ENTHRALLING STORY OF MODERN LIFE.
SHADOWS"
BY PATRICIA LEIGH.
AUTHOR OF A MODERN GIRL, ETC,.
I shall be so much happier when you are married," she said.
"We shall be soon," he replied.
CHAPTER XXI. Drako looked formidable at that moment. The lamplight was be hind him, so that his eyes gleamed
With a feeling that she had start atrangely in a dark face, and he ed an entirely new chapter in life throw a fantastic shadow on the Shelagh reached London. She had wall.
Suddenly he caught the tremb-turned her back on the past; and ling girl against hing. When heyet she caught herself wondering spoke his voice had a metallic if the years to come would ever hold half as much as those few timbre.
months.
"Listen!" he said grimly. "You can't make a plaything of rue. You've promised to be my wife and I won't be flung aside like this.
She had lived intensely. There was not a single moment that could be effaced from her memory. And She had passed
now-it was over.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WOMAN OF 100 AND MODERN GIRL.
FORMER HOSTESS OF GLADSTONE,
TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1928.
THE POLICE RESERVE. SINGAPORE GOLFERS
ORDERS FOR THE CURRENT WEEK.
Hongkong Police Reserve Ordera Mrs. Frederick Pennington, Lon-by the Hon. Mr. E, D. C. Wolfe, don's "Grand Old Woman," was 100
C.M.G., Captain Superintendent of years old on June 26.
Police, state:
Proud of the event, she had a preliminary celebration in the form of a small ten-party at her house at 17, lyde Park-terrace the day. Lord Aberconway and before.
Police Training School, The weekly classes for Police
WARNED.
TIGRESS AND CUB SEEN ON LINKS.
Members of the Singapore Golf Club. and Singaporeana given to cross-country walks have been ad- vised to gang warily for a few slays, since A tigress with a cub was seen on the Bukit Timah Golf Course on July 18th.
Lord Southwark were amongst old Reservists at the Pollco Training groundaman, who telephoned to
friends who called.
This report was made by the School, Kowloon will be held on the hon. secretary of the Golf Club Picasingly attired in brocade and Wednesday, July 25th, at 6.00 p.m. that a tigress and a cub had been. old lace, she chatted about her life sharp. All members of the seen at the fourteenth hole on the course. He was quito positive in she knew Gladstone, John Bright
Squad Drill,
and Cobden-while her friends at Chinese, and Indian Companies his assertion, and caution is who have not yet passed Part 2 of obviously advisable, until the ro-
port is authenticated. and marvelled."
On her birthday there will be a Training Course must attend.
The last occasion on which a tiger was reported on the Island quiet luncheon and a grander ten-
was about two years ago when a All recruits of the Chinese and coolie working in the Woodlands party. The house will be "open" to all her friends and hundreds of relativas, irrespective of Invitation,
Mrs. Pennington is purely one of Indian Companies, and of the district was attacked and fatally Then what do you mean to do?" through the ordeal. She had des-the most remarkable women in Bri-Flying Squad will parade at Cen-mauled. From time to time during ral Pollen Station on Thursday, the last few years tigers have swum she asked defiantly.
"I'm going to marry you-1 re-troyed the happiness of the m
in, She who loved
Daily attends to a voluminous cor- July 26th at 5.30 pm. sharp for across the Stralls, but it is a very three Squad Driller Sergeant Condon, long time since one has been scen though?
respondence and reada For the time, however, there were Ahat would Pratical problem The och all her attention. It would 2. hap dil to go back to her nai ru start the WeDry eap hai work all over again, or
the wagon, alternative.
fuse to release you.”
"I can't be married against my. will."
"No"--his prine almost bruised her, a free was his embrace. "but year don't realise what you've said. I believe that you love mes in git of wwrything you ju you will come back,”
H
won't!" de tushed. Y you will, hause you kan
will wreck your town."
There was
pb.
her. Wasn't
that
fense silence. It was torn by a sudden, shril laugh, It was a tired, ungaturil·la {times every week they had dined player, and Mr. Gladstone saw the
ending in a sabbing note.
Chinese, Company.
