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HONGKONG

BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

AUCTIONEERS, &c.

PAUL BREWITT,

2, Zetland Street, Auctioneer, Appraiser

and Commission Agent.

HUGHES & HOUGH, **

Auctioneers to the Government, and Shore and General Brokers, corner Ice House

Street and Praya Central

V. 1. REMEDIOS,

Auctioncar, Appraiser and Agent,

B, Queen's Road Central

BOARD AND LODGING

THE WESTERN HOTEL,

HONGKONG

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRES

BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

PHOTOGRAPHERS.

YEE CHUN.

Published by Special Arrangement.]

́ ́ IN WHITE RAIMENT.

BY

WILLIAM LE QUEUX.

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Marine and Portrait Paintor, 50, Queen's Author of "Whose Findeth & Wife," "Purple

Road, Upstairs.

and Fine Linen," The Day of Temptation." "Of-Boyal Blool," &c., &c.

K. YERA,

Japanese Photographer, 14, Beaconsfield Arcade, Queen's Road CL., also Wanchai

Amateur's Bepirements a Specialty.

PEINTING

"DAILY PRESS" OFFICE. Proofs read by Englishmen.

RATTAN FURNITURE

Excellent Accommodation, $2.50 per day. KWONG TAI LOY,

90 and 92. Queen's Road West.

BOOKBINDING

"DAILY PRESS" OFFICE.

The only office in China having European taught workmen. Equal to Home Work. BOOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS

W. BREWER & CO..

Printers, Bookbinders and Account Book Manufacturers, 23 and 25, Queen's Road

(under Hongkong Hotel).

BUILDERS

KANG ON,

Contractor; 30, D'Aguilar Street. Local and Coast Port Buildings, Timber, Brick

and Granito.

Mechanics engaged, Estimates given. CHEMISTS, DRUGGISTS, &c.

THE PHARMACY.

10, Queen's Road Contral Family and Dispensing Chemiste, Wiscs, Spirits and

Cigara,

THE VICTORIA DISPENSARY,

Chemists and Druggists, High-class Aero- ted Waters, Dealers in Photographic

Requisites, Queen's Bond.

WATKINS, LD. APOTHECABIes" Hall, 66. Que's Road Central, Cigars, Aerated

Waters, Wines, Beers, Spirits, sto.

CURIO DEALERS

KUHN & KOMOR,

Fine Art, Japanese and Chinese Curios, 21 and 28, Queen's Road, Hongkong,

Shanghai, Kobo, Yokohama.

KWONG HINGE-

China Porcelain, Crookery Ware; 595,

Qasen's Road Central. DENTISTS

WONG HOMI,

Surgeon Dentist, 50, Queen's Road Cont 1.

WONG TAI FONG,

Surgeon Dentist, 24, Bank Buildings,

Opposite Hongkong Hotel

DRAPERS

EBRAHIM ELTAS & CO.:

Milliners, Bilk Mercors, Haberdashers.

Low Prices; 37, 39. Wellington Street.

SEE WOO.

Tailor, Draper and Outfitter: 67 and 69,

Queen's Bond.

FLOUR MERCHANTS

SPERRY FLOUR COMPANY,

Merchant Millers, San Francisco. Eastern Branch, Pedder Street,

WILLIAM WHILEY, Manager. FURNITURE WAREHOUSEMEN

A CHEE & CO., Established 1859.

Every Household Requate. Depot for Eastman's Kodak Films and Accessories;

A, Queen's Road Central.

LI KWONG LOONG,

Cabinet-maker, Furniture Dealer, Art De .corator and Dealer, 17, Queen's Road.

GROCERS

THE MUTUAL STORES,

SUB-AGENTA LJUTOK, ID.

8 and 10 D'Aguilar Street

"Protiion and General: Morchants.

JEWELLERS

KANG LEE & COS

Jewellers Gold and Silversmiths, Watch maker Japanese Curion and Blackwood Furniture Opposite Post Office, 36,

Queen's, Bood Central

MAISON LEFY, HERMANOS D

Diamond Merchants and Watchinnkers, 40, Watson's Building, Queen's Road, Abie at Shanghai, Manile, Paris and Hoile.

