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Chapter One
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER
STORIES
12, 1937.
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Wang oyed thin speaker quizzical, been increasingly kind. Wang the; poor farmer had grown to be Wang ly. What was to talking about? the rich farmer. Olan the slave Manchu Tyranny Victorious Re- had buried her years of servitude publicans? Ho edged eloner. beneath tho quiet will with whles: "The republican army is on its she worked by his side, with which way to take this cily!". aho bore his two nors, with which Wann glanced at ilo tense faces about him. Did the olhors under she cared for Little Girl.
stand the things this man spoke Ilo tried to oak one near him and wan hushed. In,shrugged his about dera and started to break away,
speaker's next Words rooted him to the spot.
THE FINDING OF THE PEARLS The wind bit they the twine- woven mat wall an Wang, wet and cold, crawled Inside the hovel fo Elut the famine had reduced them throw himself onto a pile of straw all to dust, and Iny there motioniras. Ho The drought had killed the grow Ronsod rather than say -lan's beating things in him deld; shriveled the figuro at the make-ahift stove. Old rice and dried up the pools; caked father, aquntling nearby, mumbled the land in a hard crust that was to himself. The children hugged to barren oven of roots they might
"In spite of rains round fatigue and hunger elched |ent. in every line of face and body,
in the North, the Ite Want alverod in hin Wann's eyes closed in despair, Haro in the city rain fell to make publican army ha "Do we have to steal or beg to men cold and weary, to turn the been marching thirty ivo?" to crind. But the words streets to mud. In the North, where miles a day," cholted him. For he had seen O-lan farm earth choked for water, none
Wang's face glow- teach the children to begin this fell, and daily the mun baked the ed with sudden Ught
earth to clay.
very hut.
" I begged," she had wilypored, "when I was a child in times illo theno."
He had eaten Elder Son for stealing meat, the first they had Leted in moniña. And, In his rage; ho had hurled it the length of their
Aitby hut--only to permit O-lan to retrieve it and then to partake of It an caforly an did the others.
What more could this curned famine do to him?
"A mau enn't stand it hare." he mutterad, "with land of hin own in the North-”
The vision of lo farm assglied m. He heard again the wind and rala singing thru his five grea felda rich with ripe whent He felt again the rhythmic movement of his body and O-lan'n as they work ed, handa tightly clasping nickles; they led the sheaves; na they loaded the ox-cart. In memory, the savory odor of G-inn's Hittle colored
alien tantalized his nostrite; the Now Yeng's calea which they had carried to Old Blitresu whose slave she had once been.
"Sugar and Iard!" Old Father hnd exclaimed no his conched for the enken laying two by two in theiṛ rend-skin häskët. "There's no and
to the money upeat in this house!" Olan had stopped bla hand. "No." nho admonished. "They are all for the Old Mitrean. She must see how well wo've done."
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taiters
"Rains in the North!
The famine had sapped Ola It's raining in the Father of his strength. The famino North!" he oried had stunted the chlidren. The aloud. famine had taken from Little Girl A great about her will to talk or think. The drowned his cry "Soldiers! Boldlers!" faminó had swept them cruelty into the haggard cue that wended its The warning blasted
"This is the revolution.”
way toward the great cities of the South. The faming had reduced him now to a thing of pain and unshed toars which huduled with cold and hunger in a 21thy straw hat glung against the wall of the city's Grest Hous.
Only O-lan remained the same. "If I had anything to sell, I'd sell it and go back to the land." The worda burst from Wang in angulah, Olan picked up Little Giri and pressed her close. Her eyes mal Wang's in a look of fear and reso Tution
"In timen like theag," she said slowly, "my parents found a way to go back. They told me to Old Mitrean."
Her words brought Wang to his foot.
"You would sell the Little Gir ho naled.
“I'd sell her," answered Clan "to take you back to the land."
"If it weren't for me, you'd die before you'd well her," he cried and turning abruptly, thrust himsel thru the tap out into the street.
