NEW AMERİCAN SERIAL.
THE HONGKONG
GIRL ALONE
By ANNE AUSTIN. Author of "Saint and Sinner."
"You're lying! I saw you stoop and pick something up from in front of the sofa."
SYNOPSIS.
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from church. Out of deference for the day she decided to change from her faded gingham to her white dress before serving dinner. Surely she had a right to look docent! Clem Carson couldn't construe her humble "dressing unt
as a bid for David's attention. | In her little garret room she scrubbed her face and hands, pinned the heavy braid of soft black hair about her head, and then renched under her low cot bed for her small bundle of clothes, in which was rolled her only pair of fine-ribbed white lisle stockings. As she drew out the bundle she discovered immediate ly that other hands than her own had touched it: the stockings had (been unrolled and then re-rolled clumsily, not at all in her own nest fashion. Then suddenly full
pieces of the puzzle settled miraculously into shape. It was
THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1928.
NEW HIGHWAYS.
TWO IMPORTANT KWANG-
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RARE BOOK TO BE SOLD.
DR. ROSENBACH'S SPECIAL VISIT.
SOTHEBY'S DEALINGS.
TUNG SCHEMES.
Numerous telegrama having beon received from General Pei Sung-bai urging the early comple. tion of the Shiukwan-Pingshek highway, to connect.up with the one in Hengehow, Mr. Chuck
The rare and valuable Americana, Hong-shing, Dircolor of Public Highways in Hunan and Kwang and manuscripts, largely from the with some important English books tung, has submitted a petition to Library of Henry Percy, 9th Earl the Provincial Government roof Northumberland (1564-1632), at questing appropriations to the Petworth House, are to be sold at extent of $50,000, monthly from Messrs. Sotheby's on April 28 and the Provincial Treasury for this
purpose.
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Of the 172 lots catalogued, by order of the Earl's descendant Lord Leconfiold, all but some half-dozen are of English origin.
These monthly sums are to be considered temporary advances, and are to be refunded in due course from the deposits in the Seventy-six contain manuscripts Central Bank held to the account dating from the Thirteenth to the Seventeenth Century. Several of the Highways Department,
with 29 The different surtaxes from the manuscripta, together various railways, allocated for books printed before 1640, deal rond building purposes will also directly with early American his- tory and colonisation. Henry be avaliable, when collected, for refund of these advances.
Percy, the "Wizard" Earl, a friend of Raleigh and a supporter of the Virginia Company, followed closely the voyages and adventures of the western pioneers.
Another Project.
The section of the road between Shlukwan and Lochang wag com- picted in August last year, but the section from there to Pingshek
It was to him that the colonist roughly 160 i, has been held up,
William Strachey, dedicated, what work being suspended owing to appears to be the earliest of the lack of funds. This part of the three extant manuscripts of his into Virgina route will entall heavy expendi-"Historie of Travel
1612. Britania,"
. This man3 12 – ture, as the mountainous nature of the country imposes dificulties acript, written on 122 leaves, in the.construction.
is undoubtedly the gent of the whole collection, and a keen fight by Dr. Rosenbach (who is in England for the sale and It is learned that construction bought "Alles in Wonderland" a. work on the public highway con- few day ago andhis American con- necting Walchow and Cheungmuk-frere may be anticipated. With tau will be completed within this the work, which was first printed month. The department in charge by the Hakluyt Society in 1849, is of this construction has made a fine impression of Captain John report to the Bureau of Public Smith's map of Virginia, 1012, and Highways of the Department of 27 engravings from. De Bry's Reconstruction, of its intention to Harriot, all finely coloured by hand. hold an opening, ceremony on the The British Museum and the 1st May next. Members of the Bodleian Library each have manus- military, civil, and party organisa-cript copies of this history-the tious in Canton will be invited to Muscum copy is dedicated to Sir
Sir Allen Apsley.. pay a visit of inspecton and to Francis Bacon, and the other to
assist in the function.
