THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1938.
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MERRILY WE LIVE
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Chapter One
It was a bad place for a car to be hesitating one moment and jerk- ing hond the next, Wade Rawline thought beautiful estates on one alde and a deop ravino on thebucher Of course the people who lived] there could not refuse help if he needed it, but they certainly would Im nuspicious of him, chabbity are ned, unshaven, riding in much rickety old ear. If only he could cuax it to chug nương to the top of the hill! For there in plain sight was a watering trough and berido at a bucket from which two sheep dogs were delatung. Inch by inch the car went faltering on, stcum pouring from the radiator. Just al the top, it stopped. Wade Jumpad out and ran to the trough.
Geraldino Jerry for short -- Kilbourne thought she heard a sergam and the sound of something falling in the room below. But she was too absorbed doing her morn Ing setting-up exerciren in time to the mula from the radio and inik- ing over the French phone which she held in one hand while she bent and kicked and rolled, to pay may attention. Thero
always, ware ntrance holes in the house, any way.
It wouldn't non Ille botte without them. But when she heard the ear to her room alam, the turned around. She glared at the
in who had entered.
"Marian" she said in her mont angry big-olster voice, "Were you listening over the extension again? Of course you always do. Get out what do you mean, caming in here in a dripplag bathing suit? You'll ruin my now tug.”
She rushed to her alster, took her by the shoulders and pushed her through the door.
"O.it" gald Marian in a susplol- ously meck volos, "If that's the way you treat me when I come in burst-| ing with compliments and exciting
now."
"I don't want altior. Now seram." "Well, no matter how cruel you are to me I'm mying I was proud of the way you told Herbart Wheeler off; what you ever go around with him at all for to be yond me. But I'm not going to tell about our boing robbed."
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Honest, Jerry Ambrose has gone and all the allver with him and Grosvenor when he found out -
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Grosvenor reeing to have trut nil power of speecli, ferry rushed to his defence by saying i was not tile fault, but Ambrose's.
"Get rid of him, then.
I don'? care what your mother anys, I-," "We are rid of him," broke in Marian.
"Well, that's the best news I've heard in a long timo, He may have been a good tramp, but he who the worst chauffeur in the whole world. I'm sure. And you, Grosvenor, get
a spoon."
"There lon't any slivor, sir," Gros- venor said. "You see, Ambrose took It with him, sven the kitchen aliver. I did the best I could under the clr- cumstances."
Mr. Kilbourno looked around the table a wooden coup india, a Ingo roasting fork, an egg-turner! He would not have been surprised to see a baneball bat. 11e burst out loughing
"It's worth it to get rid of Am- brose. We can buy new aliver, but we never could have fired him."
"Begging your pardon, sir," said "bat don't you think Grosvenor. you'd best phone the police."
"Absolutely not. I do not want this story to get out. It would not only dintrens Mrs. Kilbourne but it wont udvorties to the world her
shall I may weakness? -- where dorellein are concerned. We know It is because her heart is aʊ big. Other, not so charitable, might think it Judicrous or stupid"
Some one was coming down the stairs. Some one was calling out a cheery good morning. I was Mrs. Khourne. They all wished her n good morning Then anxioly they looked around at each other. It waa
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"What do you mean, he cried, "by putting this thing in ing room while I was in the shower?**
Jorry, who took the situation in hand.
"Mother dear,” she said in a gun, le volpe, "thors is something 1 must tell you. It is about Ambroso.”
"Do, doar. Just a mlaute Gros venor will you tell Ambrose I want to see him immediately after break- fast!"
"You won't be able to reo bim Mother. He's left."
What are you talking about Jerry? Of course Ambrose hasn't loft. It's proposterous. Why should he?"
"Bocause," Kana barged into the conversation, "hen a thief and went off with all the silver and no telling! what else."
"Kane, you can't know what you are saying. If this is my family's idea of a joke -
She looked around the table and in turn cach head nodded.
"If Ambrose did such a thing, hd must have had a good reason. B wonder if any of us did anything! to make him angry or hurt bis feelings."
