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THE HONGKONG.

TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1931.

RIOTERS KEEP LONDON POLICE BUSY.

The calm peace of the British Museum was disturbed by the shouts of unemployment de monstrators until, as pictured here, London police arrived on foot and horreback to dĺaparse the riators outside the famous building. The polico are shown charging the crowds after they bad refused to heed orders to break up.

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THE BACKLESS WAISTCOAT

This style is becoming more popular ench season for Drea Wear.

Exact fit is assured by a choice of several fittings. Each waistcoat has tab on front to fasten to the top trouser button.

Tailored from carefully shrunk plque and marcella cloths.

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This picture shows the arrival of Pierre Laval, the French prime minister, in New York for his conferences with President Hoover on world economic problems, Laval, følt, is sented in an automobile with Heury Stimson, America's secretary of State.

GUILTY LIPS

➜Y LAURA LOU BROOKMAN" "Author of "MAD MARRIAGE"

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CHAPTER XXX

Through

century. So many meres of land, Soj many servants. So many Randolphs! in Congress. A cousin in the gov

As long as she was runes chair. talking Norma bad her thoughts to hers. If

Unemployed British miners are shown above standing outside a labour exchange office just before receiving their weakly dolps.

suggested, but certainly not of the coat, not warm enough for Decem Now and then the girl nodded, style to be expected in Anch aber. mansmuted a "yes" or "ass." If [thwalling. Mrs. Travors bad læren observant

Traveře led the

Tempkings apparently thought

A block away she could see the Suddenly a vehicle bulkier than the gleaming lights of motor traffic. others loomed in sight. The Laurel

the etion and it wie fallowed might have been settled that the same that. It was plain he did besice Norms, Mr. Tra er said her words created so slight an im as they stepped out on the side pasion, Mrs. Travers was nut ob-t regard Norma as worthy of the walk, "Harvey has the cute avant. To her it was inconsisa slicitous manner in which he ad-Park bus line! With warm wager-

ble that anyone should fail to be dressed Mrs. Travers.

"Your room," Cawd by the splen luues of The Ram-

land this was, all. delphe

"Thank you."

The "

Bere thing before Nor was a blr. Slu toBowel Mr. Travess! into the limou-le She sat love

The Thanasime slowed and turned.

Lite

no Norma hurried toward he said shortly, lights, She was too late for the

Brst bus waited for the nexl. Norma entered "Do you go to Eighth street?") and eloved the door behind her, she asked the driver when she had! to the windex and stare at the drive at the side of theThere were two windows, both on climbed on board.

There were mon rara residen. It halted the south. They looked out over

Fore three steps

Harvey was holding the the gauge and a stretch of tawn Mirance, il or ugen, waiting for them

jegrend.

the street.

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str. Taxival trucks and other vehicles, The whole, serene before the girl's ages Azerima i upamanet . hatu Sha tried to win. hack the tear but they pen til.

something to his wife. Norma did!

fending

to the

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"No Ma'am. Broad street's as fari

as we go. You can get a transfer." tajat the rear of the house. There wa "Thank you," said Norma. She

dane in one wall. Norms opened it and found a clothes clost.

looked cust.

You can put the car up." Mra. Travers told him as ahe swept for ward. "I won't need it again."

Her father-in-ligas WIN -ayanyi The base of unreality faded

The brick mansion not hear what it was, Then here Sorma. was aware that they were movingas as forbidding as it had been hehen she bad visited it before but

away from the station

it was read enough. Tompkins, a

Somewhere in the distaner fra servant whose face she remember- wheels tail faster and instered. met them in the ball. carrying Mark away from her Mark was ge! There had been

"Have there been any messages?"

took the slip of pink paper and Sheerammed it into her purse. What ved to one of the windows and difference did it make whether she

edge of the bed fund hid her face in Suddenly the girl sank to the a pillow,

"Oh, Mark!" she sobbesi, "Mark come back to me!"

the

Stealthily Norma opened

lending Into the hall Lights were burning at the far end of the corridor. There was no one in sight.

that last moment when she had Mrs. Travers demanded. "Did any-door seen him smiling back at her from one call?" the ear platform. Waving and smil-

"No, Madam."

west wing and

got off at Eighth street or Brund?

