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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SHORT STORY!

REINCARNATION.

THE STORY OF A PRIVATE HELL

It was insomnia, very clearly an extreme form. The man was haggard as a hawk in a cage, But the cause puzzled me. There was something there something not physical. Finally I said to him:

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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1914.

her, had her striking individuality. And gat, when" she sat down

THE PUKOW-SIYANG

at bar table, I was not sure her Full Text of the Loan Agremcent. face was no white and thin.

"Who is that?" I asked the ị waiter.

"That," whispered the man that's the sick lady on the third floor, air. She don't come down here for weeks at a time. Very wealthy, they say, sir. Aud finally he told me the name. It was the woman I had known still unmarried.

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Article 10.

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THE STEWARD'S SURPRISE.

An Incident of an English Channel Passage.

In bas been remarked that two-

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INTERESTING LETTER

FOUND.

Relating to Gelehrated Blood

Feud ln Japan.

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I was glad of anything that diverted her emotions. I hated, above all, those fits of silonce that were apt to follow her outbreaks. ́ ́ ̈As a matter of fact, one follow-

(Continued from Page 31 ed. She said very little to me Her communications were prin-

way itself, as and when constract- faithfulness and basins. How of Osaka has been found, says for the railway, and on the rail- things are required of stewards In a little old chest it the site cipally with Doodlekins and s kind of housekeeper, a slippery

ed, and on the revenues of all for the bero of the incident dis- the Cologne Gazette, a lettor old servant in the hotel who

descriptions derivable therefrom. played the formur quality, how which has created great excite furnished her most of her human

The provisions of this Article ever promptly he may have ment among the Japanese and society. She confided a great

in respect of the mortgage are to dispensed the latter convenience, has lent addisional eclat to an deal to her, on doubt. With me

be construed and treated sa equi-those who read this incident may annuel festival. It refers to a his one place or another, in, apart she sat, and turned her diamond

valent in purport and effect to a judge. On a wet and windy torin blood-feud. Every stúdent ment hotels. You know them, ringe back and forth on her

mortgage oastomarily executed in probably those institutions of fingers, and stared at the wall.

afternoon recently, a stalwart man of Japanero history knows the the childless women who have She read very little. She wasn't hearing about a woman on the

I recalled then, vaguely, of England.

of colour was crossing the Chan-history of the vengeance of the 47 taken the vow of perpetual youth. even interested to play her rag-third floor who never left her

nel. He was a second-class pas-Robnin," the lordless knights of The Company is hereby sanger, and stood for shelter Akob, who for the last century They strike you as amusing, at time on the piano.

room. And I remembered pass authorised to issue to the sub- under the bridge, on a portion have served as an embodiment of first-those florid establishments This lasted practically untiling down that corridor one night, acribers to the loan bonds for the of the deck reserved to the saloon. Japanese chivalry, and whose "It's no use. I can't go anywhere sterile women do a little the time that the annual exodus and hearing from somewhere a total amount of the loan for such To him came bustling up a glory not all the new inflnerces farther till I know what you're "light housekeeping" for Po- of the women from the city asme piano playing Schumann. amounts as may appear advisable little steward, whose fussiness from the West nor all the strides gnawing at with your brain. meranian dogs, and devote the around, and she left for the sea-

He looked at me, but said rest of their lives to decorating side. I took her to the train, myself. Sobumann in

"Good Lord!" I had said to to the Company. The form of equalled the sparseness of his made by democracy have been

this the bonds shall be settled by the cheat measurement.

able to efface. Their master, the nothing. A fine, long, weary their bodies, Grotesque, bataftora with her parasol and her dog and palace of rag-time and embalmed Company in consultation with "Hi! you know, you ain't alow- Prince of Akoh, was insulted man, with thin temples and an while disgusting horrible. All her comic magazines.

youth !

the Director-General· or the ed ere" said he, addressing the publicly by one of the great men aquiline nose, and obarred circles these empty women, dreaming, As I said, I am not very de- It must have been she-playThe bonds shall be printed or of this!

