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NEW AMERICAN SERIAL.

GIRL

CHAPTER XLVII.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

ALONE

By ANNE AUSTIN. Author of "Saint and Sianor.".

"Of course not," Enid had agreed with assumed gayety. "But since Five weeks later it was in early Van does know Of course, since January, just before the ammual he already knows, if you married scurrying of self-coddling society him it would be as much to his folk from the rigours of a New interest to forget it and protect me York winter to the sunshine of us as it is ours. But I want Palm Beach and Nassau-Sally you to be happy, darling." Barr, "one of the season's most

Sally, her little round chin sup- beautiful debutantes," as the so-ported on her laced angers, her clety editors called her, sut at a eyes brooding upon the dancer table for six in one of New York's whom

she did not see, reflected most exclusive night clubs.

with an unchildlike bitterness that She was thankful for the fact there was no question now of her that an inhumanly flexible male being happy, Happiness lay behind dancer was doing his most incred-her; she had almost grasped it, had illo tricks for the amusement of been "half-married" to the man she David! His name flashed the club's patrons, for watching him gave her an opportunity to through her heart like the thruat think, an excuse for not chattering of a red-hot lancet, brightly us debutantes were ex- pected to do.

love.

"Dance, Sally? Or do you prefer to go on dreaming? Van Horne's low, teasing voice interrupted her bitter reverie:

MONDAY, MAY 28, 1929.

LIVELINESS IN THE

LORDS.

LORD CARSON'S ATTACK.

Westminster, Apr. 25.

The new Lord Chancellor, at the outset of his expariure, has had to preside in the Upper House over the warmest debate of tho

year.

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She had visited Van Horne's Lord Carson to-day brought be apartment once before with Enid, fore the notice of a large but as she gave the floor number sembly of Peera the determination to the elevator operator-it was of the Free State-in which His one of the most exclusive and ex- Majesty's Government has ac- pensive of the new Park Avenue quiesced-to flout the Privy Coun apartment houses--she thought sho cil's decision on the pensions to saw a gleam of amusement in the be paid to British Civil Servants

in Ireland. man's eyes,

The Prime Minister and the Almost as soon as her finger had' pressed the bell the door was open- Home Secretary came over from ed by Van himself, Van in the Commons to hear a debate on black and maroon silk dressing a matter in which there la strong gown over impeccable trousers and feeling in both Houses. The dis shirt. She was drawing back in-cussion to-day did not end with- stinctively when he laughed his out a series of bitter challenges low, mocking laugh and, seizing her and counters, in which Lord. Car-

into the room.

anda, pulled her resisting body

protagonists on one side, and the son and Lord Danesfort were the Earl of Birkenhead and Viscount Haldane, in a strange alliance, on the other.

Lord Carson has had so often to come to the rescue of those whom the settlement in Ireland has op- pressed that he may be forgiven for speaking with profound and confirmed cynicism. Was it really true, he demanded, that the Bri-. tish Government were ready to assist the Free State to alter the Treaty in order that their own Only her head was free to weave subjects might be deprived of from side to side as his flushed, legally-awarded rights? If the laughing face, came closer and judgment of the highest tribunal closer. The best kissing technitue in the realm was thus to be set advocates the closing of the eyes, aside. "it is," he said, with scorn- darling," he gibed with tender ful emphasis, "an outrage on the mockery. "And there is a point ut decent administration of justice." which maidenly coyness ceases to be charming. Now

"I think one reason I nm so mad about you, Sally my darling, is that you are always fluttering out of my reach like a frightened bird. You Grant Proctor, whom Enid had

She made a sudden resolution, are superb in a Lilian Gish role hoped she would marry, sat op- posite her, Arthur Van Horne on rose with sprightly vivacity from but even Lillian Gish is captured her right. Beside Grant, twittering her chair, flung a sparkling glauce and tamed before the end of the and giggling, was Claire Bain to her mother whose beautiful face sim. Like thin!" And he laughed bridge, whose engagement to the was a little pinched with the strain exultingly as his armis, encircled Deir of the Procter niillions would under which she had lived these her quivering, fluttering little body, last few weeks. "Dance, of course, held it crushingly against his be announced from Palm Beach.