WAI TRONG

P

Gold and Silversmith, Silk Dresses, Crêpa Bhawin, Ivory Lacquerware, Fans, Curios, Bristles, Human Hair, Fea thers, 82, Queen's Bend Central THE LIGHT OF THE FUTURE: EASTERN ACETYLENE LIGHTING COMPANY, Head ofice, 624, Queen's Road Central Fittings of every des cription for the ACETYLENE LIGHT at

lowest rates,

MERCANTILE AGENT

WOODS & COM

Battan Furniture, Bamboo, Blinds. Mat-

tings all Colours; 18, Praya Central.

SILK GOODS DEALERS

TEJUMUL POHUSING,

Dealer in Chinese. Indan and Japanese Goods, Silk, Woollen and Cashmere Shawls and other Sundry Goods; D'Aguilar Btreet, First Floor,"

WASSIAMULL ASSOMULL,

Wholesale and Retail Importers and Exporters, India, Chinese and Japanese Silks, Cashmere Shawls and Ceylon

Lace. 46. Queen's Rosil, Cl. SILK LACE MANUFACTURERS FR. BLUNCK,

·F.

Exporter of Real Hand-made Torchon Lace in Silk, Linen and Cotton, Grasscloth and Silk Embroideries, Hand-made Silk and Linen LACE Curtains made to order; 17, Queen's Roud, Central. STOREKEEPERS

BLACKHEAD & CO.,

Navy Contractors, Shipchandlers Sail Buskers, Provision and Coal Merchants, Praya Central, next Hongkong Hotel

MORE & SETMUND.

Shipchandlers, Sailmakers. Riggers, Com mission Agents and General Store-

keepers; 43 and 45, Praya Central.

TAILORS

[COPYRIGHT.]

CHAPTER XI.

VOICES OF THE NIGHT.

From my place of coareslment I was able to watch the insjor closely without risk of detection.

His

dress in the gloons. Then, sufficiently close to overhour, I halted with strained earn,

NOTICE OF. SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION.

STEAMSHIP CAPE CLEAR."

I was hidden behind a high hazel-bush, but could just distinguish, against that reddish glare which shines in the sky of the outskirts of London on a summer's night, two silhouettes, those of a man and a woman. The former hadreby give notice that they will offer halted and was leaning against the railing. while the latter, with a shawl twisted about her for Sale by Pablle Anatica, shoulders, stood facing him.

peeple about."

**I told :

you not to come here," she answered, and in an instant I recognised the voice. They were the sweet, musical tones of the woman who was my wife.

"Of course," laughed her companion, sar. donically. But, you see, I prefer the risk." And I knew by the deep note that the man who stood by her was the major.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26:11,:900

singing to pro accompaniment a selection from Bizet's Lee Pecheurs de Parlen, that charm ing song Je crois entendre encore." The voice was full of rich melody, and had evidently heen trained. Was it, I wondered, that of my "mysterious wife?

The two men at last tossed away their cigar ends and entered the house; thus I became on conraged to approach closer, eross the lawn sad peep through one of the side windows of the drawing-room. It was. I saw, a long, low, ald If you had wished you could certainly have room, comfortably furnished in a bygone style. met me before this," the man was gambling. Across the ceiling were great oaken beams, dark Fve waited at the sittle there a solid hour. and mellow with age, while most of the furnitureBesides, it was a risky business with so many dated from the early part of the century. Folly dozen people were there, but es I gazed around I was disappointed not to see my love. I had risked detection and discovery to obtain sight of crept nos there boiled no good. He had Ler, Iat she was not present, neither was her up the avenue until within sight of consin Nora. Most of the guests seemed smart the house, and was intently scanning the gay peuple, judging from the women's toilettes, party assembled on the lawn, Was it possible and all were lolling about with the air which overcomes One after that he had walked behind me and watched me of laziness

a good dianer. Dancing had ended, nu as "Why?" she inquired. The risk is surely enter there!

He was scarcely so art in appearance as on I watched. a young, dark-haired girl approach-mine in coming out to meet you!" the day when I fod my bride up the aisle of the ed the pian, and at somebody's suggestion church, and had afterwards handed me the commonest to sing a song by which I know cigarette, bat nevertheless he retained the dis that she tras French. It was a song familiar tinetly foppish air of the nian-about-town. For to me in the days when before entering the a few moments only he remained there eagerly hospital school I had lived in Paris, that "ditty scanning the distant group, then, as though re-so popular in the cabarets of the Montmartre, assured, he turned on his heal, and retraced his Tu t'en iras las plods dovant." She sang steps towards the lodge.

merrily, and was loudly applanded. It was Determined to watch his movements, I followed evidence that the knowledge of French among him until he gained Hounslow station, and there the guests was not, us in so often the case, I saw him turn into a low-built old-fashioned pretence, for they laughed heartily at the in, where I afterwards discovered he had been compic expressions, and grized when there was anything particularly risky." It was certain- staying for a couple of days past.

