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"BUT, darling, after all, we'ro dif- was a limit to a man's

ferent. There's a barrier be- even to that of John Sutton.

tween us. You're John Sutton, so- She had laughed, ciety's millionairo idol, and I Mary Nobody."

simplicity,

John

She know I'm John Sutton.. She knew him better than any of them. She had secured Those were the words that John his devotion by artifice and cunning, Sutton remembered. They kept re- by protraying a role at which she had player, curring to him through the years, proved herself; a featured after their marriage. Repeatedly he Her warning, her offer to let told himself that she had been fair; back out of their contract had been she had given warning.

neatly timed, superbly uttered: John He had believed that her back Sutton, though he had been unaware ground would make no difference. He of it, could and would not have taken had believed his friends would re-advantage of her suggestion, because, ceive her, accept her..

as Mary well knew, he honest. She had voiced the thing that might sometime come tween them; and voicing it had dis- sipated its effectiveness.

The men did. There was something about her that attracted men, a sort of wild beauty, a subtle appeal, a, cun- ning. They accepted her because of desire, not because of recognition of equal qualities.

was

too опе

be-

Reggie Clifford was part of Mary's life,

Pretending to be John's closest The women hated her. There was friend, Reggie took advantage of the a small group who hated her because privileges his position offered. Reg- she had captured John: There were gie discovered and Mary discovered others who recented her for what she that each was gifted with common and There was a third group qualities a love for adventure who not only hated but feared the danger and wild living. And her, because of the looks that came together they indulged these passions into the eyes of their men whenever without John Sutton knowing about, she appeared. *.....

To both of them John Sutton

was.

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For the most part they were sub was harmless. tle about it. And John Sutton was. But there came a time when John blind to how they felt. John Sut Sutton returned from a flahing trip Was ton was a simple man, a straightfor- and found his wife away and ward, honest personality.

told that she had gone to a certain

Ther was no limit to the manner resort with Reggie Clifford. Sus- in which he humored his wife. Her picion did not enter his heart until

By Stanley Cordell

extravagances did not annoy him, he arrived at the resort and went to. They amused him. He took whole the hotel where Mary was stopping, hearted delight indulging her whims to and found Reggie there with her.

The transition was slow. Very Reggie and Mary believed they Blow. Gradually, incredibly, John knew John Sutton, but neither had Sutton saw the situation in all its seen the look that now came into his hideousness; saw that his wife stood eyes. It puzzled them. Fear dwelt alone, that she was the object of in their hearts. Here was a differ- contempt and scorn; that she was ent man, and there seemed to be thought of as flamboyant and loud murder in his expression. They and coarse. The knowledge enraged sought, escape, by the quickest means him

possible, which happened to be the He had been used to buying what-, fire escape. - ** ever he wanted. He would buy his 22-John. Sutton let them go. It was wife a place in society.

what he wanted, because there were This determination he kept to him- people who witnessed the flight and self. He went about it in the only saw John Sutton come to the fire manner he knew-by lavish spending, escape balcony and watch the hasty by creating situations in which his departure. There would be no wife was thrown into contact with trouble now in accomplishing his the great, the rich, the famous.

purpose. The result would be the The plan was less than half suc- one thing that John Sutton wanted cessful. Frustration beset him more than anything else. Freedom. Then came a period in which whis- The look that had been in his eyes pering reached his ears. Mary was had not been murderous. It had taking advantage of him. Mary been anxiety. Fear that they would was being disloyal. ... Mary could stand their ground and offer an ex- never find her place in the life he planation, a situation with which he had always known and where he

wanted her to be. Women hated her. might have been unable to cope. Men desired-heri

Thus another transition occurred An awakening, He saw Mary

in Sutton's mind.

an understanding. as others saw her.

Yet he would not allow himself to bellave. He remembered her v war- ning, her offer to him to back out before it was too late. She had been fair. She had anticipated this. The situation was not of her making. She had shown a strength of charac- ter then that it was his duty to dup licate now. THE

And so they continued in their present state. If Mary knew of the transitions that had taken place in har she gavo no indication. She

too Happy, too triump

resented Sher she had done,

and

hat there

But neither Mary nor Reggie, who knew him best, had recognised that expression.

