A FIRST NOVEL!
WHIRLWIND
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
By Eleanor Early.
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thing to love a dead man and marry alving one."
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1928.
"But, Sis"-Tad took her rebol THE POLICE REŠERVE.
Jious litle Asta-if human nature wasn't like that the world would
have gone mad ages ago. Mon ORDERS FOR THE CURRENT couldn't keep their sanity if they couldn't forget."
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"I know." Sybil sighed wearily. "I'm not bitter about it any more. It's better, perhaps the way It is. I'm not rebellious now. Nor angry. Nor even broken hearted. But I see things as they aro, War propaganda and everything. words and beautiful Grand THIS HAS HAPPENED
phrases. But they didn't mean When. SYBIL THORNE was
"Hell's belle!" Tad sent half anything. Poppycock! It was all younger people said she was the dozen stones skipping, one after so useless-John getting killed.
Every
"Someone wrote a poem-'It was prettiest girl In Boston. day or two her picture appeared the other, beyond the distent white In the social columns, and society caps. "You'd be a darn sigut fer visions that they foll. Well, editors heaped praise and compli- better off, Sib. You girls seem to we've lost the vialone, and that ments upon her. But Sybil was think you can get away with any makes the sacrifice all worthless. only 18 when she first get herself thing. But you can't dance unless I hope the dead don't know how talked about it was after the you pay the piper. And, you stupid it was-dying for nothing. war, and she was trying so hard can't go running around all your thought at first I was going want to die myself, Tad, but I guess it's life, Sis. Of course you to forget.
only in books that people die of JOHN LAWRENCE, her. sweet-to marry. Every woman does." heart, was missing in action-pre- Sybil drew herself up, and lock-broken hearts. I wanted grief to Bumably dead" the telegram uding her arms about her brown kill me I really did. That was anid. Her adored brother-TAD legs, rested her chin on her knees. childish, wasn't It? And, instead, -was home, with the Croix do
"Being in love," she pronounced it only sort of smothered all the Guerre and two wound stripes. And solemnly, changes everything, Kood that was in me.
There wasn't much religion for all the world had gone quite crazy. Because I loved John I can't love our generation, you know, I said But despite Sybira Indiscre- Crigor anyone else. I think all my prayers during the war; tiona, CRAIG NEWHALL was an
The weekly classes for Police! attentive snitor and Craig was that must be the price a woman and when it was over and they the most eligible bachelor in Boss to pay. One perfect love-hadn't any of them been answered,
Reservists at the Police Training| Lon. Tad asks Sybil why she and whis it perishes life is sort I hadn't any more prayers left. of over. I read something once:
think the war killed faith-School, Kowloon, will be held as doesn't marry him.
**'And the price of love is this-and faith was the lovellest thing usual on Tuesday, November 6th. 2(a) Du bist die Ruh on earth. When it perished we and 13th, at 6.00 p.m. sharp, substituted reason. And reason
Hongkong Police Reserve. Orders by the dien. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G.. Captain Superin-bert's Centenary in Hongkong is a
recital arranged by Mr. Harry Bers tendent of Police, state;
Ore, the well-known musician, The services of the following which takes place at the City Hail Police Reservists for duty in at 5.30 p.m. to-morrow. For this connexion with the Armistice Day event, a most attractive programme celebrations on Sunday, November has been arranged, in which Mr.
number of talented artistes, and Gen. r: B. D. F. 11th. are accepted, and they will Ore will have the assistance of a
Chinese Company-2 Sergeants as the price, of admission is only W. IL Bau, report an under:
music-lovers will Hongkong
a point of being pre- and 10 Constables will report at two dollars, it is hoped that don, Nr. 6. 06.
Indian Company-2 Sergeants make Central at 9.30 a.m.'
rent Incidentally, it may be remarked that Mr. Ore has and 10 Constables will report at. 9.30 a.m.
Flying Squad.--16 members of been selected as the Judge in the the Flying Squad will parade with amateur instrumental section of and is also to play with the Muni- their machines at Central at 10.00 the Schubert Festival in Shanghai Sharpshooters' Cu membera cipal Orchestra under Macstro a‚ṁ. of this Company will proceed direct Paci
The programme for to-morrow's to the stations allotted to them recital is as follows: at the hour arranged,
1.-Sonata in A Major, Op. 120. Police Training School.
