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SHORT STORY.

DINNER AT EIGHT

thin woman.

SAMUEL

BY

MERWIN

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1913.

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No. 8, DES VEUX VILLAS, No. epairingly to the heap of luggage She had thought him Gorman, on which a Chinese porter was but his accent and his odd use of pasting Astor House labels, idiom, when he spoke, were Bob's certain to get here before more suggestive of Parisian back- goonds. She wondered, with long."

a sight quickening of the pulse, **AIF threo-the fat man, the whether he were one of the ros

"stout" woman, and the thin wo-mopolitan adventurera about man-stood for a moment' in the whom centro so many travellers' silence of perplexity. Outside, is of the Court.

she replied,

the early October twilight was "Pardon, mademoiselle," he setting over the straggling, poly said in a soft voice, but per- glot city that likes to term itself, heps, if you are waiting, you

the Paris of the Esat." Within, would read my magazine." in the rocmy lounge" that ad-

"Thank you-n',' joined the hotel office, there were facing him. lights, and tourists sipping to It was amusing to see him and the chatter of many tongues. Close at hand, seated alone by a hesitate, oven flush a little, under gazo "He isn't used. wicker table, idly fingering a cold her direct tea cup, was a girl-an extremely to American girls," she thought pretty girl, obviously American, She knew nothing of the horrible with a jaunty travelling turban connotation that has grown, at set down on her fluffy brown Shanghai,ab.ut that fine phrase, hair. She had a firmly pointed" American girl.” ohin, a straight and rather long "Porphaps it is that I intrude," nose, clear skin that had been he managed to say.. slightly tanned by the winds of

Yes,'

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Suddenly her chin came upturned again; again she waved a faint touch of colour glowed forward. They were past the through the transparent brown of stone buildings now, past the her obeeks-her eyes stared at the warehouses. They had left be- swinging red-and-yellow lanterne hind them the sheurdly European. on the rickshaws. The Oldhams Bund they were in another land, would not be returning for an She looked about with a little hour or so; Bob would be even gasp of sheer delight. On the hazel eyes that appeared to be Well, that little episode was later; there was no one... She right were low frame buildings, gazing out at the clamorous line over. She was almost sorry. The held her breath. In her eyes was all lighted, and nearly all hang of 'riokshaw coolies in the sha- remark of the Miss Oldham the fire that passes only when with signs in French and Chinese. dowy street. By not so much as came suddenly into her thoughts: youth passes. the twilch of a muscle did her "Between now and eight any- fresh young face betray that she thing might happen!" It only was listening intently to the con-anything would happen t versation of the trio.

Again she looked out into the But Rufus dear."—it wan the gathering night. The 'rickshow stout woman, you don't seem coolies were lighting their gaudy to understand. It is nearly six paper lanterns. She was glad to now. Unless Lientenent Oerver know that the Chinese really use odmés soon, it will be too late to paper lanterns; in a world of gor Edith back to the ship for continuous disillusionments, this dinner. Her anat and uncle will bit of romanticcolour, atleset, was be worried to death." She paua- really so.

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Crowds of Chinese were moving. Resuming her habitual girlish to and fro on the sidewalk, many composure, she calmly buttoned with hands slipped into capacious her gloves, took her wrist bag sleeves, for the evening air was from the table,-on which (the brisk. Atthe curb were vendors of noted with some amusement) the queer things to eat, calling their adventurer person had left his ware & singsong droning. now useless magazine, walked Along the water-front, dimly through the office to the street, lighted by lanterns, were hundrede stepped into the first rickshaw upon bundreds of masting-roofed that offered tucked the robe sampons, packed in so closely. about herself, and waved a vague that one could have walked far hand. "The Band," she said. out on the river merely by step ed for emphasis. We assumed Somewhere off beyond the low And as it did not occur to her ping from bost to boat, There "some responsibility when we buildings of the other side of the to look around, she failed to ob- were no motor-cars here, and only

brought her ashore to-day. And treet, somewhere beyond the serve that an athletic appearing a you don't leave nice young girls sluggish stream that bounds the young foreigner with waxed mus. like her unprotected on the China American Quartor, lay, she knew, taches and bold, admiring eyes Conat. You know well enough a city that for colour and drama followed in another rickshaw not the dreadful code of this part of and the ebrer quality of adven- twenty yards behind. the world."

