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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1929.

RIVAL WIVES

By Anne Austin.

THIS HAS HAPPENED.

Author of The Black Pigeon."

AMERICAN STOCKS.

[CABLED' QUOTATIONS FROM NEW YORK.

The following quotations nn at the close of the market on Tuesday have been recalved from their correspon- dent, Messra, Hayden, Stane and Co., of New York, by Messrs. Swan, Culbertson and Fritz, Sassoon House, Shanghai, (enblo nidress "Swad Block" Shanghai), whe Arc responsible for the cable mutilations,

firmation:

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from his pocket, abstracted a cheque, and ostentatiously laid it The quotations are subject to con-

Nun Carroll discovers, after

before the lawyer, "You wouldn't three years work with Attorney given me a bill, old man, so I let John Curtia Morgan that she is in love with him, und, having a high my conscience be my guide."

"Twenty thousand!" Morgan ex- sense of honour, determines to re- sign. Her resignation is post-claimed. "I should judge then that the you had a very troublesome con- poned, however, because

science!" believes Morgan is going to need

"Twelve good men and true sald the services of a faithful secretary not guilty, Crawford reminded during his defence of Bert Craw him, laughing good-naturedly. "But ford, a supposed friend, who is in-

seriously, old boy, you've earned dicted for embezzlement. Nan that and more loo, and I'll be glad distrusts Crawford and Iris Morto make the cheque bigger if you'll gan, beautiful wife of the lawyer.

let me." Nan overhears by means of a lis

"I told you there wouldn't be any tening-in device a conversation befee, Bert," Morgan frowned. "This tween Crawford and his switch- board operator in which he "fixes" busines.cost you dear enough, God the girl's testimony to, diver! Bus-

"Fortunes of war, Jack!" "Craw picious evidence from him. When ford shrugged.. "I'm not down and Nas confronts Crawford with what out yet, and I never will be. It she has heard, and tells him you don't want the money, give it her price of silence is that he give to Iris. A woman likes to have a úp tris Morgan, he angrily agrees.tle fortune of her own tucked

Morgan defends Crawford ably. On the last day of the trial, Xan away in the bank."

knows."

Morgan's face lighted up with the tenderness which his wife's name always evoked. "That's not a bad idea, Bert, if you insist on paying.

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prepares to go to the courtroom when tris rushes in, accompanied with little Curtis Morgan, who she" have on Nan's hands for the morning. Nu is furious. When open an account in her name United States Steel the little boy drugs aslerp. Sam today. She'll certainly be surprised Vacuum Oil

devent of Willys Overland finds beside him a note, evi-and pleared. Mighty

you."

dently stolen from his mother's But Nan, sitting quietly, with handbag, in which Crawford pro-j, tests his love for Iris, admits his poised over her notebook, stuilt, and lays plans for their did not for a moment believe that it was "decent" of Crawford. He clopement.

Was either being diabolically clever

Nan hurries to the courthouse. She is too late. The jury comes in with a "not guilty" verdict. Outside the courthouse she meets Willis Todd, an old suitor, whe takes her to lunch. Knowing be Istruktworthy, she shows him the note and he nilyles her to tear

of Insolently enddish. If he was

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DOUBLE PROGRAMME AT QUEEN'S.

TWO FILMS' WELL WORTH

SEEING,

really going to run away with Iris Morgan, Bert Crawford would not Bented to, the man be had used and lose the $20,000 so grandly pre-

The current programme at the deceived; he and Iris would have Queen's Theatre comprises two every penny of it, in addition to the pictures of about equal length, quarter of a million that Crawford respectively entitled "The Adven-

It up. She tucks it in her had stolen from the Mid-West Pack-tarer" and "Slaves to Benny," knowing well she would have died

The former, featuring Tim before she would have hurt Mor-ing Company. gan with that note;

CHAPTER XIV.

