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NEW AMERICAN SERIAL.
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CHAPTER-XIX-
THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH,
ALONE
By ANNE AUSTIN. Author of "Saint and Sinner."
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1928.
LAND OWNERSHIP
DISPUTE.
(Continued from Page 1.)
that some evidenco would come out to justify that defence.
Mr. Potter asked for the indul- gence of his Lordship and the jury during the evidence by the plain- tiff as he was almost stone deaf. Why couldn't they let her and David you're ever In love, Sally, you'll Mr. Potter remarked, with a alone? Why snatch up this beauti- understand a foolish old woman a smile, that he had suggested to the The next morning the carnival's fal thing, this precious friendship, little better. Now, young man, plaintiff that he should use an ear eccond and last day in Stanton and maul it about, sticking labels you take that murderous looking trumpet. The plaintif had replied
Sally overslept. Sho did not all over it until it was ruined?
knife and that bacon back into the "I have got one but it only makes awakon until a tiny hand tugged She had placed the midget in her kitchen and scramble a couple of rumbling noise."
Counsel added that If the other. impatiently at her hair. Her dark own little high chair at her own 'blue eyes flow wide in startled sur-particular table in the privilege cares for me. And I guess you can prise, then recognition of her aur and was hurrying down the car give Pop a rasher of that bacon, side suggested, the plaintiff's deaf- to be examined by any doctor roundings and of "Pitty Sing," the bound for the cook tent and her even if it is against the doctor'sness was "put on" he was willing
selected. midget, dawned in them slowly.
own breakfast when Winfield By-orders."
And the showman, beaming For many years, continued coun- "You looked so pretty asleep that bec and his wife entered. Mrs.
as if for again and throwing "Good morn-sel, plaintiff was the proprietar I hated to awaken you," the midget Bybee was dressed
ings" right and left, marched down of a firm called the Fook Lee Firm, told her. "But it's getting late,journey of importance.
Winfield Bybee boomed out a the aisle, his arm triumphantly 24, Hillier Stroot. and I want my breakfast. I'm
his repentant wife's greeting to Sally, tilting ble head about dressed."
The little woman wore a comi- to peer into her smiling blue eyes. shoulders.
"All dolled up and louking pretty
Sally watched them for a mo. cally mature-looking dress of blue.
cat," he chuckled. linen, made doll-aize, by a pattern enough to
ment, a lovely light of tenderness which would have sulted a woman "Ain't that a new dress ?"
"Oh, yes, and it fits perfectly," and understanding playing over of 40. Sally impulsively took the tiny face between her hands and Sally glowed. "Thanks so very her sensitive face. Then she turn laid her lips for an instant against much for the trunk and the dresses, ed to David, who had not yet obey Then Mrs. Bybee," she added, tactfully od Mrs. Bybee's command. They the softly wrinkled "check. sho sprang out of bed, cureful not addressing the showman's wife smiled into each other's eyes, to "joggle" the midget, who had-I'll pay you back out of my aul-shyly, and the flush that made
Sally's face rosy was reflected been so emphatic about her die-ary as I make it"
What are you talking about?" the boy's tanned cheeks.
the Fook Les Firm and that had taste for being joggled.
Mrs. Bybee demanded sternly, her
"I'm sorry, David. I didn't been the source of the trouble "There's a bucket of water and a brusquely, to hide the pleasureface to her husband's, "I never dream it was-you. Thank you. because it enabled his son, Fok in basin, Miss Tanner told her yes flashing from Sally's flushed which, Sally's caress had given her bought you any dresses or a trunk. David." She could not keep from Chung-yuen, to get hold of the "All the other girls have gone to Now, you look here, Winfield By-repeating his name, dropping it deeds, and mortgage them to the the cook tent, so you can dress in bee! I'm a woman of few words, like a caresa at the end of almost Rank of Canton.
and of a long-suffering disposition, every sentence she addressed to but even a saint knows when she's him, as if her lips kissed the two
peace."
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Ho disposed of the business in 1923. The firm was established by the plaintiff's father some time between 1860 and 1870 and on his father's death, he becazao Out of the sole proprietor.
the profits nequired property to the value of about three lakhs, and also became a co-proprietor in the Tung On Godown Company,
in
The title deeds of the property had been kept in one of the safes of
Dificult Position. It was hard for the plaintiff to have to say his son was a swindler
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Mr. Polter went on to say that! he was afraid the Bank had taken Lhe view that the offer was a sign of weakness since they had pressed, for $155,000, plua property worth $20,000, making $175,000 in all, a difference of $10,000.
