Romance and Mystery.
Zora, the Invisible
By J. R. WILMOT.
(Author of "The Moorcroft Manor Mystory.")
CHAPTER XXVIL
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The Man in Hospital, As the train rattled through Blayne hurried out of the station some of the most picturesque coun- und took a taxi to the hospital up
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;
DID NOT KEEP RENT RECEIPTS.
AN UNBUSINESSLIKE DOCTOR.
TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1928.
MILITARY LEADER FOR PEKING.
ATTEMPT TO INDUCE LI CHUNG-YEN TO JOIN.
"FED FROM PARIS.”
ITALIAN PRESS BLAME FRENCH PROPAGANDA.
Rome, June 1I.
Rightly or wealthy, Italy claims to see the hand of France in move-
Mr. Justice Jacks told a Chinese doctor that he had acted in a very unbusinesslike manner, in the Summary Court this morning, when the doctor said that he had DEMOBILISATION PLAN ments which frustrate the dove-
or
lopment of her Near East policy, not kopt receipts for rent money.
Shanghai, June 26. and accordingly Paris is made the Perhaps more than at that moment His Lordship said it was no use to
The latest report from Nanking come to Court and expect help in The cared to admit.
of whipping-boy for presumed concerning the movements Dover at last.
such a case of receipts were not Marshal Chiang Kai-shek atates real anti-Italian actions, which kept.
that Marshal Chiang will not pro- dovelop in other capitals. The case was one in whichceed to Peking by rail but will go
Needless to say, this attitude is try in the whole of Britain, where on the hill beside the Chatte, He Leung Pat-Uu, 97, Queen's Road by warship to Hankow in order the delicate pink-shaded snow of knew the hospital well enough for apple-blossom hung heavy in the he had spent a few weeks there at West, merchant, sued Lal Ping- that he may consult. General Li taken in various important Press vast orchards and gardens of the the end of the War looking after sang, doctor, 356 Shanghai Street. Taung-yen before his departure comments dealing with Rome and Mongkoktsui, for $150, being rent for Peking. He will endeavour to Belgrade and the agitations which of the more serious Cases County of Kent, Peter Blayne could some not help thinking how strange it was which, coming over by boat from due in respect of the premises persuade General Li to accompany have arisen in Jugoslavia over the proposed ratification of the that Christopher Hooker should be Calais, were unfit to continue the from September 26, 1927, to No-him to the North.
vember 23, 1927.
It is understood that Marshal Nettuno Conventions. The Cor-
della Seru cites 08 in hospital in Dover and that he journey for some days.
In the entrance hall he explained
Chiang's visit to Peking will be in riere
"clamorous example" of a more; should have sent for him.
This latter part was, perhaps, his identity and the message which
order to attend a miltary
or less hidden anti-Italian policy, ference there and also to because he had received, and he was cone
homage to Dr. Sun's casket. * more understandable
"the alrange and unpleasant state Hooker and Blayne had a very deducted to the matron's room, where
Other messages atate that Marof things in Jugoslavin," which is finite relationship. But what was that lady was awaiting him.
I'm Xlad you managed to get
shal Feng Yu-hsiang has sent an described as being "deeply im worrying Blayne more was why
railway to proceed South to convey nusly anti-Italian, suggested and Marshal Chinng, and party to mother.
fed from Paris." Peking.--Nam. Chung Pao.
Mr. O. E. C. Marton conducted the case for the plaintiff, who said that the rent was $75 per month. The defendant had paid $20 on account for the eighth moon and thu other $55 for that month The defendant had not paid any rent for the ninth and tenth moons, said the plaintif.
con-
pay
Hooker was not at Lincoln with his down so quickly, Dr. Binyne," shee (plaintiff) had agreed to waive armoured train of Peking-Hankow pregnated by a programme feroci-
told him. "Our patient's been
troublesome, und rather Ridley, the resident, says he's got something on his mind."
"But what's the matter him?" asked Blayne.
with
It was certainly very bewildering. However, he would soon know.
