1927-12-27 — Page 11

OUR SERIAL STORY.

THE MOATED GRANGE.

CHAPTER 1.

By KATHARINE TYRAN.

Author of "A Mad Marriage," "The House of Doom," "Denys the Drommer."

Beata de Burgh "looked up from the paper she was reading, with a sudden brightening at her face which her mother was aware of as though the sun had shone into the tiny London Hat.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,`

AT THE QUEEN'S.

HAROLD LLOYD AT HIS BEST.

The great attraction at the Queen's Theatre is Harold Lloyd in "The Kid Brother," a picture full of sparkling humour and well up to the standard of this star's productions,

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1927.

FAREWELL SERMON.

REV. COPLEY MÖYLE'S HOPES.

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elsewhere,

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passed to the rest of Paradise. I have always tried to impress on candidates for confirmation that themselves to Jesus Christ. when they are confirmed they give The Rev. V. H. Copley Moyle, Bishop asks them if they renew who is leaving for Home on New their baptismal promises made by "I do" and those two short words Year's Eve, preached his farewell their good parents and they reply sermon in St. John's Cathedral on

morning I Christmas morning, when he made a dedication of themselves to reference to his lengthy period of Jesus Christ. This The story of the picture takes service in the Colony. There was would say to all who have been con-

an exceptionally large congregation.firmed either here or one to the countryside, where, as

In the course of his sermon, the give yourselves anew to Jeausto the youngest of three sons of a reverend gentleman said:-There day On His birthday give your- small farmer, the hero is the can be few things worse for Chris-solf anew to Him as a real living www "Cinderalla" of the family. Howtianity than quarrels among Chris-present. The Christian life is a people," Mrs. Browne said undis-ever, he succeeds in scoring off his tians, and to-day as I look back series of frequent new starts and years I feel really constantly, renewed efforts: It

needs perseverance: mayed by Lady Lambert's sharp-braway brothers, in most amusing over the last

thankful that the relations between stroll into Heaven without effort "But after all that child, fashion. ness,

This film proved the main cine- this Cathedral and other Christian But by persistently starting again Beata, can be serious enough for

She'll tako care of her ma" attraction on Christmas "Day Churches in the Colony have been' two. mother, I daresay, and keep her and yesterday, the booking being of the most friendly character. after every failure we may hope from doing anything foolish."

30 great on Sunday afternoon that And we have on the whole had a eventually to hear the Master's wel "They'll take care of each other," "full houses" were announced fairly peaceful time amongst our come words "Well done good and selves as a congregation. There faithful servant, enter thou into

She Joy of thy Lord." quite early. It was the bent they had been Lady Lambert said, "and I can

have been times when we have had able to do with their resources in trust Benta to be good to her

to fight for what we believed to be She won't want

the law of the Church but those London, that tiny flat, where they mother. sat reading either side of the gas mother to sit in the chimney-corner.

occasions have been few, and on the

Two things stand out very clear- stove, abhorrent to those accustom Beata is only serious because she

whole the last fifteen years herely in my. memory of my first Sun- ed to the heaped fres and the big has fallen ou these graceless days,

have been fairly peaceful, and for day in Hongkong. One was the 1 do pity the poor girls rooms of a West of Ireland man-poor child.

that we may glorify God.

strangeress of preaching with pun- отет the sion. On the waste ground out-of these days profoundly, Who is

kahs being pulled all Over 300 Marringes,

Cathedral, and the other was the side, where other Hats had begun there for Beata to play with? All to go up, London children, grimy dead and gone.. think Delia is

appalling array of empty pewa Owing to the rough weather an

It is not a as London sparrows, played amid a wiser woman than you know in

decided to post-

During my time here it has been which confronted me.

see empty the rubbish which had been dump taking Beata away from all this Saturday, it was

pone the annual Hong race for the my privilege to mar three hun-cheering spectacle to ed drearily between the naked where she herself could be happy."

dred and ten couples. They are seats and I do appeal to everyone Hornell Cup. Three crews had en- sides of the flat buildings.

tered, the Asiatic Petroleum Com now scattered all over the world here this morning to come to pany, Messrs. Butterfield and Swire During the last few days I have church on this fortnight to make and the Hongkong Electric Company, had letters from New Zealand and my successor feel that the church Officials after having gone out in Juva from people I have married, people of Hongkong do take a real small row boate derided to the seal in these days when divorces interest in their church. You all was too choppy, and called off the rucs are increasing in number I am very kiow the value of first impressions.

thankful that as far as I know, no How many people seeing Hongkong; until a date to be fixed inter

one whom I have married has been first on a beautifully sunny win- divorced. I say as far as I knower's day have fallen in love with for it has not been possible to keep its beauty and have never ecased

It had been fog and frust for nearly all the month of November, and the country hearts had sighed for the wide clean skies and great spaces and the flooding rains which came up from the Atlantic and washed the world clean.

