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• SOUTH CHINA MORNING

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44

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TERNSIDE, BOBINSON ROAD. Apply

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[1849 NO. 12, ARBUTHNOT ROAD.

TIRNSFOOT,” UreEx RICHMOND

66 FR

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10, Queen's Road. Hongkong, 30th October, 1962

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0.

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E. A. DE CARVALHO. C.F. DE CARVALHO, Hongkong, 3rd July, 1993.

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HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FIN-

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YTYWO SUITES of ROOMS in the Ground Floor of the Hongkong Club Annex, -suitable for Oilves.

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C. H. GRACE, Scoretary.

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, JULY: 4TMя, 1908

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED]

V. 0.

A CHRONICLE OF CASTLE BARFIELD

AND THE CRIMEA, -

BY

affairs had never prepared patil he had on- trusted them to the lands of the onsins Jer. rass aul Jorveypo. Little by little he had boon drava on until the greater part of his investments lay at their control.

And now for the pratty gid, who is staring with an alarmed and waite a visage on tho tunult of the ball. This is Genaral Boswell's DAVID CHRISTIE MURRAY

laughter, sole child of a lats marriage, and the (Author of "Joseph's Cout," "Rainbow Cold," apple of his eye. She has been wandering. "Aunt Rachel," "Despair'e Last Journey." Acquite consciously towards an engagem nt with young Polson; and expects him, with orallent reason, to doolars himself at almost any hour. She Knows of her father's association with Jorvase and Jerroyce, and inded, it has beon familiar thing to her ur since she came to bo of was agu to understand,

CHAPTER H.

The clatter of the tumbling objeols in the hall brought out the General and Jack Jervaso's son. The girl poured with a whitar taco tinn ever from the parlour doorway, and a fourth nulitor came upon the scene in the person of an elderly women in black satis and old lace, who rushed into the hall with frightenei eyes and apraised bauds, in time to hear the question and the answer.

To make elar what the question and the answer moant to the four people who hoard them, 1 must go back a stop.

the coins trazalates itself variously for every Thus the brief and torrible collegay_between lisiant r

To Joba Jerrasa il cries ont of guilt detected. things at once; it awakes with a orning sens

To Pelson Jervase it speaks of half-a-dozen

the ruin of the one man whom he most loves of certainty that lato suspicion; it to:ls him of

and hopears in this narrow wor d-not his heart; it tells him in an instant of a life of father, but the gray old father of his sweet-

Burrow means for the girl he loves; it hurts bis own hop in the mirs, and makes the thought of them a dishonour, it suatch from vory

he has set ins heart the gate to which a ood him to bright proapeal of the earuor on which wide open but a moment earlier. And all this in the tick of a watch, in the space of time filled by one agonised boat of the hoari.

For the girl, whatever it may men hereafter, it weus for the moment nothing more than a loaping of two thoughts in one. Hor mitel is conscious only of a mingled ory of "Poison!" and of "Father!"

So Gallt stores at Gait and Terror and Suspicion stare at both of them, and the roaring wind and lashing rais moko exclamation dumb.

until his son and the General lent their aid. The half was sown with broken glass and fragments of picture frames, and loro and there an angraving lay wet and crumpled, but not even the sowife regarded the things for the time being.

John Jervase turned from the final struggle with the door, and looked about him. His face had lost its muddy tint. tis opes Blared, hie month twitched, and his lips were of the colour of lead. The swaggering jocundity of his manner had all gone. The very stature of the a seed changed, and the square width of his shouldera was shrunk and rounded, le moistened bis leaden its three times with his tougao, and each time tried to spook in vain,

Jack Jorres rau away from home who the nineteenth sautury was in its toons. He had left behind him a inram-seoram reputation, and, savo for his father and mother, but a solltury relative of his own name. When he -cams back, with cois in pouch, and the story of a life of stange wiynature behind him, the old folks had boon dend a dozon yozra, nud fir solitary cousin, whom he bad always devided no a piona noak, had so far prospored in the world's affairs that he had left the old-fashioned conventiola in which bo had had his spiritual WO SPACIOUS GODOWNS-Noa. 95 upbringing, and had becoms a pillar of the The cousin lind heon Established Church, sad 96, PRAYA EAST.

