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THE

ROBINSON PIANO

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NOTE.

ENTIRELY

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LIMITED.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESD1Y, OCTOBER 21st 1908

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE

THE TWENTY-SECOND ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHARE. HOLDERS will be held at the OFFICES of the Undersigned at 12 o'clock (Noon), TO- MORROW (THURSDAY), the 2ND OCTO- BER.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 87 to the 22ND OCTOBER, both days inclusive.

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A LURKING PHANTOM: A STORY OF LOVE AND MYSTERY

BY

JOHN BLOUNDELLE-BURTON

"¡ Arthor of " The Hispaniola Plate," The Year One," "A Vanished Rival," &c.).

CHAPTER XV.

LEGAL ADVICE.

weather, and other invariable preliminaries to what rasy be an important conversation, the lawyer said,--

"I fancy I know to what I am indebted for the pleasure of this visit, d still read the papers and see things in them, such a Births, Marringea and Deaths, Promotions and Ap poletmente, and so forth. I congratulate you and Sir Geoffrey and Miss Battroll.

Ming. Baturell is to be congratulato3, I suppose," Lady Bottrell said, trying to speak in the same light vein as Mr Butler, A regards Sir Geoffrey and myself, well! I'm Whon Lady Bottrell reached her bandoir that sure I don't koow. We have got 'as good a evening, which she did not do til the clocks position in the world as anyone can well desirs won striking sarest, Sir Geoffrey opened the

-and-well now bepours, nad marriages in daar which led out of it into his own runs, the family, and the Coronation, if we play a part and said:

in it, us

I supposes we shall, cost a great deal of money. won't bart

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Bir Geoffrey is not poor. What he spends

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*No. But-but- kasbands don't always GENERAL DRÁPERS, HIGH-CLASS DRESSMAKERS, AND

quite know what the expenses of their wires And daughters are, and well! the wives and. danghters don't always like to ask them for more and more, Do you know that I want some money, în spita of Sir Geoffrey got being poor ?" and, though sham said this in as easy a tous and with as plant, a mails as she could assumo, her heart was in her month.

"If you ask Sir Geoffrey for it you will get |

"Undoubtedly. But that is just it. I don't like to ask him for it."

JARDINE, MATIESON & CO.,

General Agents,

I wondered wherever you had gone to. I Canton Insurnace Ofice Limited.

to Mrs. Horious gardłon Hongkong, 26th Septonabor, 1903. [2711 thought we ware going HUMPHRET'S ESTATE AND FINANCE Try this afternoon ?

"I sent you & telegram to the club, saying 1 Did should be detained at the dressmaker's. you not get it " TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an No. Perhaps it was any fault, though. I EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL left there earlier than I intended, no as to come MEETING of HUMPHREY'S ESTATE ad go with you. As it was, I had to go AND FINANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, Klose ROBINSON,

will be held at the COMPANY'S 'OFFICES,

"I nat Mo Borry. But it is one thing after Nos. 38 and 10, Queen's Head Central, Victoris, andber now, and 1 bad to go elsewhere. Have NOW IN EUROPE.. Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 31st day of you seen the evening papors Lord Bobun is

OCTOBER, 1990, at. Noox, when the hotter. Th-ductors may his attack is not fari-it." Subjoined Rewolutions will to proposed, visous, and be will soon be quite well.”

1. That the Capital of the Company he I am glad to tour it. Sines Maul is to

Increased from 81, (divided into

I should if I were you. Sir Geoffrey's 100,0%) Lares of $10eack) to $1,500,000y Wagefile she may as well do it at the

time originally fixes upon."

affection foryon is deep and profound--alinosi divided into 150.000 shares of Sta I think so, too," Lady fottrell said. Now solemn in its depth-and his provision for you each) by the creation of 50,000 new

I must go and dress. An veenir" and so if anything should happen to him is noble. shares of $10 each to be offered and it passed out of the houdoir into her, dressing Noble; then is no other word. Tell him what accepted to be allotted to the presentom, and rang for Séverine to come to her. shareholders of the Company at par in

A day ago. a few hours ago, indool, she would you want and he will give it you without a th ratio and proportion of om now

"I can't. I hire how wouk and villy. uot have said that she was glad to hear that share for every two old shares in the Maul's qugagement could be carried out as have been fel inte--into-speculation—" Company hold by the respective arranged: bat reflection and the seats, too, of You who have averething you wish, parable or each of such now shares the road, afternoon had caused her to alter her Fig. Lady Bottrell

opiatu. She had come to think that, instead I can't help it. In the sol I mix with all repoctivels to be id at such time or of hoping, of praying, for a pes pubient of the women speculats a thing or ather. times and in អងឡុង Wanker as the Company its General Managers may herefter interníne," 2.Thit Article No. 82 of the Articles of

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Mane, Patti says that “the Apollo never has zivon her the slightest trouble and that the now

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concert grand is one of the most wonderful au perfect piano players that she has ever seen.