That some conspiracy was being formed Ily not the song for a drawing-room, and the could not doubt; therefore I set myself to keep fact that it had been demanded showed plainly strict watch upon him, & no easy matter, for that the company was not a very prudish on from hour to hour I feared that he might But alas! Society has sadly degenerated during recognise zue. It was he who had petitioned the past decade. Ten yours ugo music-halla the Archbishop for the special license for our were regarded as palaces of Satan, into which marriage; he who had with some mysterious no respectable wonian dare outer; bat nowadays motive posed as the father of the woman I now it is quite the correct thing to spend an even- level. Surely she must have known that he inr at the music-hall, and mothers do not. was not her father, and, if so, she horself hud hesitate to take their daughters to hear songs taken part in a plot which had so nearly cost caleulated to bring a blush to the face of a

virtuous girl.

her her life.

But was abe not dead when I found her lying there? Most certainly. I could have sworn before any coroner that she was lifeless. The puzzle was bewildering.

The major's movements might possibly give me some clue. It was fortunate that we had

met.

KWONG BANG & CÒ..

Shipchandlers, Sailmakers, Hardware,

At a cheap clothier's 1 bad purchased a rough Engineer Tools, Brass and Iron Mer second-hand suit, nod a bowler hat, much the

chants, 144, Des Voeux Road.

worse for wear, and these I had assumed in order to alter my appearance as much as possible, For a well-dressed man in a silk bat is somewhat remarkable in a place like Hounslow. About nine o'clock that same night, while I stood idling about the station with my eye over upon the inn opposite, my vigilance was suddenly rewarded; for the major emerged leisurely, carefully lit a cigar, and then strolled across the railway bridge and down the road towards Whitten. Darkness had not quite not in, there foro I hesitated to follow him but fortunately I had explored the neighbourhood thoroughly during the past few hents, and know that by crossing to the opposite platform of the station I could gain a footpath which led through fields and market gardens, merging into the high- road almost opposite the gates of the Park.

AH-MEN, HING-CHEONG & CO..

Tailors, Drapers and Outfitters, Queon's

Road Central, Old Club Site.

Brauch: A-MAN, opposite City Hall,

B. HAUGHTON & CO.,

Naval, Military and Court, 16, Queen's Road,

Opposite Kulu's Curio Stere..

HUNG YUEN.

Outiltters, Shirt Makers, Hatters, Hosiera,

Drapers, 85, Queen's Road, Centrul.

TAK CHEONG,

Tailors, Gentlemen's Outfitters, Haiters, Hoisters, and Drapers. Chinese Silk of all kinds, 50, & 52, Queen's Rd. Central,

TEE SANG 'FAT & CO.,

Outfitters. Pisce Gouds, Underwear, Shoes, Huts, Silk Handkerchiefa; Opposite Post

Office, Queen's Road Central.

TOBACCONISTS

This by-way I took, and hurrying down it, arrived at a point near the lodge fully five minutes before he appeared along the road. The gutes were, howover, closed.

Would he ring demand admittance, I wondered.

How is it that at the end of this century re- spectable women ape the dress, the manners, and even the slang of the demi-monde" To be fast is to be clae-a funt which is surely to be regretted by those who still hold the English woman as the pare type of all that is sweet and adorable. It seems to me very much as though in the lounge of the unsic-hall, that carpeted promenade of Aspais, the line dividing the monde" from the demi-monde" is no line as to be almost indistinguishable. The smart wo man of to-day is not very far removed from those unfortunates of her sex whom she calls "creatures," yet whose mudes in skirts and mil- linery she is so fond of imitating whose career she will devour in fiction, and whose argot, the argot of the bar, the restaurant, and the night club is fast creeping into her vocabulary, Smartness is almost invariably a synonym for the manners of u “ cocotte."

I peared in through those windows, eager for glimpse of Beryl Surely she was not like those ethers? No. I recollected her calm dignity and awest grace when I had spoken to her. She, at least, was high-minded and womanly. I was glul she was not there to hear that song. The singer sat down, haring Anished amid rears of laughter, and then the conyersation was resumed; but at that instant I became conscious of someone passing near me, and had only just time to draw back into the abadow and It was one of the thus scape observation. guests, a man who lounged slowly along, the glowing end of his cigar shining in the dark. poss. Alone, he was apparently full of reflec tións, for he passed slowly and mechanically onward without noticing me. Unable to see his fuce, I could only detect that he was rather above the average height, and by the silhouette I saw that he stooped slightly.

