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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1932.

FUNERAL OF EDGAR WALLACE: MOUNTAIN FALLING TO PIECES.

The funeral of Edgar Wallace in Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire. The cortage is shown leaving the church after the service.

At Cochem near the river Mazelle in Germany is a mountain which rapidly diminishes from day to day. Our picture shows big stone blocks lying at the foot of the mountain.

Hare is probably the most novel type of court in the world, in session at the collective farm in Tashkent, Russia, and likė many other in the land of the Soviets. Men who have maintained the fulf standard of production under the five-year-plan, judge and deal out heavy penalties to their comrades who have been inafficient.

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PRINCE LENNART and his bride (Miss Karin Nissvandt), photographed after their wedding at Princes-row register office. Prince Lennart is the grandson of the King of Sweden-Times copyright).

The statuary on the splay at the top of the new building in Princes-street of the National Provincial Bank, shown in our picture, has just been uncovered. In the group, which was designed by Mr. Ernast Gillick, Britannia ja suated between figures representing Higher and Lower Mathematics (Times copyright).

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CHAPTER IX

BY JOAN CLAYTON

At the first reference to Larry Harrowgate Ellen Was pink-!

pour as church-mice, aren't they?

But I don't care,"

checked and starry-eyed, From She raised her young arms above her position on the edge of the her head and stretched luxuriously. bed Myra

saw the sudden rudi- How could love, delightful, shining care or ance that lighted her sister's face, love be fettered with

She knew then that Ellen had trouble? What did money matter? found the real thing. "God give Both girls began to dress with her Inek. whispered Myrn in her the speed of long accustomed Noul. "Give her more luck than practice It was nearly half-past I've had." She en 11 1 her seven. young sister.

"Go ahead, Ellen," she said calmly enough. "Go ahend about your man before curiosity kills me."

you mean.

"You didn't tell me his name? observed Myra, as she pulled over her head a dotted Swiss dress limp from mang washings.

ACHILLEION, the pleasure palace

on the isle of Corfu which is to be und as a hotel according to a deci- sion of the travel office of the Gro- cian state.

JOSEPH HAYDN, the

famous composer was born on 1st April 1732 and his bicentary was celebrated in Austria recently.

The final round for the Army Rugby Cup between the int Battalion Welsh Guards and the 2nd Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment was played at Aldershot recently. Our picture shows a passing movement by

backs of the Walsh Guards in progress. The Welsh Guards won by 11 points to 3-(Timex copyright).

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dally, "when it

announced SUMMER TIME AGAIN, ainst Tuesday."

"But she's gone to Europe. It was in the morning, paper. Wait, I'll get it for you." "Don't bother."

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BRITAIN'S EARLY SUNDAY · MORNING.

London, Apr. 16. Summer time in Eritain, when the clocks are put forward one hour, begins at 2 a.m. to-morrow (Sunday).—Reuter,

"What shall we tell her?" Myra's

noislessly frammed the words. "Tell her the whole thing. I don't care what you tell her. You know she's bound to get the story

Alpa-Myra clipped and fled them "There isn't much to tell." Eller Ellen paused in the act of put-away. Ellen had always been confessed in her aby, eager voicu. ting on a shoe. She had been re-little contemptuous of Myra's col "Nothing serioua, I mean All lecting that somehow she must lection. know is that Larry-likes me." manage new ones.

There was a streak of yearning "But you--"

"It's Larry, she sald shyly. wistfulness in the older girl, a "You haven't any idea how "Larry Harrowgate. len't that a vague reaching out for gay scenes "Oh Ellen, darling-" felt, Myra, when I first saw hini," grand name?"

in which she could not be a par "Let's not have more melo- Ellen admitted, dropping to the "Larry Harrowgatu!"

ticipant.

dramatics, please. I've

been bed besitte the other. "He's talli "Do you know him, Myra?" Elleri won not sympathetic to- fool, that's all. Just a fool,” -did I tell you?-and red-head- Ellen exclaimed, delighted, "Wann't ward this trait. Now she was

"But Ellen, you don't know ed. He was coming seross the right? Isn't he a darling? completely at aca. Myrn tossed what he " dance floor toward me and all of Where'd you meet him?"

a clipping to her.

"I know this much. I know he a sudden something went. ellek." The dress dropped over Myra's

made on engagement with me three that had become so meaningless. "I know," murmured Myra head. It hardly displaced a hair It was only a photograph of a days after this was announced. He

Neither girl spoke for a long sympathetically, meeting Ellen's of the smooth coiffure but Ellen mau and a girl who had stopped for told me, as I remember it, that I'd time. Myra had opened her mouth eager gaze. "I know exactly what thought her sister looked pale a moment on a sun-shing tennie make his summer for him. I sup when there was a knock on tho

and tired. Older than usuni.

