SERIAL STORY.
MY LADY:
CHATER XX:
A TALE OF MYSTERY.
By EDGAR WALLACE.
Author of "The Four Just Mon," "The Secret House "&a, &c.
He laughed harshly. "You poor fool! You crammed your head with novelottes till they'd turned your brain." he said. "Even then, I can't see where you got your money."
She was too weary to feel con- tempt for him.
"I got it as everybody worth anything gets it, by hard work, I'd got my start; there I was luckier than most, I started in small way, through a few ladies' maids I knew, and put Marie out to nurse while she wis a tiny baby. Then it grew the money. I mean. I never had an idle moment; but her schooling ate it all up. first a little girls' school at Bexhill, where she mixed with a lot of nice children, and then Cheltenham--YHI couldn't anything better for a girl.”
He glowered at her. "You spent on her the money you ought to have been spending on me! Damn you, why didn't you write and tell me where you were? If I hadn't been put on this I'd never have seen you again died in the gutter maybe."
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"Joe, you wouldn't tell him! You wouldn't try to force yourself upon him!" she cried, unable to hide her horror, even though it might only add to his determina- tion to do the thing
"Of course, I shall tell him," he rejoined, devouring the sight of her suffering.
CEYLON GOVERNMENT
EXTENSION.
SOME SWEEPING DEMANDS.
The Colombo correspondent of the Penang Gazetto, cables that the
TUESDAY, OCTOBER
1927.
POLICE RESERVE ORDERS.
EXAMINATION RESULTS.
The following Hongkong Police Reserve orders are issued by the Ceylon National Congress has ad- Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, Captain dressed a memorandum to the Re-Superintendent of Police: form Commission domandag res-
Chinese Company. ponsibility for executive govern ment in the legislature, the
Strength-Constable R77 Pun Premier to form a Cabinet of seven Hon Yin enrolled in the Chinese ninisters namely, Justice, Finance, Company on the 29th. September. Public Works, Education, Local Training-The following mem- Government, Agriculture and In-bers of the Chinese Company have dustries; and the enlargement off been passed out as efficient in Part the Council to 60 members, the 1, and will commence the second Governor to select the Premier part of course at the Police Train- and to have a veto
the Ing School forthwith:-Constables Premier to have the right of ap-B21 Kwok Chan, R42 Poon Ping Kong, R44 Yeung Koon-shing, R40 peal to the Secretary of State.
Pau Yuk Ming, R50 Li Man Chung, R61 Chan Kün Ying, R23 Ho Shit Yu.
Chang Sam Chong, R39 C.R.C. Ham and R82 Duncan K. Lee.
power,
An Upper House was disapprov
R38 She was not so ed thereby avoiding dyarchy, the members of the executive to bo members of the Legislative Coun- ell.
proud now. "I'll get all that I can out of him, and he's got to be generous, or I'll make it hot for him. He can well afford to look after me, and I'll see that he does
it."
"I'll give you, money, Joe," she promised, feverishly. "Plenty of it. I'll get it to-morrow,"
"Of course you will. You've got to. Don't go making a favour of it. You've left me to rot for all these years: d'you think you can go on riding the high horse?"
She moistened her dry lips helplessly.
"And you'll tell him everything that you're Marie's father and that you killed a policeman in cold blood because he'd been after you?".
"Shut up!" he reared, his face and hands twitching as he glared at her.
"If she's worth anything, she'll be glad to look after me. I'm her father, ain't I?"
Special representation should not be allowed to retard the esta- blishment of responsible self- government in Ceylon.
A $50,000 OPIUM -
SEIZURE.
The following is the result of the examination in Part 2, (knowledge of Police duties and Regulations) held on Tuesday. 27th. September:
Pussed with great great credit-→→ L. Sergt. R25 Taut Kwing Kong,: Constables R13 David. F. W. Loie, R18 Hwang Hong Yeh.
Passed with credit-Sub-Inspec- tors E. Mow Fung and Chow U Ting. Cr. Sergt. R5 S. P. Wong, Constables R15 Ow Young Kin Hing, R43 Ts'o Chi On, R16 Chung
LONG WATCH ON VESSEL AT Mao Iu.
SINGAPORE.
A seizure of illicit chandu (opium) valued at $50,000 was made at 4 a m. last Wednesday on board the Talma... berthed at a wharf at Singapore.
Passed L. Sergt. R7 Ng Kai Wing. Constables E8 Ts'o Tsun On, 121 Luk Pik Hing. R27 Chan Wal Liong, R26 Tau Keng Chau, RS6 Yuen Kwok Yan, R17 Leong Yue Sang R45. W. G. Ham, R29 Tзui Tong, R10 Edward Way, R14 Harry Loo, R12 Diam Siu Kun Chan.
Indian Company. Strength-Constable R250 (form- A. Hamid trans- erly R324) been taken on the strength of the ferred from the Flying Squad has Indian Company as from lat Oc- Lister-tober.
The seizure was the sequel to a search following a watch kept on the vessel for three days.
The drug was found in kerosine oil tins and bags hidden under four feet of coal.
