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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1929.

RIVAL WIVES

By

Anne Austin.

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

„Author of "The Black Pigeon."

strange hostility in his liquid black eyes. There was a deep flush It was 6 o'clock when Nau Mor-on his cheeks, Nan's heart con gan, in a tempest of unreason tracted sharply with anxiety. Did ing fury and fear, locked her doors he have a fever? Why was he gainst any attempt her husband staring at her like that? Had Iris night nuke to bring to her, his already begun to poison the child loud 'of despair and newly revived against her? But why ask? She love of his first wife.

had known Iris was' coing to fight her with every weapon she could lay hands on, and of course the child wont be the most potent. next to the terrife appeal which she had always made to the senues of the mums she never loved and had- deserted,

She shan't haunt this room, too, už she does every other room in the house! Nan sobbed.

1

She was trembling with the fury of her own determination, but her cars betrayed her by straining to catch the finest sound whick | would indicate that he was trying to come to her. After many min

"Hello, dear!"

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her husband

ntes abe heard him open his day. | greeted her constrainedly, Breathlessly shé waited,, savagely, he came forward to take her arm. eager to lives him turn the knob, "Sorry, I couldn't meet you for of Irer door and find it locked,

Junch"

She herself was suffering so ter- | "How did the trial progress! cibly that it gave her a three, jur- Any urora chosen?" Nan asked, verse pissure to think of his be with apparently cheerful canunl ing hurt, too. Buccling down beness,

fore that woman who had never "We went to the hospital to sel loved him and who had deserted | my mother,” Cintis cut in, his voice him! Nan elenched her, hands 45 sounding oddly mature and -child- her oyes starii 'nt. Then deogitantly belligerent. "She" Going to the hospital twice in, one "Nan asked me a question, son," day to see her, when she wasn't the father reproved him sternly, really sick at all, but just shion- but hoid a band on the boy's should- ming to win his sympathy! He'd or. "Ilven't you seen the after- Always been wax in Trls hands | nooir paper, Naa? The trial is ad- Well, let him he hart now! journed antil January 9.", would serve him' right. She had been hurt enough, God know!.. But her straining eyes told Non that he had not, fonched the knob

f her dur

No need now to pretend inter- est. Sun erick: "Adjourned? Wher What happened? You don't nivan Brihærd wasn't ready? Or il you suppoys he'd got wind of what we're going to spring?

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She heard water running, faint, 1amiliar sounds which told her be

A rpan was obvion-ly grateful was getting out his shoving things. † for her interest, and for a chance She could see every step of the to think and talk of something else i process as “If she were in Un bath-side the amazing return of his foot beside him. The way be | diyorred, wife. He drew out à chair stretched his upper lip in a born- | for Nan with his ustful meticulous ical grimace; the brooding gravity politeness, as he answered: in his desperat black eyes, which

We "th, Bothing like that. sawn thing Tummy in the facial wore impanelling the jury, had, eput ations a man makers. enen lue | agreed i four men, when ainut 3 shaves himself. The infinite vure o'clock this afterno, i Brainerd got with which he eircled the safety | word that his star witness, the bat- razer about the little brown molelog, Edgars, had been stricken with on his right dunk. Oh! Nagamite appendicitis and rushed to Paught her breath in agony.if the hospital for an emergency op- was terrible to love, a man so much,gation.. He's in pretty line shape, Only this morning she had stond Í understand, Naturally the trial

Broadenst by 2.1.W. on 350 metres, close balde him he slaved, an Froidn't groered without him, and

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The sum of £310 was paid at

nese Music, Recorda supplied through ribs road made her double up, in a ment until the old roan is in a Sotheby's rooms In Bond-street, the curiosy of Messrs. Sincere Co., childish fit of giggling. And now eettition to be rought to the court recently for a copy of the Grat Ltd.).

uf Issue of the Brst edition om if he survives."

Hardy's

"The Nan aid slow-Thomas

plays "Good heavens !" She waited until she heard him |ly, will lay more of a blow for Dynasfa." re-enter hin

OWIE FOOM, thens if the poor wild man dies than for This is the record for a copy

of this book, in an English sale with a great effort, Nun went about the prosecution." her own dressing for dinner. The *True," Morgan agreed. "But room, but at the Kern süle in New amber hilfon. He liked it, but still we have the goods on Nina York last January a copy made! why try to please him now? He Blackhall, even without the butler's £370. wouldn't notice what she had ea.

festimony as her relations with His eyes would be tuned in upon

214...

FOR FIRST EDITION.

Most copies of this book have the chauffeur, Hasselt. But natur-the date 1904 on the title page of a vision of Iris, lying in apual, ally what he was willing to tell us the first volume, but that sold re- ing helplessness upon a hospital on cross-estatin tin would have tently was datei 1901. heil, her fragility clothed in annen mighty important, Brainered,) exquisitely coloured, subil, sentei 1ækliger,

Esen as her hairbrush gave fu- plus pametutation to her delianes, Nan knew deep down in her heart that if John Curtis Morgan wanteil her to relinquish him to his first wife, she would do so, He would be the fast court of appeal. If he decided against her, there would len fight kit in her.

She did and descend the stairs

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Orchestra.

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"Ah, Mom of My Delight,"

violently towards the ground. had been her premonition of what "Morgan, agreed, flushing (bart, do you? If you aren't love it is

Both men appeared to be under sites would find when she did so and lowering his eyes. They were Nas does want you to eat the veg-Funny Face," (Gershwin),

hungry, you can skip dessert, but |

Richard Crooks. 30, and the one who had not that she felt no surprise only an operating then. No one could say

spoken seemed to be in a condi- to be obtained on application. Pinbles-

"Virginia," Selection,

At overwhelming despair.

how it, would turn out, but a few

tion of great exhaustion. "Won't val them!..Curtis

New Mayfair, Orchestra.

