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INSURANCES

TORTH BRITISH AND MERGAN.

NILE INSURANCE COMPANY.

TOTAL FUNDS AT 318 DECEMBER, 1802 £16,378,771.

1. AUTHORISED. CAPITAL.. £8,000,000 -0.0 SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL 2,750,000 00 PAID-UP, CATTRAL

697,500 0 0 2,887,15 11 1

II. FIRE FUNDS

The Undersigned AGENTS for the abore Company, are propsred to ACCEPT BISKS

· against" "FIRP at Carront Rates.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

Agents.

(1883 Hongkong, 19th June, 1933,

TORTH GERMAN FIRE INSUR ANCE COMPANY OF HAH BURG The Ladersigned AGENTS of the above Company to PREPARED TO ACCEPT First Cias Foreign and Chinese Risks of Current Bales.

SIEMSSEN & CO. Hongkong, 20th stay 1895

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THE WESTERN ASSURANCE COM-

PANY OF TORONTO, CANADA. ·

INCORPORATED 1851.

...£525,719

1

Cash Security Total Lossis Fald ******£6,760,240

Undersigned having been appointed ANTS for the shore Company, are prepared to a "EPT RISKS against FIRF at Current Batea.

WM. MEYERINK & CO. Hongkong, 13th Msy THE BOMBAY FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

THE undersigned, having been appointed TGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to accept RISKS at Current Rates. HOTZ, JACOB & CO.

12160 Hongkong, 30th July, 1903, THE STATE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, OF LIVERPOOL.

THE Uadersigned AGENTS of the above Company are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Carront Batas.

W. G. HUMPHREYS & 00:

! 2184 Hongkong, 3rd August, 1903. NORTHERN ASSURANCE CO,

FIRE and LIFE. ESTABLISHED 1838,

THE Undersigned are prepared to accept First Class Foreign and Chinose RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.

Also to accept proposals for LIFE ASSUR ANCE. Prospectuses on application.

TURNER & CO...

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Hongkong, 3rd September, 1905.

Agents.

THE.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3RD 1903

ROBINSON PIANO

COMPANY LIMITED

NOTE.

ENTIRELY

NEW STOCK

·TO ARRIVE THIS MONTH.

SPECIALLY AND MOST CAREFULLY

CHOSEN,

FALL RIGHTS RESERVED.}

A LURKING PHANTOM: A STORY OF "LOVE AND MYSTERY,

DX

· JOHN BLOUNDELLE-BURTON (Author of "The Hispaniola Plate," "The Year One," " Vunished Rival," do).

CHAPTER X.

**THE PROMISED LAND." That night Lady Bottrell told Séverine whom, Inntil this time, she had-imagined to be the only person in existence who knew her secret, that Mark Lambert was still alive. Alive and, what was worse, determined to derive considerable benefit from the fact of his wife having obtained a position which made her a suitable object for exploitation.

“Mon Dieu !" Eévorino exclaimed, sitting down before her mistress in her excitomcut and DIRECT FROM THE FACTORIES,, agitation. Alite! It seems impossible.”

MR.

GREAT

¡HY OVE

ROBINSON

NOW IN EUROPE.

REDUCTIONS

IN OUR PRESENT STOCK OF PLANOS AND MUSICAL GOODS.

"It seems so. Yet I fear it is true. There Is a talk of bin coming to England.”

"Then it must be true. Coming to England! Dieu des Dietz! what is to be done?"

"Ka may-be-bought off, it appears," Lady Bottrell said, haltingly, B though. perhaps, ashamed to mention that the man she once loved could, even at his worst, have Bunk so low."Yet even that is not all. He has confided in a lawyer, a man who has come all the way to England to represont lim in advance. And he, too, will bare to be bought

bim koop silence,"

A QUANTITY OF OLD MUSIC STILL off, or-or-paid so much at intervals to make

LEFT, BEING SOLD VERY

CHEAP.

CALL IN AND SEE WHAT WE HAVE ALL ENQUIRIES WILL BE MOST COURTEOUSLY AND PROMPTLY ANSWERED.

THE APOLLO

"Pay them, then. Ten esu do it," Sivering said. "In your position what they want can be obtained. Is it not so?"

"Ha-bo-Lambert wants ten thousand pounds. That is the price fixed."

"Heavens! It is enormens. Still, it must be done."

"How am I to get ten thousand pounds? How can I ask my husband for such a eum as that and yet have nothing to show for it, for the way it is spent? If I could do that I might get

PIANO-PLAYER it, but even then it is a large sum, a third of

"RECITALS DAILY

PRICE FROM $450 UP.

FATTI ENDORSES THE APOLLO, Adolina Patti (Baroncas Cederstrom) has given another great testimonial to the Apollo Piano-player. She was so delighted with the instrument that was purchased by her last year

than the first one thai sho gave.

var annual income."

