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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.
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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.
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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. 6. Queen's Road Central.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, APRIL
SERIAL STORY-
1935.
The DARK BLOND
CHAPTER 1 (Cont{ured)
CARLETON KENDRAKE
Millicent ate in slow, thoughtful, allence. The woman, dressed an n Kypsy, whose duty it was to tell for tunes, came across the room toward her, eyes smiling, while teeth gleam. Ing from between red lips,.
"I feel," she said, that you're going to have a very interesting for- tune. Have you finished your tea?" Millicent amel wanly. "Reaily." she said, "I'm not particularly Inter. erted, and I haven't any money for in tip if you should give to a good fortune,"
The woman sank into a chair be Elde her, pulled Millicent's ten cup across the table, said, "I do this b cause I like it. I'm called in do it,
you know. Many
people from mlaforta
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can save
She stared steadily down into the
fow tea leaves in the bottom of the
tea cup.
Abruptly she stiffened.
"Look,' raid the fortune teller, "Look at the way those loaves are arranged. See how black they are, and notice this leat which has twist- ed its edges.”
"What do they mean?" Millicent inquired.
"Dark deeds of violence," the for- tune teller said. "There's murder in the tea cup."
"Murder "Milleent exclaimed.
the "Not yours,
gypsy said of someone. The murder hastily. who's close to you. There'a danger to you, but you're not going to be murdered. The danger comes from a woman. can't see her clearly. She's menacing you, and yet she's the womon you'd least sttspect."
Miligent hastily pushed the en Cup: Away.
Anle
**3*ve heard enough," she irritably. "I'm tired and nervous. and I don't want to bear any more of your predicilona."
The pay scraped back her chair from the table.
"I'm sorry," she said. "Genuinely sorry. I've only told you because I thought you should be warned;"
Alicent flashed her a quick glance, and saw that the gypsy's face was while and strained.
Millicent Graves.
"You go this way?" he asked, nod- perspiration on his forchend, of the night wind manner in which the "Please forgive me." she said. ling toward the right. Millicent ft a tip for the waitress,
"Yes," she said, hardly knowing whipped his hair about his forehead, picked up her check, her gloves and whether it was proper for her to con- he screamed the single word, "Mur- purse, ktrode to the door. Strange tinue the acquaintanceship so inform der!" Then he turned and ran down the sidewalk as fast as he could go, chilla tingled up and down her spineally began.
the wind at his back helping him in
The hairs at the back of her neck "Well," he said, to her relief, seemed to crawl at the roots, trying go the other way. You won't tell his burst of speed.
the janitor about the elevator, You?
to bristle,
in which it should, be operated to work the lever which closed the door, and pushed the throttle over to the left.
Millicent Graves, filled with some The fresh bite of the wind helped
He raised his hat, and, smiling, sudden premonition of impending to steady her nerves. She was sorry turned to are down on the wings disaster, in turn racet toward the that the walk was not lenger. As of the cold night wind.
lobby of the bullding. She found the she turned into the lightest folly of
Millicent almost ran through the elevator open and deserted. She had the manner the office building, she signed her
Her remembered enough of namme on the night register, and was swinging door into the terraum. awept up to the 17th floor. She eyes-encountered the gypsy giri. walked down the Angged corridor. "My purse," she said breathlessly with quick, nervous steps, the sound "What became of the woman in the of her heels clacking in echoes frum black fur cont? The black ermine the sides of the
corridor. She with the collar around the neck?" paused before Drimgold's office and
The fortune teller stared at MI- cent strangely. opened her purse,
"She crossed to a table back of you," she said, "and only stayed for
mimite
wasn't Lwn. She |"Forved."
"Do you know who she was?" "No." Millicent Graves stared down at the black leather purse she held in her hand.
Consternation gripped her.
It was not her purse at all. Millicent turned the purse-over - ini. her hand and stared at it curiously. It was an exact duplicate of her purse-even to the initials, "M. G." monogramed on the Jeather.
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With the quick mental processes of one who has worked for a living.