Outside arent tumult greeted him. He looked towards the sound Thon Olan, basket on arm, and of cheering and shouting then Wang, carrying their first child, amade for a huge crowd surrounding man-child, had set out in pride for a speaker who perched on a rough the Great House. It had been their cart.
the air. "Soldier!" The mob hurled the word, as hornea hooves pounded the pavements and sits rang out In an instant the crowd took to Ha heels, propelling Wang with it, down the street, past the rowe of hovels against the Great Wail, Inte the square, there dispersing wildly under an onalnught of bullets.
Wang leaped toward a building and sought shelter behind a pillar, An aged peddler crouched rienrby, "What is it!" whispered Wang. "The revolution," answered the other. "China is a Republic."
Bho tried to break away but the mob carried her forward, farther and farther from her hut. With a terrible, beastliko roar, st lunged like a single body toward the gates of the Great House, Like match- wood, the gatos crashed under the territo impact, The rabble pourod into the court, trampling down the quarun, surging onward like a t- dal wave, a thousand hoarse cries silencing the thunder of guțin,
"You would sell the Little Girl?" Yang asleel,
Now the crowd edged in upon it- nolf and awnyed. Lightly-packed, up the steps and into the house, hands roaching for whatever met eyes. Beggars, peddlers, criminals.. Men, boys, women. All struggled to keep heir footing and fought space with their elbown.
Oinn clung fenntically to the rali of the steps but the realetlen power. of the throng carried her on. The impulse of the screnting, pratent- ing mol. thrust her thru the double doors into a vast chamber. The crowd hesitated a moment as if to decide which way next to turn.
In that second's hesitation O-lan lost the support of the jammed throny. She lottered for an instant. A second wave of ragged humanity surged un behind herand threw her to the floor. She tried to rine, but the crowd rushed over her, forcing her proue. A heavy foot trend ou her, violently, sickeningly. With a ery the bent double, falling upon her face.
It was dark when dha camo to, to find herself alone in the great chamber, For a inement who tay qulet, uncertain of her whereabouts. She tried to move, but an agony of pain played her. With It enine the return of memory. She dragged "What la revolution. What is a eraelf to 4 pillar for support. republic?" The question rose and Slowly mapingly, the rose to a died in his throat as the cavalry crouching position, her hand com- rodo perllovely clone, their guna forting her searing aide. She stared barking fire in every direction. The About vaguely, her gazo encompass. vision of. O-lan, his father, the chilling the wrecked room. dren loomed up before Wang. A curious awareness lighted har Would the diçitetn`rench them in the eyes na they found a smelt leather hut. 10s heart leaped sickeningly. pouch nearby. She reached for it. clung together in fent and tremble tremblingly inaldo it. She turned it In their havet, Wang's family natenlly, the thrust her hand ing. Olin covered Olt Father and paide down and into her Jap pour the children with atraw and then stream of altering Jewels. crept cautiously to the street. Wast Pearls. Diamonds, Rubies. Jade:
Her voice was low and faltering was happening? Where was Wang? Seething, milling crowdd rushed as she whispered: past engulfing her,
"Where do we go?" aho cried as who felt herself swept along in the mob.
day of triumph! For O-lan, because "In a few days Ching will be a nhe was no longer-a-stave but the | free country," the speaker shouted To the Great-House," answered wife of a farmer, the mother of a Wang found a pines on the someone. "You may have whatever con. For Wang, because on that frings of the crowd," "The day of you want there. The treasures in day he bought the first of his Ave | Manchu Tyranny is over. Their the Grant House aro aura. A man Ane fields.
army is running from the victorious | may take what he liken. This in the For eight years the Gods had | Republicana,"
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ages of the past the ter- mite dwelt in England. Then the ice-age over- whelmed it, leaving only fossilised remains to prove the insect's ancestry and existence,
crow
The termite. commonly known
as the white ant. is not related to
"We can to back now-to the tanı},"
ARTI
-O-lan has found the means to taka Wang and her family bao!: to their farm
but what, meunwhile has happened to her dear onest Don't miss the next chapter in this stirring story
CLE
Destroys
Crops
Goes
ways, and furniture and household trenrurea would be attacked.
