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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

GIRL ALONE

SYNOPSIS.

By ANNE AUSTIN.

Author of "Saint and Sinner,"

"Won't you sing 'Always" "for me, Sally?".

Of course he had danced with short and well-fitting grey flannel Pearl, too, and with the other girls, trousers, a book in his band, a pipe Just before SALLY FORD, 16, who had made eyes at him and in his mouth. who knows no other home but the angled for compliments on their "Mind if I study out here on the stale orphanage from the time own dancing. When he danced kitchen porch?" he asked Sally, she is four, prepares.to yo with Pearl, her husky young body his hazel eyes brimming with CLEM CARSON'S farm to work pressed closely against his, her friendliness. "I like company and for the summer, she persundes finger-tips audaciously brushed the my garret roon's hot as an in- MISS POND, sentimental office golden crispness of his hair. She ferno." helper, to tell her about her mother. had even tried to dance check-to- The girl is crushed to learn her cheek with David, but he had held him shyly. "I try not to make "I'd love to have you." Sally told mother has never returned after back stiffly. placing her in the orphanige.

The other boys-Ross Willia" and noise with the cooking uten- Sally goes to her new home with Purdy Bates-had not aaked Saily

sils." crushed pride. There she seCH. Imndsome young man whom they call DAVID and who she learns is a

student of seientific farming and star athlete, working during the

summer months. In the house she

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1928,

COMPANY REPORT.

HONGKONG. AND SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.

The annual meeting of the shareholders of the Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd., will be hold at Exchange Building to-morrow (Thursday) at noon. The report of the directors to be presented states:

The profits on working account for the year' 1927 amounted to $1,102,659.43.

The balance at credit of profit and loss account (including the sum of $503,769.45 brought for- ward from the previous year), after providing for interest on loans and mortgages, depreciation, Insurance, etc., amounted to $878,- 310.65, which the Directors To- commend be apportioned as fol- |lowa:-To transfer to general ro- serve, $500,000; to transfer to construction and development re- servo, $300,000; to carry forward to new account, $78,310.65.

Mr. B. Lander Lowls resigned from the Board of Directors on This leaving the Colony. Sir Elly Kadoorie was subsequently ap pointed to a seat on the Board and his appointment requires your con- firmation. Mr. J. Scott Haraton! retires by rotation, but being eligible, offers himself for re- election.

The accounts for the year under review have been audited by Messrs. Percy Smith, Seth & Flem- ing, who are eligible and offer themselves for re-election. · The accounts of the Shanghai branch have been audited by Messra. Thomson & Co. who do not seek re- election as auditors, they having accepted the appointment of ac countants to the Company in Shanghai,

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

"SILK STOCKINGS" QUITE

AMUSING.

to dance with them, after Pearl: "Oh, I don't mind nolae," a

There are many piquant situa- had whispered half-audible, fierce laughed. "Fact is, I wish you'd tions in "Silk Stockings," the amus- commands; but their rudeness had sing. I'll bet you can sing like a ing film now showing at the Queen's uo. power to still the little song of bird. Your voice sings even when Theatre. It is a Universal picture, thanksgiving that trilled in her you're talking. And any woman-" admirably produced, and a bright heart, for always David came back a delicate compliment that "ean and entertaining theme has been meets PEARL, the gaudily dressed, to her, looking glad and relieved, work better when she's singing." worked our from the discovery in a pampered daughter of the Carzons, and it was with her that David ent And so Sally Hang. She Bang Pearl crudely warns Sally, "Hands between dances, talking steadily Sunday School songs, because it young husband's pocket of a pair supper Pearl bega David to join and entertainingly, to hide her shy was Sunday."

off David-he's mine!" After

*

silences.

the hand. Benny had strained at brix in the States, and a breezy his mother's hand, trying to get comedy, "Crazy to Fly." loose so that he could kiss Sally There will be no movie perform- and show her his bright red neck-ance in the Queen's at 5 p.m. to- tie, at which the fingers of his free day, as Miss Daisy O'Keefe's hand plucked excitedly. As she re- pupils are giving a dancing dia membered those vacant, grinning play at that time, but the 2.30 7.15 eyes, that slack, grinning mouth, and 9.20 movie performances will Sally's song changed to a heart-felt be held as usual. pacar of thanksgiving:

of ladies' silk stockings. The Divorce Court eventually figures in It was sweet to be alone in the the atory, and it is here that, Laura a party of dancers who are com She signed in memory, a quiver-kitchen, with David so near, his In Plante is responsible for somo Ing to the farm house, but he de-ing sigh of pure pleasure, when crisp, golden-brown head bent over really clever acting. There, is a clines. When Sally hears the she lived again the minutes in the his book, smoke spiraling lazily deal of farce in the story, but the duncers downstairs later in the kitchen when she and David had from his pipe. The old grand-film is worth seeing as a relief from evening, she is seized with a sud-washed glasses and plates, while mother, looking very tiny and old-the seriousness of life. den desire to join them and, don: the others danced in the parlour. fashioned in rustling black taffeta, ning her best dress, tiptoes to the They had not returned, but to had gone to church, too, leading good news reel, which, amoungst Included in the programma la a stairs. There her courage falls.rother had slipped up the back her middle-aged half-wit son by other items, shows Costes and Le She hears a voice behind her stairs to the garret, David bidding "Want to dance?" Sho turna.

her a cheerful good-night us he Is Duvid.

turned into his own room to study NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. for an hour before going to bed.

