3 lante a was all had back there was not such a came more loudly to Leavy' as the light that came through the saint who is "on the warpath" for We have, been killing flies in the horst nows thief in town. bit obered by the enveloping liar, after all. He covertly watch A voice spoke from it, but the tiny wicket window where the purity and for righteousness. We jungle while savige tigers have Up to that moment Leavy had fog. Cap'n Jts we stretched od bin engineer, and derived some reporter did not hear it. He was operator was calling New York, are in search of the Christian held the road. Strike hands indulged him if in the idea that prostrate on the beah, with the satisfaction from the way he in the heart of his big story, and calling the Bunner, now reling who is disposed to "carry the war with me for the oxtermination of ho was the only one of the crowd litter om half a dozta water-somed to be handling the cylin the wild rough world was shut on line upon line, page upon page into Africa. We should be de-ons great evil in the cominunity, dora. Then fastened the out of the intensity of his mind. of Leavy's story, The rattle of lighted to find some heroiu soul and I will not bother you about that had managed to get out to ɔaked_boxe + spid at ut him. the storm-swept reaf. It had not When Lavy call 1 his name, the steering wheel into place, atretch The put-put of the other grew the teleg.sph instrument was worthy of "the championship of your little sins. If you were scouted to him that there were sailor did not answer. Then the ed himself upon the floor of the fainter, and the shouts and music in his ears as he sank to the world" in the manifestation of fighting more you would be play- other power-heat men at Heath reporter threw himself down on Little Rufus, and drew forth a calla more distant; even the sleap, body and mind alike ex- an aggressive Christianity. We are ing less.
honestly hungering for the be- The demand to-day is for mole who might be aa foolhardy the wet beach and put bis face pecil and a wad of copy-paper, chuckling of the speed-crazed hausted to the point of stupor.
The story! That was the main engineer was unheard: for Leavy Nichols of the Report han pass liever whose belief is of ench a aggressive Christians. O for con as Cap'n Joe under sight of a close to the man's. desk's roll of yellow bills. He breathed; Etter than that thing, after all. Now it was plain was on the last page of his copy ed cloce enough to the stranded quality as to lead him to "throw secrated recklessuses! Men who "Hello, Leavy," was Nichols be breathed liquor. The smell sailing, montally; the liquor had After that the deluge-after a last Little Rufus to see the predica down the gauntlet" and "take ap don't care what men say. Women greeting. "I didn't think there of the drink on the sleeping man's loosened things a good deal. Here period had been implanted and a ment of his competitor, and he the cudgel" for reforms in civio who don't care what women say. was his first fentence, the first round pencil ring made about it, still chuckling at the thought of affairs, Religion exists for a Preachers who don't care what was another man fool enough to lips was intoxicating to the re
to preachers say. porter. He rolled. Cap's "Joe paragraph, the introduction to let rome what may, let the worst Leavy stuck in a mudbank while twofold purpose-namely, come out here to night."
he was ecurrying toward the depot enthrone the right and dethrone Leavy said liile except a foru over as he might have rollod a the intensely human story by bappan; let~~
great log, and an uncorked tattle which the reporter hoped to thril Louvy went sliding forward at Heathmore. In his wake were ed that the Church should b3 a the wrong. Jesus Christ intend- al greeting.
went slipping down the shelving New York for the last time in his along the smooth floor of the two more reporters from lesser "It's a good story," continued beach toward the water. In an misspent life. The liquor was launch at a terrible rate until his papers, trying to piok up such Nichols, but it lacks bigues instant Leavy was afer the bot good; it set his mind afire, and poor, tired head crashed against crum be as he might ses fit to drop They poke a ship ashore every tle. Previous salvage was that, now the words and sentences the head of the cockpit. The to them--for they had never even little while with a big death list, and not a second was lost before came tumbling out of it like Frenchman spilled forward again started across the bay.
The great" souls of history, al and here's everybody safe."
he raised it to his lips and the people from a burping house, and st. the hot engine, and ripped out
most without exception, have "Mighty lucky to get an opera been· Somehow the story had not lost good red liquor went rolling down went romping down in a yell that must have been heard for this time of night in this "a man of war." Moses "slow ident Li Yuan-hang has already
fighters David тан to Leavy because of that, his dry and thirst-parched throat. straight lines across his copy all the way back to Hog Island hole," said Nichols; most gen the Egyptian," Joshua "left out token place, the ceremony being The Little Rufus was reef. The Little Rufus rammederally I have to fall back on long one of them alive." Caleb in held at the same time as that in but be kept his mouth shut.
