Romance and Mystery,
Zora,
the Invisible
By J. R. WILMOT.
(Author of "The Moszoroft Manor Mystery.")
CHAPTER XXIK.
Hooker Raises the Veil'. It tras obvious to Blayne that Christopher Hooker was a rapidly dying man. He could do little for It was only a question of waiting, and Blayne was assailed by a sensation of desolation.
What Hooker had told him had shaken him strangely. It was har to think that what Hooker had said was true and yet, of course, It must be so. Hooker, the man he had always trusted; Hooker, the
faithful
"I can quite understand your wanting to know how I killed Mont- gomery Gaynor, sir," continued the dying man, but not without a trace of humour in his tone, Blayne
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;
EDUCATION REPORT.
ANNUAL REVIEW OF WORK
THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1928,
MUSICAL JOTTINGS,
(Continued from.Poga 7.) IN HONGKONG.
hand of the well-kicked clock at the From the annual report of the bottom of the room had travelled Director of Education, fust out, it over the circumference of an hour.' ***At Christmas-time last ́, yoar la discovered that in Hongkong (1910) It occurred to the composer there are 49,111 children attend to call up from the past that marry in's schools, of whom 87,244 are in dance which led to the depletion of vernacular schools and 11,887 in Shepherdens
Fennel's victuala. English Schools. The Agure for Perhaps it is the very tune to which with an unsigned note to the effect vernacular schools is the highest her happy and perspiring guests that the amount enclosed be on record. After steady advance whirled round on that inclement credited to the account of Christo- to 32,958 in 1924, there was March night nearly a century ago; pher Hooker, Esquire. I suppose, selback to 28,822 in 1925 and perhaps it is merely the creation sir, you would call it blackmail and 27,136 in 1920. The increase of the musicians's fancy. What But it wasn't that, sir, at all. It in 1927 was some ten thousand matter, so long as we enjoy its was almple justice. He had robbed over the 1926 figure. In English straightforward and jovial strains? me of my sister, and there is an schools the attendance hae not "Beginning with a few pre- old saying about the eye for the yet recovered. It was 14,980 in liminary bars, in slow time, wind eye. I never touched a penny of 1924 and fell to 10,153 in 1928. and strings playing alternately, we that money, air. The bulk of it The report goes on to say!... are soon carried away the rapid now lies in a separate account In the name of Natalie Morrison, who ed extension was made to Kowloon middle section reflects the sim- British Schools-A much-need-rhythm of the dance. The quieter is not aware of the fortune. Ann, Junior School by the addition of aplicity and bonhomie of the my sister, was in the plot. She it large double-room, capable of shepherd and his wife, and affords was who suggested that they should accommodating 40 pupils, and cor effective relief
and contrast take Red Gables, in order to be tain other improvements to the to the prevailing mood of near Gaynor, and. In order, too, building were carried out.
boisterous and careless gafety." that I could have a meeting placo for the Brotherhood and visit them there quite frequently Sonja Gay nor, curiously enough, struck up a
Provision was mado in“, 1928
Estimates for a no less needed extension to the Central British School.
Special extracts from Act 9 of Tristan und Isolda" appear on five records in an H.M.V. Album, Bung
thought, because I don't quite of pupils of
know myself."
was an exchange of photographs, roll at the five schools, Central recorded "The Valkyrie." One A look of amazement shot into but' I think that Gaynor was rea British, Kowloon Junior, Peak really needs to have ant through tho |
Blayne's face.
"
"But, Hooker, you must know how it was done? What was it made him so life-like for so long.
and what was that peculiar ash I found in his fregrate?"
"I'm not interested in science, air," said Hooker, slowly. "I don't pretend to know anything about it, sir, but before I come to that, I should like to go on with my atory so that you can get the, whole thing right."
"As you will, Hooker," Blayne responded.
ponsible for the cooling off of the friendship latterly. Why, I do not know,
Quarry Bay and Victoria British, emotional intensity of the Love Arst two acts and experienced the was 409. In 1926 it was 397.
