Heart Hungry
LAURA LOM
CHAPTER XLVIII,
Celin rattled the door knob.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 19, 1930.
UNEMPLOYED GIRLS
AS SERVANTS.
MISS BONDFIELD'S VIEWS.
Miss Margaret Bondflek, the Minister of Labour, in an Inter- view on unemployed women and domestic service, which was raid
what little there were of themed recently in the Blouse of Com
-were stored in the basement.
mons, said that a large number of No was an unusual favour, but she little prospect of regaining their young single women who had one answered and she knocked had granted it because Mrs. Rogold employment ought to be con- again. louder. "Mother!" sheers was an old tenant and bad al-sidered for domestic work as ni- cried, "Mother-let me in!"
ways pald hor rent promptly, ternative employment. There was no response from The girl did not seem to be lis within the flat, but a door across tening. Suddenly she raised her |
"The fundamental question is the hall opened a few inches and head excitedly.
the personal suitability of the A woman's head, grotesque with
"But the letters!" Cella rried. claimant for work of a domestic curl papers, appeared.
"What you
want?" she asked,I've been getting letters from her kind," she said. "If a woman is crossly.
and they were mailed in Balti-pparently suitable for domestie work she is Interviewed with a view to submission to a domestle Celia had never seen the woman more, too
"Yes? As Mrs. Sebultz atter service vacaney and it is only if before. "I want to see Mrs. Rog-
She must d the syllable it was both a ques- the interview confirms her suit- ers, she explained. be asleep. I can't take her hear, tion and elneulation.
ability that a post is offered to I'm her daughter.”
"Every Saturday." Celia hurried
her. mean she's here, door aon. They must
here," don't they? She couldn't send noboty them if she weren't.
whole about the letters I wrote herye
Tite custodian
The woman opened the
"She ttle wider.
ain't she minounced. "Ain't there. You'll wake the house with that racket!"
and
"Domestic service is an honour- Oh what able and skilled occupation," she added, "and want to protest most half turned, emphatically against any sugges- pointing in a littered desk nerostion of loss of status in taking up "But my mother Byes here!"
“Look," she commands such work. Undoubtedly many The stranger shook her head the room.
girls are still reluctant to enter! negatively
emphatically.ed.
The girl naked, There were all domestic service, and I attach "Ain't nobody living there," alt
"not since I moved in. sorts of papers and untidy odds great importance to removing cer insisted,
and ends 12 the desk. Mrs. tain rounds of complufat, such The place is vacant."
"You ment--193
Isn't Selitz rose and moved toward f1. [as long hours, inadequate wages She picked up a packet of letters and, unsuitable accommodation, here? You mean she's moved?"
but a revolution is taking place in All these respects,"
Bother
"I dunno nothing about it An bound by an elastic band and I know is that fat's varunt, and li brought them to Pella.
were addressed to "Mis, you keep on pounding on the door them nobody's going to get any sleepMargaret Rogers." Why don't you ask the wohing that keeps the place he's ilown o the first flour,
with-1
"My letters Cella exclaimed.
Sure.
1 krep everything until wants. Every- I hear what she thing."
|
In the fifting room a sewing ma-i jchine buzzed Indly, Four women were bending over heaps of cloth
Celia re| which were garments.
onized Tile Dennisma's broad (shoulders and went up to her,
"Hello. Tillie!"
The door shut with a bang a
There were 1 few envelopes the curl-papered head was
and pale Whirls locked as though they might drawn. In diamay
circulars. Five others Colin stared at the women barrier contains
were addressed in Cella's hand and then fed down the stairs,
of the writing. The girl studied them Mra, Schultz, custralian
"Mrs, Schultz,” she raid appeal- apartment, lived in the Brst floor
Celin rear at
rang her bell ingly, "where do you think she'rrowded around.
KON? sharply. Several moments pass- ed, and then she heard a voler.
"Who's then
The girl was trembling us she answered. "Mrs. Schultz This
•
An expressive shrug of a bulky shoulder was the answer. After mument the woman said, "Where
in Cella-Celia Mitchell. Can is that place she works? Maybe see you?"
"Why--if it isn't Celin! you doing here?
they tell you there."
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"I'll walk to the door with you.”: Tillie offered after they hind talk-i Margols Shopt or course! | ed a while, but as soon as they "Just a minute, please!" When the door opened the steatWhy didn't 1 think about 17" were outside the room she stopped on her feet, "Margot and drew something from her Mrs. Schultz, enveloped in a purelia was
in committing for trial to-day two Helsingfors. go there right apron pocket. kimono and looking will know. pie cotton
"Here, you might as well take policemen involved in recent vice Athens..
Buenos Aires sleepy, squinted her eyes at the way
scandals, declared:
Shanghai. Mrs. Schultz raised a hand in these, I guess.” girl and then stepped back, amaz-i
threatened by "I have been *tcaiitl.
New York. now!" rotest. "Not ed.
Amsterdam. What's barriy seven o'clock. You callection of letters. They were gangsters that I shall be killed if
I do not quish this case.
Stockholm.. addressed to the girl. Célia at-i Where you come can't go now!
"I have been threatened from Vienna. Celia had forgotten time. There tereth low cry.
