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President Liners

S.S.

PRESIDENT

JEFFERSON"

sails for

SHANGHAI-KOBE-YOKOHAMA SEATTLE-VICTORIA

10.00 A.M., SATURDAY—OCTOBER 27.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY OCTOBER

BEACH CLUB GIRL

By MABEL McELLIOTT

CHAPTER XL

unopled doorway to doorway in their Boots as he deposited har bundles at Gradually Besta began to accept One of those years there would be

big car, packing it with presents. the very door.

The samo to you, Mias, and many the stasiuÐ. award was the man small rosy person in a white coat and of them!" His amiling glance told Fate had cast into the role of saviour curry mittens. Her heart plunged her that he knew about her and Ed- for her. Auere seemed to be no douot at the thought and there were shit ward. This time next year she wou.d about that. And she was lucky tears in her mouth.

be a Van Scivor. That was what his wasn't sne, that he was such a dars At home her mother baked fruit look said. ling? Everyone liked him-six fool, enko and star-shaped cookies ateand- The door shut behind her and tho two inches of sold worth, generous, lly and Miss Florida and she took familiar amol of homo closed in open-hearted. If he was a bit un- turns carrying them over to the Wo- around her. Smell of dust in the stair Imaginative surely no one could right-man's Exchange. And the invalid carpet and cooking and the evergreen fully complain of that. Boots had father took three steps to the window Miss Florida had thrust into the blue made one stipulation; there was to be and back one morning, perspiration vase on the living room mantol. no formal engagement--no announco Leading his ined brow. He was al Her mother came bustling out of nients. But one of these days after most tearfully triumphant over the that doorway now. the first of the year aho and Edward event. The doctor said something "Home at last, child? Starving or would be married very quietly at St. half-hearted about taking him to a did you have any supper." John's and later slip away for a milder cliniate and Boots whispered What was there. In her mother's Mediterranean cruise,"

her great news to her mother later, voice that prompted Boots to glance Edward came to meet her those

"We can't let you do that--not just | through the partieren fer haart be- aights with the pocket of his big coat for us, protested Mrs. Raeburn, but gan madly to pound to race. bulging with folders. The cover of the flash of joy and surpriso lingered "Someone to see you," said her one showed a brown woman with on her check and she listened grate mother in her "company voico." "Mr.

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a brilliant, unnatural blue,

Who could help it? He was every-be had been lounging. Boots WAI "Do you good, all that sun, dar- thing that was fine and good, wasn't conscious of her tumbled hair, of her ling," he would say fondly, "You're her

pallor and weariness and the shab. a hot house plant. You'll love that."

The mother wished to be convinced biness of her old blue folt hat. She responded as enthusiastically

"Just dropped in to say Merry As she could. It was what she had and therefore was. But she didn't,

mistake,

The old glory, the old celestial life, and the bright benches, and the

music began to resound in Boots' sunshine? And Edward, over 10

heart. She had thought she had tactful, had spoken of the allowance Christmas Eve came at last and a hu would make her parents. He did very madness of buying descended rooted him out of her very being but: everything of the kind in kingly upon shop. At half-past 8 she had been mistaken. fashion; no uno could be offended. Frances, in a hill, commanded Boots Edward's car waited, But there was another point upon to go home.

She, half-way up the block. Boots was which Boots was adamant. would work at the Bay Tree until the stupid with fatigue and hunger as she last moment. Edward could not bundled herself into her shabby coat dissuade her.

atid, stumbled out.

Bye It was curious, with all her trou-

Christ. darling. Merry bles settled and her responsibility mas!" Frances waved her hand. To-1 about to be taken from her, that her morrow she would sleep late in the

The following extracts are from heart should tie like a stone, in her apartment, would go to the Oranges breast, her step lag. Ah, but she was later for family dinner and presents, the Hongkong Telegraph for the

Edward's man wasnt the wheel and week ended October 26, 1918. - readed herself. She tired, she wouldn't fail Edwned, bnte sho in an instant he was on the pavement,; married him. She would make him throwing the door open, tucking Boots good wife, One of these days there in under the kitten-soft fur rug. would be handsome, sold ittle brown. Edward had been compelled to go to was la. 114. haired ballen in their house and a duty dinner to-night, something to

The wedd'ng took place at St. Edward would be proud of them and, do with his Uncle Martin, the denn

of all the family connections. Boots John's Cathedral of Mr. R.M. Dyer, was grateful for the long drive home Chief Manager of the Hongkong and in Filince. Once she leaned forward, Whampoa Dack Co., Ltd., and to speak to the chauffeur, a smiling Miss Lillian Lowder. Frishman who had been with the Van

leivers for yours.

