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From B. K vin Straits From Now York via Manila From U. K. vin Hiraita
from U. K. vin Siraits
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.. Fri., 27th Dec.
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.Sun., 3th Dec,
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..Sat., 7 Dec.
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MARITIMES
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Sailings from Hongkong.
MARSEILLES via Salgon] Singapore, Colombo, Djibouti (Adon), Suox, Port-Said.
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To SHANGHAI-KOBE
Pres. Doumer 13th Dec. .Andre Labon ...28th Dec.
Marechal Joffre 11th Jan.. Sphinx
25th Jan. Chenonceaux .8th Feb. .22nd Feb. Athos II
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at
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1935.'
SERIAL STORY-
the
DONNA BIG TOP-
CHAPTER XLV
Donna studied the contents of the clothes closet. What an accumulation of clothing she had bungalow aprons, Kingham dresses, her wedding finery. There was no need to take all that to Now York. Her lips twisted as she wilken folds of the
garments whe
hla dark hair or kiss his check or hear him whisper "What's the matter, money? Can't you sleep?"
by BEULAH
POYNTER
scurching as though they could see, had stood on that platform to we Homu her. Now Granulather dei and Bill worst than, dendi
Was
mouthed the not into had spent | the truth, but it wouldn't have been segan to run, scumbling binary, hit.
No much time making.
ller trunk, containing her circus wardrobe, was in the attic. It was so heavy she doubted If she could move it alone, yet to ask Minnle to help would mean starting a train of ques- tions Donna was in no mood to
answer.
She would take the car, she decid- ed, and find someone to drive it back from Lebanon. If the faced Bill again she would be sure to break down and plead for forgiveness and she wanted to keep what little self-respect
a train sho bad. There was
for Chicago at 0 o'clock. If she hurried she could entch it!
Once out of this house she would
K
nover "Oh, B BR! If
the tought the impune to ran in seen you if I just didn't love you
didn't you love me the opposite direction, to seize the so much! an. I love you? Why wasn't I hon- car and drive back to the Larm. Then est with you? I'd have lost you be a shrill whistle spill the air and the fore we were married if I'd told you sound maue Donan'a net.sion. Sho heart I'm the heavy traveling bag against so hard then. It's my
As the train drew to leaving behind, and I can't stand it. ner legs.
Landsli she reached the platform. can't stand it!"
There was no time to buy a ticket. porter stopped down, ufted her "uman?" he asked. "Yes. To Ch.cago."
#
Pho Be Continued).
Suddenly. through her nobs, she heard Bill's voice in the hallway begge and neiped her on the train. low. With a shudder she recognized the name he spoke. It was that of sat tense, the undertaker. Donna breathless, praying that when the others departed Bill would seek her. But
a slam and the
door.
clored with no steps mounted the stairs.
She dragged herself to her feet, bathed her swollen eyes and face and combed her disordered hair. She put on her hat and the heavy caut and the travelling mittens. Then, Carrying
to
The bobsled stood in front of the house where Bill had left . Donna decided it
was safer to take the car and alse quicker. If there was accident and she was killed her problem would be solved.
an
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All of the other members of the household were down stairs-Minnie obbing as though she had lost her nearest and dearest; Bill, hard and The sun had melted the drifts con- bilter and cold, feeling the loss of his siderably and she manipulated the car randuncle scarcely at all in the face, more easily than she had anticipated. his disillusion. No one heard the Not until she passed the Adanik house sound of Donna dragging the big trunk did she remeinter that she had not
she intended down the staire from the attic or written the note beard her monn of pain as the edge leave.
crushed down on her instep.
Well, she wouldn't go back. After The pain sickened her so that she all, why trouble a man who despised was afraid she was going to faint, her? She would wait for the morning Obviously
sho could not move the train and send a bey from the hotel trunk further, certainly not down an- for her trunk. Then she could take other fight of stairs. She had been it with her wherever she went. foolish to think that she could. Iter
Wagons and machines had passed had Just arms were not like steel now.
ver the road since she She over did not have the,
and it n dark ribbon was cut strength she once travelled
now. She made fairly had, when the weight of her own body through the dizzovered, when she
good time. Sho renched the publie square, that she
nf
of
and Madeline's seemed nothing.
to
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STERLING SAVING ACCOUNTS:—Interest
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She decided to take only necessi-hud plenty of time to catch the 6 THE ties in her travelling bag and o'clock train. She drove the car into leave n note asking to have the the garage adjoining the Central Hotel trunk abipped Inter. It could be and asked Ben Goddard, the owner, to delivered to one of the hotels fn see that it was returned to the Sidal Lebanon and she could send in farm. structions Inter where to have forwarded. It might be some time would need it. She before she would have to do a lot of limbering up to make good in an act again. And bookings might not be easy to secure alone.
