1928-11-12 — Page 11

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A. FIRST NOVEL!

WHIRLWIND

THIS HAS HAPPENED.

By Eleanor Early,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

1 "You'll be a wreck by the time I get you," he told her gently, when SYBIL THORNE, Boston society she came to him one evening from girl, returns from a drive in the the dressmaker's exhausted and in country with CRAIG NEWHALL to find that her father has died during hor absence.

In order to please her father, whom she adored, Sybil had just consonted to marry Craig, the most eligible bachelor in town His death in a feanful shock to Sybil and her frail little mother But they rally bravely for TAD'S approaching marriage.

Tad, Sybil's handsome brother, is engaged to VALERIE WEST, an empty-headed little debutante.

tears.

"Caveman!" she retorted, and he knew she had misunderstood.

* ..

Valerie was not as innocent as Tad had thought. She discussed their married life with a great deal of modern frankness,

"I don't propose to have any children for at least five years," she told him.

"All right, baby," he agreed, "And if I should ever stop car- The wedding is three weeks off;ing for you; I wouldn't live with and Sybil, fearfully apprehen-you for a single minute," she went on. That wouldn't be anything sivo, speculates grimly.

"enn short of legalized—” "Anything" she reasons, happen in three weeks. Maybe Val will elope with a count."

CHAPTER VII,

"Valerie!"

He stopped her sternly, "I don't like to hear you talking like that, baby. You're my little girl, and I'm crazy about you. I guess Mra. Thorne, engrossed in pre-that doesn't leave you anything to parations for the marriage, was worry about, does it?"

busier than the bride's mother. "Oh, well!" She dismissed the She monogrammed Tud's handker-subject with elaborate nonchal chiefs and pyjamas, and debated ance. "You can't ever tell what's endlessly on the problem of a real going to happen these days. It's "nice wedding gift."

Just as well to understand each Almost every day she made the other." weary round of shops and stores, "Where'd you get all these pricing silver and glass, rugs aqufidens?" he persisted. "What's got china-comparing values all the into you, Valerie 7" way from Copley Square to Scol- "Oh, I suppose I've changed," she conceited. "One does, you know."

lay.

Finally, in an antique shop on Charles Street, she compromised on an ancient secretary and a high boy with a bulging front.

"But, Mother," remonstrated Sybil, Valerie doesn't like old things."

Valerie had forgotten to bring a gift from Paris for her maid of honour, and Tad had driven her down to find something. He cruis ed around the congested atreets.

RECREATION GROUND FOR WANCHAI?

MR. DRAGA'S QUESTIONS.

At to-morrow's meeting of the Sanitary Board. Mr. J. P. Braga will ask:

"Attention having been drawn In the Press to the need for n children's playground at Wanchal, and in view of the approaching completion of the Praya, East Re- clamation, will the Government make known its plans regarding the allocation of any land for open spaces and recreation grounds in the Wanchai district?

What provision has been made out of publié funds to lay out and maintain a playground in the Wanchai district similar to those now available for children on the Peak and at Kowloon?

If no schemo for a children' playground is yet in contempla-| tion, will the Government consider the advisability, in the interests of public health, of reserving a sito for recreation purposes to meet the pressing want of children of the working classes residing at Wanchai?"

LETTER GOLF SOLUTION.

Here is the solution to the puz- źle on another page.

STOCK, STACK, STARK, STARS. SEARS, BEARS, BEADS, BENDS, BONDS.

cannot permit my flance to accept so valuable a gift."

"Why, Tad."

out-

Valerie sounded like an raged exponent of all the con- ventions.

"Why, Tad Thorne, what do you mean-talking like that! I

body'd think...."