Chinese Minister in London. black, "you'll ave to get of sleeplessness about his sunken longing, struggling, for the in-monstrative. I doubt very much, ing Schumann still..

oat about the court, and finally was so abominably libelled that he eyes. A litle too fine drawn, too definite preservation of one thing for instance, if I had for years I went noroes the partly emptied English; they shall bear the sufferance of his tribe,

Chloese in

and

his engraved

sword

him The darkey smiled with the drew fastidious the lines of his upper-yonth, youth, youth, forever kissed her upon saying good-bye

and in the palace precincts. lip showed that. "

slipping out of their fingers. to her. I can see, now, that it dining-room, and spoke. She facsimile of the

was sentenced signature moved on. Shortly afterwards the For this ho "You set to me, I said, " Dresses without end,

remembered me before I reached of the Director Grandral and of steward returned, and found him to death by "ha:akiri," bis caste of had had its effect on her. if you had something on your course-and jewellery; but, moré

Her resentful mood still con Bat her voice, I noticed, was

ler; was aa cordial as possible. his seal of office, in order to dis- pacing a portion of the deck and his goods were confiscated, mind; something haunting you." important still, day after day,tinued.

pense with the necessity of sign-again sacred to the saloon. bis family declared to be extinct, their squads of kneaders, and re-

"Sorry you felt you must come very weak. She looked like a

ing them all in person. But the novators, and embalmers, who down, Perkins," she said. "You very sick women,

"Now, I've warned you once,"

and his warriors were stigmatised Chinese Minister in Landon shall scolded the little man. "If you as "Rohnin," that is "lordless. miracles of chemical youth. work continually on them their mustn't think of us again, even She introduced me to her com previous to this issue of any don't get out of this there'll be

The code of chivalrous honour Doodlekins and I just want to go panion-au elderly Scotchwoman; bonds pat his meal upon eren trouble!"

made it incumbent on them to The product is frightful, of off together alone for the summer one of those efficient structures bond with a facsimile of his sign- The good humour of the man of avenge their lord by slaying his course. They are no longer to some quiet spot, and read of bone covered tautly with ature, as a proof that the issue colour began to vanish before the traducer, and such vengeance human beings; they are so much Ibsen, and let our souls grows," glossy skin.

and sale of the bonds are duly presecution of his tormentor. H could be carried out with in manufactured good. They are More vaudeville, of course. "I am an invalid now, you authorised by, and binding upon, replied something to the effect punity if the intended object of dressed all alike, by the con- "Good-bye, Pekins," she said, know, "she went on. "This is the Chinese Government, and re-that he should walk whore be it and the Government were federation of fat-fingered wo- at last. "You've got two months quite an adventure for me, com- presentative of the Company liked. The amall man bristled. duly informed of the fend, man's clothiers. The sounds that of you own. If you look around,ng down here for dinner. I in London shall countersign "You'll walk where you like, if this information was withh come out of their mouthe-their you may find some nice, refined suppose I ought not to be here the bonds as agents for the issue will you? You-you-you- it was punishable with death.

of the loan.. slang and their songs are tanght character that pleases you. That's to-night."

At this point an English If the poor masterless." Robuin" them by the stage. I don't know all I am shy, of now-to have you

"Quite right," said the Scotch-

In the event of bonde issued traveller who know his man and bad informed their enemy any such spectacle in the world desert me entirely."

woman grimly. You onglin',"

for this loan being lost, atolan or scented trouble, called the steward of the fead they had with him their efforts at VOD- "Ton must come and call on destroyed, the Company shall to him,

immediately notify the Director- my old friend went on,

"Look here." be said. "it will geance would have been entirely and bring your wife." She General and the Chinese Minister be best for you if you keep a frustrated. So by the advice of looked up questioningly. in London, who shail- authorise civil tongue in your head Do you their leader, Oischi Kuranosko, they determined to allay their tisement in the public news- the Company to insert an adver-know who you are talking to?

