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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1929.

THE SHINING TALENT.

By Eleanor Early.

who had light curly hair, and looked as if he bought his clothes at a Bond street tallor's.

THIS HAS HAPPENED. Molly Burnhamy pretty and glevet, has in bailes $10,000, quarrelled with bar awetheart, and found herselčan · Jobmail to a 'dar or two, The money was, a legscy left by an “elő Hunt, and Molly received word of bar good fortune the day she was graduated from col{:sed.

Alunos, immediately abs and her AWICE-

"I'll tell them I'm engaged, as soon as I get a chance," she prom-

-haart, Jack Walia, begła to argue. Jack "Molly, you must let me take works in ka architect's offick An "a were you home now," he said. “Put on salary, Molly suggests that they be married on ber taberitance, and bla pride a outraged. your hat, like a good girl."

With its Methotte, har best friend, stally so la Cost of a position. Finally, when she is quite dissouraged, the city editor of the ninth newspaper ofice she has valled offers & try-out: 43 Inquirius Reporter. Ja

fully she accENTE.

dlack haies to think, of Molly working and

they quarrel. ·But, in the end, they make

She pulled it on, the little blue vagabond felt that made her look so adorably childish. Then sho patted his pillow with both her small pink palms. She liked know-

up, and Jack fives Molly little diamond being his head rested there, and

bas beught for her. "A tragedy happens when fondled it with her bands.

the thy eine Zälld over, the side of the boat In; which they are rowing. Molly cries and

Jack confortafher, andiboer the go with hias to kia room to help him pack.

CHAPTER VII,

Molly helped Jack fold his things. His underclothes and pyjamas. His other sult. And his dinner coat. She rolled his socks up in neat little balls. And wrap ped his shoes in tissue paper, so they wouldn't soil his nice clean shirts. Then ho pulled a ribbon out of her lingerie, and tied it around the letters she had sent him. And he showed her his book of anapshots, and family group in a silver frame. His mother had white hair, and was rather regal she'd looking. Molly supposed meet her before very long, al- though Jack confessed he had not told the family that he had a sweetheart,

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"Oh, I forgot to tell you," she ex- claimed. "I phoned the Y. W. C. A, this morning, and I've taken room there. Rita's going to send all my things in for me. I'll write the family tonight, and tell them about it. And about my posi- tion."

"Call it a job," he advised her. You don't call 'em positions when they only pay $18 a week."

They tip-toed quietly down the stairs. Past Miss Blake's room. The light was out now, and they could hear her snoring lightly. Molly giggled.

"I never knew before," she said, "that you could tell an old maid by they way she snores. Now wouldn't you just know she was a spinster?"

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They took a taxi to, the Y: W., because Jack declared it mightn't look right to be arriving "after midnight her first night.. And "Mother'd only worry," he de-when they reached there a number clared. "She thinks modern girls of girls were on the steps, so that are something fierce. I want to they had to say goodbye most cir- I can show you off cumspectly. Molly was rather wait until

glad. She knew she would have properly."

"But, Jack." She was a little cried, if it was dark or the street hurt. I should think you'd want was deserted,

Tomorrow Jack would be on his to tell her about me, dear. I've told my family every blessed thing way to New York. And it might about you. They know your eyes weeks and weeks before she are blue. And that you've a moust-saw him again! She flung her ache. And broad shoulders. And arms about him.

"Don't say goodbye, Sweetheart!

that you played football and hockey. Just good-night.""

My goodness, they know every-She kissed him swiftly, and ran thing!"

"Well, I'd rather knock my folks up the stairs. He waited on the sidewalk until the door had closed dead when they get a look at you," behind her. She did not turn to hé declared. There's no use get-

And he knew it was be- ting them steamed up. They'll fall wave. for you, soon as they lay eyes on cause she was crying. you. Why, they'll be crazy about you, Molly. Particularly my mother, You'll like her, too."

That night she wrote Jack, and mailed it, next morning, with a special delivery stamp. It was in Then he showed her some letters the office in New York, waiting for from his mother. And one from him when he reached there.""

