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ORCHID.
BY ELEANOR EARLY.
THIS HAS HAPPENED, SADIE MORTON ASHTORETHASHE to share her has asked apartment. It is a grand and glorious apartment, furnished to Sadie's tawdry taste, at the expense of HOLLIS HART,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1929.
way to Sewing Circle, if society girls on their way to Sowing Circle the public believe. look as society editors would have
"I'll drop in and soo your mother some time," offered Sadie.
"That would be lovely," mur mured Ashtoreth politely.
"Yest
Well, suppose
Hart, enormously wodlthy and attractive, Is Ashtoreti's employ-leave your address then." er. And Ashtoreth is a beautiful "Here write it down on
you
the
girl, with exquisite perceptions back of the phone book. I got and high ideals. A little suob- some million-dollar stationery, but .bish, perhapa,
I ain't wasting it any more."
Ashtoroth scribbed obediently,
TWIN AFFINITIES.
UNCANNY RESEMBLANCE OFİ
MIND AND BODY.
London, Jan. 17, - Many strange cases are on record similar to the
uncanny resemblance of mind and body of the twin-brother doctors, Arthur Brown Smith and Sidney Mac- Kendrick Smith. These brothers, it is stated have thought · ́alikoj echoed one another's remarké, and have had presentiments of what the other was doing though hundreds of miles away.
1
Girl twins born in Chelsen were adopted when babies by different England and the other in Canada. families, one being brought up in After 18 years they met again, physically almost indistinguish- able and with common curious.
She seems to have made a de- cided impression upon Mr. Hart,... She would move, if she had characteristics. when auddenly he discovers that to. She was not going to get in- she and Sadie Morton are old volved with Sadio. Not for any-shop girls, twin sisters, puzzle frionds, With that knowledge, Ashtoreth. is afraid sho vt for- feited his interest,
In order to satisfy her curion- ity concerning his exact status with Saddle, she accompanies the) girl to her apartment and hears! the complete story of an amazing philanthropy.
thing in the world.
An account of how two London
customers in the shop and their Sadie walked with Ashtoreth to employer, and change partners at the door.
dances with impunity, was pub- lished recently,
"No hard feelings, dearie." She laid her hand on the other's
arm.
honey-and that ain't maybe."
"You look like a million dollars,
Narrowing her big blue eyes, she Hart had given Saddle $10,000 contemplated Ashtoreth humour because he felt sorry for herously, and bad so much money that it
"And I bet." she added, "you're really didn't make any difference just as hard to make." anyhow. When he tired of visit-
"I don't know that life's been
new
she
aces
changed tunics.
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Similar incidents at school, at work, and in the Army were related by a twin in an interview yesterday. "My brother and I," he said, "when children, invariably had our childish ailments together and with equal soverity. We are i always in the same class at school, We both joined up when the war ing her, Sudie, panic stricken as using you too badly," consoled same
broke out, to be drafted, to the
of her
platoon
the same prosperity dwindles; Ashtoreth. "I haven't scon any threatens to sue him for breach of ten thousands coming my way."
regiment, Khaki rendered us indistingushable. When promise. But she has no grounds;
Aring "You will," prophesied Sadie, our rifle course. we tied for first for such a suit, and not even an "sure as God makes little apples. place, When my brother was put FOUND WITH HIS HEAD IN Author advised him to buy a foun-obtained unscrupulous lawyer can help her you're too ornamental to
ever on picket duty for some fault i find any. Hart never so much as go hungry, or anything like that. shared the duty with him changing
tain pen and get them down on FOR THE HONGKONG AND SHLANGU Bills of Exchange and Cable kissed her good night, as
paper. He acted on this word of BANKING CORPORATION. naively admits,
So long, Ash-and don't you be places with him while the sergeant
advice in season, and the stories
4. G. HYNKCE Finally, Sadie thinks abo shedding any tears over my tough was not looking. They made me
and aketches, he described as
Chis! ManAEST, Hongong, 19th Bagtamber, 1917. a way to keep the apartment luck. Here's one I'll baby knows brother black ones, but we merely
market. wear brass buttons and my
"blood-steak stuff" at once found a which she le afraid she will lose, how to take care of Sadle." For she has spent her
Ashtoreth waited on the corner
mark," was found dead early yes- entire
One thought was
"I was confined to barracks for terday morning at his home in $10,000. And so she begs Asli for a street car, toreth to come and share the rent. Paramount in her mind. To keep reporting to the guard room every his head in a gas oven and cover- a time at Colchester, which meant Kensington Hall-gardens, W., with "Your mother'd love it, Ash," Sadie from telling Mr. Hart any hour. The sergeant of the guarded with an elderdown quilt. Heuterature, he had a nice sense of she pleads.