Senior Revenue Officer man had the vessel under observa. tion since its arrival on Sunday from China porta, and his success- ful raid was carried out this morn- ing in consequence of observation made during the three days.
"Well, that's what you'll have to "I wanted to forget you." she
tell him, if you tell him anything said deliberately. "It was for her suke chiefly. It was a case of And do you think he'll help you choosing between you, and then? Oh, you can't undo every welghed it up. You'd brought all thing-you can't ruin her life!" the trouble on us don't say it she exclaimed, unable any longer was all your fault; it was, much to appeal to "his self-interest, to do with your bad, upbringing. coming irresistibly back to the But Marie had done nothing, only one thing that mattered, the one come into a world where I didn't person to be considered." want her. And so I chose her and let you drop out. It wasn't nos sible to think of both of you.
She watched the grinding of his some women, I suppose, being a wife is what counts; but I don't jaws, with growing fear, realizing seem to have been cut out for a the danger of angering him. wife-you knocked that out of me. Perhaps to-morrow would bring But I was cut out for a mother-renewed safety. They had set Road house, in rooms, occupied him free as cured, turned him by a Chinese seaman, was disclos- lose as a sane man, but perhaps ed in a District Court case the same the shock of that freedom, had really made him mad, and they would take him back again. She
a mother first and last."
To
The finding of illicit chandu valued at $2,554 and chandu dross valued at $309 in a North Bridge
morning.
Tay Ah Yong, in answer to the
Constable R223 Hassan Khan is permitted to resign upon leaving the Colony for good as from 1st. October.
Training.The following mem- bera of the Indian Company have. been passed out as efficient in Part 1, and will commence the second part of course at the Police Train- ing School forthwith: Constables R206 Ahmad Khan II. 208 Ajt Singh, R209 Amar Dass, R216 Falz Mohamad, R221 Guleria, R224 Jet- "hanand, R225 Kadar, R228 Lal Khan, R232 Miro Khan, R294 Ramzar, R236 Motoomal, R237 Noor Ahmad, R239 Sheikh Karim Baksh, R246 V. T. Thad, R247 Usuf Ismail.
For too many years she had looked back with horror to her life the with
nt him, shuddered thought of him. He was a broken man, but an impassable gulf must keep him quiet until she charge of possession of non-Go-Mohamad Hassan, R235 Mohamad could get advice. In the morning.vernment chandu, told the Dis- stretched between them which no pity could bridge, and his distort-in the daylight, everything would trict Judge, Mr. N. D. Mudie, that the drug had been left in his room ed brain, distorted with years of be easier, and less terrible.
"Joe," she
said, nervously, by a person who had accompanied brooding, sensed the finality of
"perhaps I was wrong not to think him ashore from his ship. her words.
"And she was so sweet!" she about you, not to forgive you.
Supervisor Ganno stated that the breathed. "When she came here, I'm afraid I didn't look at your chandu was of the Chinese variety all the neighbours thought she Piont of view-but it was for her It appeared to him that it had sake. Don't you remember how in been brought from Amoy. The ac- nursechild, let them think. It helped me the early days we used to plan 80..to see her all that I wished about when we had a baby? And cused was the only occupier of the room when it was raided, at six I could have been, to give her all you never saw her; there
o'clock, in the morning. He was that I never had, to have some only me to work and plan....and
still asleep. " thing to serve, serve willingly, and you've seen her now. Didn't I do
A remand was ordered. Aren't you proud of her look up to. There were times well? when I felt I could let everything now?" go, and not fight any longer... it was lonely..."
Was
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and
I
was
"All her! Where do I come in?" he growled,
"Where I do-nowhere!" she
"And how about me shut up cried passionately. "What do we there like I was? Wasn't I lonely matter? What do parents matter, too? You didn't ever think of anyway? It's the children that me?"
How matter. She's got the best of both of us in her, a pure flame lighted
She shook her head.
SABBATH REVIVAL. ·
SEQUEL TO DISMISSAL OF OF LIGHT-KEEPER.
The following is the result of the examination in Part 2 (knowledge of Police duties and Regulations) held on Tuesday 27th. September.: Passed with great credit-Cons-
Hardit Singh. tables R204 Abdul Karim, R222
Passed with credit-L. Sergt. R217 Feroz Ali, Constables. R230 H. N. Mehal, R227 Khushi Moha- mad, R243 Ujagar Singh, R214 Channan Singh, R240 Sohan Singh. 1202 M. Abdullah, R231 W. M. Mohal.
Passed-Cr. Sergt. R212 Badan Singh. Constables R233 Mit Singh, R203 Abdul Aziz, R211 Awtar Singh.
Motor Cyclist Section (Flying Squad). Strength.--Constable R324 A. Hamid is permitted to transfer to the India Company as from the 1st. The following have enrolled in October.. the Flying Squad and are posted to the Kowloon Section:-Constables R336 A. Gascon, R326 Li Iu Sang, R338 Frank Lee, R321 T: A. Barry, R337 E. Marriott, R345 M. Rull.
