1933-05-30 — Page 17

THE HONGKONG

LOVE or MONEY?

CHAPTER XLII

BY H. W. CORLEY

The flamboyants about the house blossomed, covering the rear facade with a shower of petals at every Rust of breeze.

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TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MAY 30. 1933.

whille."

They were seated on the terrace at the tea hour which brought the four together, refreshied and freshly garbed, after the exigencies of the

though we've never come upon one, Well, the slave owners thought the slaves would streak for the bush. They were always superstitious too, believed the slaves had superhuman morning.

ways of getting messages to each Barry razed with pride at the other from island to island. But house, rising above the surround- they couldn't work any of their Ing shrubbery, a house wide-magic here in plain sight on the roomed, “ample and high-towered. sugar cane fields so the snake, the Overlooking the sen as it did in n fer-de-lance, was planted in the

buccancera of old bush,” wide aweep, might well have set their watch

The

summoned to settle questions at ately at the huge house flanked with the airport. Frequently in the cool Its veritable Eden. "Oh, it's just

"The sunke was supposed to drive The days drifted by Long,of the morning, they golfed. Thoy an old plantation house. They used

there.

them back?" asked Mona. sweet, drowsy days followed by would disappear immediately after fo raise sugar here for the market,

"Whoever lived here kept slaves," "To frighten them back! To long, cool evenings. Mornings, af the 11 30 luncheon, or "breakfast," when there was one.

funny keep them out of the bush entirely. Too much Steve said idly. "It's ter carly coffee, the four would go as they called It, ostensibly to sleep dieting nowadays!"

thing. I could live in New York It was a bad move, though. The to the bench for a swim in the but frequently to figure on paper, to green-biuo water that flooded the scuss matters at the mine, to at-Idlet but you like us better. don't inbout the slaves in the south butį than it did slaves. They had to: "Well," and Lottie, "maybe we all my life and study at school for-de-lance killed more white men Band with transparent depths.

got me bring over the mongoose to destroy Protected by the palm trees, they tend to correspondence.

you, than if we looked like Miss no visit to Harlem ever

very much excited. But here! it." would "rest on the sand, blinking

Gracie?"

Just, the thought of slaves working "Are there any of them left?" at the glare, drinking the milk of fresh coconuta gathered by the in-

Miss Gracie was a recent Im-under the broiling sun burna me asked Lottle fearfully.

"Now? I don't believe ao. evitable native boys.

portation from Port of Spain, The slave owner here," Barry man who sold as this island sald The girls rarely adw Bud. Ever

Holiday House, Mona found, was invited out of deference to conven went on, "resorted to that rotten his father had seen one years ago on the alert, even in this draway the only catate on the island and tions. She was a sort of official trick they learned in St. Lucia and and the butcher at Barbuda, where host, Bud was dashing for supplies Holiday Island comprised 26 square chaperon, the sister of a college In Martinique. They brought over we sometimes go for supplies, sald in the boat, rising early and repair-miles. A fringe of native huts, professor with a family of instruc- the fex-de-lance to keep the slaves that the father had died from a ing to the section of the island wet close by but hidden in a tunnel of tor sons, At the moment the house from running away!"

bite. Naturally while negotiating apart for the airport, swimming trees, accommodated the corps of was in her capable hands. Sented "Running away? Lottle's cyca a ante our man didn't tell us that!" alone, his bronzed body graceful and servants.

on the terrace, they could hear Miss were wide. "How could they do awift in the leaping foam.

"This place, here?" Barry re-Gracie giving orders to the ser- that? Where would they run to?" Bud ate any time, anywhere hepeated, in response to Monu's tiond vants, who adored her.

They'd run mostly to the high happened to be from deliciously query. She still felt I at ease with "Maybe buccaneers lived in the bush. That section pretty well filled trays prepared by old Maria, him and the conversation between | house," Barry went on. "I don't grown up, that you see for miles Barry and Steve, in white linen them had never veered from gener-know. Anyhow it has been pretty beyond the golf course. There are and plth helmets, were frequently alities. He looked about affection- much a one man'o island all the waterfalls in there, they tell me,

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Loitle's eyes were on the horl- zon following a trail of smoke lying out against the water like gauza blown by the wind.

"Then there may be some bera

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Views, including Architecture and

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Chinese Studies (Figures and Faces).

First Prize

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$50.00

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Amidst much chearing and applause_Mr. “Sammy" Judah, popular Shanghai jockey brought home Nationalist III to win the Shanghai Champions. Pictures show the race in progress and the winner being lad in. Other pictures are those of 'Miss Itala Cheri, Miss Jeabbe Barraud and Mr. C. M. Vise and friend waiting for the race to star. Above shows China II, a second favourite being led back to the Paddock after the Shanghai Derby.

Group of race-goers in the Grand Stand. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Sullivan can be seen la

the centre with Mrs. Sullivan's mother, Mrs. G. M. Boyeś. “

For the-

SECTION FOUR.

BEST STORY-TELLING PICTURE.

The Prizes in this Section will consist of valuable cameras offered by the:-

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Details will be published later. SECTION FIVE.

Snapshots taken by Children under the age.

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1.-The Competition is confined exclusively to amatour

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Three-quarters of a length only separated Black Prince from key Morn when the past was crossed by the former is the main classid at the Shanghai Race Course yesterday afternoon. Nationalist 111 Anished in third place. Upper picture shows the finish of the Shanghai Stakes while, lower right photo shows the winner with W. L. McCann in the saddle with Toy Mor, F. Marshall up (left) returning to.

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