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ORCHID

BY ELEANOR EARLY.

CHAPTER XIX. Ashtoreth slipped her hand la Smytho's.

"Come on!" she challenged.

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Ashtereth, like most girls, be- lieved that good things usually were stupid. And that wildly ex- citing things were more apt than not to be wrong. It was, she had But all the while are was won-found, a fairly safe way to look aut doring exactly what was going to life. happen. And just how in English-

But Smythe made her feel child-existence. "man gets when a girl laughs at his lah and ignorant. She wished that love making. She imagined that it was Monty's arm across her English people were mightily dig-shoulder. And Monty's lips against nified, and she meant to humiliate her hair. It would be such a re- Jack Smythe for saying that all Her not to have to be so dreadfully American girls petted. She'd show highbrow. him!

""You're sure," he teased, "you 'hadn't rather go to bed?"

"Bed" she chord. "A night like He held her close against his side,

this?"

"You know," he whispered, "you're not goin to slap mo again. Because this time I shan't stand for it, my dear."

"No?" she retorted. "And what would you do about it?

For months and months Ashto- reth had been pretending. Ever since she had gone to work for

Hollis Hart. Pretending to bookish And knowledge and high ideals, culture. And wealth. And all sorts of things.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1929.

BAHREIN ISLAND DISPUTE.

BRITAIN OPPOSED TO

PERSIAN CLAIM. ...

ASSURANCES OF SUPPORT TO SHEIK.

LEAGUE INFORMED.

Surrounded by EL electrical apparatus, including a dynamo and transformer with an output of 20,000 volts, a quiet- mannered scientist is within

of. success of # measurable distance after experiments involving seven years labour.

London, Mar. 1. Copics have been circulated to members of the League Nations Note which the British Minister in Teheran has handed

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Yet another link has been forged Great between the Navies of Britain and Chile. Two sub-serve marines, the Capitan Thompson and the Almirante Simpson, were launched yesterday at the Vickers- Armstrong yard at Barrow. These names have an English sound, and their sister ship is named after the gallant Captain O'Brien, who, with . P. F. Belth, Er. W. L. Fattenden, Deg A. II. Comptan, Eng. J. A., Plummer, Kas Lord Cochrane, joined the. Chilean. Lander Lawia, kaq 1. 6. Wasil, Exo. Navy in 1818. O'Brien was killed while boarding the Spanish frigate Esmeralda, and for over a century Chile has named a number of her warships after him and after other her gratitude to the brave band of Englishmen. She has thus shown

This is Mr. R. Fraser, A.R.C.S.. to the Persian Government in British seamen who, under Lord

to the latter's claim to

over the island of young Republic to throw off the sovereignty Bahrein, in the Persian Gulf.

yoke of Spain. The British Note deals in de- tail with the contentions put, for ward by the Persian Government und tranverses them all,

volutionary theories in regard La the little-known, question of "flame-rate," or the rate of travel of an explosive flame.

"ten-roomed house.

There was that day she had tried to make Mr. Hart think she knew all about Egyptology and Cleopatra amt senrabs. Well, it hadn't got her far. Mr. Hart tirught now that she was just as common and Suddenly it occurred to Ashto-fcheap as Sadie, most likely... reth that perhaps she was not do-Then, of course, there was Sadie, ing a sporting thing. English pro-She was always trying to impress ple made such a fuss about being - Sadies, ... sporting.

And Mona. Mona thought she had' Smythe had warned her that he boon 14 boarding school. Not that meant to kiss her. It was, in fact, Ashtoreth had directly implied any his expressed purpose.

sach thing, Ouly Muna picked up Probably then she really oughtn't the notion somehow, and R. seemed- to go. No girl, she supposed, went senseless to deny it. Mona up to the boat deck with a man, I thought, too, that she had read all unless she meant to be kissed.sorts of hooks. Not, of course, Particularly on such a night. that Ashtoreth had ever said so.

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The Chilean Flect consists almost entirely of British-built ships. The only battleship, the Almirnute 200 Shits" A. Seen i Mr. Fraser's newest camera,

Latorre, was completing in Eng land when war broke out. She was absorbed into the British Navy, recently completed in the work shops of a London firm, is des

The Note also recalls that served in the Grand Fleet under tined to photograph the actanl explosion of nitro-glycerine and Britain first concluded a Treaty the name of Canada, and fought at dynamite sufficient to wreck with the independent ruler of Jutland. In 1919 she was handed Bahrein in 1920, with the object back to the Chilean Navy, and is one of the host powerful Yet at the moment of explo-of suppression of piracy and main-still

warships in the world. In 1914 sim the photographer and his tenance of peace in the Gulf,

The British Government sub-four destroyers, which were build- instrument will be less than 6ft.sequently concluded other Treaties ing in England for Chile were taken HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK. ` distant.

into the British Fleet. One, the Five separate walls of brick are being built, each with a little

Tipperary, was sunk at Jutland, and the other three, the Botha, ducted by the RONGKONG AND BLANGUA window at the same level. Re-

BANKING CORPORATION, Faulkner, and Broke, did yeoman

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service in the North Sea. All three

ON THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHA will be detonated in a large steet

are now serving in the Chilean BANKING CURIORATION, cylinder.

