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HEAD OFFICE: HONGKONG. No. 10, Des Voeux Hoad Central, Hongkong. Authorised Capital A few days before Miss Sheldon'a
"Well, it wasn't all lies. I did Pat-Up Capital afternoon parly Mrs. Gayle return have to help old Mrs. Bangs in the Reserve... ed her, call, and Elizabeth was in house when I was at home, and BRANCHES AND AGENCIES — troduced to her. She was a small, once I went with the bailiff the Boar fragile-looking woman, with a de-Jonly decent mau about the placeCalentia
as though she to fetch precating manner
some sheep which had on were always being bullied as, in strayed to a neighbour's farm two solly truth, she was-by hor daughter-miles off."
"Will you go with me to call on London. and n weak, plaintive little voice like a child's. But Mrs. Gayle's Mrs. Gilrow?" Mise Sheldon asked, Manlia Shangbala atach memijat friends and acquaintances, though changing the subject-I shall go they were unanimous in pitying her to-morrow." for her: ill-health and evident re
"Yes, if you like," was the unex- pression by her husband and pected rejoinder. "I am rather daughter, were also unanimous in curious to see a woman who smokes be the greatest thirty or forty cigarettes a day and declaring her to Hossip, not to say scandalmonger, drinks champagne at every meal."
"The Laurels" was an imposing- in the neighbourhood. Not an in- cident occurred but that she knew looking house standing in Ita w CANTON RIVER WORKS. all the ins and outs of it. No grounds, with a carriage drive to stranger arrived in Shrimpton that the front entrance. A smart she did not at once ferret out every parlourmaid came to the door as the particular of his or her social posi-car drew up, and conducted Mios tion and past history as fur Sheldon and Elizabeth to the draw- they could be discovered, and in-room, where they found Mrs. the Canton Municipality by the A petition has been submitted to It was ond of her greatest Grow relining on a couch drawn urean of Public Works together grievances that her husband would up to a Frener window which open-with copies of drawings and hever discuss his patients with her, ed on to a stone-paved terrace, n or tell her whoni he was attending. htht of steps leading to the lawn On this occasion Mrs, Gilrow, was belaw, her principal topic of conversation. Mrs. Gilrow welcomed her "Such a charming woman, dear visitors with a warmth which said Miss Sheldon quite one of us, plainly that she was glad to see feel sure though somebody did say them. She looked very handsome she smoked thirty or
forty and distinguished in a gown of just cigarettes a day and drank chan- the shade of mauve which aufted pagne at lunch and dinner, but then, «er coppercoloured hair, with its according to Punch' and all those stage of red, and her carefully made. other delightful illustrated papers,up pink and white complexion. She everyone does it nowadays don't wore no jewellery except a atring they? 1 called on Mrs. Gilrow yes of pearls round her throat, and the terday. The Doctor and Myyn said diamonds which flashed above her I must, because she is evidently wedding ring. Altogether her ap wealthy and might be a payingpearance was decidedly attractive. patient if she is it and sent for Ten was brought in by the smart It is understood that the petition Arthur. Also, she may entertain. parleurmaid, and the three, Indies of the Bureau of Public Worka hus "The Laurels is the very house for were soon chatting together like met, with the approval of the that sort of thing, isn't it? She old friends; even Elizabeth coming Municipality. told me her husband had been dead out of her shell for once and taking about five years, and that she has her part in the conversation, defty po children-it must be lonely for drawn into it by her hostess.
CHINA AND JAPAN. her living by herself: Her father "I was so afraid no one would
OLD TYPE DIPLOMACY was rector of some place near here, call upon me," Mrs: Gilrow said with and they lived in Shrimpton, such a little wistful smile-sku' had a
OF NO USE. the slightest a funny thing to do, wasn't it? Be-pleasant voice, with
Osaka, Jan. 17. cause à rector generally lives at the trace of American accent. I know
men are Japanese business Rectory if there is one. I nuat]how very difficult it is to make try and find out where the place friends in a country place; people hopeful that the Japanese Minis- was and why they didn't live there are so exclusive, and I was begin-ter will succeed in his mission to her maiden name was Jones." ning to wonder if I could possibly Nanking but are convinced that Mrs. Gayle paused to take breath. remain in this big house alone, old-fashioned diplomacy is no She always ended her sentences though it suits me in every way, good. Both China and Japan Customers the services of the with a little plaintive appeal-never But I am a sociable person, and at must give up the "save face" Branches of the Intornaitonal stopping, however, to have her home in New York I never lacked business.
Banking Corporation in San Fran questions answered. Presently site for avciety."
The Osaka Asalf suggests na a cisco, Spain and the Philippine went on:'
"Do you intend to remain in Eng-formula for better relations, Island. "Now, I wonder, dear Miss Shel-au permanently?" Miss Sheldon firstly, the withdrawal of Japanese
R. M. McLAY, don, if I might ask you to follow asked,
troops from Shantung, secondly,
Manager. my lead and call on Mrs. Gilrow? "b, no. 1 have come for six the settlement of pending ques- Mrs. Styles said she would if you months just for a change, and tions and, thirdly, the dissipation did, and Mys. Maynard and several thought I would spend a month or of unfriendly atmosphere.--Reuter, others who think perhaps Lady two here, because, you see, it is my Dawes might expect them to be birthplace. My father was rector friendly with Sir Edward's tenants, of Marshfields, but we lived 137 so I promised I would ask ou. By Shrimpton, because my mother con- the lye, have you heard that the sidered the Rectory too damp and Colonel's wife, your next neich- unhealthy for us children. When Here is the solution to the bour, is ill? I wonder what is the she died my father accepted a liy-puzzle on another page. matter with her perhaps it is only ing in the North, but he died six STYLE. STOLE, STORE, nerves; she looks It, don't you months afterwards, and then my SPORE, SPORT. Think? They have Doctor Marabul sister and I were obliged to now, but it seems strange that as 認證
into ont
the world
74, Rus, St. Lazsie, Paris, andtunity of meeting some nice people, they used to be patients of your earn our own living. I was very most of them your neighbours."
