1914-06-27 — Page 8

THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH.

SHORT STORY

MOTIVES

BY WARD MUIR

EXTRA

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1914

dreaded a long-a long explan- ation." She softened. "Before we part, I'd like to say this, Fred: I'm sorry. Not sorry in one way, not a bit sorry. I can not be sorry that that I've started at last to live. But I am very, very sorry ifif all this harts you."

She turned to go, but a sound. stopped her. Looking back, she asw that her husband, had fallen into his chair. His head was clasped in his hands. His shoulders heaved. His piece-nez

[This is one of the cleverest husband was probably dressed lay upon the carpet. stories Maclure's has published already. for many B long day. The insight into the movements of

aloofness.

toward

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supposed that after breakfast he THE HEAD OF CAESAR. that I have not lost all the

would go to town, as usual. Instead, he came and knocked at her door.

"Come in!".

He entered. His face was haggard. It was evident that he, too, had not slept..

He closed the door behind him. "I'm afraid you have had a bad night, Fred." She endeavour- ed to greet him normally.

"Awful," be assented. "Never slept a wink. Bertha-this will be the death of me.";

By Gilbert K. Chesterton.

(Continued from last Saturday)

This is the conclusion of Mr. Chesterton's story, the first part of which appeared last Saturday. It is one of the author's latest products, and .han recantly appeared in McClure's Magazine. It is one of the "Father Brown" series. "Of course, the superficial

"I don't think so," she said. "It will. You've hit me cruelly, Berths. I've been think-reflection," |ing, thinking all night what we're

to do."

"I am going to leave you." Her voice was low. "If you wish to divorce me"

He looked away from her. "Bertha, it's abominable for woman to be divorced."

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But when I leave you I shall go to him."

"Bertha, you are hard,' "Yes, I can be hard."

"Harder

than-than

Baid Flambeau, would think first of this Austra- lian brother who's been in trouble before, who's come back so sud- dealy, and who's just the man to have shabby confederates. But I can't see how he can come into the thing, unless➡➡"

"Well?" asked bis companion patiently.

family qualities"; and he turned suddenly and atrode into an inner room, slamming the door.

"Stop him!" shouted Father Brown. After a wrench or two, Flambeau had the door open. Bat it was too late. In dosd silence, Flambeau atrode aoross and telephoned for. doctor and police..

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An empty medicine bottle lay on the floor. Across the table the body of the man in the brown dressing-gown lay amid his bures and gaping brown-paper parcels, out of which poured and rolled, not Roman, but very modern English coins.

The priest held up the bronze head of Caesar. "This," he said,

** was all that was left of the Caratairs Collection."

PRESIDENTIAL

MANDAT.

Plotters to Shanghai.

Peking, June 15. In reference to a report by Teeng Ju-cheng, Military Gov- ernor of Shanghai, of the capture of then Chino-yin and Wang Chin-san by the mounted police of Chapei on the night of May 30, he says that a roll-call list, maps showing the disposition of the rebels, diaries and records were found upon them. A raid was made upon the secret quarters of the rebels at Sinoshata (Ferry), resulting in the capture of other seizure of a number of Sun Yat- rebels, and the discovery and sen's proclamations, bombs, arms, After a silence he went on with flags, drume, seals, and other more than common gentleness: military requisites, together with "It was a cruel will his wicked implements for the destruction father made, and, you see, he did of the railway. He forwards the resent it a little. He hated the statement made by Chen Chisa. Roman money be had, and grow yin who admitted that he was fonder of the real money denied appointed commander of the lat him. He not only sold the corps by Tsiang Chioa-sheh, a re- Collection bit by bit, but sank presentative of San Yat-sen, and bit by bit to the basest ways of he was to assume control over the making money-even to black-neighbourhood of Tantsowan, disguise. He blackmailed his field. He said that Chen Yung- mailing his own family in a Siaoshatu, Ziokadoo and Joss- brother from Australia for bisting was appointed commander little forgotten crime (that is why of the 2nd corps and was to be he took the cab to Wagga Wagga responsible for action at Chenja, in Putney); he blackmailed his and for attacks against the police have noticed. And that, by the appointed commander of the 3rd natural guess when he was away graph_line, destroy the railway: on the sand-dunes. More figure and rob the train of the money and gait, however distant, are intended for Nanking. He stated. more likely to remind as of that it was decided to set up fires face quite close." somebody than a well made up and start the rising at 11 o'clock