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"I didn't thank you properly last got a stomachful! I swallowed slow, sweet syllables. night for taking my part against your mealy-mouthed palaverin' "I should have told you." David and he (plaintiff) had dona his Nita," Sully aid. shyly, as she about this poor little orphan, but confessed in a low voice, slightly very best to avoid putting himself hastily drew on her stockings. If you're sneaking around and buy-shaken with: embarrassment and in that position. He had offered "But I do thank you, Betty, with ing her presents behind my back, some other emotion which flickered $135,000 in cash to the Bank in all my heart. I was so frightened I turn her right over to the state behind the smile in his gold-fleck-settlement of the case rather than -for David-"
and not lose a wink of sleep, and hazel eyes. "I--I thought you'd bring such charges against his "What I said to Nita will hold let me tell you this, Winfield Bybee know. You needed the things and own son. her for a while." Betty Tanner Her words were a rushing nodded with satisfaction. "But I torrent, heated at the boiling point knew you didn't have any money. I've got to get back into the don't trust her. She'll du some-by jealously and suspicion. thing underhand if she thinks she
Sally tried to speak, to interrupt kitchen," he added hastily, awk can get away with it. But don't her, but she might as well have wardly. She had never seen him worry. Once the carnival gets out tried to stop Niagara. Under the awkward in her presence before, of this state, you and your David force of the torrent Sally at last and she was daughter of Eve will be pretty safe. I don't think bowed her head, shrinking against enough to rejoice. And in her shy joy her face blossomed with sud- the police will lather about extradi- the wall of the car, the very picture en rich beauty that made Nita, mortgage was for $110,000 and tion, even if Nita should tip them or detected guilt. The carnival off. In the meantime, I'll break owner gasped and waved his arms the Hala dancer, who appeared in that that sum, with interest, could the first law of carnival and try helplessly, tried, to put his wife's the doorway at that moment, look not amount to the bank's demand, The bank were entitled to fight to learn something or Nila's past hands and had his own slapped old and tawdry and bedraggled, they would probably be surprised. I've seen her turn pule more than viciously for his pains. When at like the Idst ragged sunflower
understand that the plaintiff had once when a delective or a police last Mrs. Byher paused for breath, withering against a kitchen fence. the case but he wanted the jury to mun loomed up unexpectedly and and to mop her perspiring face with But not even Nitas flush of not come to court to take advan- seemed to be giving her the once her handkerchief, Bybee managed hatred and veiled warning could tage of the bank.
They would over. Oh, dear, I'm getting to be to get in his defense, doggedly, his light that sudden sweet blooming agree that the plaintiff's offer to as slangy as any of the girls," she bluster wilted under his wife's of Sally's beauty. She waved the bank was a very substantial muurned.
Longue lashing:-
goodbye" "to" David, carrying away jone.-
In 1916, plaintiff appointed his After Sally had splashed in the
"You're crazy, Erama! I didn't with her as she aped to the cook tin basin and had combed and buy her any presents. I never saw tent the heart-filling sweetness and son, Fok Chung-yuen, manager of braided her hair, she hesitated for that dress before in my life. I tenderness of his answering smile, the Fook Lee Firm and gave him a long minute over the two new don't know what you or sho's talk-She took out the memory of that power of attorney. In 1920 two dresses that had mysteriously founding about. I didn't buy her any-mile and, of his boyish flush and other firms were started, one being their way into the equally myst-thing! -oh, good Lord!" Helawkwardness a hundred times dur- Fuok Lee and Company and the erlous new tin trunk. She caught tried to put his arms aliout hia ing the morning, to look at it in other. Messrs. Thos. W. Simmons herself up at the thought. Of wife, his face sa strutted with blood fresh wonder, as a child repeatedly and Co., Ltd., a Hongkong branch firm. Both course they were not mysterious! that Sally felt a faint wonder, unearths a bit of buried treasure of a California "Pop" and Mrs. Bybee had pro-through her misery, that apoplexy to be sure that it is still there.
carried on business in York Build- vided them, out of the infinite kind-did not strike him down.
When she bent her little heading. Chater Road.
