1928-12-12 — Page 9

A FIRST NOVEL!

WHIRLWIND

CHAPTER XXXIII Sybil held her baby on her lap, his yellow ringlets and twisted into euris. "Ya

an awful, clammy feel- ing." she said, "as if something dreadful was going to happen to him."

She clutched him to her heart, and held him so tightly that he cried in fright, and dug his small fists against her face, to free his embrace. little body from her Tad, picking out Idle notes at the plano, stopped his humming to laugh.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

By Eleanor Early.

time. There's never another that Beens Bo sweet."

Mabel stirred her ten vigorously. Sybil's unexpected eloquence em barrassed her.

""Goodness," she said, "you sound like a book."

And then, after a minute, "Do you think, Sib, that a woman love more than one man in a time?",

and be thankful. There aren't even crumbs for half the, girls who cry for cake.

"Craig may be nothing but a compromiso to you. But, there are auffering sisters who'd give their eyoteeth for a worse, bar- gain. And Craig won't go begging long. You can bot your bottom dollar on that. Personally, 'I think you don't deserve him. I've wasted my last bit of sympathy on you.

"A phantom In khaki, la ft! You're an antiquated Laura Jean what you Libby model--that's

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12. 1328.

are! Dear Lord, has the girl goneHow Is Your crazy? Come on, let's get out of here. We're Inte, anyhow. I had as appointment with a real estate life-agent at four. Pretty gold hair, baby blue eyes, You'd like him, Heaven's Bttle gift to women."

Sybil crumbled a ladyfinger re- flectively.

"Ye8-8-8. I suppose you could love. a dozen different men in a dozen different ways.

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KONGKONG. Interest allowed a Current Accounts and breath, try a little dose Of Fixed Deposita at Kates that may be dange Pinkettes tonight; you'll feel overained on application. so much better in the morning.

Chemists everywhere sell Pin- kettes, the dainty, little laxative liver regulatora, also post free, conts the vial, from Dr. "Sybil" she cried. "Oh, how 60 got a cold in the head. All mo-young love, which is altogether do you do, Mrs. Moore?" Dolly Williams Medicine Co., 60 Klangse thers have the same clammy feel-blind, and violent during incula was always garrulous. "My dear, Road, Shanghai. ingand the offspring invari-tion. And sane, sensible, middle- I'm glad I found you! I'm simply ably survives."

"There are so many degrees of

At the elevator they met Dolly Weston. A breathicas Dolly, with a daub of careless roago on

"Eve said that to Adam," he re- the well-known ecotusy-not all of either check. marked, "whenever Cain or Abel Diem ecstatic, to be sure. There's

with

its

C. L. C. BANDES, Hinghong, 10th July, 1938.

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..$10,000.053

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5,000,000 ********* 1,200,000 BRANCHES AND AGENCIES:--

terve

The first is due to arrive to-day will pay a courtesy visit to London.

and the second to-morrow,

Balerin

Melbourne.

San Francisco

Bombay

Nexual

Seattle

(Calcut

Canton

・New York

Bemarang

Onsta

aishup

l'ario

Peking

Nydney

Penang

Hangin

Tientaln

Salgon

Kobe

London

Singapore Sourabaya

Taiveh

aged love,

eyes

worried to death. Mrs. Thorne Mrs. Thorne drew her purple wide open--not so much fun, of aid you might be here just value for exhibition in London,

shoul-course. And passion, that burns afghan about her narrow

that phoned her. Then I grabbed Infatuation, itself ders and shivered.

vuf,

a perfect wrack." "I've got so's 1 believe the Lord's comes to its senses after awhile taxi, and, simply flew down. I'm never going to be through punish And rompatibility, on which all founded. ennessed dismally.permanency must be she

Dolly east a backward glance ing 18.

The pictares will be unloaded at Renalulu old-fashioned affection, into the mirror. "My goodness!" Though if Be ever let anything Good

Then why my dear, if you she squealled, "I didn't even pow the Custom House quay, and in Kowloon happen to that baby, it seems as if

Tukyu believe all that, don't you marryder my Bose!" And then, sud-

Shanbal there'd in nothing else to live for."

Cortrapondents in all princiaal cities of the denly serious with the import of view of their great value adequate nila They all worshipped Teddy, and Craig?"

Sybil poured herself another]"er errand, “It's about Valerie, arrangements have been made for world. declared ataunchly that he was "a

very description of Hank and Exchange

Jane granted on an a handup of tea, real Thorne." He was

dreadful. I Something

uroved weraritiva, some child with endearing, small "Beranse," she said, "I'm a ply hate to tell you, my dear, their protection, both during their un temacie.

SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES to let up transfer to the Royal Academy and It war, for instance, his incurable sumtimentalist-a poor, I'm absolutely

KAN TONG PO,

Chief Maunger. Adorable way to slip his soft, baby embittered little devil, chin|| about it,"

while they are housed there.

Hongkong, 21st March, 1927. hand into the hand of one or at-rainbows on a silly primrose path.

These pictures include those lent "Once had a golden boy--my other of his worshipping relatives.

by the Dutch. Government to be shown at the exhibition of Dutch art to be opened in January.

mants,

He was an allectionnte baby and | beautiful John. With the sun in unusually demonstrative. When his hair, and all the blue of sky he was tired he likes to he held, and sea in his eyes. lg died, like! end with one hand clutching his own yellow curls, would lay the other conficitly against check of the person who held him.

•

the

Christmas cime, and Teddy, at eight months, was lovelier and more winsome than ever. Tad brought home a small tree in the back of his car, and it was Valerie who begged to decorate it. She hung the baby's stockingst, and bought him Loys enough for a dozen children.

