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ORCHID.

BY ELEANOR 'EARLY.

THIS HAS HAPPENED.

-Orchid-whose real NAJNO Ashtoreti Krapher.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

DEATH OF SIR DAVID SERJEANT AT 99,

'GOLD-DIGGER, CRICKETER, AND DOCTOR.

Sir David Maurice Serjeant, the

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1929.

PLAYING WITH A MILLION VOLTS.

CIGARETTE PAPER SUPPORTS

A MAN,

Giving Up the Lip-stick.

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Hundreds of people at the big Polytechnic exhibition in Regent- "But Mra, Masón was right," she doyen, of the medical profession,street, W., opened recently by the

This is but another indication maintained, a little frightened as died at his home in Peckm-road, Lord Mayor, allowed themselves, of feminine common sense! Every 19 she took issue with her employer. S.E., recently. Sir David, who fadividually, to form the "earth" woman now-a-day knows Asho-is eteno-"There would be no efficiency, in would have attained the age of for one million volts of electricity. beautifying value of fresh air, of out-door exercise and of good, She had finished reading a lel-your office if she tolerated Mao de ninety-nine the following week, The effects were amazing.

Marrs out there. And without an fell and fractured his leg in

red blood. And it is because ter handed her by her employer, efficient personnel you wouldn't November as he was stooping to electric light bulbs and a number they also know how extrauro. D. F. Belth, E. W. 14 Pattanden, d

There were two innocent-looking Hollis Hart, it was an astonishing have so much money to spend. That pick up something from the floor. of wires. When a flager was with dinarily efficacious Dr. Williamsandar Lewis. letter, written by a girl named Mac is, I suppose you wouldn't. Not in

As an Australian colonist; he de Mars, protesting love for Hart, the long run, I mean. A day would played in the first two inter- in an inch of the bulbs or wires, pink pills are in rapidly im c. a. 8. Mackie, Res. 11, F. Waite, Res. threatening suit for breach of pro-come when the Hart millions would Colonial cricket matches, and was lerce violet-blue streaks shot proving the quality of the blood mise, and begging him to return to dwindle and vanish. And the per the only survivor. He hit for two sound and were lost in the finger and ills, that great numbers of through space with a cracking and in correcting feminine aches his loving Mao."

petulty of your benevolences would runs the first ball ever bowled in an Yet the shock was as mild as the women throughout the world have Ashtoreth is astounded that. Mr. be defeated." Hart should have asked her to rend

Her eloquence embarrassed her.

Uniest pin-prick..

adopted the world's most famous his personal correspondence.

She wondered if Mr. Hart knew what she was trying to say.

blood and nerve tonic as their If she had chosen her words correctly. If,

favourite medicine for use when- perhaps, she was being absurd, and

ever alling or run-down. amazingly preposterous. But he looked at her with quick approval, and inclined his head gravely,

Tanned

Hart is almost 60-old enough to be his beautiful stenographer's father. But he is a handsome man and youthful appearing. by tropical suns, slim and athletic. She la flattered by his small atten- tions, and considerably thrilled when he tells her of his strange af- 'fair with Miss de Marr.

Misa de Marr had been dismissed from the office of Hart, Lee, Inc., and had thrown herself dramati-

E.

"Minerva," he said, "has spoken." "Oh!" she cried, "You are being unkind. You asked me to tell you | what I thought, and now you are making fun!"

"No," he contrailleted, "I a cally on the mercy of her employ-quite serious. The name of the goddess of wisdom would have at- In a moment's mad whim he rested you as perfectly is that of the called that he had just given $10,- goddess of love. Some time, Miss 000 to found a home for stray cats. Ashe. I hope you will tell me the "If a man.cin endow a home for personal significance of your name. animals, to keep them off the Your mother; perhaps, is a student streets, how about a μiri?" he asks of Egyptology?" Ashtoreth..