"f," she said, "who comes in, tell and who, therefore, has grown accus her to get in touch with Miss Graves, tomed to responsibilities, Millicent at Mr. Dringold's office on the 17th Graves, standing before Drlingold's floor of the Wolgamott Balding?" door, made hasty mental inventory!
of the situation.
It took a moment of furbling with the controls to get the cage stopped at the 17th floor. Then, having opened the door, she ran down the corridor.
The door of Dringold's private office was open.
Drinigold lay on the floor. A bullet. hole in the centre of its forehead welled a thick, red stream across the carpeted floor. A half-dipened purse was clutched in the fingers of his left hand. The contents were scattered: over the floor,
One swift look at the purse, and
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18 DAYS
THE SUNSHINE ROUTE. Via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama, Homalala, San Francisco, Panama Canal, Havana, New York. -Fortnightly-sallings-
Pres. Cleveland Pres. Hoover Fres. Taft
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M'ght May
Noon May 18 M'ght June 4 Noon June 16 M'ght July
EUROPE, NEW YORK
Inquire for round-trip ticket to Europe in connection with Lloyd Triestino.
Via Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Bombay, Suez Canal,
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Pres. Harrison ·
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8 am. Apr. 27
8 a.m. May 11
Ba.m. May 25 8 a.m. June 8 8 a.m. June 22
TO SEATTLE, VICTORIA 17 DAYS
THE EXPRESS ROUTE VI Shanghai, Kobe, Yokoham ̈ und Victoris.
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she recognized it. It was her own for Saigon, Manila, Sandakan, Rabaul, Salamaua,
purse. The things which were strewn about the room were her own-lip- stick, compact, handkerchief, visitingi dards.
to the
The fortune teller nodded, "I'll tall her," she said. She had made up her face before, Millicent fled out of the door, was leaving Dringold's office. She knew blown by the wind down the side.
She felt panic tighten her throat. therefore, that she had taken her walk. own purse when she left the office
She was within sonte 50 feet of the Moved by impulse, she roa
window, flung open and looked The substitution must have taken
have an entrance to the Wolgamott Building down the 17 floors. place at the restaurant.
The white-garbed assistant janitor the black ermine coat, with the when a figure, garbed in white, camel high collar, in taking the table imrushing out of the lobby. She re
cognized the man as the assistant was just rounding the corner, and, mediately behind Micent,
alightly behind hien, ran a uniformed must jonltor. have left her own purre near Mil-
As she looked at his white, frigh- Paliecinan. tened face, conscious the cold
(To Be Continued), cent's.
Milleent tucked the purse under her arm, whirled and almost ran to ward the elevators,
She pressed her gloveit in 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 at the controls was not the Janitor at all, but a well-dressed individual of suave mauners, who swung open the doors for her with something of a flourish, and, at the same 'moment, raised his hat..
"You'll pardon me," he said, “but on the 16th I found the elevator floor. I was in something af
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hurry
to go down, I rang several times for the Janitor. He didn't show up, I decided to take a hand at the controls myself, I figured the jani- tor could walk down 16 nights of alatra better than I could. Then I heard you ringing from the 17th floor and couldn't conscientiously abandon you to a long climb down the stairs. Would you care to share in my adventure?"!”
Porturbed as she was. Millicent novertheless recognized the man's Inherent strength of character, was moved by his magnetic personality. "Are you," she asked, "quito"cer- tain that you know how to operato 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. Ho pressed over on the control throttle and the elevator shot down. word.
"The trick," he said, smiling, "lies knowing Just when to stop. And then, before fear could grip her, hel pushed, the control laver back into Heutral and the cage sild smoothly to anion. He moved the laver which opened the door.
"Permit me," he said and, taking her arm, escorted her to the streať.)?
SSSSSSENENESSSS.
HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE V's
SILVER JUBILEE.
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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 been 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, manner dedicated to assisting charitable objects. therefore, been 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 communicate with the Honourable Dr. R. H. Kotowall, C.M.G., LL.D., of China Building, Hongkong, who is representing the Chinesa Sub-Committco formed for this purpose or to Mr. 5. F. Balfour of the Colonial Secretariat, Hongkong, who will arrange for collecting boxes to be forwarded.
This appoal is issued by the Silver Jubilee Committee of Hongkong.
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