He was orging! Fred was crying! She had never seen hiat Dinner had been eaten. Sheary before. It was incredible.

Tenderness overwhelmed her, a woman's heart is quite out of sat, with her husband, in the the ordinary and the end drawing-room. A novel was on She pitied him. She felt like stampa. the story as out of the ber lap. Her husband was mother

him-like a usual rack.]

engrossed in making up the mother whose boy has come home accounts of the Literary Society, from school blubbering at some She "stood at her bedroom of which he was treasurer.

paltry hamiliation. She blushed window and gazed down, through Her courage was high, but abe for him while she pitied him. the lace curtains, into the darken- was acutely nervous. She looked His abandonment of despair was

Flambeau lowered his voice: He ing street. Rain had fallen, and across at bim. seemed rather contemptible. Yet it had

"Unless the girl's lover comes in, the lamps were reflected in the incredibly remote, yet horribly its grotesque appeal to her

too, and he would be the blacker moisture on the pavemente. A near; dreadfully strange, yet womon'a beart.

villain. The Australian chap did bleak wind whistled between the familiar. His pale domed fore is shame-that was what had

know that Hawker wanted the house: Nevertheless she was head, his pince-nez, his brown caused him to weep. She knew happy-and terrified.

monstache-she examined them it. She knew bis self-love. She deserve," he stumbled." Bertha, coin. Bat I can't see how on As she watched the empty with a kind of onriosity and discerned what a blow that self- I've been thinking about it, and earth he could know that Hawker love had received. She knew his it seems to me the truth is had got it, unless Hawker sigusi. conventionality; she knew how He stumbled again. You don't led to him or his representative that conventionality had been understand just how I feel. across the shore."

"That is true," nssented the outraged by her behaviour. And well-the fact is, I've Humiliation! He was suffering decided I thought it all out, priest, with respect.

"And now, take it from the atrocious agony at the prospect once I'd got over the first shook, "You know that we, you and of the humiliation that this event and decided that I couldn't bear start. It lies between few people, each other even before she know 1, have not been-not been quite would bring upon him, and of to see you dragged in the mad. but at least three. You want one sister for the theft he alone coul stations; while Ho Yuen-inng was

Iperson for suicide; two people for blackmail.” Bight of himahe had watched, as we once were. I want to punctilious world, would think of want you to divorce me. I shall for murder. but at least three way, is why she had that super- corps which was to cut the tele- hidden thus behind the curtain in speak plainly about it. It is time him. And yet her pity went give you sn-an opportunity. people for blacked the priest her unlit bed-room. But now to" She was faltering, and forth to him. She too could have Such things can be arranged, if Yesterday it had come to a scorning herself for her unpre-wept at his debasement. one's careful. I-I'm rather climax. They had talked but paredness; but sho had been Her eyes fastened on the ledger fond of you, Bertha,"-biu voice little as they strolled through the strangely unable to make any of the Literary. Society. Fred broke, and I'd like you to have dim alleys of the park; then they preparatione for this inevitable plumed himself on his long a chance" had eat together on a bench. interview. It is time to speak And presently she had found plainly." herself in his arme.

street her heart exalted. The hour was near the hour when he always passed, on his way to the newspaper office where he was night editor. She had watched for his passing a score of times. Before he and she had spoken to

He looked up. Not reading to-night, Bertha?" Tired ?"

