THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY; MAY
LOVE or MONEY?
BY H. W. CORLEY
while."
They were sentod on the terraco at the tea hour which brought the four together, refreshed and freshly garbed, after the exigencies of the
morning.
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though we've nover come upon one. Well, the slave owners thought the slaves would streak for the bush. They were always superstitious too, belloved the slaves hud superhuman ways of getting messages to each Barry gazed with pride at the other from island 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 Toomed, ample and high-towered. sugar cane flelda no the anake, the Overlooking the sea as it did in a fër-de-lance, wna planted in the CHAPTER XLII
summoned to settle questions at ately at the huge house flanked with while sweep, buccaneers of old{bush.” The days drifted by. Long, the airport. Frequently in the cool ita veritablo Eden. Oh, it's just might well have set their watch
"The snake was supposed to drive sweet, drowny days followed by would disappear immediately after fo raise sugar here for the market, of the morning, they golfod. They an old plantation house. They used
them back 7" asked Mona. long, cool evenings. Mornings, af-the 13:30 luncheon, or "breakfast," when there was one.
"Whoever lived hore kept slaves," "To frighten `thom back! To ter early coffee, the four would go
Too much
Steve sold idly. "It's a funny keep them out of the bush entirely. to the beach for a swim in the as they called it, ostensibly to sleep disting nowadnya!"
thing. I could live in New York It was a bad move, though. The but frequently to figure on paper, to green-blue water that flooded tho{discuss matters at the mine, to at-diet but you like us better, don't about the slaves in the youth but than it did slaves. They had to sand with transparent
"Well," said Lotile, "maybe we all my life and study at school fer-de-lance killed more white men depths, tend to correspondence, Protected by the palm trees, they
you, than if we looked like Miss no visit to Harlem ever got me bring over the mongoose to destroy would reet on the sand, blinking
The flamboyants about the house Gracie?"
very much excited. But here! it." at the glare, drinking the milk of bloomed, covering the rear fende
Just the thought of slaves working "Are there any of them left?" fresh coconuta gathered by the in-with a shower of petala at every
under this broiling sun burns me asked Lottie fearfully. Mies Gracle was a recent Im- evitable native boys.
⚫inortation from Port
"Now? I don't believe so. of Spain, The girls rarely saw 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 The slave owner here," Barry man who sold us this island said on the alert, even in this drowsy the only estate on the island and tions. She was a sort of official trick they learned in St. Lucia and and the butcher at Barbuda, whero hent, Bud was dashing for supplies Holiday Island comprised 25 square chaperon, the sister of a college in Martinique. They brought over we sometimes go for supplies, sald in the boat, rising carly and repair- miles. A fringe of native huts, professor with a family of Instruc- the for-de-lance to keep the slaves that the father had died from a ink the section of the island at close by but hidden in a tunnel of for sons. At the moment the house from running away!" apart for, the airport, swimming trees, accommodated the corps of was in her capable hands. Seated
bite. Naturally while negotiating alone, hig bronzed body graceful and servants.
"Running away? Lottle's eyes a sale our man didn't toll us that!" on the terrace, they could hear Miss were wide. "How could they do swift in the leaping foam.
"This place, here?" Barry re-Gracie giving orders to the ser that? Where would they run to?" Bad ato any time, anywhere he peated. In response to Mona's timid vants, who adored her.
Lottie's eyes were on the hori- happened to be from deliciously query. She still felt ill at ease with
"They'd run mostly to the high zoo following a trail of smoko illed traga prepared by old Maria, him and the conversation between house,"
"Maybe buccaneers lived in the bush. That section pretty
Barry went on. "I don't grown up, that you see for miles gauze blown by the wind.
well lying out against the water like Barry and Steve, in white linen them bad never veered from gener- know. Anyhow it has been pretty beyond the golf course. There are i and pith helmets, were frequently alities. He looked about affection- much a one mun's Island all the waterfalls in there, they tell me,
Then there may be some here
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From 1st June to 31st August, 1933.
SECTION ONE.
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Views, including Architecture and
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Chinese Studies (Figures and Faces).
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Amidat much chearing and applause Mr. "Sammy" Judeh, popular Shanghai jockey brought home Nationalist III to win the Shanghai Champlons. Pictures show the rece in progress and the winner being led in. Other pictures are those of Miss Itala Cheri, Miss Jeabbo Barraud and Mr. C. M. Vire 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 In
the centre with Mrs. Sullivan's mother, Mrs. G. M. Dayas.
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 of 14 years.
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2.-The Prizes will be awarded to the competitors sending in what are adjudged to be the best photographs in each Section, and which reach this Office not later than 31st August, 1933. The decision of the Judges shall be final. 3. The right to publich any or all of the entries In the
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7-Photographs which must not be less than. 24" x 34" (excepting in the Children's Section) should be printed in black and white, with the name of the competitor in ink on the back.
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Three-quarters of a length only saparated Black Prince from Joy Mora when the post was crossed by the former in the main classic at the Shanghai Race Course yesterday afternoon. Nationalist I Galabed in third place. Upper picture shows the finish of the Shanghal Stakes'whils, lower right photo shows the winner with W. L. McCann in the saddle with Icy Morn, P, Marshall up (left), rsturning to
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