"H we were fools to come out liquor of a foreign and unknown woll away from the shelter of the her nose into Long Island' mud, distance, and that knocks all the epired by a possible conques), ex- Peking, on-October 10. It was
vintage! He had only wanted a real and tossing wildly in the and was sehore hard and fast,
prettiness out of a story,”
claimed, "we ars wall able single drink,,, and after he had
When Leavy had collected his
carried through with so little One of the other answered him to do it." Every one of the had a generous one he threw the bottle back on the sand and
enses and the pages of his story,
prophets carried a big stick," portentiousness, noontsider boing he found that he had no time to "It would have taken more and Paul, the founder of a
present that only a very few knew congratulated himself that, if he had neded a drink, nowadays
shore, and the Frenchman started for the storm has knocked out on the whole armour of God." hardly have been simpler. First waste. He began to wade to than prettiness our of your story, new civilisation, exclaimed, "that the General has not to go to Peking. The inauguration could he knew wlion to stop. But it not slowly, but instantly, as the to follow, but then decided that the 'phones, and the operator here Nichols came close to Leavy was not five minutes after that creation of a mind accustomed to he had risked enough, and at sed has not b: ɔn able to get New York Every great soul finds his op of all the military and civil and laid his hand on the other's he went back and hunted out the work at high tension. It was a with the launch. Leary plunged sines six o'clock." wrist,
bottle. One drink might not be good atory, a newspaper stories knee-deep into marsh and bag, Nichols stumbled and all but enough! ho "That isn't really i"
go, and Leavy felt that it was and all but fell as he crossed fell over a man asleep on the There was no use bothering good as he pancilled it. The there in the dark. Then he left floor in the dark. whispered. "There's more than
now. The bayman motor-boat went into rougher the elimy surface ris, climbed spacs for both of us if we stick it Cap'n Joo out here till dawn. It will be was helplessly drunk, and, while water, and tossed more furiously upon the land again, went poking after that before they get wind of Leavy feit that it was not quite A comber broke over her gunwale forward blindly in a muddy field this over at Heathmere and all as fair and square as he would and sprinkled the copy-parar as of stubble until he reached a the bay thieves come trooping have likel, this leaving a man Leavy wrote upon it. Ile did not wire fence, crossed it, and stood across. There's salvage enough sleeping and marooned on the stop. A larger wave broke over in a country road.
of them reassured him; "it's old here to be worth a year's salary reef, yet he would wake with the little lausch, and the French- to both of us. You can tell your plenty of comping in the morning man began to pray aloud. Leavy's Leavy stood in the road, wet Leavy, the lush of the Banner. olice that you couldn't get back and Staawix world mauage to pad was drenched. Then he and shivering, while he tried to I'd have thought Stanwix would in the storm, and it won't matter, to straighten the business out after-palled himself to his feet, and get his baarings. For a long have known i stter than send him It isn't a big story, and we cant ward. So he left Cap'u Joe, after took his bearings from the chart that of the heavy storm until he they're crazy up in that office
time there was no sound save down here to-night, rol the situation, so there's no he had dragged him up under a and another drink from the bottle. danger of any other fellow get. shelving bank where he would be For a moment the gale lulled. caught in the distance the wild just now." ting it.'
safe, and started out to find the As it freshered for a new attack knew that they could not be far City Desk crazed as only a city Aud so they were crazy around it brought to Leavy's ears the from the railroad, and up the room can become crazed when Leavy loosened his hand from
put put of another motor, and railroad was Heathmere. Nichols' grasp. His big story-
big story, a big exclusive story Stanwix beaten-be, down here
the reporter delaye! for a moment
Still, it is probable that the is coming in over the wire: boys on his honour-big ship story the human story of the big ship
at the tiny niokeiled wheel while Banner might never have had snatching copy from the opera- foundered t
Nichols said here to-night," craftily, we'd be worse fools to crose the Great South again in this wind and fog and raic." "I got out here I guess I
et back."
"I wouldn't think of such an idea," he said quickly.
man.
!
How it sleared his` mind, thur | papar.
wind-caught surface of the bay; but the reporter might have ten back in the dingy old city room of the Banner, for all he cared.