She replied at once: "Frad, I've something to say to you."

"Yes?"

why she took pleaeuro in catching the same to each other lately as what the world, his correct and That is," he stammered,

"Eh? What do you mean?" She could feel; now, the

"We do not love each other us Aa we once did." pressure of his lips on here. indescribable emotion agitated

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He was quick. "You mean her as she recalled bis kiss, and that you do not love me as you

She heard him descending the pune, stairs. There was below; the front door banged. He had gone out.

She stared at the place where he had stood.

"Fred!" His asme

issued.

"Why softly.

"Well, obviously," cried his exposed; ose to threaten ex- friend, "there must be one to be posure; and one at least whom exposure would horrify."

After a long pause, the priest said: "You miss a logical step. Three persons are needed as ideas, Only two are needed as agents."

"What can you mean?" asked

the other.

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friend."

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There was another silence. "Well," growled the detective, "and so this great numismatist and coin collector was nothing but a valgar miser.

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that very night, and then attack Paoshan and Haimen. Wang

He came to a halt.

Chih-san has also confessed that official connection with the

"You'll divorce me. That's

he had consented to Literary Society-and now, at a

officer of a company in the 1st stroke, she had severed that con- what we'll do," he said, and

corps. A copy of their statements ·· nection; for she know that when abruptly left the room.

"Is there so great a differ- and other evidence respecting the she had left him he would never

ence?" asked Father Brown, in cass have been submitted to us dure to reappear in that prim self satisfied, smooth and cultured

the same strange indulgent tone, and our instructions are asked for In connexion with the rebellion "What is there wrong about a her own surrender to it., Love once did."

airole. Never again, after the

miser that is not often as wrong of July last, Sun Yat-son and She responded steadily: "Per break, would he pose as patron came to her as a revelation, as the

black- ก Why shouldn't.

about collector? What is other rebel leaders had despatch- understanding of life's most haps what I really mean is that I of the Amateur Dramatic Club or

:thoa shalted their followers to enlist the mailer." asked Brown, in a low exquisite secret. Nothing could have discovered that I never loved organize the Charity Concerts.

voice, threaten his victim with wrong, except ' steal that vision. from her. you. I wish to be honest with The whole structure of his social without her volition, from ber himself? Suppose a father for not make to thyself any graven ruins and tempt the troops to

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thou shalt not bow join the rising. But they were Whatever happened, she was his you, Fred. We sie married. status was shattered; and Fred, lipa,

"She was thunder-struok at his bade a son to gamble, and then, down to them, or serve them; for the first to files upon hearing the and he was here. As she stood But I don't think that I ever folt haddled in his chair, sobbed con-

following him in a good disguise,

But we must go and see report of their defeat. Hard- waiting for his appearance, her toward you as I ought to have vulsively over the chaos and at proposal. So Fred." had some threatened the boy with his own how the poor young people are ships and calamities among our

sham paternal spirit went forth to meet him, to felt. I ought not to have married the blank future that would nobility left, after all! He was

strictness?

populace were thas caused, so willing to sacrifice his reputation

getting on" give itself to him ardently, trust-you. I did wrong. But I did ensue. Poor, poor Fred!

"I think," said Flambean, they have incurred the heartiest fally, completely. She was not know, then, what marriage His body shuddered at regular-his cherished reputation to Suppose but here we are, my

"that, in spite of everything, they hatred of both Chinese and foreign Perhaps it is intervals. Extraordinary sounds shield hers! He loved her-loved trembling; but her spirit was not should mean.

A figure ran down the steps of

merchants without exception. trembling--it was proudly un- because of this that you have issued from behind the hands her with such loyalty that even the house, and showed under the are probably getting on very Now, they have sent their reckless Booret adherents to establish afraid.

have tired of me. And we have that were still clasped across his the preservation of his own good

Plagas in Burma.

offices in which to hatch trea-.. He came. His thick-set but no children. Perhaps if I had face. His grief might be obeurd, name, which she had wag od golden lamplight the unmis- well.

