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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

GIRL ALONE

CHAPTER XX.

By ANNE AUSTIN, Author of "Saint and Sinner,"

Stanton when sho moved here, and and probably know all about it. I hadn't had time to get acquainted reckon it won't do no harm after with many of her neighbours, what all these years. Then she told with a new baby every 14 months." me that Nora Ford had no more "Poor thing Bally murmured, Idea'n a jack rabbit whose baby finding pity. In her heart for the you was-" bedraggled drudge. Mrs. Bybee's words pictured so, vividly.

As Sally ran across the lots to the side-tracked carnival train, she burled her preclous new memory of David under layers of anxiety and questions. It would still be there when her questions had been answered by Mrs. Bybee, these too-numerous babies had broken voice that Mrs. Bybee do comfort her if the showman's mother. What she wanted to wife had been unsuccessful, to know was-did she, Sally Ford, add to her joy if some trace of her have a mother? mother had been found.

"

"Maybe maybe I'll have mother and a sweetheart, too, she marvelled, as she climbed, breathless, into the coach which had been pointed out to her as the showman's private car.

But

"Then she wasn't my mother!" Sally crled out in such a heart.

reached across the card table and patted her hands, dirty diamonds iwinkling on her withered fingers.

Then a memory, so long sub-

"No, she wasn't your mother." merged that she did not realize the showman's wife conceded with that it existed in her subconscious brusque sympathy. "But I can't mind, pushed up, spilled out sur see as how it leaves you any worse risingly: "There was a big oak off than you was before. One tree in the corner of the yard. thing ought to comfort you-you used to swing. Someone pushed know it wasn't your own mother the swing-someone-" fumbled for fore, but the memory age and then beat it, leaving no who that turned you over to an orphan- failed.

THURSDAY, APRIL 26,

SHARE PRICES.

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.

The following is the list of local share quotations issued fo-day:

Banks.

It was not really a private car, for Bybee and, his wife occupied only one of the drawing rooms of the ancient Pullman car, long

address. Seems like," she went on "It's still there, and there's still briskly, from what old lady since retired from the official ser- vice of that company. The berths swing," Mrs. Bybee admitted. Banga told me, that Nora Ford were occupied on long jumps by "One of those dirty-faced little had been hired to take you when number of the stars of the earni- brats was climbing up and down she was a maid in a swell home val and by some of the must the ropes like a tomkey. Well, in New York, and she had to beat affluent of the concessionaires and reckon that's where you used to it-that was part of the agree criers, a few of the latter being live, right enough. I asked this ment-so there never would be'any i part owners of sich attractions as Woman-name of Hickson-if any scandal on your real mother. She the girlie show" and the "living of her neighbours land lived there didn't know whose kid you wag--- beauties." When the carnival many years, and she pointed to the so the old lady says-and' when showed in a town for more than house next door and said 'Old the money orders stopped coming a day, however, the performers Lady Bangs and the house and suddenly she didn't have the least usually preferred to sleep in had lived there for more'n 20 idea how to trace your people. This old Mrs. Bangs-" She supposed they was dead-and Lents, rather than in the stuffy, year. hot berths.

"Ranges Sally cried. "Bangs do, too. So it looks like you'd Since the carnival was in full|16 was Gramma Bangs who swung

belfer make up your mind to being swing at that hour of the day, me! I remember now! Gramm an orphan Sally found the sleeping car de Bings. She made me a rag doll] “But, nh, Mrs. Rybee!" · Sally seried except for Mrs. Bybee, who with shoe-button eyes, and I cried fried piteously, her eyes wide blue called to her from the open door every night for a long time after pools of misery and shame. "Mg,

I went to the orphanage because real mother must have been--lund, mamma hadn't brought my dollar she wouldn't have been asham- Did you see Granma Banga? Oh of having met. Oh, 1 wish I Mrs. Bybee if I could go to see hadn't found out!" And she laid her again

er head down on her arms on the Mrs. Bybee's 'stern, long,|ward table and burst into tears. hatchet-shaped face had softened

"Don't be a little fool!" Mrs. "I'm treasurer and paymaster marvellously, hunt at Sally's eager

of drawing room A.

The carnival owner's wife was seated at a card table, which was covered with stacks of coins and bills of all denominations. Her dean fingers pushed the stacks about counted them. Jested the totals on a shelt af lined paper.

for the outfit," she told Sadly, satis-request, she shook her head em-Bybee admonished her severely. faction linting in her kein grey phatically. eyes. "Me and Bill," and she lift-

"Reckon it ain't up to you, Sally "Not with the police looking for Ford, to set yourself up, in judg- ed a big, blue-barreled revolver you and Dave. Yes, I saw her,ment on your mother, whoever she from the faded green plush of the She's all crippled up with rheunia may have been." seat and twirled it uneoheernedly tism and was tickled to death to on her thumb.