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his father. His sisters wrote him,She also wrote her family, tell

opportunity,"

SOME TIME AGO, WE ANNOUNCED THE IMPENDING CLOSING OF OUR SHANGHAI RETAIL STORE.

NOW

WE HAVE RECEIVED INSTRUCTIONS FROM, OUR General manaGERS, THAT' OWING TO THEIR OLD AGE, they

INTEND TO. RETIRE

"From Retail Business.

THEY HAVE GIVEN US INSTRUCTIONS TO SELL OUR BETAIL STOCK WITHIN ́THARK MONTHS +F · POSSIBLE, AS DID

OUR SHANGHẢI BRANCH.

CONSEQUENTLY

OUR ENTIRE RETAIL STOCK IS OFFERED TO YOU AS BELOW.

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(1). Enormous reductions will be allowed.

(2) Goods already reduced and marked net cannot be

further reduced.

(3) The guarantee given with watches sold by

us will be valid, repai's being done, if necessary after New Year by our Wholesale Department...

(4) The Retail Stock includes :—

Loose Diamonds, Diamond Wrist Watches, Diamond Bracelets, Diamond Brooches, Diamond Earrings, Platinum, White Gold, Yellow Gold Jewellery. Platinum, White Gold, Yellow Gold and Silver Watches.A

Sterling Silver Ware, Boudoir, Desk and Wall Clocks, Statues, Cut Glass Ware, etc.-Also- Fireproof Safes,

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AMERICAN STOCKS.

ADMIRAL WAISTELL.

Girlish letters, with plenty of in them at length of her "per satisfaction from living all her too.

fectly marvellous words underlined, and ever so many exclamation points.. her desire to be independent and days without reproach. She was never heard to worry about self- Molly packed the family's letters self-supporting, and her neatly in a shoe box. She thought mination to be happy through self-expression, which is a new dis- CABLED QUOTATIONS FROM TO HAVE AUDIENCE WITH

expression. She mentioned also order. She believed that she ex- her dreams of success and fame. Pressed herself very well.

it was sweet of Jack to keep them. Like most women, she adored sen- timentality in a lover.

"Sentimental men," she reflected, "are always tender."

Finally the packing was done. Molly felt pleasantly wifely. She sat down on the bed, and contem- plated her sweetheart's bags. There were two of them, neatly packed, "and ready to close.

deter-

NEW YORK.

..

EMPEROR OF JAPAN.

It was a rather stiff letter, she "She 'imparted a dignity, a spir- The following quotations 'as at the -

Tokyo, Oct. 8. younger close of the market on Thursday British China Squadron, Vice. The Commander-in-Chief of the was afraid, and she felt that she itual elegance which had not expressed herself very women do not feel, being obsessed well. She sent it by air mail, and with the fear of being enslaved have been received from their corres- Admiral Waistel!, aboard H.M.S. hoped for the best.

and suppressed. I have quoted pondente Messrs. Hayden, Stone and Kent, arrived at Yokohama this that, Molly, as best Fean from the Co., of New York, by Messrs. Swan, morning.. article by the magazine writer, Calbertson and Fritz, Sassoon House,

Hermes is due to- Now, Molly's mother waw a because it so exactly expresses Shanghai, cable address: "Swan- merrow, rather old-fashioned woman. She what I would like to say to had no new fangled ideas about you..... al-independence nor gainful occupa-

Then she reflected that she was in a man's bedroom, and it was most midnight. She sighed.

Jack came, and nat on the bed beside her.

"Tired," Sweetheart?" She leaned against him. "A little," she admitted. "It's nice leaning against your, shoul- der. There's a dear little hollow, where my head just fits."

A few days later she received a reply from her mother.

tions for women. Moreover, she

was, at the time. a very lonely

Women.

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"Dear Daughter," she wrote. "Dad brought your letter from the rost office this

when

noon

he came home for dinner. It was strange, the way it arrived just as

They were lost for a while in it did. their dreams.

