ENTHRALLING STORY OF MODERN LIFE.
SHADOWS"
BY PATRICIA LEIGH.
AUTHOR OF A MODERN GIRL, ETC.
CHAPTER XV.
Two months passed. Summer had now come in earnest. Shelagh was hard at work in London; Drake was also in London, endeavouring to be patient.In Devonshire Mru Drake was dreaming contentedly of the wedding that was soon to take place; and the Crittals were busily speculating on what still acemed to them a mystery.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
REVOLUTION IN THE SCHOOLS.
AN OLD SYSTEM TO GO. ·
of
TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1928.
will spring a whole series of re- forms. The "eleven plus" pupils are to be transferred to an entirely separate building which will be known as a Senior. Modern, Cen- tral, or Secondary School,, accord- ing to the type of senior education
SPANISH WORLD FLIGHT.
COMDR. FRANCO TO START
THIS MONTH.
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A revolution is going on to-day given. In the elementary schools, which The purpose of having so many Soville, Spain, July 6-Com- will eventually alter the whole | varieties of senior schools is to mander Ramon Fronco, who flew face of our social and industrial ensure that children shall receive from Spain to South Africa life. Educationists fifty years a training which will fit them for 1926, announced to-day that he hence will scarcely be able to be- the general business of life, plan to start his world flight on lieve that when the President of whether it be manual, commercial, July 31. curious letter from Lady" Crittal the Board
Education technical, or professional, In According to the original plan which was full of astonishing in-announced, on May 16, 1928, that other words, the Board are deter-Commander Franco and a.crew of formation. In the course of ask-the elementary school system was mined that the new senior schools four, Including Captain Alda act ing him to recommend her a hotel to be scrapped, there were so few shall not follow the awful example ing as navigator and Captain Gal- she mentioned her suspicions that Members in the House that the of the existing secondary school larza, as a co-pilot of Commander there was something more than a count was demanded! And yet un system, which produces an absurd- France, will start from Cadiz, business relation between Shelagh English Institution, for seventy-ly high percentage of mladits, Spain, on July 31 in a four-motor- and Drake. She had only hinted, eight years as "national" as the through assuming that most of the ed seaplane, for New York, with but Hugh was quick to read be Church, is about to be "disestab pupils are destined for an stops at the Azores and Halifax, tween the lines.
lished," and in twenty years' time academic or black-coated career. They will bring 1,000 pounds of the very term "elementary" will be
For this warping of the time mail. They expect to make the only a memory, for the thing it function of the Secondary School hop in 48 hours. Meanwhile what of Moyaton?.
'described will have ceased to be.
the Board seem to blame (by Although, for the time being,
Lady Crittal, he felt, would never Everybody takes a morbid in implication) the ridiculous School Shelagh had passed out of his life have written on more hearsay. Sheterest in the, dismantling of Certifiente Examinations, which she still occupied his thoughts a
was a shrewd woman and had op venerable building and wonders are in the hands of men of a pure great deal. He had an ingrained conservatism. Any sort of change portunity for judging. If Shelagh what will rise on the old site. In
The was spending weekends, with Drake the prosent instance this curiosity examinations in the new senior was as abhorrent to him as there was only one possible conclu-may be indulged to the full, at the and secondary schools are not to Suspicion of the dramatic. For
"The determine but to be determined by several years he had been in the
His first retion was a feeling modest price of sixpence. habit of linking his future with bis anger. That als should reject New Prospect in Education," just the work cavered. marriage with Shelagh. And now there was a curious vold; an empti-him and merry Drake would be published by the Board of Educa- ness and even an indessness which utterly monstrous. It would implyion, describes its fascinati plan most refreshing in a work from Whitehall
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It seemed unbelieveable. For a while he seriously wondered if the
shock had affected her mind. ·
wieft.
academic
outlook.
May Call at Manila. On arrival in New York, the party will continue by seaplane around the world. by way of Alaska, Japan and possibly Manila. Havana, Mexico, California,
"We are not contemplating a stunt flight," Commander France says. "We shall simply blaze the trail which commercial aviators
he tried in vain to fill by travelling that she ever really cared for him with a smacking of lips that is tanger of education for the busi will follow regularly between the
Hia destination was always deter-
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mined by any acquaintances who happened to be accessit Thus, malter of ference whether he was at Deauville or Monte Carlo, so long as he could meet a small and exclusive set of people by whom his conversation would be properly valued.
*He started at Biarritz, because of the Hurlinghams and the Vere Boyds. At Beaulieu he was enter lained by the Lloyd-lumbers; and finally, although he disliked the place, he went to San Sebastian, In reponse to a cordial invitation from Lord Tamerlon,
and never missed bin.
What he had hoped would happen
hand.
