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SHORT STORY.

THE HONGKONG | TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1913.

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THE CHARMED LIFE OF MISS AUSTIN.

By Samuel Merwin.

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"TO LET.

TO LET,

FROM 1st February, MEITO LET on 2nd Floor No. 2.

RION, No. 10, Poak, furni- shed or unfurnished. 6 Rooms,

No. 21, SHELLY STREET: No. 2 Mountain Viow, Peak, from 1st July..

To let or for sale,' 'GLEN- SHIEL,Barker Road, No. 124, Peak, 5 rooms from 1st March,

Pedder Street.

One roomed Office. Apply Property Office, Jardine, Mathe- son & Co., Ltd.

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"I don't exactly like the iden uniform lified his hat and bowed, of being borned up," said Miss an ugly insist enes in his eyes

TO LET AT KOWLOON, Au-tin thoughtfally.

At this her step quickened, 1913.

NEW MODERN 3 ROOM- But we can't burn here-in When she passed through the

CRAIG RYRIE, No. 4, the ED FLATS with Two Bathrooms, the Logation Quarter," insisted opening in the great Tartar Peak to let; fine situation; 8 Pantry, Kitchen and Servants' the bony woman from Kagras will she was almost running. rooms; tennis and croquet lawns. Quarters. Bathrooms fitted with City with everything solid The approaches to the railway ROGATE, on part of Kowloon In-glish Cooking Range and Hot FOR SALE-HARTING and English Baths. Kitchen has En- masonry, and an open space all station were congested with laden land Lot No. 1154.

Wator Boiler, Electric Light! around it and the foldiers." curta und disorderly piles of boxes

Mina Austin moved over to the and crata and panic-stricken No. 9 Conduit Road. Fine View sion. Also NEW FIVE ROOMED throughout. Immediate Posses- window and looked ent at the human beings. Men were shout-of harbour; 8 Rooms, 3 Bathrooms, TERRACE HOUSES WITH roaring sky. Outwardly she was fing. Women and children were Garden and Tennis Court. Ac- TENNIS COURTS. Now ready very trim and girlish in her per- wailing. Somewhere up ahead comodations for 30 Servants.

for occupation. Apply to: Apply to

HUMPHREYS. ESTATE 凸 fectly fitting tailored suit, white a locoruotive was coughing,

LINSTEAD & DAVIS, Glancing, abxiously at her

FINANCE Co, Ltd, gloves, and urban that rested

3rd Floor, Alexandra Building

FOR SALE" LADBROKE."

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Alexandra Buildings.

fauntily on her fluffy hair. She watch Miss Auta struggled Hongkong, 25th Feb., 1913 [211, Hongkong, 22ua May., 1918. wore a watch strapped to her left slowly towards the noise of that wrist. Her left hand swung her locomotive.

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brown shopping-bag to and fro A motor car blocked the way as she gazed out at the extra wedged in between two carts. ordinarily brilliant spectacle of She get past by climbing over burning Peking. Somewhere the forward mudguard. The to the westward roof fell chauffer a Chinese boy watched in; a spuit of flame shot up, her with an impassive smile. threw off down the wind a shining flame of sparks, and painted in own momentary glory in red against the smoke cloud behind and above it.

She could see a part of the train now. It was full of white men and women; there were faces

every window,

Blunelul Chinamen with' blanched f res were clinging to

much other

A HACIENDA EAST, 74

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at present in occupation of Messrs. GODOWN in Ice House Roud, E. D. Susson & Co.

Apply to-

THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY

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TOLET-Two furnished rooms

with use of Kitchen. Board

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O.T

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TO LET (from 1st July 1913)

No. 2 Mountain View, The DAVIS. Peak. Apply LINSTEAD & Hongkong, 9th June, 1913. [345]

WANTED.

WANTED. From 1st July,

HOUSE or BUNGALOW,

levels, not higher than Conduit Road." Central preferred.--Apply F. and C. care of "Hongkong Telegraph."

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At the sight the pupils of Miss Austin's hazel eyee expanded a the platforms aird stops between TO LET-Two double furnish-

ed rooms, front of house, on with about 4 or 5 rooms and ton- little, the colour deepened in hor the cars and to checks, and the muscles abour Many hot, Chbed to the roofs upper levels, splendid outlook, inis lawn. Must be on upper her pretty mouth twitched with of the ears. Teie were soldiers moderate terms, board can be ar- inuer excitement; but in ajup there, on the roulAmeri-ranged as required. Apply 936

