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THE

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12

(AIZ Brants Renderen.]

A LURKING PHANTOM:

ROBINSON PIANO A STORY OF LOVE AND MYSTERY,

COMPANY, LIMITED

NOTE.

ENTIRELY

NEW STOCK.

TO ARRIVE THIS MONTİL. SPECIALLY AND MOST CAREFULLY

CHOSEN,

JOHN BLOUNDELLE-BU RTON, (Author of "The Hispaniola Flato," "The Year One.""& Vanished Rival," fo).

CHAFTER IV.,

THE UNVEILED PAST. Sul fencing with the man; still, like a skilful swordsman, yet one who knows that, he tias met his match and finds overy riposte partied, Lady Bottrell said:→

"Soch anms as that, as ten thousand pounds, can not be borrowed egon by the wealthy with out some security being given. Those who might be disposed' to help Mark Farness, no mattor how rick they or or their connections

thing at least Mark Fornos a claim which

is his and no clas's in this world, and claim it' be will"

"He will be implacabls ?”

1903

WM. POWELL, LD.,

: GENERAL DRAPERS, HIGH-CLASS DRESSMAKERS, AND

GENTLEMEN'S OUTFITTERS,

"He will insist on his righta. Every other man does so; why should not hạ P"

""Yet he will sell them? He can be bought

off."

That is the plain way of putting thinge. Though I am willing to acknowledge that it expresses the mattor clearly, if strongly. But there is also a batter construation to be put ou his determination. He may not desire to cause any discord and, if I may say it on his boliaif, he does not make an exérbitant dómund.”

"I must go now," Lady Bottrell said, feeling at the end of her forces, "I have other duties to attend to. I will communicate with those concerned. Meanwhile," she added, "thers is, suppose, no hurry. If he is ill in that Lospital, a few days are of no importance?”

"None whatever. Your ladyship can com "Not at once parhips," Challis said, lookingmunicate with me at your own time." her straight in the eyes. "Not altogether in Then, opening the door for her, Mr. Challis

Diamond Merchants and Watchmakers 4 DIRECT FROM THE FACTORIES, may be, could never do that?

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Mme. Patti says that the Apollo never has given her the slightest trouble and that the new concert grand is one of the most wonderful and perfect piano-players that she bis over seen."

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one transaction:. Bint, as I have said, money is recorted her through the hail and on to the NOBEL-GLASGOW EXPLOSIVES.

| sily obtained--by the wealthy."

"I do not know how," while, as she spoke, Lady Bottrell remembered that in her married lile of now ainetom years there had ever Arisai a single agcessity for bor to require six. pence, Sir Geoffrey's own great woulth was always at her command, he had only to express a want to have it gratified. But she kad never yet asked him for anything but triding some of money without stating for what it was required.

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"Yone ladyship is fortunate," Mr. Challis Baid now with a faint smile, one between' which and a faint sneer it would have won difficult to draw a distinction. Most fortunate ia mot knowing how sach money can be obtained. Also, if I may say your ladyship must ha entirely devoid of curiosity and of any desire to know the affairs of other ladies of your own. position."

"I do not understand you.". "Lady Bottrell, yours ago I practised as an American lawyer here in London. Later, I practised as an American lawyer in Paris. I

lement came strange jugs in both cities as to

the doings of ladies of fashion."

great steps in the courtyard of the Cosmopoli- tan, where he bade the porter calls cab. He stood, too, barsheaded on those stops till he had soon the cab drive off after the man had been directed to go to Madame Van Vleot's in Bond Street.

Ah? Atid

"Ah!" he said to himself, as he strolled bank to his room, while he smiled pleasantly as he maand on the recent interview. Mark Furness will get that £10,000. perhaps, a little more. I do not think Mark will be quite satisfied with that. It will come nearer to £20,000. and perhaps £30,000 bafaro. be has done with her. Done with her! Is will never have done with bur. Not so long as either of them live." After which he want inte

the hotel restaurant and ordered ́n socherché little lunch and a half bottle of choico Volnay, à wine that, on the earfs, had two stars against it to denote its particular excellence.

Meanwhile the cab was nearing the redoubt- able Madame Van Vieot's-or Van Vleets as that celebrity preferred to be termed, in the same distinguished and significant way. as Metzer, or

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Maggie O'Rafferty-Van Vest's hated rvals in London-and Lady Bottrell was sented in it white and pale, while feeling a slight shivering

"Can that concern me or-If I may say so dù my part-the subject in question ?"

"It may concern bese to whom Mark Farin her limbs and bating and loathing herself, noes will apply for well! an advance on the -sum he requires.”

"An advance! That is a different thing. If he wanted a hundred, or two hundred ponuda or so, it could probably be obtained without much difficulty"

"He would not be satisfied with spok an advance as that. May I tell you a little story, Lady. Bottrell? Or half-a-dozen little

alories P

•

FRONTIER MIXTURE.

"It was only yesterday I told myself that there was nothing that could interfere with Maud's happiness," she murmured, as she had marmared before" Ouly yesterday! And to-day my God! Today, not twenty-four hours afterwards, I am surreptitiously visiting that ("man in an hotel, I am about to visit my drees-

maker with a view to getting money somehog. HAVE ALE. TIN OF FRONTIER. MIXTURE SENT TO YOUR HOME.

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1, with a husband who has thirty thousand a year; a busband who would give as all I wanted all, every farthing that man demanded for his client-if I could only tail him what I wanted it for."

She was indeed hating and loathing herolf, and perhaps she did so the more because it had for so long been her habit to despise the women who did, as she very well knew, that which she was now sebeming to do herself.

