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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1832.

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-tap, 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 ever seen in Hongkong.

HEA

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

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Roman statue recently unearthed on the Gulf of Porzuoli,

It is presumed to be either of the Emperor Hadrian, who died at Baise in 135 or of his successor, the Emperor Antoninus Plus.

Blue Pater

1, leading the Geld at the water in the Stayers' Handicap Steeplechase at Gatwick. Immediately behind are the winner, Ballyhen. wood, and All Over (No. 9), both entries for the Grand National. Blue Peter 111, finished sacond.

THREE KINDS

LOVE of

BEGIN HERE TO-DAY.

-by-KAY CLEAVER STRAHAN

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Captain R. G. Latta, com. mander of the Empress of Britain.

ly together. There should be no insisted. Anne, Crelly and Mary Frances Fenwick we apologies, no warnings as yet.

with their grandparents, once wealthy, mas to impoverished that Anne's and Cecily's ears. ingy support the household. The sisters have bern orphaned våre childhood. The wesvid.

and "Grand" and they Inalat on kreping up

Francer, 15, la still in schoul. All the girle

its way into the gloomy tuunel capecially

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

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

and

stale cavernous

and Cecily, 22, do secretarial work and Mary | reached out and slapped it smartly-\ \rough the butler's pantry, beat True, she hnd added that be was piano lamp. She pressed the wall

are attractive. When the story opona Anne The wheel turned slowly under

has been engaged to Philly Ecrord, young Inweer. for eight years. They cannot marry

jome.

CHAPTER II

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

bringing him home to dinner since she had come home from only the rose-shaded plano lamp

school.

the ceiling, sprawled with its inde -the boy friend," Mary-Franens

Ile was polite, of course; but, in cently overdressed angel playing a "No," Ann said, and sliced the so far as Mary-Frances was able to harp, would not show.

judge by the dim light shed from The wheel turned slowly under carrots. "She wouldn't think of the one small globe high in the hail She turned to the music room his thin hands, and the ear 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 alr Parents are known, respectively na "wall made by the great scraggly, un ahead of time. She's probably com

Cissy had said that he was tall. siurbling in there hunting for the and Cecily, 32, do secretariat work 4. trimmed trees. A hawthorn branch ing home to change her dress" or two above average height, but darkness. It would seem silly to go

Mary-Frances had rushed away

Mary-Frances abatituted switch, and she laughed again, a the faintest his tun hands, and the car nosed on reaching the mirror in the din-takinny as more upt.

trifle shrilly, with beratan Anne knows her statets and grand. Ita way into the gloomy tunnel room- monstrous, chilly

Ba hair, which Cissy had do-touch of hysteria. She could not parents depend upon her to manage their made by the great scraggly, un-place, where, painted on the high

trimmed trees. A hawthorn branch ceiling.

US to change anything," because bottle green waves. ish, and he wore it too short, and that would be an apology and a renched out and slapped it smartly, dead-looking bat ash lay inert in acribed as auburn, was merely dark-say, "Grand and Rosalie won't allow The low limb of a cedar menaced One long slide across the hard- he should, at least, smooth It down half fie. Nor could she say, "We The date was April, 1930. The just ahead. The right front wheel wood floor, for which Grand had with his hands, as Phil and the are poverty-stricken, you see-too cleanliness, or fresh to afford poor strip of rubber un the wind- splattered and splashed down into once refused an offer of $500, movie men smoothed theirs, if he

$1000, shield clickety-clicked and swung a deep puddic. Barry said, "Dog" according to Grand's memory and mirror. She could reach no de $2000 (the sums varied thought it unmanly to look in the

Things of that or warmth. down and around and up again, and rone!" and turned on the lights of moods, and not according to his cision about his eyes-Cecil had

Bort weren't said.