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DAY OF NAVAL DISASTER Japanese Suffer Heavy Losses In Air Raids

Daring Bombings Repeated At Several Points

Hankow, To-day.

Culminating a day of naval disasters, four Japanese

gunboats were hit and sunk in midstream be low Matang on the Yangtze by Chinese planes in the fourth of a series of terrific raids yester- day morning and afternoon.

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Direct hits were scored many times, causing fire and smoke to rise from four enemy vessels. They were seen to founder.

•KING DRIVES TO LONDON

London, To-day. Their Majesties the King and Queen, together with Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose, motored to Buckingham Palace from Windsor this after- noon and were cheered by a crowd: on their arrival at the Palace, where Queen Mary arrived short- ly afterwards, to take ten with Their Majesties-Reuter,

MAJOR STEERS WINS FLETCHER CUP AT BISLEY

A telegram has been received at Government House announcing a splendid success for Major RL Steers, who won the Fletcher Cup after a tie shoot at Bisley on Satur- day

The Fletcher Cup is open to in- dividuals eligible for the Junior Kolapore Cup.

PL

In the first raid in the morn- ing, an undisclosed number of Chinese planes raided a Japanėse concentration between Pengtseh and Hukou, and attacked eight large and from twelve to fifteen smaller naval vessels.

The bombers immediately set themselves to work havoc with the Japanese ships. Two vessels were hit and set on fire.

As the Chinese fliers. were on their way back, they met eleven Japanese pursuits which did not challenge the Chinese craft be- cause of the low altitude at which they were flying.

Shortly after the first raid, airmen returned to

Pengtseh and Hukou to make a ships were this time bombed and

PRIDE OF THE SQUADRON. "Jeep", small mongrel dog,

is the pride of the 33rd R¿A.F. squadron, stationed at Ismailia, Egypt.

He accompanies the men on formation flights, and is everything a good airman should be. Photo shows Jeep Burveys the de drome from the wheel of a Gladiator fighter.

second attack. Eleven Japanese PERSISTENT

were hit and set on fire.

The third raid was on Hukou, where more than a dozen enemy ships were bombed. Central News.

GARRISON WIPED OUT

OFFENDER

UNIFORM FOR CIVIL SERVICE IN ITALY

Rome, To-day.

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Described as a persistent offender against the Deportation: Ordinance, Cheung Nun-Chi- was sentenced to three years hard labour_by___ the Acting Puisne Judge, Mr. E. H.

Il Duce has ordered that con- Williams, at the Criminal Sessions sideration be given to the proposed this morning.UTARRA measure making it -obligatory for Accused was banished for life on all persons in the Civil Service_to_ July 23 last year.

wear the uniform when on duty, Two and a half years' imprison-states an official communication Siaoshan, Chekiang, To-day. ment was imposed on Ho Tai, who issued last night. There would be was found in the Colony after one uniform for summer and a Chinese plainclothes men wiped banishment for ten years on April different one for winter. Trans-- out nearly the whole Japanese gar- 11, 1934. rison at Shihwanchen, about

NINE RAIDS-NINE kilometres north of Tsungteh, west

ARRESTS

As a result of nine raids carried out on July 9 by Revenue Officer E T. Warden, nine heroin and opium divan keepers

were charged

at Kowloon Police Court this morn- ing.

Some 6,687 heroin pills and 5.7 taels of opium were seized, and 88 smokers were found on the premises. A total of eight years and three months' hard labour was imposed on the nine defendants.

19-year-old shop foki, Sin Hung, was this morning sentenced to a

month's hard labour and to pay $38 amends or serve a further month, by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy, for embezzlement $88 collected from

customer.

Arrested in possession of 95 lot- tery tickets in Queen's Road Cen- tral, Lam Wai, 56, was fined $40 or one month at the Central Magis- tracy this morning.

Ocean.

A fined of $1,000 was imposed on opium at the Yaumati Ferry wharf. of Siashih on the Shanghai-Hang- Li Luk, 42, at the Central Magis- Kwong Yuen, about 50, 'was fined chow. Railway, in a surprise attack tracy this morning, for possession $150, or two months, for possession. yesterday.-Central News..

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