And yet Sally was conscious that Von!" she éried, wrinkling her nose breast."" Grant's nice, leaf-brown eyes fai-at him with a provocative foue. lowed her with a frustrated, dog- "I was dreaming about you! Aren't like devotion whenever she was you flattered?" near him. He had told her that he loved her, and Sally, terribly un- xious to please her mother, and to secure Enid Barr's Safety from scandal, had been ready to listen to his proposal of marriage. Since David was lost to her, it did not much matter whom she married.

Mother, I'll have to tell him the "But if he asks me to marry him; truth about my birth," Sally had told Enid.

She daw Her mother's pinched face flush and bloom with hope, caught an austere but approving mile from Courtney Barr, with

Lord Haldane, one of the whom she had not yet reached the

Judient Committee of the Privy intimacy that should exist between a father and a daughter, even ap

lopted daughter. If she could She submitted to his kiss then, Council which gave the threatened official explanation. The Suprême Arthur Van Horne, why let her When he released her, an angry Court had erred. A mistake had make them so happy by marrying but her lips were lax, unresponsive, ruling, was beforehand with the

feelings prevent? If the glint in his eyes, she backed away, own couldn't have David, what differ-touching her lips involuntarily been made. No doubt it could be ence did it make whom she mar- with her handkerchief. "Please set right by legislation. Now with her wistful eyes apried? And if she married Van don't-kiss me again-like, that, parently watching the agile dancer, Horne the only menace to herVan," she quavered. "Not yet. I' she remembered Enid's horrified mother's reputation would be for marry you, but you'll have to give. The startling admission brought protest. "You can't tell him Sally! ever removed.

me time to get used to-you."

The blank amazement in his eyes He wouldn't marry you if he knew.

"You adorable little thing!" Vanmade her voice falter inmely. Then His parents wouldn't let him. Promise me you won't tell, dar-Horne, whispered, as he swept her he laughed, a short bark that was

out upon the crowded dance floor, utterly unlike the tenderly mock- Peer's. "What! Can a Judge come ling.

"So you were dreaming about me?ing Inngher which she had always to the Ilouse of Lords," he appeal- Pleasant dreams, little Princess Lalla?" His ardent, dark face was bending close, his black eyes free of mockery but it by a fire that repelled her,

"And so Sally had not told him, but when he did ask her to marry him she refused him. His as yet unannounced engagement to Claire Bainbridge had followed swiftly, but his eyes were still pathetically true to Sally.

would . terror, her

tears.

"Did you really fall in love with Princess Lalla'?" Sally

forced

inspired in him.

"You'll marry me?" His voice was staccato with contempt. "By heaven, your naivelo is magnifi cent! You should be enshrined in

"Is it in Order?"

an exclamation from Lord Carson, whose memories of the Commit- tee's deliberations were of a differ- colour from the Socialist ent

ed to the Lord Chancellor, "and announes that a decision in which he took part was wrong? Is it in

order?"

Ru-

But the speaker. in the Upper a museum! Thanks for your kind House, unlike the ruler of the offer, Miss Barr, but I must con-Common's debates, has no herself in ask coquettishly, futters, if your innocence will stand thority to arbitrate in such vexed ing her long lashes in the demure the strain, that my intentions in moments, Lord Hailsham paci- fashion which had proved så.offee-

riage. They were strictly dishon-take had occurred, no harm could tive during her short career as a regard to you did not included mar fically suggested that when a mis-

arable. When a Van Horne allows be done by owning it. himself to be led to the altar, the

débutante.

The Leader of the House, Lord Salisbury, rose to reinforce the Chancellor's opinion, but Lord Carson was far from mollifted.