And if he was not going to keep McCoy, is a parody of a South his promise to Tris, was planning American revolution in which the to abandon her as he had doubtlesi(plot Is worked out according to abandoned many other women, then accepted ideas. There is much "Nice Christmas, Nau?" John this $20,000-a small sum to a man (humour reflected throughout, and Curtis Morgan greeted his secre- who had a quarter of a million salt-as a comedy the production should tury cheerfully on Tuesday morn-ed away-was a end's way of can-please. Ing. "Look! I'm wearing the tecelling his love debt. And John "Slaves to Beauty" is quite an you gave me. Best-looking one Curtis Morgan-blind, trusting unusual play, one of those "true ever had."

darling that he was-thought Bert to Ice" pictures which as more; Crawford was "mighty decent" I

Nan Carrol could have burst into tears with relief. The two. darɛ since she bad seen him had been a period of almost intolerable gus pense. Her mildest nightmare had pictured him alone on Christmas Day, deserted by his wife for his; "best friend;" her worst fear had been that he might be lying dend on his living room floor, his sight-

"I didn't like to throw a damper

over the Christmas gayoties yester day, but the fact is, Jack, that I'm going to shuke the dust of this man's town from my heela."

"What!" Morgan exclaimed. "Isn't this n hasty declalon, Bert?"

Crawford shook his handsome

than an entertainment value.

Both pictures are being again shown to-day and are well worth seeing.

LETTER GOLF SOLUTION.

Here is the solution to the

less eyes turned toward the per-blonde hend emphatically. "No," puzzle on another page. trait of the woman who had be old man, I've been mulling it SLICE, SLICK, SLINK, BLINK, trayed him. She had actually not over since the blow fell. The Mid-BLIND, BLEND, BLEED,

possessed the courage to read the papers.

"You always say that!" she forced her trembling lips to retort flippantly, hoping that her eyes did not too shamelessly betray her. The

cravat of dark-blue and silvery-

West Pack Company is bound BREED, RHEAD.

to bust. 11' be in the hands of a

receiver by the first of the year, At two o'clock, after Nan had re- and in spite of the fact that I was turned from An almost untasted acquitted, my name won't be any luncheon, Morgan shrugged into too fragrant in these quarters. hia overcoat and announced cheer- "I'll move on to fresher, greener fully-a little too cheerfully, so grey striped silk did suil him lands, in fact, I've already sent in that Nan knew he was still hurt: amazingly well. "Yes, I had a nice my resignation and signed over my "I'm going to snatch a bite to eat, Christmas," she lied, "I've been stock, whatever it may be worth, Nan, and then step over lo the trying to frame a letter that would to help reimburse the poor devils bank to meet Mrs. Morgan. if adequately express my thanks for who will suffer most from Bland's she calls up, tell her I'll be there the roses and the cheque, but---"

raseality the small stockholders. at a quarter to three."

Nan had to watch him go, unpre-

else. So it's good-bye, Jack. pared for the shock that might be No, keep that chaque! Give it to awaiting him. If, after three, the hour the bank closed, he came back

"Dont he a goose!" Morgan i make a fresh start somewhere terrupted brusquely. "I'm so in- debted to you for your help on the Grace Cox case and the Crawford ease, to say nothing of all the other cases, that all the thanks passed he-

Iris, like I told you! Lord man, to the office troubled and bewilder- I'm not a pauper!"

"You're really leaving?" Morganed, with the news that something "When? must have delained Iris, since

tween us should come from me. insisted incredulously.

Consider the hundred salary "Today," Crawford answered. she had not met him, then she bonus and not a teath of what "On the two-forty-five castbound, Nan--would know that it was all Don't ask me where I'm going, or over, that Iris had taken the train

you're entitled to."

He passed on into his private what my plans are.

I don't know with Bert Crawford. What would

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The watchman of the ground

office, and Nan sat staring at her myself yet, but I'm keen to get he to, oh what would he do when ALLEGED ASSAULoor, intimated that there was no

typewriter, the tears, which she

had had to control in his presence,

away."

Morgan, still frowning, nodded comprehension if not approval.

he learned the truth?