"Well, Sweetheart." He shook her gently. "Time for little girls to go home."

in nose

its

Molly dropped the letter im- patiently.

"If that isn't just like mother!" she thought unreasonably.

stock," (Shanghai), who are not res ponsible for the cable mutilations. The quotations are subjects to con- frmation.

Previous Latest

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Anaconda Copper... 118 Then a figure on the back page Bethlehem Steel caught her attention. "$600." She Baltimore and Ohio snatched the paper up hurriedly, Chrysler Corp. (Com-

Her mother had written, toward Erie Rly Co.

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I had spent the morning the end of the letter, "Your father General Mators preparing a naper to read at the and I have talked things over, and Generally Bly Signal 118 Wednesday Club. We are having a debate this week: Resolved, that have decided not to stand in your Goodyear Rubber the Modern Girl Is Happler Than Way. After all, you have, I sup Her Grandmother. I had taken the pose, a right to pursue happiness Granby

Aunt

Copper He laid his head against her hair nerative. And it so happened that Minnie's estate will not be settled International Cement

I had read recently on article in a for some weeks. But your father And buried his

(Common) magazine by some well known is going to send "you $500, to

Missouri. Pacific (Com- fragrance.

Other girls' hair doesn't smell woman writer, I forget her name defray whatever expenses you mayLiggett and Myors "B" 88

mon) nt the moment. like yours." he said.

89, the Nevada Consolidated "Well, daughter. she said some executor sends you your entire

bave, until such time She smiled. That little French

Copper..... atomizer had cost $7.50, but that thing like this-The point is, she inheritance

Radio Corporation of. was really the only way a girl said, 'that there are grades in han

America (Common) 87 Molly's eyes filled with tears. Standard Oil Co. oftly could, koep her hair, scented. It piness, and that the inferior kind wasn't any good putting drops of based upon selfishness, competi. "Dear old dad!"

tion and publicity may make the parfume on. You had to spray it.

And now," she decided Standard Oil Co. of What do you do?" he asked. modern woman happler: but it is joyously, "I can take a little apart-Southern Pacific

New Jersey "Spill bay rum or something like not so becoming to her,

nor no ment! I can have a kitchenette Texas Corporation. 66 heneficial to others, as the fruza! all my own, and a nice big bath!" that in it?'

United States Steel #233 happiness enjoyed by her grand-

(To be Continued)

Vacuum Oi mother!

She laugheil, and shook her head. "I love the way you don't know very much about women," she told him "It's awfully aweet."

"I thought girls liked a man that knows all about women. Den Juan stuf."

"Miss you!" he cried. "I'd like

to die for you, honey."**

"My dear daughter, your father and I believed that you were en- gaged to a fine young man whom we had honed to meet..this, sum- mer. We had thought our little

"Maybe some

some of them do. Ixirt was coming home to us, and don't. Jack, ure you going to miss we had planned such lovely times met"

o bave together. I had nut your name up, dear, for the Woman's Club, "and your poor father has "I'll miss you, too," she prom-been planning to buy you a little ised. "But we'll write each other car. However, I do not wish to every day 7"

emphasize our own disappoint- | You bet," he agreed. "And twice ment. But what about your young on Sundays. I mean you write man, Molly? Have you, for the twice on Sundays, honey. And tell sake of securing more liberty, and mo everything about your job. And a wisp or two of indignant per- if any, of those guys round there aonal happiness, broken your get fresh with you, send me a wire, promise to him, as well as sacri will you, Molly 7"

ficer your loyalty to us? They won't she assured him.

"My dear child, your poor aunt They looked harmless as any- Minnie would turn in her grave if thing. Kind of old, most of she could know what her money them." That wasn't true, but it has led you to. And a position on would make Jack feel better. a newananer of all things! You "They're bald, and fat. You know write of the Joy of living. and of Sort of shiny. Married looking." self-expression. Your aunt Minnie And she thought of the city editor, certainly derived considerable

Profit by Miss Bignell's Experience

New York

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