#18 baisiness good?" Sally asked politely, as she edged fearfully into the small room.

Mrs. Bybee knotted

see Nora Ford's sister.

"But she sent me away," Sally .That's aobbed brokenly." She was ashany- who I said I was, you know. But fed of me, and then forgot all about it pretty near got me into trouble:me, Oh, I wish I'd

never been The old lady took it for granted horn pi

I knew a lot of things about you that I didn't know, and wouldn't,

"Might be worse," Mrs. Bybee

"I reckon every kid's said thự conceded grudgingly, "Sit down, child, I'm not going to shoot you. have told me just what I'd come to a hundred times before she's old Well, went calling this morning," find out if I hadn't used my bean enough to have good sense," Mrs. she added briskly, as she began to in stringing her along., 1 had to geBybee scoffed. "Now, dry up and rake the stacks of coins, fato mighty easy asking her about you,scool to the dress tent to put some since it was my sister' I was sup-more make-up on your face. The large eanvas bag.

"Oh! Sally breathed, elasping posed to be so keen on find-jshow goes un., And take it from her hands tightly in her lap. "Diding, but lucky for you she'd been me, child, you're better off than a

rending the papers and knew that lot of girls that join up with thei -you-find out anything?"

carnival. You're young and pret- a stout you were in trouble."

"Oh!" Sally moaned, covering ty and you've got a boy friend string around the gathered-up mouth of the bag, rose from her her hot face with her little brown-that'd commit murder for you and "Then Gramma pretty nearly did it, and you've got sent, lifted the Kreen plush painted hands, cushion, revealing a small safe Bangs thinks I'm a lad girl-oh! job Urat gives you a bed and cakes, Hand enough loose change to buy, beneath the seat. When she had Did you tell her l'ns not?"

yourself some glad rags by the atowed the bag away and 4wirled

"What do you take me for-a Lime we reach the Big Town--" the conbination lock,, she blamed fool" Mrs. Bybee demand- arranged the cushion and took her ed heatedly, "I didn't let on seat again, all without answering ever seen you in my life. But it was something she let drop when Sally's anxious question.

"Reckon I'm a fool to let any-she was talking about you and this

"Sure I mean New York. We one see where I keep the coin," she story in the papers that give me

after the liw-down on the whole thing." go into winter quarters there in "But ridiculed herself.

"ob. what? Sally implored. November, and if you stick to the making a blamed fool of myself

show I may be able to land you a this morning over them dresses almost frantic with inpatiencé.

""Well, she said, 'You can't blame job in the chorus. God knows you your David give you, I guess I'd better try to do something, to show Nora for putting Sally in the orare pretty enough just the type You just keep phanage when the money stopped to make every six-footer want to you I trust you. your mouth shut about this site, coming, seeing as how she was fight any other man that looks at and there won't be any harmsick and needling an operation and you."

dane."

1

But it pretty nearly jeverything,

broke her heart-that's what the old dame said-" "But,

“Of course I won't tell," Sally assured her earnestly. please, did you find out anything 7"

"The Big Town?" Sally raised her head, interest dawning unwil- ingly in her grieving blue eyes. You mean-New York?"

"Oh, you're good to me?" Sally bligked away the last of her tears, which had streaked her browni "But-i don't understand," make-up. "I'll stick, if the police She felt that she could not hearsally protested, her sapphir@veyes don't get me--and David. And." the suspense a minute longer.

clouding with bewilderment. "The she paused at the door, her eyes "You let me tell this my own faney? What money? Did she shy and sweet, "thank you so very way, child," Mrs. Eybee reproved mean my father?"-

much. for trying to help me find her. "Well, you saw that mis-

"I thought that at first, too." my-my mother." sionary rig I had on this morning? Mrs. Bybee nodded her hebbed

It turned the trick all right.gry head with satisfaction. But As she sped down the aisle of Lucky for you, this ain't the fucky I didn't say so, or I'd have the ear in her noiseless little red fastest growing town in the state, given the whole show away. I just sandals she was startled to see even if that billboard across from yes, indeeded her, and she went what looked like a sheaf of yellow, the station does any. so. 1 found. Reckon she thought I might dried grass whisked through the the address you gave me, all right. be taking exceptions to the way closing door of the women's dress- Same number, same house. Four-she'd been running on about how ing room. Then comprehension or-five-room dump, that may have pitiful it was for that dear Httle dawned. "I wonder," she took been, a pretty good, imitation of a child to be put in an orphan's time from the contemplation of her me desolating disappointment to muse, California bungalow 12 years ago. home, so she tried to show All rundown now, with a swarm that my sister' had done the only "what Nita is doing here. I won- of kids tumbling in and out' and thing she could do under the cir-der if she followed me-if she heard anything. I wouldn't want sticking out their tongues at me cumstances..