"Fainted. Of course. That's what I heard. Hurry, Marian, tot's scram blo into some clothes and rush down to see the fun. No motor not even ours would let you come to the table the way you are now." Marian burrlod but aho did not oboy the final order. When Jorry "Mother." sald Ikano, "do forget rushed into the breakfast room; your fondness for tramps and look who found only her sister there. Sheat this in the light of ordinary com shrugged her shoulders. Let some mon sensu. We've all put up with one else discipline Marian, if such a having rifi-raff around, but we're thing ware possible. Perhaps Grooted up venor needed help. Ia did not. Bo-
Mr. Kilbournɑ, sobbing, did not ing an adopt at fainting, ho had; recovered mufficiently to have the wait for any more, but rose and table set when the family stramled rushed into the Rving room. Her husband ran after her, took her in in for breakfast. But it was such wetting as had never been soon, his arms and tried to sootbe her. probably, in any house, anywhere, at any time. Grosvenor hind looked at it sadly he fancied himself as the perfect butler but 2o was not altogether sorry this had hap- poned. Perhaps the Kilbournes although it seemed too mush to hops for would change their ways new. If only just this onge, Mr. Rild a man in and try to help him," wald Mrs. Kilbourne between soba and than ho - oh, I never
bourne would listen to reason!
"There, there, darling, don't let this upset you Ambrose was just one tramp,"
"And there'll be another one said along almost any minute." Jorry, who had followed them.
"You take a tramp In ~ I mean
Mr. Kilbourne's entrance was want to coe another one as long marked by growls and mutterings which rose in a rear when he saw as I liva."
his younger daughter. In one hand
Mr. Kilbourne manfully hold back be held a squirming white rabbit, a hout of joy, as he patted his "What do you mean," he cried, wife on the back and smiled broad- by putting this thing in my room ly. Mrs. Kilbourne murmuring while I was in the abower? Take something about washing her eyes it away and you get into some and powdering her face, ran up thing fit to appear in. And right stairs. away."
"It's worth losing everything in Marian rushed from the room, the house," said Mr. Kilbourne to Imploring her sister in a siege his son and daughters, when they willaper not to tell the news until were alone: "to know we'll never her return. Luck was on her ride, have any more trampe around."
-Jerry purwed her lips and altook tor before her father had finished complaining because Grosvenor had her hand. How foolish, how optim- mot put his paper by his plate, she intio bar father was! After all those zan back in, pulling a dress on over years of marriage, not to know his
wife better than that! hor bathing mult
"Kane'll be hero in a minuta,” ako! Wade Rawlins, rushing back with announced. I heard him relicarsing the bucket in his hands, stoppedt a speech about that now car he short. That unpredictable car had wants. Are you going to buy him, someway managed to move. It was just going over the cliff, down into one, Daddy
the ravine.
Her father opened his mouth as If to speak but for a memont.no sound came. When he did sponk it was to Grosvenor. He was holding In his hand a long-handled toa- strainer,
"What do you mean by giving!
(Wade Rawlins finda help of a fashion, and the Kilbourne's a now ohau/four.)
(To be continued)
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Dillon. it lugubrinus Irish under-sceretaries. and gapsed the stately farade of John Imperial Parliment softly silvered Nationalist, whom Tim Healy once
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Bowles's gibe at Gerald Balfour- rough and tumblr of old-style coun- good judge of traitors"
My hat what row there was "The right honourable gentleman. try journalism to a job in the Press Gallery There was mure than The Tories cheered, the Irish howled. Mr Speaker, is admirably sulted for youthful romance in that moonlit but at last John Dillon got a chance the chair of poetry on the banks of vista of the Houses of Parliament. to speak, He demanded, white with the Ists, or for a bath-chair at Men- of that state- tone, but not for the chair of the was taking rage, the withalenwal The young provincial
Even to ment. The Speaker, the mild Mr. Board of Trade!" stock of his new workshop. his ambitions it seemed adequate, Gully, deprecated these persunalities.
Or Tim's sepulchral rebuke when What a mort of years ayto that but hnd to rule that Joe's artful seems now. Aud how the place has phrase was not atrielly out of order. the Nationalists, with whom he had These in- "Then," said Mr. Dillon, hoarse with quarrelled as usual, jeered because changed in that time.
glanced at the ribald ones under timate reminiscences are inspired by passion, "all I have to say is that the he referred to my party." Tim the fact that the famous Mother of right honourable gentleman is
A rear of Nationalist those thick black eyebrows. Parliaments has once more reassem- dunned lar"! bled this week. The only ciation the cheers was drowned by a still flercer long," he said, "to a small but coher- fact arouses in my bosom--and it is rour of Tory fury, Labouchere, who ent party, which does not vote in the penny-in-the-slot a real clationis due to the know- never got excited, looked across at platoons ledge that 1 shall not be there, cooped the tempestuous Ministerial benches, principle!"