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"The Wizard Earl." This road has been designed to
During Northumberland's im- carry motor traffic, and when the prisonment in the Tower he em- present bus service is improved it barked on the scientific studies will afford great convenience and which obtained for him the nick- facility to the travelling public. name of the "Wizard Earl." It is Motorbuses have been plying on to this period what the library owes the finished portion of this road the scries of interesting manus-
the art of for some time past, and the service cripts on
alchemy, will extend to Walchow when the catalogued in ten lots.) road is opened. However, the Another important MS. is that of limited number of vehicles is in- George Percy's (the Earl's brother) sufficient to cope properly with the "A Trewe Relatyon of the Proceed needs of the public. Cantonings and Occurrentes of Momente Gazette,
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she came! You-oh, I hate you Stop looking at me like that?" SALLY FORD Is left at the "Hadn't you better go back to state orphanage when she la four church?" David suggested mildly, by a woman who says she is the Tell your mother you found your mother, but who never returns. pin jast where you'd left it," that At 16 Sally shows a genius for contemptuous smile deepening on acting which sets her apart from his lips. the other girls in the orphanage. “You won't tell Papa, will you?” She is "farmed aut" for the sum-Pearl whimpered, as she turned mer to CLEM CARSON, a farmer. toward the door. And you won't She meets DAVID NASHI. a tell-her?" She could not bear to handsome young student who is utter Sally's name. working on the farm during the "No, I won't tell," David assured aummer. PEARL, Clem's daughter. her. But I'm sure you'll try to hates Sally because David is plain-make up to Sally for having been ly fond of the little orphan and mistaken about the pin." determined to make Pearl and her "She's all you think of!" Pearl crowd accept Sally as their equal. cried, then, sobbing wildly, she ran
One Sunday morning Sally is out of the klichen." left alone in the kitchen while the "Guess I'd better not bother you Carson family goes to church, any longer, or they'll be blaming
which have Happened in Virginia" David sits on the back porch, book me. If dinner is Inte," David said
during the years 1609-1612, This in hand, studying. They are sur-casually, but he paused to pat the comprehension came to her. The
unpublished MS. is written in the prised when Pearl returns sudden-little hand that was clenching the
blunt, straightforward style of a The accidental dropping over- ly from church and accuses Sally able.
who was obviously more of having stolen her diamond pin. Sally was so puzzled by the here, in this bundle, that David 3rd of two kegs of gold, part of nome with the sword than with the
a consignment of 60, valued at NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY witnessed, au tormented by brief he had seen Pearl slip into thened in. the Italian Jiner Roma, re- of MS. maps of exceptional im- strangeness of the scene she, had had found the bar-pin. Somehow 50,000 dollars ($10,000) each, ship- The collection Includes a number CHAPTER VIII.
glimpses of something near the room that morning, had guessed vealed what appeared to be the portance. Outstanding among truth, no weak from reaction, so that her secret visit boded no first purchase of gold on the new these in Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Sally stared at Pearl, colour stirred by gratitude to David; that good for Sally: had spied on her, York market for the Italian Gov- Chart of North America and the draining out of her cheeks and out of her sapphire eyen, until she she was making poor headway and then later had retrieved the ernment since the war. Divers Arctic regions, made for him by was a pale shadow of the girl who with dinner when Clem Carson, bar-pin from the bundle in which have res wered one of the kegs. Dr. John Dec. It bears the great"] had been glowing and sparkling
In bank g circles it is assumed explorer's who had not gone to church, came Pearl had hidden it.
signature. Following Sailings from Hongkong-Daily at 8 a.m. under the sun of David's affection in from the barns, dressed in over- If David had not seen-But she that the gold was taken from a this is a magnificent MS. map of ate interest.
"Got a sick yearlin' out there," could not go on with the thought. local reserve bank for the account Raleigh's travels in Guiana, pro- Sallings from Canton-Daily at 8 .. "I haven't seen your diamond
Trembling so that her teeth chat- of the Banca d'Itala, but no com.bably prepared by Raleigh, or un- bar-pin, Pearl," she said at last. the xrumbled. "A blue-ribbon Lered she dressed herself as de-ment is obtainable from those der his direction, for presentation
Honest, I haven't!"