Nila to know about my mother.

when their ma's back was turned. "Pretty soon it all come out. But I'll tell David. Will he des- She and she'd lived there two Norn,' she said, "fold me not to iso me because my mother was—

A soul, but years; moved here from Wis-breathe a wurd to consin. Didn't know' a soul in seeing as how you're her, sister,

ARRESTED GERMANS.

CONDITIONS IN RUSSIAN PRISONS.

bad?"

(To Be Continued.}

| written a report of kis experiences. and the sanitary conditions were

According to this report; without beyond all description.

The prisoners had no possibility

Hongkong Bank, $1300 n. Chartered Bank, 421 b. -Mercantile. A. & B., £331 n.

P..and 0.89 n. -East Asia $75 n.

Insurances.

b.

Canton Ins...8680 Union Ins, $343 - n..

North China, Ins., Tls. 140 n. Yanginze Ins., $17 b China Underwritora, $21 b. China Fires, $215 n. H. K. Fire Ins., $760 b.

Shipping,

Douglases, $40) 8.

H. R. Steamboats, $281 b. 11. K. Tuge, $1 - Indo-Chinas, Def.) $78 Shell Trans.. 90/- 11. Union Waterboats, $20 b. Mining.

Bengusts, $2 n. Kailans, 68 1.

Langkats, T. $13.

b.

Shai Exploration, Tis. -2.85 n. Rules, $4.

· Tronohis, 176. b.

Docks, etc.

Kowloon Wharver, $138. Whampoa Docks, $43 b. China Providents 86 . Hongkows, Tis. 166 b

New Engineerings, Tis. 4.80 8. Shanghai Docks, Tls. 100 b

Cottons.

Ewo Cottons, Tis. 8.25 b. Orientals, Tis. 2 b. Shai Cottons, Tls. 55, fold) n.

Lands, Hotels, etc.

5.

b.

·H. and S. Botels, $9 H. K. Land-, $67 M. Shai Lands Tis. 140 Humphreys, $14) A. Realties, $8.25 4. Territorials, $1. 17.

Public Utilities. Tramways, $25,20 Peak Trams, fold. $13 b. Star Ferries, $64} m.

R.

China Lights, (Old.) $13.35 m. H'kong Electries, $71 6 Macao Electrics, $261 n. Telephones $4.70-1.

China Busos, Tis. 7 n. Singapore Tractions, 11/9 b.

Industrials.

China Sugars, $5.35 sa. Malabons, $241 Canton Icos, $4 'n,

1).

Coments Comb.) $10.40 ». Ropes (Old) 271 b. United Asbestos $10 8.

Stores &c.

Dairy

Farms, $22.75.n. Watsons, $14, b..

Der A. Wing, 50 n.

Lane Crawfords, $3.75 b. Mackintosh, $22 B. Sincores, $LI

Wm. Powells, $3 #.

Miscellaneous. Aminsoments, $294 6. Constructions, $1 n. B'que Ind. G. Bonds, 62% b. H. K. G. Loan, 104 Prop.

CASE REVIEWED.

Mr. O. St. C. O'Malley, whose " position as a result of the re- cent francs case has been re- considered. He will not bo permitted to resign, but will Jose five years' seniority of service.

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The Aberdeen trawler Re- having been manifested in the Don world, and the Soviet, in breach of naissance stranded on a dangerous suddenly arrested on March 6 and sent the Germans evasive reports were drowned. After the vessel has been banned by area where he was working, he was the Russo-German treaty, merely reef near Peterhead recently in a

og, and three of the crew The film, "The King of Kinga," Berlin, Mar. 26.

taken to Stalin, later being moved of the arrest, without giving rea- trucks the three men who lost their Socialist-controlled Watch to Rostow. Herr Galdstein, one of the live

sons for them or detalls of the lives manned a small boat with the mittee. The committee it is under- The conditions in which he was prisoners. German engineers imprisoned by imprisoned were disgraceful. At Untli March 14 he was not ex- had pulled away only a few yards tion of Christ's life story, and par- idea of putting out an anchor. They stood, objects to the commercialisa- the Bolsheviks, who were recently Rostow he was confined in a cell amined and not even given a ren when a heavy sea swamped their ticularly to the Crucifixion Scenes. twelve feet long by five feet broad son for his arrest. He was merely boat, which ache The Peterhead Eight of the 11 members of the "banished" from Russin, has now with six returned to Germany, and has cell was full of damp and vermin, been discovered.,

le prisoners. The informed vaguely that a plot had reboat took of the rest the committes, including the chairman of London has announced that they Rio de Janeiro and its surround

and vice-chairman, are Socialiste. have obtained the contract for a ings.

crew.

The Aircraft Operating Company detailed air survey of the city of