Mother," The girl said eagerly, "Just Bsten to this! It sounds too "good to be true,"

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She waved her hand towards the shining world of bog and mountain that lay just beyond the windows.

Tam de Burgh had left very little money. dia widow and daughter, who hat never known what it was to want for anything, had been secretly appalled when they found what a very short way the money went in and

But they kept,

the hearts up and were cheerful She read from her newspaper, even when the dat in the red brick "A matterin "ho must live ions that and gone up where alword his halth is mepared there had been garden was the to let all moated gratge in bet they hat, been phlé to do. Lon- a mer-world bad ston Suffolk to one or two ladies who dona would keep the Pace dired and pay jaded on lema and enter mother. There was a yellow hue in the the wages of two excellent, servants. the man Butler gardener, the wo- fog wow. Somewhere the sun was The man cook-general-wages of both vainly trying to pierce "i.

fog turned to sudden night. Benta £100 Year"

Beata paised to this amaz-went to a side window which over- ing advertisement its full import-booked a thoroughfare. She looked aree. Then she added in a lower into a pali of fog. Through the fog vnice: Fifteen miles from a rail-came the long rays from the bril liant head-lights of a motor-car way-station."

She glanced expectantly at her travelling very slowly. The noise of the children on their dreary mather.

of playground had ceased. The fog "Those fifteen miles are, course, the fly in the ointment. har muttled sound as well as light." She dropped the blind again with Should we care very much, darling? It would be real country. Listen, shiver. In the harsh light of the there is more of it: Four acres of unshaded electric bulb she thought Mrs. de paddock and an old-fashioned wall-her mother looked pale.

Lion.

ed garden, fully stocked. The Burgh was leaning towards the gas house is surrounded by woodlands, fire as though she felt cold. The and there is a lake which provides little room, which was not without its prettiness, had the chillatul- some good shooting.""

She paused, gilent with experta-ness of a room in which the air is exhausted. They had been used to Mr. de Burgh looked at her such enormous rooms at Glen As daughter with an answering exciteve that the heart ached sharply ment, tempered by the experience at the thought of the big, shabby, beautiful rooms, the roaring fires, the circle of dear, disobedient dogs on the hearthrug or in the chairs. wonder what Daddy would

áf her riper years.

"I don't suppose we should get it. Beata. There will be lots of people after it.

could have days,

Besides....."

ROWING.

THE ANNUAL HONG RACE POSTPONED.

LETTER GOLF SOLUTION.

Here is the solution to the puzzle on another page.

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Let us recover from it in the Moat- od Grange. Next year we shall do the Winter Sports if the money You see, I am going to runs to it, work so hard for you, darling.'

Mra de Burgh laughed, caresa: ing her daughter's clicek.

"How many children have been reading that advertisement this: "Not with that fifteen miles. say to me if he could see you in morning as well as you, do Has, it occurred to you that the his place," said Beata, coming up suppose?" she asked. "The place paddock, would mean Grey Lady? balind her mother and drawing the Hounds so tempting that it is sure to be picked up by the very first We could buy a little trap to drive head with its russet-coloured way- her in when I am not riding her.ing hair to her young bnaem.. "He

"Not with the fifteen miles," She is a very pretty hack. We would think that was not much person who sees it."

insisted. "Not everyone You don't know gond to look after you, else I should Beata how sick I am for a dog. A moal not have brought you to this in- wants to sit down in seclusion, to It was My fault. You write the novel which is to lay Ed range! Just think of it. forno. Doesn't it sound deliciously roman-thought I wanted cheerfulness. the foundation-stone of her for not find it Good luck!"

tunes. You would "London can be very pleasant in lonely, durling? That is to say. "A little damp and creepy-craw-May and Jung, Beata." her mother if it is our luck to secure it." ly," said Mrs, de Burgh with a pre-said. turning about and smiling up "Not with you, Beata." tended shiver. But the colour had at her. "It was then your father "If we take it for a year it will come to her checks as it always did and I used to come for a few weeks be worth while bringing our Grey for a pleasant or happy thing. "raiety before his accident. One Lady. And you shall have plenty daresay the old place would be met everybody, and everybody was of nards which your romantic dropping to pieces with mildew." so glad to see you, once they had heart lover. There is certain to be

I was But while she said ft her brown remembered who you were.

