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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1928.

ROMANCE AND INTRIGUE.

"HIS WIFE."

By Mrs VICTOR RICKARD.

Author of "The Eight about the Crossroads"; "The 'House of Courage," "A Neckless Puritan,

CHAPTER L

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AUSTRALIAN STRIKE.

A MAD DOG POLICY..

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A very hopeful development in

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mittee on Maritime Transport which is considering the motion for a general hold up, has reported Reserve against any extension of the strike for the present.

The opposition parlamentarians are urging the resumption of work

and would not go away leaving her there wretched and alone. If hen order to fight the new Transport had to sit till they were turned out,

workera Act through the ballet

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Waiter Pricelly was back in Eng- land. His great South African if he had to follow her across Lon-box, while the leader of the power-Hon. Ms. B. D. WA venture had prospored, and at the don; he intended to do it. end of fifteen years he had returned

Having decided this much, he sat to take his place as head of the en-back and lighted a cigarette. gineering firm of Carstairs, now His original plan had been to go

A million sterling worth of wool Carstairs and Priestly. Up at to Highbury Quadrant, where his is held up in Port Adelaide and Lympton in Yorkshire his new job mother and sister lived, and all the big stores are crammed. → waited for him, and his now house, nounce his arrival. Zhey know Cedarwoods, and the new life he that the Dunottar Castle was into had dreamed of remotely ever since port, for he had sent a dutiful tele Fram, but bome idea of getting his He was a boy kumand eral

first impressions of home coming to say that ever since you sat down before he went to the old house had there I have been wanting to ask made him add that he would win you that very thing. Only this again when he was to drive. Isn't a dream, and nothing like this There was no telephont at the house ever really happens. If I had the in Highbury Quadrant, was his courage to be truthful I might have

asked you first-do you see?!! mother disliked now Inventions...

She nodded, and once again her on eyes clouded with tears.

He was sitting under a striped umbrella, drinking his tea in Ken sington Gardens, and the sunlight fashed on his glasses as he lifted his head and gated up at the ex- quisite blue of the sky... Slight and pale, with clover grey eyes, he look ed almost insignificant until you observed him more closely, and then his vivid energy became apparent. He appeared younger than his age, which was forty-seven, his face was ascetic and thin, and his hands flexible, and finely formed.

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After all, he would see a great" deal of his mother and Ada before long. They were to live with hin at Cedarwoods he had arranged all that by letter and alrondy Mira.

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Hongkong, in Yahathir, 1928. " The beauty of opring in the Park moved by Carter Paterson. He bury Quadrant, Mrs. Priestly and pleased and contented him, and he dismissed the memory of Mr.her daughter lived surrounded by heavy Victorian furniture, and

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a mouse-coloured, re waited for him beyond the railings, forgetfulness of her surroundings.gular-featured woman, well on in What could be the matter? he the thirties, with a forced cheer- but what is the use of a big car if one must drive in it alone?

wondered. She was expensively The tables round the Kiosk were dressed, even he could tell that, so fulness of manner hiding a general crowded, but a chair opposite to it could hardly be poverty. Nor sense of having been thwarted all him still stood empty. Very soon was it death, if death and mourn her life. Solidity and darkness

was also Authorised Capital someone would be forced to come ing were connected; ho always was the main atmosphero of the HONGKONG OrrICT: 11, QUEEN'Y ROAD, and take it if they wanted tea, but noted death with crepe and drawn house, as most people came in twos and blinds. She had the unmistakable punctuality, and a strict attention F. Capital Galders000,000

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She was not out of a job, for ho Once more he gazed up at the sky was prepared to swear that she had an early age, and been expected to and the light on a group of tall never had to earn her own living. fend for himself, which he had done with unquestioning obedience to elm trees which looked as though Then, most probably, she was they had been dipped in 'sherry, be in love with

someone and things the decrees of his parents. When cause of their clear palo sheen, and had gone wrong. A queer pang of he became rich and successful his he wished that someone young and jedousy caught, and hurt him. mother decided that he was like her lovely would take the vacant chair, Could the man she loved be dead? in character, while Ada took after someone who was also a little lone To imagine her as having been Jancy Priestly, her husband's sister, ly, or at least sumbone with a treated badly, forsaken, or in any who was living a colourless exis pretty hat.

way let down seemed absurd. Any tence in a pension at Wimbledon.