Firm Amalgamation ness of their hearts: Were they
"What's the mabler, Sally?"
gravely over the crystal, after the The former firm was started by always so kind to the carnival's new recruits? Gratitude welled up in David came striding out of the carnival had opened for the day, two other sons of the plaintiff. A her impressionable young heart; kitchen, a butcher knife in ane
"fortunes" but David's flushed overflowed her lips in song, as she hand and a slab of breakfast she saw in it not other people's scheme was drawn up for the amalgamation of those firms, the dressed herself in the little white bacon in the other
face, David's shy, tender eyes. parties on the one part being two voile, splashed with tiny blac and
"I don't know, David," she whis-David's lips curled inward in axons of the plaintiff, and on the the local yellow wild flowers.
pered Torlornly. "I was just smile. And because she was so other Mr.. Burdin, Last night's breeze had brought thanking Mrs. Bybee for this dress happy she lavished happiness upon manager for the California firm. with it a light, cooling shower, and and another one and a trunk all those who thrust quarters upon The scheme was to float a limited still lingered under the hot caress found in the dress tent with my Gos, the crier, for "Princess company and for the Simmons Co. of the June uun. Sally wang, at name on it-Princess Lalla Lalla's" mystic reading of "past, to take over Fook Lee and Co.. Betty's request, as the sped across she stammered over the name-present and future,"
"Obvious Forgery." vacant lots to the show train rest-and Mra. Bybee says she didn't
She had almost forgotten, in her " ing engineless on a spur track. A give them to me the sound of her fresh, young volex,
preoccupation with the miracle Referring to the document con- caroling an old song of summer- "He thought he'd put something which had happened to her-fortaining the agreement to assign to Bronchial Asthma, Bron- JOINT SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND MADAO
now that she loved counsel said they had only to look
STEAMBOAT CO., LTD., AND, THE CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD., time and love, David Nash thrust over on me, and me all dressed up she knew his head out of the little high win-like a missionery to go to look for David, not as a child loves, but at it to see it was an obvious for chitis, Rheumatism, Dropsy, In- dow in the box of a kitchen at the her precious mother. I guess her as a woman leves-that Mrs: By-gery. The paragraphs had been commla, Diabetes, Bright's Diecast, | end of the dining car, and waved mother wasn't any better than bee was undoubtedly keeping her squeezed" in boween other at- an egg-turner at her, lips and teeth she should have been and this little promise to make inquiries about testations and the signature was who had given her written upside down. He would and eyes flashing gay greetings to soft-soap artist takes after her," the woman
reason for thai Mrs. Bybee broke in stridently, but "Better tell your David how her angry eyes lost smething of name as Mrs. Nora Ford when she give them a Nita's been carrying on," the mid-their conviction under David's had committed Sally Ford to the peculiarity later.
care of the state 12 years before. The signature was witnessed by level gaze. get piped from Sally'a shoulder.
But she was sharply reminded Fok Chung-yuen only.
In consideration of that assign- Song fled from Sally's throat and "I bought the things for Sally, and filled with remorse for her for heart. "No," she shook her head. Mrs. Bybee," he said quietly, "gelfulness when Gus, the crier, ment they were to get $25,000 She couldn't be a tattle-tale. If the should have told her, or put my leaned close over her at the end fully paid up shares in the amal- gamated company. It might be orphanage had taught her nothing card in. Unfortunately I didn't of a performance to whisper; ciso it had taught her not to be a have one with me,” he added with |
"The boss' ball-and-chain wants that the sons wanted to get hold talc-b rer. Besides, to talk of a boyish grin.
to see you in the boss' private car, of the property for the purpose of "Oh Anger spurted out of kid. Butter beat it over there be- financing the amalgamated com
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Nita and her threats would make it necessary to tell David all that Nita had said, and at the thought Mrs. Bybee's jealous heart like air fore you put on the nose bag.pany but if, in fact, the plaintiff's Sally's cheeks wont scarlet. It let out of a balloon. "Reckon I'm Next show at one-fifteen, if we can signature had been authorised, might kill his friendship for her to just an old fool! God knows ballyhoo a crowd by then, You there would have been no neces-
documents contained. let him know that others appear-don't see why I should care what can tell her that Cus says you're aity, for the many clauses, the ently all the carnival folk-had this old woman-chaser of a hus-going great.”
(To Be Continuod.) labelled that friendship "love." band of mine does, but I do! 'If
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