Fleet, as are six H Class sub-

A. C. HYNES marines. which were handed to

Chief Manager. Hongong, 11th September, 1927. Chile after the war in part payment. The older ships were nearly all built on the Tyne, and when became necessary for Chile to replace her old ships, she turned once more To Great Britain. Six destroyers are now completing at outhampton, three submarines at Barrow, two Fleet Auxillaries on the Tyne, and the Almirante Latorre is about to refit in Devon-, port Dockyard.

"You know," Smythe was saying, After all, though, could a girl “someone's wild even an atheist half (over be just herself? With anyone, One of the closely guarded believes in a God. by jjght. Did that i who really counted" sccrels of this new invention is you ever see anything so perfect | Waobin't it be perfectly insane to the means by which an endless In your life?

Why, the ocean's ↑ let anyone you cared the least thing | strip of filsi, travelling 011 n a silver sen!"

about discover how silly and stupid | duralumin drum at 400 miles an Ashtareth sighed.

you really were?

hour, is asked past a com- In her secret heart Ashtoreth be-|plicated system of lenses. lieved that her ignorance would So wonderfully balanced is this simply appal anyone who actanlly drum that, having once been know anything. Anyone really rotated at its maximum speed of clever. Hollis Hart, for instadiee 18,00 revolutions a second, it Or fack Smythe.

takes more than a quarter of an hour to come to rest.

"It's heavenly," she whispered. A moonlit minor was on her. After all, why not let Smythe kiss her? She'd be a dreadfully poor sport to let him think he might and then get mad over it.

She vlanced at him sidoways. He did look extraordinarily like the Prince of Wales. Those little lines about his eyes. And his mouth. ..

It was, really, a lot easier to be kissed than to get philosophical about it. If they went on talking alut abstract. good and evil, Juck would learn how stupid she was "It's;wonderful," he said, "what Whereas, if she simply let him kiss a night like this can do to à man. her, he would discover her to be Why, I knew a misogynist once altogellier desirable. ho simply rated women.. Loathed and despised them, and all that sort Into the aladows,

And he took a cruise. There are two chairs somewhere of thing, down here through the Indies and over here," he was saying fell in love with every woman on the the steward place them after din ship!"

"A misogynial," thought Ashto-

woman-hater reth, "must be a

It was one of those 60-cent words Sadie talked about.

He drew her from the rail

ner"

He put his arms around her, and held her close.

"You know," he whispered "you've the softest skin in the "Personally," continue:f Smythe, world."

Then he kissed her arms, and "I've always thought a misogynist was a queer bird. Women were obrushed his lips to her neck, where viously made to be loved."

her hair curled in little tendrils.

"But-" Ashtoreth felt curiously fongue-tied. She wanted to guy! Maizie was wwfully old-fash- something about. women belesioned. Malzie always said you meant for finer things. But she shumldn't give your lips to a man junted to sound torribly prim and unless you really and truly loved old-maidish. And she couldn't him and were going to marry him. think of anything at all elever.

But of course Maizie didn't know

laken at the

Photographs are rate of 200 every second, and though the explosion flame may be moving at anything from four inches to two miles a second, it appears as stationary in the re production !

It is hoped that further and very Important' data`will be gain-

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the cylinders of a petrol engine, since at present nearly two-thirds of the power given off by most internal combustion engines is wanted.

DOUBLE CLAUSING TRAGEDY,

Grim Prophecy Which Was Fulfilled.

INQUEST PROCEEDING.

Shanghai, Mar. 2. Whilst the inquent on Mra, Ruth Clausing, who was. barnt to death on Monday, was proceeding, being produc- tive ak nore Rensational evidence, her husband, Lieut. John Clausing, who was also injured in the same fire, died in the U.S. Marine Hospital.

His death is attribitute to blood poisoning, according to Dr. Webber, the Marines' medical officer.

The remarkable fact was related at the inquest that Lieut. Clausing after the fire declared to a brother officer: --"Ruth

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with whom they have had to dan! by their technical knowledge and In a moment be held her away A move by the Society of British

teir evident professional ability. Batavia Dramatic Art to circumvent the It was not unt the Treaty of With her long const line Chile has ambay Lord Chamberlain's regulations, 1861 that the British Government, a large seafaring romulation, and it calzotts which forbid the sale of seats in in return for the Sheik's under-1-ig natural that with more than a Cente theatres for Sunday performances, taking to abstain from maritime century of high tradition behind Datan (Delay) Nagoya

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the important part in world politica Donolets foreign relations of that ruler, in the Pacific Ocean, under which he has now invoked.

