GERMAN REPUBLIC'S BIRTHDAY.
Fared by financial perils and ridden by dissendon-but Germans of all factions Joined on Constitution Day to cole- brate the birthday anniversary of the republican government. Picture shows the impressive scene * President Von Hindan- burg. (at left, in top bat) and other officials appeared
memorial services outside the Reichstag.
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Heart of Liane
by MADEL MCELLIOTT
THE HONGKONG TÉLEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1911.“
SPAIN IS BULLISH ON CHAPLIN PREFERRED.
They wanted to be sure that Charlie Chaplin had a “hully" time in Spain. So when the fam- ous comedian visited a bull Gght at San Sebastian, he was prosented with a bull'slain in the ring as a token of regard, Chaplin (nt right, in box) is holding out his hands as if to take the pre- sent, probably the strangest he ever received.
A sketch of Mr. Hisashi Fuji
mura, who disappeared mysteri. ously from the Belgenland. It
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It matters to me." Liane reflected.
1den Narrett, 18 and hemolita), tris in! "He's no more to me now than If
vain forget Van Roland, wealthy polo|he'd never existed." She shut her player, when he engagement is nanoinord
to Muriel Ladd, popular debuiente, Llane's | UVPS.
mother. Barrett, in an weltran and (2) ""Tired?" Clive's tone was solleft-
Is during Cass' engkgement In efuck wi Chlonable en mer colthy that the Darrell me it. Cirouaugh, wealthy widow. When Cas guen un tour Th the fall Lan becomin Mr. Clerustgh's sociṇi secretary, Clive Claugh, the widow only at, ka Liane to marry him. Cilva can not alert his father's fortune. Uzlene Intrine before his 25. Slane accepts agreeing the mairingO of form only.
Amberton, enna to vikly the Clersprachu and
"No, I'm loving all this. It's the first time I've ever travelleit so clegantly."
"Poor kid, you've had a hard time. No more of that."
They rode for a while in silence. Clive interrupted abruptly. "You'll want to buy loads of thin things in The shops will be
Hebard, we moods are clungeahte, wake her to freak the engagement, tilt klane re- fure. Tresa Lord and her sister Pan Beach. Trooks, who wants to marry Clive, begin with a gene of blackmaliers but a frimy police Heresant, Shane felicigid, inter-
to make trouble for Lisne. Sho connfrem
fun for you. That's why I didn't; bother to arrange about it before hand." Hr pul a cheque book into
feram, At fashionable hunt ball in her hands. "This is yours."
kidnapped to be held for rAMAUM, S recurd by McDermid and Clive.
The wedding is to the take store Chris
day. Just before Jane gewen ta tha church Trena belugu her a nata from Roband begeing i her ta elope with him
Lian refurre and
The deposit he named took her · breath away.
His voice soundest
«Конченко. annoyed. I'm coming into my in-
the wellux takes once. The exple depart heritance, thanks to you. Mother
for boneymoon day the wooth.
CHAPTER XXXV
int fine drawing roun
partment Clive pat । pile
magazines and Hetenpapera
in
Liane's lap. “P'yon mind
1
can't run me anymore. I'd like to go out to Surabaya in the spring to look over that rubber plánlation I'd poken of. You'll want to be funds, then. When we come bark we'll have to hunt around and find a house. Mother wants
leave you for a moment? I'm going as to stay with her for a while out on the observation platform to but I'd rather not if you don't smoke
mind. I want us to have our own?
Sho
!
sat turning the pages idly but directly. Pm hetter friends headline in
one of the papers with Mother," he grinned wryly, caught her eye. "Heiress Wets, we don't live under the same Newspaperntan as Mother Weeps."
nof. You may have noticed that."
Liane read: "Miss Muriel Lidd,
debutante daughter of Mr. and Mrs,
for
that
"Why?"
rather
is the work of an artist who
who was aboard the liner.
Gensshoppers who have devastuind larga areas of America kre now laying thyle eggs and towa has started aerial warfare against the posts in prevent their propagating a worka visita- tion for next year. The plane shown abore is one of a fleet put into action by the state to spread poison bran over corn
'finida where grasshoppers, but not live stock, will sat it.
►
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Mrs. Mildred Harris Chaplin, former wife of Charles Chaplin, who was atio hoard the Bel gotland and was cross UXAMİN- ed regarding her knowledge of dianp. Fujimura's mysterious
pearance.
fevered and her head cold.
Well, it was lucky that Clive had watched her away from the eily where he lived and had his being. Maybe if she didn't see him any more he would forget about him. Oh, she would try. She would le her best?
Muriel's letter trailed them south ол
"Dar- the fifth day. Bing." she wrote, "weren't you thrilled to death and didn't I fell you I wouldn't let you beat me to it Chuck says to give you his best but don't take that too seriously. You have a perfectly good husband of your own and I'm not allowing any vamping, mind you, I was a grade-A vamp in my own right and I know the signs. If Chuck ever gets away from me it will be over my dead body.
"Have you heard about Van? He has been appointed to me diplo- matic post in the Bulkans. Can't imagine why but to ylll love swanking around among the tall buta, won't he? Some of those
re-
John Fenton Ladd of Newport and Linn smiled in sympathy. Willow Stream. Long island, was married by special licence to Mr. She's sweet but she is Charles Desmond, feature writerer-powering. I'm a pig to say for the Evening Sphere, Green-ch a thing after all she's done wlch yesterday. Friends of the "No, you're not couple sald the romance was one of
Do you know long standing. Mrs. Ladd was said she never had a companion who yesterday instead of to this boy hate each other. We've got to be princesses may nag him while wo aren't looking. He was a lamb and to be in a
state of collapse and stayed more than two weeks he-She shut her eyes to banish the sensible about it.""
fore you came? She's steam recollection of his stormy glance. "You're quite right. Thanks sent me a silver urn, an old one, could not see reporters. "I have
for reminding me." She had for a present. I think he 2008 cried my eyes out ever since I heard roller. Mother is. Grund if you his eyes devouring hera.