"She left 'em!" Tillie Dennison to come from police headquarters Bucharent
several quarters. Calls purporting Madrid. The girl smiled nervously, "Uh, was a clock on the wall. She com-
watch.muttered. "Asked me to mail 'em have advised me that it would be Monteviden... I just came to see my mother. pared it with her wrist.
One each week. I've sent i was to you.
Brussels. Marfour. There's 12 left, isn't there?" for my own good if I released these Hongkong....
defendants. unti Her mother's letters! This ex-
Milan. "I am not easily scared,
how Copenhagen plained how the others had reach-
ever, and
and am going to see this Lisbon Ted her.
case through."
Prague. Suddenly grief and terror blind-
Lenders of women's organisa-Rio
from?"
I wanted to surprise her. Where Both of them recorded that
is she, Mrs. Schultz? 1 knocked a few minutes past seven,
t's Shop would not open
have to wall"
on the door upstairs. Tait a wart's right." she agreed.
told me she'd gone away."
The custodian nodded. She was large and the action set the great er part of her rotund flesh into motion. She spoke with a slight Germanis accent,
"Sure! She's gone. She don't
tell you?"
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police extorting money by prefer- he maybe you feel better."
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rang Cella objected, declaring she apartment. The door opened und Mrs. Schultz swept the door)
The policemen committed to-day the abolition of the police vice back. "Come in," she said, "Here, was not angry, but in the end she the custodian's hearty voice grust.were necused of using ex-convicts souud.
You're a tle tired, followest to the kitchen and pre-jed her. “Come in, Cella! There's to frame charges against two girls. Mr. Corrigan is widely extermed sit dow. Her voice was synpa-sently both of them sat down to afa man been looking for you!" Since the disclosures began Com- as a fearless and incorruptible chief BANK OF CHINA. cisco, and Spain and also of The ain't
(To He Continued).
missioner Mulrooney has ordered magistrate. thetic. She picked up a garment meal of buttered toast,
Mansages.
and motioned to the girl to take home-made preserves, sloughnuts
the chair on which it had hung.
You "Take it easy, Celia,
and coffee.
look
kinda white."
+
the custodi
frightened gaze.
with
When they had finished and the lshes were washed it was stil too early to set out for Margot's. | Celia continued to stand. She At Mrs. Schultz' solicitation the eyed
down in the bedroom. wile.girl ly
She did not want to sleep, but her
was deep in "But I don't understand! How eyes closed. She could she go away without tell-umber, breathing regularly, when the woman naked into the room at ing me? When did she go?"
Mrs. Schultz considered. "Three, nine o'clock, Mr. Schultz moved four weeks ago," she answered away quietly slowly. "Yea-bout four weeks.
"Enor girl!" she murmured.
Funny she don't tell you she's gotshaking her heal. ing, ain't it? neither."
She don't tell me
It was nearly noon when Celia awoke. At first she was bewil- Mist gathered before the girl's (dered. Then events of the night. eyes. All at once she felt desert-rushed back to her and the aroge ed and helpless. She sank into immediately. She must get the chair and covered her face, Margots!
to
with her hands.
She dashed bold water in her "Don't the older woman beg-face, hastily brushed her hair, and ged duftly
"Don't cry. You find with a word to the German woman she left the house. After what bez ull right!"
She continued to mamble com forting phrases until Celia looked up, rubbing away the fears,
Tell
I me about it," the girl snid tremulously.
har.
seemed an interminable delay a street car came in sight and she boarded it.
Cella's two hands gripped each! other tightly. Over and over shei Mrs. Schultz plumped into told herself there was nothing to chair that appeared too small for worry about. Margot would tell
"Well," she began, "I tell her where to, find her mother. you." With some delay and irre- levant interpolations she explain swiftly up Churles street. Mar- ed that Margaret Rogers had got's Shop looked as san. She come to her on a Saturday after-opened the door and entered. noon nearly a month earlier and
ho
She left the car and walked
A saleswoman she had never announced she was leaving the city. Her rent was paid for the ven approached the girl, Cella next two weeks, which was Jasked for the
the
proprietress, usual period of notlee. Mrs. "I'm so sorry. She's not here! Schultz said that when she asked Will someone else do?"
The girl explained her mission tenant's plans Mrs. Rogers answer was indefinite. She had and the saleswoman disappeared Baid something about "sending to return with Miss Devereau, 88-
sistant manager: She recognized | word later."
"But you haven't Heard?" Cella Celia, greeted her cordially, but admitted she had no knowledge of asked quickly..
Mrs. Schultz replied in the neg-Mrs. Rogers whereabouts,
know," "Not one word! Not ona word since she walked out of this Miss Devereau said.
ative.
house!"
.."Margot' would probably it a
shamo! Sho's in Canndo, and I Colla began to sob again and don't know when she'll be back. the woman looked at her anxious-ter slator's very ill. Oh, I'm so
ly She had intended to say that sorry!"
"Thon you don't know-?"
ill health might explain Margarat "Wait! Let's ask in the Atting Rogers' actions, but instinct warn ed against it. Instead she added room. Minybe someone there can that Margarot's household goods tell you!"
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