The MAD in the striped pose he wanted a summer sweet-door followed by Mally's familiar Ellen abruptly remembered Bert. "I've never met Larry Harrow-blazer was Larry. The pretty, heart while his finance was away.

demand for admittance. Into her own happiness came a snd- gate," she answered in an odd petulant girl who had twined her den sharp pang for her sister's voice.

[arm through his, Ellen had never: Ellen laughed mirthlessly, aut sake. But underneath Was Lite "Then why were you Bo Surseen.

down, put on the shoes that were selfish tile thought that she and prised?" Ellen- naked casually, Her eyes fixed on the enption. quite good enough now, and quietly Myra were different-differept. asjadjusting her stockings to sheer "An important engagement is selected a dress to wear. Larry-was different from sober. tightness and standing up.

that of Miss Elizabeth Bowes, "Isn't it funny that his engag; out of one of us somehow." Ellen plodding Bert. She hated herself) She was not apprehensive. Myra daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ezra ment would have been announced anid, wondering how long the pain. for it but there is was.

sometimes had a way of being Bowes of New York and Paris, in the society columns when he in her heart could last. "How's Bert?" she asked un-mysterious over trifles. But na and Mr. Lawrence Harrowgate, son told you he hadn't any money or "In Just a minute, mother,"

"Is he coming to the silence lengthened she felt her- of Mrs. E. T. Harrowgate and the any prospects," Myrn said rostive- Comfortably. night?"

| nolf_growing absurdly nervous. Hate Mr. Harrowgate. The wedding ly after a while. "Why do you

On her way to the door sho "Bort'a 'flne. He's coming."i "What is it?" she asked anx-is set for early fall. Miss Bowes suppose that is?", Myra answered Istlessly. "But iously. "Do you know something will be remembered...'

"I don't know," Ellen answered, stopped by the chair where Ellon

sat staring into space. It's you I want to hear about, about him?"

Ellen's heart twisted sickening-| Istless and disinterested.

"What are you going to do about When are you going to see this "Oh, Ellen, I can't-"

ly. She did not speak and only! "I always thought of 'society tall, red-headed man aga'n? Did| "If you've heard anything about stood sturing, staring at the pic-people as having lots

of money, your dato, Ellen?"

Ellen gave a deep sigh and drow he way anything-doinite."

him that you think would turn me ture.

That shows just how ignorant I

hor thoughts away from "He did," answered Ellen proud- against him, you're wrong. I "I remembered him." Myra said am!" Myra said, exaggerating her ly. "I'm seeing him this afternoon won't believe that you have. It's painfully, closing the dresser's self-deprecation in an attempt to memory of Larry's laughing face. Her eyes were bright with tears, for tea and I'll bring him out here simply not trug."

open drawer, and turning around make it amusing. awfully soon. You'll love him.) She was incoherent in her again, "because I only cut it out Ellen did not respond, Nor did her mouth was drooping; to her.

sister she looked childish, pathetic, Myra. I know you will. He's just nervousness, angry becauao Myra on Tuesday, "It's an odd name." oho smile. Krand! Fon't tell you much about would not speak and afraid, too, Ellen roused, mechanically fold- "Don't you think, Ellen, that young, in her flimsy volle dress. But even as the older girl watched, him really. I have to learn first that Myra would. What was she ed the clipping and handed it back may be we're sometimes too care the square, boyish chin came up.

Something niyself. But, I'll come honto with concealing?

about to her salter. Myra did not returnful and conventional and formal heapa of nows this afternoon." Larry 7 But what?

it to her collection. Instead sho just because we don't know ?"

"What am I going to do? I'm "I don't want to tell you, Ellen," tore it to bita and flung the scraps Myra suggested with luctantly coming over to her side, Myra walled. "But I have to." in the wastebasket, hor frightonod, offort. "I mean know how people

(To be Continued) she added, "He's not at alt the Ellen saw that the older girl was apologetic eyes fixed on Ellen's do things now. Maybe the people type of man you think. would go fumbling among the newspaper colourless face.

In different sets, smart people, to Dreamland. Nothing like that, clippings that she kept in her "Oh Ellon, honey, don't look like don't think that being engaged is Ho's-well, ho's a gentleman," she drawer

the old-fashioned, that," she begged. "I'm sorry so important as we think it is. dresser. They were I ever cut the darn thing out." concluded "awkwardly.

Maybe that's the way he feels "Do you know what he does?" mostly pleturca. Pictures of men; Again Ellen did not speak. about it. People do think differ- "You meas,“ Ellen laughed, playing polo and girls on the sands "You don't know," Myra went on ontly about those things.” "do I know if he has any money? of the Lido, pictures from gay timidly. "Perhaps the engagement I'm almost sure he hasn't. Ho's Florida masquerade parties, skling is broken." •

Aware that her sister wou ro-

of

marblo-top

a nervous

"I know what I think," Ellon

said in a lovel, unemotional tone an artist and they'ro always as parties at Lake Placid and in the "That's unlikely," Ellen said she went on with the dressing

Myra called..

not going-that's all!"

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