Then between Christmas and New Year she sold her plented | silver crepe-only slightly soiled and her scarlet Russian blouse Lo Dolly Weston for $42, and pur- chased with the proceeds a brond- cloth baby coat of rosy taupo with n benver caflar.

"You mu't, Vall!!

strated Sybil.

remon.

"Why not?" she demanded. "I

love him more than anything."

·

•

After the holidays Mabel phoned. : "Sybil dear," she pleaded, "you simply must help me find an apart njent. We came back yesterday, directly to Aunt and went.

a witch

Emma's. But Jack's as perreas as with auntie poltering around. And we absolutely must get into a place of our own

"My dear, I never was so happy in all my life. Jack's perfectly

wonderful. But he'll die If we stay

here- know he will.

"Rent are something dreadful.

A hundred and twenty-five for any place you'd look at.

for the

kitchenets.

mist

Seventy-five

miserable

little

the new

"I'm dying to see apartments on Commonwealth- electric refrigeration and every- thing. I suppose they're simply out of sight-but we've gat to get somewhere-and that's all there is to fl.

"Juck says he doean't care what it costs. He's like that. The most extravagant creature you ever saw. Way, on our honeymoon, he simply 1 ан me buy everything mude much as looked ut. Oh, darling, simply too good to be true. I keep pinching myself to see if I'm really awake."

Sybil 'met her that afternoon a new Mabel, in abbreviated skirts and French pumps.

"For 10 years," she explained, surveying her stubby vamps com placently, "I've been dressing like u stylish stout. Now I'm diet, and I buy my clothes in the misses department."

on a

Sybil laughed. "Marriage," she observed, "is like the things you cat-one girl's meat, and another girl's poison."

"Well, my dear, the dose you had would have poisoned anyone."

ז'

Mabel nibbled a bran muffin, and toyed abstemigusly with a salad of beats and eggs.

"Please don't think me too nervy for words," she burst out suddenly, "but why don't you get a divorce, and marry Craig? Is

It because of that boy who WOR killed?"

f

Sybil pushed her sundae away, and cupped her chin reflectively in her palms.

"Time," she answered slowly, "changes everything. Stark trage. dies become beautiful memories. When I think of John it isn't like a great gaping wound any more. It's a sear that is healing over."

Shio emiled at her memories as- one smiles at a child, tenderly.

And the past," she whispered softly. "Is a moonlit city of dreams, beautiful in distance.' It was a love- ly little romance. All exquisite things are frail, and perish. First love is like the first violet in spring-

Dear old

a crusader, for an ideal. And now he slips, like a phantom in khaki, between Craig und me.

in hin double-breasted Craig

his hair H serge, and ball, where he parts il."

trifle

Mabel crumpled her napkin.. "Sybil Thorne, you're a bigger fool than I thought and good-

Sybil.

all broken

(To Be Continued. I

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ITALY

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We are also able to offer ou Customers the services of the Branches of the Internaitonal Banking Corporation in San Fran cisco, Spain and the Philippino Jaland.

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中法工商銀行

BANQUE FRANCO-CHINESE.

pour le

Commerce et l'Industria. (Incorporated in France)

Prine's Building, Chater Road.

Hong Kong.

Held Office:

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Capital

Reserves

MAATSCHAPPIJ.

(Netherlands Trading Sedety) BANKERS.

ESTABLISHKO 1824.

Hongkong Officer 11, Queen's Road, Central. Authorized Capital .....Guilder 150,000,000,- (£12,500,000.) Guilder 80,000,000- (£6,660,470.)

PaldiÚp Capital

Reserve Pond Gulider 40,000,000,- (49,913,415.)

Head Office-AMSTERDAM" Eastern Head OMe)—BATAVIA. BRANCHES : Bandjarmasin,

Dandong Borsbay, Calcula. Cheriton, Jeddah, Djember, Dioejakarta The Haru. Kobe) Kote-Radio, Makar Madan Palembang, Pekalongan, Fazana, Retters Tontianak, Bangon,

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Correspondents aŋ over, the world.

BANKING BUSINESS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION TRANBACTED.

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Manager.

Hongkong, 5th July, 1917.

THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE

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(Established 1888.)

Capital (fully pakė up)......... 100,000,000 Enerva Fond

........... 102,400,000 READ OFFICE:—YOKOHAMA- Branch at Agencies at

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................ Frs, 50,000,000 Alexandria

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El Yuen

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Deska.

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Italiana,

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L. Bernis, Manage, Hongkong, 3rd August, 1928.-

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SFECIALLY AUTHORIZED BY PRESIDEN. TIAL MANDATE OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA ON THE 2ND 07

NOVEMBER, 131T,

Authorised Capital..............$60,000,000.00 Paid-Up Capital .....

Reserva Funda

13,278,000.00 9,020,626,91

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4, Queen's Rest Central, Branches and Sub-branches all over Chios and Correspondents in Europe, America and” other parts of the world.

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(Kotahilihed 1917).

CAPITAL

Authorleed Captial

Lauad

Pald-Up

Rareera

bolders

Kimbliltim

HEAD OFFICE

,

1.300.000

1. MORL

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THE BANK OF CANTON, LIMITED.

ESTABLISHED 1912, -- Head Office-Hongkong.

Authorised Capital Paid-Up Fund Leserva Fond BRANCHESC

.111,000,00

·8,461,294.

conto 800,000..

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Bate Depot Boxes (Various slaws) at yearly tested of from £5 to $40.

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at Connarelal Bociate Gmarul,

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LAOS.000

4.500.200

SINGAPORE, Branches, asezelor and Correspondenta in ali the principal efilow of the world.

Kvery description of Baskies and Exchange. Laine tncisă.

KO LEONG пoe.

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Every description of banking and stehanga luginues_transacted.

Bala popit Beros in St.

"ALMOOT.

Hongkong, Mich. Polisary, 1827.