christened Jocob and Noakes; but be had-em- Apply to-

braidored himself into James Knock fervesce; the Knocks being a family of some distinction in his neighbourhood, and the matné Jervoyan

Jervaws was the first to recover himself. He haring, to his faney, a Norman-French sort of thrust his cousin on ono side, and batted towards aspeat which seemed to lift its bears the open dear, but he atrose in vain to close it, superior sosial height. James had many ironS in the fire, and seems to be prosperously bany at the commercial anvil all day long. Amongst the business enterpriese he had in head, there "GODOWN,"

was but one which at any time had appeared to Care of Daily Press Office. Field him ne return for his labours, He had Hongkong, 16th June. 1993.

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afforded by a brino pit in the neighborhood of Droitwich; and his croitor having failed in the stipulated payments. Jama, had foreclosed upon this property and had undertakes to work if for himself. He found this enterprisa u failure, but since he could induce nobody to take it off his hands, he worked the property for what it was worth from time to time. There were seasons in which the pit was almost dry, and when it was impossible to work it at a profit. There were other seasons when the unterground sources treated his mara favour. ably. A more decided man than Mr. Kuvek Jervoyce would probably have decided to alardon the property altogether, and to let one THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.oss stand for everything. There was a considerfest the servants and hangarsou stout the

able coxtincurred in the upkeep of machinery which was much oftener le than engaged; and the occasional employment of the plant was, of course, ou the average much more expensive than its constant we would have bean.

James was on the point, after two or thras years of indecision, of relinquishing the work. ing altogether, when Cousin John came home. There was a couference between the two, and following on that conference a very strange thing happened. The worthless mine be eme a property, and one of the best of its kind is England. Five men knew how this rusult was brought about, and three of them had been for good many years in the enjoyment of poosion-one in Australia, one in Caunds, and ano is the Upited States. These pepsions were paid by Cousins John and James, and puil by Do means willingly. Not to boggle at this matter, the two cousins, at John's instigation, the unproductivo salt pit was a noble property of the same kind, and John's device bad been to tap the wealthy neighbour's store by rauning a little dit from the westbloss shaft into the the valus of such properties to durinat. A rich one. It was not an outieard of thing for rich mine would pay out, and a poor que at a distance would becoino suddenly ourivbed; and theas charges ware, no doubt rightly, in the common instance attributed to the capricions operatious of Nature. tapped source of the rousing' wealth suspected anything to begin with nobody ever know. The

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Come in," he said at last, in a harsh and rasping voie. And they all moved automati vily into the parlour, he leading them. They grupod there at the ani of the cantre table, and the instinct of the trembling house wife su far awoko within hor that she closed the door, house abould hear what she know was omming.

James Jarvoyou, « man-statured man, of measer feature, with his hair plastered about his forehead by the rain, and the water dripping from his o170, stood me the catre of all eyes. His face was of the hue of gray paper, and ho gasped for breath, and trembled,"

"Pol," said John Jurvase, waving his right hand blindly, "give me give me the decanter and's tumbler."

Both lay our at hand, and Jervase, having randy, spoke again." primed himself with a great gaip of neat

Now, James, he asked, "what's the matter? What do you mean by coming here to scare a peaceful house in this wild fashion?"

The accent was the accent of his youth, the broadest sperol of the Castle Barfield region. James seemed incapable of auswer and bis filled the glass almost the brim, and hold it

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[54 | the two had resulted in a stand-up fightin which the blokmailer bad got very much the wornt of it. But ne he rose from the last round, and spat out the fragments of one or two broken teeth, he said things which filled the honourable aud manly spirit of young Jervase with a terror to which he hardly dared to give a namo. The terror would have named itsof loudly enough

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young Poisou Jervase would have been less disturbed if his mother, hearing there things, bad not fallen to trembling and wooping and wringing her hands; for he urged, sintully, that she would not have been so dreadfully up-et if sie had not fire at least that there was fome ground for the words which had been spektra in tur hearing.

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I be continued.)

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