Flying Squad.
so near to the suburbs as the Bukit Timah golf course-six miles from Town.
newspapers without the sld, of Dress?~Mufti. spectacles; Carves and serves nị table; Takes a daily drive in an open unti Advanced men of the Chinese The presence of the cub is a for Company 46 in detailed by the U.C. mysterious feature, and unless it Kat: yearves and berburga
charivfile institution; and will parade at the Palice Training rehieved the long swim across the Reis late and sleeps nine hours School, Kowloon, on Wednesday, Straits It must ether have been Hot Sky Bulla mancy left
only. Mrs. Pennington came to Lotdenly 25th, at 6.00 pan, sharp for born on the Island or walked Extended Order and Baton Drill' across the Causeway. Further rol de hand not only lived up to hir singer, but had quod iustes her
gathered wild':
Dress: porta will be awaited with keen 60 years ago and that in breaking my happiness you all capital. Refusing to greept { caspberries and blackberries around under Inspector Paterson.
of legal sportemen ready to follow ittà rom Drake it had been
She was an enthusiastic tennis Truncheon to be carried..
them up. sary to spend a great deal on where the Marble Arch nuw stands, Mufti, Rifle, Side-Arms, and nterest and there will be no heck clothes, since at least three or four
time at the game for the first Jand danezd at
The final instruction patrol of fashionable
Penningtons' home, Bepame Hall,
the month will take place on Sir L. Worthington Evans.in the Drake (linched as though he had restaurants, been struck. He hesitated for an iter former training, morcover, near Dorking.
Mr. Gladstone's hostess was Thursday, July 26th, and all inem-Commons stated that he under- instant, and then, without a word, had not helped her to be economi Liberal-her husband was Liberal bera of the Flying Squad are re-stood a military tattoo would take
been accustomed he release her. With shakingcal. She had hands Shelagh adjusted her gloves. only to bay the best of everything, M.. for Stockport-and a strong quested to attend. Fall in at Cen-place at Tidworth, Wilts, in
and that impossible on six advocate of women's suffrage. She tral Police Station at 5.15 p.m. August.
freely defends the modern girl sharp. Dress:-Chak! Uniform. What would happen next? She pounds a week. stared at him half defiantly and She arrived nt Vernham Hause when necessary. half tearfully. This was
thoroughly exhausted after a sleep- triumph. She ought to exul........less night journey. Recklessly sho She fought back the bitterness indulged in a taxi from Padding- and misery surging in her heart, tin. What did money matter after So far she had been stronger than? - she had dared to hope. But t A letter was waiting for her in "must Anish now. She couldn't the rack. Instantly she recognised
bear this tension any longer., Moyston's handwriting. Ripping Lions Fand.
She strave lo spak naturally.
it open, wonderingly, she found it "I suppose I can be driven to the contained an invitation to dinner station "
for that night.
her
She half expected him to refine. But that would have, been chililish. Drake kaze at her for
" fo
minute and then nodded.
will
"So this is the ni?"
"Yes,"
"I refuse to necept that. Conte back and you
marry me."
Was
Revolver Practice. -Members of! the Flying Squad who have not! been passed out in Part 3' are re- The King has consent to lend quired to attend at the Kennedy some of his Gainsboroughs for the Road Range on Sunday, July 29th. exhibition of that artist's works at 9.30 am, sharp, for Revolver which Messrs. Agnew are opening Practice under Inspector Booker. in aid of the National Art Colles-Dreas-Mufti.
Sharpshooter Co.
No Revolver Practice will take! life. She envied them even their place on Wednesday, July 25th, A obecure employment, their care-revolver practice in night firing will be, held shortly, and the date free hearts.'
will be announced later.
Time was dragging like lead: and it would always be the same, Her life had suddenly become with jeni object.
"Ring me up," it added, "if you She barely hesitated. Moyston, with all bis defects, semed the only Bring rod in the whole of London in whom she raild turn. And after You!
her experience sits dreaded being
She recalled Drake's confident will
alone; she was afraid of her own self once she started to think of prediction, "You will come back--
and you will marry me." "I would rather But she What she had done.