c/o Hongkong Tölegraph." "momont ber frice resumed its usual can marines, she thought, from girlishly demure expression. their green-gray clothing and The months of uncertainty were dust-gray campaign het She over for the curious assemblage had to krep turning and twisting of diplomats, touriste, bankers, to protect Wing from the pres Chinese refugees that packed the sure of the crowd. Her watch, fortified Legation Quarter-the as she hugged the dog close, was montlin that had alternatedolces by the Hilo black and white strangely between panic and ahead. She could see that the comraonplace quiet. It was minute hand was all but on the[O. the evening of February hour-closer; "elcser, it was on 29. Edith raised her left the hour.. hand and glanced at her There was a sadden quick room to every room, tennis court watch-twenty minutes to nine. rhythm in the coughing of the and separato entrance.-Apply

jengine. A hell, began to ring. Station Hotel, Kowloon,

Her heart sank; for the cars were

On the third of 'December, Nan king had fallen. Poking, it ap- peared was falling to-night.

If required. Central; good view; moderato torms.-W.R.P.

Hongkong Telegraph." Hongkung adune 1918.

LET.-Drawing

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Room Suites and single rooms to let at "BERYL" Station Hotel Annexe, Kowloon. Separate bath.

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"Guess it'e no use, Miss Aus-

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moving. Wing was looking up smiling inclidation. He wore the Faintly to Edith's ears, above at her his tiny syes shining out full equipment of the campaige tin," he said. "The train's the roar of fifteen square miles of through the tangle of silky black ning soldier-blanket-roll looped, gone.' burning buildings, came the and white hair like glistening over one shoulder, knapsack, can- "Yos," she replied rusfully, orack, rat:le and boom of large beads. He reached out a dimino-teen, revolver, bayonet, and bulg. "it's gone." and small arms. They were fight-tire tongue and licked her chin. ing cartridge-pockets; and be He took her in for a moment, Mise Austin stopped in some trailed a rifle. He was flushed with a good nature that was too ing out there, Manchua and Chi-i nese-fighting plundering, ravish concern as to what she should do and a little blown, as from hard easily sat frankly of the home ing. All that was most primitive text, Tho train was gone that running. He was, everything con- town spirit to be in the least offen- und beastly in this backward re much was clear She turned sidered, astonishingly attractive, sive. Then his mobile face plo was laces this night. The back, then paused to look up at It had not occurred to Edith that sobered and assumed an expres women out there, were undoubted the red sky. She shrank from a private soldier could be so at- sion of sympathy.

It *, Wa to

eyes that were suddenly miaty.

"Folks gone?" Again sho nodded. "Well, well" arid be. Then he whistled very softly. "H'm" he mused, in a brown study.

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ly by now at the final business the thought of returning to the tractive. For one thing, he was "Were you left behind? ho of killing themselves. The mad-loomed city, even to the guarded utterly, comfortably American, asked. ern stone gutters that bordered Legation quarter. But certainly He looks almost as it I bad met She held the tiny dog against the very modern pavements of the she couldn't stay here in him at the Country Club back her face and nodded over it with ancient city were serving the this wild mob about the home," she thought swiftly, "or ancient purpose of draining offjetation.

be having enda in Williams drug human blood.

the hotel and that bony woman store. I'm positively certain I Miss Austin compressed her from Kansas City apparently must have danced with him- lips and turned. "My people will That or nothing.

omewhere." He was hardly older a simply worried to death",abe The crowd that had bean surg-han herself-cartairly not more Paid Aunt is just down sick, jing towards the train now we than twenty-one or two. and Uncle had to get hor over to falling back. She found an open-

The soldier, with a breathless the special train without waiting ing between two stacks of fraight,

"Excuse me, Miss Austin?" step- for me to finish-dressing; but he and started through it. understood that I was coming on" At the same moment an Ameri-ped asido in order to pass her. with you. Now if you decide not cau marine, a private apparently, But she stepped the same way and they stood face to face. In And the train leaves rushed into the narrow opening

some confusion she stepped back, from the other side, He was "I'm sure I don't know what young and not overtall-at least, just as he did the enmo Again us to say," replied the bony woman. her eyes and his, when they met, they confronted each other.

If my husband would only get seemed nearly on a level. Hia back! You see, he is'nt packed eyes were blue and mili. His pectfully, she thought, with SUPERVISION and every alten. What are you going luxuriant hair, partly exposed by an old and rather burdtion is paid to the PROPER to do Edith ?"

the backward tilt of his campaign little futter in her mind, GROWING OF VEGETABLES, This question was prompted hat, was, light brown and curly.and, resting his shoulder and the Poultry of EUROPEAN by the right of Miss Austin my. His preo was short, and it was against a packing case, drew a STOCK. Try Our Delicious ing towards the door,

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"I left Wing lonse in my

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With which-rathor inadequate reply, Miss Austin went out.

Arriving in her own room, she .stood for a moment with pursed lips, gazing down st

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