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"If all women agreed with you," anything about such kisses she wald, "there wouldn't be any these! Mothers are so innocent→→ rently good women, would there? the poor dears. :

Ashtoreth

I mean, if we let all the men who melted softly in his arms, want to, make love to us, we'd be

a dreadfully tarnished lot. And we | from him, wouldn't be what men call 'good women at all, would we?"

They had leaned over the rail, to watch the light of St. Thomas twinkling, like

fireflies across the water.

distant

"Damn!" he muttered. "There's omebody in that chair down there A woman-she just coughed. Over there-behind the wireless."

Ashtoreth's heart was benting wiklly, and something in her throat pulsed like a little fluttering bird. "Oh!" she gasped, and laughed

little, breathlessly.

LORD CHAMBERLAIN STEPS IN.

London, Feb. 2.

has been checked.

'Good' repeated Smythe, slip ping his arm across her shoulders. "Why, I suppose that depends upon

donations. your definition of good. Our wise

Be steadied her, with his hands

These donations were fixed at the George Bernard Shaw has some on her shoulders, thing interesting to any on the sub- "There's no sense," he admon-usual price of tickets, 2. 4d, to 10s, ject. Goodness, says Shaw, in its shot indulgently, in being take-, and the class of seat allotted popular British sense of self-denial chancey."

was to be in accordance with the implies that man is vicious by na-

The woman in the deck chair amount of the "donation."

Last night the secretary of the ture. And that supreme goodness and risen to her feet. She was all ia supreme martyrdom.

in white, and wore a white hat, like society, Licut, Commander Tye, was "The idea ben't confined to us a turban. A long, gold tassel hung contract for the hire of the theatre informed by Mr. Maskelyno that the British, you know. It's also an from her dress. And another from American Notion. Frenchmen her turban, swaying as she walked. haven't any such conceptions. As Nobody bat Mena would have dress

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"When Knights Werc Bold." would have to be cancelled' in view that the Persian Goverument val pageant, with humour here The Note expresses surprise The result is A fine-media- of an objection raised by the Lord should have referred, in corres- and there, through which Mr. Chamberlain. for the Latin races-they believe ed like that.

pondence, to Article Ten of the Nelson Keys; dreams himself as Commander Tye told The Daily Covenant of that anything that is natural is? She greeted them indolently.

the League of Sir Guy de Vere, who is at least good.

think so myself. It's nat-But, as he drew near, Ashtoreth Chronicle that an effort is to be Nations, under which members of deft and dapper and ingenious, ural to want to kiss a pretty girl, saw that her eyes were smoldering. made to interview the Lord Chun-the League undertake to respect though not as naturally funny as It is also natural for à girl to like! to be kissed. Therefore it is goal. ably away and muttered an im-theatre we shall certainly continue and existing political indepen- the transformation to medieval

Jack Smythe lounged uncomfort-lain (the Earl of Cromer) to-day.

elisa. and preserve as against external the late James Welch was. The "If our society can secure a

aggression the territorial integrity best laugh in the film comes before LONDON BANKERS "It is supreme nonsense to be-precation. lieve that anything that is natural Ashtoreth put her hand on h with our design, which, quite is wicked. Or even that self-denial sleeve. But Möna struck his am frankly, is to get round the regula dence of all members of the times, when Sir Guy slides down League, and that they should the bannisters with one of the is a virtue. Those are very plous away and turned upon him in un-be paid, but receiving donations and of this Article lay an obligation Williams, as Sir Brian, and Mish

Entertainment tax will seemingly Imagine that the terins housomaids. Mr. Erie Bransby/arental of from tổ to $40. notions. But they're most fear controllable wrath. fully dull."

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island which is separated from wenn, give spirited support. matagraph film, but forbid to pay Persian Gulf, and over which for seats to see a play.

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(To Be Continued.)

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Talamat allowed on Current Accounts and that the great majority of the staff that a piece of iron tubing, sent week-end, fasued by the Royal_Ob-wearing a cap and overcoat, was

The Federal Reserve bank has Fixed Deposits at Hates that may be ascer are efficient, states: "There is no from Birmingham to Alperton, re-servatory

UNG, L. G. BANDES, Nİ- states: North-East able to sit at the window and en- Increased its discount rate to 5d on appication.

Maasser, desire to indulge in threatening mained 19 days in the hands of winds, fresh; overcast, some drizzle joy tho genial warmth.per cent.-Router's American Ser-

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