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A SERIAL STORY

MY LADY:

CHAPTER XVI.

"Am I nice, Nannie?"

A TALE OF MYSTERY.

By EDGAR WALLACE.

Author of "The Four Just Mou," "The Socrot House" &c., &c.

"Why, of course she won't. hever thought of that!"

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

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Alone, she lived over again every Marie swung round on her heel, moment of M'lady's day, recalling to shew all sides of the dainty her every word, dwelling upon the gown, her rounded arms and fond things she had said, the frank creamy neck rising softy from the demonstration of unchanged affee- shell-pink draperies, delicate as ation. wlap of sunrise.

She caught sight of Fenner, puffing at his Turkish Joy, and reclining with ostentatious case in his chair.

It was some time before she took up' her pon bringing her mind to the hook before her. She turned back the pages in the ledger to where, in very small handwriting, "John, I've told you about Mr.as though she was ashamed to set Fenner, haven't I? He's a dread them down, she had entered her Ittle charities-clothes given to a ful socialist!"

"Up to a point, Mr. Morlay," said girl to start her in service, frocks Fonner airily. "Up to a point!" for children who would otherwise "I suppose we're all socialists up have gone ragged, smart gowns for to a point. What is your point, a poor little actress who at last Accured an engagement, and had Fenner?"

"I believe in a fair day's work expensive dresses to find for the for a fair day's pay and no milk-part. ing" announced Fenner.

Mrs. Carawood almost fancie she heard a queer, cynical chuckle as though the old man looked on at his convert.

"Milking? Oh, slacking. you mean? That's a new word to me. But you're quite right-you're carpenter, aren't you?"

Fenner coughed.

"Well, not a carpenter exactly, now. I'm a master man.' if you understand me: I don't know that there's much in it, with wagen at 1s. 74. an hour--"

ed closed, and she turned back to her book, reading over the entrics, each one of which told a story. someone's need and her own well. used power to relieve.

The quietness settled down; the rustle of the leaves as she turned them was the only sound which broke the stillness. She started violently as a stealthy creak came from the passage, lifting her head

"Listen to him," said Mrs. Cara-alertly. wood scornfully,

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NANKING POLICY.

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tarism and to achieve unification of the whole epantry, wiping out once for all the causes hitherto of Internecino strife.

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2. To abrogate completely all unequal treaties, restoring, to us thereby our national sovereignty and our rightful position in the family of nations. In the past eighty odd years our country has been held in bondage by succes sive impositions of unequal trea- tica dictated by the Imperialists. The terror of militarism, the cor-

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1927.

SHAUKIWAN, MURDER TRIAL

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so and they left about eight o'clock o'clock. When they got outside they were joined by a friend, who told them that a murder had just been committed at Chaiwan. The second prisoner replied he did not know anything about it.

They all went for some tea after which, he, together with the first prisoner, went on board Chan Po's bont where they were invited to spend the night.

The next day he again went to

prisoner. He stayed there some ruption of the mandarinate, the Kam Wah Street to find the first bankruptcy of our national fin-hours, after which Chan Fo invited The statement then went on to ance, the resulting poverty of our them on board his boat for supper. people, the loss of our sovereignty, and the injustice suffered by our describe the arrest, and said that be nationals abroad may all be traced asked why, he was arrested, but

It is for

was not told. When he arrived at to the unequal treaties. this reason that in his last will the police station he was accused of our late leader specifically in- murder, but he denied it, saying he Mr. Fitzroy said that closed the structed us to effect the abolition knew nothing about it. of unequal treaties within the

Mr. Sheldon intimated that he shortest possible period, as the case for the Crown. chief purpose of the Nationalist | Revolution is to secure freedom was not going to call any evidence. This Inspector Lane was again re- and equality for China. Government, therefore, pledges it-tailed, at the instance of the fore- self to labour unceasingly for the man of the jury, in connexion with complete abrogation of all une mal the cut notes. The inspector made been cut with scissors, though of treaties, restoring to Ching her it quite clear that both notes had sovereign status.

course it was impossible to Bay whether the cutting was done at His Lordship: That closes the the same time.

3. To preserve the unity of power of the Nationalist Revolu- tion and to remove the obstacle in its way by destroying the influence

CHIANG KAI-SHEK'S ROMANCE.

ask for

her

She looked up as a faint sound reached her cars. glancing towards the passage door, half expecting

Coun to see Herman. The door remain-of the communists in cur Party. evidence, and at this point. I pro- For the last few years the compose to adjourn for consideration munists have insinunted them- of the case until 3.15 p.m. selves within the Kuomintang. sel for the Crown and Counsel for While apparently fighting for, and the prisoners will address you this in the name of, the Nationalist afternoon, when I shall adjourn Revolution, secretly they plotted to until to-morrow before addressing

In stirring up effect a dictatorship of the Com-you myself. munist Party, class struggle, they have caused havce among the agricultural, the industrial, the commercial and the elements in the intellectual