Beyond Chatham, Blayne turned his thoughts to more important things than looker. He found
"He was admitted liere at two himself still considerably troubled over the Gaynor case. The fact o'clock this morning with a bullet that they had Dwyer safe and sound wound in the stomach. The bullet at last at Scotland Yard did not pass right through, but it seem, in Blayne's mind at least, had caught the spine. You under- to get them any nearer. There was stand, of enarge, doctar always the possibility that Dwyer was speaking the truth when he had told them that he knew nothing at all about Zura, and he had gone there merely with the intention of seeking information ду to this elusive person's identity. If this were so, Blayne realised that they were as far off as ever.
Blayne's brain wasla a fever. Hooker with a bullet wound and near to death? How could that be? Hooker, who was supposed to be in Lincoln?
"You don't know how he came to be injured, 1 suppose?"
"That's what is worrying us, Doctor. He won't tell us a thing, and the wemun who brought him Of course, Webster would put in is silent, too. She seeme dis- the malter before the Assistant tressed, but her lips are apparently Commissioner, who would decideeled."
whether there was a suflicient case "Can I see him now?"
The matron led the way along to put before the Public. Pro- secutor. If this course was de-stone-llavged corridor towards the cided upon, young Dwyer would be ward where Hooker lay. As they publicly pilloried and perhaps went along she paused, and in- hanged for a murder he never com-dicated a door on her left. .mitted.
"The woman's in there," she
The thought made the doctor's whispered. "Do you want to see! blood run cold. What if he had her?"
.made a mistake? What If Dwyer Thanks! Not yet?” responded wda innocent, as he had declared Blayne. himself to be? It was devastating,
There were two screens about
as Blayne traversed the this uncertainty. And now here the bed ha was rushing off to Dover to see ward, and the whitecoated surgeon his man Hooker because he had was standing nearby with the ward been sent for, whereas his place sister and a nurse. Seeing Blayne should have been in London trying approaching he came to meet him, ns hard as he could to convince and the two men shook hands. himself that in Dwyer they had the "He's rather far gone," explained personification of this mysterious Dr. Ridley. "It's only a question individual who was undoubtedly of hours, you know. But there's connected in some way with the something queer about it; some queer death of the diamond mer-thing I don't like, and a ho kept chant.
asking for you almost from the
The defendant said that he had paid for the whole of the eight moons, but In any case the plaintiff had waived that amount,"
When the defendant said he had not kept any receipts, his Lordship told him such a method was very unbusinesslike.
The defendant replied that he was a doctor.
His Lordship remarked that it was of no use to come to the Court and ask for help if did not keep his receipts. Judgment would be given for the plaintif for the amount claimed with costs.
The defendant then asked to be allowed to pay by instalments,
but Mr. Marlon' said that the de- fendant was paying his rent to a new inndlord and there seemed no reason why he should not pay the claim in one sum.
His Lordship decided not to make an order for Instalments.
WAR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.
(Continued from Page 1.)
This has now been accomplished. and it is hoped to commence levelling operations and building at an early date.
The journal says that too long Yen Still Sick,
and treacherously has the cam- Shanghai, June 26.paign against Italy agitated the Frum Peking it is reported that passions of the Serb, Croat, and Marshal, Yen Shi-san has wired to Slovene people. "The act of wis the Nanking Government askingdom carried out by M. Marinko-
-Non Chung Pao.
Treaty for ratification has pro-: for a further, five days sick leave.vitch in presenting the Nettimo voked violent reaction, with de- monstrations and sackings, which show that the country is passing through a phase of active frenzy.
Dutch Legation May Move.
Shanghai, June 26. According to foreign reports, the Dutch Legation may remove to Nanking in the near future.
"The conclusion is that these things reveal the state of Jugoslav It is also stated that the Dutch politics, show a lack of inherent Government will announce its re-restraint in the leaders, and dis- cognition of the Nationalist Go- close the weakness of the Parlia vernment as soon as one of the mentary regime. They also throw fareign Powers has first recognis- ed it-Nam Chung Pao.
Troop. Disbandment.
Shanghal, June 26, In regard to the problem of the disbandment of troops, Marshal Chinng Kai shek suggests that a committee be formed to deal with this matter. The mumbers of this committee should comprise the Committee of the members of the Connell of Reconstruction.
