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ORCHID
BY: ELEANOR EARLY.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL
1929.
NEW TYPE OF MONKEY.
CHAPTER XLVII.. fing exhausted her firat passion for a lover, she couldn't ever again love Ashtoreth sat on the couch anything but love. It wasn't her She was very quiet, and the did fault if she didn't love Hollis... not cry. Her heart, she thought, Oh, deat, it was all so muddied. was broken. She even told herself And there was poor Holly, that something within her had chasing himself around the deck. dled. p
And Monty probably drinking him After a few minutes, she took self to death in Paris. And here Monty's letter from behind Hollis she was, all alone, with an awful picture on her dressing table, and headache, and nobody cared. Twa real it again, slowly.
large tears aqubeżed by her closed It was dated four A. M. and be-eyelids, and rolled slowly down her cheeks. Eventually she fell asleep "Dear Ash-
gan
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MORE AQIN TO MAN THAN ANY KNOWN VARIETY.
Faris, Mar. 12.
The discovery of a new breed of monkey in South America, far more akin to the human being than any known variety, was described yesterday at the French Anthro polegleni institute by Professor Bouvier.
The only exiting specimen of this "missing link" was found. In the forests of Rio Catatumbo, an affluent of Lake Maracaibo (Venezuela), and shot by M. Francois de Loy
The animal was nearly five feet. tall and had the body of a large gibbon, the limbs of an orang outang, the hands and muzzle of an American monkey, and a head mora human in appearance than
that of any anthropoid known.
"This is to any goodbye. I never
She woke at 10, with a splitting felt so sorry for anyone in my life headache, She had forgotten to as I did for your husband, after open the port holes, and Mrs, Saun- the ewell little scene vou treated us ders, obeying orders, had not re- to. The way he kept saying. Or turned. The cabin was close with
Orchid-it would have the odour of perfumes and pow-selfish, and vain, and horrid. chid,' wrung tears from a atone, or almost anything.
She wondered if Hollis was "He calls you that, because It means something sweet to him.
ders.
hie TOOM. She must for she The orchid in a beautiful flower. have slept soundly,
hol heard him coming And expensive. Well, maybe there's had
or going. There were voices in. some resemblance there.
Several voices, and a there now. "But, outside of that, do you know what an orchid is? Well, it's woman's among them. High pitch- a parasite. And a parasite is ad and hysterical.
She rose and slipped on the green thing that grafts itself on to some- thing that is capable of taking carojnegligee that she had tossed the night before over the foot of her "A parasite is a plant of an an-bed, ringing at the same time for Imid living on some other living organism, ut whose expense it gets its food, shelter and the like. It attaches itself firmly, and it won't let go.
of it,
"Some parasites suck all the life out of the thing to which they cling, so that eventually they kill
it.
trees, and "Orchids graft on stumps, and old rooter They are) exquialte things, but they don't care what they live off.
"They are so mean, they won't even give the bees any honey. they are very beautiful.
Mrs. Saunders. She waited several minutes, and when Saunders did not come, she became alarmed.
She knocked on Hollls' door, but received
no answer, though she could hear voices quite distinctly. She turned the knob, and diseny cred that the bolt on Hollis side was drawn. She wondered if he had purposely incked her out.
There was something wrong. She shook the door violently.
Almost immediately, it was opened, and she saw a little group Butstanding about her husband's bed. Mrs. Saunders was there, and a man whom she knew immediately to be the ship'a doctor. There were several other people of whom she received no particular pression. Mrs. Saunders stooped quickly, and drew up the sheet covering Hoille face,
"There are girls just like or chids. They think that blauty is excuss enough for being. Maybe it is. But a lot of people despise human parasites, even the beauti
ful ones.
"Your husband thinks you are like an orchid. Well, you are. But he doesn't know how.'
"You turned me down, because you're a sort of a toney little para- site, and you were looking for some. thing better to get attached to. Well, you found it. You got better than you deserve, but you haven't sense enough to know it."
The
abruptly: letter ended "Your true friend, who's got nerve the truth. enough to tell you Monty."
Aktoreth was trembling so that she could scarcely walk. In that dreadful moment, as she propelled her shaking legs toward the bed, she had a strange feeling that if was not she-but some other wom- an-who was about to look upon the dead man. For she knew, in stantly, that her husband was dead. "Veronal," somebody was buying. "An overdone."
Holly, dear. But, oh Holly...
"God have mercy on you both," Bald Mra. Saunders, and lifted her up, and put her in bed..
*
In a little while the doctor came, and gave her a sedative, and told her that Hollis bad died in his sleep, and had not suffered.
After that she alept herself. An incredible, dreamless sleep, that lasted all through the night. The sun was shinning again when she awoke. Presently Mrs. Saunders! came in, with several envelopes in her hand,
"Cables," she said. "The wire- less reports of Mr. Hurt's death reached Paris and the States Inst night."
Ashtoreth took them listlessly. They were from friends of her hus-" band's. And, though the names were entirely unfamiliar, the mes sages made her cry.
And
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Dolores Del Rio, the Charmaine of half a rating reform, and less the bottom of the pile.