(Continued from Page 7.) country, ineiting them to mutual strife, with a view to bringing. thereby the gradual disintegration I may wait upon her at Kobe, 1| of the Revolutionary forces. More shall go there to inquire after her

health and to acently still, Yeh Ting and Ho Lang were leading their rebellious daughter's hand. I have no other hordes, in a desperate dash to business in Japan than that. And com-whether I go to Japan or not is border territories; while munists all over the land are entirely contingent upon what in- watching with vigilance for the formation we obtain from there to Mrs. Soong's health." opportunity of an uprising. This with regard

When interviewed, Miss Soong Government hereby pledges itself

resources and ability in told me that she was quite sur- under oath to strive to the utmost of its exterminating the Communist prised that so much interest was Party, in order that our people evidenced in her personal affairs, of a Bolshevik would realize that in marriage may be made safe permanently but she hoped that her friends regime, and the unity of our there was no explaining why one from the terror Revolutionary forces may be takes the step but that sentiment alone must be the guide.. She ridiculed the idea of a political Preserved unimpaired.

marriage and said that she only hoped that the political members of her family would place no im- the way of her pediments, in choice.

There was a second or two of She held the girl's hand ten-silence, then another stealthy derly, her eyes searching her sound, which brought her to her face. In an instant Fenner and feet, trembling a little. Her eyes John and all that the room and the dilated as she watched the door

move slowly inwards. world held had vanished.

"Herman!" she cried, sharpiy, "Going to the opera," she said, in a hushed voice. "Will there be "Don't be such a fool, trying to & lot of awfully grand people there frighten me!"

The door opened wide and a man to-night, M'lady?"

"If there are, there won't bestond framed in the doorway; a anybody as nice as you, Nannie, man white-faced, with queer, tor- nor anybody so beautiful," de-mented eyes, his skin stretched clared the girl, with loving flattery.fight over gaunt cheekbones, his "And that is the queer thing about mouth twisted in a perpetual was pulled low the grand things of life-that they sneer. His hat arc never as dear and sweet as over his forehead, his coat button- the everyday people and thingsed up to the neck despite the

heavy heat. we love."

Her ligs fell apart, and she John watched and listened, ng "he had watched and listened so struggled voicelessly for breath.

often when these two were to-At last:

"Joe" she gasped hoarsely. gether. Father Benito was right,

The girl caught his eye; she was "My God, Joe!”

The man called Joe Salter stared ready to go.

"I must be getting along myself at her, his loose mouth wide open. see her too, Mrs. Carawood." Fenner He had not expected to shook hands with his hostess-a there, and was startled to terror liberty he had never permitted at the sight of her. And then, he

Stand came in and shut the door. himself before.

ing there like a ghost, he smiled at her, a horrible, twisted smile.

be damned "You.....I'll you!"

John offered him a seat in the car, but this he declined.

"I think not, thank you," sakit Fenner, "I can get a taxi."

He gave a sidelong glance at Mrs. Carawood to see the effect of his magnificence upon her. She was unimpressed.

She went out into the street to watch the car pass out of sight, and then came back with a sigh and locked the shop door.

"We'll have the light now,"

she said. "It's getting gloomy I'm sure there's going to be storm.

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"Did you hear that Fenner, Mrs. Carawood?" asked Herman, as he switched on the light. "Him, and his taxi?"

She was fooking at herself in the mirror critically.

She could not speak.

Pas dead. My Thought you God, Joe!" he mimicked. "I don't wonder you're knocked out a bit to see me. You Mrs. Carawood?"

She nodded.

"I thought....

"she began, and leaned on the table, shaking.

"You thought Yes, I know you

was F thinker! You thought, I was in Dartmoor till was carried out feet first, didn't you? But I'm not. I'm here- home with me loving wife!"

She stared at him dumbly, try- ing in vain to realize all that his coming meant-eighteen years work, eighteen years of dreaming, of planning and unceasing effort to build up happiness, to bury the ugly past, and now....wrecked in moment, crumbled like one of her dream palaces, dragged down into the mire from which she had struggled so long and so gallantly to rise.

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The Maintenance of Discipline. 4. To reconstruct the Revolution- ary programme and to maintain strict Revolutionary discipline 20 as to protect the rights of the people and to guarantee peace and

livelihood. The time, carry out his idea step by order in society and security of the people's poisonous scheme of the com- step, that the problem of the peo- munists is to take advantage of the ple's livelihood, during the stage simple-minded peasants and the of political tutelage, may be ade- ignorant riff-raff, teaching them quately and properly solved.