Scene in order to appreciate the English-teaching Schools (for other than British mind. To one who has not heard Government third art in the proper frame of pupils). The total number of the whole opera, the opening par pupils on roll in December 1927 tion of Act 3 might not make a was 3,315, as against 2,862 in De- strong appeal, but after hearing it cember 1920, 1,898 in December a few times and having become 1925 and 8,899 in December 1924 acquainted with the story (which
King's College,
Is told briefly in the album) it would be easy for a music-lover to settle down to appreciate it in the 23 emergency right mood. The whole set is ex hospital. The pupils were accom-cellently recorded and should be modated partly in Queen's College bought by all Wagner enthusiasts. and partly in Ellis Kadoorie School. That the work of both these schools procceded so amooth ly and satisfactorily in spite of every difficulty is highly creditable to their Headmasters and Staffe,
In February King's College was taken over by the Military Authori- ties for use as
At the end of the year King's College was restored to this de partment to be ready for the ro- opening of school at the New Year.
A Committee of the Board of skier the question of raising the Education was appointed to con- fees in these schools, and its ro- commendations were accepted by the Board and afterwards by the
Government.
students as well
as those of the
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Several Masterpiece Albums, re ordered. by Moutrie's, are to hand including Chopin's Preludes, Tschaikowsky's 5th Symphony, etc. There are good records by Schipa and by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra this month. Paderew ski playa La Campanells and a Chopin Nocturne, and Horowitz, a young pianist of whom much is now heard in America, gives us his own
sounds a pianist of the Rachmanin variations on Carmen, which are a clever exhibition of fireworks; he off type.
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"Well, I went forward with my plan of bleeding Gaynor to death. I could see he was getting in a panic, but he hadn't the pluck to go to Scotland Yard. He was des perately afraid of the publicity, air. I knew my man very well by T'à got my now, and I hung on teeth in him. Then, when i found that I was hitting him up to the limit, and that there was little chance of getting any more, I do Well, air, I hadn't been exactly cided that he must die. In spite lazy as regards the man I was de-of what I was taking from him he termined to find. For years I was still living a very pleasant and luxurious life. So I cast about me soarched, but the world's a big for a means to achieve my final act place in which to bunt for one man of revenge and one which would But I had an idea that sooner or completely atone for the life he had later he'd come to London, and taken from us. I had heard from that, if I knew aught of the man at one of the Brotherhood that a won all, ho'd come as someone of imderful new poison had been found portance, for I'd heard that Gaynor by native doctors on the lower had plenty of brains,
slopes of the Himalayas. It was "But it wasn't until six months frequently used by the Sons of Zora found him. I was walking along bers who died. It is a product of after I'd been demobbed that 1 Sect for embalming certain mem- Cheapside one afternoon when who the henbane plant, but it has this should I see coming towards me difference. Whereas the poison in but Montgomery Gaynor himself. the common henbane is secreted At first I could scarcely bellevo my with the sap from the stems, this
Finally, a number of interesting eyes, and I thought that perhaps poison to which I refer air, is pro
Grant Schools. The number of last month, including Wagner's records were Issued by Columbia I'd been mistaken. It was nearly duced from the roots of the eastern these schools was reduced by the "Song of the Rhine Daughters" and twenty years since I'd seen him
species. out in Calcutta, and a
removal of one which fell short of the "Ride of the Valkyrie, on two man can change a good deal in twenty years. "But that is not all, sir. This the required standard. The re-discs, the former having been ro But I knew I'd know him when wo polson, while it can be used for em- maining schools for the most part corded in the curly days of electrical met. Perhaps it was instinct.. I balming the dead, has no effect did excellent work. Statistics are reproduction but only just re- stopped him. "You don't recollect upon the living unless its ad given in Table IV.
