THE HUSBAND
HUNTER
BY
RUTH DEWEY GROVES
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1930.
CHAPTER XVI.
"She's in her room, sir," maid answered to Alan's quiry about. Natalie.
the
in
"Thank you," Alan said, and hurried away.
Natalie's failure to come down to breakfast was too unusual to be ig nored, he felt. A few moments ago he'd have been glad to go without seeing her, but now that she had given him the chance to do so, wanted an explanation.
He found her leaning over 11 open suitense on her bed, racking things to .it. And she was dressed for the street. She looked
re-
An echo of his own doubt turned to him now. It helped to overcome the shock he had experi enced upon coming face to face at last with the oft-averted crisis- the parting of their ways.
And there was--although he was hardly conscious of it- thought in the back of his mind that he could find symathy and under- standing with Phillipa. He did not feel so utterly hopeless and de- serted as he would have felt had this scene with Natalie taken place 24 hours earlier.
Natale was disappointed in the way he took it. She had not meant up at him, he hesitated in sur-to leave without seeing him. Had prise, and said. "Well?"
"What's up?" Alan asked bluntly, "Can't you see?" Natalie coolly returned.
"If I'm to believe what I see, it looks as if you're going somewhere," Alan replied.
he not come to her, she intended to send Frances with word that she; wanted to see him in her room,
She expected him, in spite of their quarrel, to seek to keep her from going. Not that her mind wasn't fully made up; she'd decided Natalie calmly continued her not to change her plans, no matter packing. "Apparently there's no what he said. reason for you to consult an ocu- A long-distance telephone call, list," she said..
put through to her mother the night before, had resulted in her sudden decision to pay her parents
Alan in turn grew sarcastic. "My eyesight may be good,” he retorted, "but I've no supernatural powers. Perhaps you would be willing to tell me where you are going?"
Natalie straightened up and looked at him with nothing but an uplifted brow changing the expres gion of her face.
"I'm afraid it may sound like comedy to say it," she told him."
Alan flung out a hand. "Oh, the whole thing is very funny," he de clared bitterly. Why not get a laugh out of it?"
Yes, why not?" Natalie agreed. "Well, I'm going home to mother," "That isn't a joke in this fam- ily," Alan answered. "You've done, that before."
!
visit. But she hadn't meant it to be a final separation from Alan.
Pique and outraged pride had the old threat caused her to use when Alan came to her and "acted like he thought I was bluthing," as shy put it to herself.
Had Natalie admitted to herself at that moment that she had been bluing, and hadn't let Alan's in- credulity drive her to see her bluff through she'd have realized that his attitude was only a manifesta- tion of his own pride.
Natalie was one of those wonen man's who think too little of a pride, and too much of their own. "I know," Natalie said quickly; A touch of humility, or tenderness, but those were .. just visits.""
on her part would have brought Her voice was hard and thin as Alan to her feet, ready to assume their she said this, and she looked at all the responsibility Alan with eyes that were as bril- quarrel. Nant and cold as ice, Alan heard t
But Natalie hadn't learned that and saw these things; but he did stress in anything, marriage in- not see that her knees were pressed cluded, rests largely upon a give hard against the side of the bed to jand-take basis. She'd been hurt, give her body the support she sud-through Alan, and whether he was guilty or not, she made him suffer. denly needed to keep standing.
He stared back at her unbeliev That one who is made to suffer ingly. She had cried wolf so many unfairly may suck solace for his times before, that he could not take pain is another lesson she had not
floarned. her in rarnest now.
Not that it would have "You aren't threatening to leave helped her much to know this.
in- She was blinded by her emotions. me, are you?" he asked, his credulity evident in his voice. They hid the fact that she and Alan "That." Natalie said, and stooped iwere at a crossroads in their life. over to go on with her packing, "is And when he stood up and quietly what makes it funny. And it isn't a threat. It's a fact."
"Natalie!" Alan's face was white
now.
told her that he hoped she knew what she was doing, she did not know how to handle the situation. He should have pleaded, begged her "Don't get excited about it," to remain, according to her idea of Natalie cautioned him. "You might what ought to happen if he loved
jher. have expected it, you know."
Suddenly Alan felt weak. "But Natalie," he said, and went over to sit on the foot of her bed. "I can't understand why you were going lie." away like this-without a word."
"I guess we're both fed up with things as they are," Alan said very soberly. "You're right to go, Nata-
He was trying to be sensible, and Natalie refused to look at him.was about to add that separation "Oh, I'd have left a note on your for a while would perhaps be good pillow," she said lightly. "And as fur both of them, but to Natalie it for going without a word-you've seemed that he was more than will been doing that quite regularly." ink for her to leave.
"After a quarrel, yes," Alan ad-
She felt a sickening despair take
It's the turnover that counts!
SIR CHARLES STARMER recently stated at the Publicity Club of Glasgow, that advertis- ing is the necessary fertiliser to make two blades of grass grow where one grew before.
Sir Charles might have taken the argument to a more logical clímax.
