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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1931.

THE “BRIGHTON" OR "BLACKPOOL” OF THE CHINA COAST.

An excellent view of the Strand Beach at Tsingtao, where hundreds of foreign residents from different parts of China are spending their holidays.

Holiday-makers at Tsingtao are very familiar with the Fairy Pagoda, "Li Taun," which is situated

in the heart of the country, between an avenue of large troes.

Heart of Liane

by MABEL MCELLIOTT

Building castles in the sands on Strand Beach is a favourite pastime for the chil dren at Teingtan, while mathers ara þaddling in the son,

Sightseers never fail to visit this picturesque Japanese temple at Tsingtao with its

big white tori and small stone steps.

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CHAPTER XII

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1.iane looked up, them away. her ardent young soul was in that

"Yat don't like me." the man ac- toned. You 11 ensed velvet away whenever Leone dear. Why? We were such friends but

"

"Lian moved restresky ander hi intent serutiny

Friends? But we're that t.

Aurely?"

"I don't know," Van Robard's words were measured. "I don'!

nita--know."

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felt grateful to him for his mere presence.

As if he served thei strain she was under i exerted himself to be entertaining. Jasked Van thousand questions about his ponies at The Bur-

Even Ingam

Clive's beat majestic mother found herself Halked down for emer in her life

time.

Lian at. pale and smiling. seareely touching her food, She glance, now and again, at the dark handsome mi norms this way, and sintater-looking in his poster black and white, Clive seemed 18-tonishingly young compared in Ro- hard although there was probably notot 10 years difference in their

“Why not?” Buliteged Liane, eted pleasurably

at this bit sparring. "You've done hing said nothing-

She could not gó on. Her voier trembled and broke at memory of the disappointment she fred when he had gone away with out a word or look, after the night

had suf

he had left her on the steps. Instantly the man was side, all concern.

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CASTER

When do you leave for the feast!" You asked him presently.

Clive flashed a quick, and planer at his mother who bridled and answered for him.

"Such nonsense i think ix!"

A Study in Black and White:-Apparently freding-time for this fine litter, of wire-haired terriers, pups of sire Chinabay and dam Cracknel Cora, winners of the best brace in the 1931 Dog Shows in Shanghai.

couldn't even attend to a sick horse without feminine supervision he would naturally want to ty nut "some experiments far from home. She threw him a guardedly "yceph- thetic gluten.. Nice boy! fle sounded real, alive. He didn't want anyone to run him and he wasn't satisfied to play a business

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many rich men's sons. wanted to do something on his ows zwenurt, She liked him for it.

Van inquired with shavity, "You aren't going to Paris this winter, Eva

"I'm staying in New York for a month or two, Van informed them,

She felt her heart pound suffocal-

The mean is now, but love, is had felt Van's piercing gaze upon odd---lover cone ack to me." her. She longed now, with a sud- Liane looked into the fire, Silly len force eagerness, to nak him words, Foolish words they were, why he blew, now hot, now cold, None of this full of pathos--but there was some in her direction. thing about them. it was a wall showed in her composed manner from the henrt.

and before the words formed in

"Shot that

wretched machine er mind the moment passed. off and ring for Ellen, demanded and fell in the grate with a rattic

and

to start at the Liane pretended Mrs. Cleespaugh, the autocrat. "We sound. This was the hour she bat must have some bridge."

dreamed of when they should meet Although Clive made a show of Face to face. And yet she seemed

What rebellion presently the table was to be stricken dumb.

An

set up and there began for Lianei liot he must think her, standing an evening of exquisite torture. there tongue-tied!

her she sold briskly. "Why can't Clive "My sweel," he potter around here? There's plenty not so much as glancing at Liane, during which "I'm sorry" and "Stu-/

But no, he

wad

cried in that deep, troubling voice to do on the estate,

My dear, I've made you cry. And must dash off to this tea planting that's a

I never meant to do!“

Liane begged. dupluse, or rulber, or whatever it "Go W

may be. I should like to see him spairing. "Go away! Someone may in Wall Street as his father

him, she finished with come and fiul nuo making a foul of before

majesty, but he don't see things a step." said the mat stub my way!". bornly, "until I've discovered what Ita Surabaya, to be exact, and I've done. Here--" He thrust & the business Is rabber," Clive re- big, soft linen handkerchief into turned affably to Robard. He ig- her trembling fingere,

nored his mother's protest.

Hehool Hastily, frenziedly the girl wiped "Me Alister- who was at away the tell-tale tears. Seareely with me has a place, there. He's n Very good had she repaired, the causal ray-Britisher, you know. ages and powdered her pretty nose fellow, very enthusiastic, I'd like before Mrs. Cleespaurh's majestic to try it, anyhow. Sounds interest- tread was heard on the stairs. ing"

"I hate finance,' Van nodded. Liune jumped us, disregarding Ro

restraining band. She took Clive grumbled, helping tweelf to bard's up the poker and began to cliter ita deffeious looking Route. nolally, disturbing the luga.“. this place weren't such a dude "Let me do that, demanded a ranch in the middle of Austria 1. Linne yielded up the might have some fun right here quiet voice.

and fed into the shelter of with the land. But mother wants paker

like her English the dining room where she made a it all park. brave show of a last minute con- friends. She'd have is if I tried In one or two of ha broad sultation with the waitress.