"That man's tale of the millionaire's wife,"

And Dow

and racing debtą with. From pawning their jewels, and having paste pat in the settings, as Loo Mildmay did. Loo Mildmay who died suddenly, leaving ber bashad to discover what she had done when she was gone. now-I must do something of the same sort or Mark Furness will tell his story. No! he annst never do that. Nevor. If he wants the ten thousand pounds he must have it."

Yet how was it to be obtained? How? The

"If they are material to the subject, yes." **I had a client onse in Paris, na American, a self-made, a treble millionaire-la pounds sterling, not dollars or france who had married s French lady of higa rank gud birth. This man allowed his wile 100,000 francs a year £4,000 for her dresses, bats, everything. They had obtained the entry to the Emperor's set, it was before the war; they went every- where, to the Tuilleries, Compiègne, Trouville, she said to herself, was no startling story to me. Nor was there any need for him to place Homburg; they, followed the Court. All the same it was a bandame allowance, was it not?" it in Paris. Have I not known of a score of "Very handsome," Lady Bottrull acknow. women doing mach the same in London; have ledged.Welt ?"

I not despised them for doing it ? For paying Well, one day, Metzer-as the most fashion-their dressmaker half the money they owed hes able drasamsker in Paris was called a man and keeping the other half to pay their card whose name your ladyship is, of course, familiar with, went to see the millionaire and he objained sdaússion to him and, when he had obtained it, he showed him a hill against the millionaire's wife and asked for settlement. He also showed him what the French call papiers timbrés, or we should call acceptances. And the whole amounted to half a million francs--£20,000,"

"She had been borrowing money from Metzor and she had not pull her bills." Lady Bottrell For comprehensiveness and practical service said. "The thing is common enough in Paris.very taot cf bor husband's great wealth would this Work stands unrivalled. All the now words It would be more difficult here. There are which the Chinese have of late. years bean com pelled to coin to exprove the numerous objects ir dramakers in London who do the same thing machinery, photography, telegraphy, nud in but not to the same amount. And," she added, sciones generally, which the rapid advance of "if they did, you would scarcely suggest, I foreign relations has imposed upon them, are hard given in extenso. Each and every word is pass, that the parsons on whom Mark fully illustrated and explained, forming exercisen for students of a most instructive nature. Both the Court and Punti pronaciations are given, the accents' being carefully marked on the best principle hitherto attained. The

"I am angges ing nothing." Irs Challis ro- typography displays the mincess of an attempt to make the marked, though as he spoke there was a, look Chinese and English type correspond in the size on his face which might have been taken for body, thereby effecting a vast economy of one of discomfiture, and which brought to Lady

"a" clearness" not "previously This Bear is brewed, of best Saaver Hops and attained, and dispensing with those vest margine Bottrell's mind the ides that, for once, the

space, achieving a finest. Busley bult only, and whergated not to, and vacant spaces which hays heretofors cheras riports had gone home. "Nothing. I simply wish to siste-and this statement is quite To illustrate the vast scope following facts aresubmitted for consideration Chalmers Vocabulary contains about. 16,000 Chinese characters, and Medhurst's English and Chinese Dictionary, about 100,000 whilst this work contains more than 50,000 English worde and upwards of 600,000, Chinese characters Aguia, despite all the greatmare and other elamentary works as yet published, the student of this difficult language absolutely requires ex- amples to display the various applications and

**And," said Lady Bottrell rising, too, and equivalents of different words which have one general meaning. Of these examples this work standing before him, "if what he requires is contains more than five times as many as other Dictionary hitherto published any not acceded to, there will be a scandal

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unke the procuring of that som difficult. How could she, Sir Geoffrey Bottrell's' wife, endesy- our to borrow money or ran into debt without talk, gossip, scandal being aroused? She, who could go to him and tell him that she wanted a new carriage or a new pair of horses or a new Farbas may think he baya alaim should adoptarure, and have them for the king. Only! the same habit. Surely that is scarcely what a the carriage or the horses or the jewols would lawyer ought to advies or suggest.”

have to be forthcoming; visible; in evidence.

They were miserable thoughts, these.. Awful

s lite open

and clear as daylight; a woman thoughts for a woman who for so long had lod against whom, even in this twentieth century, with its title and gossip, no breath bad ever blown nor the faintest wisper been muttered..

Terrible thoughts and reflections, yet with, still ensning through them like a thread, one thought that was almost a bone. A thought, a she had eat gasing down on the reproduction of the grey, blurred hair of the man called Mark Furness; as she had observed the clothes the unhappy man had been photographed in, and as she had observed that tube for keeping a boutenuatre fresh which protruded frou

the lappet of his cont

The Boor issterilised after being battled, and torized Chinese publicationho work the within the province of a lawyer-that my cliant hope, that had been engendered in her mind as

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does not intend to be left in poverty while those on whom he has chime are living in the lap of luxury." And, as the "Juriscosult" spoke, he rose from the table and placed himself with his back against the empty fire placa, meaning thereby, perhaps, to convey that the intervier

had lasted long enough.

"In no way. There is, as a matter of fact, no scandal to be made. Your ladyship-my client's friends-know that as well as I. But there are other things besides scandals; there are often just claims and sometimes revelations, that can be made in this world which may

it explains subjects fully with which very few cause as ranch shall I say, discomfort indeed of them, are perfectly acquainted. To scandal itself, Mark Farness's old friends will parties resident in England and interested in knew whether it is better to permit those re thing it cannot but be invaluable occasionally.

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Yet it was only a hope. A distant, wan ray of hope, which itself was almost queecbed by the recollection of the fact that, whatever cessed by Trs Challis. secret Mark Farness possessed, was also por

(To be continued.)

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