She had learned, during thane CHAPTER VII

talks with David, that he was 20 At 11 o'clock that Saturday night years old, that he had completed Sally Ford blew out the flame two years' work in the State Agri- in the small kerosene lamp-the cultural and Mechanical College; electric light wires had not been that he was working summers on brought to the garret-and then farms as much for the practical knelt beside the low cot bed to experience as for the money earned, Name them one by one. pray, as she been taught to do in for his ambition was to be a scien-

Count your many Llessings-is tific farmer, so that he might make the orphanage."

See what God hath done!" After she had raced mechanically the most of the farm which lic

Oh, she was blessed! Sho, had a through her childish "Now-1-lay- would some day inherit from his good mind; sometimes she was me," she lifted her small face, that grandfather. His grandfather's pretty; she could dance and sing; gleamed pearly-white in the faint place adjoined the Carson farm children liked her and David, moonlight, and, clasping her thin but it was being worked "David! Poor half-wit Benny, whose little hands tightly, spoke in a low, shares" by, a large family of only blessings were a dim little passionate voice directly to God, brothers who had no need for old mother and a new red necktiel whom she imagined bending His David's labour in the summer. majestic head to listen:.

knew, too, from dis modest replies old mother, whose own eyes were "Oh, thank you, God, for making in questions asked by Ross Willis vague, such a big blessing that she David like me, and for letting me and Purdy Hates, that David was made up for nearly everything else dance with him. And if duncing is a star athlete, that he had already that God could kive?

"Count your blessings!

LETTER GOLF SOLUTION.

Here is the solution to the puzzła on aariher page.

S She But wasn't a mother-even an old,

a sin, please forgive me, God, for wen his letter in, football and that

But she resolutely banished the

I didn't mean any harm, And he had been boxing champion of ache in her heart-an ache that please make Pearl not hate me so the sophomore class. Marvellous contracted it sharply every Lime much just because David is sweet David!

she thought of the mother she had never known-and begun to sing again:

I think when I read that sweet

story of old,

When Jesus was here among

men,

How Ile called little children as

lamb to His fold-" The opening and closing of the door startled her, David จุดม there, smiling at her.

E

H SHOT SOOT FOOT

"But he likes me," Sully exulted. to me. She has so many friends and a father and mother and a "He likes me better thun Pearl or grandmother and a nice home and Bessie Coates' or Sue Mullini: I

"Don't you Pearl me!" the in- Ho many pretty clothes, while 1 suppose," she added honestly, "he's

furiated girl screamed, "You haven't anything. Make her feel sorry for me because I'm an or

mealy-mouthed little hypocrite! kinder toward me, dear God, and phan and Pearl has it 'in' for me;

I'll tell you why I came home! I I'll work so hard and be so good! but I don't care why he's nice to

couldn't find my diamond bar-pin And please, God, keep my heart me, just so he is." and body pure, like Mrs.

that Papa gave me for a Christmas; Storie The radio music stopped at half-

present Inst year, and I remembered Bays."

past.eleven. Spon afterward Sally

when I was in Sunday School that "Lying in bed, covered only with heard the shouted good-nights of

I saw you stoop and pick up some- scant night-gown she had Pearl's guests: "We had a swell

"Won't you sing "Always' for me, thing in the parlour last night. brought from the orphanage, Sally time, Pearl!" "Don't forget, Sally? It's a new song, just out. You little thief! Give it back to

Our house did not feel the oppressive heat Pearl!

tomorrow it goes something like this" And me or I'll phone for the sheriff!" nor the hardness and Jumpiness of night" "See you at Sunday he began to hum, breaking into (To Be Continued.) her corn-aluck mattress. For she School, Pearl, and bring David words now and then: "I'll be lov was re-living the hour she had with you! Some shelk! Oh,ing you-always! Not for just an spent in the Carson living room, Mama! But watch out for that hour, not for just a day, not—”. sponsored by a elern-faced David baby-faced orphan, Pearl! She's

thic

"So this is why you wouldn't go

who seemed determined to force got her cap set for him and she to church with me" a shrill voice, Pearl and her giggling, chattering bent your time, if you don't look passionate with anger, broko..inte friends to accept the timid little out!"

the singing lesson. orphan as an equal.

Sally felt her face flame with!

They had not heard her, in their She felt again the pain in her shume and anger. Why did girl absorption in the song and In heart at their veiled insults, their and boys have to be so nastyminded, each other, but Pearl had come into deliberate snube, the concentrated she asked herself with a sob.the house through the front door, fury that gleamed at her from Why couldn't they let her and and was confronting them now. In Pearl's pale blue eyes. But again, David be friends without thinking the doorway between dining room as during that hour, the hurt was things like that? Why, David was and kitchen. healed by the blessed fact of so-so, wonderful! He wouldn't "I thought you two were up to David's championship. She lay "look" at a frightened little girl something?" she cried. "It's a good very still to recapture the biles of from an orphans' home! No girl thing I came home when I did, or David's arm about her waist, as he was good enough for David Nash, I reckon there wouldn't be any whirled her lightly in a fox trot, she told herself fiercely.

Sunday dinner. Do you know why the music for which camo ·BO The next morning Pearl failed I came home, Sally Ford?? she mysteriously from a little box, with to entice David into going to church demanded, advancing into the dials and a horn like a phonograph. and Sunday School with her, and kitchen, her hands on her hips, her She heard again his precious com- Sally was left alone to prepare the fingers digging spasmodically Into pliment, spoken loudly enough for big Sunday dinner Mrs. Carson the flesh that bulged under the silk. Pearl to hear: "You're the best having gone to church in spite of "No," Sally gasped, retreating dancer I ever danced with, Sally. her Saturday determination not to, until she was halted by the kitchen I'm going to ask you to the Junior David came smiling Into the table. "I'm cooking dinner, Peari. Prom next year."

kitchen, immaculate in a white It'll be ready on time—”

M.

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