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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1932.

BUSINESS DIRECTORY

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DENTISTS.

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to

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OPTICIANS.

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THE AMOURS OF THE EXOTIC ADVENTURESS -

THE CHINA MAIL.

Hari Mata

septet fan the monon ghett

KAREN BROWN

by arrangement mih

Man Golden Mayer,

CHAPTER IV.

"Marietta, is it morning or after- noon?"

"That'll be all right. Tell her it's Alexis."

RADIO

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

The dancer could have imitated every word of this from memory, even to the gestures of apology and helplessness which Marietta made The following programme will as she was swept aside before the be broadcast to-day from the Hong Ardour of the suitor, even to the lit Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. tle glance of triumph which the on a wavelength of 855 metres suiter would not be able to refrain (845 K.C.'8) :-m from giving the maid when she, Mata Hari, out of sheer impatience to have it over with, would call, "Very well, Marietta."

WHAT HAS HAPPENED SO FAR

Poor young man! He did not know what was in atore for him! Alexander Rosanoff, an aviator

"Good afternoon, Madame. It's

His nice face, all shining with in the Russian secret service, de-

half past one."

candid eagerness, his hands stretch.. livers a packet of confidential papers

Mata Hari felt really ashamed. ed out impetuously for the wekome to the Russian Embassy in Paris and persuades Colonel Shubin, rank-She had wasted one whole day by a he was so sure of, gave her a slight ing Attache, to take him to see the reckless caprice, for it was impos-pang. He was so happy! Best to

sible to arrange her business with get it over with at once. famous Mata Hari perform ม exotic dance.

Swinging away from her mirror, Later, he follows her Shubla at the Embassy.

"Bring my chocolate now," she she met him with a brutal demand. to a gambling casino where she has Pair gone to meet Adriana, owner of the said curtly. "And then ring up "What have you come back for?"

Colonel Shubin and say I will dine And he did not understand at all Black or Brown resort and an enemy spy. Here Shoes from $6.00.

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she is told of the papers and pro- with him to-night in his rooms. mises to get them from Shubin. don't wish to speak to him. Say After Rosanoff has presented her am in my bath." with a ring she admirea, she takes him to her home.

W next morning, she observed mistaken until she had counted the the birds were ainging, and there

6-8 p.m.-European Programme. 5-5.40 p.m.-A Concert. Orga Solo-

"Faust"—Waltz (Gounod),

Edward O'Henry (B2873). Song--

Little Brown Owl (Sanderson),

Mavis Bennett (Soprano) (B2190).

Piano Salos→→

Etudo, Op. 10 (Chopin) (No. 11 in

SHADOWS BEFORE

COMING EVENTS ADVERTISED IN CHINA MALL.

Social Functions: To-day-Tea Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and King's Restaurant; Dinner Dances at Hong Kong, and Peninsula Hotels and King's Restaurant

Saturday Craigengower Cricket Club Annual Bachelors Dance.

Entertainments.

To-day - King'a Thestra. E Flat No. 12 in C Minor), "Ladies of the Big House," also Etudes, Op, 26 (Chopin) (No. 1 in Charles Zimmy, the legless wonder.

A Flat Major-No. 12 C Minor), To-day- Queon's Wilhelm Bachaus (6894).The Rosary."

Song-

I Know of Two Bright Eyes

(Clatşam),

Cheatre;

Today Central Thontrat Tarzan the Tiger."

"Huah Money."

Majestic Thastre:

Today Star Theatre: "Coquette."

Now Sleeps, the Crimson Petal

(Quilter),

Derek Oldham '(Tenor) (B2870). Organ Solo-

Spirit of the Dance (Ewing), To-day-- Harmston's Circus,

Edward O'Henry (B9686). Reclamation Ground, Wanchai.

Home Mails. Walt (D'Hardelot),

John Turner (Tenor) (B2205).

To-day-Inward. from Europe Piano Solo-

via Sues (Rajputana); Outward Etudes, Op. 10 (Chopin) (No. 10 in for Europe via Siberia (Raj-

A Flat Major-No. 9 in F Minor), Etudes, Op. 25 (Chopin) (No. 2 i petana), 6 p.m.

