ROMANCE AND INTRIGUE
HIS WIFE."
By Mrs. VICTOR RICKARD. -- Author of The Light above the Crossroads"; "The
A. Reckless Puritan, House of Cowogr;
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SYNOPSIS. WALTER PRIESTLY, an engineer, returned from South Africa te settle down with
Mrs. PRIESTLY, his mother, and ADA, his sister, meets, when he
reaches London,
Etc.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
"We must disturb your little conference with Orange," she said aralingly. "We are all going to assemble in the dining-room to drink your health, dear boy. Come Orange, you and Walter lead the way."
Scated beside Walter, Orange `ORANGE LAVINGE, who appears listened like a woman in a dream. to be in great trouble. The trouble She could not belleve that they she will not then confide, it meant her when they raised their makes the astonishing suggestion glasses for the boast, and was that Walter should marry her. It really the whom Walter was talk- Walter, having fallen in love ating of when he said: "On behalf first sight, consents to this. The of my wife and myself I thank you pair arrive at Walter's home a all very much."
A mad desire to burst into fortnight Inter. Mrs. Priestly is shocked, but decides that the laughter or tears overcame her, sho must make the best of her son's had to press her fingers hard to rash act. Orange, on the night gether under the table to keep her. of bar arrival at the Priestly's self steady. The Vicar had come writes a letter to Walter explain-forwards and, amid much laughter, ing that she loves another man kissed her. who has jilted her. Walter shows "Walter will not miss just one," the contents of the letter to his be said, "so I am not breaking the mother. Meanwhile, the guests, sixth commandment, at a reception which Mrs. Priestly Le giving await the appearance of the young Mrs.Prically.
CHAPTER VII:
Orange received the congratula- tions poured forth upon her with brave attempt to respond.. Waller had drifted away, and was atanding by the wall watching her, while he tried to appear Interested in Colonel l'emberson's reminiscences of the Enst. Whenever he met her wandering glance be looked away at once, nor did ho try to join her
where she sat
Next the doctor who had seen Walter through German measles claimed his right, and confided later to his wife that the girl's face was as cold as marble, and Colonel Pem- berson, with effective gallantry, raised her hand to his lips and brashed it with his large mount- ache.
"And Walter 7" Mrs. Priestly said "Is it not his turn now?"
Orange turned to him, her face crimson, and saw that he, too, had flushed furiously.
"It's too publie," Mra. Kent gig- gled delightedly. "But how very sweet," for Orange had bent her face alightly in the direction of Walter and his lips touched her cheek.
Though he was quite unlike Stave- ling, Orange was suddenly struck by Homething in his face which held her cuplive. She had deliberately
"Ah, my dears, I trust you will see him during the be happy," Miss Grant sald, in a refused to necessary days before they could be moved, voice. "Times are so chang- married, and only now be appeareded that one is almost afraid of say- to emerge from the mixta, as it
ing about it." were, and become a definite human being. In all the large room, he was the one real person.
(Yon, we hope lo start for York- shire to-morow," she said absestly, in reply to a question from the Vicar.
Gradually they all took their leave, and when Dorne had counted the silver over for Mrs. Priestly, the exhausting evening was finally wept off into the limbo of all other evenings which had gone before it
Without, a word, Orange had fled She must have been mad when she took this plunge. All these to her room, and Mrs. Priestly be people who appeared to have some gan to turn out the lights, a duty claim on her; Mrs. Priestly and he always performed herself. Ada, Ada, who were now her close kin, still fascinated by the sight of her and the almost unbearable heavi reflection In her new dress, linger- nesa of the atmosphere, stified anded in the drawing-room; where she choked her. She could hear Mrs.stood before the glass. Priestly upeaking of the marriage
Mra. Priestly turned off the last
as though it had her whole-hearted approval. It was hypocritical and light. false, and yet, Ina startled moment
They went out into the hall to-
of self-knowledge, Orange wonder-gether and, lighting, her mother's ed whether there was not something candle, Ada mounted the staircase fine in the sturdy defensive to in advance of her, their two shadows which Walter's mother seemed to following them gigantically along have pledged herself. Like a skll-the wail.
avoiding questions to which she
ful fencer, she was evading and Լ, According to the invariable rule, did not know the answer. Stung Ada searched her mother's room in into a sudden feeling of remose, case of hidden Intruders, then kiss- Orange signed to Walter to come to ed her dutifully on both cheeks.
her. I
"It was a lovely evening," she
"I must not apoll sport," the anid. "I'm sure everyone enjoyed: Vicar Bald getting up and giving it."
his place to Walter. "Your charm-
ing bride will want you to her-aid heavily. "But at least the
self."