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She shifted her position a trifle, so that she could observe Arthur Van Horne out of the corner of her eye. Not that she wanted to see him! She had been forced to see so much of him since the night of her debut party that the very

"Absurd question!" Van Horne sound of his moching, drawling voice was obnoxious to her. She jeered softly. "Didn't I convince successful huntress is a woman who never forget her mother's you at the time? Listen, Sally, is at least socially worthy to be

In the case of the Chinese who abject pleading and almost never ses you alone. Enid the mother of future Van Hornes.

seems to have an antiquated lenn-There is as yet no bar sinister en "I think it is indecent," he as-was arrested in Jordan Road with

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serted bluntly. "It is certainly five bottles of Hennessy Brandy in "Don't antagonize. him, darling!"ing towards chaperonage."

"Chaperons. are coming iu' Enid had begged. "He can ruin

"No; walk, not run, to the near. unprecedented," chimed in Lord his possession, the defendant was

Danesfort.

fined $50 with the alternative of us, ruin us! Be nice, to him, Sally again," Sally laughed him, hid-

"Rather than permit this sort of four weeks hard labour, when

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Lord Carson, again brought before Mr. W.{ ing those awful carnival days, being a lender of fashion, you laugh at her as Sally was hacking display," added

hurriedly toward the door, her body maybe She had hesitated, know,"

tracy on Saturday. ashamed to put her hope into words, "You're sa adorable tonight, that hitched as if his words had been sardonically, "It might be better to Schofield at the Kowloon Magis Sailings from Hongkong-Daily at 8 a.m, The defendant was remanded on Sailings from Canton-Daily at 8 a.m. "Van is really a rather wonderful want to run away with you," actual blow, her face ghastly drop the matter altogether."

"You are entirely free to

Friday to find the friend whom he man, you know, darling. One of Van told her boldly. "But I'll try white. the most eligible bachelors in New

But Lord Haldane was techni- said had given him the brandy, York society. Old family, no mother or father to dictate to him, a tremendous fortune. Of course, he's cynical and lase, and rather more experienced than I'd like, but--just be nice to him, darling, Maybe"

to be content if you'll promise me go, with my blessing! I am rather

to come to my apartment alone for a connoisseur at kissing and i have

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She stiffened, every nerve on the 1 am afraid you would have bored he had done, Lord Birkenhead be-duce the friend.

According to a detective, the de- defe.sive against him. But she reme intolerably if you bad con- gan to claim a miscomputation for membered her resolution, and sented to "trust me and give me the Privy Council. Owing to an fendant was met in Jordan Rond That shamefaced "maybe" of nodded slowly, her head tucked on all in exchange for my silence in error on fact, he apologised, it had and when questioned about the Enid's had kept thrusting itself one side, her eyes granting him a regard to your birth. Goodbye, been laid down that a Civil Ser-brandy he stated that he bad pur-

Sally-and good luck."

vant in Ireland should receive chased it. He was asked for the upon Sally's, rebellious attention swift; shy upward glance.

"If you look at me like that ever since. Enid, mare frightened

Somehow she made her way more pension than if he had re-receipt and he then told the de

liquor. of Van's power over her than she again, I kiss you right hear on

In a statement to the Police, the would admit, even to Sally, threw the dance floor!" Van threatened home, crept painfully, like a mor-mained in the British service.ective that a friend gave him the

cular staircase to her room. Brac-declared intentions. the two together on every possible exultingly, as his arms tightened tally wounded animal, up the eir- The judgment was contrary to its

her This being so, he contended that defendant said that his friend occasion. After Grant Proctor had about her..

Enid's pathetic gratitude to hering her shaking hands on retreated from the field, smarting under his refusal by Sally, Enid for being "nice" to Van Horne dressing table, she stared at her the Government had perfect free-had gone to Japan, while he told had almost feverishly concentrated strengthened the girl's resulation reflection in the mirror as if she dom to co-operate with the Free his Worship that the man who seen that white-faced, State in amending the law and originally purchased the brandy It was stated that the brandy on Van Horne. Sally had stub to carry it through. She dressed had never

Bill making the was worth $21. The liquor wAA bornly insisted to her mother that with especial care for her ten dute enormous-eyed, stricken girl before. correcting a mistake, and he pre-had gond on board a Jardine boat.

