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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1927.

FOOTBALLERS FROM THE SHANGHAI BA.T.

OUR SERIAL STORY.

THE MOATED GRANGE.

By KATHARINE TYNAN,

Author of A Mad Marriage," "The House

of Doom,"" Denys the Dreamer."

PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS. young Indy's cheeks,"

MRS. DE BURGH, an widow, und

Irish

He was forgetting the machine- itke aloofness of the perfectly train- servant, Beata thought for HEATA, her only daugh-the first time that he seemed very ter, young novelist, having anxious to have them. as tenants. seen an advertisement relating to should they or should they not? the letting of an old country house, she was conscious of a the Moatel Grauge, decide to in-unwillingness, despite the many spect the place.

the house. Of advantages of course, it would be ideal for writ

CHAPTER III.

They agreed in a whisper that, the house was thoroughly comfor-

stringe

The. Bramtoco Football Club eleven, who are having a promising first season in the

second division of the Shanghal Football Association's Langue.

SAKLATVALA BAN.

SOLDIER WINS £8,000.

She looked across the tea-table ther mother, who still wore table. The bedrooms upstairs Jack, and thought how fair and were, if anything, more delightful innocent she looked. The wide the than the rooms downstairs, though weep of her black hat on they, too, struck cold. Benta hadhestnut hair was charraing with a swift vision of herself in the the milk-white skin and the softly mahogany four-poster bed of the pale lips. Mrs. de Burgh had SANITARY SUMMONS. room she had car-marked for her pened her cloak, a long graceful own, the. Brelight playing on the cloak of sealskin, which had low ceiling and reflected in the cost a pretty penny before the LANDLORD'S RESPONSIBILITY. REASONS GIVEN IN COMMONS. polished mahogany furniture which War. Her pearls showed about was now just a little dull. There her milky neck, and ran like a was no smell of damp in the house, rivulet to below her waist. She which was rather, wonderful, con-always wore her pearls, saying that sidering the muat under the walls, it was the safest way of carrying

As though the man understood them. her thoughts, he remarked that If you please, madam," said Sir Hilary would have fires all over the man, would you be thinking the house.

of taking the house? There was "Plenty of out in the ccal-an American gentleman and his houses and wood in the woodsheds, sister to come down. Friday." hu said. "Only, while the house

Mrs. de Burgh put her hands! stands empty, it don't seem any together like a pleading, child and good usin' more coal than you can looked hard at feat She always help. Every room has a fire once left the ultimate decision to Beata, a week to keep the damp out. No who could very seldom refuse her sparin' the coil in this house. anything. Away went all the Them's Sir Hilary's orders, and queer unreasonable misgivings in if you was to take the house, cloud. Her mother's appeal was Indies, fires would he liberal."

irresistible.

She assumed a business-like air as she turned to Crunch.

"Who

she

are the agents?".

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It has just been disclosed that. a peor French ex-soldier named" Choralard, who died at Thonon, French Bank Building, Upper Savoy, on the shore of Lake Geneva, a month ago as a result of being gassed during the war caine into a fortune of more than 123,000 a year ago without knowing.

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London, Nov. 28. Mr. Aratoon V. "Apear, as the]

In the House of Cominons to- owner of a flat-residence on In-

and Lot No. 2295, at Tregunter day, replying to Mr. Thurtle Path, was summoned by the Sani- (Lab.), Earl Winterton said that tary. Department, before Mr. R. E. the cancellation of the endoras Lindsell at the Central Police ment of Mr. Saklatvala's passport Court this morning, for allowing at Ina was recommended b servants' lavatory at this address cause, in the course of Mr. Saklat to remain in an Insanitary condivalas visit to India in the begin ning of the yer, he had made several publie sporches containing it. "Mr. Cooper who represented the

A few days ago the Government The Government of India and Lord defendant, in the latter's absences the nature of which led stated that he had circularised Rirkenhead to apprehend a breach receiver at Thonon was officially! tenants in regard to the notice of tranquillity if he returned to notified to chah coupons

National Credit Bond which had from the Sanitary Board.and had been informed that the order for

Lord Birkenhead's apprehensions won a prize of £8,000-at-tho-draw- cleaning out the lavatory had been met contained by the fact that in last December. The records complied with..

