OUR SERIAL STORY.
THE MOATED GRANGE.
CHAPTER XXII.
By KATHARINE TYNAN,
Author of "A Mad Marriage," "The House
of Doom," "Denys the Dreamer.'
Atvykus
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
"REDS" NEARING
SWATOW
(Continued from Page 1.)
TUESDAY, JANUARY 24,
1928.
THE MACAO ART- EXHIBITION.
Montinued from Paje 7.)
classified but forming part of the exhibition.
The Awards,
The following are the prize-win- ning pictures
It is reported that as the folk et their villago, they looked back to see it already in flames, The dis- trict city itself is threatened, and along the parallel road the town of bue-thom is also in danger. Khuc tham is the place which marka the
By Carles de Souza-A- 20 boundary between the Hwei-chow and the Chaochow districts, and it "Cumulus, B. 8 "Barbeiro" it were taken, the plain of Fhou-bulante," B9 "Remendao leng would lie open to them. Phon-bulante, B 10 "Em plena faina," long district already has it own vi. C 3 "Um rua do Bazar" C 4. "No gorous body of Communists, and has Bazar," C 5 "Junco de pesca"--
disturbed for some Gold Medal.
months.
It is also said that in yet another direction, towards Ng-fa, some of Phan Phni's men are moving. It scoms clear then that they are do finitely attempting to extend their power beyond the Hai-Luk Fung area, and that unless some drastic
Our Own Correspondent.
♫ formidable megaco,
in her mind between the potential riminality of the woman and the He talked in a loud hurried positive criminality of her wretch-boo much voice, the voice of one talking ind husband. sleep, with jerks and pauses be All sorts of wavering thoughts tween the words, now dying away kept passing through her mind. now beginning again.
She was nipped to the bone with It was some time before she made cold, but she was hardly aware any sense of it. It died off to a low of the discomfort. She had heard grumble the grumble in which that people thought clearly in the he scolded at Mrs. Cronch. That face of great.
danger. Her where in the house, had become a grumble going on endlessly, some thoughts slipped through her action is taken they will quickly be.
familiar sound in Beatu's cars. telling her when Cronch had come .back.
"You!" he said, "to be meddlin' with me! Why, I could string you up easy enough. You skeered the
a grant and a snore, with a hor
mind before she could grasp them.
She felt the odour of mortality all about her, suffocating her. She wanted to scream, but she did not dare. The whole place was poisoned.
Gum
+
OVERLOOKED TREASURES.
FLAGONS OF CROMWELL'S
TIME.
She had a new terror. This old ladly right enough out of her hysterical impulse! It it got the Kife. She had no right to wear better of her and she screamed! those pearls tempting a
poor She would be so powerless. penned woman. That wouldn't go dowi
in the recess, if Cronch should set in law, my girl I suppose you upon her, and batter her to death! thought they would, look scrumpler sanity was going. Whatever kept for a time in a clothes basket Regarded as of no value and tous on your white neck!"
The jeering laugh went off into happened she must get away.
She drew herself up as gently under the verger's bed, and after rible effect; and presently the talkas she could, and, having waited wards in a tin box in a coal shed, two silver-gilt flacons, dating a second or two, she parted the from the days of Cromwell, were ing began again.
You wouldn't have hart her curtains ever so slightly and look-recently found at East liersley for the world! You tell that toed through. Quiet as her move-Church, near Guildford.
They another. Poor old lady! 16ments had been the sleeper had pity her when she caught sight in heard. The snoring ceased. She have been valued at £2,000.
In view of the fact that, the the glass of you clawing at dropped the curtain, but she knew living has a not income of only her throat! You wouldn't have that Cronch was awake. He had 213, an application was heard at hurt a hair of her heart. Do you lifted himself on his elbow.
Guildford for a faculty to sell the "What's that?" he muttered. suppose you'd be believed in a
later than she had ion, the Chancellor of the Diocese flagons. In granting the applica- It was Court of Justice? You must have looked pretty when you clawed at thought; or she had been in her stipulated that they should be sold Her throat. No wonder the poor hiding-place longer than she knew, for eccelsiastical purposes. old soul died of it."
Perhaps she had slept or fainted or something Anyhow, the grey dawn was in the room. And-was someone standing by the foot of the bed? Had she heard, or only fatieied she heard, the drip-drip as
WAS
Again the Jeering, laugh went off in a chuckle, and again there was silence. To the appalled listener it seemed that the silence lasted for a long time.
Presently the gabbling began of wet garments?
ller sanity was going. She had again.