(a) Allegro moderato (b) Andante (c) Allegro...
CHAPTER 11.
A crown of thorns for thy head, "And vinegar to thy kiss.' . . That's the way it's gen.
Tad and Sybil were on the beach at Craigville, lying side by sale loved John. so fearfully, and I was under an orange umbrella thai look. 50
happy. Then he died-and ed like a sunflower blooming on the had to pay for all we'd had
There's not much use talking, the ocean's brink.
Sybil sifted through the can't make things very clear. funnels of her palms, making little wish I could make you understand mounds like ant hills on the scarlet-but there it is. Do you under Jersey of her swimming Huit, und stand, Tad"
mediated Inguidly on the events Tad ran his hand through his of the Hummer.
rumpled hair.
S
muddled..
Now
Squad Drill.
ja po mntisfactory, it gets you All recruits of the Chinese, and
I Indian Companies, and of the Fly awfully think there isn't any absoluteing Squad will parade at Central wrong: No real signs. Only ever Police Station on Thursday, Novem so many wild, foolish things ber 8th, at 5.30 p.m. sharp for gestures the psychoanalysts call Squad Drill under Sergeant Con- them."
With a sudden change of spirit she giggled.
"I'm not sinning, Tod... I'm only Kealiculating."
don.
Dress-Mufti.
Chinese Company.. Traininy. The following mem- hers have passed their examination In Part 2 of Training Course (knowledge of Police duties and R82 regulations)-Constables Cheng Ping Kwan, R83 Leung Ping Tseung, R84 Laung Teh Min, and 185 Young Jueman.
Signalling Squad.-Class for in-
Mr. H. Ore,
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Mrs. Bowes-Smith, accom- panied by Mr. A. M. Bowes-Smith. B-Unfinished Symphony in B
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(a) Allegro (b) Andante
Mrs. M. Bonenfant and obtained on explication.
Mr. H. Ore.
(a) Who Is Sylvia?
(b) Hark, hark! The Lark
Mrs. Bowes-Smith.
(a) Scherzo in B flat Major (b) Eccossaises
(e) Impromptu in F-minor, Op."
142, No. 4.
struction in signalling under Mr. Kowloon
More like a lover than a brother,
From the beginning Craig Now- "I'll be darned if I do," he con-
But Tad was very sober and a strand,! hall had been in love with her. At fessed, and pulled first he had been a bit hard to bleached like molasses candy, spoke like a patriarch,
"You're only making excuses, handle-particularly, after' she had down between his eyes. "You're
what you know is let him kiss her.
"Tell me you love me, Sybirtoo darn analytical, and you don't Sybil, for
know what it's all about. When wrong."
"Yes, I know," she admitted. .She remembered how fiercely
you start dissecting life and love, he had whispered it- hourse com- and all that sort of thing, you're "But what difference doen it all
make?" mand against the softness of her getting in over your head. And hair,
"But I don't!" she bind protested, you know, Sib, it's sort of cuckoo he put his arm about her, and held breathless and a little frightened. to talk about love as if there was her for a second is a grip tint
Thorns and made her wince.. ""Not really. I only love to be a price tag on it.
vinegar! Suffering catfish."
"You're talking in circles," he loved,"
Oh, I'm not complaining," she told her sagely.
"Poor, crazy Now she turned toward Tad with| a sudden burst of confidence. interrupted serenely. "I'm glad little Sib.""
"You see, Taddy," she annotenced, it's that way. It would be a mil-
"That's the way I think," she re- "I don't ever mean to be married lion times worse If life could go torted. "It's hard, getting things Craig understands. Ages ago on just the same, with John out of straight. I've tried harder than you told him go. I said I'd play it all. I'm not pasing as a trage know." round all he wanted, if he'd always dienne, or anything like that. remember it was only playing. No And I'm not a martyr to love. I've promises. No demands. Romance had a lot of good times since my
poor old heart broke. And I'll you" She rugged her shoulders and probably haye a' lot more. I asesi fluttered her fingers,
to feel treacherous whenever I was "Just like that," she murmured. "In her secret heart Sybil hady. As if I was somehow betray-
She would never, when John and the past. But swore, tell another man she loved don't feel like that any him. Because that, she believed,That's why I can play around And not feel' would be betraylug John. After his with Craig, you see, too badly about it." death she had tried to feel like a
as free as the wind."
mude a vow.
widow, but her mind pulled one! wuy and her emotions another,
I
more.