The story was forming itself,
his return to his story. He stood
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"Who's that?" he asked. The two younger men bent over him.
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Features of Inauguration Ceremony..
The inauguration of Vice Pres
Eck, Calvin and Servetus, Sava- officials who were to present narola and Lorenzo. The first Vice-president's office and were went early in the morning to the recorded appearance of Moses on assembled in two linos one at each the platform of human history is side of the main hall. The Vice- recorded in these words:
"Be slow the Egyptian and hid him the Chief of the General Staff president was thon introduced by in the sand." He not only had after which he made thres bows "sand" in his own character, but to the assembled gathering. he had enough left over to a These were returned by thous comodate the Egyptian.
present. The Chief of the Gen
it
What is the fighting spirit? Ieral Staff then read his address,
the quarrelsome spirit? Is it the Vice-president remaining epirit of the man who is always seatod. This was on behalf of
is
the spirit of the man who will owed by a second address by the I'll spoiling for a fight? Not so. It the military officials and was foll- atake everything, even life itself, Civil Govornor, who represented great cause. The only thing you dresses gave expression to the for a great conviction, or for a the civil authorities. Both ad-
which you are willing to stand ident. General Li opened his ad- really "believe" is the thing admiration felt for the Vice-pres- for, fight for, batile for, and suffer dress by darrating the difficulties, for. Iam tired of hearing mon resulting from friction batween "I favour this," or "I favour official, which had been over-
83y,
Jesus Christ: He had come across a moment, but Leavy heard some one o'clock in the morning, with ing to the shaping city, hours
THE IMPERATOR,
Little Ralus.
How Laavy found the motor- "boat that inky night at Hog Is land reef has never Lzen satis- factorily explained; but it is a fact that some time along about out of the blackness a fog Leavy's big story on its flashy tors' typewriters; page after page that. Almost every man "favours" come. He then gave a short midnight the Little Rufus set blanketed form of another launch first page, in the morning, if Patsy of an epio, written by a master of sail in the dark from Hog Island loomed, crossed the bows of the Connor's anole had not died that the oraft, going aloft to the lino-something. I have one question survey of the unsettled state of reef across the Great Suth for Little Rafus, and swept into week out on Frog Point. Patsy, types-whirling in the presses to ask of every person who pro- affairs in the country and concind- And when Nichols began to Heathmore. Leary had an en blackness again. It was over in driving home from the wake si off in the crisp and wintry morn- fesses to walk in the feststeps of ed by appealing to all to promote willing to stand for?" These bows were given, the national "What are you peaco sod prosperity. Other thres argue, Lavy turned from him. gineer, to
Mrs. Patay asleep on his shoulder, before the Report, or any of the "I'm going to do my level bost a man at the little wharf on the one in the boat shout:
"Where the devil are you to keep to the road. He, too, was like the Lunner's, without mon a stand? Then have a hand in taken, as it is as said that it is trusted implicitly to his old mare other sheets without traditions are the laws of the battle. First, anthem played, and the Vice- have a conviction! Second, take president retired. No path was to get my story in to-night," he bay side of the reef who wanted presage to the mainland. The Bald.
going? man explained to the reporter
almost salesp, when the mare who carry the glory of their call- That was Nichole voice, and went back on her haunches and a ing above their very lives.. With that he hurried away into that it was most urgents woman
the fight!
not required of the Vice-president, the inky blackness beyond the was dying would not the corres Heathmore with the story of the dark to him.
Nichola wa making toward man began speaking out of the'
The splendid period in the life the beach fire. Nichole ripped & pondent take him acrosa?"
of every nation has been its "string of oaths after the Banner
jshipwreck for the Report. Leavy
fighting period. Israel and the Leavy's first impulse was to went to the stern of the little In spite of the fact that he had What use was it working
emancipation, Greece "and the
Civic, Jubilee. нау "DO.
left his revolver home, Patay kept He could not be launch. for a rag, when one found a
memories of Marathon, Scotland. threatening that if the stranger bothered with passengers, when
Reigate, which bas just cale- and the Convonsatera, England brated its jubilee an a borough, "How does that engine be- did not loosen his mare's bridle chance to make a heap of money
and the Commonwealth, France has developed greatly during the eleewhere? Who was going to he was so near desperation, and
might sinks the craft before they have?" he asked the Frenchman. instantly he would shoot. But
and the Revolution, the United half century since the granting look out for a man who did not
Now ever reached Heathmere. He
"Oh, pretty well for an Azeri- Stanwix's fat roll talked again, Possible Overhaul at Liverpool. States and the war of the Re of its charter of incorporation. In look out for himsell?