leased. A comparison between Ita me, I suppose,' 1 Bald. 'No,' ho án ministered directly into the lungs. Vernacular Schools-Intereat in recording and "The Valkyrie" ons swered, “I don't. Then let me re- You will understand what I mean, the Government Vernacular Middle | is all that is needed to demonstrate mind you,' I went on quickly as I air. It is harmless when drunk and School, opened in 1926, was fully the progress that has been made in anw he was looking annoyed. My taken into the stomach, but it be maintained. The site of the school a couple of years, presumably with name is Hooker. Does that con- comes deadly when inhaled into the the old Salyingpun School is better adjustment of the micro- vey anything to you, Gaynor? Junge. I was told how difficult definitely bad but no other is at phone. Haydn's 'Clock Symphony Hooker?' he repeated, stupid like, nay, almost impossible--it was for present available. Of the 6 and Dvorak's Nigger Quartet are air. 'Hooker? I'm afraid you've western selenco to detect this drug, students in the highest standard other important works. Tul's made a mistake, my man, and be and I conceived the idea of ridding of the Middle School division, it is Merry Pranks of Strauss is well gan to walk away, but I wasn't go the world of Montgomery Gaynor in satisfactory to note that 4 were played by the Orchestra of the ing to be put off like that. Not this way. I secured a quantity of successful in the special final Brussels Conservatoire. The tone so fast, Mr. Gaynor,' I told him the poison-you will find it, sir, in examination conducted by the of the piano used by Murdoch, who You and I have got to have a little a litte bottle on the second shelf of Hongkong University. This Ex records almost every month for chinwag somewhere quiet, just to the medicine chest in my bedroom.
Columbia
rather "tinny", recall a certain little tragedy that It is labelled 'essence of sleep emination, which is open to other
which is A pity 48
he ha-mened out in Calcutta. I saw and laid my plans. It then occ Vernacular Middle School, was pianist. This
seems by the look in his eyes that he had red to me, sir, that the only way inaugurated this year, and it is Paderewski's Minuet and Mendel- to be their principal time he playa remembered. He was scared. So would be to write Gaynor a letter we went into one of the A.B.C. shops on paper which had been previously hoped that the successful can- mohn's "Duetto." Marchex's play- and I acquainted him with the saturated with the poison and to didates may, in the event of a ing of a Gigue of Scarlatti is very facts. I also told him what he had make quite sure that he burned the Department of Chinese Studies clean and enjoyable. to do. I told him that he'd got to letter after reading it. I pre coming into being at Hongkong Quite a number of organ records provide for Natalia and that Ipared the paper and dried it care University, be accepted as having are issued, these including the
"TWELVE MILES OUT wasn't interested in his present fully. You will excuse ne sir, but the qualifications necessary for
AT THE QUEEN'S. domestic problems in the least. I used the little bunsen burner for admission into that Department,
the purpose in your laboratory, The Vernacular Normal School
Concerning as it does first gun- "He tried to hedge me off, but Then I thought out a letter of such for Women, in its quiet way, is one
running in the Mediterranean and stuck to my guns. I wanted justice a nature that Gaynor would be of the best in the Colony..
In E is rendered by W. H. Squire; then rum-running off the American and made him realise it, sir. bound to burn it almost immediate- New and better quarters were although written for the plane it coast, "Twelve Miles Out," which Natalie and my sister were none ly. I could not risk his leaving it found for it in Lee Garden Street, is well suited to the 'cello. I would is now showing at the Queen's too well off. I mentioned that on his desk for a moment. So I where it occupies 12 flats. With recommend two real jaz plano solos Theatre, contains much exciting Ann's husband was killed early on, conceived the idea of writing to more room and an increased staff, by B. Mayeri, and the selection and dramatic incident. It is the didn't I, sir? Well, I found out him as if the letter was from Zora, its scope was extended to include from "Lumber Love," the all-Bri first picture of the kind in which what Gaynor was and where his whom, of course, he did not sus-a Third Year Normal Class, 192 tish musical play which has had a we have seen business was. I also trailed him peet was myself. I made sure he'd pupils were on the roll, as com- splendid reception in London.
the dashing John to his house at Oaktree. In fact, I heard of Zorn while he was out. Inpared with 113 in 1926 an 49 in
Gilbert and although he has got him well weighed up before I India-almost everyone did at that 1926.
