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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1934.

FIRST LOVE

Page 9).

(Continued From DOUBLE MURDER

AT SHAMSHUIPO Startling Admission To Police Constable

"I HAVE KILLED TWO PERSONS"

The Princess's conversation was everything. He roamed the world. almost exclusively concerned with But he is here at this moment, ho Love.

The Princess was fifty-five, has spent all his winters here. He rich in everything, including tem- is, I need, hardly tell you, pheno- experience.. Not menally lucky. He cannot lose at perament and Jone of the least delightful things cards or roulette. It is to be ex- about a Russian Princess is that pected. To-night you will see him

A startling statement of ad- she does not, like a member of the in the rooms. I will present him!

mission of the murder of a young Western European middle-class, to you." have to be respectable. The "I am sure" my great-aunt Chinese couple at 211 Laichikok rather Road, Shamahuipo on July 21 was Princess combined the tempera-hesitated. ment and talents of a first-class shamefacedly. "Do not think it alleged by a Chinese constable to nineteenth-century courtesan with terribly quaint, old fashioned of have been made by Keung Chi- pan, who is facing the charge of all the advantages of her station. me, but I do not gamble."

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She was a Great Romantic. She "My dear: But how too, ori-double murder, at the hearing be and my great-aunt conversed to-ginal of you! flow ravishing of fore Mr. E. I. Wynne-Jones at the The constable, who was guard · gether in French, of course. Need you! To come to Monte and not to Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, I point out that my great-aunt gamble! But why not, may I ask?"

"I have never felt a desire to."ing the accused outside the Sham- was a woman of culture as well breeding, and that she spoke replied my great-aunt with adraic shuipe Police Station after his arrest on the day of the crime, al- French fluently, though with alable candour.

"You

are enhanting, my dear, leged that that the accused said slightly heavy foreign accent?

cried the to him, "I should die. 1 have kill. "Ah, my dear," said the Prin-simply enchanting," cess, as she gently pressed my Princess. "A woman of uniquejed two persons. They have taken great-aunt's gloved fingers with a delightfulness You cannot imagine my wife away from me and kept gesture of intimate friendliness. how refreshing it is to meet a wo- her. Although I should die, my

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sistant Crown Solicitor, conduct-Emp. of Russia Nov. 2 Nov. 4 Nor. 6 Nov. 8 Nor. 10 world, must we not, nevertheless, is what I most admire. You real-! Mr. W. J. Lockhart-Smith. As-

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EMPIRE GAMES

(Continued From Page 5). Marathon For Canada.

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whole of life, can compared with In her delight she squeezed my first love? Would you not give great-aunt's fingers quite passion- your all once again to experience ately. Then that delirium? Would not I? yes, carnest.

nol "But you are wrong," she pro-! indeed. Not that we have known other loves. Oh, no, it is nounced gravely, and wagged a

D. McL. Wright, of Scotland. that. But repetition can jewelled finger so sole solemnly at

attempt to hold) never exceed the first wonder of my great-aunt that she was mo-made a plucky

the Empire Marathon, which he that experience; the initial rap-mentarily startled

divine

wrong. in-won in Canada. But his country- "It is a very grave ture; the mystical, the ecstasy! For me life holds only deed," said the Princesa "not to man, D. McNab Robertson, w

overwhelming regres: the take advantage of every experience too good for him. Better than H. Webster, bitter anguish of not having-like of life. Now you would not refuse both, however, was

lover, would you? You of Canada. my little sister Natasha, the Littlela new White Bride, as she was known in would not dare so ali Russia-of not having died of soul as to refuse it a new draught granite-he imperturbably trotted first love!?

of that unique, that divine experi-the final two laps in the Stadium "A dream reulised, a poem come ence? Do you not take care of amid tumultuous applause, and he had broken the tape' True, Isolde in real life!"

your body? Do you not nourish it when The Prin ss dropped my great-land clothe it and treat it with con- there was still no sign of Ro aunt's fing , sighed, smiled, and sideration? Shalf you, then, starve bertson.

Never, my The new way of running this 16th Sept.fumbled in ner reticule for her and freeze your soul?. 18th Oct.

jewelled cigarette-case.

dear. It is not in you to treat race at the White City-starting 28th Oct,

"My little sister Natasha," she thus. But I for my part, rejoice to there with four laps and ending P. Kelly, continued, when she had lit a tiny, think that I shall have the prl-with two-is a good one. thin cigarrette, which showed vilege of witnessing your initiation of Newfoundland, Ted the field for 24th Sept durkly through its almost trans-into this new experience. Never the first four laps. He is

parent paper, "was almost seven-should I have hoped again to find curious runner, with a short, un- teen when she met Prince Gregory a novice in the art of life, whose easy motion. Observing the run- a newners separately, he appeared to Iridieff, who became her hus-first delighted steps into ¡band. He was thirty, with a re-world I should be permitted to as he going slower than anyone, but

reputation...! But,aist."

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