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NEW AMERICAN SERIAL.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

GIRL ALONE

By ANNE AUSTIN, Author of Saint and Sinner,"

Don't forget me, kids," she panted, her voice thick with tears.

SYNOPSIS.

on and tell me!"

Stone summed up, her strong, "Well, Sally, I'm afraid there heavy face almost as red as Sally's SALLY FORD, 16, withra genius

Miss Pond own. "You're too young to go out for acting, is selfishly kept at the isn't much to tell." orphanage, which has been her smoothed a folded bit of paper with young men, but you'll be meet apologetically. The record says ing, the hired hands on the farm. home since she was four, in spite

you were brought here May 9, 1912, You-you mustn't let them take of efforts to adopt her, because her just 12 years ago, by a woman who liberties of any kind with you. We sympathy and understanding with said you were her daughter. She try to give you girls in the Homo small children make her a valuable gave your birthday as June 2, 1908, a sound religious and moral train- helper to the matron. However, and her name as Mrs. Nora Ford,, a ing, and if-if you're led astray when CLEM CARSON asks that widow, aged 28-"

it will be due to the evils In your Sally be "farmed out" to him for the summer, the mairon tells the girl she must go. Sally dislikes the farmer, but long years of obedienco to authority, seal her lips against protesting when the matron says she must go and she leaves to pack

THURSDAY, APRIL

FOOTBALL FORECAST

COMPETITION.

“TELEGRAPIF? OFFERS PRIZE

OF $50 WEEKLY.

Tha Hongkong Telograph" offers a prize of $60 to the readers who send in twelve correct fore casts of the results of the English and Scottish League matches (to be played on Saturday next; April 7th) sot outin Coupon below. No goal scores are required; only forecasts show- ing wiha or.draws.

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In the event of no render fores casting all twelve matches, a prize of $25 will be given to the reader who sends in the greatest number of correct forecasts; and in the event of two or more readers send- Ing in an equal high nutabar, the prize of $25 will be divided.

The competition is in accordance with the rules published in the Telegraph during the wonks August 29-September 24.

"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH” FORECAST COMPETITION.

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No. 32. nature and not to lack of "Oh, she's young" Sally breath-own ed ecstatically. Then her face proper Christian training. You clouded, as her nimble brain did understand me, Sally?" she added quick gum in mental arithmetic. severely.

Strike out the teams, which you think will lose, but make no marks in respect of matches which

But she'd be 40 now, wouldn't "Yes, Mrs. Stone," Sally answer she?. Forty seems awfully old-ed in a smothered voice.

"Forty is comparatively young, Sally's hunted eyes glanced wild-you think will be drawn. her few clothes for the trip. Sally!" Miss Pond, who was lookingly about for a chance of escape and All claims must reach this offico

Sally encounters Httle MISS regretfully back upon 40 herself lighted upon the turning knob of POND, sentimental, sympatiictic said rather turtly. "But let me the door. In a moment Clem Car- not later than Wednesday follow- office helper. When Sally begs her hurry on. She gave 'poverty and son

was edging in, his brown-ing the date on which the matches to tell her something of her mother, illness as her reasons for asking the leather face slightly flushed, a tell- are played. No. prize will be She ale odour of whisky and cloves on awarded for which a claim has not

been made. This breath.

Before sending in your coupon, mark your forecasts on the dupli- cate list given below. Keep your dulpicato lists and compare them later with the published results of

Miss Pond promises to come to the State to take care of you. locker room and tell her what she said your father was dead," knows,

"Oh, poor mother?" A shadow "Little lady all ready to go?" he NÓW GO ON WITH THE STORY. flitted across Sally's delicato face; inquired with a suspiciously jovial quick tears for the dead father and laugh, which made Sally crouch in her chair. "Looking CHAPTER III.

thel, poverty-stricken mother lower

pretty as a picture, too! With two Because she was leaving the or-filmed her blue eyes. phanage for a temporary new home "The State accepted you provi-pretty girls in my house this sum-the matches and if you find that on the Carson farm, Sally was per-sionally, and shortly afterward sont iner, reckon I'll have to stand guard you have eight or more correct Mark your envelopes "Football”. mitted to take her regular Satur- an investigator to check up on her with a shotgun to keep the boys send in a claim for the prize. day night bath that afternoon. In story," Miss Pond went on. The jaway."

Word had gone round that Sally on the front and write your name spite of her terror of the future, investigator found that the woman, the girl who had never known any Mrs. Ford, had left the city--it was Ford was leaving the Home for the (without address) on the back of MARK AND KEEP THIS DEPLICATE home but a state orphan asylum Stanton, 30 miles from here-and summer, and as Clem Carson and the envelope. ·

DO NOT FORWARD IT TO US. felt a thrill of adventure as she that no one knew where she had his new unpaid hired girl walked splashed in a painted tin tub, glori-gone. From that day to this we together down the long cement walk LIST.. ously alone, unhurried by clamorous have had no word from the woman to where his car was parked at the IT IS PRINTED FOR YOUR CONVENI girls waiting just outside the little who brought you here. She was a curb, nearly 300 little girls, packed ENCE BO THAT YOU MAY KEEP A cubicle,

mystery in Stanton, and has re- like a herd of sheep in the wire HECORD OF THE FORECASTS YOU HAVE The cold water-there was no mained a mystery until now. I'm fenced, playground adjoining the BENT IN.