He also suggests that all dis- handed troops should be. engaged un road construction, dredging mining, and agriculture--Nam Cheng Peo.
Alleged Fenglien Scheme.
Shanghai June 25. General Chang Hsueh-liang has This conveys some idea of the been conferring in Mulden with vicissitudes through which the Marshal Sun Chuan-faut.
Members of the notorious Anfu Nursing Home scheme has passed.
it was a jig-saw with the pieces minute he was admitted and, Delay has followed delay, and Club have arrived in Mukden from put into the wrong box. And think, realised how far he was, contributory causes have been Dairen and it is suggested that a again, even supposing Dwyer was considered it wise to get into touch manifold. Legal formalities have scheme is afpot to secure an al- gullty, nothing could compel him with you immediately, le had to divulge the means whereby Mont-your telephone number off pat. accounted for much time and the lapce with Marshal Yen"Hai-shan ever Changing membership of the and General Pei-Chung hai against gomery Gaynor had gone to his Extraordinary fellow."
"Quite!"
War Memorial Committee, has re- Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang. niurmared Blayne, death, and Blayne had to admit that this fact, perhaps more than absently, as he moved towards the tarded matters to a great extent;
until some definite scheme the purely personal element of the bed.
There lay Hooker, a ghostly adopted the Committee of Man-
could agement case, was more important to him.
was
not function.
Marshal Feng's Illness.
Shanghai; June 25, The Kuomin News Agency con-
announcement that:
He remembered that hard ash hepullor on his face, and with his Stops have been taken to form the firms the had found in the dead man's fire oyes closed. Blayne drew up the grate: the strange reaction in the chair, and sat down to feel the Trustees of the Heme in to a body Feng Yu-hsiang has informed the blood test he had made the reae-pulse Just as he was releasing corporate, and it is the hope of Nationalist Government that he is tion that had convinced him more the wrist the man opened his eyes, the Committee, that the period of suffering from dysentery and has than any other thing that Mont-and they came to rest upon Blayne indecision is past, and that the asked for 10 days' sick leave, but gomery Gaynor's death was not Then a new expression seemed to work entrusted to them by sub- that he will join Marshal Chiang natural one. It was important, that leap into them light shone there,seribers. to the fund will be com- Kai-shek at Sinhsiang when the
latter goes to Peking. he should know something conclu- light of eagerness and gladness.pleted as rapidly as possible. sive about this.
"I'm glad you got down, sir," he The train stopped for a few min-said, with surprising vigour, utes at Canterbury, and Blayne wanted you, sir." felt impatient. He wanted to get)
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The Trustees..
The Nursing Home is governed "Quite right, Hooker," said by Articles which provide, inter to Dover, find out what had happen-Blayne, cheerily. "And now what's alia, that:
thought you were ed to Hooker, and then get back the trouble?
(a) The Home is instituted as the Hongkong War to landon with all possible speed. in Lincoln! You know, Ilooker;
This case, he told himself, had old man, your geography's worse part of been a perfect pot-pourri of events than mine if you rent thought that Memorial Scheme and is in be carried on in the interests of the and their consequent effects upon Lincoln was in Kent."
A smile flittered across Hooker's community and without any view his own emotions. It had brought
to profit. him into touch with Sonia Gaynor; eyes.
"I'm sorry, sir," he said, and
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(b) The property of the Home of. it had shown him, love for the first time in his life, and it had, by the then: "Could I speak to you, sir Whatever description, shall be vest merest flick of Fate's fingers, rabbed alone?"
him of what he felt was to be
Chiang Kai-shek is expected to leave Pukow to-night or to-mor row morning, but may go via Han- kow to pick up Li Chung-yen-, Beuter.