Effect on Private Schools, The Board are alive, to the ness of life degenerating into was that she would fail in earning The revolution was inevitable.raining for the life of business. fer livelihood and be forced to ad- The elementary school is a mid-They will, however, have the sup- mit be was right all along. Whether Victorian institution which was part of public opinion in their in- he would be in a position to step in designed for the children of the aistence on the provision of prac It served its tical and technical courses which and rescue her, forgiving the way in labouring poor."
shall reveal to impressionable which she had treated him, would turn in the nineteenth century.minds the dignity of manual and denend on a certain circumstance, and it has been so cleverly tinker-craft work. Cultural studies and He had lonized to be able to become ed up in the twentieth that our e-engaged ever since they parted, primary schools are still the best technical practice will go hand in She had become a big factor in his in the world. But the feeling has
And what of the under-elevens? life, and he told himself that he been growing for a long time that These juniors are to have a school still really loved her. And she the seventy-year-old framework of
Its function must feel the need of him-surely the systems is not speelous cough to themselves, as self-contained as
the senior school. she could not look back without a for the requirements of citizen-will be analogous to that of the regret,
ship to-day. While the leaving ave has slowly risen to 14, the preparatory school in the public scope and function of the schools school system. It will lay the firm foundations of knowledge, but it has remained substantially the will do so in an atmosphere en
Something same for fifty years.
present junior "standards.” is obviously wrong when the tirely different from that of the "finishing" education of the vast fact that the Junior School ja for majority of young citizens must the first time to be an independent school will enable it to build up a still be termed "elementary."
corporate life and tradition of its
No Right to Marry. Vaguely though he would not But he could not "resette" her in have admitted it, even to himself Moyston was impelled by a desire is present position. Two thousand to find someone who would take the year barely paid his personal place of Shelagh. He was hamper-expenses. Poverty, in any form, ed by lack of capital. He had either was undignifice, and although when to marry someone rich enough toe was engaged to Shelagh he would be indiferent, or to set about mak-not have broken it off on that ne- ing some money himself.
The prospect of work was not very agreeable.
The need for a drastic re-
The "Black-Coat" Fallacy, count, now they were free he would not be selfish enough to ask her again to marry him. He had a fixed belief that suless a man could keep his wife in their accustomed circle of society he had no right to
marry.
own.
"We will leave Cadiz July 31, at
old world and the new.
a.m. and our seaplane will be meared at the foot of Manhattan The seaplane is to be a 2,000- Island at 4 p.m. August 2." horsepower Super-Dornier Wal In the crew will be Commander pilots, Ruiz de Alda acting France and Captain Gallarza navigator.
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"The fight has been, well plan- United States recently to perfect ned," declared the flier while in the details of the venture.
Will use a Seaplane. "We have chosen a seaplane- because it is the only aircraft The successfully. Others muy fly be- capable of negotiating the distance tween America and Europe in land planes, but the fact that they may succeed occasionally does not mean that this means in safe.
cumber-
"A worthy seaplane, if dis- Where is the money to come abled, can come down, attend to At first he was dismayed by the
modelling of the whole systent was from? Curiously enough the fact repairs and take off again. Sca-
established in areas planes are heavier, and so clearly stated in the famous has been "number of people who had not heard
Indow Report on the Education of where this type of re-organisation some, but they can carry larger that his engagement was broken.
the Adolescent that the Roard of has already been carried out that motora, and neutralize the defect With that deliency, which he invari-
That was part of Moyston's erved. Education were finally convinced it costs no more than the over- of weight through added power ably commanded, he explained as much of the truth its is, compatible ad it been otherwise he might that a bold move must be made. lamping, and therefore wasteful, and ability to carry more fuel.
"We aball start precisely at the have yielded five years ago to a The report recommended a clean estem now in force. with. reservel tempera-
passing infatuation for Esme Crit-break at the age of 11. Up to that It is interesting to speculate season when the weather is best,) ment. He managed to cm-
tal. Of course, at that time he hadave elementary education a firm what the effect of all this will bringing with us 1,000 pounds of phasise, however that t
thet met Shelagh; and Esme had no grounding in the elements of be on the private schools, Some mail. In the Azores we will rufili Shelugli who broke
knowledge-should be the mainsay it will kill the third-rate our Links so we may have aboutj engagement; and that her motive thoughts of Drake.
From "seminary for the business of the school.
RODA and 2,000 gallons. for the long hop. was the foolish one of false pride.
