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SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai. Japan Ports and Honolulu.

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Wednesday. 2nd July

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Friday, Tuesday,

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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1936

The Tommy's Revue" Company, which is now appearing at the King's Theatre.

WEDDING PRESENT

(Continued from Page 7.)

He miggered uncontrollably and

LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Beyrouth, Istanbul, Piraeus, straightened his face severely.

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20th June

14th July

12th June

7th July

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Saturday,

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Wednesday, 10th June

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Saturday,

Saturday,

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Sunday,

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"And this. Paul. is

Maitland."

"What's this?" Granis Maitland said to Paul. "You're not in the. beer business?"

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He grinned at her. Cousin Felicia, Another one of

Europe/South America the "how do you do's." Out of think that might have helped!"

Double-berth Single-berth Tallukk Bankhead by Dennis

cabins "Well, it certainly would have

cabins Militants with me."

She looked up at her Frankfort-Recife (Pernambuco) King Haut Monde.

"We haven't had any ex-

RM 1400- RM 2700,- unimpressed. Looks like the uncle son now. with the chic moustache. She citement in the family, you know, Frankfort-Rio de Janeiro

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Frankfort-Lakehurst (New York) "Don't you want to come up and

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RM 1700.- Fares from Sevilla will be sup- He got a cloudy sensation of re-jsée some of Elinor's things mo- lief looking at her. He hadn't ther?" Mrs. Maitland suggested.

plied on application. The old lady turned to her, her realised it until just now, but he'd been vaguely troubled by a sense bright humorous eyes shining with of Elinor not belonging somehow, laughter. "Of course, Beth dear America in this house, among these people But that's not what you meant, viz.:

You meant shut up." a stranger, a changeling. Now, is it?

"The cackle of delight relievedly, he saw the undeniable thread, the genetic design. She came from Paul's throat involun- put out her hand to him, a fragile tarily. She was marvellous. He touch of instant kinship, and his looked at her almost avidly. It face broke into a smile, a real one. was as if the life she'd lived had "So this is the youngster all the burned nothing out of her, as if she'd lived always in a cool flame: fuss was about," she said in E

that had only refined, rarefied the thin dear voice.

"Nor mother." Mr. Maitland quality of her so that it hung now warned with studied lightness. almost like an abstraction in the "You mustn't embarrass the boy. transparent whiteness of her face about the middle of August, mid-1

in . Suddenly, from far the dle of September, end of Septem- We just wanted to make sure he'd appreciate Ellie when he got her. past, a shadowy remembrance came ber and beginning of October. finally"

All enquiries should be address- "Well, you made sure they'd somewhere, sometime in another ed to Melchers & Co., Agents, both apreciate you anyway." She life, and getting a whiff kept looking at Paul with a bright, marvellous scent, a faint breath friendy, humorous regard and he of musk and lavender and secret. grinned back wholeheartedly, with-guarded age that had meant some- wordlessly Somehow he had thing-wonderfully, out tightness. Tues. 21st June always thought of old people as evocative-about death and death-

crumpled, broken, robbed, shrivel-lessness.

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"

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20th June

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back to him-of opening a drawer,

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23/24th June

3/4th July 14/15th July

9/10th Aug.

6/7th July

17/18th July

12/18th Aug.

They will be followed by fur- ther departures from Frankfort at

of a N.D.L. direct.

RETIREMENT OF P.O. OFFICIAL

Presentation To Mr. Tom Hynes

led with living. like his Grand-/ And all at once, looking at this mother Hartmann, But this slim, lovely old lady so wonderfully alive straight little old lady seemed to on the brink of death, he saw her

After 32 years in the service of as she must have been when she of the Hong Kong Government, have given nothing

essential

herself to time at all. She was was a young woman, an earlier

on them,

and

The inscription on the watch was: "Presented to Mr. T. Hynes on his retirement from But the Postal Service of Hong

22 of which have been spent why jes, she was beautiful. Not edition of Elinor, in a day when in, the Post Office, Mr. Tom the way Elinor was beautiful, but women-at least her kind of wo

Mail Superintendent, Hynes, was man had something better from who is leaving for London on It beautiful all the same. something brand new to him and men than the franchise. He saw retirement by the P. and 0. be locked at her eagerly, bolding her in one of those preposterous liner

Chitral on Saturday. lovably preposterous dresses with was the on to her band

recipient Jester- "Chicago, eh?" Uncle Mathew bustles and founces and ruffles day of 2 handsome watch 1st June said in his crisp voice. "Well you and what-else-not

subscribed for by past officers can count on me for the bullet-somewhere in the quite unsanitary of the Post Office department and unnecessary folds something and the present European and proof vest, Ellie."

"And who'll she count on for the else sewed in too-the lost figment Chinese staff, and this was of femininity, a simple-minded. handed to him by the Post pants" Hetty asked. 5th Jane You'll have to fix ber up with childish, callow dream of women, Master General, Mr. H. B.

... Ah yes. - batters. those, Het After all, Tm only purity. 'romance 31st May

her uncle. People might misunder-glamour is well lost for knowledge; 3rd June

zo doubt-as darkness for light. 7th June Stand."

"Well that's fine." Elinor said. and bondage, even bondage to Fine That about takes care of sweet dream, for freedom. everything. I guess. Let's see...the dream still haunts us, no get Kong, by the Postmaster Gen

We walk eral and Staff, May, 1936." Uncle Irvin has me fixed up with ting away from that.

into light growing always clearer insurance..

Mr. Hynes came to Hong He would be in insurance Paul and brighter and our minds are Kong in 1904, joining the Po filled with it, and our hearts grow lice, and in 1906 transferred to thought

I suppose I can count on somehow emptier and hungrier all the Sanitary Department. He mother and dad for the machine the time with all the vague hun-joined the Post Ofice in 1914. gers of our past piling up in us, gun and truck"

unsated and insatiable.

deathless, something which, And he saw her thus, Elinor in cognising, he knew beyond all rea a bustle, with a silly little parasol son, in his heart, was out of the over her shoulder, and his heart reach of death. And he felt glad, filled with a sudden unaccountable terribly glad and grateful to her. gratitude, and seized by an irresi-It was as if she had given him stible impulse he bent over the an inestimably precious gift hand still lying in his, light and Elinor's immortality. dry as a leaf, and put his lips to She had bent toward him, amil- it. He realised then what he was ing secretly, just between them. doing and thought angrily, you're "I thought you were entitled to drunk, you nitwit-realising how that little revenge.” stagey and ridiculous it must look He would have liked to say some-i

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to the others. He flashed an em- thing to her about the gift, but it To AUSTRALIA, "Calling at Manila (P. In.), Thursday Is. Calzas, Towneville, barrassed glance at the old lady's wasn't anything he was sure he face, expecting an expression of could have put into words, even if surprise or amusement in those he were sober. He made the pres- wonderful clear old eyes. But it sure of his hand say thanks. For was neither of these he saw there, the little moment there were just Something else was forming in ber the two of them.The others face, an expressior that was more Elinor too, stood apart smiling, a like... shyness than amusement. little embarrassed, outside it. Shynes

"You must have looked just like No, it was silly-but watching incredibly, he 22W a Elinor when you were young," he faint pink hash spreading now said now. "That makes me feel over the delicate whiteness of her awfully glad, somehow. It means CHANGTE cheeks. She was blushing-actual-she probably look just like you TAIPING

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