Huddersfield hot water for bathing from April Borry Sally, that I can't tell you front lawn, sang out good-byes Bolton

and good wishes.

Newcastle first to October first-made more."

"Good-bye, Sal-lec. Hope you Tottenham her skin glow and tinglo. "Oh!" Sally's sharp ery was

Notts C. As she dried herself on a charged with such pain and disap-have a good time!"

"Good-bye, Sal-lee. Write me a Reading. ragged wisp of greyish-white pointment that Misa Pond took one Turkish towelling, Sally sur of the little clenched fists between letter, Sal-lee!" "Good-bye, good-Stoke Luton neyed her slim, white body with her own thin hunde, not noticing bye!"

Sally, waving her Sunday hand-Northants shy pride. Shorn of the orphanage that the slip of paper fluttered to

"She didn't write to urchief, craned her neck for a last Clyde uniform she might have been any the floor. pretty young girl budding into know how I was, didn't care wheth-sight of those blue-and-white-ging- Motherwell womanhood, so slim and rounded er I lived or died! and pinky-white she was.

I wish I hadn't hamed little girls, the only play. asked! I thought maybe there was mates and friends she had in the someone who loved world. There were tears in her "I guess I'm quite pretty," Sally somebody, whispered to herself, as she thrust me

eyes, and, queerly, for she thought her face close to the small, wavery

"Remember she was sick and she hated, the Home, a stab of mirror that could not quite succeed poor, Sally. Maybe she went to a homesickness shooting through her in destroying her virginal loveli-spital uddenly and-and died, heart. How safe they were, there ness. "Sweet sixteen and never But there was no report in any pain the playground pen!. How sim- been kissed," she smiled to herself,pers of the State of her death,"ple and sheltered life was in then bent forward and gravely laid Miss Pond added conscientiously. the Home, after all! Suddenly sho her pink, deliciously curved lips "You mustn't grieve, Sally. You're knew, somehow, that it was the last against the mirrored ones.

nearly grown now. You'll be leav-time she would ever see it, or the Then, in a panic lest she be too ing us when you're 18, unless you children. late to see kind Miss Pond, she want to stay on as an assistant jerked on the rest of her clothing, matron or as a teacher"

And

"Lear Sally, how sweet you look!" "Oh, no, no Sally cried. "I Miss Pond clasped her hands in ad- pack now, Miss Pond, miration as Sally slipped, breath-thank you a million times, for tell less, into the locker-room that con-ing me, even if it did hurt." tained the clothes of all the girls in her distress Miss Pond trotted of her dormitory.

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Without a thought for the iron- clad "Keep off the grass" rule, Sally turned and ran, ficetly, her little figure as graceful as a fawn's, over the thick velvet carpet of the lawn. When she reached the high fence that separated hier from the out of the locker-room without other orphans, she spread her arms, "Did you bring the card that thought for the bit of paper on as if she would take them all into

About tells all

the her embrace. scribbled my which she had

"Don't forget me, kids!" she mother?" Sally brushed the com- memorandum of Sally's pitifully pliment aside and demanded in an meagre life history. But Sally had panted, her voice thick with tears. eager whisper.

not forgotten it. She snatched it "I-I want to tell you I love you all, "No, dearic, I was afraid Mry. from the floor and pinned it to her and I'm sorry for every mean thing Stone might want it to make an "body waist," a vague resolution I ever did to any of you, and I hope "ou all get adopted by rich papas entry about Mr. Garson's taking forming in her troubled heart. you for the summer, but I copied When five o'clock camo Sally and mamas and have ice cream the data.. You go ahead with your Ford was waiting in the office for every day. Good-bye, kids! Good- packing while I tell you what Clem Carson, her downcast eyes bye!"

A little later, when Bally was found out Mien Pond answered fixed steadily upon the small brown nervously, but her pale grey eyes paper parcel in her lap, colour seated primly beside Clem Carson, were sparkling pleasure in her mild staining her neck and cheeks and jetting rapidly down the road that little escapade.

brow, for Mrs. Stone, stiffly, uwk-led past the orphanage toward the. Sally, unlocked her own particu-wardly but conscientiously, was business district of the city, the lax locker with the key that always doing her institutional best to arm farmer, nudged her in the ribs and hung on a string about her neck, the State's charge for her first chuckled

"You're quite a kissing-bug, ain't but almost immediately she whirled foray into the outside world. upon Miss Pond, her eyes implor "And so, Sally, I want you to you, Sally? How about a little kiss ing, "It won't take me a minute to remember to-to keep your body for your new boss?""

(To Be Continued.) pack, Miss Pond. Please go right pure and your mind clean," Mrs.

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