Roman coin.

The figures of plague seizures lightly poised figure, wrapped in loved you and gone on ving you, but it was real. She would have to be so dear to him, was unheed-takable head that resembled the

cherous plots with the outlaws s waterproof coat whose collar things would have been differ given much to be able to console od!

**Miss Carstairs," said Hawker, and deaths in Burma during the

again. They have made shem turned up round his neck, came ent, and you would not have tired him. Bat her candoar would not It was staggering. She had withoat ceremony, "wouldn't week ended May 23rd show an awinging down the hill, in and of me."

permit her to deceive either her misjudged him utterly. This

appreciable decrease, there being appointments of commanders and Tired of you! Bertha ! out of the circles of light cast by

husband, or herself by any crisis had evoked the heroic in go in till you cams."

"Well," observed Brown con-- total of 102 seizures, with 96 entertained designs of robbing funds on the highway, seizing the lamps. Her eyes dwelt on He was aghast,

pretence at consolation. The Fred-even in Fred!

fidentially, "don't you think it's deaths. It is very disquieting to him. She loved his every move- She had never seen him so only balm that would soothe

telegraphi lines, and occupying ment; she loved the firmness utterly astounded, and for a Fred's wound was flattery. Sha She sank on to a conch and the best thing she can do to stop note the alarming increase in the arms, destroying the railway and towna, Having conducted them- list in this mournfal category, salves as robbers, they are con and elasticity of his stride. His moment she was herself taken bad learned, in the past, to pro- buried her, brow in the cushions, outside with you to look after Prapon District, which topa the face was overshadowed by the aback. She wavered in her pitiate Fred by flattering his salf. She wished that death would "Yes," said the young man, in being no fewer than 12 seizures demned by the whole nation. brim of his hat. She did not purpose; it seemed possible, after esteem. She loathed to think of release her from this dire dilemma.

capital town of Burma. We and Wang Ohin-san, who have need to see his face. Every line all that her estimate of him how often she had used that petty For in a flash it had come to her an undertone, 1 guessed on the and 10 deaths ahead of the The crimes of Chen Chiao-yin Taking a latch-key from the wonder what the cause of this willingly followed the rebels are of it was known to her, every might be wrong he might not trick to bribe him into good that she could not, could not, lat Bands, and now I know." d

Let them be expression, masterful, pleading, only think he was fond of her, humour and to make their life Fred enact this crime on her girl and the coin from Hawker, abnormal figure is assigned to

unpardonable. humorous, ironical, kind. And and protest that he was fond of together easy.

behalf, could not allow him thus flambean let himself and bis be. The other figures are summarily executed on the spot. as the gazed she seemed to be her, she was ready for that, he moved across the room to to offer himself on the altar of his friend into the house, and passed Rangoon town 22 seizures, 21 The other rebels in custody shall enveloping him in herself, and but he might be genuinely fond him, and laid her hand on his devotion that devotion in which,

until five minutes ago, she had into the outer parlour. It was deaths: Bassein District 15,15; be dealt with after the conclusion rejoking in his apparent ignor- of her, genuinely horrified, not at shoulder, ance of her nearness and in the her plain speaking she had "Fred!." She was remorseful, not believed. Add gqually she empty except for one person. Maubin 8, 8; Myaungmya 6,6 of their trial. Teiang Chia-sheb The man whom Father Brown Hanzade District 4,4; Han Liao Hung, Chen Yang-ting and fortitude with which he walked foresson that he would hate her She overcame her shrinking and saw that now she could not leave had seen pass the tavern was thawaddy 3,3 Houlmain3,2 Ho Yuen-lang, being at large, to his work straight past her honesty-but at her lack of forced borself to stroke his hair. him. Precisely because she loved standing against the wall as if at and Toangoo 3,2. Insein Pegu, must be arrested and punished. house, sa if nothing had happen- perception.