"You're lying! I saw you stoop persuaded me to buy. I don't becently as her orphanage wardrobe familiar with the deal.
permitted, and then went down- and pick something up in front of lieve in this blue-ribbon stock,stairs to "dish up" the dinner sho
had prepared. the sofa last night. I was crazy Always delicate got to be nursed
like not to think of my bar-pin then.
baby. I gave her a whop-
Immediately after dinner David but I remembered all right this ping dose of castor oil and she
went across fields to call on his morning, when it was gone off this slobbered all over me." dress, the same dress I was wear-
He took the big black iron tes-grandfather, a grouchy, sick old
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to the "Wizard Earl."
Mention should, also be made of the early Fifteenth Century MS, of John' "Everything all right, Sally?"
of Lidgate's translation "Fine" she faltered.
Pilgrymage of the Soule," which "I get very tired, but there's lots to eat is one of the finest illuminated MSS. such good things to cat-and in vernacular English seen in the auction room for many years.
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ing last night. See, David!" she kettle from the stove and filled the man who almost hated the boy Pearl's given me some dresses that Some suggestion of the quality of appealed shrilly to the boy, who xrenite wash basin half full of the beenuso he would soon own the are nicer than any I ever had be-the decoration and of the condition
HONGKONG TO MACAO As he lathered lands which he himself had loved fore, except they're too big for of the work is conveyed by the was looking at her with narrowed,is hands until festoons of soap a passionately.
He did not re- ma- level eyes. "It was pinned right bubbles hung from them, he cock-turn for supper, and at breakfant
"Isn't she fat?" David grinned Sotheby's Catalogue (£1 Is. not.)
coloured frontispiece to Messrs. here! You can see where it was led an appraising eye at Sally, who on Monday there was no time. for at her, and she was reminded David said nothing, but a slow, was busily rolling pie crust on a more than a smile and a cheerful again how young he was, although "Good morning," which Sally, with seemed so very grown-up to odd smile curled his lips without yellow pine board. reaching those level, narrowed
"Dave been hanging around the Clem Carson's eyes upon her, her. "She wouldn't be so fat if DISMISSED MANAGER.
she worked a tenth as hard as you kitchen this morning, alat he!" eyes of his.
"What are you looking at me like rolling pin and her eyes Buttered
her eyes misting with tears at his Sally's hands tightened on the
"I don't mind," Sally protested, What for?" Pearl screamed. "I won't have you looking at me like gully as she answered, "Yes,
"I've got thoughtfulness for her, that! Stop it!"
Slowly, his eyes not leaving "Better not encourage him. If
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dio." been warned, too, for as the days Sally wondered if David had passed she seldom saw him alone for as much as a minute. Per to earn my board and keep. Be haps he was being careful for her sides, there's such an awful lot After a four days' hearing in the Pearl's face for a moment, David you know which side your liread's sake, suspecting Carson's antagon to be done, with the preserving King's Bench, Division before Mr. thrust his right hand into, his buttered on," the farmer advised sm. or perhaps, in spite of the and the canning and the cooking Justice Avery, a special Jury pocket, Which he withdrew it, laconically. "I reckon you know shameful trick in which he had and everything. Mrs. Carson awarded £3,583 08. Ed., the full amount claimed, with costs, to Mr. something lay on his palm-aby this time that Pearl's picked caught her, he really cared for narrow bar of filigreed white gold him out and that things is just Pearl. During the evenings he aut worka even harder than I do."
David's eyes flashed with indig-Harold Edgar Palmer, of Addis-
Croydon, Fine for a short time in the living room
against set with a small, square-cut about settled between 'em. diamond. Still without speaking, match, too. He'll own als grand-or on the front porch, Pearl besideration and a suspicion of contempt combe-road, he extended his hand slowly dad's place some day-next farm him, chattering animatedly; but for the meek little girl opposite Messrs. W. Weddell and Co, Ltd., toward Pearl, but she drew back to this dhe, and the young folks will he was always in his room study him. "You're earning five times of West Smithfield, for breach of Mr. Palmer said that he was dia- her eyes popping with surprise and be mighty well fixed. I reckon Ing by 10 o'clock, a blessed fact as much as your board and room his service agreement.
and a few old. clothes that Pearl yes, Sally was sure of it-fear. Dave's pretty much like any other which made her own laciation in doesn't want are worth. It makes missed when he still had nearly
three years and a half of his agre "Where did you get that?" she young whippersnapper-ready to her little garret room more easy gasped.
cock an eye at any pretty girl that to behr.