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YOU It is a tale of strange adven- CHD. HOLLIS LOVED
There were 1 million of un- ENOUGH TO DIE BUT I LOVE tures, primitive pasalons and the YOU ENOUGH TO LIVE FOR-greed of a man for wealth, and employed and the long queuen EVER. I AM COMING TO SAVE power, in which Miss Del Rio were a public demonstration of the YOU MY BEAUTIFUL ORCHID." plays the part of an Indian girl failure of Conservatism, Protec- She read the message several'in love with a young English rail-tion, financial extravagance and times. And then, dismissing Mrs.froad builder, played by Walter the sterility of Tory Ideas.
Pidgeon. The words came to her as from a Saunders, re-read his letter..
"The Government had been great distance, and rang sirangely "Moniy," she told herself, "In the The story itself is said to con-more than neglectful. It has been remembered only person on earth who under-tain every element of drama that teaching the less enterprising of won-in her ears, Sho
And then she re-goes toward making up an enjoy our manufacturers that the reading recently about the death stands me, of an author, who had died in a membered two others—not on earth. able picture, Suspense, mystery for their ills is to be found in more At midnight Ashtoreth went to hotel in New York from an over... Her father, who had written
even humour abound in tariffa. Some shortsighted manu- bed, having temporarily abandoned docs of veronal, Ashtoreth won her a strange letter. And Hollie, plentiful theasure and brought facturers have been hypnotised by her hopes of an immediate recondered how she happened to think who had died with a smile on his into being by a cast of supporting the outline of this safeguarding
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She dried her eyes, and dered what the end would be,
4
ciliation.
She tore Monty's letter into small in the morning," she decided. "And doctors said that the author had pieces. And, kissing his wireless, Holly'll feel better, after a good been troubled with sleeplessnesių, night's sleep. Everything will be and so had taken veronal. It was slipped it beneath her pillow, all right know."
strange how she was remembering
She realized that she had hurt all the details. her husband's pride cruelly. And that she had also come toppling from the throne he had made for her.
"I've lost my halo," she grieved, "and may adorable untouchestness. And, on top of it all, practically admitted that I never really loved him! Oh dear. Oh dear."
She rang for Mrs. Saunders, and asked for a sleeping potion from the doctor. Then she took a very hot bath, and composed herself 'sleep.
•
The doctor was talking to her, but she did not know what he was saying. She was wondering if there would be an autopsy, and if they would cut Hollis body. She felt that she could not hear it.
She put her hands on the sheet, find turned it down from his face.
He looked very quiet, and not un- happy. She wondered if he was glud that he had died. One corner for of his, mouth was puckered up a little, as though he was smiling .... or at death. Or at her, perhaps. Or Monty, who knew she was a parasite.
If only she could stop thinking of at life Monty Did he really despise her as he said?.
The doctor was still talking. You mustn't touch the body, Mrs.
"There's a lot of truth in what he wrote," she reflected drowally. "But truth is such a hateful thing!" Hart,"
She thought if she had told Hollis
She bent and kissed the dead
a small lle, proteating love, every-man on the lips. And, for the first thing would have been much nicer. time in many weeks, she forgot She wouldn't, for instance, be alone about those two teeth on
the
breathed. never Not
at the moment, with a dreadful pain swivels that had killed romance,
Holly!" ahe in her head, and her eyes smarting "Oh,
Holly. You'll so fearfully. Hollis wouldn't be "Holly... roaming the deck all by himself, call me Orchid any more... catching his death of cold. Or. ..ever... any more." drinking himself crazy in the bar. Suddenly she felt overpowering- After all, perhaps she did lovely sorry for herself, and rushed love him. Not glamorously, like from the room, crying loudly. A the movies and novels. Probably little later she fainted, and was there wasn't very much of that unconscious for a very long time. sort of love in real life anyhow. When she opened her eyes, Mrs. She remembered vaguely some-Saunders was standing over her. thing she had read-something to "You're crying," she whispered. And the effect that in her first passion "Why, Mrs. Saunders?" a woman loves her lover; but in then she remembered... "Oh, for all others, all she loves is love. Holly. My Holly. Holly's dead, Well, there wasn't anything wrong isn't he?"
about that. Only now, of course, The stewardess wiped her eyes. she didn't even love love, That, "You pere lamb," she said. "You she supposed, was because of those pore little lamb. But it's not for wretched front teeth, on their silly Mr. Hart I was crying. It was for Httle swivels. It was absurd of yourself. You'll be that lonely, course. But women were like that. you poor, thing. Your husband
"Sometimes," Alie murmured God have mercy on his soul-has no sleepily, "I get the silliest notions." eull for tears. He's where there's
She pounded her pillow with her no weeping nor sorrow." fists. If only she could stop think- Ashtoreth's voice was very weak. ing "Oh God, please let me go.. "Do you say your prayers, Mrs. to sleep! I haven't slept a wink Saundera?”
"I do that. God love you." for three nights."
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She wished she could dimiss Ashtoreth slipped from the bed thoughts of Monty. That thing to her knees. about a woman, In her first passion, "Oh, Holly" she prayed aloud; loving her lover,.. Monty had"If you can hear me where you are, boon her first passion. She was you'll know that I'm not a bad girl. only about 18 then. Well, if the And you'll know I love you, Holly. poet was right (Byron, or whoover Not the way you wanted me to. It was who wrote that) then, hav-But I couldn't help that, dear, I'm
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