“la it eo very bad, Fred?" David, she understood what

bay-anohauged, save that he Bhame and Swebo Districts each by all means, as demanded by eð and as if she did not exist, Tired of you!" he gasped.

Fred's love must mean. He flung her off.

had taken off his coat and was report one seizure, but no plague law; let the Tutubs, Governors, Bat, opposite the house, he A fed flush mounted upon his "That cad David Gheat!" he

and Senior Commanders of troops wearing a brown dressing-gown. is reported from Mandalay. turned his head. He lackened forehead and spread upward into blurted.

"We have come," said Father Decrease of Customs Receipts instruct all their subordinates to his pace. He looked up at her the roots of his thin, carefully She recoiled. Without a word,

Brown politely, "to give back. The Ministry of Finance has window.

brashed hair. He raised himself she left him and went upstairs to

this goin to its owner."

And he recently received a number of trace and arrest them. You are in her room. Of course he had not really and stood over her.

handed it to the man with the telegrams from the superintend

sats of the various customs bou68. forgotten. She knew that he love with "another man!”

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"I can not leave him," she moaned. I can not commit such a wickedness. David! My David! I can never come to you!".

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Flambeau's eyes rolled. "Is this man a coin collector?" he

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could never forget. But she She was appalled; but she was She had spent a sleepless

in Hasan and Shensi, stating that was overjoyed. "He is thinking glad he had said this. She could night. Before she had reached his way to town, Fred was thinking

owing to the devastation of the of me," she reflected. "He is only nod in answer.

the top of the stairs her knees savagely:

White Wolf brigands business in looking at me. And he can Berths, it's that Ghent had been shaking beneath her. "Anyhow, it'll create a stir. "This man is Mr. Arthur these provinces has been brought see me, though I am invisible to follow David Ghent, He's been she had hardly sufficient energy The fellows will reckon I'm a bit

said the priest to a standstill and consequently his eyes."

making love to you. That cad!" to undress. When she had sunk of a dog. If people suspected Carstairs," She did not stir. She remained

She was infuriated. She rose into bed, she had been so spent, that Ghent had eut me out with positively, "and he is a coin the revenues of the customs houses collector of a somewhat singular thereof have shown a great de. create. They asked the Govern motionless behind the cartain. and passed him. She stood with physically, that her limbs had my own wife, I'd never be able kind. He moved on.

her fingers on the handle of the seemed paralyzed. The interview to hold up my head again. But

The man changed colour coment to issue orders to the she drew the blind and switch. door.

with Fred had ased ap her if I fix it so that she divorces me horribly that the crooked nose soldiers and police to patrol the ed on the lights. She must dress "You shall not call him a reserve of force.

They'll be shocked a bit, of for dinner. It was a quarter of cad," she breathed. "Yes-he

Next morning she drank a cup course, bat He threw out his stood out on his face like a sapa highways and protect the travel sort of be able to resume their business An hour since she had heard and I have found that we love of tea in her own room, when she chest. Let om! It'll teach rate and comic thing. He spoke, lers so that the merchants may at an earlier date. Peking despairing dignity. footfalls on the stair and the slam each other. I am thankful that the had seen that Fred's breakfast 'em that perhaps I wasn't such a nevertheless, with a of the door in the passage. Her trath has come out so quickly, I was placed ready for him. She doll stick as they guessed! *** You shall see, the

Gazette.

Malaya at Rubber Exhibition,

Kuala Lumpur, June 12, The Malaya Agency is isoning. a glowing account of the Malayan Exhibition display at the Rubber Exhibition, A large Oriental structure stands in the main hall and a cmematograph adjoining depiota plantation scenes. There 18 an enormous quantity and variety of Plantation Rubber, blooks, and many other Malayan including two huge Lanadron products, tinware, fruits, vege tables, silke and rattan work. Singapore Free Press.