"Sal-leet Ain't that axe groundment with the firm to run. His ap- On Thursday morning at 10 yet? Time to start dinner! 1pointment was that of assistant "Do you really want me to tell comes along, before he settles you?" David spoke at last, his down, but it don't mean anything o'clock David appeared at the can't leave this picalilli I'm mak-manager of the canned goods de-
Understand?"
kitchen door, an axe in his hands. ing." Mrs., Carson shouted from partment and manager of the dried fruit department at a salary of "Will you turn. the grindstone the kitchen door. Yes, sir," Sully murmured.
J, Crawford, the Australian ten- "Noll
"I reckon any fool could see for me while I sharp this axie "Wait, Sally," David command- £1,000 a year.
The defendants maintained that.als' discovery, is said to show en- No, she was telling the truth that Pearl's mighty near the apple blade, Sally?" he asked casually, ed. Wouldn't you like to take a when she said that she hadn't seen of my eye," Carson went on, but his eyes gave her a deep, signi- walk with me, after supper to they were justified in dismissing ormous promise. There are some the pin" David ans vered, flipping he dried his hands vigorously on ficant look that made her heart night? I'll help you with the him because of his insubordination who think that he will be able
dishes. You never get out of the the pin, contemptuously to the the Sunday-fresh roller towel.
Sir Henry Maddocks, K.C., for presently to beat any player in Mrs. Carson, standing over her house, except to the garden. You .kitchen table. "But next time I "And if she took a notion that think you'd better put it away in maybe some other girl from the bubbling preserving kettles, grum-haven't even seen the fields yet. Mr. Palmer, said that ho had called any country. This, of course, is a your own room. And Pearl, you orphanage would suit us better, bled an assent, and Sally flew out Pd like to show you around. The the manager of the canned goods big claim, and we must allow
department a llar because the later really must try to overcome. this why I don't know as I could do of the kitchen to join him.
moon's full to-night--" The grindstone, a huge, heavy It anything clee but take you back.
"Oh, I can't!" Sally gasped with first called him a "slaughterer," im- something to chauvinism. absentmindedness of yours. may get you into trouble some And I'd hate that. You're a nice stone wheel turned by a pedal the pain of refusal. "Pearl-Mir, plying that he was making sales of doubtedly, however, the young man the company's stocks at bad prices. Is a marvel, and wo might woll pretty little thing, real handy in arrangement, was set up near the
Carson"
The Incident eventually led to time."
"Pearl shivered, seemed to shrink the kitchen, but, yes sir, I'd have first of the great red barns,
"I want you to come," David
wish we had a tow of the kind visibly under her fussy pink to tell the matron that you just While Sally poured water at Insaid steadily, his eyes commanding Mr. Palmer's dismissal.
' didn't suit... Well, I got to tervals upon the stone, David held
her. georgette dress:
the blade against it, and under "All right," Sally promised reck- "O" sho wailed suddenly, her got back to that yearlin'"
to cover of the whirring, grating lessly, her cheeks pink with excite face crumpling up in a spasm of Somehow Sully managed weeping. "You'll hate me now! finish cooking the big Sunday noise he talked to her in a low mant, her eyes soft and velvety,
like dark blue pansies... And you used to like me, before dinner before the family returned voice.
(To be continued).
volca queer and hard,
"No" Pearl shuddered. Does she does she know?".
flutter.
and misconduct.
Un-
in England. It certainly is odd. Mr. M. Manuk will speak on that our women attain so much "Self Development" at the weekly public decture of the Theosophical higher a standard relatively than Society to be held to-day at the the men. Lodge, 7 Duddell Street, at 6 p.m.,
Tel. No, Central 1030.
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