Hongkang, 11th March, 1920, Limes he leaned his head on the John Curtis Morgan and his minutes ago 1 telephoned the hos stood before the fireplace, looking bital and the poor old man has screamed, pushing his plate so vi- "Oh. Speak," (Arditi),

shoulder of his companion who absudly like each other, in spite come unit of the ether all right. Idently that part of the food spilled The Gypsy and the Bird,"

the immaculate white

Sopran, Amelita Galli-Curci. | frequently adjusted his bandager. of the difference in their sizes. There are so serious eplications

Oberon," (Weber), Overture;

Warders were posted round the Congriously or unconsciously, Cur he'll pull through, Dr. Matthews cloth. "Don't have to do what yon

Allert Contes and the Symphony building, but no attempt was fell ine to! You ain't got any right.

Orchestra. to hisse! Mother says

made to dislodge the men either (Elgar). -fect planted wide apart, hands

by the use of the fire-hose or by "G: to your mom!" his father "Song of the thrust into trousers porkets, should-

Bass-Baritone, Peter Dawson.mounting ladders. One could hear Authorian Capital ers hunched, head lowered, but voice. There seaned to be nothinged, rising and bending over the

child as

of the Sea, Vocal Gems, their guardians trying to persunile Patd-Up Fend eyes raised to Iris Morgan's breathe to add, nothing whatever' to

to strike him. "And stay there

BRÁNCORO 1-- takingly beautiful portrait. How tall about.

till you're ready to apologize to "Valenn's Song," (Gounod), closely kin those two were! Father For Iris was as much a men-

"The Armourer's Song," promise 15 bay her and son, by virtue of the woman bee of that constrained group as Nan, and to

(De Koven), at whose pieture they grazed, if she sat on the vacant fourth side implicitly. Do you understand 7"

Kan shrank into her chair, every "Madame Rutterfly," (Puccini),

Buss, Robert Radford. Nun was, powerless to

Nan felt that the move of the table. toward them.

Fantasie, Victor Symphony Orch, She was an futer- insulent blue-green eyes were mock-perve outraged by the scene, the

like of which had never taken place | 10.30 pas, Close down' loper. It would be indecent to in- ing them all. tride upon their tragic brooding. "Don't want any spinach and car-to that home since she had become mistress. Helplessly, she All fight melted out of her, for the justs-and-peas, Curtis suid Mult moment, giving way to a nauseat-donly, violently thrusting aside the watched the child scramble out ing self-hatred. If she had not végetable dish from which Estelle of his chair and run howling from "warmed her way" into John Cur- was about to serve kim,

"I'm sorry, Nan," Morgan apɔle- tis Morgan's home, into his grief, into the affections of his son, so of brooding abstraction to frown gized ally, extrente pallor and that marriage with her had come upon his son. Eat what's put hey taking the place of the flush to seem inevitable, and the fore you, Curtis," he commanded of anger.

Once they tugged at the chim Nan nodded dumbly and the mis- | child would have been free to wel-ateraly,

Since 1914 the number of ney stuck as though they intend come Irls home. What did it mai- "I won't!" Curtis shouted, the erable meal progressed in silence. without her? If they preferred on the face which had once been their delicious contents scarcely or relief has increased by near-fanybody who attempted to climb ter that they had been better of feverish flush deepening airmingly Dishes were brought and removed, persons in receipt of "outdoor" eil to hurl bricks on the herds of

up to them, sickness to health, misery to peace, thin and anemic and now was touched by either. It came to any half a million.

A statement Issued by the The men were still on the roof. Iris tó Nan why shouldn't they plump with health. "Mather says at last and the two who had have them? People never thanked I don't have to eat things I don't een so close moved together, but Ministry of Health gives a com-at midnight. you for daing things for their good. ke! Shies, she give me all the miles apart, toward the drawing parison of the average number ini

April 1914 and April 1929. "Oh, excuse' me, Mrs. Morgan. I chocolates I wanted out of that big room.

you look her. I

For a few minutes they talked The figures show that the "out- didn't know you was thoro, Es-box

constrainedly, unnaturally, about door" poor in 1914 numbered 378,- telle apologized as she almost hungry?"

Morgan seemed glad of the the Blackhull case, then libruptly 400 and In April 1923 860,100. bumped into the frozen little flg-

The number of "Indoor" noor ure in the doorway, "Dinner is chance to show furious anger. The Morgan introduced the only sub served, ma'am."

two who were so alike. and yet no ject about which either of them decreased from 264,900 in 1924 tɔ 1929. The average 220,000 in The two before the fireplace different glared at each other, could think:

"I-Nnn, we'd better face this amount of "outdoor" relief given started, the man guilty. The 7-Then Jeave the table!" the father year-old boy stared at Nan as if ordered savagely. "And go straight thing, hadn't we?, I've got to talk per person was 58. 6d. in April

1929 and 2s. 6d, in 1914. he had never seen her before, a to bed. You know you're not per- to you about Iris."

(To Be Continued.)

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of all kinda espacially for ship- building' and 'amgineering_work., Complete stock, Bout Terms, Immediate - delivery.

SINGON & CO.,

· ESTABLISHȚED, 'A.D. 1800,'

Phone.

HING LUNG St.

..Central $10