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But there might soon be a solution eleven onwards a wider and more daughters of gentlemen." Others Then we shall lose no time leaving. He had tried to dissuade her, to io, his dilemmin. He had just reliberal education, secondary in hold that the State Secondary for Halifax. point out that money could makeceived nowa that isngle was character but varied in type, School will be so "cheapened" ro difference, but she refused to dangerously ill. If he died Moy-should be given to all the older under the new diapensation that 3sten.
ston would probably inherit a con- children.
the private schools will thrive on After a while he was conscious of siderable fortune, and his choler The Board have now adopted a new snobbery, We must wait that subtle sympathy which is would no longer be trumnielled. The this getteral principle, and from it and see. really admiration, Without any artificial barrier that Shelagh had effort he posed as a man who rected would be torn dowa. atoieally hides his injured feel- The ings. is consolition fet that at least he had behaved as a gentleman.
WITH
One day in the lounge of the Hotel Asturios, Lady Tamerton touched on the subject as gently as her curiosity could permit..
An Impossible Position.
"I think," she said, "the way you stood by Miss Hurstborne was wonderful. But 1 cruft understand her own attitude. It was positively selfish to force you into such an impossible position. I'm afraid that people who didn't know you must have thought you deserted her."
Moyston sipped his anise. After a long pause he replied:
That evening he climbed the hill which overlooka San Sebastian, and aelected a quiet table outside the restaurant where he could smoke a cigar over a cognac. A magnificent panorama stretched beneath him, San Sebastian gleamed in the set- ting sun, its stately massive build- ings built around the perfect semi- cirdle of the bay. The surf broké with a thunderous roar on the south stretched rugged, purpling mo tains, capped in the remote distance, with snow.
"Why is it," he asked himself, ""that all my thoughts Turn to Shelagh? Why should want to go back to her?"
It was not easy to discover the reason And yel, surely it must be "I never care what people think, because, he loved her, because The real tragedy is Shelagh's the mysterious attraction that future."
drew them, together was as ingvit-
"I was going to asit you aboutable as that which had parted them that. But perhaps I shouldn't have was frivolous. He must "mentloted the subject."
her. If only this wealth came to
marry
The last I heard," continued him he would resece her from her Moyston, "was that she was work present wretched surroundings ing in the city. But she treated give her all the luxury to which all her friends alike. She would she had been accustomed and the take neither help nur advice,"
past would be forgotten like some
"One would think that you were ugly dream.
all to blame! And yet, Isn't it a
fact that she's working for the very He would have nothing like the Wan who caused all her misfor-quito vulgar wealth of Drake, hut if he went to her in these circum-
7 tunes?"
"I belleve it is," Hugh paused for. stances it was unthinkable that she
a moment. "I can't pretend to should refuse. understand.".
It was the last week in July that "But what is your opinion of the whole thing? Do you know this Moysion received an urgent sum- mons to the bedside of his uncle in
man Drake?"
"I've never met him," replied London. The old man was rapidly Hugh gravely. "Beyond the fact sinking, and there was only a faint that he's enormously rich 1 know hope of recovery, when Hugh ar-
rived. nothing about him. But his re- putation in the city is none too good."
"It's impossible to make a million pounds honestly. And I suppose he came from nowhere?"
Hugh went back to his rooms in Jermyn Street to be ready in ease of any eventuality.
To his surprise he found that the "He belongs," was the answer. Critials were also in town. Eager "to the new aristocracy of wealth." for the latest news he was glad to "Wealth and vulgarity! The old accent their invitation to lunch n order is changing. In fifty years Martin's Hotel, that quiet, exclusive time birth will cease altogether to resort of country people, off St.
James' Street.
count."
"At least," said Hugh with a mile, "we shan't greatly bother in fifty years time."
Bronzed by the sun, Hugh was certainly a handsome fiture in in- There maculate morning dress.
But despite his apparent ignor was nothing in his manner to sug- ance. Hugh Moyston knew a great gest excitement. The tranquil con- deal about Shelagh's "resent posi-clousncas of his superiority was tion; and he knew more about Drake the surest mark of his high breed- than he cared to divulge. Some Ing.. weeks ago he had received a very
(To Be Continued.)
A
SUMMER
GIRL'S
ALWAYS TACKLES TE DIFFICULT TROPENS FIRST.
AND THE MINUTE SHE-
GROTS YU-THE TIRED
PIS HESS PACHELOR- AND
BOYS.
NO. 2.
THE PIST PET AT THE PREEZY GIDE
GRE KHOWS SHE HAS WORK AHEAD:
SO SHE DONG HER BUFFIEST RIFFLES? ONE GLANCE
AND BILL, WOMAN HATER DE FACTO, REALIZE
RE HAS MET RS WATERLOO
"My cabin will be filled wila the same number of navigator devices as the enptain's cabin of a large liner. If the weather is foggy and I cannot read the company we will go above the clouds, and I will carry a 500-watt radio transmitter with an adequate receiver so as to be able at all times to get in touch with ships below and check up on my reckonings. We are taking no chances. Our plane will have a dead weight of eight tons, or of 18 tons fully loaded.
"We wish to prove the possibili- ty of the Azores route as the only Atlantic airway possible."
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