Her fingers were so cold with nervousness that she could nat

alipping hotly down her checks. Her need to resign, to get away fave you told Iria good-bye? This gue. An hour to be lived through! from this man whom she loved an is going to be a blow to her, Bert. Wasn't there some way of annihi much and so hopelessly, had become She thinks a lot of you. I'm not lating time? Desperate, she in- where much good at playing around and vaded the private office which his roses had been delivered whooping it up, and she loves It. Evans, the clerk, and Blake, the I'm afraid she's going to find life young lawyer on salary, pursued

their uninteresting duties. pretty dull for a while....

Well, what kind of Christmas "I'm going to have lunch with }

a desperate pain on Christmas Eve,

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ON GIRL

LACK OF CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCE.

guest in the boarding house on June 4. He had seen the girl bc-

MR. FIDDES WILSON.

THE SPORTS CLUB.

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fore. She had previous to June 4 ENTERTAINED TO DINNER BY made several attempts to enter the Ko Chuw Boarding House to earn her living by singing. but was; refused admission by witness.

con-

LTD.

SIR ERIC HAMBRO DIVORCED.

SAID TO HAVE LIVED WITH

·STEP-MOTHER'S SISTER,

Lord Merrivale has granted a Warm tributes to the work of Mr. W. D. Fiddes Wilson, clerk of the decree nisi of divorce to Lady course and starter for the Hongkong (Sybil Emily) Hambro, of to her and the sight of his hand-

For the defence, Mr. D'Almada Jockey Club, were paid at the Sports Cadogan-square, London, on the writing on the curd and cheque

PROSECUTION FAILS.

submitted that he had no cano to Club last night, when he was enter ground of the misconduct of her which had accompanied them had

answer. He referred his Worship tained to dinner.by racing friends in husband, Sir Charles Eric Hambro, made her ill with too great joy. her at the Traylor and break the did you boys have?" she demanded

A complete denial of the alleg- to Section 9, Sub-rection 2, view of his impending departare for who did not defend the suit.

The marriage took place in July The buzzer on her desk sounded, news then, Crawford admitted with fictitious cheerfulness.

Listening to their lengthy replies ed offence was the gist of the story Ordinance of 1897, which says Tientsin on transfer.

Mr. H. J. H. Priestly presided over 1804 and there are four children candidly, his blue eyes flicking a Nan dabbed furiously at the tears glance of triumph at Nan. She no mercifully consumed almost half of the man who was charged with that "No person shall be convicted

Mr. Ho Loung (Vico-Chairman), thetained a decree of restitution of on her cheeks, snatched a powder longer had the power to keep him an hour: three telephone calls indecently assaulting a girl at of an offence on the evidence of the gathering, others present being living. In 1927 Lady Hambro ob- puff from the top drawer of her from seeing Iris Morgan, his mock-providentially disposed of nearly the Ko Chow Boarding House, one witness only, unless such Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton, Mr. Hoconjugal rights, but Sir Eric did not. desk and covered the traces of her ing eyes reminded her. "But don't more

minutes. She was just while another man who was charg-Witness is corroborated in some Kom-tong, Mr. A. J. P. Heard, Mr. H.

obey. self-pity; then took notebook and

Morris and Mr. H. C. Lee (Hon. Secre-husband went to live with Mrs. Lady Hambro alleged that her pencil and went into him, smil you worry about Iris, old boy. She'll war organ hudow toovered with siding and abetting also picating the accused; vidence im-W. Moon, Mr. W. T. Stanton, Mr. A.

bear up under the loss of her play when Morgan's shadow loomed denied any knowledge of the al-plicating Ing....

mate too well to suit me. By the against the glass panel of the door. leged occurrence, saying that on Counsel reminded his Worship tary). A few minutes later, when he way, I'll tell her to meet you at

She braced herself to meet what the night of June 4-5 he was at that the evidence throughout the it was his unfortunate duty to have to mother, at Upper Grosvenor-street, The chairman said that once again Estelle Elger, a sister of his step- hearing had been most was dictating with a day-after-the bank at half past two, if you're ever his beloved face might reveal, home,

tradictory. His Worship had only Ho had been told that before he joined

say goodbye a departing member. London. Christmas leisureliness and ten- really going to open an account but as the door opened she heard dency to irrelevant conversation, for her with that cheque,"

Irls' musical, artificial laughter. · The case has been before. Mr. the girl's evidence to go by, con- Mr. Wilson was not quite sure whether in appreciation of the work of Mr. Bert Crawford charged into the Thanks, Berk, I wish you money for, silly old Jack!

