SHORT STORY.
THE HONEYMOON.
BY WALLACE irwin,
Continued from Extra)
"Do you know who that bank
If you can prove they're as is you just-"
d as the young man was ard to say.
That bunk, as you roughly term him," said the young man Opportunity knocks but once in a modulated baritone," is Mr. the door......good se melted Totobkies, well known in the d......as proved by our speci-Goodfellow and-"
thing-tone.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, ‘SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20 1918.
was disappearing up the front atopa
Bay!! said Bain, calling after him, and again lo king at the name on the card, **I got |·letter of introduction to you."W
And, as the bick returned, the Little Booster brought forth O'Malley's envelope addressed to Mr. Dyckman Wynkoop, 13 Washington Square.
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"I thought I might is well hand it to you now, sen". I'm around your way." McClure's.
GENERAL NEWS..
Bequest to Housekeeper.
Mr. Henry Watts, of Launton
oe”—those soraps in McQush's lig name was McCosk when Ilouse, Launton, Oskrdshire, I met him. Now, listen to mo-whose estate has been valued at If wo could only find a place thor. There ain't any time to £10,841, left to his house kerror, alk more quietly—---—” feed the chicken, I'm telling Julia Mand, the proceeds of lite It is kinda noisy here," you. You've just fallen for a life policy, his housebold and Bush admitted, Supposing nog who's a professional walout.
and me go over to Guthamin posber, a dot-and-carry card personal effects, his hors a, care ringes, wines, and consumable 1. the details of this splen-handler, a life member of the
Gold Brick Layers' Union in the income for life from his lands Htores absolutely together with proposition." Come on!" breathed Brian plain Californian, a bunku manat Stration Audley, Oxford-bire,
Because you loft your brains the and Preston Bissett Buckingham other side of the Ohio River, I'R wise you. You've been bilked,; trimmed"
Betsy's ear. Where?
"
But he came to New York with the highest references."
"Splash I've a good min 1 to touch you for a thousand myself flow rauch was in that check you just signed ?"
"Forty-five hundred and fifty." "Get your bank the first thing in the morning and stop it."
-hire,
that gross carelessness and selfish- ess on the part of the parents And failure to take ordinary com
mon-sense precautions are largely esponsible for the epidemic.
To the Gothamin grill! *»-
Due to Parents*' Carelessness, was easy to see why the
An epidemic of Bourlet fever in or less skilful Mr MoCosh
Preston and the surrounding dis chosen the Gothamis grill.
tricte has filled over fifty beds in uncheon room in one of the
the local hospital. No more at hotels, it opens, flower-
patients can be accepted. In ad- at the boar of noon, and
ition to the fifty cases in hospital a again at sunset, when the
number of cases are isolated at lame. The epidemic is not con- est is diverted to the Fragon dining-room upstairs of the
fined to the congested area of the mian music-ball in the bass-
IOWD, bat is widespread in both During the ovening hours Lord! groaned the callow the middle and the lower class Gothamis grill assumes the one's on the Night and Dayquarters, Dr. Pilkington states ly quiet of a Union Langue Bank!"
bat under shaded lights "Telephona-hot foot, kid!" and women talk mysterious- The fedale grill room ascluded inblea.
enlivened by the sight of a red- gunman'e delight!" ex-headed enthusiast, dragging a ed Brian. If I stobbyd a dazzled youth, across two chairs
Minister's Death in Vestry, hore and dragged him into toward tho telephone-booth. A
The Rav. Dr. Robert Craig, of levator, how would Hearst few minutes later Estey, to her Edinburgh, was found dead in catob me?...... Waiter!" A relief, bobald her hushaad retorthe vestry of the Morningside Alsation mountaincer appro- ning calmly with the new-found Congregational Church, Eddin- Iglibly. "Bring a pitober oflick.
hargh, recently. Dr. Craig had beer and a lemonada." "Now, Marcus," Brisn W38
gone to address a young man's waiter retreated, and the eying, we've got to kite it over meeting, and one of the young was darkened by the shadow to the Night and Day and identify en ou entering the room found pompous person leading a you. Friend wife and I'll tag him sitting in the chair dead. Dr. or youth of hesitating mien. along to ees that the rest of your Craig was 76; and death was due work!" murmured wad don't jump out of the heart failure. He was born at retty
They sat at a table for window."
Kilmarnock," and educated at fear-shot but well within
The bick had a taxi waiting Glasgow, and filled ministerial The hypnotist was evi- by the hour apparently outside charges in Glasgow, Salford, and imbuing his subject with Au they bumped over New York's Edinburgh. Seven years ago be siasm, confidence, honest asphalt, which, like her sky-line, retired from the ministry or otion, for the fat hands of is picturesque but unovon, Bett Place Congregation l loCosh were working busily tried to soothe the stranger with Charch, Edinburgh. cles more complicated than commonplaces. futurist's dream. And the
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"Doesn't it seem grand in New
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"Details have been received at f a tired child who bears a askel.