Mrs. Thorne bristled defensive- ly. "They're extraordinarily One Recking a place to park while, too. The very idea! Any-

Valerie ran into a Joweller's,

pieces," she said, "and there's

"I shan't be a minute," she pro- nothing could be in better taste mised. "Any old thing will de for than antiques,"

Craig had chosen a silver chek-Bertha. She hasn't an idea in the tall not a tray,, and a mammoth world what's what. It won't take

men mee."

shaker and many goblets, Poor Tad parked the car in front of Craig-he tried so hard to be one of the family. Sybil's heart went a caterer's. Valerie was to leave out to him, when he discussed with an order there for pastries for a Valerio the advantages of n wed-luncheon she was having the next ding breakfast as against a buffet day, and Tad way to wait outside. An hour passed. A policeman Juncheon, very solemnly, like

requested him to move on. He wise old uncle.

drove up West street and down He listened patiently to Mrs. Temple Place and slowly along Thorne, who was hemming cur Washington street. He was he tains for Valerie's kitchen. Did

ginning to worry about Valerie. he think yellow checked gingham Probably they had missed each would be cute, or would he her when he had to move. Per Jike plain white, banded with Wue? The

blue would hapa he had better go back to the jeweller's. Val would be annoy- lined if he kept her waiting, match

ordinary lopm

but course,

had so much to do-poor kid! then, wouldn't the yellow afford a He left the car at a garage in pleasing contrast?

Park Square and took a taxi back. Craig was confidant and Inckey Almost two hours. Wow! Va for the lot of them. He ran ferie'll be having a fit. errands for Valerie, made reser-

He saw her first. Hanging over

any best,

of

"But if Miss West wishes," began Lord Montford smoothly, "Valeric, give Lord Montfora "f scarcely understand....."

buck his ring."

The astonished clerk had melted discreetly into the background. A curioas customer edged a little nearer.

"And tell him, Valerie, that you do not wish to accept such trinkets, because your husband will not be able to afford them for you."

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1928.

At CLOVERDALE FARM

There is a meadow ankle deep in rich clover graes. Cows are feeding in it, There is a shed where these cows are milked and the floors and walls are as clean as clean crockery and the cans like new pins. And then the milk is carried swiftly to a white condensery set down in green fields; and you would think that the cleanliness of that condensery was cleanliness gone mad, except that milk cannot be too clean.

That is the way in which "Milkmaid" is produced. It comes to you signed and sealed, the rich pure product of chosen cows.

Milkmaid

SINS OF THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER.

PLEADS GUILTY IN COURT

NEPTUNE..

BRAND

golf, and undermining the Suez Canal bank; (4) not visiting East Africa before 1928; (6) being one of two first-class sportsmen. Ho wan.condemned by Neptune, (Mr. OF W. F. G. Campbell, Acting Pro- vincial Commander for Nairobi) to be shaved,

The Duke of Gloucester wan then With ancient ceremony and in the handed over 1o. the tender mercles Duke of of his brother, who lathered him traditional form the Gloucester was initiated a subject copiously, splashing the whitewash of King Neptune on "Crossing the over his head and face. Directly Line" on board the Malda. The the barber (the purser), wielding Prince of Wales acted as execution-n wooden razor three feet long, had or in the capacity of Bamber's completed the shave the Prince of Mate. Dressed in blue shorts, Wales tipped his brother backwards short red jacket, and a drooping into the tank, on the edge of which conical hat, and wearing an aggres he was sitting, delivering him to sively pointed moustache the Prince, the "beare."

whole

A Surprise Attack, armed with a brush and a

The Duke of Gloucester took the bucket of whitewash for Monр, would have been a terrifying figure ducking in good part. He climbed but for his famous smile, which out smiling, and returning to the shone through the grease paint. execution platform where

He performed the office on 29 watched others being initiated candidates who were brought before Then suddenly, with the assle-

Lance

clown, Neptune's Court, lathering them all liberally before assisting the barber seized the Prince of Wales, and cast to shave them and ducking them in him headfirst into the water. The the ship's swimming bath. The Prince was taken completely by Duke of Gloucester, wearing shorta surprise, and with legs and arms and a shirt only, pleaded guilty to spread out like the limbs of a fall- the following charges:-(1) Noting cat entered the water with a producing his charger on parade; tremendous splash. He climbed "This Is no place for n scene, (2) wasting his time watching back, only to be again seized by Valerie. Please...."

