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THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH, MONDAY
APRIL
1988.
THE BRIDE WORE RED
AMANTSO FREE TEL
Maro Gold Mayet serum
Copyright ?!-Lowe's Ine.
by
Brnorma: Count Armalia is one of the old aristocrats of Tricate, Ila u fond of expounding his theory that life is a great roulet to wheel and a man's station in life purely the result of chance. Ele young friend, Rudi Pal, strongly disagrees útih him. Ono night, Armaïla vieita a scator. front cafe and moois ánni, ona of the entertainers. He offers her two woche at fashionable Ter ranto, whore Rudi is staying with his fiancee. She will have clothes and money but schon ake returns it will be over. She must not come complaining to him.
Chaptor Two
The frala was nearing Torrento And Anni watched the passing landscape. Her eyes were wide and abining, like those of a person who realizes for the first time that she is alive.
Thus, one short day had changed, her life.
Ebe thought back, with incredul- fly, to the provious morning. It had taken every ounce of courage to enter Galll's and ask for the travel- ling sult in the window, She, with her Ught-filung, mended dress and cheap beret. But Count Armalia's name had been magic.
In brilliant array, there had been displayed for her, ngerie, sport clothes, evening gowns. Finally, there had boon thể luggage shops and beauty salons.
Gloatingly, she caressed the pig- akin bag at her foot. In it, as tha pièce de résistance of her whole wardrobe reposed the coveted red evening dress, glistening with beads. It wna symbolle somehow, a flaming torch, to light her way into the world of enchantment.
"Itwould be unusual, Signor ina," he retorted. "But great ladies can da unusual things."
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BEATRICE FABER,
You
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ambitioun."
clucked again to the donkey. “T used to think it would be wonderful to go to Vionna, Paris, mayba Name." He shrugged. "I got over 1 I so so many people at the hotel who come from these cities, They aren't happy. To be happy you must bo contented. To be contented, you mant find your place in this world and stay there. I'm happier than most people."
A cloud of dust appeared and a speeding automobilD shot past thest.
"What was that?”
'Car from the hotel. My cousin Pietro must have delivered your telogram."
"Why didn't you stop it?" she de- manded furiously.
"How?"
This won, Slowly, she began to rolax and a contented amilo curved her lips. After all, it was better to accept this beautiful country with fis strange people. The hotel would still be there when she arrived. Startled, she realized that some thing of Guillo's own peace and calm had invaded her. "Tell me," cho said dreamily, "are these troes always this beautiful?"
"No, Signorina. Yesterday, they were less beautiful and tomorrow, they will be more."
You really boilovs that?" she asked queerly, “And you have lived here all your life?" | Ho nodded. "When I was very young, I saw a plue tree in the mow, I wanted to grow like that— tall and straight and strong. Thon, when I was older, I saw a poplar in the sun and it ́ laughed." And I wanted to laugh like that."
There was a moment of silence. Anni looked at his lean brown hands, slack on the relas, and aud- donly had a queer desire to slip her own trembling fingers over them. "You're the strangest postman I've ever met," who said slowly.
"And has Bignorina met many
The train puff-puffed to a step, | postmen?"
her bags were placed on the plat- Her chin jerked up. "Of course form, and she found herself quite | not.”
alone. There was a hollow space "It doesn't matter," he sala im- within hor. It was so quiet. Just a perturbably. “I would still be the few, quear, twittering sounds. Birds, strangest. Ah, the hotel. We have probably. But no car. No driver. | arrived.”ve ear
No ose.
Anni caught her breath as her She whirled swiftly as a low, thal-] eyes surveyed the white terraces, low voice said, "Signorina, you are the bright awnings, the green, green going to the hotel?"
grass of the lawas, All of this
In the lobby she turned to Gullio and held out a banknote, "Thank. you so much, Postman."
The young man was tall and lean | beauty was to be her home for with a carelean way of standing, two whole weeks, swinging forward from the hips. His eyes were the clearest gray she had ever seen, as if they had never hoard of a secret. She felt an odd She saw his jaw muscles tighten stirring in hor breast that badna ha bowed with dignity. "I have nover boon there before. To cover my salary from the government, the unwonted fooling, she asked thank you Signorina." Turning on
bis heels, he left. brusquely, "Are you the driver?"
"No, Signorina, but my cousin Is. Sho paled and then blushed crim- Only Platro-that's my other cousin son. Her first mletako and an in- must have been fate with thoĮ porlant one. But there came a swift telegram so that the hotel did not stab of pain. That hurt look on send the car in time. I am so sorry." | Gulilo's 'face. He had been sweet She asked sharply, "And am I and kind and ako wanted him to expected to walk to the hotel?" think well of her.
"No, no Bignorina." With cany strength he sling the mall bag over he shoulder. Anni felt a tiny, in- voluntary thrill race down to her toes. "You may ride to the hotel with the mall and me, if you wish."