Advertising represents the ground in which the merchant sows the seeds which are to yield
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But the ground must be careful-
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That is why the enterprising advertiser avoids stale ground.
It must be fresh....... fertile!
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IN THE
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
AND
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Based on the First Quarter of 1930, the joint circulation of these two newspapers averaged 36,300 copies every six days!
THE CUSTOMS CONTROVERSY.
THREATS BY THE SHANSI FACTION.
Peking. June 6. At the weekly conference with members of the Press, Chu Ao- events in hsiang outlined the connexion with the Customs Tientsin, since April 30.
at
He emphasised that Yen Hsi- shan wished to retain the "new money" from the increased Cus toms merely to prevent the South obtaining
The it.
Tientsin authorities wrote to the Hongkong! and Shanghai Bank requesting them not to remit the money to Shanghal, but the bank were stili, remitting it. It had been sug- rested that a committee be formed,
mitted, "but you've thought this hold of her, but she fought it out consisting of Chinese and foreign ac-of her eyes and her voice when she bankere, who would have the cus- out in cold blood," he added
answered. "Yes," she said, "I am cusingly.
"In a cold house," Natalie cor-right. It's degrading to live rected. "Something went wrong we have!"
last night, and we didn't have any Alan looked at her haughtily heat for three hours."
held chin. His disposition to sug "Are you going home to your gest a remedy for the ills, of their mother because of that?" Alan re marriage vanished under her
more guilty hauteur. torted, feeling even
make him feel.
tedy of the funds, until the civil war was over, thus ensuring that neither side should obtain the money, but Mr. F. W. Maze wired 1.-Col. Hayley Bell refusing to agree to the proposal.
The Northerners considered than Natalie had hoped she could The slow flush of growing anger | Mr. Maze's attitude as unfair, so replaced the pallor of his counte- the Tientin authoritics had ad- His remark, which Natalie con-nance as Natalie went coolly on vocnted that when the Peking sidered sneering, fired anew the ill-with her task. Under the pile of Government has been established, feeling toward him which had been silken garments that she appeared dying down since he came into the to be rearranging in the case her
room.
hands shook pathetically.
Alan got to his feet. "Well, hav- anding degrading ourselves," he said frostily, "do we have to make mat-
"I'm going because I've had enough of being humiliated neglected," she cried hotly.
Mr. Maze be no longer employed,
Chu Ao-hsiang further stated that so soon as the Government- had been set up in Peking, Mr. Maze would be summoned lo Peking as the Inspector General
would be dismissed and а лен man appointed.
The Northern authbrities were
"You aren't the only one who's ters worse by being foclish? It of Customs, and if he refuted, he been humiliated," Alan shot back seems to me I've heard that this at her, as the memory of his own sort of thing," he waved his hand in the direction of Natalie's pack- wrongs swept over him.
Then if we make each other going "is dane with grace and charm considering three steps, firstly to unhappy, why should we continue in other words, my dear, it's best
the Customs House
move
to
and his staff should move to the new Customs House;
to live together?" Natalie de-done in the manner of smart Eng-Chinese territory, in order that fhanded. "I'm fed up on it!" lish comedy. Among the better pee Col. Bell
She didn't mean it so much as ple, I mean." Alan thought she did. He happened His tones, light as they were, to recall at that moment how many dripped with the acid of sarcasm. Secondly, if Col. Bell refuses, to time she had said she would leave Natalie looked at him in silence. dismiss him and appoint a new him. Maybe she was fed up. Every word he uttered convinced Commissioner; thirdly, to estab- He found it, all at once, less diffi-her more certainly that she hadish Customs at Tongku, where cult to believe. Hadn't he, himself, lost his love. Still her pride urged thought at times when he was her to answer them in kind. cool, too that they might be wast- "Well," she cried, "what are we ing their time in trying to make a to do to be gay and charming?" go of their mariage?
AMERICA'S TARIFF
MEASURE.
FOREIGN PROTESTS PROVOKE
A RETORT..
(To Be Continued)
captains of ships could make a declaration of the value of goods. on their ships, and duty be col- Iccted accordingly.
This would prevent the foreign Customs officials at Shanghai and others from helping the South by not giving papers before sailing from Shanghai.
and Mears Committee in the House of Representatives to de-
Yen Hsi-shan- always desired clare that foreign nations resort peaceful and legal methods, and ing to reprisala will find them unwas most anxious not to destroy profitable.
the unity of the Customs. He had waited several weeks, during
A message from New York saya which money was still being re- Washington, June 6. the committee of the Importers mitted to Mr. T. V. Soong, "If Warnings by commercial bodies and Exportera Association has of various countries that the ea- telegraphed begging Mr. Hoover, the unity of the Customs be des actment of the present Tariff Bill to veto the Bill, as an "uncontroyed, the responsibility will will lead to retaliation, has pro-sidered measure."-Reuters Ameri- rest with Mr. Maze and Col. Bell"
Reuter.
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