Mr. Saklaivals, after his return to showed that the interest on the So, firing was thrown in It

named Josephine was not so unbelievably generous

Sanitary Inspector Sheriff stated England. had written a preface coupons had been paid to a young

annoymous pamphlet in dressmaker

fruitless to Beata and her mother, accustom-

who, after a that the first notice was sent to to an ed to a country where every house askel. "The advertisement did the defendant on the 16th instant, which he emphasised the use of Blanc, had its turf bog and all the wood notesay."

but on a second visit, made as force by the Chinese nationalities Rearch among the few bonds in her possession, suddenly remem- it needed for the cutting, as it "There ain't no agents," said late as 9:30 this morning, the in these words: would have been to the ordinary Cronch. "If you was to write to Sir lavatory was in the same insant-

bered that she had cashed the coupons for her friend, the widow- householder. But they saw the Iliary to say as you'd become,'is

Chosgaland, living in a flat on the fires everywhere in the charm-terent the letter would Leary condition as when he first of India is 'go and do likewise

inspected it. Apparently nothing ing rooms. How fires would wel-warded. He leaves a deal to me. been done in pursuance of graphed congratulating the indivi-same floor.

When informed of her good for come, them! And, as Beata had If you was to give me references

a sad ed volunteers styled "Soldiers of tune Mme. Choygaland, said, they could have a dog. The r'd take 'em up and let you come the Sanitary Department notice.dual who recruited a body of arm- dogs had all been old at Glen in as soon as you wanted to. The

His Worship stated that it was the Republican Army of Nagpur", little figure in black, who had her husband Assaroe, and there had been a and house is quite rendy, only to Rght not sufficient to instruct, tenants.and who was subsequently con- devotedly nursed

through nine years of terrible' dying of the animals after the the fires an' make the beds."

Landlords had a personal respon-victed of sedition.

suffering, showed scarcely any master's death. He had had great Again mother and daughter sibility in these matters and they

emction When asked what she solace in his long. fllness from his glanced ut each other. Beata knew must see to it that instructions pets. First his little canary had that if she was against taking the were duly carried out by the

In the Commons, Mr. Saklatvala would do with the money, sho been found dead at the bottom of house her mother would be sad,

declared that Eart Winterton, had replied: "All the money in the its cage. Then the old pony which but resigned. It was rather re-

a series of gross mis-world cannot replace the wife's had drawn his bath-chair was mute, but then it was such a His Worship imposed a fine of made discovered lying on its side in a wonderful bargain, and there was $10, and gave an order that the statements, and had acted with companion I have just lost." shrubbery unable to move, and the book to be considered,, and closet must be thoroughly cleaned out prior investigation, and de- had had to be shot. Shawn, his there would be plenty of novels for within a period of 48 hours.

clared that he would never write, Irish terrier, had died within her muther to read. A section

a preface to any anonymous book.

It was a gross mis-statement to three months of his master, and of the library shelves, filled with Lorna, his little Skye, had taken novels, had given a comfortable to wandering in search of him and everyday touch to the charming""Oh, if there is a dog." Beata describe the Nagpur incident as had picked up poison.

room. Mrs. de Burgh was

"the recruiting of armed volun-1 teers", when what had really hap- merely walked in the streets in pened was that some Indians had

Through all the trouble in the voracious novel render but ther

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house following the master's death. must be many here she had not

these deaths of the little brethren read.

tenants.

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said, "that will be all right. I can take him for walks."

crunch replied. civilly, "but he'll "lie don't walk much, miss," maybe go with you. He's an dog now; he was a rare good one

had had power, each one, to bring "Sir Hilary - By the way, its lonely pang to Beata's heart do not know his other nume Iler mother had not known of Beata hesitated and, looked at in his day." them for some time,, and the sad-Cronch.

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"All I have to say to the people Mr. Saklatvala, in July tele.

Counter Allegations,

protest against the refusal of the permission to bear arms.

Earl Winterton protested againsi Mr. Saklatvain, who, under guise of a question, was charging him with making a mis-statement, and declared that they were untrue, and suggested that Mr. Saklatvala the motion of adjournment. should suspend his statement unt!! The speaker iptervened, concur-

tion.

Outside they found their ness of the innocent deaths was "Sir Hilary Egerton. He is in swallowed up in the greater sad-Croatia. He keeps on the move chauffeur sitting on his engine to of her widowhood and the since her Ladyship died. Hard it keep himself warm. The night 'breaking-up of her home.

was on him, especially after he'd was very still and dark, the dark- Mr. de Burgh had, after all, lost Master Hugh in the Warness in which the world waits the launched herself in

the new life you'll write, madam, I shall for young moon; and it was very cold. While the man, was winding up with a tremulous sense of adven-ward, the letter, but it might have ture, smiling through her tears. to follow him about before it could the car they walked on, having told She was always like that, always find him. He don't keep still, not him to follow them. Dark as in in Earl Winterton's, sugges- to be something of a dear child to for long. You can write now, if was, the carriage her lover, her husband, her you like, and I'll post it for you. little paler than the surrounding daughter. Benta, with her sense Here is pen and ink and paper. T of responsibility and the sad couldn't promise to keep the house quickly, hand in hand, now and A WHARF INCIDENT. knowledge which had been forced if the American gentlemen

and again running a little because it

was so very cold. pon her since the War and her his sister was to come." father's death that the happy old The man watched them narrow- world had crumbled, would ally, looking from one face to the darkness they could see more ways keep her mother free of ather.