He took the vacant place beside her, and ahe struggled to be kind to him. He had married her be cause she asked him to. That thought overcame all other feelings.
"When you want me to do any thing in future, will you please come and ask me yourself?" she Baid, in a low voice. "I have done what you asked."
very
"It was an ordeal," Mrs. Priestly alluation is saved."
Ada, who would have liked to linger and talk, trailed off out of the room,
Mrs. Priestly had taken off her cap and was unhooking her dress, when a knock on the door disturbed her. "Who is there?" she asked sharply,
door
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THE “BLACK BIRDS” SEASON.
OPENING NIGHT MOST ENJOYABLE.
"Mother, its Ada." The "Thank you for that," he spoke slowly. "I know it must have been opened cautiously and her daughter one thing peered in. "I've come to tell you
A very enjoyable evening was difficult. Only Orange, I shall never ask anything something extraordinary, I had
left my bracelet, the one Aunt Clara pent by patrons of the Star She did not reply, but sat there gave me ages ago, downstairs, and Theatre when Mr. Richard Wi- looking down and fiddling with her slipped down quietly to fetch it from bur's "Black Birds" opened their room. Walter is season last night with "A Minstrel
Revue." flowered girdle. "You would like the drawing
of you."
me to stay on?"
"Yoo. If you will."
"And you read my letter, and. gave it to your mother to read?" The reproach in her voice hurt him horribly.
there!"
The programme consisted of "Walter? What do you mean?" "Yes. He's sleeping on the sofa songs, dances, patter, plano talk, with only the Venelian rug over and conceptions of the Black Bot-
which were particularly good. him. He didn't hear me, but I tom and "Varsity Drag dances, thought you ought to know."
The company, which consisted "I did," he said. To defend him-
"Go to your room, Ada." Mrs. of the Misses Gladys Jackson, self was futile, so he left it at that. Priestly's voice was terrible, And Marie Lewis, Eva Kelly, and Lot- "Remember, I claim nothing, and I understand about this other say nothing of this to anyone."
fellow,"
жде
dreadfully
Ada withdrew, pale and frighten "Yes," the agroed, and her voice ed. Something sounded wearied to death. "It wrong, she knew that. was all my fault. It seemed" In her own room Orange sat on the
tie Brown, Messrs. Buddy Brown, Frank Rogers, Buddy de Loach, Frank Burns, Claude Burns, Mor- gan Prince, Harry Jackson, Nor- man Stewart, and Frank Shiver,
she stared before her, trying to edge of her bed, wrapped in a white all carried out their parts cleverly explain something definite to do, satin and lace negligee. She was and in a typically speedy manner,
I thought that if
I did smoking a cigarette and Bomething very definite my eyes
the outside
Belf would change. It isn't . One Away doesn't change. To-morrow
wood?"
were on the
in
her which did much to keep the hum- door our and harmony going. world!
A
The principal features of the
we the duil noise of traffic came programma were Dr. Jazz, (Prof. leave here." She drow a little up to her and the striking of clocks, Shiver), who was extremely clever closer to him, "Walter, are your and once or twice she opened her at the plane, the Ventriloquist, people really coming to Cedar-door and looked furtively into the Frank Rogers, who, by the way, quiet passage. At last she turned out
would make a perfect "nurse. "Yes," he said, painfully. "Ithe light and slid into the large maid," and the quartette, Messra, can't let them down. But it's a large gloomy bed. Suddenly she felt house, Orange, and you will have strangely desolate and lonely in the Frank Burns, Claude Burns, Mor-
gan Prince and Harry Jackson. your own rooms to yourself. You dark, unfamiliar house.
Mr. Claude Burns' rendering of pretty coon song, "That's Ma will be absolutely free."