Then what about Winston's hit at up like a mule canary in a tiny box and exclaimed: "It's quite true" above the Speaker's dais, unless the Amid the general upheaval, Labby old C. B. "The right honourable And I am will got away with this, but Mr. Dillon gentleman has been sitting on the spirit so moves me. ing to lay handsome odds that it does was, of course, suspended. hot move me in any Westminster direction. Memorable Nights-
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The leader of the House, Arthur fence so long that the iron has enter- Balfour, was sent for, a formal mo- cd into his soul!" That was typical
of the cut-and-thrust debating tton of suspension moved, debated
years ago. The highest at length, and finally carried. Mr. twenty Dillon withdrew, breathing fire and fights the new order of Parlamen- For twelve years I sat there re brimstone. Fifty minutes after the tarlans seems able to achieve is to gularly an the clock, and listened to scene started, Jon tot up to resume shout: "Dirty Dog!" Somehow I pre- the interminable flow of eloquence. Even the tumultuous interlude of the his speech. "Mr. Speaker," he said, 'fer the older manner. Great War has not weakened the re- "as Iwas anying, vulsion brought about by that twelve- Giants of Debate year vigil.
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Almost I had forgotten the most dramatic memory of all-the hushed
day when Asquith, the greatest Pur- BARBER-WILHELMSEN LINE
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Asquith spoke from his heart, manfully yet soberly, placing himself
Yet there were some memorable My happiest recollections are of the nights in those twelve years. I 1806 Parliament, when old Sir Henry Hamentary Agure of my time, made heard Tim Healy deliver historic Campbell-Bannerman found himself the calmly eloquent announcement Uganda Rallway speech. Tim had Prime Minister with a Liberal major which committed Great Beltsin to risen to use a Colonial Vote as pest ity that overflowed the Opposition unsheathing a righteous sword on which to hang a slashing attacks benches. The party situation was 1914. No estor could possibly have on the British Treasury's treatment not what delighted me. I have been but
so well. Irving himself of the distressful country. When the several sorts of foot in my time, Speaker pulled him up, and mildly never such an utter fool as to be a might have been iempted to overplay suggested that the Uganda Rallway political partisan. The charm of the role. did not run through County Tyrone, that Parliament, the golden epoch at Tim blandly accepted the ruling Westminster, was its superlative de- Any other man would have been bating personnel.
I have listened to a lense debate on the same pedestal of British completely knocked out. Tim In- stantly switched his sardonie ful in which the bail was kept rolling statesmanship with Pitt, whose effigy minations on to Uganda, but so by C. B., A. J. B., H. H. A., F. Ein St. Stephen's Hall, as Macaulay couched that, though perfectly in Ramsay Mac. Harold Cox, Lordteils in resonant prose, "stands with order, every syllable bore obvious Hugh Cecil, Huire Belloc, Tony uplifted arin, still hurling defiance and scathing Hibernian parable. Bowles, Jolin Redmond, and my
I try to picture That was an oratorical
that un- comparable glant, Tim Healy, Let at England's foes." paralleled in all my experience.
anyone plek a team of approximately Mr. Anthony Eden in Another Bvely recollection relates equal calibre and brillance from the hernie posture. But somehow to the afternoon, during the Boer present mediocre cohorts, and I am War, when the Irish Nationalists ready to admit that my views about vision keeps Inding out. cheered the news of another British the decadence of the House of Com-, disaster, in which Lord Methuen was mons at the present juncture severely
wounded and captured. mere senile prejudice. But I went That episode has since been denied. to see that list frat.
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I was in my ennary cage, and wit- Then there were lo nights when nessed it. It was about this date, the militant suffragette sisterhood too, that Elite Grimths, an incredibly were on the warpath. Notably the handsome Welsh M.P., more brilliant time when the ladies suddenly inter- than L., G., but not no pertinacious, rupted a dull debate by poking green, stariled M.Fs with an epigram mauve, and while banners through "When Empires expand," said he,
the grille of the Ladies' Gallery and "Chamberlaina contract."
raleing a shrill squeak "Votes for Women," One devoted Indy 'pad- locked herself to a panel of the melni Again there was the night when grille, and, to remove her, the police Joe Chamberlain, then Colonial had to wrench the panel from its Secretary, made a speech discussing stone sockets. She was borne away,
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