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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

Married Flirts

CHAPTER XLVII

suit wore an air of primness. The

ed into the crowd,

TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1984:

by MABEL

MCELLIOTT

no state-

| fell away and a lady emerged from | The lady was obviously nervous. woman said. "Let him in.. I went ton's common law wife threatened

the depth of the car. Sho was "You wait on the pier for Mr. for him.".

Mape you with a suit for allenation? Two girls were at lunch In alim, she was very beautiful, she Hotaling, she instructed the But the man at the door was What are your plans?" downtown restaurant. One was was young. Everything about chauffeur, "Give orders that no not in uniform. He wore careless "No statement thin and eye-glassed and her blue her, from the many bags in their and is to be admitted to my sulto gray tweeds and a battered hat ment," the woman chattered, her other had a merry mischievous suede casings to the pearls around There may be newspaper poole said, "I'm from the Globo, eyes flashing."Oh, Uncle Morgan, face, crowned by a bleached mop She looked around quickly, as

Nor

alim throat. looked costly.pl, and

Mra, Bilsa.

send this man away!” This tn á "Certainly, madam. It's too bad She uttered a little cry, "No re-dignified gentleman whose white of permanently, waved hair.-

though fearing notice. Then, fol- you didn't bring Davies. She porters. I said I would see no re-hair and pince-nez appeared over "You know what happened," she loved by the chauffeur and the could have fended them off for porters." She shrank in her chair, the shoulder of the newspaperman. urged the other, spooning up her

“If you'd just make a statement? "You're annoying my niece, sir. loo cream eagerly, "Tell me men, lugging bags, she disappear you.

She shook, her head, dismissing Is it true that your reported on Please take yourself off or, by the don't be such a meanie. I'm dying

The August sun beat down upon him.

gage to Mr. Broughton is Lord Harry, I'll give you a whal to know."

the decks of the huge linor. The The sound of hurried footstope Honestly I don't," said the girl lady came up the gangplank, look-went past. On the dock two or

ing." Morgan Hotaling raised his "I won't answer. You' have no obony stick. In blue whose name was Catherine Ing neither to the right nor the three young people, gay in sport right to break into my suite this Lila Biles sank back against the Miles. "Honestly I haven't an left, A man in blue, with gilt clothes, panked one damask draped way. I'll complain to the captain. cushions. "Why do they persecute Idea. The only thing was when braid on his officer's cap, saluted window. The woman, pacing nerv-Grisson, came in that morning I heard Mr her and led her to the elevator. (ously to and fro, could hear sup

me like this? What have I done?" Lawrence say, 'Well, I'm sorry to Her suite was on A deck. There pressed

"Ilush, huah, my dear. Don't giggles, The

The chauffeur elbowed his way let the bounder hear you." hear you're leaving us, Miss

bridal was a sitting room. all delicate buite," Gray....

ehe heart someone say. into the passaga. "Mrs. Bliss French furniture and damask And she winced.

"He's gone, madam," ense out Got says you're to

Grisson That's good." The blond girl hangings. The bedroom beyond The chauffeur came back with that"

Raid. "Is there anything more. I finished the last of her sandao and was a blue and rose symphony and some message. As she wrote out reddened her tips with the aid of beyond could be glimpsed a garn direction for him, a knock came he had heard, but continued im-

The man in gray gave no sign can do?"

"Nothing." She had her hand- a. small pocket mirror. "He's the gantuan bath, all chrome plato and at the door. only one who was sorry, I can

perturbably with his barrage of kerchief to her eyes. "See if that's the steward," the questions. "Is it true that Brough- (Continued on Page 5.) tell you. She should have been- cased out long ago. What I don't know about that one.. She looked mysterious, compressing. her lips.

"Well, you know lots more than you pretend to, only you're afraid to spill it," she taunted. "I heard a few things myself. That morn ing the one after Mr. Weaver got back from his western triphé stormed in like a hurricane.

I was in Whiffy's office, right next to hora, and I heard plenty though I wasn't supposed to. He said to. her, "Where's that telegram?"

Miss Catherine Miles leaned, for- ward, putting down her cup of tea in her excitement. "He said that!" "Yes, he did. And he was mad clean through. I thought he was going to chew the partitions. Where's that telegram?" he said and she said, I don't know what you're talking about. Then he Inid into her. He said he was go ing straight to Mr. Lawrence and she said, 'You don't dare.'. "He laughed and said why didn't he? And she said if he did shu'd tell he'd been coming up to her apart. ment at all hours and drinking her liquor and pestering her...

"She anid that!" Miss Miles went crimson all over. "Why, the the nerve of her. I don't believe a word of it."

"Well, anyhow, he laughed again and said he wouldn't have belleved it of her, though he'd been warned. before what she WHE like. "I thought you were just a good scout," he said or something like that. "I didn't know you were a snake in the grass. You tell Lawrence any Hea ke that and you'll be finished in this business for life."

"Then she started to hedge, sort of, and said naturally a girl didn't want any trouble and what did he want her to do? He had all the breaks, she anld. A man always did. Te didn't pay any attention to that. You could see she thought being pathetic was going to break him all up or something. He said, "You be out of here to-morrow morning or else....!"

"So sho resigned," breathed Catherine Miles.

"She ldn't dare do anything else," announced the girl with the taway hair with relish. "And that's a case of good riddance if you ask me."

At Pier 67 In the heat of mid- dny a Ilmousine nosed its way among the trucks and taxis, sild- ing up to the curb.

"Empire sailing?" Two porters Jumped on the running board and a uniformed chauffeur said some- thing in a low volce to them. They

gleaming tile.

A maritime tragedy is strikingly recorded here as the liner Albert Ballin callided with the tug Merkur, by which it was being towed out of Bremerhaven, Germany. A few moments later the tur (shown slowly sinking) suddenly capsized-burling night mon. to their daith.

This is horse. American humorlats_bayo suggested that he be sent across the so as amount for the Prince of Wales, but his

owner Lester J. Anthony, of Idaho, shown with him, wouldn't think of parting with "Shorty".

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