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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST, 20, 1935

THE FRILL

(Continued from Page 9)

"Can do, missy." said the tailor, quietly. He squatted gracefully, folded the dress into the cloth again, and tied it tenderly, careful to crush nothing. Then he rose and stood waiting, upon his face same agany of supplication. His whole soul rose in this silent sup plication, so that it was written upon his quiet, high-cheeked face, upon his close-set lips. Sweat broke out upon him afresh. Even Mrs. Lowe could feel dimly that imploring soul. She paused in her rocking and looked up.

**What is it?" she asked, sharp-

"What more thing?"

The tailor wetted his lips again: jand spoke in a faint voice. "Missy, can you give me little money-one Before dollar, two dollar——-”. her outraged look his voice drop- ¡ped yet lower. "My brother's son, be die to-day, I think-he have three piecee baby, one woman—DO money buy coffano nothing-be

ill to-day” very

A. scene from "Ann Carver's Profession, à Columbia, picture which will be screened at the Queen's Theatre to-day and to-

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you not my own brother's son? E/Eussia -Aug 7-Aug. 9 Aug. Mrs. Lowe looked at her caller. his thighs "Well of all the nerve she-Well, and they had tried every And he dead, too, and only I left E/Japan Aug. 21 Aug. 23 breathed, genuinely aghast Mrasort of ointment, but what cint-now.” Newman answered her look

ment will grow sound flesh again,

He began to weep quietly, and

"It's just what I said," she re-and what balm is there for such a it could be seen that the lines upon The whole leg, had his face, were set there by other plied. They are more trouble wound? than they are worth—and the way swollen, and now on this hot day hours of this repressed silent think in the ninth moon the young man weeping, for, as he wept his face then they they cut-and

black hardly changed at all. only the lay dying. There were about nothing but money!"

Mrs. Lowe turned her rolling plasters on his leg from hip to tears rolled down his cheeks

After a long time the dying: grey eyes upon the tailor. He did foot, but they were of no avail

Yes, the tailor had seen that for man's voice came again with the not look up, but he wiped his lip

he same rending effort, as though he furtively with his sleeve. She himself this morning when stared at him an instant, and then went to see his nephew he had tore himself out of some heavy there plainly The stupor to say what must be said: her voice came forth filled with seen death

sat weeping in the "You are poor too foung wife righteous anger.

But the uncle answered quickly, doorway of the one room that was

the dying mail, "No," she said. No. You finish their home, and the two elder bending toward dress all proper with frill I pay children stared at her gravely, too for the swollen eyes were now finish dress, no pay-stricken for play. The third was closed and he could not be sure be you. No

was heard: "You're not to worry. Never. You savee, tailor?**

but a babe she held in her bosom.

The tailor turned down an Rest your heart I have work- "Yes, missy," sighed the tailor. All restige of hope had now dis- alleyway and into a door in a wall these white women are always dresses: I have a appeared from his face like a car-He passed through a court filled wanting new tain finish to-morrow twelve with naked children screaming silk dress now nearly finished for o'clock. missy," he said, and turn-and quarrelling and shouting at the postmaster's. wife nearly done, except for a frill, and then play. ed away.

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Above his head were stretched she will give me money, for it and "See that you do," shouted Mrs. Lowe triumphantly after him, and bamboo poles upon which were perhaps more sewing. We shal she watched his figure with con-hung ragged garments washed in do very well- tempt as it disappeared into the too scanty water and without any hail Then she turned to her call-[soap. Here about these er. "If I say to-morrow," she ex-family lived in every room and that stupor for ever, and he could plained, "perhaps it will be ready poured its waste into the court, so rouse himself no more.

courts a

and her

But the young man made no further reply. He had gone into

Nevertheless, be st

man

and

Only then did the tailor rise.

breathed by the day after." She thought of that even though it was a dry day something and reaching forward--and the days had been dry for slightly throughout that long hot or more-ret the court day. The tailor rose once to place! in her chair pressed a bell firmly.ja moon

was slimy and running with waste his bundle in a corner and to re- The servant appeared.

move his robe, and then he took: "Boy," she said, "look see tailor water.

But he did not notice this. He his place again beside the dying -see he no takee something.” -

remained immovable Her "loud voice penetrated into passed through three more courts the house, and the tailor's body; like the first and tried to an through the hours. The woman still visible at the end of the hall open door at the right and went wailed on and on, but at last she was exhausted and sat leaning straightened itself somewhat and into the dark, windowless room.

There was a different odour here against the end of the bed, her then passed out of sight.

"You never can tell," said Mrs. It was the odour of dying. rotten eyes closed, sobbing now and again Lowe. "You can't tell whether flesh. The sound of a woman's softly

But the children grew used to they are making up these stories wailing rose from beside the cur- or not. If they need money-but fained bed, and thither the tailor it. They grew used even to their father's dying, and they ran out they always do need money. went, his face not changed from

So the hot day drew on at last never S2W such people. They the look it had bome away from into the court to play. must make a lot, though, sewing the white woman's house. The for all these foreigners here in the young wife did not look up at his to its end and when twilight came the young man ceased. breathing port. But this tailor is wore 'thari coming. She sat crouched on the land was dead. most. He is for ever wanting ground beside the bed money before his work is done face was wet with tears. Her He rose and put on his gown and Three separate times he has come long black hair had come uncoiled took his bundle and he said to the and said a child was dying or and stretched over her shoulder crouching woman, "He is dead. something. I don't believe a word and hung to the earth. Over and

Have you any money at all?" fof it. Probably smokes opium or over she moaned. "Oh, my hus

(Continued on Page 11) gambles. They all gamble-you band-oh, my man--I am left

alone ok, my husband Thurs., 22nd Aug. can't believe a word they say!”

sighed Mrs. The babe lay on the ground be Oh, I know——___” 9th Sept.

Newman, rising to depart. Mr. side her, crying feebly now and again. The two elder children sat Lowe rose also.

"After all one simply has to be close to their mother, each of them holding fast to a corner of her firm" she said again...

Outside the big white foreign coat. They had been weeping, too, house the tailor went silently and but now they were silent, their swiftly through the hot street. streaked faces upturned to look at Well, he had asked her, and she their uncle.-

But the tailor paid no heed to would not give him anything. After all his dread and fear of her them now. He looked into the

HEELBENAVON" Consignees of Cargo are hereby refusal, all his summoning of hempen curtains of the bed, and

informed that all Goods are being courage, she would not give him said gently:"

"Are you still living, my son landed at their risk into the hazard- anything. The dress was more than half done, except for the frill, The dying man turned his eyes ous and/or extra hazardous Godowns too. She had given him the silk with dificulty. He was horribly of The Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., whence two days ago, and he had been glad swollen, his bands, his naked up and/or from the wharves delivery because it would bring him in aper body, his neck, his face. But may be obtained few dollars for this nephew of his, these were nothing to the immense

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Nociaimgill be admitted after was like his own son now that log-tke swelling of his burned leg the Goods have left the Godowa", and all Goods remaining undeliver the rods had taken away his own It lay there so huge it seemed bed after the 23rd August will be sub- little children, three of them was attached to it, rather than it ject to rent

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