"Bolt! Women can always make excuses," he laughed. I should not have made this ap pointment if it were not imperative that we should meet."

Well" she sighed. "What do you want of me now?"

I want to talk to you seriously," With the usual roquest to follow." she ob- served wearily. Yon sunt money, eh"

Money? Oh no." he said with bitter ear- casm, I can do without it. I can live on air. you know.

•

That's better than prison fare, I should have thought," she answered grimly,

"Ah, now, my dear, you're sarcastic," he said, That doesn't become with a touch of irony. you."

"Well, tell me quickly what you want and let me get back, cr they will miss toe."

"You mean that your young lover will want to know with whom you've been flirting, ob? Well, you can mislead his again as you've done many times before. What a fine thing it in to be an accomplished liar. I always eary people who can be well, for they get through life so easily." He spoke in a fumiline tone, as though he held her beneath an influence that was irresistible.

I un no liar," she proteated quickly. "The Bies I have been compelled to tell have been at your own instigation.

"And to save yourself." he added, with a dry: harsh langh. But I didn't bring you here for

complimenta." an exchange of

(To be continued.)

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SATURDAY,

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The Hull and Machinery have just undergone an extensive overkant and a completo set of Now Awnings for both decks have been sup- plied.

The Vessel will be under steam and will leave the Dook Co.'s premises at 2 P.M. on the 28th September, 1900, for a three hours' trip, and intending purchasers are invited on board for this trip.

Note. The Steamer wil be sold at the risk

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TorasCash Delivery to be taken immedi- ately after the sale.

Hongkong. 21st September, 1900. [2460 NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES

FROM HAMBURG, PENANG. AND SINGAPORE.

⭑

THE N. D. L. Steamship

THE

"BAMBERG."

Captain Jacobs, having arrived from the abovo ports, Consignass of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lauling for counter- signature by the Undersigned and to take im mediate delivery of their goods from alongside. Optional Cargo will be forwarded antes notice to the contrary be given before the 20th instant.

Any Cargo impeding her discharge will be landed into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, and stored at Consigness' risk and expense."

No Chains will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godonus, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 29th instant, will be aubject to rent.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Gedowns, where they will be examined on the 29th instant, at 3 P.M. No Fire Insurane lus been effected.

SIEMSSEN & CO., Agents.

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Hongkong. 22nd September, 1900.

OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

When about two hundred yards from the gates he suddenly halted, glanced up and down the road as though to make certain that no one was watching, and then bending down squeezed himself through & hole in the wooden fencing an disappeared. He evidently know that the gates were locked, and had already discovered

The encounter, however, caused me to recede that wode of entry, if indeed ho had not broken

from the house, for I had no desire to be detect. away the palings himself earlier in the day.

Without hesitation, I hurried forward overed there and compelled to give an account of D. S. DADY BURJOR. "LOS FILIPINOS. the grass by the roadside, so that he might not myself. I was in shabby clothes, and if,found specially adapted for Children. Bold in Bottles,YONSIGNEES per Company's Steamer

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the paling, entered after him. I found myself tion to commit a theft. in the midst of hawthorn bushes and thick undergrowth, but pansing and listening intently I soon detected which direction he had taken by the noise of breaking twigs. For some ton minutes I remained there, fearing to mere lest

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Where was the resjor? He had certainly entered thore, but had escaped my vigilance by passing through the thicket. I had won there nearly half an hour, yet had not been able to rediscover him. The lawn on one side was the noise might alarm him, but when at last he bounded by a light iron fencing, beyond which was ont of houring I crept forward, breaking was a thick wood, and upon this fencing

way through in the direction of the avenue.mounted and sat to rest in full view of the house The night was hot, and so still that each sound and the long windows of the drawing-room. In the deep shadow of the trees I waited there, safe come to awaken the ochons.

What if he had paused and, becoming frem detections, listening to the music which alarmed, was now awaiting me!

goou re-commenced, and wondering what became of the man whom I had tried to follow.