Mammy" was also an outstanding
The evening had been ghastly, To this she made no reply, and but somehow or other the sad, kind Walter got up quickly. His look in Walter's eyes haunted her, mother, on the arm of the Vicar, and it was of that she thought as
to she fell asleep. was coming across the room where they sat.
(To Be Continued.)
item.
Altogether, the Company in a distinctly good one, providing an entertainment well worth seeing and one entirely new to Hongkong.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1928.
"PERSUADED TO STEAL."
PRISON CURE FOR:
NIGHT CLUBS.
DETECTIVES STORY OF ALLEGED GANG OF RUFFLANS.
"MAXIMUM FINE 'INADEQUATE..
Albert Harding, aged 18, a porter Strong criticism of the light of Verdun-rose, Barnes, was punishment which can be imposed charged at Bowstreet recently with on controllers of night clubs was stealing jewellery valuo £66 be made recently by Sir Robert longing to his employers, Messrs. Wallace, K.C., at London Sessions. B. Barnett, Limited, jewellers, With a Bench of justices he heard Cranborn-street, W., and Ralph the appeal of Abraham Lewis Dembina, aged 29, a tobacconist, Garretle, aged 02, against a sen of York-road, Baltersen, and Alfredence of one month's imprisonment Ernest Drewett, aged 21, a mátor in the second division for selling fitter, of Aries-street, Battersea, Intoxicating liquor at the Lido Club were charged with receiving part of without a license. The sentence Mr. Mead at the property.
was passed by Detective Perry said that Hard- Marlborough-street Police Court.
considerable Ing had stolen n
Counsel mentioned that various amount of property which he dis- clubs had opened at the same pro posed of for about £36. He was mises and several had been struck associated with a gang of ruffians off the register.
who persuaded him to commit the Bir Robort Wallace: What I' thefts and then forced him to hand not understand is that when over the bulk of the proceeds under these premises were disqualified, threat of exposure to the police. why the disqualification was re- One of the stolen rings," said to be moved.
worth £46, was sold by Harding to Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett (for Dembina for £610s.. Dombina said appellant): It is like the dis- that Harding told him he had found qualification of a motor-driver's it. Dembina had given up the license for drunkenness-the longer
the better. ring.
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Drowott, added Detective Perry. told him that he gave Harding his moter-cycle for a diamond ring alleged to be worth $15.
Sir Robert Wallace: This place ought never to be allowed to open again.
After a retirement of half an In reply to the Magistrate, hour Sir Robert Wallaco announced Drewett said he knew that the ring that the justices had had the had been stolen.
greatest difficulty, but had reached a majority decision.
Dembina was discharged, and
"Profits Seem so Grent." Harding and Drewett were bound over and placed on probation "The whole Bench, however, are unanimous in agreeing with Mr. COUNCILLOR DENIES Mead's view that fining, as a general rule, is an atterly inade- OFFER OF BRIBE.
quate punishment, and that it is necessary for it to be understood "ONLY ARRANGED TO
these that if people take one of FINANCE BUYING OF CARS." clubs and commit breaches of the law that imprleonment is the only A member of the Croydon punishment for them. Borough Council, Charles George "The profits seem so great in Milton, at the Old Bailey, denied these things. The question is a charge of attempted corruption. whether that principle should be ap It was alleged that Milton offer-plied in the case of an old man who ed a gift to Albert Cucksey, an had carried on his business irre- agent of Mesars. Stewart and Ar-proachably for several years. dern, motor agents as an induce- "The majority of the justices ment to disclose information. think that In this case an exception
Milton, in evidence, said the ar- might be made. Instead of im rangement he entered into was prisonment, appellant will be fined that he should finance the pur-the maximum fine, which is con- chase of second-hand cars by asidered utterly inadequate, of £50 man named Hearn.
on each summons (there were two), Cuckscy supplied the names of and will have to pay the costs. people who had second-hand cars
"The house has been disqualified
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LETTER GOLF SOLUTION.
for disposal. When he (witness) for five years, and we hope that no was introduced to Cucksey he told attempt to remove that disqualifica- him he wished to satisfy himself tion will be successful.” that the matter was straight and assured above board, Cucksey him that all the names he would
would be supply
those of people who were "dead cun- tomers" so far as Measry, Ste- wart and Ardern were concerned. Nothing was discussed as to the division of profits. He had never given him anything..
The cane was adjourned.
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