Queenstown of the safe arrival at airy story and loves to
Fort Churchill, Budson's Bay, of eit true."
n motor-boat in charge of Captain' Maud, what a sucker!" When he emerged from the Nilson and four-men from Pen- Brian. He wants to bite sleepless portals of the Night and zince, after a voyage lasting 30 1, he's helping 'put the bait | Day, there were tears in his pale days Five days after leaving bhook.
crbe, suggestive of soa-foori.. Penzance the tail shaft was bent two figures at the distant "Tboy fixed it but it hurts me in a storm. The small craft lealed back, something to think I've been betrayed by a encountered terrifio gales in the settled. The elder man friend," he sobbed.
North Atlantic, and barely escap- That's what they all say,"ed foundering, The captain made chirped Brian brightly, "Now, for Greenland; but no harboursideration than the welfare of your ayas..
Nothing is more worthy of your1aen- Mrs. Bride, and I'll escort you could be entere, as the whole The trouble that today is smelt and cast- past the bogies to your hotel. coast was icebound and the boat ly remedied, if noglected may get beyond single measures. Be on the safe side and
ht forth a packet of papers
lengthwise.
Cosh was right," said You can make the man Keokuk do stunts in N he's never dreamt of in his town."
+
The young man gave a number was surrounded by icebergs. If your eyes are giving trouble call on us to the obaulfour.· ́·
A blinding snow blizzard the and have them examined. No charge for "Now, look you, son," Brian boat was beached at Port deight testing. aybe it's not so bad as you went on, for he must have his Perriere, and after repairs had
auggested Betsy,
N. LAZARUS, OPTHALMIC OPTICIAN.
lecture. He put his hand patro-been effected and the crew had dn't you see the "orsage-nizingly now on the bick's "kaeo, hada--much-needed rest the ed engravings on the paper?" I just got to hand it out. Take voyage to Fort Churchill was, Tel. 1299
Goodfellow and Surprise it or leave it. When in Rome complete 1.
he's sellin' the hick-and you go:to do as the Romsos do. Trade Among Pacific Nations,
Rube's pullin' his check-Don't talk to large men with Washington, October 31-As fancy veals. Maybe you'll thank an intimation of the vast trade
1A, D'Aguiler St.
FINE CURIO STORE. e enough, the lamb was al- me for this when you get back to that will be brought close to the
reaching for MoCash's the home town."
doors of American manufacturers Embroidered Screens
Wall Hangings,. -pan. There was a mom "It's not my fault. It's the and merchants, with the opening
Lacquered. intense scribbling, dur way the old man raises me," the of the Panama Canal, the Bureau
and hioh MeCosh bit a black callow one moaned. "Never of Foreign and Domestic. Com.
Bronze Ware, etc., etc. and forgot to light it, finally letting me go into business, like meroe to-day issued a stalement
NIKKO & Co. leaf from the check-book other fellows."
of the world trade done by the
Queen's Road, ed in his palm, and be "Eay!" Brian had an inspira- |countries washed by the Pacific ed it like a rare orebid. Antion. "If you ever want a wise Ocean. The total of this trade t later McCoeh was seen to guy to take you around N' York, cannot fully be gathered, but the ather feverishly, button his ring me up. I'm at the St. Sidon. imports into the various Pacife over the new-made check, Stick around, kid, and I'll show ports in 1902 exccaded two and
a loving hand to his you all the new stuff."
, and stride forth into the "Thanks" awfully," said the wn. Brian jumped from biok.
inir.
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The Bureau discovered, also, that the consuming power of the
The taxi stopped before a brick countries virtually doubled in a 'house with'a white door.
little more than a decade. It also
ou bet I am! As a stranger You've pulled me out of an ascertained that although the A, I ain't a-goin' to sit here awful hole, old man," he contina- United States was getting als nors be my helpless brother skin sd, as he stopped out. I'd like mal share of the trade, the per- tred on Broadway, ".. to 860 more of you. Here's my centage which it supplies of the
young man sat reading on card."
importe shows comparatively e-printed sheet of Goodfel-- The hick's face stared into the little change. and Sarprise rapturously taxi door, pale and anxions. Brain, as the Moslem scans the as he accepted the card, felt a thrill when Brian accosted him. of remorse. Perhaps he had rouge me!... said the Little bren a bit rough in his langdago er. "I don't know what part to this outside, who, after 611,
Woolly West you come would learn his New York in time, but you'll take back leas Under the flickering corner light
Manufactured goods form the greater part of the supplies next
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