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CHINA MAIL CHRISTMAS SUPPLEMENT

A ticket to BUDAPEST

A

due. luck."

TICKET to Budapesti And your holidays-just Some people has all the

The little Cockney heart of Millie was really envious, for it -did seem as though Esmeralda Kenny had more than her share of luck. To Mie, as she watch- ed her pulling on her small green hat, which matched so beautiful- ly the little green decks in her berself eyes, and surveying

critically in the cheap office mir- ror, it seemed as though the dark girl had everything at that moment to be wished for in life. To be pretty and dainty, and to be leaving on the morrow for a the marvellous adventure on Continent

COM-

Millie sighed hopelessiy; only Esmeralda Kenny could have the good fortune to win that petition, with its prize of a tie- Everything ket to Budapest seemed to be drawn towards Es- Eren Bill the preco- meralda. cious office boy, seemed to like around Miss finding duties

Kawney's" desk, to say nothing of portly Mr. Gaumer, the chief derk. But somehow Millie could not find it in her heart to beg- rudge Esmeralda even this good lock. She was always so nice to everybody. Everyone seemed greatest matter, and the to aonentity was a person of im- portance to be.

Millie's reflections were broker by the soft voice of Esmeralds berself:

“I wish you were coming, too, Millie. What fun we'd have!”

Mullie remained silent. It wES like Esmeralda to always want someone else to take part in her pleasure; anyway, she would be back in a fortnight, and Millie would hear all her wonderful ex- periences then Besides, she could_not_imagine herself, Millie- Jackson, in Europe, that dim, distant place. How would Ma

and Pop and little Percy get along without her.

Some peo-

ple, like Esmeralda Kenny, were made to live the life of story- books, but not the Malie Jack- sons of this world.

As Esmeralda made her way to the tea-shop in O'd Bond- street. to which she usually re paired daily for her lunch, she felt as though she walked to music. Spring was in the air and in the heart of the girl Through her head were ting all the famous Strauss waltzes and melodies she knew. Oh! it was good to be alive and to be leaving to-morrow for the first time abroad. Her surroundings seemed to take on a different aspect to have more colour, and be more alive. Never before had she noticed how bright the red, casks, with their little stunted green trees, showed up against the grey of the street, nor how golden were the daffodils against the straw-coloured basket of the street-seller, and to the girl's imagination, as she passed, each

seemed to nod its head in the breeze as though to

*TO say Budapest-To Budapest."

THE day was somewhat ad- vanced when Esmeralda opened her eyes to the beanti- fully clear Hungarian morning. At first she seemed unable to realise where she was, then, as her eyes quickly scanned the little hotel room, she remember- ed her sleepy impressions of it the previous night. It was diffi- cult to believe that she was in Europe, and all those miles from home; and, as though to convince herself that this was

so, she sprang out of bed and ran to the bedroom window.

over

The hotel commanded- glomous view

the twin cities of both ancient Buda and - modern Pest, and from the win-

.

dow Esmeralda looked down over the blue, changing waters of the Danube, dancing in the sunlight. Entranced, her eyes followed the ferries and all kinds of craft on the river. City of Exchant- zesta It was rightly named. She felt that she was indeed go- ing to be happy here-happier than she had ever been in her young life before. How lovely to explore those terraced hills. sheltering Fest, and those quaint, quaint old streets that interlaced Buda, and then to make one's way across one of the six bridges to the boulevards of Fest, step- ping across from the old world to the new. Could any other

glamour city possess such this, where the old world held hands so romantically with the new, and where all the majesty

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