"Chester" (his brother, the Earl of his victims, and in company with Chester) play chess; (3) spoiling Neptune and his wife was again the ship's furniture while practising cast into the tank.

"Is not that reason enough that Miss West should wish

to accept them?" Lord Mantford gave his stick a

victorious little swing. settled his glass, and

"No offense intended, I She

you, my dear chap."

Valorie's face was crimson. "But Tad...."

vatlona and bought tickets for Tai.. ja counter, where precious stones Mrs. Thorne, when she took to rested on velvet pillows of white weeping, found his shoulder and royal purple. She was hold- always accessible. Even Mrs.) West sought his advice.

Ing her hand to catch the light. And on her little finger a dinner ring sparkled and gleamed. A Craig was to be 'Tad's best man, man was bonding above her. A and Valerie's cousin, Bertha Onis, slick hooked over his arm, and a was to be maid of honour. She glass in his eye. was dark, and rather florid,—a fondly and twirling a small blonde little gronay looking, Sybil moustache. thought, with straight, ally hair

Bertha was so duil she Valerie positively radiant,

He was smiling

Tad had never seen-Valerie look

and small eyes. An admirablej happler, nor more beautiful. He contrast .for Valerie's blonde wanted to shake her as though she beauty.

were a naughty child.. Yet he felt made'a contradictory impulse to crush and, her to him, and kill the rest of the more exquisite than ever. Sybil men who sought her smiles. He had heard that beautiful girls had an absurd desire to slap her sometimes chose ugly friends, in foppish companion across his order to seem more beautiful smiling crimson lips. themselves, but never before had

she lent any credence to the notion.

•

Then Valcrie saw him, and had the grace to look guilty.

"

"Oh. Taddy! I want you to It was to be a very simple cero- mony at St. Margaret's by-the-Sea, know Lord Montford. And, Monty, the little stone chapel where this is my darling flance-don't Valerie's grandmother had been you love him, Monty? Isn't he married 50 years before. Not that beautiful! Mother and, I met there was anything sentimental Lord Montford In London, Tad about the Wests, but only that S.

The men were bowing stiffly. Margaret's afforded such an ad-

"I'm sorry I kept you waiting, mirable solution. It was much smarter than it had been in the dean-but Monty just insisted days of Valerie's grandmother, upon buying me a wedding pre- and the rector was very High sent. And, he simply made mo choose it myself. Wasn't it the Church,

It was quite the thing to be funniest thing, running into him churchy about a marriage. Jazz like this? The Leviathan is in weddings were distinctly passe. this morning, you know, and Dignity had become a sacramental Monty hasn't been in town an thing, and Valerie, who six months hour. I think before had contemplated carrying screamingest thing!

"See my lovely present, Taddy?" a swagger stick to the altar, itched!

Valerie held out her hand. now for sublimity.

Grayely Tad took It, and bent St. Margaret's was austere. It to look. Me must be able to con- was, Indeed, the very place fortrol his voice before he spoke. little family wedding." There He wondered if Valerie and her seemed to be nothing over faintly Monty had noticed how complete- disrespectful to the memory of Mrly the Lazzling thing eclipsed the Thorne about getting married at solitaire on Valerie's third finger. St. Margaret's. A city church of Of course they had. No wonder course, would have been different the idiotic sap looked. so

Tad was beginning to wonder placent...

he had ever really known Valorle

before. Her conversation was en-

It's just

the

com-

"You are very kind, Lord Mont-

tirely exclamatory. She was ford," he said, and every word either simply furious," or "thrill was barbed with the venom that ed to death." She despised" choked him when he tried to things or "adored" them, knowing speak quietly, "You are excoed- no half way emotions.

ingly generous, I am sure. But I

(To Be Continued)

assure

of the

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