there seems to be predisposition to the most of what is intended to be very tragic role to play he makes decided how best I should act in the time and I said that Zora had dis-
tuberculosis. girl's interest, you understand.. 7 covered his secret, that he was a
Urban Vernacular Schools
Here again the the picturisation affair bloody The number of private urban school nurse's visits to a few struggle between two men discovered a great deal about Mont man of dishonour and that Zora Vernacular schools was 690 and of homes have been useful. gomery Gaynor, about his business, would exact a just price. But I pupils, 31,010, as against 545 and
Nutrition. From the data of death. But it is extremely realle- eventually shoot each other to his wife and his daughter. I found said that if he would destroy that 28,102 in 1926. About one-third inspection of over 600 town boys, tic and there is some very fine that he was engaged to be married letter before his firegrate using of these, viz. 198 schools with and over 800 town girls in British photography conveying the right to the present Mrs. Gaynor during only one match, and if he would the time he visited India and be watch the smoke from its crumbling 12,592 pupils, received Subsidies and Government Anglo Chinese atmosphere of the adventurous trayed my sister. That made up athos, Zora might see it to take it from Government totalling $88,- Schools and one Grant-in-Aid life lived by rum-runners, hi-
as an act of allegiance and forgive. Rural Vernacular schools at the of Heights and Weights, comparvice.
School, we have made out a table jackers and the US. Customs eor to make him pay, and when I had bled him financially I would com- "You sea, siz, Gaynor was a end of the year numbered 185 with ing by graph the various lines of plete my revenge in some way by superstitious man, and. |.|5,975 pupils, as against 191 and development. Rather unexpected- John Gilbert plays his part extra- killing him.
well, sir, you know what happened, | 4,800 in 1926.
ly, British Children here are above ordinarily well-he is always the "We had several interviews, and I He must have walked back to hin More than half, viz. 101 schools | the standard for their ages at debonnair rogue though perhaps a put the matter before him quite chair and died, and even the Home with 8,462 pupils, received Sub- home. Larger numbers are need-little over-conceited where women clearly. He WIB
exceedingly Office pathologist agreed that death sidies from Government totalling ed to verify these resulta, for it is are concerned. Ernest Torrence wealthy-Natalfe and her aunt were was due to natural esuses. I saw $12,666.
possible that the earlier develop was well chosen for the part of poor. They must be allowed so air, by the newspaper accounts that
There can be no doubt about ment of young adolescents, both "Red" MeCue; he looks. a. bad, much per year, a percentage of his Scotland Yard were trying to dis- prosperity was how I put it to him. cover how that letter was received the impetus given to Vernacular mental and physical, gives a high bold man right from the start At first he demurred. He quoted by Gaynor. Freda Vane once more schools in the last few years, and standard which is not kept up. Joan Crawford has a difficult part a thousand pounds as a first and came in useful. She handed it to the old prejudice against simple The result of each year will be to play which she accomplishes
interesting.
with great success. final payment. But of course him as he came from his lunch at readers and improved methods in
Revenue and Expenditure, One ought to add that the film I couldn't
accept that. A the Lustro Club. I think that happily far less marked.
The only Revenue collected by us seen on the screen differs con- . Technical Institute The Tech- thousand a year-yes, or more as brings me to the end, sir-the end.
this Department comes from aiderably from the story published nothing more except instruction in various subjects for well, str, there's Natalie those desiring the opportunity of 1927 to $121,981.75 as against ends in an entirely different way. you're young.
evoning study, was well attended, $109,464.75 in 1928.
The Expenditure was $1,001,- Under "Health," the Medical *** she
Officer for Schools states:
423,21, an increase of $181,860.12 Tuberculosis. No special mea over the previous year. These sures are taken for the prevention figures do not include Expenditure of treatment of consumption in on School Buildings or Furniture this colony. It is possible in which are debited to Public Works. few schools to note regularly the weight of children who seem subnormal, and this gives some index to the general condition. It
ray mind, sir. I was determined
100.
Ballet Egyptlen (which sounds very curious on that instrument) | and several waltzes and foxtrota, Rachmaninoff's beautiful Melodie
THRILLING FILM.
a
who
occasion demanded or else Mr. There's nothing more for me tonical Institute, designed to supps school fees, which amounted in in the programme. It begins (arid
Gaynor was in too good a way of tell.
business to allow a nasty scandal to |◄
yes
+
pollute his reputation, and spoil his domestic bliss. Integrity
a man of honour WILS, curiously enough, a fetish with him, must never know-never- He was easy prey-too aasy, I she loved her Uncle C.. sometimes thought. All the pay-
N loved. ments I demanded were in cash- Blayne grasped the thin, wrist as no cheques or anything of that sort, it lay on the counter-pane, but the sir, about which awkward questions pulse of Christopher Hooker was might be asked. They were, na still. often as not, sent direct to my bank
(To Be Continued.)
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