Soberly Tad regarded his sister.
Until, in the end, she had given ner-"'d like to see you married," he self up to Crain's caresses.
"It's plain as A. IE: C. she told insisted.
"Some decent chap,
'her brother. Emotions and love Nice little house in the country. are as far apart as the jules. Be-Flock of kids. After all, that's the cause like to pet with Craig is life. Take Newhall now-there's not a better fellow on earth. Lis- no sign that I love him.
"Once a girl wouldn't let n manten, Sis-"
kiss her until he'd sworn undying
But she laughed at his serious-
devotion and all that sort of thing. noss
If she was sure he 'respected' her,
"No use being sentimental, Tad.
she'd stand for little petting-A girl can't, eat her cake and have only, of course, he didn't call it it, too,"
pelting. If she got a hollow feel- "What in blazes," he growled,
ine in the stomach, she'd think she "are you talking about? Any- {
was in love. Then they'd get, mar-
ried.
#1 let Cruig kiss me because like it. But I'm not kidding my
self a bit. I love John as much
body'd think-”
Sybil regarded him contempla- tively.
"Don't be a fool, Tad." she ad-
monished. "You know perfectly
I ever did. It doesn't make any well what I mean. Suppose I had
difference that he's dead...
be there's no fidelity in me.
May-
I don't a yearning for that little house
"It sounds sort of funny, but if I ever did get married; I'd want to sort of settle down-oh, I don't mean I'd be a vegetable. But I'd cut out all these wild parties, and well, you know yourself how it ja, old thing. Who wants to marry But she remembered a night on a girl thal's run with my crewit the shores of Lake Waban, all for three years? You wouldn't silvery and bewitching in the yourself-not if you were sober, 1 moonlight. The night Craig kiss-mean."
know. Only John's got my soul, you're talking about, and kids in and I don't believe lips count very the back yard. Do you suppose I'd want to marry any of the booze much."
"Say Tad rose to skip a stone hounds we know? over the waves. "You don't spring any of that stuff on Newhall, do you
"I've been absolutely honest with him."
Sybil defended herself stily.
od her for the first time. They "Nothing matters very much now. had driven to the water's edge, It's terazy old world, Tad. Re- and left the car, and gone and sat member how we used to talk about. on the trunk of a fallen birch that deals and glory after the war? lay like a lanky tree-ghost, all Wasn't it bunkum! Everything of, exalted then. white and slender on the ground. seemed so sort That was when she said, "Don't Now nothing counts but just and good times, Thera ever get me wrong, Craig. It's maney
were some lines in that poem you only playing,"
gove ine:
"They crowded all their youth into
an hour,
And ahe put back her head for his kiss on her lips. She remem- bered how he had drawn away And for one fleet dream of right and how she had clasped her arms
they died... I uned to about his neck and whispered, think that was glorious. It thrli "Tan't half a loaf better than no led me that John had died for a bread Then he had crushed her dream. It was so splendid. So to him with a smothored sort of romantic. But pretty soon people groan, and his klases were hot and stopped caring. It didn't make merciless.
any difference-all the boys that died. Everybody forget. They And laughed and joked, and only re- side, [membered on holidays when they waved flags, and mado speeches and got drunk?
•
She stirred, restlessly. then, rolling over on her
looked Tad coolly in the eyes.
"Honestly," she repeated, "I don't want to get married, I may
Bright spots burned on Sybila
be an egg and all that, but I'm cheeks.
still in love with the first boy I "It makes me so damn madį" ever kissed. And it seems to me she cried, and clenched her small it would be a sort of a rotten brown hands.
"Poor old kid." He patted her hand. "Upon my word I feel like n rotter-the news I've got for (To be Continued.) ·
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