Ashtoreth thought of her plump. jolly mother. Gay and garish in royal purple. Her poor pully feet

Australian inter- Stato cricket match,

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"The streaks represent à million Sir David, who was the son of a Huntingdonshire lawyer, had an ad- volts," explained an expert, "but venturous

youth. After boing the current is of such high fre articled to a Peterborough doctor quency that, instead of passing he went to Australia in the early through the body, it passes over days of the gold rush and worked the surface and does no damage." ns a digger at Mount Alexander. On the third floor Major G. E. 8. He knew Melbourne before it was Phillips explained how he was ablo developed.

to make a few inches of sand-the bottom layer of which was support ed by a flimsy cigarette paper support the full weight of a 13at,

man.

?

"Gold digging," he once said in an interview, "did not make my fortune. I was a gardener, a gold buyer, a painter, a paperhanger, a conveyancing and engrossing clerk before I made enough money to come back to England in 1859 to BANK CANCELS PART complete my studies at Guy's

OVERDRAFT. Hospital and take my degree.”

Formerly in the P. and O. acrvice, Sir David delighted to talk of the great changes in medicine and aur-

And then he asks his astonished *tenographer to tell him truthfully If Mae is "one of these so called cramped in too-tight patent leathery that had taken place in his

Modern Girls."

CHAPTER III.

Ashtoreth had bought a gardenia on her way to work, and pinned il on her shoulder. It was a reck- less extravagance, to be paid for with various small economies,

018,

Her peroxide yellow shingle fringing the back of her violet Loque. Synthetic amethysta dan gling from her elongated ear lobes, arui a double string swinging against her great deep bosom.

Ashloreth despised herself for being even mentally disloyal to her mother. She hated herself now for the lie she told.

Hollis Hart reflected that he had auver before seen a gardenia on a #tenographer. Violets and sweel; "Oh, yes," she said, "mother sim. porn-yes., And orchids, pecasion-ply dotes on archaeology." Ally. But never a gardējis, amol) and well bred, on a slender crepe- clad shoulder.

He had a mental picture of Miss de Marr ne she had invaded his office. He remembered the triple string of lone imitation pearls that beat against the buttons of her blouse. And the angle of her ear rings. There was something metalic about Mae.

And much that was anft, besides, She reminded him of a plump Dresden figure on Aunt Meg's man- de. The Dresden Indy coquotted with a chins soldier, and Mac'o tochnique, he thought, was much the same.

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"Well, as I was saying," he con- Unued, "Mias de Marr came on the heels of Mr. Higgins, who had just

She wondered if Mr. Hart aaw the tell-tale flush that suffused her pale face and left her deathly white,

"Well, Mr. Hart said "back to the little De Marr. I said to her- Mias de Murr,' I said, 'I'm going to give you a present, without any strings at all. Ten thousand "dol- lara, to spend exactly as you choose." "

Ashtareth's eyes widened, · "You did!" she cried. "You rently did?

"I did," he afirmed gravely. "It took several minutes to convince the young lady of the purity and authenticity of my offer. She cried some more. It was most embarras. sing, really. But, finally she struck my cheque in her bag and promised to keep in touch with me until she got straightened out,

walked out, you remember, with my and that evening I went to see the "The next day she telephoned, cheque for $10,000 in his pocket.

"She had been crying furiously, prtment she'd taken. One of and her eyes were rel and awollen.those new ones on Commanwealth avenne. She'd been shopping all Nobody could possibly necuse me, Miss Ashe, of being enraptured day, and had the things sent di- with the girl's beauty. She was reetly out. My God, Miss Ashe, it positively plain. But the most was horible! pitenus Httle spectacle I ever saw.

"Over-stuffed things, covered in "There was a bun, of course. purple taffeta. And lamps, drip- He had violated, it seemed, her girl-ping all sorts of fringe. Shiny Ish faith and traini.. Or so, at least, things with spindle legs. And rugs she said. Her father and heard of with bhu snakes writhing all over the affair and had been to the man, insisting that he marry the girl.

them."