"Of course I'll spend it! What is E. W. Hamilton, several times and tinued Mr. D'Almada but her he was fitted for membership of the Les, the secretary, and said that private office without knocking. would," Morgan agreed,

a little

this morning he discharged both evidence was not corroborated by Sports Club and so he got engaged H. the Duke of Gloucester had "Hello, Jack! How's the greatest stiffly. It was obvious that he was of my sudden wealth, I suppose? evidence,

Hello, there, Nan! You've heard defendants, owing to insufficient any other witness.

(laughter), Mr. Priestly paid a warm promised the club an autographed. criminal lawyer in the United

a Httle hurt at not being included in Wasn't Bert a lamb to make Jack

tribute to the work of Mr. Wilson and photograph of himself which would be States? By jolly; you're certainly the luncheon invitation.

WOR CARO Mr. F. X. D'Almada, Jr., defend- The

n thoroughly stressed the fact that the Sports Club passed on to Mr. Les when it arrived. suspicious one, said his Worship was a club for all sports. a demon for work! Why don't you

The Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton said give it to me? And.now this.stupid | ed. "Now," thought Nun, her nar-old husband of mine wants me to rowed brown eyes trying to probe let it lle in the bank, accumulating

Thỏ girl in the witness box gave In reply Mr. Wilson expressed all the members were extremely sorry When the case, was continued a "very definite account of the thanks for the honour the Club had that Mr. Wilson was loving. He had Morgan frowned alightly. For smiling blue eyes of Bert Craw to New York and now I can take it. Brat, second and third floors of the nobody to corroborate her state came to Hongkong in 1920 and acted active clerk of the course. In conclu- the tricky mind that lay behind the interest. I've been dying for a trip this morning, the watchman of the alleged occurrence, but there was dend him and said that when he proved an excellent starter and an the first time Crawford's blithe ford, "just what does he mean to badinaga seemed to annoy him do? Is he going to take her with Jack, and if you aren't awfully nice night in question was called by

... No, you can't come along, Ko Chow Boarding House on the ment.

as second starter he had an oppor-sten the Hon. Mr. Shenton wished Mr. "Anything special, Bert? We're him or not? Would he have had the to me I won't come back.".

Turning to the prosecuting of-tunity of seeing the tricks of the Wilson and his future wife every suc pretty busy this morning."

Mr. A... Heard said that as a "Oh, don't look at her like that, the prosecution. Witness express- cer, his Worship remarked that Shanghat Jockeys, and when he be cess and happiness. Crawford laughed boisterously Audacity to come here and say good-

good idea what to expect.

He hoped the Jockeys present bore

Be a mess male he was perfectly do "Nothing very special, old timer, ing her? And if he doesn't take wanted to scream at Morgan.in angwer to a question by his of a conviction on the evidence

Worship, said thero wAS no given by the witnesses called, and him no fl will as he had always tried lightful and most considerate, and as just thought I'd get rid of a serapher, what will tria Morgan say one "Don't you realize that she's warn disturbance of any sort at the he would therefore discharge both for a good start. Mr. Wilson spoke a starter he had only met one to put of paper while I was in the neigh do when she learns that her lover ed you?"

boarding house that night.

defendants.

before him after 27 years in China. bourhood." And he drew his wallet has left her $20,000 as heart balm?”

(To Be Continued.)

knock off for a few days? Hello, Nan! Happy New Year!"

and slapped his friend on the back.bye to her husband if he were tak-ins if you could klos her fect!" Naned his ignorance of the affair, and, there was absolutely no possibility came first starter in 1927 he had a friend. Mr. Wilson was most loyal,