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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1932.

EMPRESS OF BRITAIN: SHACKLETON STATUE: M. MAGINOT'S FUNERAL.

It's the Tailor's Job!

When you want your watch repaired, you do not take it to the chemist. When you have a leaky bath-fap, you do not 'phone for the doctor. In brief, every man to his

trade-so-

The Empress of Britain, biggest ship built in Britain since the war,

and the biggest ship svar 1000 in Hongkong,

An engineer and fireman were killed when the boiler of this locomotive exploded neue Richvale, Cal. The passengers on the Portland-Los Angles train escaped injury,

Roman statue recently unearthed

at Baine, on the Gulf of Pozzuoli, It is presumed to be either of the Emperor Hadrian, who died at Dalke in 135 or of his successor, the Emperor Antoninus Pius,

The late French Minister of War. M. Andre Maginot, was ac- corded a state funeral in Paris, and our picture shows the coffin being taken in military procession to the invalides. The burial took place at Revigny (Mouse).

May we show you out new 1932 Spring Cloths?

When you require clothes that make you look like a man, it's a tailor's job. There are still some things that defy the efforts of the mass produc- tion friend, and that is the class of tailoring which we sponsor-tailoring that carries the hall-mark of individuality.

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Blue Peter 111, lending the field at the water in the Stayers' Handicap Steeplechase at Gatwick. Immediately behind are the winter, Ballyhan- wood, and All Over (No. 9), both entries for the Grand National Blue Peter 11. finished second.

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Arte, Cecily and Mary Frances Fenwick per with their prasigarenita, seire wealthy, sa no topovorked that Anne's and Celly's cara

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A statue of Sir Ernest Shackleton, the explorer, by Mr. C. B. Jagger, A R.A., on the outer wall of the headquarters of the Royal tieographical Society, was unveiled recently by Lord Zetland. A picture taken during the ceremony.

from only the roan-shaded piano lamp the ceiling, sprawled with its inde gently overdressed unget playing a harp, would not show.

Made by the great scraggly, un-place, where, painted on the hig” | seribed as auburn, was merely dark:83. "Granda. She could not

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Estimates & Particulars from

bottom of the kettle, inseried ab sent-mindedly, “Don't say I'll bet like that all the time. Mary- Frances. The idea! It sounds horrid. You should hear yourself, and you wouldn't do it"

"bringing him home to dinner since she had come home

school. -the boy friend," Mary-Frances) He was polite, of course; but, in so far as Mary-Frances was able to "No" Ann sald, and sliced the judge by the dim light shed from

She turned to the music room The wheel turned slowly under earrots. "She wouldn't think of the one small globe high in the hai

and stale cavernous his thin hands, and the car nosed bringing anyone home to dinner ceiling. Cecily's admiration of him and opened the door to heavy

without telephoning was unwarranted. He was an inch chilled air its way into the gloomy tunnel especially

ade by the great scraggly, un-ahead of time. She's probably com

he was tall stumbling in there hunting for the azetences of their former wealthy, Anne, 24.

hits trees, & hawthorn branching home to change her dress or two above average height, but darkness. It would seem silly to gu reached out and slapped it smartly. Mary-Frances had rushed away Class had said that Frauen, 18, in all in mehon!. All the girls kre påtractive. When the story open Anne! The wheel turns slowly under through the butler's pantry, bent True, she had added that he was plano lamp. She pressed the wall trifle shrilly, with the faintest "skindy" as more apt. lawyer, for sight years this thin hands, and the car nosein reaching the mirror in the din- thin: Mary-Frances substituted awitch, and she laughed again. a

They

room-a monstrous, chilly

touch of Ame kane her sisters and grind its way into the gloomy

His hair, which Cissy and de-

and Rosalie won't allow parents depend upon bet to mange theks

to change anything," because trimmed trees. A hawthorn branch teilit, it at four rurentes. Ish, and he wore it too short, and that would be an apology and a reached out and slapped it smartly, dead-looking bottle-green waves.

as Phil and the are poverty-stricken, you see-too The date was April, 1930. The just ahead. The right front wheel wood floor, for which Grand had with his hands, strip of rubber o the wind-splattered and splashed down into once refused an offer of $500, movie men smoothed theirs, if he poor to afford cleanliness, or fresh shield clickety-clicked and swung a deep puddle. Barry said, "Dog- $1000, $2000 (the suma varied thought it unmanly to look in the air, or warmth." Things of that

no de sort weren't sold.