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"Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus?" she would euron out of a daze to say wiftly to ame customer. "Yes, madam. Right here. We have it Imp leather, too, if you'd like that.

In the Legislative Council, the The we ge She hold "You have children, Mac?"

Hon. Mr.. E. A. Hewett moved a Faience and Copenhagen ware and

She could see his grin in the mir-resolution that the Military Con- Touk orders for brann ketties and ror. "I have that four of them tribution should not exceed one crystal swans all through the busy Yellin' their henils off when I left million dollars a year. The mo pe-Christmas season without ever the flat st noontime." fully realizing what she was doing or why. She smiled at Praneca and tacked brightly about nothing at all and every time the shop door opened mit a lean man under a tipped hat brim something squeezed her heart with a giant hand.

**

"Four!" She marvelled at that.tion was lost by seven voles to five, "Children must be great-tun.”

The N.Y.K. liner Katori Maru "Oh, they are, misal It's the boy that's a caution. He wants A Gra arrived in port on her maiden engine and him only 3. The missus voyage and a reception was held got him one hut I doubt if it's as big on board. na he wants.

She aut back, watching the crowu?. In upper Madison avenue people · streamed in and out of all the mean

It was not Denis; it was never he; nor would it, she reminded herself, ever be. She had not seen him since that night of brief madness. By this tie shops. The red-fronted dime time, no doubt, he was married to store was one blaze of light. Tinsel, Kay. Or would she have heard of it curled red paper and imitation if he had been? Well, no matter. Christmas trees graced the drug store He had been out of sorts that night;} on the corner. Weary women. with he had held her in his arms and kissed children at their skirts, waited for her lightly and wantonly, without the green light at crossings, their thinking. That was the sort of man fingers straining at thinly wrapped he was! And she had not heard from metal toys end flimsy boxes of him again. It was better to fix one's i ornaments. In many ✡ curtained thoughts on such a man as Edward window lighted trees showed and who had solid worth to recommend candles were lighted on silla. him......

"My mother always lighted one of them In the window. Christains night," The shop was gay for Christmas McShane contributed in the silence, week. Holly and evergreen und Jerking his head at one of these, sprigs of mistletoe and Frances dark-The missus is too nervous about fire.

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i lovely in an emerald dress with She don't have one. I kinda miss it."Begin The Day With A Smile. gilt buttons on the shoulder. People!

Beginning the day with a smile coming in and out, powdered faintly

la largely a matter of habit-tho with snow, talking wildly of books Presently, they loft trolley daily habit! If you are troubled with and gifts and candy they, had forget tracks behind and the big bridges, intestinal congestion. or your liver is ten to order. Wrapping endless pack with unlighted larges floating lont sluggish you cannot get up in the ages, making end.ess mounds of somely on the river, and glided out morning feeling cheary and bright, change, smiling meaninglessly at into tie broad highway threading To correct constipation, stimulato everybody. Trains packed in the through the Westchester town. They the liver, diapel bilicus attacks, morning with well-dressed women in passed a community tree glittering banish sick headaches, Pinketter are furs. Consulting pencilled lists and with lights-red and blue and yellow perfection. And they keep the skin murmuring to each other in the crush.-with well-dressed, fur-coated people clear, the breath pure, the eyes Boots heard them, watched them. singing carols in its shadow. They bright, niso good for piles, Chemists She was not really part of this scene, passed lighted churches and more everywhere sell sho told herself-merely an onlooker. shops and then they were in Larch-

Ilut next year she and Edward would neck.

by shopping together, going from "Merry Christmas, Minct" cried

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