No, there was nothing to do but! down' and around and up again, the car, and Cecily, a novice with honesty), brought her to the mas- described them as jolly and brown laugh at the angel, who certainly through the crawling drops on the heroism, said, "Well?" in a voice siva built-in bufet and the mir.because he was staring too hard wore plush underwear under those small half circle of dimming glass. that looked down its own nose. rar.

at Clasy, who, in spite of the fact waddling draperies, and laugh Street curs clanged, and rain-damp Ile explained: "I thought of the

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

a soft pink rosette; she dampened she was acting awfully ally and of a 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 grand piano powdered with dust, and at the knicknacks, grimy On the bridge the dull grey sky beenuse I decided that dryads

and

chipped, crowded in the brack parted for one long siit of jade weren't blonde, and I tried to fix tongue and traced her fine brown lot this Mr. McKeel see that she above the river's blue-black end, and it up with a fairy princess, and eyebrows; she pinched a deeper was so excited. Rosalle had told eted mantel over

and scrappy fiere Barry said, "Look at that that was too sappy, and the thing colour into her cheeks, and preened and told her, had told all three of place wherein, small

them, exactly how to act with men: as an old bird'a-nest; her brown bobbed hair. colour!" and Cecily forgot for a mo- was in ruina in spite of its swell

What if he was only 15 years "Nonchalance savoured with win- crumples of paper and some slivers ment that she was an inconsiderate ending. I might give a hint of the

softened with of wood. A pair of scissors lay in- idiot and that it was Ann's week to ending-it was all about how I'd old? Wasn't she tall for her age? someness; dignity

Dreadfully tall? Didn't everybody coyness."

vitingly open on the discoloured de the evening work. Across the hoped against hope for a mere mo think she was 18 years old any- The door on the right of the hail brocade seat of the divan; scraps of bridge, twisting and twining again tal but had known bettor. Fixed way?Wall, everybody. Just every-led into the library; the door on the sewing were littered about overy- through the mazes of traffic, she re-up, that would be pretty good, body. Well, then, everybody but left led into the music room, Co- where. called her peccabilities blightingly wouldn't it?"

the teachers and kids at school. efly paused for an Instant between Mary-Frances said, "Hurrah for and found hope in nothing but the

Well, boys and girls, then. They the two. She had passed by the the one who finds Rosalie's scie tender cold roast beef and the carn-

were not children. Everybody. parlour: it was grimly, impossible (Continued on Page 10,) mel pudding she had hidden.

with its whatnots and horsehair Out of the traffic at last, and into the quieter suburban streets, where 1-Barry could talk while he drove,

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Ceelly laughed. Relief made it louder than usual, and sheer hap piness made it last longer.

In the front hall Cecily was and family portraits, painted by Mary-Frances, who since she had Inughing again, above the pleasant Grand's friend who had decorated first spied the car from the orial undertones of a masculine laugh the cellings in the house. aho lost sight of the idlot and the windows in the parlour had been and voice, Mary-Frances had to

The

with its cherry fur- library, roast and the pudding altogether, standing, ears alert. In the front walk right up to them before

aiture, was "the best-looking room: and remembered, just a moment too doorway, heard the laugh and Cucily said. "Oh, Mary-Frances, but it smalled always old

of apples late, to say with the careful casunt. closed the door softly and sped to dear" as if she were scared to 6 hond droped the cord bongo ness who had planned, "We turn .tho kitchen

find n third person existing any-the books on the and hore."

HOY

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

floor was often scattered with his arm through the opened window In a car. I'll bot $10,000 it's a new McKeel."

natshells and ginger-snap crumbs. and brought his small car to an boy friend. I'll bet he's the one Cecily, Mary Frances know, The music room, a north room abrupt atandstill. Ceelly 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 seat, 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, primiy-though be musty and damp; but since it Up this road or whatever. It is 7" : 1'11 bot="

demurely was the word she had was rarely tired, it might be order "It is the driveway to the house," Ann, alleing carrots, orange and in mind and stuck out small Ly, and wood might be set for a If the lighted' sha said; and pressed her lips firm- yellow rounds that clinked on the band that had not been" washed fire in the prxto.

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