Hongkong. 15th Velpher, 1902

HONGKONG

BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

BOOKBINDING

DAILY PRESS OFFICE.

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The only office in China ha ving European taught workmen. Faqual to Home Work

FURNITURE WAREHOUSEMEN,

shurobollars thereof, the

Association of the Company cancelled and the following Article substituted therefor:--

iattrmane

I

that marriage-of, inded,cndeavouring to bring They all gule and I couldn't stand out. I-

"

GENTLEMEN'S OUTFITTERS,"

28.& 31, [QUEEN'S ROAD.

LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENTS,

OPPOSITE THE POST OFFER (First Floor UPSTAIRS).

GENTLEMEN'S DEPARTMENT,

28, QUEEN'S ROAD (O»vones Hasokona HotRL).

WM. POWELL, LD,

TROPHIES

about a postponement of it--it wouldbe far later I stuttering, stammering and repen TURKISH to let it take place. She had come to recognise herself. -have five thousand pounds to is fact that more safety for Maut futur pay. Tell me where to get boy in her hoing surely aeriel, in being

placed in a position from which roinntow acedent of birth could ever be used as a mean of dislodging hop, than in continuing to remaizi single and, theby, give the man who gras not yet her husband the power to refugo over bacomo that husband. She did not think she did not believe for one moment, that in I could't tell him, 1 know him better fature Lord Bohun would ever dream Buch than yon de. He would give it to me-but-

The remineration of the General Muasgors shall be $4,000 per annu (which shall cover office rent but salaries of Secretary and other mployees) and a commission of 5 por esot, of the not profits of the Compay for wich your that such proits amount to 7 per cent. of the Capital of the Company,

Should the boys Resolus bo duly passed they will be submitted for confirmation as Special Resolutions to a Second Extraordinary Ccuoral Meeting which will be subsequently convened.

Dated this 24th day of July, 1963,

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers. 2205 HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE COMPANY LIMITED.

THE SHARE CERTIFICATE No. 4,672 for one hundred shares, numbered 37,601- 137,700 inclusiva, standing in the register in the zame of Dr. Thomas RENNIK OF Fuochow, having been lost, NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN, that unless the said Certificate be produced at the offices of the Company, 39 and

Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong, before 25th October 1903, a new certifionta for the said shares will be issual and the old certi-

ficats will thereafter be held by the Company as muil and void,

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON.

Guseral Managers. Hongkong. 23rd September, 1003 INTIMATIONS

Nothing more imple. Tell your husban what you have told me. He will sit down as dras a cheque for you, and, short perhaps of a fow admonitory words and perhaps, also, a promise extracted as regards the future, there will be as foubl. I knew him and I know his father before him."

2 refins loved the girl too well, too fondly, Oh! I couldn't tell him." Then suddenly, for that!-even when he should me to know she said, "Will you adenoco me thousand

ber

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all, but still there was the possibility open to pounds You say Geoff y's provision for me him. While, if that possibility were once is noble, lucefore you can logs removed, Muud was safe. No bht up birth, even though it had been onsof a deeper, No," this ok mau said. "I won't da mr hideous nature than her mother had already that. It would be an unkiuduess to you and YOUR HEALER FOR THIS BRAND. imprinted, though imprinted innocently, could dishonearable towards him. provent her being the vifo of the man she had Carried. In that way, and that alone, Lily Battrell thought that sin saw bar hilde safely! namored.

| eyi. But I can pay you long before in the MADE FROM THE CHOICEST TURKISH TOBACCO, ARE THE BEST. ASK

A

D. what I tol

yen and. believe me, you will find any aris good."

oice.