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And then he saw her, coming. She walk with her head droop Ing alightly, and socmed pre- occupied. Her figure was tall and graceful, and her dress a kind of

Then a fresh idea presented it-creasing satisfaction. She felt that Langerine colour with a neat little self to him. Perhaps she had Ada might find a bushand among hat to match, She wasn't sure at fallen in love with a married man? the men who were sure to como first where she meant to sit, but There were married men who were to Walter's house, and though she finally she saw the empty plate left swine enough to pursue girls and deprocated display she regarded and came to it, sitting down with make wild love to them. Some the idea of high state with approval. out so much as glancing across the thing of that kind thight account Sho had sold the lease of the house, table. It was wonderful that she for her grief. And she had come and already some of the had come, wonderful that bia un to the gay garden, whore, every were dismantled, so that she ant spoken wish had been so immediate thing was shining and bright, to in the dining-room and wrote her Capital (tally dop) 100 ly granted. But to his dismay, as think it all over undisturbed. It letters at the heavy table. Her con and ..............

HEAD OFFICRISTOFOR he looked at her more closely, he wasn't the place where people, of respondence was enormous, and she saw that her face was pale and her her world would be likely to cothe, covered pages with her slender, eyes heavy with much crying. and he decided that she had chosen spiky handwriting. Just then the

A waiter, driven and desperate it for that reason.

was going through bundles of old Alexandria, by the rush of clients, pounced for- The stupidity of just sitting there letters, and was making a general at ward, his hands on the table, and wondering, when it could all be clearance of her huge collection of took her order. "One tea and cleared up so easily if they could relics of the past.

Ada, also engaged in destroying nothing to cat."

only speak to one another, crossed Priestly had been stehing for his mind again. Yet to force one hier own assortment of useless odd Her to speak, and her volos de-self into the sorrowful privacy of ments, was inwardly in a wild lighted him, touching him as some another soul would be a shameful state of suppressed enthusiasm...

At last Walter was coming home, music can, and schoing very softly thing to do. He smoked another Anto the depths of his heart. But cigarette and took a final resolve. He had always been very good to Still she never looked at him, She She had snubbed him once, or per- her, sent her cheques in the most put her hand wearly to her face, haps not actually snubbed him, only liberal was and written to her her left hand, but she had no rings Ignored him; and gathering his quarly, Photographs of the works on her effm fingers. The hair shin courage together be put his elbows at Johannesburg, and the dogs, And ing over her ears was very dark on the table and spoke to her again, the servants, hung da her pado and her neck a perfect white. Her "Do tell me if there is anything and photographs of Walter sitting yes had taken a little of the colour I can do to help you," he said, and father, awkwardly on his horse. of the green leaves around them, he felt miserably self-conscious. The future offered her a new life for they were hazel, that rare, sen- He ought never to have put it that in which there would be parties altíve colour. Her sadness flowed way. It sounded positively ar and people at last. Not that

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Blinking her eyelids, those poor devoid of either or both, but the Atheism: Capital (Elana Za heavily and her eyelids were all swollen lids, she looked at him with parties were crowded with women, Paid Oyliai. (Hong Kong swollen and disfigured, but she a long and steady stare. She seem and the people who came were all didn't seem to care what she looked ed to be thinking him over very old or dull. Mrs. Priestly said Fand (Hong Kong Cas like.

completely, and satisfying some that her house was "one of the last | BRANCHER!-- They are very alow, bere," he lurking doubt, or probing into his strongholds against vulgarity," and, somehow or other, Ada felt said at lart, dushing, slightly as he heart. spoke to her. Would you have a "Do you mean what you say that vulgarity might have its points. She would eat and drink things they never ate or drink at her mother's gaunt table... where plain, good fare" was provided

peaches. lobsters, grapes and thoughts are miles away, and if Walter Priestly had been a stick

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lessly, and then she clasped them sentially a man of his word. What' He thought hard. After all, together as if once again some in- he undertook to do, he did down they were two human beings, ho tolerable pain had returned upon to the letter. He had said that his mother was to run his house for and sho. She was in trouble and her

"Very well," she said. "You can him, and that Ada was to look after ho wanted to help her. Only the

the garden. His own rooms liusion created by buspicion, help. Will you marry me? civilisation, and something vaguely Of all the questions this was the intended to furnish himself, but terined "good form," made it next fant he could have expected, and if Mrs. Priestly was to make Cedar-la to impossible for him to bridge the it had not been that she looked so woods as much like her old home a absurd gulf. He felt that he could deftant, and almost angry, Priestly she could.. Ada slightly doubted help her. She was so young could have laughed, a queer, happy the wisdom of this decision, an somewhere in the early twenties kind of laugh, and he had forty-seven years of Etho began, experience of life and men. He I thought so. She gathered knew very little about women or the up her gloves, Anything really troubles which beat them, it was means nothing true, butievón ao he might be able But you did not let me finish" to help. In any case, he could not He spoke quickly. "I was going

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