A Model Government. the means of destruction and in- trigue and then luring them on

To correct ourselves of all with promises of easy and com- the chronic corrupt practices of sending them the militarists and the mandari- a model fortable living, finally to be slaughtered-in short, nate; and to establish using them as objects of experi ment for their Party. Thus, government born of the National- wherever communism runs ramp-ist Revolution. Much of the male ant, it strips the people, of that administration heretofore can be locality of their security of life traced to the avarice of our and property; their freedom of officials. Bribery has been rife: and your thinking of old! You speech and religion, robbing them and nepotism has been the order always

existence. of the day. With militarista and of their very This Government, henceforth, de- mandarins co-operating with the clares itself bound to suppress ali usurping gentries, the servitors of such perfiduous activities in order Imperialism and the denationalized to maintain revolutionary dis- compradores on a grand scheme of cipline and to secure peace and bleeding the people, the rapid de lets for the people. At the pletion of national resources and same time, the agricultural and the general poverty among the industrial groups will receive the people naturally ensued. This de- educational training of the Re-ploráble condition served as fur- volution under the auspices of this ther impetus to the militarista

WOMEN'S MALADIES. Government, that they may under and mandarins in their wanton stand the true meaning of the ness, adopting more cruel and op-

The ailments of women con- Three People's Principles and pressive measures, that they might support the Party in its struggle maintain themselves in indolence

4 and supineness, In face of this,stitute almost a speciality in the to bring the Revolution to successful conclusion. It is only healthy and clean administration She gave a little sob and sank by this course that the Three and all reconstructive efforts were practice of medicine. The femin- into a chair, her arm across her People's Principles can be carried naturally foredoomed; whereas, ire temperament is as much a fac- "I don't know as I believe in eyes as though to shut out the out in accordance with the pre- the purpose of this Government is tor in determining the treatment prayers. Last winter I had a bob sight of her ruined hopes, and the scribed programme in practice; precisely to set up euch reforms of these as is the feminine con-

bringing about ultimately the cher We, therefore, hereby pledge our- on Aston Villa, and prayed for fearful future.

"Oh God! how awful" she ished "millenium of To-Tong." it to win, but it didn't.'

5. To carry out the reconstrue-selves to establish a clean and stitution.

Tonicity is the clue to woman's efficient administration. In contra- "Why should it, just to please wailed.

Awful, ain't it?" he retorted, tion plan as outlined by our late distinction to its counterpart in health and well-being. The blood you?" she demanded, as she sat down. "You're like a lot of folks, and broke off, his head darting leader in his "Chien Kuo Fong the north, that we may face our

and the nerves being In normal people without disgrace. Herman, always expecting God to round spasmodically as heavy, Lich," and "Chen Kuo Ta Kang"

condition, good health logically The policies thus briefly

follows. do tricks for you. A woman steady footfalls went by the win- and the "Ming Seng Principle, knew used to pray to God to help dow and the shadow of a helmet the most important features of

Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale her to get her washing dry."

passed slowly. "A copper" he which are the equitable distribu-lined, this Government pledges "Well, what's the good of pray-breathed.

tion of land, the regulation of capi- itself faithfully to carry out in ing at all, then? People like us

She looked up with a wild hope tal, and the creation of a national turn to the best of its ability and People offer a long-tried and in her eyes.

reserve for the purpose of promot-resources and within the shortest thoroughly proven remedy for the only want little things."

"Joe, you've .escaped!" she

ing various industries beneficial period. The other details of ad-more common ills that feminine cried..

to the people. All these plans are ministration shall be executed in flesh is heir to. They have been conformity with the political found to be virtually apecific In She had no pity in that moment the antithesis of the confiscatory "Whatever you do is a big thing, If you do it right. But things like she could think only of the horror, palley of the Chinese Communist policy of the Kuomintang and in minimizing the discomforts. and washing.....well, maybe, I'm the degradation, the beastliness wrong, Herman Maybo Mrs. his coming threatened to bring Party; and between them, there- accordance with the wish of the aftermath of Nature's. inexorable Gallimore praying to get washing back into her life; the fleeting fore, there is no room for com- people, with such care and vigil: exactions. A wise and expert- dry is the same as me praying from justice, the humiliation of promise. This Government shall ance so as not to fall in the trust enced physician lived to hear his for what I think are big things. hiding, the thankless slavery from hereafter follow the plans laid placed upon at by the Central prescription blessed by But if we get on religion, we'll be which she had escaped in these down by our late leader, and, in Special Committees up all night. Good-night. Her

happy years of freedom, the more relation to the conditions of the wonderful because, of the sordid

"M'lady said that among all the grand folk where she's going, no body would look better than me!"

"Nor they won't, not if they're duchesses. I'm tired to-night," he yawned, "Last night it was like sleeping in an oven, and it's not any cooler to-night,"

"It'll cool down after the storm has broken. Be off to bed now, and don't forget your prayera."

She looked at him thoughtfully:

then she sailed.

man."

"Good night, Mrs. Carawood."

At the door he turned again.. "Mrs. Carawood, when M'lady's

misery which had preceded them

married to Mr. Morlay, she won't to the door.

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(To be Continued)

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