Training. All members of the
should she have thought of him from us both. You can't die A national protest against the except with horror? What had
while "she lives. She's yours. dismissal of Norman Shaw, a he ever done to merit her compas-Isn't she worth sacrificing some- Clyde lighthouse keeper, because sion? Her eyes grew absent as thing for, as I've sacrificed, all he refused to test a wireless in- she lived again in retrospect the these years to work for her? Joc,stallation on a Sunday, was in years of aching loneliness, with- out even the consolation of her you couldn't tell her and spoil it augurated recently in Dunoon, six
all!"
miles from the lighthouse where own child's love, though the "There's the very thing I'm Shaw was formerly employed. - thought of m'lady had been a con-going to do," came his answer, Mr. H. H. Martin (of London); stant beacon light to her, holding and she realized with sick horro secretary of the Lord's Day Ob- her up when moments of weakness
that, if she had not a,madman to or weariness dragged her down. deal with, she had a creature in servance Association, said that on "I couldn't think of both of you whom any of the finer instincts of the eventful day that the Clyde
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I told you that before," she said humanity which he might once Shaw notice to quit his cottage at the Central Police Station. on dully. "It was mlady first, the have possessed had been atrophied and dismissed him, they thought Wednesday, Dth. October at 5.15 rest of the world nowhere. Oh, by years of degradation. and it was worth it! It seemed "I'm gong to tell her, because that would be the end of the mat-p.m. sharp for Squad Drill under
thing I'd as you say, she's mine. She's got ter, but it was only the beginning. Sergeant R. J. Hunt.
It was going to lead to a mighty Her voice died away; she looked for all, she's had. She Sabbath Day revival from one patrol will leave Central Police MRS. J. CRAWFORD. at him questioningly, wondering if "Oh, you're wrong-this idea of end of Scotland to another. Be-Station at 5.15 p.m. sharp on she had appeased him, if he would owing," she said wildly. "Chil-fore many weeks were past they Thursday, 6th. October. hold his hand. But his next iron don't owe they're owed! would see the heather ablaze. He words shewed her the futility of Hundreds of them are in the would pass to the Trustees the message of the Lord Mayor of her attempts..
hers.
owes it to me!"
General.
Police Training School. Classes world to-day through grown-ups London in 1921, "The Christian for instruction In Part 2 of train- "She's going to marry that thinking only of themselves.
Sabbath has made our Empire ing course will be held at the awell?" he asked broodingly: Don't you think we owe thera
Police Training School under In- His queer pale eyes burned into the very best we can give them?" what it is.".
Mr. Martin said he wished these spector H.J. Paterson on Thurs- But they spoke different langu- "I don't know he's a gentle ages. She could not introduce words were placed in the rooms day, 6th October and Tuesday, 11th man. I hope she does. I've pray altruism into a man whose whole of the lighthouse trustees, whose October commencing each evening ad for itshe's safe when she's life had been built on. criminal high-handed action the mass of at 5.30 pan. sharp.
No egotism.
the population deplored. married to a man like that.
"She Owes me her life, and one can touch her then, because he'll stand between her and she's going to pay," he said trouble."
stubbornly. "Pl
"And he's got money?"
"Yes, I think so.
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teach her!
cherous, snivelling fool! When I think of all you've done for her, He stood up and started to that you might have done for me leave m'lady, ghastly nictures. -wrapping her up in luxury, and
shuffle about the shop,
Recruits. All recruits of both the Chinese and Indian Companies will parade in Mufti at the Centrul Police Station for Squad Drill and Kifle exercises under Sergeant R.J. Hunt on Thursday, 6th October and Tuesday, 11th October, Fail in at 5.30 p.m. sharp.
Acting Adjutant (d) F.C. MOW FUNG. A.S.P. (R.)
Hongkong, October 4, 1927.
M'lady, indeed! I'll soon knock thing went red before her eyes, Thinking only of Marie's safety, some of the nonsense out of her and the steady beat of the rain she nodded, not noticing the and out of you too, you trea-outside became a deafening roar Through her mind rushed the eagerness of his tone.
peril in which her death would "Oh, God, look after her!" she "He can pay for her," said Joe me me there!" His voice broke prayed. "Keep her safe from Salter briefly.
with rage, on an almost shrill note. him!"
Marcus. Vif Argent, a valuable Her first feeling was of blank "You treacherous beast!" he ex-
She could not struggle any at her Astonishment; the words were claimed, and sprang torn from her. A fierce clap of with a force that almost knocked longer; she could not even pray. Alsatian dog belonging to Mr. R. She had a vague impression that W. Herdman, of Bishopsgate, has "All these years............... thunder. climax of the storm, her over. seemed to burst almost overhead all these years." He ground out, the door opened, before the pres- been destroyed owing to injuries and emphasize the blow of that and it seemed to her that the end sure on her throat relaxed, and which it received through jumping curt statement, the more resolute of her troubles had come, for bis she sack down heavily into dark-out of the LMS. express between for the comparative restrain: fingers were sinking into her, the blood rouring in her Market Harborough and Great throat, she was choking every ears, her breath coming in harah Boden. The dog formerly belong- ed to Lord Maidstone, and had gulpa. with which it was uttered.
won 20 prizes at shows,
(To Be Continued.)
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