further details of her childhood.
"Not that I'm ashamed," she told wore that we were sharing the was 34. herself. "But being poor is like but he couldn't prove it.
parade between us. He was right,
His wife left London only on having funny relations, You just
"As we grow up we remain alike Monday for Nice, where she was to sort Every bad about some in features and mind. I may be have spent a holiday for the vene things. Everybody does."
thinking of some particular thing, fit of her health. A telegram-was She wondered how she should and spontaneously, my brother sent to her yesterday, and she will explain to Mr. Hart the details of will start talking about it. He receive it on her arrival. She is "It wouldn't cost much if we her protracted visit with the Mor-will start a sentence and 1. finish accompanied by a woman friend. split it three ways," she pointed tons.
it. We are courting two sisters
"Seamark" was a man of his out. "You and your mother and There were many things that no, not twins-but they never hands (writes E. B. 0.), who had me, and then some other girl. Hollis Hart must never know. mistake one for the other.". always been at home wherever in Gec, Ash, I hate to give up a place Not that there was anything
the world the pavement ends. He like this. Be a good sport. We shameful about having been an
was full of stories of adventures could have
some swell times crrand girl in the five-and-ten: "Monty English is coming over," last lone lands that freeze.
under the vertical eun and in the And think of your Of course there wasn't! together. mother, Ash! Wouldn't he just neither was it anything a girl who she said, "I saw him on Tremont He had sought for "conrse dust" love it, though!"
looked like an heiress boasted street this afternoon. I got in in the Yukon and for diamonds in just a few little things. I thought, South Africa, and had discovered It was, indeed, the sort of pince about particularly poor Maizie would love. Family "If he thinks I've. antecedents, maybe you'd like to give him a that "copra" was not a dialect in ties, reflected Ashtoreth, were such and education and culture like little snack, honey."
the islands of the Southern Pacific, joke. She disliked, instinctive- the girls in his crowd, what a fool She smiled ingratiatingly.] During the war he took part in ly everything that her mother'd be," vowed Ashtoreth, "to dis- "Cheese. And a can of tomato seven North Sea naval. actions, soup, to make an English monkey. including the Dagger Bank affair, admired. She shuddered now, to illusion him." think of Malzie gloating over She left the car at Park street And some nice fudge cake from and he was on the lower deck in Sadie's deep plush chairs and and wilked briskly down to State. the Woman's Exchange."
the immortal Zeebrugge adventure monstrous divan. Admiring Mr. Hart had left the office when
He was a very useful boxer, with- Sadie's dreadful lamps. Exclaim-she reached there, and she spent
out much science, but avith a real ing upon her ugly rags. And all the afternoon copying a tiresome
punch, and at one time he held the
The forthcoming wedding is an report assigned by Mrs. Mason. her tawdry objets d'art.
championship at catchweights of nounced of Mr. E. Larson, mission- What would Hollis Hart think Suddenly she became panic-!
the British Nuvy. Commander ary of Honam, Canton, to Miss R. if he could know that Mrs. Ashe stricken.
Kenworthy refereed one bad tastes like Sadie's!
