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Innocent Cheat
THIS HAS RAPPENED,
by Ruth Dewry Groves".
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1930.
MATSHED BLAZE.
A call was received at 10.40 p.m. and the fire was subdued at 11.15. Very little damage was done.
SMALL OUTBREAK LAST NIGHT AT KOWLOON TONG.
Fire broke out in a matshed near Kowloon Tong last night, shortly before 11 o'clock, but a prompt rea- ponse by the Kowloon Fire Brigade prevented the outbreak from assum The Important engagement being serious proportions. Helen Fare feels unhappy when the glid, had spoken of to her slipped his reached 41, the Boann boarding school hit about mind entirely before, be being Minu kimpllcity flat to niease her hand-the elty. And in the morning be some guardian, Susard rent, who, muzgaji?dem her with sule funds and snart froeks which found it necessary tá telephone an are brought from Paris for her by a woman explanatia. He excuses were ac- the old fellow had stirred. And he
The fact that he has ever permitted her cepted and another appointment was moaning weakly. So meet any of his friends warrim her, was made.. Brent, wouldn't have
Brent stooped over him. "Come Itot 'she will not question his reason "Eothered but this woman had been out of it," he snapped unfeelingly. "bough" wr nummel, Shindlimmaf Murria,
taunts her alNui shrinkler hart wist useiul to him in the past. Soon he Th: noaning, ceased and Brent speaking one afterumn at the filts when ther expreted not to need her but it straightened up, having decided to Shalimar accuses Helen of being in live whis would be unwise, he reflected. to be on his way. timent; calls her a fool in give un amoklet her know that too abruptly. dancing and ampten for him, and poda by saying that "There's something wrong with the picture,"
(elend whom Helen has never met.
see him there with, K.piriklag looking womynti.
Nest time Brent Inkës her, and by dinne
Helens was him to tell her slut her paw sha ataduales. Khi laga, mil then olies to going home early when he tells her he
Lage and curly life, but he refuses until after
**There in one thing, you must never do,"
"MACAO NOTES.
NEWS, OF CABINET CHANGE : IN PORTUGAL.
Macao, Jan. 23. Telegraphic messages "received recently at Macao report the resignation of the Ministry under the Presidency of General Ivens Ferraz,
General Carmona, President and Dictator of Fortugal, invited Col. PARROASCE Sousa to form a new Ministry, but, after various at- tempts, he had to declare his inability to do so.
.:
General Domingos Oliveria, Military Governor of Lisbon, was then charged with this mission and has presented the list of the new Ministry. Dr. Oliveira Salazar continues to hold the portfolio an Minister for Finance in the new Ministry.
Obituary.
The death occurred, on the 19th
The prostrate man stirred again, moved his arm, and Brent saw that Ai seven that night, he started to something had fallen out of his tat her apartment to dine with her, tered shirt, something that gleam-| On the curb, before his hotel heed dully in the fading light. raised his arm to signal a taxi; On an instinct that he did not. ant. He later and tell then changed his mind. The balmi stop to analyze he stooped to pick
Helen swayed a little, stendyingners of the weather tempted him to it up. There was a string attached inst., of Mrs. Carolina Arriaga, in herself against the impact of walk. It was not far but his dir to it, a string that led round the her 84th year. She was the last Burviving grand-daughter of the dancing couples. She was too dis-ection lay crosstown, bringing him! old man's neek,
Ouvidor, Miguel Arriaga, who was mayed to speak. What had she fi a legs Fashionable thoroughfarej
member of the Fortuguese done, what had her impetuous than the one he had left.
Brent gave a jerk but the string
vagrant opened nobility. The deceased lady was words meant to her guardian, toj About half way to his destina- held. And the cause him to end their dance the weather changed abruptly his eyes. They were dull and un- the mother of the Rov. Father
Augusto Arriaga, of Macao. abruptly and speak so sternly to as it will in New York and a spat- seeing. ber?
ter of raindrops warned of a show-1 But Brent realized suddenly that
Gunboat's Visit. While she searched her min for er to come. Brent slopped and he was doing a hazardous and ab-
The French gunboat vigilante an answer Brent led her back to looked about for cab. There was surd thing. Robbing an old beg- their table, " She sat Jimply in none in sight
par. It wasn't robbery really-berthed in the new Macao Port on her chair, waiting for Kim in While he stood waiting, knowing curiosity to see why the ereatur the 17th inst., and the officers took in the festivities given in explain his admonition.
that ne, would undoughtly be had in his possession an old-fashion-part He started to speak but the along presently, he was approached ed locket with a good-sized diamond honour of Sir Cecil Clementi, waiter arrived with the melon and by a vagrant with a plea for a in it. But undoubtedly it would Brent held his fongue. But the dime. Brent was about to toss over look "like robbery to anyone seeing instant they were alone the words a coin to the bleary-eyed wretch him take it. And he was likely to
China New Year is not expected came quick and precise,
when a third figure loomed upon be seen at any moment. That officer
to be as animated as during the Interference," he said, "is uue them, a majestic personage in blue. might be back.