"Two hundred pounds! Why, I been holding on to it so desperate imagining was dirt cheap at the money: dirty hard. She. cheap. Not many men would things. It was a house peopled have done it for twice that. And with ghosts. Was it only yester see what I've tied round my neck day, only yesterday, that Anthony A lamenting, praying fool, when I Napier had laughed his clear com- could have a girl who would enjoy mon sense through all the ghosts? life with me. What d'ye say-Mr. But none of them had known yes- Carden? I'd put up with him terday the horror the night was long enough. He was that fracto reveal to her.. tious that he drove me mad. She waited for discovery and never meant to do more than hit the hopeless struggle. No longer him, but he fell right over and hi could she even think of the angels,
I
ask them to save her. You wore easy taken in. But now Heaven had forgotten her. -he's a-coming up through the "I tell you I never meant to do moat! It's just about time for me it," he muttered, huskily, address- to clear
out. I'd like those ing something, and there was pearls!"
jcraven fear in his cry as he ended The voice, lifting and falling, up: "You was 80 troublesome, died away into a monotonous worriting a poor man out of his grumbling. The girl, crouched on senses, and then to crumple up for the floor, was glad when it ceased: a little thing like that!" The words had been interlarded There was a sudden leap from by foulnesses, most of which, the bed; a rush across the floor as happily, she did not understand. of someone fleeing before a name- Face downward on the floor shless terror; the sound of the win felt as though sheer horror would dow being fiung up violently and drive her mad. Perhaps her mird then brought down again. wandered. She began to think of something blood-red in the room, herself with a dreamy pity as for turning all it fell upon to its own Bome other person; of pour deep colour.
his silly head against the fender, and
Then
mumsie, who was sleeping quiet'y I was only the windy dawn in the next room, not knowing the breaking. Someone was hammer- terrible, thing that had happenedling at the door, calling her name. to her poor Benta; of Anthony She had an idea that that had been Napier, who would have died for going on for some time before she her. Would her angels never was aware of it. come?
She dragged her cramped and She tried to push off despair by aching limbs on to the bed, avoid- Thinking that it was better this ing carefully the pillow on which dreadful thing should have hap-Cronch's head had lain, She felt pened to her rather than to her as though she was dragging a mother, as it might have happen-body heavier than lead. The room ed; but there was no comfort that was flooded with the rosy dawn. way, for what would her mumsie Beyond the windows were clouds do when she knew how her, Benlatern in rass by the wind, their had died? She was quite sure greyness turned to crimson like that she was going to die, of an old head dabbled in blood.
At the foot of the bed she terror, if nothing else. How little "Anthony could imagine the awful paused. looking down at her bare thing that was befalling her, that feet with a little shudder. If the she was here at the mercy of this carpet had been, wet under them murderer by his own confession, she would not have been, sur- Cronch had assumed the most ter-prised.
LADIES' GOLF.
FORTHCOMING BOGEY COMPETITION.
In the ladies' section of the
LT1-
am-
da
J. Climaco do Rosario-A 37-
A 40 "Vasco "Silhuetas," Gama," A 43 "Colina da Guis," A 60 "Cemiterio," C2 "Tipograāca Mercantil"Gold Medal.
Kai Chong & Co.-A 94 "Barra Temple" B 28 "Procession," B30 "Village Life"-Silver Medal. By A. Rumjahn-A112—“Ave Maria," B $2 "Our Water Supply" --Sliver Medal.
A,
H. W Hammond-B1 "Drying Nets," B2 "Home from the Fish- ing, D 2 B "Lads of the Village" Grounds-Certificates of Merit.
Dr. Li Sung-B4, B6, Certi- ficates of Merit
Po Man Lau-C13 "Denizens of the Deep." C16 "Curtains of the Main" Certificates of Merit.
A. B. Vasconcelos-C20-Dred- ger
H. Yoshioka-D 22 A "Cherry Blossom," D24 A "Late Autumn, D 25 A-Winter Scenery" Gold Medal.
Koyo Kawaguchi-D · 44 A "Crossing the River," D 45 A "Mountain Scenery"--Silver Medal. Hartung's-D 27 B "Fisherman," &c.-Silver Medal,
Joao de Bianchi-D 72 A
Penguins, &c.-Silver Medal.
William Wu-D 76 A-Sunset- Certificate of Merit.
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F. de Lara Reis-D 95 A "Temple Certificate of Merit.
H. Sakai-D 167 A. "Mystic Beauty," D 171, A "Park of Nara," D 176 A "The Suburbs," D 177 A "Light and Shadew," D 178 A "Kasuga Temple"-Gold Medal.
F. J. Tavares D 181 A "Colomus Clouds, D 39 d "Portrait" E28 Full Moon, Silver Medal,
Paul Braga-D 195 A. The End R.H.K. Golf Club, a bogey com- of the Trail-Certificate of Merit. P. A. Dragon D 198 A "The Out- petition is to, be held on the Now Course, Fanling, on Friday. 17th post," D 201 A "Ethereal Surges," February, for prize kindly pr. D 8 C "Shunting"-Silver Medal. sented by Mrs. F, M. Crawford; 3/4 handicap allowed.
LETTER GOLF SOLUTION.
Here is the solution to the puzzle on another page.
SHOE
SH HIOIT SOOT
LOOT
LIOSIT
LAST
PAST
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LACE
The Opening Ceremony.