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CHAPTER VII.
"Oh, Sadie, we couldn't it," protested Ashtoreth,
But Sadle was not so discouraged.
afford
easily
But
"Maybe he has another ateno- Ashtoreth had conveyed the im- grapher! Maybe he'll never talk pression that her mother was afto me again?"
cultured and an educated woman.) At five o'clock, when she closed Some day she could explain their her desk, she was shivering in- Intimacy with the miserable Mor-wardly,
expecting Mrs.
half
tons. But never, never would Mason to inform her, on the way she transpinnt Maizie to flourish out, that her services would he in the garish garden of Sadie's no longer required. To be given interior decorations--to be dis-two weeks pay, in lieu of notice. covered there by Hollis Hart....
But Mrs. Mnson, smiled when
That fastidious and elegant gentle she said good night.
man,
"Mr. Hart wished me to thank
"But honestly, Sudic," she in-you for him," she said. slated. "It's quite impossible.
We simply couldn't afford it."
"Thank me?. What for?"
Mrs. Mason's lips twitched in a
"You just don't want to get polite and efficient smile, mixed up with me,"
hazarded
"I don't know," she admitted.
noя0
con-
Sadie shrewdly, "You're trying "But Mr. Hart upoke as If you to make a hit with the boss, and would understand." you're going to watch your slep."| Ashloreth powdered her
"Oh, my dear, I wish you and pulled her hat, over her eye- wouldn't talk that way!"
brown, while her heart pounded "Well, I'm not going to bother madly in a transport of joy. She Holly any more," she volunteered. had not, then, forfeited his in- "So don't let that trouble you. Iterest. To-morrow, perhaps, he told you I got a new boy. He calls would ask her of Sadie's plane. me Siren, because he says I'm And she would be able to tell him. scream. Gee, he's a wise crucker! that she had advised Sadie to You ought to know him. Honest, make no trouble. Ash-he's a riot.
Warmly grateful to life and its "Oh, Sadie, you're impossible!" largesse, she stopped at a she declared. "I always thought fectioner's on the way home and you were a modern, independent ordered for her mother a pound of working girl. And what a gold assorted bonbons and caramela) digger you turned out to be!" with nuts. She bought the newest
"I'm modern," countered Sadie. movie magazine. And a box of. "Who wants to work?"
face powder, highly scented, and "Well, I do," announced Ash-pink as tender watermelon. Then tareth, and began to gather her she stopped at the circulating things together. Black antelope library and procured a copy of gloves and a bag to match, and her Edgar Wallace's latest. It was little lace handkerchief.
Malzie's little joke that Mr. "Listen, Sadie,. If I were you Wallace keeps more women awake wouldn't go to see Mr. Hart again. at nights than any man living? Honestly, I think you are making Maizie had roast beef haah for dinner, and a cottage pudding for
a big mistake. You've had $10,000 from him, and you gave absolutely desert,
nothing in return. There's no "Let me drop an egg for you, earthly reason why you should honey," she wheedled... "Nice] expect him to go on supporting country ogga. A dollar and ten you: I should think you'd get cents a dozen,"
want
yourself a job. And if you don't She deposited a quarking mound to give up this place get of yellow, surrounded by an aura someone to help you carry it. But of quivering white, for heaven's sake don't make any; scenes around the office,"
*
Ashtoreth adjusted her hat in
"There! Don't that look nice? And here's real cream for your coffee. No top of the bottle to- night, dear."
front of the mirror. Tucked up a Ashtoreth frowned, loose end of hair. And flecked What's the celebration, Moth-
the toes of her dull kid pumps crt"
with the back of her glove. She) Maizie wiped her hands on her looked like a society girl on her apron.
Ashforeth threw up her hands. "You're just naturally bound to marry off Mrs. Ashe's daughter, aren't you, Ma?" she teased.
Beneath her banter there was a shade of annoyance.
(To Be Continued.)
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