turned to leave. But the man. con make," said the other, with and when the mare once more
bellion, Japan resisting the 1863 the population, was about Leavy was going back, just a reformed drunk at that, but soaked who spoke only French again more than a sign of contempt in moved forward her load
encroachments of Russia. Nations An inquiry" has been made by have been benefited and blessed burgesses. To-day the inhabitants 10,000, of whom 814 were full with a lot of silly sentiment pleaded with the reporter. A bis glance at the tiny mechanism heavier. about loyalty to his paper and all sister was dying; was that a time "Now, with us it is different, so
When they were nearing the the Hamburg-Amerika Line for ages by being thrown into the number some 29,000, with about that for rafural?
different, my dear sir; we take Heathmore depot, Leavy quit whether the necessary dry dook white heat of a great passion. 6,000 burgesses. that, and that meant
The refusal was again on the--
drinking from the long bottle, accommodation for the Imperator The great monuments of our Nichols must go across the bay
But Leavy cut him short, say. He felt that be was not so much could be obtained in Liverpol Christian civilisation stand in un- in the fog and snow again, and Leavy's lips, but like a fish he lose the best chance to pick up changed it, and in French asked ing:
up against impossibilites as he should the company decide to fading glory on the sacred soil Death of a "Hunger Striker." plunder that ever had come to the stranger:
"We'll argue the merits at had been when the. Little Rufus send bar there from Hamburg or where ten thousand battles have A "hunger striker" bas died at to undergo her bean fought for truth and right Bedford Prison. At the inquent his greedy fingers.
"Can you up an automobile another time. You saw that boat foundered on a mud-bank; for Southampton If Leavy stayed as an odious engine?""
slide across our path? Well, it's the operator had stuck to his sanal overhaul.
eousness. What star of glory on October 7 it was stated that: The Frenchman ceased drying up to us to get into port ahead of word and the light still burned The Morsey Took Board have have you in the diadem of Albert Davis, who was under- figure in Nichols' mind, Nichola
replied that they are able to pro-a Cbristian civilisation which going a sentence of 15 mouths quickly disappeared from Leavy's, and stroked his pointed black them, and if we're out of our in his little office. The Banner man was only think beard for a moment. Could he bearings we'll try theirs. It's Leavy had felt unconscionably vide the necessary accommodation you did not battle for? You hard labour for theft, absolutely ing how he could get Cap'a Joe, na anautomobile engine! Why, your trick to pound that engine, sleepy during the past fifteen at the new Gladstone Dook, which cannot find a Christian institution refused to take food, but ho go the Little Rufus, and a bottle of it was bis garage, that wae ao. We're not making the time we've minutes which was not strange, has a length of 1,050ft., width of worthy of the name which has not casically drank a little milk. In whisky together in quick on-counted the finest in Paris, and got to make, and we're going to with all the exposure and strain entrance 1201t,, and depth of sill been purchased by blooda reply to the foreman of the jury, junction; for it was close to be fad was the designing of pound in, if we skip over the island that his weakened frame had below the old dook Bill of 25ft. Christian home, a quiet Sabbath, the Governor of the prison said it when we strike it, and land plumb withstood for hours. Sleep all It it should be arranged to send an open Bible, a free Church, a was not necessary to acquaint the midnight, and Stanwix would be racing-cars and boats,
Leavy looked at him a moment in the middle of Long Island but overpowered him as they the Imperator to Liverpool, she sovereign State, and an unfetter Home Secretary with the pris orazy for more news from Hog
drove up to the little depot, but would arrive early in November, ed Press. The right to think and oner's refusal unless forcible Island reef than the sighting doubtingly. A man in such des found. "
Whiob, recited in half French, he made a final effort torouse him when the new Gladstone Dock, the right to be heard these are feeding was resorted to The station at the lighthouse, four peration would probably lie in miles distant, could possibly get order to get passage to the sbore, half English to a Parisian never self as he half staggered into the would probably be ready to receive privileges which have been jury returned a verdict of "Desi
But then, there was the possibility before auroes the Atlantic, was tiny telegraph office. The box.
bought by a thousand conquests., from natural causes. for him.
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