"Don't know and don't care! enemy's.suspicions, to give him papers notifying that payment it's my business to keep the no information of the feud. to of the same had en stopped blightin' nigger in is proper separate for two years, and lead a careless, alovenly life which should give not the slightest sign of the existence of their con- epiracy.

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Be started queerly at that; looked at me suspiciously.

"You're right," he said, at last, with an odd laugh. "I am haunted.

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And so he told me that modern ghost story!

It was about four months ago, I should say, when I was waked up again toward morning by that distressing soned of a crying in the night. My wife was having another of her fits of weeping.

woman

She had had these attacks for years ever since she was a child, in fact. But I could never harden myself to them; they out into me

like a dull knife into a sore. It was simply a habit with hor, I know-a vafal feminine weapon. She had wept herself into what she wanted long before she had learned to speak. But the babit was certainly growing on her. "What is it?" I asked her

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as these women of the cities. So that night I was alone in They are always marching, aren't the city. It was sudden weather hey, in armies--the thing is in--an early hot spell. New York conceivably grotesque to the steamed like a soup-kitchen. unbeard command of some in- was depressed and uncomfortable. visible commander located in I went back to the, hotel-the

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Paris, Broadway where? Chetwynd. You know it-that God knows, I don't. But sudden huge rococo pile, half a city block

y, in August, the word comes to on Broadway, a crowde 1 warren" them; they all put on their felt of cheap New York rich, with the

No answer for a long time, to continued questioning

"Nothing, nothing," she final-

said, and shook my hand, thinking.

from her shoulder.

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hate in the heat; in February population of a country town. their straw hats and spring cloth- Everybody strangers to each ing, Auything and everything to other, on principle. We had be all alike anything to avoid been there only about two months. I had no acquaintances That was my wife's remedy there, and didn't want any.

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"Unfortunately," I said blun- deringly, "I am in no position to produce a wife at this moment Is it necessary?

"Certainly not," she said.

and to take such other steps place."

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may appear advisable or "Oh, well, then do it! He's I only thought afterward. She necessary eccording to the laws Sam Langford, the heavy-weight had really asked me if I were and customs of the country con-boxer, that's all ! married, and, to all intents and oproed, and should such bonda "Oh, iae? Then I'm off! purposes, I had said I was Dot.

his

not be recovered after a lapse of Thanks for the 'iot, sir 1" Now, I am not going to talk time to be fired by the Company, about this woman. You have the Director General or the Chi-to occupy himself with

And the little steward vanished noticed, perhaps, that I don't mess Minister in London shall business, without another word give you her name. I've told you seal and execute duplicate bonds of his duty. how I met her again to impress for a like amount and hand them

Article 11.

of

So they separated, wrote fare- well letters to their wives, consorted with thieves and riffraff, and were to be seen most

nights in a state of intoxication

in the streets. In two long yearl

therefore they were the object of

every bonourable man's comtempt

and aversion. At the end of that

and a half points (51) retria- time they collected together ble by the company (that is again, stormed the castle of their All bonds and coupons and to say a charge of Five Pounds enemy, and ceremonially carried

Ten Shillings (45 10/-) for every $100 bond insued)

payments of interest and repay- ments of principal in connection with the service of the loan sheil be exempt from all Chinese taxer and imposte during the currency of this loan.

Article 12.

Article 11

I sat in the gilt-crusted dining I wrenched the thing from ber anything to avoid thought. That at last-after pleading for fally next night, as on the nights room, near its entrance, and half an hour. She was crying before, we rushed ont down the watched the machine made wo for her youth!

palpitating lights of Broadway, men and their escorts go by a fact on you. She did not to the Company, by whom all in Load.mless fictation charges "It's past midnight," she said, to feed our souls at the quick sight! Fat women, seriously now that I was married. She expenses in connection there-five between sobs. I heard it strike. lanch counter of a summer vande propelling their stately fronts be- never learned, for I never correct with shall be defrayed. And I'm-I'm thirty years old!" ville show. The thing disgusted fore them; thin women, coloured ed that first impression. And I

new her very often. My first feeling was of relief, me." God, how tired I am of be like chromos; two or three young