The exhibition was formally opened on Sunday, the ceremony being performed by H. E. the Go vernor of Macao. There was a large attendance of prominent Macao residents present, as well as many visitors from Hongkong
In asking His Excellency to open the exhibition, Mr. Carlos Alves, Director of the Port Works Depart ment, said that of the Portuguese colonies, Macao, perhaps, occupied the highest position from an in- tellectual point of view, clearly evidenced by a reference to recent developments, and it was a land where the spirit of patriotism was deeply rooted, where in magnificent history the most bril- liant traditions are closely woven. Speaking of the Exhibition, he said it was an attempt, through photo- graphy, to serve as a stimulus the the artists. of arong Portuguese, who have already distinguished themselves in the East, to reproduce Macao in what was best in the eyes of the Portuguese and those of her friends who love to visit Macao, and thus to record her enchanting scenes that reminded them of Portugal.
Another delightful holiday comedy
Joseph Schenck
BUSTER
KEATON
Tick
He He
UNITED
ARTISTS
PICTURE
KEATON BREAKS ALL' LAUGHTER
Rah! Rah! Rah!
RECORDS
The screamy side of higher education.
:
Ha! Ha! Ha!
The frozen-faced st of joy-
a riot
Gags! Giggles!-Guffaws!
COME TO "COLLEGE".
GET THE KNOWLEDGE!
The low highbrow who took
And the Highest degree of LAUGHTERI
da education in everything "but his brain.
&
THE HAPPIEST OF ALL KEATON COMEDIES
COMING TO THE
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SHIPBUILDERS.
SHIP REPAIRERS. BOILER MAKERS. FORGE MASTERS. OXY-ACETYLENE AND ELECTRIC WELDERS.
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January 26th. to 28th.
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OF
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After declaring the exhibition open, H. E..the Governor congratu- fated the exhibitors, especially H, E. the Minister for Portugal in Peking for his remarkably fine. photographs expressing homage to the glorious departed. He also made reference to the work of the judges, and the help given by Mr. Paul Braga, of Hongkong: Mr. Souza, Consul fer Portugal in Kobe; Mr. Carlos Alves, Mr. Jack Lara Braza and Mr. Fernando Reis. It conclusion, Hia Excel- lency said he felt sure the visitors to the exhibition would take away with them confirmation of the fact rible aspect in her mind, some- Then he was seized with a thing utterly unlike the flabby, vehement haste to be out of theourney. She slept fitfully, and that there existed in Macao a de- Her frozen hands felt for he awoke in high fever. It was sire to progress and yet exist in respectable butler who had clean room.
the fever, her mother thought, harmony with all neighbouring ed. the silver and waited at table, the key.
aiwnys well- It was not in the lock. Now she that made the girl cling to her, countries and Colonies, especially and had been mannered and ready to do any remembered what she had forgot imploring her not to allow Mrs. those with which Portugal had thing demanded of him, before he ten, that she had dropped the key Cronch into the room not to maintained for centuries the nost affable relations of commerce and had gone back to his vomit. last night and had not troubled to leave her for a second.
friendship. The revelation about Mrs. recover it, having groped for it for Cronch had been overwhelming. second or two without finding it She never thought, of disbelieving She would have been in worse case Cronch's ravings. That might than she had Imagined if she had come later. With her literary made the dash to escape which had sense she saw the whole thing been in her mind. the sudden covetousness of the Now she was wild to get out pearls, the threatening gesture, lest Cronch should come back. the momentary murderous intent, She groped on the floor, answering seen by the old lady in the glass. the beating on the door with a the room.
The Lord Mayor of London (Six) She could belleve that Mrs. voice which she felt, to be too Cronch had been kind in her deal-wenk to carry. inga with her mistress. Mrs. At last she found the key. It
The Bell Telephone Company has foundation stone of a largo pile of Ansell would have been attached had alid away under a chest of
She had hardly My own. Nelly would maybe have demonstrated with a super loud, to her. And then, the sudden, drawers. horrible change!
strength to turn it in the lock, to. turned from me if she had lived." speaker designed to carry the vice flats to be erected in Ferndale- After that, she brought every-over a railo radius. It is believed road, Brixton, by the City Cor- So that was what Mrs. Cronch open the door, and be received into thing that was needed to the door that a million people may be ableporation as quarters for married meant by her incessant going back her mother's arins. to her own wickedness and her There were no explanations ros- of the sick-room and loft it there. to hear simultanonsly. need for forgiveness. To think sible. Beata was unit as yet to Her abasement of humility forced
Mrs. Cronch came and went with one thing or another for what had been so quickly turned into a sick-roum. She wore, such
terrified look as to make Mrs. de Burgh's kind heart ache for 'her. She had turned and gone out without a word when Beats had screamed at her first coming into
"It's only what I deserve," she said, when Mrs. de Burgh apolo- gised for Beata, saying that it was only the whim of a sick child.
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ing on the consciousness even of the west, bank of the Hudson River worn her pearls day after day, in frightened. the sight of a woman capable of "I want to get out! I want to one preoccupied with her, child's with a reproducing instrument on the and 160 dats in seven blocks are to
Photographs showing the terrible
havoc now on sale at
MEE
(To be continued.)
ilincsa and Its mysterious, east bank. Everything was repro- be bailt. The buildings will be such an impulse, even if it was get out!" she kept crying, like the
duced clearly-Reuter's American of red brick and fire proof through- Service.
out, and will cost-£170,000. only momentary. There was little starling in "The Sentimental unknown causes.
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