No, there was nothing to do but down and around and up again, and one!" and turned on the lights of according to Grand's memory and mirror. She could reach.

moods, and not according to his clalun about his eyes-Cecil hnd down and around and up again. the car, and Cecily, a novice with honesty), brought her to the max. described them as jolly and brown laugh at the angel, who certainly through the crawling drops on the heroism, said, "Well?" in a voice give built-in buffet and the mir-because he was staring too hard were plush underwear under those small half circle of limming glass. that looked down its own nose. For

at Cisey, who, in spite of the fact swaddling draperies, and laugh Street ears clangud, and rain-damp He explained: "I thought of the

She tipped her head back and that her nose aceded powdering, again at the worn-out rag of carpet people scurried, and shining uns grandest speech as we turned into brellas bobbed, and stop and go sig- these woods-all about dryads and bit her lips and pursed them into leaked prettier than usual, though spotted with roses, and the wreck

a soft pink rosette: she dampened she was acting awfully silly and of a grand piano

powdered with nals rang violently red and green. everything, and I had to pass it up her two little Angers with her laughing all the time. She shouldn't dust, and at the knicknacks, grimy

On the bridge the dull grey sky because I decided that dryads parted for one long slit of jade weren't blonde, and 1 tried to fix tongue and traced her fine brown let this Mr. McKeel seo that she and chipped, crowded in the brack above the river's blue-black end, and it up with a fairy princess, and brows: she pluched a deeper was so excited, Rosalie had told cted mantel over the pink-tile fire- here Barry said, "Look at that that was ton sappy, and the thing colour into her cheeks, and preened and told her, had told all three of place wherein, small and scrappy them, exactly how to net with men: na an old bird's-nest, were some colour!" and Cecily forgot for a me was in ruins in spite of its swell her brown bobbed hair.

What if she was only 15 years "Nonchalance savoured with win- crumples of paper and some alivers ment that she was an inconsiderate ending. I might give a hint of the Idiot and that it was Aun's week to ending-it was all about how I'd old? Wasn't she tall for her age? nomeness; dignity softened with of wood. A pair of scissor lay in vitingly open on the discoloured Dreadfully tall? Didn't everybody coyness." de the evening work. Across the hoped against hope for a mere mor- think she was 18 years old any- The door on the right of the hall brocade sent of the divan; scraps of bridge, twisting and twining again tal bat had known better. Fixed through the mazes of truffle, she re-up, that would be pretty good, way ?Well, everybody. Just every-ted into the library; the door on the sewing were littered about every-

body. Well, then, overybody but left led into the music room, Cewhere. called her peccabilities blightingly wouldn't it

the teachers and kids at school. cily paused for an instant between the one who finds Resullo'e acis- Mary-Frances said, "Hurrah for and found hope in nothing but the

She had possed by the

(Continued on Paine 10.) tender cold roast beef and the cara-

Well, boys and girls, then. They the two. were not children. Everybody. parlour: it was grimly impossible mel pudding she had hidden.

with its what-nots and horsehair Out of the traffic at lost, and into

In the front hall Cecily was and family portraits, painted by the quieter suburban streets, where Mary-Frances, who since she had inughing again, above the pleasant Grand's friend who had decorated Barry could talk while he drove, first spied the car from the oriel undertones of a masculine laugh the ceilings in the house. she lost sight of the idiot and the windows in the parlour had been and voice. Mary-Frances had to The library, with its cherry fur- ronet and the pudding nitogether, standing, cars alert, in the front walk right up to them before niture, was the und remembored, just a moment too doorway, heard the laugh and Carily

of old

old apples Inte, to any with the careful casual closed the door softly and sped to dear!" as if she were amazed to Grand dropped the cores behind ness she had planned. "We turn the kitchen.

find a third person existing any-the books on the shelves and forgot here.

Here?" Barry McKeel stuck an "Cissy's coming home with a man little sister, Mary-Frances. Mr. Goor Whs and ginger snap crumbs, "Hoy, Ann," she announced, where in the world. "This is my them, and they decayed--and the

was often

Bcattered with his arm through the opened window in a car. I'll bet $10,000 it's n now McKeel." and brought his small car to an boy friend. I'll bet ho's the one

Mary-Frances

a north room The knew,

music Cecily abrupt standstill. Cecily jolted for she met at Maria's party and has would like to have her curtsey, whose ivy-vined windows looked out ward in the soat, and he said, "Oh, been so cuckoo about. I'll bet she's but she wouldn't do it--not at her on dark, close-standing trees, would sorry! Turn here, did you say? bringing him home for dinner, age, She bowed, primly--though be musty and damp; but, since it domurely was the word she had was rarely used, it might be order Up this road or whatever it 7" I'll bot"

"It is the driveway to the house," Ann, alicing carrots, orange and in mind and stuck out a small ly, and wood might be set for a If she lighted she said, and pressed her lipe firm- yellow rounds that clinked on the hand that had not been washed fire in the grate.

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