No doubt. Brt-but 1 must have it at

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At once. If I felt you all the trouble NOBEL GLASGOW EXPLOSIVES

Were these thoughts, these determinations, I am in the the scandal that many aris:-" Whata vor sign that the wonati's deterioration was already. Tell me nothing. Do as I say. taking place that, to one deceit after another fronts, whatever scandal threatens, go to your which she was forced to practics and would lehusbaud. Lady Bottwell. I am an old ma forced to practice to the end, was being added whose life is over; an old lawyer who has seen cold and calentating nature which rathlessly much of the world. I know what is best. If set aside all consideration for the honour of I did not really believe what I say you should others, so that her own honour should still stand have the money now today-This moment, forth bright as untarnished before the world? and he touched a drawer in which suppost But I do believe She wonderad this herself as she thought of his chique-book might l bor, step by step, she was plunging further and further into duplicity, and as she so wondered and used she wapt.

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my own words, and I beg you to act on thom. Besides which, in any case, Sir Geofrey is my client.. I should do wrong to lend you such a sum oknieru to him."

Yo there was one ennen of getting the money, one opportunity, gone!

What shall I do nex? she askeri herself when she was outside Mr. Theraton's office Finding the old man ob/lurals sho had said she would not bother him any further, that sha would follow his advice and ak Sir Geoffer for what is required, though, at the sam titue, sae more or less statified herself in the lawyer's mind by begging him to say nothing to Sir Geoffrey of hor visit..

-I would rather," she said, "lat him think

I acted upon my own impuls and went straight to him, than that I only did ex on your surge-

Yet the obtaining of that sum of money, «ition. You won't mention it, will you? rather the obtaining of the promise of it had not been easy at first.

And I am the womṇu," she reflected, ever as her tears fell from her eyes, whosa life fo twenty years has has imcntate. I, whose 2672me has never barn linked with one broath of suspicion, one suggestion of being aught but what Sir Geoffrey Bottrell's wife should be. Ah, God my deception of my father has come harao to me at last. My sin has found me out.” NOTICE TO PASSENGERS.

The telegram which she had despatched to Sir Geoffrey at his ofub was not the maly a PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL aho had set that afternDou A hour after

S. N. CO..

wards a second had bean despatch, vent by her to Ten Challis mying: "Cabk M. F. half PASSAGE TO EUROPE.

will be paid in a few days. It can be obtained. RE INTENDING Passengers are requested to pole that from this date Passage Money to and from Europa commencing Homewards with the g, Coromandel, tearing Shanghai on Distracted, driven almost. besic, horis}", not the 12th Jimury next and Hongkong on the orly by these threats which Mark Lambert was now making of appearing i Loonlon, but also 18th January, and Outwards by Mail Steamers CHEONG LEE & CO. Feraiture Store, leaving London on and after the 1st January, by the calm, cokl. and almost memoing forebod Established over 20 years. Importers and 104, will be charged at the following Rates,ings of Challis himself forebodings which bar

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the necessity of having some moments to bersoll for reflection, that she dismissed the cals at the bution of Waterloo Place and walked up to- yards, Piccadilly amsingson what she should do. to obtain a large sum of money at ques-

"I will promise that," he said. You may valy on me. And I am very glad you see the thing in its proper light. Very glad indeed. With a hand such as you have, there should bo no secreta between

you

Yet, when Lady Baitrull was gone, after re- fusing his offer to send a clerk for a cah, the old man sat in his chair auditating deeply on the visit he had received.

"A pity. A pity. A pily," he said to him. salf. A thousand pitics What is tim world coming to Was as she been doing? Of all women I should have said that Lady Botteell was the last to get into my trouble. She must be uvurly forty, aud-Ah! well, the world is a good de-il different from what it was in my day. Or, if it isn't, I suppose I did not know as muda about it then as I do now."

To be continued) ·

MACAO.

Then, suddenly, she came to adotermination and, signalling to a cabman, badutim drive her to Bedford Row. It was in Bedford Row that the offices of Mr. Thornton were situatedir. Thornton, whose family had for over a kundred years been the lawyers of the Boltroll family.

The present hout of that firm, which beling row been added extraneous branches in the forin of partuers who were not conweted with lis arlier transactions, was an old man; a very old mau of over mighty years of age. He was, how- er, a wonderfully well preserval specimen of manhood, being still quit upright and almest rosy cheeked, while bis carefully kept, silvery white hair might have belonged to a a be tween lifty and sixly who had not yer grom

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