No
compensating
circumstances such as are recognized abroad would
South Africa they are making con- exist, for the termites, mysteriously certed onslaughts on standing crops. sensing the danger of discovery, would build no mounds and the
Plantations use preventive measures
the ant nor is it "white," but has with more or less success, but so for humus manufactured within their
a dark white-ringed body. In America, Africa, Austraila, and
ANDREW'S LINKS
VALE caddies of St. Andrews golf links are fained as much for their pawkiness as for their undoubled ability to guide an employer round the Old Course or any of the dess Intricate courses.
A distinguished Cabinet Minister, who was at one time a regular visitor to St. Andrews, chose for his caddie
one occasion
young fellow, On oozing with confidence.
When the ball was lying on heavy ground, the Cabinet Minister asked. What do you think I should play here?" After studying the situation In the authoritative way St. Andrews caddies can, the caddie replied, "Ye should tak
considered the advice The Ministr brassy"
und proceeded to lay his very sound
the thanked ball on the green,
brassy, young man as he returned the but was hardly prepared for the replyOhi ay, sir; if you had my brains and I had your height we wad moke a grand pair in a foursome."
The player was on the tes of the shart eighth on the banks of the Eden "What should one take to the hole, enddie?" "Just a mashie and a putt," came the reply.
Lifting his head at the critical moment, the player moved the ball only a yard. "Great Scot," muttered the caddle, "he's ta'en the pult first."
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The stout old gentleman had found the New Course very heavy, and by the time he had come to the fifteenth hole, he has not only broken several but he elubs, and lost some balls,
from physical suffering 105
haustion.
in,
cx-
"I think I'll give it up and walk he said. "Tuts, man, finish the round," retorted the caddie, "ye n'e three clubs left yet."
A caddie noted for his smartness was once charged before a certain equally for his Magistrate ig Ignorance.
The arrogance na carrier of clubs admitted the offence. but pleaded in extenuation that he was unawore he was committing a breach of the regulations.
"That winna' dae," said the Baille, "ignorance of the law is nae excuse "Aweel Bollte, was for any man." the reply, "that's gey hard on the Jail us,"
A man who carried clubs on the links for many years was regarded as a person of prudent counsel. One day he was carrying for a beginner, who said to him. "The game 1 played yesterday was shocking bad Have you any advice to give me for to-day?"
"Weel, sir." answered the caddle. " you'll no dae what you're gaun to dhe, yo'li dau better the day than you did yesterday."
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* The affable clergynian inquired of the old man carrying his clubs what "Andra Melville," was his name. said the worthy. "Ah, that's a well- known name in Scotland," remarked the clergyman. "I daur say that, I've been carryin' clubs here for the last fifty yeurs.'
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Was golong at St. major Andrews when wor broke out, and he had to leave at the end of a 'day's golf with some haste, having been recalled by telegram to join his regiment:"
Some years elapsed before he re- turned, und as he set out on a round his caddie passed the remark, "I'm glad to see ye lookin' sne weel, Major Pleased at being rt- cognised, the major said, "Do you remember me?" Said the caddie, "Ay, fine dae a mind ye. You owe me five bob."
A disgruntled player turned to his caddie after one more bad shot, und said, "What a mess I'm making of it! Do you think anybody could play worse than I've been doing?"
Used to speaking the blunt truth, his caddie replied, "Oh weel, there may be worse players, but R's likely they dinna try to play."
D. W.
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no proved specife has been discover- cities would not be concentrated for India, owing to is destructive bed for the protection bits, it is n real menace, fortunately the numbers of this similar gealn bund, deat, subterranean Insect, tess Kian à quarter of an inch long are increasing.
of maize or the benefit of the farmer or gardener, TO THE
cvolved
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nirs of Cornwall and the west of
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1 Bright anyhow, painted sky-
blue perhaps (14)
A thievish action (7)
10 A window bar (7)
11 The kind of bird to abuse, op-
parently (4)
12 it is a frisky movement to cut
this shrub (5)
14 This 30 across is part of a for-
tross' (4)
16 This her used to be lower (3) 18 This little town could have pro- for # vided shelter and food fugitive King (0)
20 Author who advised abstention
from porcine food (0)
"Call A Day" (King's Theatre, Less than ten years ago the They appear to have overcome England.
to-day) Stage hit made into an en- distaste
FOR instance, from one single tertaining flim by Cosmopolitan for colder of an ocean liner lying their natural
The picture bonst an climates and have now spread all Hence it was surprising to come
termitary or "antheop" In Productions. alongside a wharf at San Fran- over America south of the Canadian across un advertisement for a colony the Congo country enough Iron-hard, imposing cast with Olivia de Havil. claco. rediscovered some of the border. Damage done by termites to of live termites. For the persons indestructible bricks were made to Brady, Roland Young and Frieda In- lapid, Ian Hunter, Anita Louise, Alice breed in strange surrounding- the value of £8,000,000 is reported responsible could not have known build a hull capable of holding 400 escort in the lead.