No, she would not think of him Į sense «nough for two, he decided, about the middle of next month. the news." }¢s reported to have like 'em, but lots of people don't"
They laughed together. Sud- now! All that was behind her. What a self-possessed little thing "Mother is still being I believe said to friends directly following .said
Sho glanced up to find Clive's she was,
they call it adamant. Keeps look- receipt of news of the ceremony.denly Linne voiced a thought that Miss Lad's engagement to Mr. Van had occurred to her in the luat his gaze instantly but she had the he came in. She snuggled down family tree. We get a shrick out blue eyes upon her. He withdrew She pretended to be asleep when ing through her lorgnon at Chuck's Roburd, Ak, was broken a few minutes.
it is
"Would you like it if I came sensation of having looked into a between the coarse Pullman of that. We have a tiny apartment week ago.
A pleture of Muriel in
Through her lashes she over near Turtle Bay and I have a riding along? To Surabaya or wherever room where the curtains had not beets.
in?" place
yet been drawn. His eyes had been could see him, stepping softly so wow of a part-time mald who clothes with a crop over her knee headed this column.
Ile flushed, looking pleased. "Of Baying what was it? There as not to waken her. Ah, she did washes the dishes when she
but she like his looks. She wondered why members to and aweeps the duat When Clive returned Liane was course. But I thought you'd hate was a messages there could not translate it.
she had never appreciated them under the beds. It is fun and I still staring at the picture. She the
before.
tike It. Come to see us when you had not really believed what Van
Troubled, she sought escape in Oh, I don't know. We didn't had said in the note Tressa had
The light in Clive's corner burn- get back or I'll never speak to you him of ed long that night as he turned again. My love to Clive." handed to her yesterday. Was it agree to the whither thou-guest-1- words. She babbled to
other journeys she had made, trips the pages of a book. His smile Liano put the fatter down and only yesterday she had stood in the will-go idea, you remember."
She inced her fingers nervously, with her mother's company in one was a little grim. He was remom-locked out ncoss the cobalt water. chancel of St. Simon's and repeated
She made him bering the conductor's significant The shrieks of some children In the words which bound her ir "Just the same; I think 1 ought to night stands.
that nudge and smile. "Nowlyweds," | charge of a Underneath she laugh with anecdotes of
starched English to Clive? It seemed so with you." the years-ngo.N
They the man had whispered to his as nursemaid on the beach broke into No, she had not thought, troubled, that she would crazy-quilt life of hers.
gale of mèrriment when sistant.
her reverie. A girl In a blue really believed Murini hail cloped be a good wife to this man if only were in
For a long time Liane lay wide bathing suit, brief and casual as with Chuck Despond. But it was in form. She would follow him the porter, knocking on the door.
announced true. Muriel had
awake sturing Into the dimness. a boy's, rode an aquaplane with ut last taken faithfully.
uneed dinner. what ake most wanted.
"D'you mind?" Clive asked She kept seeing pictures, pictures the grace of a humming bird, "We'll talk about that, lator."
She re-read the words, "He has Clive looked over her shoulder. Clive picked up a book and she when the man had taken the order she could not quite dismiss. Her
at the landscape, and departed. "I'll have to hunk se meeting Van Robard the frat been appointed to some "She's taken the step at inst," he sat staring
diploma- remarked.
They were travelling through farm on the couch here to-night. There time. That night at Mrs. Clegs tic post in the Balkans." Then Liano tried desperately, to be country now with little lights wasn't a lower berth to be had on paugh's when he had reminded her what she had been praying for
the matter of fact.
pricking through the darkness,
other. Why was her mother so never see him again. She would "Why should I mind?"" Sho
to him always? opposed
What
on put him out of her life as if he
had never existed. Her looked at him, composed as a child, earth did she know about him?
"Indeed, I should be nervous If She had never thought of love na. hands lay file in her lap. Surely, you didn't stay. I've never trasa malady, something to be cured. gave a sickening plunge. She But at the thought her heart This may be the making of that she thought, it was a strange
They
velled alone." St she sticks to him," Clive bridal trip.
Now who knew It was like that. ald want to see him just onco talked of
He made an eloquent little ges- Some kinds of love at least. There more, to hear his voice, to touch said. "That follow has brains, money, of business affairs, but
was no health in this feeling the his hand. Was that too much to Ho make her step round. Juat never of each other. Her mind ture.
""Look hore, "Clive," "aho" cried had for Van Robard. “Her throat ask?:: She would treasure those what she needs."
trembled away from reflection of Coolly ho ignored the glaring fact what this day might have been like rather sharply. "We can't make felt dry, her galety withered when memories. She would keep them
(Continued on Page 11.) that Van now was free, Not that if she had given har pledge to Vana melodrama of all this or we'll he was near. Her hands grew
"Hover thought she would," fences blurred in the quickly fall, although I tried. It'll bothey had so much to any to each was to come to pass. She would
she told him. "Although last sum-Ing snow. Linng looked troubled,
defencelona. and mer she gave every ovidence of be young ing mad about him."
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