For a moment Séverine Dupont sat. meditat ing while acknowledging to herself that, sven to a man of Sir Geoffrey's means, it would be a large sum to disbarse, and acknowlodging also that no such amoant could possibly be obtained from him without some evidence being given of what it was wanted for. Then, after a moment's reflection, she spoke again,

"If-if--Lambert in alive and wants this money he cannot want it all at once; he would surely be willing to let you pay it by degrees.

UN INSURANCE OFFICE, LONDON that this second testimonial is even stronger. You could give him something worth having to

FOUNDED 1710.

L'or, Undersigned having been

point

AGENTS for the love Company, are pre- pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE a Current Ralok.

SIEMSSEN & CO.

Arents.

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Hongkoir. 10th May, 1892. BALAMANDER FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.

HE Vadersigned, having boon appointed AGEN PS to the aiove Compang, are repared to ACCEPT TISKS against FIRE

at Current Rates.

HZ JACOB & CO. Honghug, 2nd p:1, 1:900

P

HENIX WIRE

12

OFFICE.

The Undersiguel are now prepared GRANT POLICIES of INSURANCE against FIRE at Currant Rates.

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.

Agents for the Phonix Fire Office,

Hongkong, 17th August, 1887. AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE

SURANCE CO.

OF AIX-LA-CHAPELL

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

r2484 Hongkong, 3rd Beptember, 1903,

Clarke's Blood Mixture

"FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE. THE WORLD-FAMED BLOOD PURIFIER AND RESTORER

3S WARRANTED TO CLEAR THE BLOOD from all impurities from whatever cause arising. For Soroicla, Berry, Eezema, Skin and Blood Dis eases, Blackheads, Pimplex, and Horos of all kinds, it 8ia a never-failing and permanent Care. It (N.:

Curos Old Soros.

Caten Bores on the Neck.

Curus Soro Leg

Cares Blackheads or Timples on the Face. Cares Scarry.

Cares Ulcers.

THE Undersigned, having been appointedures lilood and Skin Diseases. L AGENTS for the above Company, act prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.

REUTER, BRÜCKELMANN & CO.,

Agents. Hongkong, Ziut April, 1897

WHAT FINER CAN YOU DRINK THAN

Cares Glandular SwellinzA.

Clears the Blood from all impure Matter from what-

ever cause arising.

It is a real speelão for Goot and Rheumatic paine, It removes the canes from the Blood and Bones.

As this Mixture is pleasant to the taste, and war !18ranted fros from anything injurions to the most deli

onto constitutions of either sex, the Proprietors solicit waffeters to give it a trial to test its value.

JOHN JAMESON

ANDSONS' (DUBLIN) "OWN CABED" Verv Old BLACK-BOTTLE

WHISKEY.

Please see you get it with

BLUE-One Star. PINK -Two Stars, (GOLD-Three Stars

Metal Capsules

OF ALL DEALERS".

Sole Export Bottling Agents to J. J. & S.- DAY & CO, LONDON.

50-1

Mr. Stephen Morgan writes" I have Roffered since

ge ou with-and-later-yod could find ways of satisfying him. You could gradually get toge her the money required."

"I do not know how."

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We will see," Bovence, asid

Megawhile

I am deterniined to do one thing. I will go to-morrow to that office, that agency to which

W M. POWELL,

LD.,

HIGH-CLASS DRESSMAKEES, AND

-GENTLEMEN'S. OUTFITTERS,

we wont twenty years ago; I will ask if any GENERAL DRAPERS, nawe was ofer heard of the Promised Land," or the passengers who were supposed to be lost,` We never went but once, remember. Wo should have gone at least a second time; we abraid have tried to make more sare before you married Bir Geoffrey."

"Oh, my God! I tremble with foar at what you may learn. Séverine, suppose you find that he was saved. Only supposo! What am I then?. What is my poor child"

"I do not believe I shall find such is the casa.

But, if I do, we shall then know where we stodd,

We shall know what to do."

"To do! You mear, to acknowledge that. I am that mer's wife, and not Sir Geoffrey's That way child is—?"

"No. To acknowledge, nothing. To find some way of silencing him and the lawyer for evar. Beliove in me, Rhoda," addressing her i mistress no she had often addressed her from

the time aka was a littly child, and as she invo- luntarily addressed her sometimes in moments of excitement. "Belfevo in me. Alive or dead Mark Furness shall bring no further unhappi- ness on you if I can prevent it."

The next morning Séverine Dupont carried out her determination and went to the office of the American shipping firm to which the Promised Land" had once belonged The place, she found, was not altered in the lost; there was the same conator with in wire-work- screen running the whole length of the office, the same long bench opposite to it for onliers to sit upon while waiting to bo ationded to; the same coloured plotures of ships, as well as a chart of the South Atlantic; and the same pletures of one, or two tropical harbours Nothing seemed changed, or only one thing Bobind the counter the clerks and officials were all different from any of those whom sha thought she remembered; an olderly man with rod hair that was turning groy, who had at- toaded to Rhoda when they first visited the plea, was gone-doubtless for ever!-and in

his stord was a young, well-dressed me of about thirty.