And

"Where you get this passion for Van. the land. I'm sure I don't know," tands in pockets, lounged careless-uid Mrs. Cleespaugh irritably.

Clive shrugged his shoulders and ly and at ease. Mrs. Cleespaugh was busy with her petit point. skilfully changed the subject. But Clive glanced keenly at the young the little discussion had shaken girl who sat half in shadow. When Liane out of her own depression. dinner was announced, Van offered She thought she understood why his arm ceremoniously to the old the young man wished to put BOV- lady who approved of formality, oral oceans, between himself and Linne followed with Clive. She his dominating parent. When he

When Clive came in five minutes later he found n composed

quiet trio before the fire.

"If

ingly in her breast. "I've some important things to attend to."

ence,

No, I'm not. I love this place in the autumn, And I think I'm gel- She sat opposite Van and when She could hear Clive's step in ting old. The thought of travelling he was dummy he came and leaned the hall. Against her will Linne's

shall be dull but I think I shall stay could catch the scent of the wears on me this year. Perhaps impudently over her shoulder. She even were drawn to Robards.

Kar- "It seems we are not to have here until Christmas at least. This denia in his buttonhole, the aroma even a moment alone,” he said in got child." she smiled at Llane, of his cigarette. His cual sleeve a low tone.

as done much to make life plens-brushed her cheek and the button The irl smiled faintly.

"What ant here."

caught, in her hair. There ensued does it matter? We have nothing one of those awkward interludes to say to each other."

Suddenly she felt gauche and pid of me" were sald more than crude. Why need she have sald and from which Llane that? She always managed to emerged extraordinarily rosy. blurt out the wrong thing, perhaps She "Jo did that on purpose!" she because she cared so much. thought, half glad and half resent-uld not be natural with this man. ful. He was the sort of man who Clive entered the room, seemingly simply must be noticed. If there unconscious of the tension In the were no other way, she said to her-atmosphere. After the hriefest in- self angrily, then he would catch terval Yan announced he must be his sleeve button in one's hair. Oh, off. fle shook Liano's hand or..

it was cheap. It was abominable!mally and withdrew.

The girl was folding the card But although she tried desper ately to hate him she did not seem table when Clive returned. "Here. You look alt She knew I attend to that. to succeed very well. every word that he spoke, every in-in. Mother always drafts her flection of his deep-timbred voice, friends into these deadly bridge Never wait for them it was a spell against which she evenings,

to volunteer." struggled in vain.

dane smiles wanly." She gind. he interpreted her fatigue

Why, thought the girl rebel- liously, must he always be HD mysterious? There was a subtle un- dercurrent in everything he said. She at once loved and hated it, it attracted and repelled her. It was part of the charm he held for her, hia sinister, mysterious quality. Perhaps it meant nothing. Who knew? It was the Jure of the snake for the humming bird, she reflected, And wanted to laugh hysterically at the iden. This man affected her strangely, made, her use phrases that belonged only in melodrama. At 10 their hostess, glancing at

Remind me to talk to you about

the great clock, began to rise. the Aiken house." alie heard Mrs. am an old woman," she said majes-thus. Cleespaugh murmur to Robardastically. "You know my habits, they rose from the table.

Cilvo went to the radio in the corner of

The game was ended: The eve ning too. Liane had thought it in- terminable but now she cast about in her mind wildly for some plan to hold Van here. She might not see him again-ever.

the study and twirled the dials. A raucous volee came through. His mother shuddered.

"However can wo talk with that hidents

thing, screeching at us?" Cilve grinned at her. He found another station and a luscious bari. tone como rippling into the quiet, luxurious room.

"Heavens, what stuff!" murmur- ed the fastidious Mrs. Cleospaugh, pausing in her monologue to ils

The baritone walled the smacking his lips over the honeyed words:

ten

Van."

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was

"You've known him long-Van, I mean?" Clivę asked, nonchalant-

She stiffened. We've met once or twice before.”

Clive lit a'cigarette, glanced away He said: "Amusing to see him set- tle down at last. His engagement Ja to be announced tomorrow, he tells nte."

Liane heard a strange voico ask,

He stood, leuning idly against the mantel, and watched her "To whom?"- she awopt the cards into a neat

Clive said, "No wonder you'ro little pile. Clive was punctiliously attending his mother to the stair-dizzy. It's like an oven in here." He threw open a casement. Over his shoulder he went on Van'a Liane was conscious of a burn-fanceet. Oh, Murlel Ladd.". ing excitement. All evening she

caso.

tuno,

(To be Conftyupd.)

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