To-morrow-Inward from Améri- F Minor-No. 11 in A Minor),

Wilhelm Bachaus (6895).ca (President Taft); from Europe 5,40-6.10 p.m.-Children's Con-via Siberța `(Nåldera),

Lammert's Auction. cert from the Studio.

6.10-7 p.m.-

Monday-At Sales Room, house- hold furniture,, 2.80 p.m.

Land Sale.

Symphony No. 5, "From the New

World" (Dvorak Op. 16), (Continued at foot of next column)

He went right on, silly and happy. "I had to see you. I had an errand to do this morning, and then I The maid had already opened rushed right back to you.” several boxes of flowers. None of "Oh, Mata," he burst out, over- them were important, all were the whelmed at his first sight of her in 1 Song→→→ NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY usual tributes that began the day-full sunshine, "you are so beauti-|

except one. This box Mata Hari's ful" LAST NIGHT WAS LAST NIGHT. eyes chose immediately because of "Yes, yes, but why did you come

{its distinctive shape. However, sbe here?" TXTHEN Mata Hari awoke the could never be sure that she was not!

"I couldn't help it. Out there,

with satisfaction that

Rosanoff exact number of orchids and made was a softness just like Spring in had gone. This was

as it should certain that the card which lay the air and--and my heart was so be. She gave the young man credit among them was of the usual kind full of you I had to come back and for his experience in not plaguing of paper.

tell you that I love you... and take Some words had been scrawled her with renewed protestations of

you to lunch." a French proverb the

Monday At P.W.D. Offices, one his love. Pleasure was for the upon it,

"Very pretty, but it's almost two equivalent of the English exhorta- and I have an engagement.”

lot of Crown land at Wong Nel evening and the night.

tion to "make hay while the sun!

This time, her irritation became retained, whatever interfered with Chung, 3 p.m. He was really a charming young shines." It might have meant any-apparent to Rosanoff. He had it, cast off, erased with such a will!

Meetings. man, the Russian, but there were 80 thing or nothing.

enough penetration to know that that it was impossible to decide To-morrow Meeting of the THE LIANG YOU CO. many attractive young men in Paris,

But when the dancer took it to she wasn't being in the least coy. where, iu her own recollection, truth) Hong Kong Practical Psychology. especially in these times, and so

Club at Lane, Crawford's Restaur- 70, Queen's Road Central many of them approached her at the her dressing-table, she picked up one She simply didn't want to see him! left off and fancy bagan.

Was she really the daughter of ajant at 6 pm of the square bottles, seemingly like Some of the buoyancy went out of tea dances in the fashionable hotels all the other bottles thereon and him.

Dutch shopkeeper No one had To-morrow-Star Farry Co., Ltd., which she frequented or blurted out

Matheson's office, "But Mata you can break it. I ever learned this from her lips. To Messrs. Jardine their adoration at soirees when she poured a little of the fluid, which

muelled like a heavy perfume, on must take you to lunch.”

the world, to her acquaintances, to 12.80 p.m. danced. Afterwards, she

forgot the card.

And after a little while. "I told you I have an appoint-herntimates, perhaps even to To-morrow--Kowloon Residents' their names, if not their faces, or other words appeared faintly be-ment."

herself, she clung to the account Association. St. Andrew's Church their faces if not their names, un-tween the lines of the proverb. For the life of him, he could not that she had been born in Java, Hall, Kowloon, 6 p.m.. leas they could be of use to her.

ber "They" would be waiting to-night see what he had done to offend her. where

parents, high-caste Saturday Hong Kong She was a bit annoyed with her-Just that.

Women

were unaccountable, but Brahmins had dedicated her to the Shangha! Banking Corporation, 1 self at this incident, anyhow. Rare- These words, too, might have had even so there was no reason

....service of a temple. Her dances Queen's Road, Central 11.30a.m. ly did she permit her plans to be the most ordinary connotations. It He decided to be masterful. were part of the temple ritual. Her Monday-Humphreys Estate and deflected and certainly not by some was hardly necessary to destroy the "And I told you to break it." name, Mata Hari, meant Eye of the Finance Co., Ltd., Hong Kong Hotel, obscure youth. Rosanoff had done card (which she did, however, set- This was the everlasting straw. Morning. She had been in Java-11.80 a.m. her an injustice. She had had no ting are to the bits among the in- Mata Hari sprang up.

