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HONGKONG

BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

FURNITURE WAREHOUSEMEN

A CHEE & CO., Established 1889,

Films

NOTICES OF FIRMS

CHINA COMMERCIAL STEAMSHIP COMPANY LIMITED.

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ROAD CENTRAL. 2xx FLOOR. CHEONG LEE & CO. Furniture Store. Hongkong, 21st March, 1903.

[$24 Established over 20 years. Importers and

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RAYNIER'S PERIL,

A ROMANCE OF THE NORTH-WEST FRONTLER. FT

"If you will go getting yourself disfigured in common street brawla yon must expect to affar for it. Bo low I call it,"

She was in a horrible humour that morning --- so much was evident Raybier wondered how she would receive the nows of the less of this malacca cane, and felt steeled to tell her about it then and there. In another moment he would BERTRAM MITFORD

have done so when an interruption occurred. A girl's voice came singing down the passage, and (Author of "The Ruby Sword,” Sign of

its owner borst into the room. the Spider "The Word of the Borteras det. ]: “Hallo, Herbert. You're jolly late again. I expect you've boon catching it,” with a glance at the thunder-ofsud on her older sister's faco, This was the Vicar's youngest daughtṣr, aged nineteen; there were two between her and the other, both married, likewise sous, helping to buttress up the Empire in divers colonies.

Right you are I have. I'm going to try for a trout or two, Silly. Feel like coming aloog?"

CHAPTER TIT

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"ABOVE BUBIES." "What's the matter, Cynthia P" said the Vivar, looking up from his after-breakfast newspaper, spread ont is crumpled Irregularity of surface, upon the table in front of him.

"Nothing father, unless-woll, I do wish people would learn to be a little more regular. The world would be so much more comfortable a place to live in."

The Vicar had his doubts upon that subject, However, he only said,

"Well, it's only once in a way, and won't hurt anybody. And you can't ask a man to stay with you, nod then tis him down to rigid hours like a soloiboy."

The time was nine o'clock on the second hardly be said that he was the offender morning after Harbert Hayaier's arrival. It

against punctuality,

Cynthia frowned, rattling the crockery upon the tea-tray somewhat viciously.

I shan't if you call me that," answered the girl,, with a shade of her sister's expression

coming over her fees, "that," however, not being an epithet but a leasing abbreviation of her own name-Sylvia

"All right. I withdraw the Silly."

"Then I'll go. But isn't Cynthia going " "Who says I'm too valy just at presoul."

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I am."

You' rather a sight," with a sleliberate glance at kis damaged figurehead. ***Never mind. Thorn's no 'one to see us here.

Where are we going?"

"How about the hole below Blackadder Bridge?"

"Why not? I hate irmgularity," the answered. "I should have thought regular

“That's it," returned Sylvia, "There was habits would horo been the first essential in Herbert's department towards gotting on in regular boil' on there the day before you came, but, that was in the evening." I took out it, that is,"

"Well, he has get on in it, regular babits croren trout in twenty-five minutos. Then the not. You can't deny that, my dear, at any rate." boil stopped and you couldn't more a fish.

"It delays everything so, went on the But, we'd better start soon." grievanes-monger. The ervants can't clear away, or get to their work: Herber knowa. we have breakfast at half-past eight, sud now It's after nine, and there's no sign of him, I

| it's of no uns trying."

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“All right. I'll go sod get my rod." The Vicar went out on to the lawn to see them off, and amake his after-breakfast pipe.

Cynthio, may dear," be called Come oat- exeuse sering to the

can't

keep the house going on those lines, soShe made some excise about e further notice ME. DONALD MACDONALD, Engineer Surveyor for Well, you'll soon be in a position to reform things being cleared away. However she soon Veritas will conduct the busines of the Burvan him to your heart's content," said the Vicar joined him.

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Why, what on earth do yon moan; father?”. she answered, resentment and astonishment being about evenly disided in kar tone.

with a twinkle in bis eye-and there came grim, set look shout the other's rather thin-said, peering into the ivy which hid the garden wall. "Somo_cat_bas found them, I expect. ipped mouth which sugared ill for Reynier's By the way, Cynthis, do you really intend to domestic peace in the future.

Cynthia Daintre had just missed being marry Herbert Raynier pretty, Her straight features were too coldly severe, and her grey eyes a trifle too steely, but her brown hair was soft and abundant, and there were occasious when her face could light POY WRITER Wanted, 15 to 17, with up, and become attractive. She was tell, and

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Predisely what I say, dear no more and 20 less. Because if you don't you're going the right way to work to let him see it.

*If I don't? But I do of courea I do. I

-Ob, it's simple enough. Couldn't you

in't think what you're driving at.

now and then, if only for a shenge, to give perpetually found fault with and bauled over the casts," pronounced the Vicar, speaking with some feeling, moved thereto by sundry vivid -recollections of his own,-for-he-was-u-widower-

Cynthia coloured.

ing-looking girl. But she had a temper, a retam civil word? Men don't like to be

careless.

"Morning, Cynthia. Hallo, you look dis- obliged. What's the row? Morning, Vicar." This was not the best way of throwing it sapou the troubled sen, but then the whole thing was so incomprehensible to Bagnier. He conld not understand how people could make a

But they require it-and-it's only for their good," she answered."

