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THE HONGKONG TEI

APH. SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1913.

SHORT STORY.

CHARLIE SNYDER.

THE CHARMED LIFE OF MISS AUSTIN.

By Samuel Merwin.

THE STORY OPENS.

And the unele added, with assumed cheerfulness :' "It's a Inaky thing you stepped out here, Misa Edith Austin was in Pok, Edith, and we happened to see ing during the revolution trouble. you. Your aunt and I have On the evening of February 20, worried about you,

Miss Austin smiled and said when it appeared that Peking

nothing. was to fall, she, with a crowd of, refugees, made her way to the

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Apply to that she was a sport clear cort prepared to continus the journey at that precarious through." Her ears burned. She altitude. had known him just six minutos.

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him unduly to bl..me himself. He made love to her. Later they walked to a Chinese village,

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On the following evening, Miss Austin, in a pale yellow evening gown, with a flat gold ribbon bound round her fully hair, met her anot in the hall of the Astor House at Tientsin and went in with her to dinnor.

terly, but she would not allow The sume old, thing." she said plossntly, running her eye "It looks Idowo the long card.

like a real French, dinner. But it isn't. Do you know, Hunt, that's one reason why I shail be THE STORY PROCEEDS.

glad to get out of China-just to Then she remembered that eat a real meal, where there Charlie Sayder's ring was still on isn't always something the matter with the green veget- her finger. She wrenched it off-ables and the butter doesn't He was coming he would have come in a can from Australia and to pass her. It would hardly do the milk in a can from home. for her to hand it to him-before Oh, by the way, where's uncle?"

"I meant to tell you," replied

all these people. She dropped it Mrs. Wilberly he's invited com- on the ground and looked at him.pany to dine with us. Did you His eyes followed the movement. ever hear of Charlie Snyder, of But, instead of picking it up, be Middleton ?" kicked it contemptuously asilo, Elith sat perfectly still; but har alim body had become sudden- strode by with stiff, military man- ner, and went on until she lostly rigid, and her lingers pressed him in the shifting crowd. At the sight, a little-a very little of the magic that had woven its web about her heart and senses not an hour earlier fluttered back.

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Po tightly against the menu-card in her hands, that the tips, usually! healthy pink, went white. She could not speak, so she nodded.

"Well it's he. A que or romantic story. He enlisted, you know in the Marines. His father has just It was an act of bravado; but she had-Senator Mangelburg arrange liked him for it. It was a better with the department to get him ers or sotora to synchronize; but ending than the other. She looked out. Your uncle says it has done with the new invention this dif- him a world of good-quite made fioulty is entirely overcome, and on the ground for the ring. But man of him."

sounds are produced by new over the spot were it had Edith's eyes were fixed on the lain was the firmly planted pedestal of the flower vase that process which entirely does away foot of a bland, moon-faced stood in the centre of the table. with the mechanical methods exi-." Chinese,

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Her head was swimming. She played hitherto, so that little

heard steps behind her, and Mr. shrug. That, too, was better-Wilberly's voice. She BBW berre claimed to be natural and And she turned her eyes to the aunt smiling and preparing to free from the hissing and scratch rise, and knew that she must rise ing associated with the needle or What she saw there made her also. She did rise. She stood style or mechanical reproducers. motionless for a time fighting pulse jump. At an open window down the confused tumult in ber not five yards away was the white mind. Then she turned. face of her aunt, and behind it, There stood her stout uncle. peering over her shoulder, the And beside him was a tall, broad rather fat, business-worn face of shouldered young man of twenty- her uncle, Mr. Wilberly.

four or twenty five, with straight “For goodness' sake, Edith, black hair, heavy eyebrows, black eyes and with a noticeably long cried Mrs Wilberly. "Where strong chin". She felt that she have you been child ???..

was turning pale, and. steadied herself by resting her kauokles of the one clenched hand on the table.

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Then they sat down.

-Miss Austin, as she nodded an smiled and then moved toward the steps at the end of the car found herself doing some rapid thinking. "How on earth shall Fortunately for Edith, who I explain it to them?" she was could not possibly have framed a saying to herself. "How much five word sentence, the real Charlie shall I tell? I've got to say Sayder was fully as talkative as something. People don't pop up his bold counterfeit had been. in the middle of the night from And Mr Wilberly was plying nowhere not so often--and not him with questions about his ex- in the heart of China." But traordinary experiences sa ber with were too confused private in the Marines. to settle this problem. She "It's been rather hard luck," said found herself getting on the the young man this was later train and making her way over the Parisian coffee and the to the compartment in which her Manila cigara-" that they let me sunt was reclining.

out when they did last week. I'd "How on earth", began that liked to have stayed in for the lady again!

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