I pushed forward as cantiously as I could.

had

It was quite dark, and I could discernHe seemed to have avoided the house, and gona nothing in the obscurity of the copse. At to the opposite side of the Park. last, however. brambles having scratched

my

ita unrulled

Not far away lay the great lake, tranquil in honda and face, and may clothes having the gloom, mirroring the stars upon been, budly torn, Imerged into the drive surface, and disturbed only by the rustle of a up which I had passed that afternoon. I stood rat along the bunk, or the plaintive ory of a teal listening but could hear no sound beyond the us she made her way among the dry rushes.

although I could actually zeg into the circle howling of a distant dog and the roar of a train

RESIDENCE composed of ONE or on its way to Londor. I stralued my ear to of the assembled guests, yet I was so far off TWO ROOMS, BATHROOM and detect in which direction the major had gone, that I could only distinguish the women by the KITCHEN. It would be preferable on the for a bills,

long distance on the gravel can be heard a colour of their goes. Had Beryl roturaed to in the silence of the night. All join them. I wondered. I was longing for a Apply

was, however, quiet-s stillness that somewhat single glance at her dear face, that face sweeter unnerred me, for it, occurred to me that he than any other in all the world. might be lurking somewhere among the dark bushes and perhaps watching me with secret katisfaction.

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With the greatest cantion I crept on, walk. the house. As soon se the old mansion came into MR. L. A. GRACA receives Pupils for ing uoiselessly over the grass in the direction of Portuguese Guitters.

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strains of dance music.

From where I stood I could see the high LANE, CRAWFORD & CO lemps, with their shades of yellow silk, and now Hongkong. 7th September, 1900.

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and then bright dresses flashed past the long GERMAN SCHOOL.

windows. A couple of figures were strolling up and down before the house. I could see the darkness, COM-their white shirt-forts in

and know that they were men smoking and enjoying the night air. The waltz ceased, and as I listened a sweat female voies broke forth,

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A woman in a cream dress, ent low at the 94-17 neck, came suddenly to the doorway, and poored forth into the night, as though in march of someone, but a moment later she disappeared. minuet from Manon and again the piano broke forth with the pretty

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I bad, I felt certain, been there almost, if not quite, an hour; therefore I was resolved to make a tour of the Park in an endeavour to find the man whose suspicious movements had so in- terested me earlier in the evening. With that object in view I leaped down upon take crossed it until I reached the edge of the lake, which I skirted until I gained a rustic bridge which crossed the tiny brook that rippled over the stones and fell into the pool.

Of a sudden I heard a sound. It was quite

a half-suppressed cough, distinet, like halted in surprise, but no other movement reached my ear. Could I have been mis- taken? The noise seemed very human. yet I knew that in the darkness of night the most usual sound becomes exaggerated and distorted. Therefore, reassured, I continued my way by the narrow unfrequented path, which, learing the lake-side, strack across the Park and led me by a stile into a dark belt of wood.

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A couple of minutes passed. To me they seemed as bours. Then again the voices sound- ed away to the left, apparently on the edge of the wood. Noiselessly I retraced my steps to the stile, and then found that from it there raa

HONGKONG.

"IDOMENFUSS

are hereby notified that the Cargo is being dis charged into Craft, and/or landed at the Gov. downs of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company; in both cases it will lie

at Consignes risk. The Carge will be ready for delivery from Craft or Godown on and after Optional cargo will be landed unless notics

the 22nd instant.

has been giren prior to steamer's arrival.

cods undelivered after the 28th intant will

be subject to rent. All flamaged Goods must be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined at 11 A.M. on the 2nd prox

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

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NOTICE OF REMOVAL

.

THE Offices of the

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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, CHƯNG NGÒI SẢN BO CHRONICLE & DIRECTORY."

have this day been Removed to

Entrances

9, PEATA CENTRAL,

East Lane, recentlyMeasrr. Wendt & Co.'s Offices, behind Messrs. Shewon. Tomes & Co.'s premises.

Hongkong 1st May, 1900.-

Lanoline'

Toilet Lanoline

Of all Cheralat

Derry Brand

Natural Toilet Preparations.

in collapsable tubes,

Makes rough skins smooth, and protects delicate complexions from wind and sun.

'Lanoline Tollet, Soap

Acoer Irritates; cleans and keeps the skin supple, Wholesale Depor-67, Holborn VrADUCT, LONDON,

Milkmaid

BAAD

Milk

Full Cream.

1671

As

guarantee

of quality

see that the

MILKMAID Trade Mark

is on every Tin.

Largest Sale in the World.