I heard very little from my

his head out of the fortress. In My next was angry amusement. ing forcibly fo my emotions and girls, already powdered like

solemn tiamphal prozesion they Oh, Grace, for beaven's sake!" my thoughts from the same clowna. And all dressed in the wife-a curt lotter or two at first,

bore the head to be gave of trough as five million people! current uniform, without regard then silence. This was nothing **There she exclaimed. The very libraries

to age or colour, size or shape. new; it had happened before.

The proceeds of the doon shall their monster in the martyard of dispenes Bitting

But one day I had an odd

he paid to the credit of a Pakon- the temple of Sengakudechi, in up. "You've

They passed aláre to me—so close waked vapidity instead of intelligence, Doodlekins,

Singang Railway Account with the south of Tokio, and even the You certainly are a cheerful could see the grain of the skin reminder of her.

"I see your wife was in the

The Hongkong and Shanghai Government itself, which was Her Pomeranian dog always companion Perkins," said my on their artas. slept in the room with ns-under wife, when we reached bome, You know the sir of a night pity yesterday," said the clerk at

All details necessary for the Banking Corporation in London. compelled to sentence them to a little blue silk quilt on one of. My nickname itself jess taken like that-how it catches and the hotel desk, conversationally prospectus and connected with Payments of loan proceeds into death by harakiri" paid them the easy-chaire. He'd shaken it, from some comic opera.

magnifies scents: not only po- He had passeri her on the the payment of interest and re- the credit of this account shall be the bigbost honours.

Over their graves in the court- off; and I heard the fantastic "Am I?" I said. I never fames, the gross smells-hotal street, he said. I told him he lightness of his, feet as he went, argued with her..

sander, gravies, desserts, that must have been mistaken. And payment of the principal of this made in instalments and on dates

loan, not berein explicitly pro conforming to the conditions yard of the Sangakudschi Temple, toward her bedside.

It's so lowering, isn't it? she sweptish-sourish savour that makes yet he certainly knew her well.vided for shall be left to the allowed to the subscribers to the where they sleep by the side of She took him up, hid her face said. "So hard to stand even the breath of

I decided to go down and spend arrangement of the Company in loan. Interest at the rate of three their master, a festival in yearly the city hotel

The week end with her at the consultation with the Chinese (3) per cent. per annum shall be held on the fourteenth day of in his far, and began her childish one night-to lift your old ruffy dining room the world over. talk to him.

fulles wife out of the blues." was eating indifferently through shore.

Minister in London. The Com-granted on the credit balance of the twelfth lunar month, and a I was rather shocked at her "You love your muzzer, if she

I said nothing.

the meal, when there came to me,

pany is hereby authorised to the portion of this account kept solemn Buddhist service is per is old, don't you, Doodlekins? "What a pity you ever married all at once, another perfume looks. the bad grown, it seamade through its Agents the in London and interest on the formed for the repose of their You're the only one who cares, mo!" she horried on. You something which caught me ato me, thin and faded. Her Hongkong and Shanghai Bank-credit balance of the portion of souls. This took place recently, Dearie, Yes. There, there!" should have found a real high- tention. I don't know how it is silent fit was still on her, and it ing Corporation the prospectus transferred to Chins will be and the commemoration was ren- of the losn $8 6001 Be allowed at the Bank's usual rates dered more than usually im- I had nothing against dogs in brow, with a marble forehead, with other man, bat with me the was a most uncomfortable day for

as possible after the signing of for such accounts. After dedac posing by reason of the discovery general; but that beast was a and had a nice little family of sense of smel'--deeper then any-

thing else is 888ciated with That night I slept badly. I this agreement (subject to the tion of the funds required for the of the letter above mentioned, hopeless imbecile, with the bulg-white porcelain children."

room always do those first nights at provision stated in Article 13 service of interest and for com which parports to have been writ- ing forehead of an idiot baby. More comic opers, of course, themory. A particnlar

She lay there, alternately. She was working herself up where I have slept, an old house the shore. The dampness, the below by several series) and the mission on this service during the ten by their leader, Oisohi Kuuma- long dismantled, a mmmer land-hollow pounding of the surf, Chinese Government will instrual Sime of construction, the Bank noske, Las very day before the crying and appealing for its again.