Captial fully paid up Frs. 40,000,000 brother's, they shouldn't have confortunate in getting a post with
"Thank you very much for ask-Special working finard with my husband, doesn't some people going out to Newing me, Miss Sheldon," was the Capital
... Fro. 60,000,000 This time Mrs. Gayle seemed to York, and there I married-that is reply. "I shall be delighted to come. Reserves....... Fr. 22,819,00 my history," amiling again. "If I am going to ask your nephew to
Branches: export ag answer. and Miss
lost my husband nearly five years help me in hiring a good cur-one Paris, Lyons, Marseilles, Saigon, Fragen Sheldon ventured the remark that age--he was a partner in a frent cannot do without ane in the coun-Haiphong, Hanoi, Tourano, Quinhen, amba possibly as Doctor Marshall had
shipbuilding firm, Doran's-you try-and I don't want to buy for Hue, Thanh-hos, Vinh, Pnom Penh, Hankow practised in Shrimpton' for many may have heard of them."
the short time I am here. He has Poking, Shanghai, Tientain, Hongkong Harble
Hongkong years, they might have preferred
Sheldon murmured aa nice one of his own, I noticed." him to a newcomer.
negative,
"That is Elizabeth's car," Misa "Oh, do you think so? But
"Except for this explanation, Sheldon replied, "but I am Bure Darlor Marshall is so old-fashioned, far everyone must take me on John will be only too pleased to not up-to-date, like my husband. trust," Mr. Gilrow went on. "I help you if he can. I should think However, may I say you will call have no relatives in England that I you could hire one from Canterbury, on Mrs. Girow, dear Miss know of to speak for me. What a will ask him." Sheldon ?"
charming young man Mr. Sheldon "You are very kind. I am so "Certainly, I am surprised to is! Your nephew, I think," to Miss pleased to have seen you" as the bear about Mrs. Dundas illness, Sheldon "I have quite fallen in visitors rose to take their departure because my nephew met Colonel love with him. That very talka-and hope I may count you among Dundas in London last week, and tive little lady who called on me the my first friends here." he didn't mention it, and I am sure other day told me he was engaged I saw Mrs. Dundas walking in the to her daughter." garden this morning with 龜 visitor."
it?"
Mins
#
LETTER GOLF SOLUTION.
Mrs. Gilrow looked from Miss Sheldon to Elizabeth, her guze lingering longest on the latter with an almost beseeching smile which won the girl's heart.
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THE BANK OF CHINA. that was! A lady or gentleman?" to Elizabeth--"land were Mr.
The visit was a decided success. "A lady,"
Sheldon's ward. I scarcely believed
"Who could say now that I'm not SPECIALLY AUTHORIZED BY PRESIDEN. "Oh!" Mrs. Gayle looked disapher, and she talked so much I got a good actress?" Mrs. Gilrow said TIAL MANDATE OF THE REPUBLIC OF pointed, but consoled herself by quite mixed up with people."
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Authorised. Capital .... away down the drive. "I've won Pald-Up Capital about her life in Canada. Had her Sheldon's ward: My father left the first move in the game, anyhow, Reserve Funds father a farm, or was he in busi-his father as my guardian, but as and the rest should be easy. It ness in one of the big cities? Was Doctor Sheldon died before my was a good idea of mine to find out It true that people lived no nearer father, his son took on the charge all about that old rector of Marsh- to each other than thirty or fortylor me."
miles, and that in winter they were Elizabeth spoke quite calmly, always snowed up? To all of which even indifferently. John's guar questions in the plaintive, childish dianship had become such a natural voice Elizabeth gave vague replies, thing to her that any idea of its some of which startled both her seeming an odd arrangement to hearers. At last Mra: Gayle took other people never occurred to her. her departure, to the unspoken re- "You see," she went on, "we were lief of her houieas and Elizabeth's both taken in because John--Mr. very outspoken pleasure at her de- Sheldon-thought I was a little girl, parture.
|and I thought he was an old gentle "I had a mother like that Iman. It was an awful shock to us should go raving mad," she de-both, and to Miss Sheldon, too, clared. "No wonder Myra Gayle wasn't it, Aunt Lucy?" has been so badly brought up. "Well, we were certainly, our There's nothing I hate so much as prised, my dear, but as it turned out being questioned about my private we have not regretted the mistake. affairs. I bluffed her finely about How pretty the garden looks. I al- Canada though-didn't I?" mimiek- ways tell Lady Dawes I quite envy ing Mrs. Gayle's childish voice and her this terrace and the view from it, though ours from 'Adencroft' fa "You quite shocked me, my dear, not to be despised. I hope you will It will be all over the neighbour-come and compare notes, Mrs. Gil- hood now that you did all the work row. Wo are having our annual of your father's house and tramped garden party next Thursday, and for miles to bring the cattle home, should be very pleased to see you having to dig them out of the snow if you will forgive a short invita- In the winter. I really was unrom-'tlon. You would have an 'oppor-
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