21 Relying on ridicule to rebuko ings. They found that termites yearly by United States farmers, but that if specimens of these wood- natives, a bungalow for the mission-
(7) that figure by no means represents eating and destructive subterranean had invaded the ship and were the total account against the termite, insects were so imported, the danger dry, and a small village as well. They
"Super Sleuth” (Queen's Theatre, 22 Supply as a matter of business
Oakle to-day)-Jack
and Ann (0) devouring all the woodwork and Many owners replace their damaged of their overrunning Britain would be are also used for making ronde.
Sothern in a murder mystery, spiced 24 Canine or card game (0) cellulose-containing material on property without undue advertisement at least conceivable.
We should have no use for such with comedy find romance.
20 Court (3) A new and take precautions, so far as is
material
here. We have better, if personality, Eduardo Clanncili, takes 28 Used in winter sports (4)
20 Port on an inland sea (6) more costly, methods of road sur- the part of a "celebrity killer."
30 This might be made tame (see facing, and as a food the termite "China War" (Alhambra Theatre, 14 across) (4) IT may appear a remote con larvae of young would only be up-to-day)-Newsreels from the Chinese 33 Cold ( pair had come up the gangway as Sill, when timber is not in actual
ingency, but one pair of preciated by those who have caten
advise war fronts.
34 The dog that may a traveller's guesta. But it is cer
"Dangerous Number" (Oriental punishment for another (7) lain that another species was already contact with the soil the problem of the perfect winged insects might and enjoyed it.
throughout the hard at work on the umber of the guarding against the insects can be spread their race
country.
Theatre, to-day) Fast-moving light 35 Not haphazard (14) comedy of a modern Romeo who
DOWN wharves, wilch presently crumbled tackled.
picks his girls out of a telephone into dust.
Sothern make it quite amusing. bookt Robert
and Young
Ann
"Maytime" (Majestio Theatre, to- day)-By special request, this fine singing flm is being shown again for one day only. Jeonetto' MacDonald and Nelson Eddy warble their way through the picture.
In
Tasto for Potatoes
we
However much we may admire the termite's wonderful abilities, If this should happen, all wooden should not benefit by its presence, bulidings and timber in contact with and, with dia example of America the ground would in time disappear. before us, we might well put the the list of prohibited
More recently termites have at- tneked, the old buildings of the East Side of New York; they are firmly IN the Hallway
Its wood-eating, the termite and lattices would crumbla. Later, immigrants. established in New England. British Columbia, on the other side cats tea, rubber, sugar, and other perhaps, grass londs, crops and of the continent, they are creeping plants in Australia, though cellulose cultivated fields would be assailed northwards towards the heavy timber food is plentiful, they have recently Worst of all, houses of brick, slone or lands..
developed a taste for potatoes: in concrole would be entered by covered
Herbert Noyes
1 One of the sights of Edinburgh
(two words, 0)
2 Famous actor of old (7)
3 This vegetable has an ominous
sound to the sailor (1)
4 A cousin of the crocodile (0) 5 This molluse has apparently
swallowed a legislator (8)
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Far from fair (4)
Herein the late ore praised (7) 8 Thus the light of many light-
houses appeura" (14)
13 A semi-precious stone (7). 15 Enclosed in a 14 across (5).
17 Seed from which a beverage is
made (6).
10 There seems to be some doubt
about this freo (3).
20 Fish that appears at nursery
meals (3).
23 In accordance with justice (7). 20 "Sell cap" (anagram) (7). 20 Oxford college (0).
27 Overreach in brains (8),
31 Should this work be done in
nine? (4).
32 Metal (4).
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