A piano: and you can't avoid a eyes sparkled and the smile came never here in Winter before. Lon-Vicarage and a Manor House;

Delia de dan used to be clean and bright not in England." to her soft red mouth." Burgh was an uncommonly pretty with the new green leaves and the

"I acknowledge it sounds, de- woman still, despite her more than Tuckingham Palace. Read like the fightful, and it would "just suit our forty years. "An uncommonly arts of Pareise. pretty woman for ponr Tom de "Your father would to burehead fallen fortunes. Read the ad-

vertisement again."

Renta read the advertisement Burgh to have left and not ever too." He had such a head of fair have tied up front some hicky felair, thick and close. And he look again, with an added paragraph: low," as Sir Peter Knox had saided so happy. I am sure everyone motor may be obtained from the as he came home to his own fire he was a brideswam.

King's Arms at Dunlo. The house

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Tom de Burgh had been a'good deal in the streetes

The

side frem Tam de Burch's funeral people turned about to smile at may be soon any day."

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It was go

"To-morrow morning, if the fog we shall go," said Beata.

he had been an invalid sing andurks of them by the urband "Even if there is a fog but not al accident with Blazers two years Place in Hifpandey ennestend for we shall go. We shall be after his marriture to the protest the Grosvenor Hotel!.

something in dream about tonight. girl in Galway. Tapilo te difer-en with the falling of bunsorted to run out of the for. It will be -once-in-year the had been away bella in the streets and the next de avere What an inferno to and galant good comrade, and his lente trotting of the horse's feel, live in! Do you see how the 10g bangs in the room? Imagine wife had no pitied Herself if others and the driver with his top-lat and

had pitied her. She hinted tea dower in his coat. One who was Glen Assare this morning with the zelf to his bed and fe with un-fonding his fores, from a misdag red leaves still hanging on the tiring devption during the long called out to another an we passed trees and the whole world the year that followed his accident, running because we were rather colour of bracken: the sun reflect- till his life lickered out peacefully Into, say, Bill, ain't she a beauty?

alive with the quacking of dnak one Ardic winter, he blessing and Your father was quite pleased, led in the bog-pools, and the lake

From though insisted that the man praising her to the last.

and the whirring of the water- those years of almost close confine could not have meant me." ment in a sick-room Delia de Burgh. Beata remembered that pleasant hens. Oh, dear Glen Assarde!

had emerged looking like a girl, all reminiscence, as she leant over the know. I shall never be so happy

anywhere else. How I wish" the West wind would blow from Ire land and pack the fog away. I am simply longing for to-morrow's adventure. And you, darling?"

milk and roses, her brown eyes only back of her mother's chair, clasping softer and deeper for the tears they the dear brown head. had shed, the slight pensiveness of It was a wrong to her to have her expression, the plaintiveness of brought her to London in the

She stopped to laugh a little over her voice but added heauties. Her winter, spolling all those lovely amile was very quick to come and memories. Out in the country the

her rhapsody. would be shining on "Oh, I shall be happy as long as go. Old Lady Lambert had answer-"sun

sparkling. with ed a censorious Mrk. Browne, fields

the I have my wise daughter," Mrs. frost. The holly who had said that as time passed melted

de Burgh said, fondly. "Let us Delia de Burgh was becoming a leaves would be all glittering. build castles, even if they are only There would be a silver mist down

cloud castles." merry widow:

And so, shut in by the pall of fog outside, they willed cloud- castles to become solid, and forgot

"Merry widow, indeed! Don't the arches of the woods, and the "But this is a very solid castle," be vulgar, my dear. Why, it is the robins would be singing. She was said Benta. "And if you only fnnocent heart in her keeps her suddenly sick for the country, like a girl. No matter what hap She picked up the paper she had will hard enough our cloudcastles pened to Delia she could not help dropped and laid it down under the may become solid castles in time." being happy, There's a blessing unshaded electric light.

"What about our Moated on her, and that is what makes her glad, even though she misses Grange?" she asked.

a thousand times better than pig Tom."

"If she wanders through the ring it in cheap foreign pensions, world looking like that, smiling on for a while at least.. It was such all she meets, she'll mislead some a break, leaving dear Glen Assaroe.

"It would be about the fog for a shining, vision of a sunlit country in autumn splendour.“

"..

(To be continued.)

First Impressions.

To The Man Who is Proud of His Home

Your home WAS worth making

As your thoughts search the year, a crisis here, a crifice there fash upon memory's screen and fade out But the struggle won-your home was worth the making, because life centres round it.

Who would not rather see smokr from his own chimney than fire an another's hearth?

Your home

IS worth safe-guarding

To the man who is attentive-cook aiderate-proud of his wife and family to the man who considers himself a good husband and father, surely a happy home is worth the guarding.

"

There is one sure way to secure ita preservation to guard those nearest and dearest to you.

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"

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