Her mother had missed the dogs and Benta.

road showed a

darkness. They walked along vervi

As they grew accustomed to the plainly. Apparently, the chauffenri

INDIAN WATCHMAN ASSAULTS COOLIE.

pain if she could possibly do it. "I shall write to Sir Hilary," having some dificulty with An Indian, with a flowing white his engine. They could hear in beard, who is a watchman employ- as she had missed so many things. For a few seconds there was no the distance the sound of the cared on the Tai Hing warf, stond It was fortunate that she had that sound in the room but the scratch-being wound up and then coming-before Major C. Willson, at the Police Court this morning, charged sense of adventure, even if it was ing of Beata's pen. Now that she|ing to a full stop.

In

somewhat terrised, to distract her. had given in she had no mis- "I hope he'll get her to start," with assaulting a colle employed

They could have a dog: Chey divine It was going to be such said Beata, standing to look back. on the whart.

in the witncas box, the coolie must have a dog, even if he was go a wonderful place to work in. Something whirred in ner' face ing to be something of a the Grey The cold and fogs and the cramped and went on blindly. For the life said that at daybreak on December 22nd, he shouted to his fellow- Lady was not very young. They fat had been drying up her in of her she could not help uttering workers to get up and begin work, might have Grey Lady once againspiration. She had been Aching to

a faint shrick..

witness believed that he awakened If they had to leave her for a time, work, but inspiration would not

"It was a bat," she said, "only the defendant in the process. surely in this country place they come, and she had been frelful. would be able to find someone to in this delicious place everything poor, armless bat. Do you rany case, according to witness, the look after her,

would cone right. It was going member the one that blundered in defendant got up and with a stick She was thinking rapidly. She to be a good year, --

at the window of the Blue Room belaboured the coolie for causing and frightened a ncies on the wharf at such an had no idea of how narrowly the The man stout in the hack- at Glen Assaroc,

hour. The coelia, as a consequence man's pale eyes were watching. Ile ground waiting with the respectful Dolly Knox almost to death?"

of injuries received, spent four addressed himself to her. Obvious-air of the trained servant till the

It occurred to her for the first days in hospital ly, he had discovered that she was letter was finished and handed time that the darkness, lving all The Indian called certain wit- the practical person.

to him. "My missus has sent up ten," "You can come in as soon as you over the countryside in what he notace to say that the men

took to be a thinly peopled district. gambling on the wharf and caused he said, when they reached the like, miss," he said. “Me and

"It's a long journey from Mrs. Cronch will be quite ready made the Moated Grange, iman endless din all through. the London here. She thought. you You'd maybe like to see Mrs. mensely isclated during the winter night.

One of the defendant's witnessca ladies would be needing it." Cronch? She'll do her best to months. They had not passed a

vilinge of any size since they had stated that be believed the cause of "But how kind" said Mrs. de make you both comfortable." Burgh, colouring, as she always They interviewed Mrs. Crouch in left Dunio. Nor had they seen a the trouble was that the defendant did for any pleasant thing. "What the dimly lit hall. Afterwards church tower, that famillar sight lost a blanket and ruspected the a good soul she must be to think neither had any impression of her of the English landscape. But, of coolies, who resented suspielen e- of it! We are simply starved for beyond a heavily built woman with course the church towers

hall.

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were

musting thrown on them. This wit- tea, although we had lunch at a highly coloured face, and a short have been ere, and the villages ness also stated that the coolice Dunio. It is so kind, is it not, breathing as though she had were if they had not passed them. assaulted the Indian and pulled at Beata ?"

asthma. She said very little, and There must be a cure of souls no his beard.

The Magistrate infileted a fine of "She's well enough," said the what she said was in a low voice. matter how thin the population man. "She can cook fine."

With her hand on the doorway. For the matter of that, a $5 and ordered defendant to pay It was a good tea, with home-handle Beata turned to ask if there thin population meant nothing, of $25 compensation to the coolie.

a drawback to those who had been made white and brown bread and was any objection to a dog, as she accustomed to the great solitudes sweet-tasting batter.

thought of bringing one. "We have our own cows," anid "I wouldn't do that, miss," said of the bag-land country and the

mountains the man, whose namo they had Cronch. "There's a dog already

(To be continued.) learnt was Cronch, "Jersey strain. and he won't bear another in the The milk will put colour in the house."

The Indian objected to pay the compensation, whereupon the Ma- gistrate indicated that the alterna- tive was seven days' hard labour, The nioney was paid.

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