Business has thing that I will not tolerate."
Brent smiled to think what ast few years,
been extremely bad during the last "Interference?" Helen whisper- "None of your pathan Bins lucky officer he would be if he twelve months. Even the namber ed the word with difficulty. now man." He ordered crisply. "Be could catch him, Brent, in a crime, of junks entering the old Port, for
"You must never question me."| off with yez."
It had never been done. Brent went on relentlessly.
The old fellow shuffled away But he wanted that locket. Not the festivities, Is expected to be "But Leno, I didn't."
hedient to the law The officer to keep it but to satisfy his curi- much smaller than it was "Please, Helen. You must liturned to Brent, "Loks like rain," odity by finding out what it can. Macho has suffered a long business" depression, and the ten to me. You have been groom-he commented good-naturedly. tained. He gave another and vie- eat. Miss Spunn's for a rule that Brentproded. The officer moved insly cruel jerk to the string. It outlook is not very bright, unless business improves.Our Own Cor- requires implicit faith in my on, turned the corner. Brent faced parted this time. And as it did so
respondent. decisions. It will be necessary about, to look in the opposite di-Brent became aware of the words all times for you to nerept, myrection for a cab., He saw, a few that were issuing from the blue lips. word and my "judgment, without buildings down the street, the ber They caught his interest Hel question. Your own wishes will
gar stagger, right himself, go on leaned closer; but he did not forget to thrust the locket out of sight in
* be secondary 10 mine." lle paused and regarded her intently, Helen sal quite still.
"If you think that will be possible that you cannot merge your own Upinions may choose your own path, you must decide now."
desires-we will not go on.
subs
and
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with brass buttons,
a step or two and then collapse into a convenient doorway.
his pocket. He heard the ward
Trade Depression. “
LETTER GOLF SOLUTION.
last
Here is the solution to the Brent hesitated. A nuisance to inherited" repeated over and bother with it. But the rain was over, and the name "Evangeline." puzzle on another page.
SNOW, SHOW, SHOD, SHED. eaming down envier. Might as What he understood of thẻ mut- well take a look at the old bum while he sought shelter.
He moved, burried a bit by the full of raindrops, down be where It was brutal Në one, not even the girl before him, knew no well the old man ly inert in his dirty as he what her answer would be. Tags. Brent would not touch him. With his cane he pushed away the For years he had taken evil that half obscured the prey satisfaction in his domination of her: evil berausë, ha knew it was Based on her tremendous cuparity. for loving, her inability to carb or Himit her affection.
white face,
terings, pieced together, implied SEED, SEND, BEND, BAND, that someone by that name, BANK, Evangeline, had been disinherited.]
"CHILD' DROWNED.
CISTERN.
The thought flashed through Brent's mind that people are not disinherited except where there is wealth-disowned perhaps, but not disinherited. And where there was PENANG POY FALLS INTO wonlth there was a huntinff ground.[ Another guest for the morgene, Be was no longer-loath to touch he thought: Well, somebody else the poor soul at his feet, though he enuld discover him and bother with] exercised fastidious care in his
He formed to g.....A faint sound next move. It seemed to her that he ques-
(To Be Continued) tioned her loyalty even to give her checked him. When he looked back
the whole he named. Why, shel
belonged to him. Her life was
his. She lived for no one o nothing dise
"I'm sorry," she said simply,
"Then please remember what I have told you. And now ent your melon like a good girl."
But Helen could not dis it. The very strength of her that sent ber devotion out to him in whole- hearted measure refused "humiliation of being treated like a child. It wounded her but she Torpay it, though the melon jès mained untourheil,"
Brent was too selfish to notice. He ate his own melon with refish. - Before they were served again he suggested another "dance, Helu declined and he did not maye. He could read her mind as though it were a book, Best to turn the whole incident of, Brhtly, make her forget it.
So he ret himself to entertain her, and when they arrived back. at the school. Helen was again in
a rapiuris state of mind.
It
would soon be the end of June ani she would go away with Leno- somewhere-to be with him every day. It would be aweet to have! nothing to do but live for him,: nothing else to think of but ways to delight him, to keep him with her always. And perhaps, some day, he would discover that she was a woman ami not a child any longer.'
Brent drove back to New York, satisfied that he could pull the strings to her heart as he wished. But the heart itself. There he was troubld. It seemed o casg for her to be a good kid. Had he overdone it, wiped out forever the chance to shape her destiny to suit his own ends?
His uneasiness was reflected in the reckless speed with which he drove through the night.'
"But damn it all, she's perfect," he said aloud, as though he had to juctify his course to his inner judgment. "Slie's. as convincing as a ewe lamb, absolutely, above! auspicion."
The last conclusion ended in his mind. It was not Leonard Brent's habit to give free voice to his thoughts.
a
But, pleased as he was with the! results of his plan to bring up a former partner's 'daughter in re- Ained surroundings, he carried doubt to bed with him that night. He couldn't shake off the feeling that it was not going to be easy to Forlent Helen into the ways of her
father.
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