Alone oh, God, how could she gon alone?
"Going away 7" Goddard asked. Authorised Capital "Yes. To Chicago. My-Mr. Sid-Bubcribed Capital dal couldn't drive me in. So I want Paid-up Capital
Reserve Fund and test you to take it back."
"How's
any Grandpa? Feeling better?"
20
She ld not slop to think. "He's When she stepped out dead," she said dully.
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of this house she would be leaving "Dead! Ain't that something sud-ombay more than a husband behind. She den? would be leaving her soul, her heart"
all that had made life livable. She tried to harden herself against Bili It had been unjust for him to
Hangkok
I hadn't heard anything about Calcula Colombo she Dail realized that Too late she
"He Galle should have withheld the news. died to-day," she explained.
1pok Keantan Kandy
Karachi
Hongkong
Lake Con's explanation as final, giving My land! That's too bad. It must downh her no chance to justify herself. All be something awful important that's the months of her devotion had taking you to Chicago
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of a stranger. Perhans in time she "It is. Will you send the car back could learn to hate him. Now only right away, Mr. Goddard?"
the ngony of
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know, that she
not with the ༢༩༣༣
"Spose you're going to catch the mourners when they lowered him 6 o'clock" into his final resting place? Would Feeling trapped, she said she was he know she had crept out of The if she could
get accommodations. To house like the thief she was? She make good her word she walked to- had made the old man's last days ward the railroad station, carrying CONSIGNEES' NOTICES,
unless she happy and nothing could destroy her luggage. Obviously,
the the fact. But for her he would have wanted a worse scandal than known that the grondeild he still one sure to break, she could not stay looked upon as a little girl had failed overnight at the Central Hotel.
Some day." Denna sobbed loud, tollowfish and had been to have
HOLLAND-008T AZIE LIJN. N.V. (HOLLAND-EAST ASIA LINE)
"some day. Bill Siddn), you'll un-Freeman and the undertaker would From: ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM, derstend and be sorry you've treated tell the nows, but they were both at AMSTERDAM, HAMBURG, GENOA, me this way.. Same day you'll come the farm.
AND OTHER PORTS, There was a hotel at the depot but to me for forgiveness and I won't
givalt. I can be hard and bitter, too! It catered to the sort of transients The Steamship,
woman would avold. I'm going to forget you. I'm going respectable
"MEERKERK”
to be the greatest aerial performer In There was nothing for her to do but the world! When my nome is catch the train or stay over night at having arrived from the above parts,
Consignees of cargo by her are noti plastered on billboards in three sheets the Commercial House”
Within sight of the little red fied that all goods are being landeri and twenty-four sheels and I'm ac- elaimed in Europe, as well as here brick building, the enormity of what at their risk into the hazardou you'll wish you
hada't driven me had happened rushed upon her with and/or extra-hazardous godowns of greater force. Was she really going the Holt's Wharf whence and/or from Then, because fame meant so little away, never to return? Going away the wharves delivery may be obtained. Goods not cleared by the 0th De- to her, because a career was the lost from all that life held dear? Had it thing she wanted, she dropped on the been only a few months since the pember, 1935, 4 p.m. will be subject floor beakdo the bed and, hugging day they carried her from the train, to rent.. Bill's pillow in her arma, moaned her carried her into a paradise that could All broken, chafed and damaged love for him. Never again would her not last? Bill's strong brown arns packages are to be left in the godowns, hands reach out in the night to touch had held her on the stretcher. Grand-
examined where they will be his. Never again would she smooth father, smiling, his sightless ayer Holt's Wharf by Holt's Wharf.
Consignees are requested to apply for a Revenue Officer in attendance when damaged dutiable cargo is being
S.S. "BENCLEUCH"
Sailing for LONDON, ROTTERDAM, ANTWERP, HAMBURG, HULL and LEITH (Direct)
on or about the 9th DECEMBER
Cargo will also be accepted on through Bill of Lading to the usual transhipment ports.
For Freight and Passage, apply to:--
W. R. LOXLEY & CO. (China), LTD. Tel. 22533,
York Bullding. Agents
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, ltd
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Claim
at
against the steamer must be presented in writing within ten days after arrival of steamer, otherwiso they will not be recognized.
by
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ever.
the undersigned in any case what-
Billy of Lading will be counter-
by
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN N.V.
Agenta. Hongkong, 2nd December, 115.
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When muscles are sore, tirad, aching, rub on this soothing antiseptic lini-- ment. Reliever the pain. ̈; Does not stain or irritato.
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Next Sailing 18th DECEMBER for Saigon, Manila, Sandakan, Salamisua; Rabaul Sydney & Molbourne,
Passengers must be on board by 11 p.m. of the 17th December.
First Class Fara to Sydney:
Single: £47.10.04.
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