Pretty title images of paps scape-all come back at once at disturb me; I have never been a the Chinese Minister in London will hold the ast proceeds with execution of their vengeance, and sympathy.

sound sleeper. It seemed to to to co-operate with the Company in secrued interest to the order of contains the names of those of his "Great Caesar! "I remarked, and mama. So nice, so cold." the sense of different smells.

With that perfume came back as if my wife didn't sleep at all. any matters requiring conjoint the Director-General who in associates who had proved dis- and left her to its ministrations. She burst into tears.

Leuppose I was wrongthern Don't be silly, Grace, the memory of a woman I had awoke onda. She had raised action and to sign the prospectus authorising the payment of any loyal to their common purpose,

known very well indeed. Oh, herself on her elbow, and was of the loss.

Buds exceeding £20,000 shall as well as the state of affairs in in the beginning. I know that I said.

give notice to the Hongkong and their enemy's castle. enough so. The loss of youth is vulgarity in women oven im- noticed it since. The ordinary no humorous event to any one-morality. Though, sa matter of perfumes, you know, are mix minutes. Finally she lay down public in two or more series of ten days before the day on which

bonda to the amount of three they are required. Requisitions Mr. Maeterlinck & Reply. and I imagine-in fact, I know fact, the two are generally tures, built up like cocktaila again, with a sigh.

This was the olean, faint, delicate Don't you sleep well?" I million pounds sterling ($3,000, on the loan funds will be drawn that in many householde first jinseparable,

000) na soon as possible after the in amounts to wait the progress In reply to a Brussola news- passing of the women from their Silly Is it silly to be human? odour of a single flower the asked her in the morning. twenties is made a melancholy I'll make you silly some day." jasmine. Very rare, very expen. Why? What do you care that subject always to the engage-orders on the Hongkong and thought of his works being "Sleep." she said peevishly signature of this agreement, of construction of the railway by paper a inquiry on to what he sive, or it had been then, and anniversary. But the thing was she said, still sobbing, and re-only to be had at a very few akins is the only one who cares under Article 13 of the Chinese signed by the Managing Director Popo, M. Maurice Masterlinak. I do? I'm a dead issue, Dood-ment of the Chinese Government Shanghai Banking Corporation placed on the Index" by the "Won't we, Doodles?" sho places in the south of France.

I looked up. A tall woman for me now aren't you dear? Government Reorganisation Gold or his duly authorised reprosonta-Rays the Temps, telegraphed se Loan of April 26, 1913, tive and the Chief Accountant, follows: "I was unaware of this The price of the bonds to the and accompanied by a certificate nowa. Publisher will be delight Chinese Government shall be the stating the nature and cost of the ed. Otherwise in prehistoria natual price of issue to the public, work to be paid for,

phenomenon of no importance

both of us.

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Article 13.

BOL not demonstrative-not I can stand anything but fifteen years ago. I had never looking scross at me. She must

have watched me fully ten The loan shall be issued to the Shanghai Banking Corporation

always before me in its most gró tired for comfort to her dog. tenque form.

We had no children. My wife said, nazzling the little beast. did it not want them, and I "Well, he does love his muzzar, didn't care particularly for them don't be even if she is a dis Pre-lf. We had lived ten years, gusting lightweight !"

with wary black hair, wearing a Oh, we know ! We talk it over gown of Zoe and gold, was together, don't we Doodlekins? paling rather slowly by, There We've learned our lesson ! ** were her colours 1 it looked like (To be Construed Next Amturday)

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