She crossed to the telephone, A charked the retort. Suddenly she saw Drake through a biur. Afw minutes later she was agreeing blinding mist stung her eyes. She have dinner with him at the turned abruptly and hurried with Avignon,
She managed to sleep most of the bowed hend from the room.
morning. In the afternoon she A Night of Anguish. write a letter to Carlist explaining that certain circumstances hud The door slammed behind her, made it impossible for her to return Silence once mure. No sound but to "European Art." Then, with the ticking of the clock and pre-time still on her hands, she sat in senily the hum of a car in the drive the lounge.
Suppose she did--but no, that was unthinkable. There was still one solution that remained. It was not idoni; she even shrunk from it. But slowly, against her own will, she became convince it was the only course she could take.
She bit her lip, but as she stood up the colour mounted unconscious- ly to her face. Desperately stem- ming bacit a wave of depression she went upstairs to get ready to meel
Drake stood in the centre of the The Blue curtains and carpets,ugh. room, his fingers twitching rest the primrose poltery, and the Jessly on the cold bowl of his pipe silence were soothing after the Shelagh had gone. It was like a rush of the day before. Apart dream. He could hardly believe from an elderly woman at the far end she was, the only occupant of But she had gone, and, despite the lane, since everyone else was
It.
all he had said, she might never at work.
come back. He might never see her again; she would be swallowed up
She did what was unusual for ber, except at night-she lit
by the vast, formless shadows from cigarette. A trivial thing; yet it
which she came as completely as
indicateri a restless activity
though she were dend. Better mind that could find no outlet.
dead-for there would be a sweet- 'ness'and fragrance in the memory. For a while she had illumined his life, filled it with colour and
Victims of n Fate.
of
She had burnt the bridge. There could be no retreat now. She had hyed an urge which was stronger
glamour and beauty, restored at the time than any other emotion;
him the youth he had almost lost. How they had dreamed together of
with the result that Drake had one out of her life as completely
the future, how they had loved... if he had never existed.
Had she hesitated any longer And must he believe that even those dreams were a sham, that perhaps she would never have had her kisses were a mockery, that she the urge. She would have drift- had lived a monstrous lie, pretended into an impuese; she might even ing to love him, and all the timeve married. him. And what nursing this terrible revenge?
then? Could she have found hap piness that way? Was she finding
He revolted from the thought.it now? Apart from all else, it was unjust.
"I'm not happy," she admitted to
He had not ruined her father de- herself. "Perhaps l'o not intend- liberately. But how could he ex-ed to be!**
the
plain the complexities of sperula- But she mustn't dwell on tive finance? How could he con past. It was dangerous even to vince her that her father had think of Drake. She was begin- merely played high and lost?
ning, already, to feel a pity for him
Folding his hands behind his to wonder if, after all, they back he commenced to pace the weren't both victims of a fate over room. He walked up and down which they could have no control. She had been near, perilously with stooping shoulders and beat
brows, and all the time the wound near, to giving him her love. He that had been inflicted seemed to had awakened desires in her that no other man had culled forth. grow more agonising. It was a
EL
feeling of despair-that perhaps hele had touched hidden springs, deep down in her heart; he had had lost her for ever.
What else was there in life? aroused an unrest, a yearning How could this great void, this em mysterious tumult thut still per-
alsted. ptiness, be filled?
Drako did not go to bed that
It was a girl who had vowed to
night. The lamp was still burning win his heart and then break it; in the library when dawn broke. but it was a woman who found that
An astonished man-servant found her heart had been broken too. him crouching in a chair, his head
With a sigh she stared out of the
problem arose when he confronted window. Taxla
were rushing
his mother. On the spur of the across the square. Already the moment he invented a plausible streets were filling as the first crowds were returning from work. story.
Shelagh, he explained, had re- A group of girls were comir tó ceived a telegram. from a relative wards the club, laughing and talk- who was dangerously ill. She had ng as cagerly and merrily 'to catch the midnight express hack though released from school.
to town.
The old lady studied her son thoughtfully.
s
Their lives were simple enough. They had no problems, none of the conflicte that in three months had added twice as many years to her
(To be continued.)
(Sgd.) W. KENT, A.S.P.
Adjutant.
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