No dendlier motive could be adduced." ro- turned her father, drily. Because, you ree, if you use the whip too much they're apt to kick. And I desory symptoms of such a tendency on the part of Herbert. I thought

Lusi over such a trille is whether one man atë à bit of toast, and played the fool with a boiled I'd give you a hint, that's all It would be.a egg, half an hour soser or half an hour later. pity to lose him. His parition is excellent and There was no train to catch, no business of his prospecte ditto; besides he's a thoroughly vital importance to be transacted, here in this good fellow into the bargain."

This

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sleepy little country place. His fiancie evald

pool beneath Blackadder Bridge was bavo bad precious little experience of the graver issues of life if that sort of thing disturbed her. wide enough for a rod on each side, so that neither interfered with the other, but Raynier You've only yourself to thank if every and bis future sister-in-law had met with scant thing's cold," answered Cynthia, suappisbly,

"I don't mind-even if there isn't anything sport. The surroundings, however, were lovely to get cold. Feeding at this end of the day isn't the soft roll of the wooded hills resounding with the joyous shout of the onckoo, the blue baze of in my live at all. I hardly ever tonck anything spring beneath the cloudless sky, and meadows spangled with myriad butter cups; while, bard by, skipping perkily in and out of their knob. Kke neat against the heary massiness of the buttressed bridge, a pair of water-ouzels took no count whatever of their hamasa disturbers. The handson carved Cigarette Case which fits the pocket. bleating of young lambs was in the air, mingling with the tuneful marmur of the brown water puiling out from the breadth of the deep pool into a miniature rapid.

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To old. Besides, I'm on furlongh,” re- turned Raynier, maliciously teasing. It was the only way of veiling his resentment. He OE the International Settlement of did not take kindly to being perpetually found Kulangeu, Amoy, a Competent Man to fault with, and still less so the first thing in act as SECRETARY and SUPERINTEN- | the morning. *Don't you agree with me, DENT OF POLICE. Preference will be given Vicar? A man on furlough should be allowed

to a man. with some knowledge of Sanitary a few venial sias " Engineering Salary $40 per month. There would be no objection to his accepting outside work, provided the same would not interfere with his duties. The selected candidate must pass a Medical Examination.

"Oh, I think so," said Mr. Daintree, with s laugh. And then he began to discuss the war news in that morning's paper, which soon led round to the events wherewith our story speas: That must have boon after the fashion of our old Town and Gown rows at Oxford," said W. S. ORE.

the Vicar. They are a thing of the past non, Chairman, Kulangan Municipal Council. I'm told." Amoy, 19th March, 1903.

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Well, you two? What have you got to show for yourselves?

Raynier looked up, alment start.ed, so amazed was he. For the voice was Cynthia's-and it Was Cynthia herself, looking exceedingly at. was quite pleasant, even affectionnte. And there Bastise in her plain end therefore tasteful country attire. In her hand was a basket,

"I thought I'd bring yon something Latter för lunch than those dry old sandwiches," she "And a good thing too" struck in his said, smilingly, as she proceeded to unpack its daughter. What horrid savage creatures mea contents And Raynier, wondering, thought are. Never happy unless they are fighting could this be the same Cynthia whom he had

"Don't know, I much prefer running away,”

last seen, acid and disagreeable, who indeed had said Raynier.

scarcely had a sivil word to throw to him sines

Pity you didn't carry out your preference, Then you wouldn't have come down here look ing such a sight," with a glance at bis some- what disfigured visage,

"And thero'd have been one Orientol the less

his arrival.

"Beastly bad luck," screamed Sylvia, from the other side, recling in her line, preparatory to coming over to join in the lunch.

This proved quite enjoyable. What on earth

in the world. Phew! that was a vicious moblad happened to Osathis between then and

if ever there was ons. By the way there's a saying that if you resono anybody La's bound to do you a bad turn. Wonder if it'll hold good here. und if in the order of fote that shop and I will meet again out there? Stranger things have come oË.”

Only in books," said Cynthia, con- temptuously.

No-in real life. I could tell you of at least three remarkable if not starting circumstances of the kind that have come to my knowledge, bat I won't, for two reasons-one, that they wouldn't interest you two, that you wouldn't baliere a word of them."

What and you going to do to-day, Herbert? said the Vicar.

"Fish. You coming with me, Cynthia ?" "No." ม

I'm not fit to be seen with,” Meaning answered Raynior Interproti g her fianco.

Heroic

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breakfast time ? thought Baynier. No trace of addity was there about hor now. Her manner was soft, indeed affectionate, and she looked up into his distigured countenance quite delight- fully instead of turning from it in aversion a heretofore. Why on earth couldn't she be like. this always, be thongüt regretfully, feeling softened and relenting, under the combined in uences of the soothing sarroundings und an

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In the afternoon sport meaded and more than once a "boil" came on the water, for a few minutes only, but so lively while it lasted that they took out tront almost with every cast, and then be noticed bow carefully in the back- ground Cynthia kept, and when he hung up his cast in that confounded elder tree just as the rise began, she it was who came to the resous of bis impatience, aad en deftly and. quickly disentangled the dies. Why ever could not she always be like that? And then, during the two mile walk home together in the glowing beauty of the clondiese evoning, there was simply no comparison between the delightful TELEGE APHIC ADDRESS: MIDZUSHIMA, Kobe, Mojl, Omki, Wakamatsu, and Hongkong, attractiveness of this woman, and the frowning. slirewish scold of the opening of the day, and again and again he thought-

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