March 2-Dairy Farm, Ice ↓ that was certain. She had studied intention of going home with de cense in the burner). Trust "You are a conceited fool!"

the religions of the Orient, that, Cold Storage Co., Ltd., 2, Low&T Signac. The old man was devoted Adriana to be prepared for every "W-what?" he stammered,

too, was evident, People who at-Albert Road, 11 a.m. to ner, as she said, "one of her alternative! He had, of course, "You're the most conceited, idiotic tempted to confuse her with their! March 2-Hong Kong Realty & court," while in return she tolerated kept his operatives near Shubin's boy I've ever seen."

questions were obliged to admit 48 Trust Co., Ltd.. Exchange Build- him with an indulgence composed of house last night, in case she might

ing, noon. It wasn't possible! But it was. much. uffection and contempt. She believ- need to pass on the documents, and

Flower Show. "I can't imagine," she went on. Had she really been married to af ed that she had recognised the card was both a warning that dispassionately, "what makes you Scottish

army officer and been March 8-Hong Kong Hortleuk French secret service man at the she was to finish the work to-night think I've given you the right to beaten, divorced, known hunger and tural Show, Valunteer Headquar Pavilion last night (the wine had and a reassurance that he would burst in here and waste my time." every privation, as was rumoured? {ters, 8-7 p.m. been spilled to attract Adriana's at supply her with help.

At last Rosanoff recovered him-It was perhaps the most complete › tention to him) and she had meant The warning made her angry. self sufficiently to speak.

tribute to her reticence that even to deliver the Marquis to his home Although she deferred to Adriana's "I'm sorry. Last night you told her maid could not obtain the as a blind and then go on to shrewdness, and knew that he had me that you loved me."

slightest clue that her past had) Shubin's where, ever since much authority, she considered him "Did I? That was last night, differed in any way from which she Adriana's instructions, her real in-merely a useful go-between. She To-day I'm very busy."

chose to acknowledge. terest had been concentrated.

couldn't be always running to Spain She rang for the maid.

She had one regret which abe No matter how it suited her to or Holland and it was dangerous to At this Rosanoff could not re-freely admitted, that she had not play her part of the moment, Mata have her trips end too frequently in strain an incredulous exclamation. based her life more on her con- Harl had a keen mind, a clear grasp dancing engagements in Berlin or She saw by his face that he was siderable talent for the dance. Her of objective fact, and an immense Vienna. But she could consult with shocked beyond belief, not alone by distractions had begun to pallon amount of resolution. Her lovers the highest authorities if she cared the dismissal but by this ultimate her, men she had begun to find were seldom perspicacious enough to! She

Was certainly of far rudeness. But now it was too late. either troublesome or wearisome. to note that her body was strong aa greater importance than the run of She meant to finish what she had When she told Adriana that she had well as seductive, the muscles as operatives whom Adrians had in his begun.

become a spy for the excitement, limber from steadfast training a charge, nor would she permit film "Marietta, show the gentleman she was not lying. It was the only those of an athlete. It was her

game left a glorious game! awareness of her own vitality which for a moment to act as if she were out."

At seven o'clock, returning from In a quiet voice, Rosanoff said, gave er such command over herself, accepting orders from him instead

of relayed messages.

"You are quite right. I have been another appointment, she dismissed kept her senses alert, her nerves

It did not lessen her exasperation à fool. I won't make this mistake her car and took a taxi to Shubin's cool behind the mask,

quarters. He had had a table set She sprang out of bed and called to be made aware of voices in the again."

boudoir. Often men bribed the ser- Nor did he commit the faux pas intimately for two in the living- vants, forced themselves in upon of turning on his heel.

room. He came forward while the her; she was accustomed to every He bowed quite correctly, leaving servant was still announcing her trick of approach, to every madness Mata Hari, if he had only known it, and seized her hands. contingent upon refusal. But really rather inclined to reinstate him In' "If I'm late, it's because my

on a day like this--which she her esteem, if not her affections. sleigh was pursued by wolves." needed to have clear-1 And Buch She had to admit that his exit had

"Ah yes, those wolves! They took Song- an amiable young Russian of whom been fully as insulting in its dignity you for a Russian naturally in your she had been thinking so kindly be as her rejection in ita bluntness, pretty costume." cause he had sense enough to tako before she forgot him wholly in the She sat down at the table, throw- Sonata No. 1 (Delis); his departure without arousing her! absorbing affair of making hering aside her loose wrap. "Brri"

28, Pottinger St. Tel. 21420 CANTON-16, Sun Kee Sai Rd.