The register was placed before her and she caught herself up short. A postman, she thought contemptu- eusly. She was forgetting hoseit. Well-bred young women did not bother about such lowly creatures. With rising excitement, sho took
Following his gesture she say a defected looking donkey hitched to up the pen. "Anne," she wrote and, a cart. "Do you think i would ride after a second's hesitation, "Vival in that?" she demanded indignant-di." The boys had picked up her Jy, Ladies don't ride in donkey luggage and she was moving toward carts." It was her first attempt at the stairs when a young man, saua- cinas distinction and she was maktoring by, stopped. ing the most of it.
"Good afternoon, Bignor Pal" Nobili sald unctuously,
"It would be unusual, Signorina," Rudi's eyes were rivoted on Anni. he retorted gravely, “But then, "Good afternoon, Nobili, Fine day, great Indies can do unusual things.' Isn't it."
Her eyes narrowod suspiciously.
Ann felt her aplun tingle as she Had he seen through her? Porhaps ascended the stairs. There was no this was what passed for native doubt that she had made an im wit. Troubled, she stood there in-pression on him. All her self-con- decisively. Then she stole a lookfidence flowed back. Bignor Pal, nt his face, No, his words had been How handsome and self-possessed pincare. Without word, she elimb he was, the thought. Here was the ed into the cart, assuming a very sort of man who had always been dignified posturs. The young man on the other side of the barrier. clambered in beside her, the don. And now that barrier was down. key tossed its head and they were the was free to meet him, to knoW off.
him and his kind. "1 suppose," he said conversation- Alone in her suite, she began to ally, "that you'd better know some explore. Her amilo was radiant an thing about me. Everyone in Tor-shỏ threw open closet doors, peoked rento Goon, My name is Guillo and I into the spotless bathroom, raver Inherlied my position of postmaster | ently stroked the white auk bed- and talegraph operator from my spread. Then she ran to the win- father." He clucked to the donkey dow. Below her, in the tros, was n and added, as an afterthought, “Mỹ | Bird's neat, the mother.robin chirp- grandfather was postmaster, too." ing to hor two flodgings, Anni Anni looked at him uncertainly, stared in acute wonder. It was the Surely he was imposing on bar good closest to nature she had ever been. nature. Why should the bo Inter A door opened behind her. “Who
"The maid, Bignorina. May I un- pack for you?"
exted in his life story? Then curicals it?" ity rangulabed discretion, "Don't you ever think of getting away from here, to some place where you can amount to something?"
Bha amŰod proudly, A mald to uns pack for her. Oh, glorious luxury. "Yes, please come in."
"I do amount to something. IV
which dress will Bignorina waRE an important position, you know. Sometimas as many as a hundred to dinner?"
Anni turned and suddenly her letters come through in one day. Not every day,, of course, Jurt gyes dilated. The maid was Mari Mometime His eyes sparkled. Maria who had worked at The Car "Once there was a money order for dillera. Marle who knew her and ail she stood for. Her spina was a a thousand lire." -
The cart rattled over a small column of ice. boulder and Annl was thrust aud- denly against him.' For a brief_seo- ond she felt” the 'wieël strength of his arm as he steadied her. Her color was high as she moved away and said breathishaly, "I imeam, to}' become riab, important, respected.“
(Almost before she te mettled, Anni le confronted by her past. Will Mario· prove, enemý or friend? Don't miss :, reading -ubout Anni's further adventures
in tomorrow's installment)
HOW IT BEGAN Berdanter
MR. ELWIN
IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND A LUCKY PERSON WAS SUP- POSED TO BE THE SPECIAL PET OF THE ELVES, HENCE "AELFWINE"(ELF-DARLING), WHICH PROVIDED THE FAMILY NAME STARTED BY THE FAMOUS 11TH CENTURY BISHOP AELFWINE OF WINCHESTER, ENGLAND. THE MODERN FORM OF THE NAME IS ELWIN OR ELVIN.
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ROMAN DINING ROOMS, IN ADDITION TO THE TABLE, HAD ONE OTHER. ARTICLE OF FURNITURE THE TRICLINIUM, SET AGAINST THE WALL, AND SERVING TO DIS- PLAY PLATE AND PORCELAIN WHEN NOT IN USE, THIS WAS THE ORIGINAL SIDÉBOARD.
Copr, 1930 by Unkel Pektaro Brodickie, Eus," În, Leg. U. 3. PALOMAŭ rights reserved.
Love's Power Rules All Worlds
THE
By Dean Grieve
IE highest humanity, the lowest animal organisms, the trees, the tomatoes, all feel. the urge of Love. There are erotic jealous jelly-fish and earthworms. By the deathless amours of Abelard and Heloise; de Musset and George Sand; Anthony and Cleopatra and others ad libitum; by the "affaires" of the algae.-Love's paramount power is proven.
The Spider- ARACHNID AMOURS
Arachne is not always a nice girl.
One of the species lles in wait for males on their way to work in the
morning and lures them away to her The spider's web lair. There she fools, flatters, and, might stand as ■ Anally, fondles them. Then she eats symbol of love mad them. Not because she is hungry,
Tadles and gentlemen, but because it's her idea of the end of a perfect-
tragedy,
She is
day. With little manipulation, is a cow. "male" becomes "meal," as it were. also a prude. She Or "mote"-"meat." She is known is so jittery about among the spiders as the girl who her puts the "men" in "menu."