But the fellow was already mar- That, reflected Ashtareth, was ried.

that exactly the sort of room "Well, the De Marr parents were Maizie loved to vialom. Darling apparently hasty. They wounded Mac in the tenderest spola and east Maizie, who made the most awful her out in the cold. There must lamp shades and pillows, and was have been a terrific scene, and Mine, buying an imitation Chinese rug as a result, contracted a severe it on the installment plan. ness, wandering around that; night in the snow. Exactly like an old melodrama, you see,

"And clothes" Mr. Hart was saying: "The place was full of them. There was a fur scarf and "A pollernian picked her up and a hat that simply smothered the She took her to the City hospital. She child. Big as a cart wheel. was there for three weeks, with no tried it on and flung the scarf across one, she wept, to care whether she her shoulders, and strutted about lived or died. When she had re-like Peggy Joyce on the boardwalk. covered sufficiently to be dismissed Then she got into some pink thing she came back here to work, as if with a lot of feathers on, and made nothing had happened. After ana welsh rabbit. unexplained absence, mind you, of three weeks.

"It was fun, don't you know, and

I took to dropping in pretty, regu- "There had been unpleasant larly. I suppose I was rather a stories, of course, about the poor chump, for I brought her little sur- little devil. And our office man-prises. Inexpensive jewellery and ager, being a stern and virtuous a frock or two. woman, gave her two weeks' pay

and dismissed her then and there."'

Mr. Hart paused,

1

"And a few weeks later I helped her get a tryout, singing over the radio. I had been her great am-

"Do I make her sound pathetic?"bition, for a long time, and when

he questioned. "Because I mustn't they engaged her regularly she was lot you think I was too easily taken proud as

Punch. After

that I Lelo-

in. She was, I swear, the most didn't see her, so often. I helpless creature 1 ever laid eyes phoned occasionally, and several on."

times a man's voice answered. I assumed Mae had taken up with a boy friend, as she'd say. And that was about all there was to it.

Ashtoreth smiled. "Didn't you know," she asked, "That she might have gone to any one of several societies that would have loaned her money, and helped her on her feet again?"

"Then this morning I received this letter-and there's the whole story in a nutshell. Some one, up-

"Yes," he admitted, "I knew It.parently, has taken Miss de Marr But I don't think she did. She was in hand. And now there's going to

so darn ineffectual, don't you see. be the devil of a row."

Anyhow-to make a long story

short- apologized

Hollis Hart concluded his nar- for Mr. rative and looked to Ashtoreth for

Mason, who'd discharged the poor comment.

kid without the alightest apprecin- "Well," he demanded, "what do tion of the situation. And I said you think of that for a modern,

I felt that I should make some sort self respecting working girl?"

of amends for the anguish and all'

But before Ashtoreth could an- that sort of thing her summary dis-awer, the door flung unceremoni- missal had occasioned,"

ously open. On the threshold stood diminutive

1.

creature, drossed in black and white, hug- ging a snowy far against her yel- vet wrap. Her eyes were blazing, and her checks were flushed. She

•

Ashtoroth's heart beat excitedly, and she felt all queer and quivery inalde.

lifetime. He could recall the times when surgeons performed opera- ions with the aid of unskilled "Sarah Gamp" nurses, smoking clay pipes.

He received his knighthood 1922.

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LETTER GOLF SOLUTION.

in

Here is the solution to the puzzle on another page.

RUTH, RUTS, RATS, MATS, MARS, MARY.

stood there, breathing quickly, her gaze fastened, in a frightened way, on Hart's face.

Then she moved inside the room and closed the door.

(To Be Continued.)

The Choice

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The bank has agreed to cancel So if you, reader, are pale £215.000 of the overdraft, which and bloodless, lack appetite and has stood at £715,000. The bank strength, are suffering from any has also agreed to forego all in form of weakness or ill-health terest charges for the year 1928, traceable to poor blood or

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