+

Our or two ther passensers

the looked at white-faced girl curiously. She stared through the window, unaware of these glances. Half an hour's ride brought them to Broad street. Norma followed the others out of the bus, She

glanced up and down the street, they started walking westward.

Across the street the hands of an iny. Now he was gone and shu The older woman turned toward

luminated sidewalk clock Ahone would not see him for five weeks. Norma. "Tompkins will show you She held her purse closely under

clearly. Seven forty-five. Nomna! Wive weeks--it seemed endless, im-your room," she said. "It's in the her arm, stepped into the hall and was surprised to find it so laic. possible:

hope you'll find it closed the door quietly. Her foot- Norma clutched her hands to comfortable. Your trunk should be steps made no sound on the thick Last night at this time she and Mark had been packing his travel- gether tightly. She could not cry there by this time it was the carpet. She walked to the top of bax. Leist night? It must have

Then she out now. She could not give way expression on the man's face that the stairs and hesitated. and sob out the terror in her heart, made her check the words and add, went down two steps and heard the been years ago!

wood crank under her. She could only sit there gripping her

ley fingers, telling herself over and over that she must mange to

strangers and they hated her.

Lo

pressed line if crimson, struggling

trembling.

"Well, Tompkins? What is it?"

"Excuse me, Madam, but the trunk has not come."

"What? But I left orders-!"

"I can't go on this way." Norma "I've got to decide No other sound cume though she told herself. what to do." waited North peerest over the bannister searching for Tompkins.

turn.

The Soviels are destroying the sims of the grest Count Loo Tolstoy in their "five year plan” which will be followed by a "10 your plan," declared Coun. tess Alexander Toltoy, shown above, daughter of the novelist, upon landing at San Francisce after spending 18 months, in

Japan.

PRACTICE DANCES.

IN PREPARATION FOR ST. ANDREW'S BALL.

There was an encouraging atten- She had come to the end of her dance at the first practice dance.

keep front breaking down before these strangers. Yes, they were "A man from the transfer coin- He must be in another part of the plans. Curiously during all the held at the Peninsula Hotel last pany telephoned. He said there house. The girl paused long enough time she had thought about slip-ight in preparation for the St

Andrew's Ball on November 27. The girl's lip became a tightly was no trunk at that adiress." for a sharp intake of breath, then ping away from the Fravers home

There was a crawl of more than went on quickly. She reached the she had never planned the next Mr. Trasers whirled. Appar ground floor. Clear sailing: Neither step. Of course she must find a 200 present, who took the floor for steady

itself but frequently ently interference with arrange Fompkins nor anyone else was to place to live.

Somewhere Mark's the various Scottish dances, music ments she had planned irritated

father and mother would not look for which was supplied by the Mark was moving farther away her. "There's been a mistake," be seen. every minute. Nearer and nearer the announced. "There must have

She crossed the hallway and for her. Chris apartment would Argyll and Sutherland Highlan to New York and the ocean liner been a trunk there!""

pulled open the outer door. As it be the first place they would thinkders Pipers. The Hotel orchestra that was to put the Atlantie bo- Norma had found her voice, "It closed after her thern was a rus-of-providing they made any effort dispensed the music for the fox- tween them.

doesn't matter," she said. "I'll see tling sound behind but she did not at all to find her. Norma was not trots. The members of the Recl Club did good work in instruction. Five weeks me up of moments about it to-morrow."

sure they would bother.