MARINE
reputation that she clears the mice out of her room at night. If
you
deer
sen
a little
locked in the enthusiastic em- anything less than a compound trac The octopus hus a distinct ad brace of a python or bon-constrictor, ture, vintage over other marine lovers, don't jump to the conclusion that
He
mackerel,
A has eight arms. like the lesser bottlensh, is handi- his liking for her is view mat He LATER MODELS
belongs to the Reptilla. Impetuous,
The serenade is not popular in this seldom involved in breach-of-promise but are not approved of. A platypus country, but I once knew a man who suits or divorces, because they know is extremely unpopular. He has the tried it as an aid in winning the hand when
to keep their mouths shut. bill of a duck, the claws of a dog, of a lady no longer young, but- rich. His Judgment of musical The
pearl found in an oyster is a the body of seal, and a tall like values was putrid, and cost him his pearl of wisdom. The crab is con- nothing on earth. sidered a bit of a lad among the Crustacea. He has crust enough to PREHISTORIC PHILANDERING crash any function where there's a kiel or two. A prawn to frequently disappointed in love, and that is how the term "poor prawn" originated. LOVE AMONG LEGUMES
capped. He hasn't any. Oysters are reckless flirtations have been known,
chance. He picked on "Old Faith-. ful
and she sniped him from a third-storey window with part of the tollet set. The cave-dweller did his wooing
Conversation witty, topleal and with his fists and feet and had with a soupcon of spice is (I have club for hard cases. His procedure heard) no mean thing to have about was to dress in his best mammoth you when pursuing pleasure with a skin which he had pressed under modern, modish miss. the mattress overnight-and pick an Another man I know was This is going to be difficuli,
Сад в
likely-looking girl Having ten proached for the dullness of his re- I reconcile romance and rhubarb? derly murmured, "I love you," he marks by a girl he wanted to get on Portray the passion of a pumpkin? followed it with a tooth-shattering with. He took the lesson to heart- Violets blush and ivy clings. The uppercut and got a cash order for and studied. At dinner with her a less sald about passionfruit the bet- some furniture. Recent excavations week later, his small talk brought Plants have to employ a third Indicate that mothers had trouble an embarrassed flush to the face of table party
their offeira. Bees. A with their daughters in those days a
ornament, and the management bes (stop me if you know) has halry just as they have now. Inscriptions orbs monkey in use as a hind-legs to which pollen clings in on the walls of caves tell of the wild charged him for melted cutlery. The the same way that fluff from a towel parties held by a Troglodyte younger girl falated, and when she recovered clings to your face when you haven't set. One girl was deprived of her it was found that her reason was shaved. When a sundower gets a miniature sabre-toothed tiger for affected (temporarily, I am happy crush on a modest violet he gets coming home punch-drunk night af- to say). She married him while silil In touch with a reliable bee, loads ter night. Another was so blase dizzy. Love's own reward for an him up with love-gift of pollen, that she couldn't get a thrill out of honest trier. and gives him the address. The bee
ter
at once buzzes off to Violet, wipes his legs on her blushing face, und, voila!-eet ces accompli
You may have heard a singer sing a song about the rose falling in love with the rain, but don't you believe anything over came of it. It just Isn't done. There must be a limit to these mixed marriages, Flowers which close up in the dark do so be- cause they won't have any funny business.
BEASTI
Ia hippopotamus's all friend! calls him a beast he doom't worry, He knows he is. A female' elephant
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ACROSS
when
1 The way a ship goes
dragging her anchor (two words
5,8).
10 A supporter of Royalty (7). 11 Purt of this American town is
fashionable (7). 12 A humble Dickens
(4).
character
13 Part of New Guinea (5). 14 Does this European exist on
(sh7 (4).
17 No it is no disgrace to the troops when the drums sound this (7).
18 Unimportant test about a num-
ber (7).
10 The boy thought this meant fine,
until he took to golf (7).
22 No, this bone is not the funny
bone (7).
24 Knights of old used to incline
this way (4).
25 Saw. (5).
20 The destruction that comes from
23 down without one (4).
20 A mounted sentinel (7).
30 Whereby one tries to gain the
advantago (7).
91 Intelligence of a subordinate?.
subord (18)
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2 Look for this on a penny (7).
3 Chear-piece (4)2)
4 The sweet product of a foolish
Invest ((7), Adam
Describe a poll incident (7),
6 The chief objective of the pollon
who try to stop onckighting (4)
7 African language (7).
B Dogmatic (13).
9 Stupidity of the partners who never scored in the rubber (13), 15 No this gun does not come froin
this Scottish'island (6),
18 Adriatic port (5).
20 The boy in pain appeara a fine
fellow (7).
21 Wicked (7).
22 Meal that sounds like an in-
struction to the caddie
words—4,
3).
(two
23 Suitable island for a rendez-
VOLIS? (7).
27 A little swelling (4),
28 Sour (4).
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