Peking Military Meeting,
Shanghai, June 25. It is expected that the four Nationalist military leaders will be present at the pending conference. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek will leave for Peking to-night, while
ed in the following Trustees: Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang has said Marshal Chiang Why, of course, Hooker, of The Managing Director in Hong- he will wait for Marshal Chiang
a wonderful dream. It was curious course," and Blayne nodded to Dr. Ker the time being of Jardine at Paotingfu how much could happen in a few Ridley and the matron who were Matheson & Co., Ltd.; the senior Kai-shek his advised General Li ahort weeks. Life-death-love-standing behind him, and they representative in Hongkong for the Chung-yen, the Hankow leader to and perhaps, despair!
withdrew to the other side of hetime being of John Swire & Sons, proceed to Peking, but it is not ward. "Now, Hooker-out with It had been a whirligig of doubti
Ltd., (Messrs., Butterfeld and thought likely that General Li will Swire) the Chief Manager for the leave Hupeh, but will prefer to be time being of the Hongkopy & represented by his colleague, Shanghai Banking Corporation: Central Pei Chung-hal. the Trustees for the time, being of the will of the late Mr. Granville Sharp from whose estate à large
ная
playing with doubt; fact eheating" "I hardly know how to begin, fact, and now-perkaps nothing. sir" suid Hooker, almost reminis
Then there
last night cently. "There's so much I must Something more than melodrama tell you before" had been enacted last night. There "Begin wherever you feel you was Natalie Morrison. He could ought to begin," Blayne told him,
see her eyes now as she locked at stretching out his hand again to proportion of the funds is with the
him in that room expecting 'to find hold the feeble wrist.
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Nationalists Indisposed.
Shanghal, June 25, Despite the report that Chlang Kai-shek is proceeding to Peking, there is much' conjecture amongst observers as to whether the (c) The Home shall be under coming Peking conference will
sanction of the Court derived.
Committee of Management.
in the man she had rescued, one for "Well, sir, it's about Zoral" whom she quite obviously had a "Really!" A note of surprise great and a passionate regard, had erent into the doctor's voice. And he had been disappointed. "And what do you know about the direction of a Committee of ever be a success and whether all Blayne felt his heart beating Zorn, Booker, except that he's the Management consisting of: The the lenders will agree to attend faater as he recollected her face-little fellow on my mantelshelf, Trustees of the Home; Govern- the meeting,
the face of an innocent child robbed eh?"
ment official to be nominated by
Marshal Yen Hsi-shan fa con-
of a surprise. Vaguely he wonder- "Something more than that, sir," the Governor, the Chairman for templating to wire to Nanking
ed just how far Natalie Morrison said the man. "I am Zora."
had really affected his taciturnity.
(To be Continued).
one year.
once.
the time being of the Hongkong asking for a continuation of his General Chamber of Commerce; sick leave, according to a Peking two members to be coopted annual message, and the same report ly by the Committee to serve for adds that he may return to Tal- yunnfu, Shansi. presumably for a 45 SHOTS, 40 BULLS, AT Englishmen can compete.
LONG RANGE.
shot, scored 40 "bulls" out of 15 Committee of Management coming the coming military confer Mr. E. S. Ashdown, a veteran As presently constituted the rest, but in reality to avoid attend- VETERAN'S FEAT AT BISLEY. shots at 900, 1,000 yards and 1,100 priser:Mr. N. S. Brown (Chair
At the same time, the chief-of- yards.
man),, Hon. Mr. B. D. F. Beith, staff of the Second Nationalist He won the Long Range Cup Hon. Mr. A. C. Hynes, Mr. V. M. Army Corps, Mr. Tano Ho-lin, has There was wonderful rifle-shoot- ing on the long ranges at Bisley with an aggregate of 200 points Grayburn, Mr. T. G. Weall, Hon. wired to Nanking stating that the recently in connexion with the out of a possible 225, having Mr. W. E. L. Shenton and Mr. W. "Christian General" is suffering annual lewel shoot of the English scored three inners at 1,000 yards H. Beil.
from fever and intends to ask for and two at 1,100 yards. Eight Club.
Messrs. Linstead and Davis have ten days sick leave, but the report His caros rivals were Captain This is the premier organisa- tion for promoting match-rite Rex Jones, 216, and Lord Cottesloe, been appointed Secretaries and does not say whether Feng will at
Treasurers.
tend the Peking conference. shooting in England, and only 214.
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