The horror and louthing of her- mised that a che would not marry any man to with Van the next afternoon, pin- whom she could not tell the truth ning the corsage of Parma violets self swept over her with such force alteration would be laid before ordered to be confiscated,

The undesirability of having about her illegitimney, and Enid which he had sent her on the full that her knees buckled, and she both Houses.

Hand knocked from the dressing consider the possibility of Sally's cont. telling.

LETTER GOLF SOLUTION.

had just as stubbornly refused to shawl collar of her Russian squirrel sank to the floor. As she fell her the verdicts of such a body as the But before she left her room she table a copy of The Capital City Judical Committee handed about fook the ring David had given her Press, for which she was still sub-and turned upside down in Parlia

A former Here is the solution to the from the box in which she had heribing, over her mother's protest,ment forcibly struck

Lord Chief Justice, the Marquess puzzle on another page. hidden it because the sight of it to glean sparse newa of David.

She shuddered as the roll bounced of Reading.. "Surely the Privy hurt her so intolerably, and kissed

but in another Council can be' allowed to devise the shallow, flawed little sapphire from her knees

moment her sick eyes fipmed with its own amendments," he berred; with passionate grief.

new life, for half-revealed by the and Lord Danesfort agreed that folding of the sheets was an un-this lan, so much more consistent mistakable picture of the boy, the with the proprieties, ought to be

followed.

"If Van really knows," she had told Sally in desperation, "that is one too many. You could not pos- sibly harm any man by marrying him without telling. You're our

"Goodbye, David," she whispered daughter now-the levally adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Courtney to the ring, but inconsistently she thrust it into her dark-blus and Barr. That is all that matter."

"What matters to me," Sally had grey leather handbag. No matter still loved.

Her trembling fingers stared at Then he turned on Lord Bir- Insisted wearlly, "is that no man what sort of ring Van gave her, it that you would like for me to could never be so precious to her the wrapper. Why was his picture (kenhead. "The Free State being marry would have me if he knew. as this cheap little ring that David on the front page? Was he in largely the noble Earl's own child, I can't cheat. Of course I don't had given her to mark their be- trouble? Hurt? Or-married? have to marry."

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trothal.

(To Be Continurd.)

always have some difficulty," he said cryptically," in treating hla remarks on Irish affairs seri- ously,"

"I don't suppose you understand

HEA DAS HEA RES

R HEI HA 1. RS HAT LS TAI L S

These figures are given in the The success of the Danes in report on the bacon trades which is supplying us with bacon is largely them," slung back the Secretary debate to the Government, and Issued by the Ministry of Agricul- due to the attention they pay to for India with what might have hated that after all formal legisla ture (H.M. Stationary Office: 6d.). this matter. They have succeed been a sniff.

"Your Lord Danesfort return-tion might be avoided, and any There is no doubt that pig-keep- ed in getting a "standard" pig ing, especially for the small- which fulfils all the requirements ing to the charge, "always distress alteration in the Privy Council's Industry of the utmost value to which are demanded by sellers and the passage off by making it clear holder, is a branch of agricultural as to size, weight, and quality your admirers," and then rounded rulings accomplished internally, those who are trying to itve by the consumers alike, land,*

English pig-breeders, so far, seem to have been unable to hit upon the size and weight of pig

which the factories require.

Canberra political circles have rumours of Mr. set aside all Bruce's early retirement.

he was not numbered among that coterie.

Lord Carsen's Last Word, The Lord Chancellor agreed to describe the cross currents of the

Lord Carson then allowed the debate to end, but not without a last stab. "This," he pronounced as his final estimate, "Is lament able, indecent, and going behind the back of successful Htigants"; a summing up of the situation that did not altogether escape ap- plause..

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