ture darpasses the Baghdad of The mile-long Bund was gay The thin woman shuddered. ancient fable-a city where the with the lights and the traffic of "Between now an eight any-white race meets the yellow rece early evening. On her right This, surely, was Chins. This. was the mysterious land of a thing might happen!"

and ruggles with it for gold; were the imposing brick and The fat man sighed. "Look where the tourist or the business stone buildings that hide the hud- thousand enchantments. She here," he said, "this is an emer-man rubs plbows with soldiers of dled city from the eyes of the in- felt rather than saw that groups gency and I can't see but what fortune broken noblemen coming tourist. Banks, insurance of the yellow men were staring she's got to do her part in in. I from Europe, with stranded sol companies, newspaper and steam at her, and her nerve-tips tingled must straighten out the tangle diers; and sailors, mandarins, ship offices, clubs they were becoming really interesting, it with the Bankow Line prop's, or diplomats, opium smuggling Par solidly designed to convey loan was time to turn back; and she we simply can't leave to-night. sees, overdressed women of un- ancient and slumbrous civiliz You two must collect the things certain livelihood: Fellow tour-tion a sense of the brisk but suppressed a sigh as she called you've bought before the shops iste talked largely of Shanghai: solid West All about her, pass to the coolie

A little way behind her, above

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few rickshaws and carriages. The air was filled with the obat ter and laughter of the most talka tive race in the world. And it all smelled--a strange blend of odours that is the smell of the East

with the shear experience was

alose, or lose em; I certainly can't the navy men had a hundred tales ing along the broad, well-paved the causal hubbub of the street, let sither of you knock around of it but it appeared to he a street in two swift, opposite cur- Shanghai along after dark. And city of which girls were shown rents, were motor-cara, pahy vic-sounded & noissa shouting, a if you take her with you, she'll only a few uninteresting rows of torias, passenger wheelbarrows, zem or two, loud laughter, and snatches of song. the called mias Bob when he comes.. No: shops, and that by daylight. and rickshaws. On her left were It will Le best for her to sit quiet- For the thousandth time in her the trees and the grass-plots of again to the coolie, and turned in ly here. Don't tell me that on anralled young life she fell to the narrow park that borders the sudden alarm. American girl who's twenty if resenting her sex "They pass water-front; and beyond these (To be Continued next Eaturday.) she's a minute can't take care of

me (around," she mused, the dim outlines of ocean tramps herself in a pinch!"

wrap me up and lay me aside, and junks and opium hulks, the “You might explain it to the as if I were a cloisonne vase or a movement of sampas and launches THE ALEXANDRA CAFE CAR clerk, Rafus."

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in and cut among the shipping, not be Beaten, if Equalled, For Bread, The fat man glanced at the A Chinees boy glided down the and the broken, dancing reflec- Cakes, Confectionery, meals with Wines desk and pursed his lips. Pro- room and handed her a chit that tions of a myraid of coloured lights & Liquor, bably the one person on earth had been hastily addrered in in the water. Yeast, able to comprehend the Oo-pencil. She tore it open and She settled back CO17- cidental motive in such an ex- read:

fortably, with an

Sout planation would be a Malay hotel Dear Edith

ward complacency that belled the clerk in Shanghai.

Mighty sorry to fail you, but turbulence within. Her pulse “No,” he said decisively, "not- three hundred French sailors are was beating high. “Just to the thing like that! She can read a raising Cain in the French city. end of the Band and back," ran magazine, or

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