The Promised Land,'"' this man said, with look of astonishment at Séverine when she tau told him briedy what her object was, namely; to know if anything had ever been heard of that ill-fated vessel or her passengera,

The Promised Land! Why! she was lost thirty or forty years ago, wasn't she?"

No. Not so long. Twenty years.

1881."

"In 1881 Why!" the goatleman said, what can you expect to bear of her? People don't come back from a shipwreck of twenty peace ago Had you apy friend or relative va board?" he asked in a gentler, ur, peruugis, & teas ironical tone. A thought nat come to his Oh there are ways. We must find way mind as he looked at Severine's gray hair; a A woman in your present position can always thought that, possibly, this woman who was no obtain money. There are a hundred ways. longer young might have had a husband or a But, at fret, he must have something. Soma-lover on board that ship, ono whom, even flow, thing to keep him, quiet and-to give as time," "Time! What is the good of Time? It will only bring him nearer to me."

"It will nevertheless give us the opportunity of making enquiries."

"Do you doubt this story of his being olive ?" "Not if he is coming to England. I shall not doubt it when I see him. No stranger, no remarkable likeness, could deceive me. I re- member him too well. But"

a fer

I have seen his photograph taken weeks ago in America. Oh: Sévorine, he is poor and ill-and-and-something drondful must have happened to aim during all these years. He must have been somewhere--I dread to think whero-during which he would have

no need of his clothes."

"Mon Dieu! What do you mean ?"

"Oh!” Lady Bottrell said, "He was wearing the same clothes be wore before be went away.”

"Impossible!".

she had not given up all hopes of seeing again. "A friend of mine bad a-a relative on board. And-and-be bas heard—it is only a ramour, but it may be true-but he has been soon alive.”

This is very interesting. I will ask the manager. Or, stay.. First let us look at the

booke in which the Promised Land' accounts and statements world be entered. 1881, you Bay? Jones,” to a young clork behind, "go down to the strong room and bring up the entry book of 1881,”

The clerk went off to do as he was bid and came back five minutes later bearing in lusarma large book of the ledger type, one which had stamped on its back the words "Funcknell and Co., 1881,"

a

That's it." said the official, as he opened the book and consultel the index. "Let's so9. · P. Here o are. Palmyra, Peachblossom,” bioself. Philadelphia," he muttered to "Promethens, Promised Land," Lost," he read out," August 3rd of this year. Last seen and spoken by 3,8. Devonshiro. Lat. 75.10, Long, 30.90. Reported all wall.' Ab, boro's the list of passengers and heis is something oles; a cutting from a paper. American most "In a French prison, à bayac, a Maison likely. What," he asked, glancing up at Centrale; yos, perbaps. In England, too, I Séverine, was the name of your friend's think. But I do not know. It might be. Yet, friend " why should he have been in prison ***

"I am sure of it. Absolutely auro, Séverine, if he had besa in-in-lot ne say a prison for many years, would his clothes not have been kept and given out to him again when he was released?"

1834 with a varicosu ulcerated log, and have been un- cer fire doctor. Ialso attended two hospitals, but at one they suggested that I should have my leg of and at the other that I should have the veins leeshod en tied up. You may guess may feelings, therefore, to find myself now cared by. toking Clarko's Blood Mixture and applying Clatre's Mixaonlonas Salve, especially as I have a family of eight childers. My leg measured 18in. rosud against 14. the other, and part of my work I have dout on my kusse. The mat ter coming from my leg ven as black as soot, but it has now completely healed up, and I am out of agony a tháng not known to mo for the past eight years. must say I think my case & taarvelions one. I com- monood talking' Clarke's Blood Mixture' in July, 1999, and the cost bas boen ove'small bottle to try the effect first, and fading the proper remedy, then ton large kept in prison for so many years. Auywhere, anos, also a low pots of the salve, and my leg not be must have done 57. off. I have spent pounds in other remedies, but they have been no good to mo. I shall be pleased to answer questions, and aflicted brothers and sistern cen Ko my log for themselves. You can make any use of this letter for tho public good.

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"If he had done what he did in England! Something like that which ruined him. If he had done it again."

"He must have done worse than that to be

"Mark Furness."

"Mark Furness, Humph. Well," he said, opening a little wicket in the wire frame and pushing the entry book towards Séverius, "look at that."

"My God!" Séverine said beneath her breath, Marderere, forgere, after she had glanced at it for a few moments escapa with less than such a punishmentes that," "It is true. Oh! my poor Rhoda.”

God knows what he may not fare done. Ho was so-so-faulty."

"And so bad," Séverine muttered to herself, But aloud she said, "We must have time. Ws must! Have you consented to give what he wants?"

"Not yet. I have said I will see what I anal"

To be continued.).

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