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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
APRIL THURSDAY,
25,
1935.
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& Glasgow
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From U. K. via traita
From Pacifu via Japan & Khat Dar 7 May From UK, via Straits Specially reduced farok ore qpanted for evege steamers with
limited provectigre accommodation.
For freight, passage rates and Information apply tá
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Tel. 80333,
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(with limited, but exceptionally good, passenger accomodation). Komewards to:
Port Sald, Marsellies, Alglers, Oran, Rotterdam (Amsterdam). Hamburg. Oslo, Gothenburg and other Scandinavian Parts, vla
Manila and Straits Settlements
M.V. "SHANTUNG"
ratwards for:
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Passenger Raten:
SHANGHAI & JAPAN PORTS:
י
Hong Kong to Rotterdam
Brd May Brd June.
.26th April.
28th May.
Hong Kong to Mediterranean
£48 £55
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Hongkong.
SILVER JUBILEE ILLUMINATIONS
APPEAL TO
PUBLIC
On May 6 and 7, from 8 p.m. onwards, Statue Square, the waterfront from the Hong- kong Club to the Post Office, the waterfront at Kowloon from the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's premises to Holt's Godowns, and several public buildings, will be illuminated by the Silver Jubilee Committee.
The Silver Jubilee Committee hope that. every householder, shopholder, hotel, hong, etc. will illuminate their houses and premises on the evenings in question and that in any event everyone will display at least one lantern.
This appeal is issued by the Silver Jubilee Committee of Hongkong.?
JUST OPPOSITE the Dairy Farm's Soda Fountain.
The MING YUEN STUDIO has removed to the 3rd Floor of No Queen's Road, Central.
İSERIAL STORY
The
DARK BLOND
CHAPTER I (Continued)
CARLETON Kendrake
#
Millicent nte in slow, thoughtful silence.
The woman, dressed as Kypsy, whose duty 11 was to tell for lunes, came across the room toward her, eyes smiling, white teeth gleam. ing from between red lips.
"I feel." he said, "that you're going to have a very Interesting for tune. Have you finished your
Millicent smiled wanly
she said, "I'm not particularly inter- ested, and I haven't any money for a tip if you should give me n good fortune"
The woman sank into a chair be side her, pulled Milicent's tea cup across the table, Rail, "I do this bes cause I like it. I'm called to do it, you know. Many
people from misfimes 1 can save
She stared steadily down into the few tea leaves in the bottom of the ten sup
Abruptly she stiffened.
"Look," at the fortune teller.
"Look at the way those leaves are arranged. See how black they are. and notice this leaf which has twist
Its pilges."
"What do they mean?" Milcent inquired.
""Dark deeds of violence," the for- tune teller said, "There's
in the tea cup."
the
murder
"Murder!" Millicent exclaimeri.
sabl "Not
gypsy yours,"
*somvane nf hastity. The murder who's close to you. There's danger to you, but you're not going to be murdered. The danger comes from n.tooth. I can't see her elenily. She's tenncing you, and you she's the woman you'd least suspect,"
Miligent hastily pushed the ten cup nway.
"I've heard enough," she said irritably. I'm tired and nervous. and I don't want to hear any more of your predictions."
The gypsy scraped back her chair from the table.
"Pin sorry." she said. "Genuinely sorry. I've only told you because 1 thought you should be warned.”
Millicem dashed her a quick glaner, and saw that the gypsy's free wad white and strained.
...
.
"Please forgive me," she said. Millicent left a tip for the waitress, picked up her check, her gloves and purse, strade to the door. Strange Philis tingled up and down her spine The hairs at the back of her nee
ermed to crawl at the roots, trying
to bristle
Millicent Craven,
"You go drie Way?" he asked, no persilention on his forehead, of the manner in which the night wind ding toward the right,
"Yes," she said, hardly knowing Whipped his hair about his forehend, whether it was proper, for her to con, he screamed the single word, "Mar tinge the requintuneeship so inform, der Then he urineal nad ran down the sidewalk as fast as he could go. ally begun.
go
Millicent Graves, filled with one impending susklen premonition of disaster, in turn raced toward the lobby of the building. She found the elevator open and desertout, She had remembered enough of the TonTr in which it should be operated in work the lever which closed the door, and pushed the throttle over to the
"Well," he said, to her relief, "1 the wind at his back helping him in
the other way. You won't tell his burst of speed. the janitor about the, elevator, will | Soup) The fresh bite of the wind helped)
He raised his hat, ord, smiling, to steady her nerves. She was sorry red to sweep down on the wings that the walk was not longer. A of the cold night wind, she turned into the heated lobby of:
Millicent almost ran through the affire bullding,, she signed her name on the night register, and was swinging door into the tearoom.
wept up to the 17th floor. She eyes encountered the gypsy girl. walked down the Bagged corridor "My purse," she said breathlessly, with qulek, nervous steps, the sound "What became of the worn in the of her heels clacking in echoes from binek fur gout? The black ermlar the Bitles of the
entristor. She with the entlar around the neck?