DAILY CROSS: WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetia spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)

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6-Food contaicera

B-Bluggish

60

161

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I HORIZONTAL (Cont) VERTICAL (Cont.)

165-Exchange

|56-Belf

67-Negative

53-Pain

19-Serf

27-Wrong

24-Defensiva

22-Humor

11-Lano

18-Very

14-Rand

15-Verbal 16-A land measure

(abbr) 18-Consumed

20-Artleas

22-Deface

23-Pronoun *24-Litila villagba

28-Grense

27-Obtuse

29-Solltary 31-Qenuine 32-Poisonous snake $4-Youths

35-A Mohammadan

30-Greek god of love 37-A scourge. “\. 19-Joined 41-Combining form.

Bona 44-Small Spanísti

horse 45-Racket

47-Proceeded rapidly

48-Fizvora

83-Buramit ✨

60-Turkish official

163-Bona (Latin)

64-Sen fighting foroes 68-Abide

6B-Any one inheriting

from a deceased person

(69-Highest point

VERTICAL

1-Départ 2-Worthless Juaving 3-Large monkey 4-Goddess of the

mpon (Hom. Myth.). -Sign in printing

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11-Adors y

12-Drills

13-Realted

protective covering

for the head (pl.)

35-Grop-shops

28-Alver in France 80-Larlst 32-Part of the body 33-Fond' {37-A signal fire

|38-Girl's name.

40-Heroine of Wagner'a

opera Lohengrin

42-Situation

[43-A polygon whose

angles are equal |44-A broad smile [48-A'series of herolo :

aventa. 449–The upper air

60-The Greek god of

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51-A river in: Germany ||5A-A valu in anolent

Argolis BB-A thoroughfare

(zbUr.) 59-102 (Roman) 61-Mischievous child |62-A ̧roe (50ot.) 65–Interjection

17-A bouring (Her.), 97-9 (Roman)

(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's Exque alone with a new cross-sword puzzlej

to her maid.

YESTERDAY'S ÇOLUTION.

BLAS TÁGT.

PLEASE AROSE

A TRIP STOP

SIL

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INT TEN

Meanwhile, the colloquy went on toilette.

in the boudoir.

"Is Madame up yet?"

she said, "I am frozen to death in For a concentrated business it your Russia,”

had learned was. Ever since, she

Shubin knew that it was only an "Is she expecting you?"

that glamour could mean a career, excuse for him to order a fire so "No, but I know it'll be all right." she had worked relentlessly to pre-that his man would have to leave the "But you can't come in here, air serve the apell-now that it had been room. You must wait in the drawing-cast. Whatever made for the mystery surrounding her had been room."

Just A Passing Acquaintance.

POP

MISS THE

TRAIN

POP

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·TO-MORROW-The Quarrel With Shubin,

NOT MUCH!

Played by the Philadelphia. Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski (M-1).

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7.08-7.44 p.m.-Variety.

Humorous Dialogue Getting a Motor, Getting Wife,

Constance Collier & Ronald Squire (C1840).

Honolulu Sweetheart of Mine, Along Miami Shore,

Hilo Hawaiian Orchestra (B2850).

Orchestral-

Humorous Dialogue My Wireless Set,

Song-

John Henry and "Blossom" (B2155).

Just Keepin' On, Mighty Lak' a Rose,

Paul Robeson (Bass) B8198- Organ Solo

Make Belleve, Why Do I Love You? ` Vecal Trio-

Edward O'Henry B2862

There's Room in my Heart,

Walter Glynne, Sydney Coltham & George Baker.

of Mind, Gene Austin (Tenor) (B8201). 7.44-8.p.m.

Peace

Played by May Harrison & Arnold Bax (Violin and Planoforte (C1748-50).

8:03-10.30 p.m.-Chinese Concert from the Stadio.

8 p.m.-Local Time.

10.33 p.m.-Close Down.

All records in the above European Programmes are kindly supplied by Mostra. 8. Moutrie & Co.

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