The next practice dance is to be as long as each of these? Vive

Sun it was better to stay away) Outside Norma felt the cold nir "Very well," Mrs. Travers agre-

held at the Peninsula Hotel on weeks of torture and uncered. But I wouldn't put it off until strike her cheeks gratefully. She from Chris. tainty-

to-morrow if I were you. They're walked as swiftly na she could, noi The girl stopped at a corner and November 24, Suddenly she realized that the rightfully carecas,

you know, once glancing backward. By turn. bought a newspaper. ear had stopped. Mr. Travers was There's a chance you'll never evening to the left a tall hedes arose "ought to eat something," she getting out.

to which her from view of the remembered. She was not hungry "Be home around six,'." he said see your things

walked but it would be foolish not to cut. over his shoulder. "Needn't come sured her.

"I'll take care of it," Norma - Travers home, Stil she

"If you don't mind I'd rapidly, almost running.

She had scarcely tasted food dur me. Harvey. I'll stop at the

ike to go to my room now." club and ride out with Sammer-

It was only a little after six buting the past three days.

December "Of course. Will you come down the

twilight surend There was a restaurant down the the street, street where Norma had often got to the sidewalk and turned for tea or would you like it sent heavy shows across

Norma walked a block, two blocks. lunched, a cheap, clean pineo. up to you?"

In their Brat annenzance in Hong- nway without a backward glance.

The chauffeur looked question-

"I don't believe I care for any, with little notion of the direction of a large chain of restaurants. kong, the Schneider trio of instru ingly toward Mrs. Travers.

thank you, I thought I'd lie down in which she was heading. She She went there, found a table in an mentalists maile good impression Har-

was not familiar with this part of obscure corner of the big room. little while." "You may take us home,

The

When the waltres presented the night

whon woman

"Very well. Dainer's at 7:30. Marlboro. The streets were strange alghed spoke. mured to Norma.

The trio comprises Prof. Baron 141 had to rush you want, my dear. Show her up. Housen were set for back from few moments later she could not

Meating stairs, Tompkins."

the aldewalks. away from luncheon.

remember what she had asked for. Anatol Vietinghoff-Reheal (piano and clavicembalo), Item ja Waschitz trains and waiting in stations in The girl found herself following Sho was searching for a car line She hoped the food would be hot. loathrom, don't you think so? I'll Tompkina' stiff, narrow shoulders but none came in sight. She must It was pleasant and warm in the (violin) and Pref. Wolfgang Schnai-

down n lang hall. The room behave walked hal

Norma opened her dor (violon-collo). an hour before restaurant. Mrs. fore which they stopped was the she stopped uncertainly at a street paper and bagan to scan the Then Travers gave her a searching smallcat she had seen in the Travara intersection. The night wind was "Rooms for Rent" section. glance, then went on. "I want to liomo. It was simply decorated, cold now. The girl drew her coat she heard her name spoken. (To be Continued).

for.

ville. He moved clumsily, he

veye

as he

One

SCHNEIDER TRIO.

FIRST CONCERT AT HELENA MAY LAST NIGHT.

at the Helena May Instituto Innt

music.

"Such a day!" she mur- Ring for. Innbel if there's anything and they wound about irregularly. menu Norma ordered listlessly. A chamby, they gave a recital of

be glad to have my ten."

The girl did not answer.

tell you I think you've acted nensi- |“Comfortable,” as Mrs, Travers had | closer, shivering. It was a sult

Their programme included trion by Brahma and Cesar Franck and plano solo "Pictures from na Exhibition" by Mussorgsks,

COMING TO THE KING'S

FAN

AMERICAN

TRAGEDY

with

PHILLIPS HOLMES SYLVIA SIDNEY and FRANCES DES

A Garamount Picture

Dared by

JOSEF von STERNBERG

A DINNER DANCE

(in aid of the H.K.W.G. & M.C.L. Charities)

will be held on

SATURDAY, December 5th, 1931, at 8.30 p.m.

Under the distinguished patronage of His Excellency the Governor and Lady Peel

IN THE HONG KONG HOTEL

on the occasion of the opening of the new Grill Room

TICKETS

Dinner & Dance Dance only

$10.00 each $5.00 each

To be obtained from Mrs. J. D.. Lloyd, 406 The Peak; Mrs. Simpson, The University and from the Hong Kong & Peninsula Hotels.

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