The fortune teller stared at Mill paused before Dringold's offre and
Fernt strangely". opened her purse.
Consternation gripped her.
It was not her purse at all. Millicent turned the purse-over-in! her hand and stared at it curiously. It was an exact duplicate of her purse even to the initins, "M. G."! monogramed on the leather.
With the quick mental processes
Her
"She crossed to a tabl back of you," she said, "and only stayed for minute OF two. She wasn't Fred:"-
"Do you know who she was "No."
Millicent Graves stared down at the black lent her purse she held in her band.
of one who has worked for a living! "I" he said, "she conus in, tell and who, therefore, has grown areus her to get in touch with Miss Graves, tomed to responsibilities, Millicent at Mr. Dingold's office on the 17h Graves, standing before Dringeld's door of the Wolstnett Building?" door, tande Justy mental inventory! The fortune teller nodded. of the situation.
She had made up her face before, leaving Drimgold's alice. She knew, therefore, that she had taken her own purse when she left the ollee The substitution must have taken The wopin place at the restaurant,
"I'll tell her," she said. Millicent Bed out of the door, was blown by the wind down the side- wakk
left.
It took a moment of fumbling withi the controls to get the cage stopped the 17th Coar, Then, having opened the done, the ran down the corridor.
The door of Drimgold's private office was open.
Prinigold lay on the floor. A bullet hole in the centre of his frehend Welled a thick, red stream nergas the Sarpeted floor. A half-openeil puese was clutched in the fingers of his left were scuttered hand. The contents over the floor,
One swift look at the purse, and
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she recognized it. It was her own for
purse. The things which were strewn about the room were her own-lip stick, compnet, handkerchief, visiting
enede,
She felt panie lighten her throat. Moved by impulso, she ran to the She was within some 50 feet of the window, flung it open and looked trance to the Walgamott Building
The white-garbed assistant Janitor
in the black ermine cont, with the! When a figure, gurbed in white, came down the 17 floors,
rushing out of the lobby. She re-i high roltar, in taking the table imeonized the man as the assistant Was just funding the corner, nul
mus Janitor,
slightly behind him, ran a uniformed mediately behind Millicent,
policeman. have left her own purse near Milli- As he looked at his white, frigh-
(To Be Continued). tened face, conscious
cent's.
Millicent tucked the purse under her arm whirld and almost vạn là
ward the elevators.
She pressed her gloved against, the bell which summoned the elevator. It seemed ages before it swept into view. When it did the saw, to her surprise, that the man ut the controls was not the janitor at all, but well-dressed individual of Aave manners, who swung open the doors for her with something of a flourish, and, at the sume moient, raised his hat.
"You'll pardon me," he said, "buk I found the elevator on the 102 floor. I was in something of a lurry to go down. I rang several times for the janitor. He didn't show up, so I decided to take a hand at the controls myself. I figured the jahi tor could walk down 16 flights of stairs better than I could. Then I heard you ringing from the 17th foor and couldn't conscientiously abandon you to a long climb down the stairs: Would in my adventure, you care to share
•
Perturbed na she was, Millicent nevertheless recognized the man's inherent strength of character, was moved by his magnetic personality.
"Are you," she asked, "quite cor taln that you know how to operate it?"
Oh, quite," he told her. "After all it isn't too complicated."
As she entered the cage, the man moved a lever, the door clanged shut. 'He pressed
the control over on throttle and the elevator shot down- waril.
The trick," he said, smiling, "lies in knowing Just when to stop. And then, before fear could grip her, he pushed the control lover back into eutral and the cage slid. smoothly to a stop.. He moved the lever which opened the door.
"Permit me," he said, and, taking her arm, escorted her to the street.
of the cold:
SCSCOSSENSEOSESSE:
HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE V's SILVER JUBILEE.
Appeal On Behalf Of Charities.
On the 6th May next the British Empire is giving thanks and praise that for 25 years His Majesty King George V has boon preserved to bear the sceptre of sovereignty and maintain the unity of the Empire. His Majesty's great interest in all forms of charity is universally-recognised and it is known that' His Majesty desires this auspicious occasion to be in some It has, mannor dedicated to "assisting charitable objects.. therefore, boon decided to collect funds throughout this Colony- for charitable purposes, the subscriptions not to exceed $1 and humbly to pray His Majesty to nominate the charities in this Colony to which the moneys collected should be devoted.
The Charitable Collection Sub-Committee is providing boxes for the purpose of the collection and all those who wish to assist in this laudable object are asked to communicato with the Honourablo Dr. R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G., LL.D., of China Building. Hongkong, who is representing the Chinesc Sub-Committee formed for this purpose or to Mr. S. F. Balfour of the Colonial Secretariat, Hongkong, who will arrange for collecting boxes to be forwarded.
This appeal is issued by the Silver Jubilee Committed of Hongkong..
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