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SERIAL STORY:

SILKEN SPINDLES

by Laura Low Brookman

BEGIN HERE TO-DAY

GALE HENDERSON, pretty, 23, works la alik mat She and her brother, PHIL, 19. support their inpalld Inter

STEVE METERS, who sho works in the mit), seka Onlą to marry him. the pramaros to give him an answer in a few dari.

That night Gale goe skating on the river, The ice breaks and abs is howeved by IAN WESTMORE. whose father, now dead, boili the mill. Brian, asks Gale to wait while he get his car bui’when be returra sha la gune. Brian arrived home only that day, Miter peading two years in Paris,studying art. Convinced he can never be an artist, he has Come home to work in the mil).

Delan Bas been assured by ROBERT THAT CHEIL, netal manarer of the mili, that the. Exact mili malores are well paló. The apposite is true but Thatcher schemos to keep Brian from decorating this. On a Lour of the mill Brian sees Qale and recognises der.

CHAPTER X

Brian Westmore sat before the shining now donk with its fresh green blotter, its calendar pad with a placo for men,oranide, the chunky, flat rec- tangle in which pens stood poized. He touched the mimeographed sheets before him, moved them with restiosa fingers.

that

There was everything on desk, everything in the pleasant, sun- Iit office that the well-appointed office should. bonst. A cradle tele- phone stood conveniently at Brian's left; a copper ash tray on the right.

Over against the wall stood a fil- ing cabinet with barren files. Brlan know because he had examined them. There were two chairs in the room be- side the one ho was sitting in, both pushed stifly against the wall. There was a large, framed photograph of the sik mill on the wall which Brian was facing and a map of the United States directly opposite.

There was a shout and two man want sprawling into the'atrest.

In the top desk drawer on the right was a supply of fresh stationery bear-dum pád that was blank, the tele-pressed on the gas and the nose of the wind, whipping against the coupe, ing the mill letterhead. There were phone that never rang..

grew louder, pencils there, too, freshly sharpened.

He had a reportThatcher bad given And the telephone did not ring.him to read and he'd read it through No one knocked on the door. There twice. The whole thing might have was no one to sit in the chales. Even been so much Greek, for all he under- the memorandum pad was completely stood It. blank.

Brian pushed the mimeographod pages from him. He stood up and walked to one of the two windows, stared out at the broad, brownishi space between the buildings and the high wall surrounding the mall pro- perty. A truck was moving along the paved road beyond. A small truck. It might belong to a grocer or a dry cleaning place, pr even a florist, Was there a florist in the town? Yes, of course

"It's only because this is the Orst day," Brian told himself. "It won't be like this to-morrow."

The telephone rang.

Vicky said, "I'm glad I didn't go to Havana."

"So am I."

The car rose to an elevation and below then the lights of the town spread out. Now they were nearing the mill village, which the main throughfare cut neatly in two.

Loud.

said Brian lifted the receiver,

A traße light ashed red and "Hello," and recognized Vicky's voice. Brian halted the car just in time, "How's the new captain of industry "There was a group of men gathered

together on the street corner. she demanded.

were raised. Angry voices. Someone pushed forward and the crowd swerved. Brian lensed over the wheel, trying to see what was happening.

"Hardly a caplain," he told her. Voices

the "More of a cabin boy, How's pampered parasito?"

Vicky laughed. "Brinn," she said

"I'm in a mess.”

"What sort of a mess?" "Oh, it's nothing so dreadful. On-

Brian turned his back on the truck, and forgot it. He stared at the photo- graph of the mill and saw, instead,ly I don't want Father to know. Lis

a girl with gray eyes and dark, wide. curving brow.

"She looked pretty," he thought,

"even in that blue apron-thing."

Not quite as pretty ns she had the other night, standing in the firelight, with the wind blowing her hair where

ten, will you do something for me?"a "Say the word!" he told her. "

There was ashout and two men went sprawling into the street.

(To Be Continued).

hope I haven't committed myself to NEW YORK STOCK anything worse than setting ire to n bank or cobbing the U. 8, mail."

Vicky laughed ogoln. "Aren't you sweet! No, It's not nearly so bad

Sarrey Road-near Pikesville. I was

It had cacaped from her cap, and the that. I'm out at a garage on blaze putting colour into her cheeks And yet she

the same girl. Oh-driving a little too fast, I guess, on no doubt of it! He'd recognized her that long hill this side of Pikesville. the minute he saw her.

Brian hadn't been sure whether or not she'd recognized him, because she'd hurried past so quickly. And yet, for an instant, their eyes had mel. Probably she was as much sur- prised, seeing him, as he had been to ave her, there in the silk mill.

There's a turn at the bottom and well, instead of turning I hit a tree."

"Are you hurt?"

EXCHANGE

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YESTERDAY

New York, Mar. 7.

“Not a scratch!! But there's some. The following reports on the New thing wrong with the car. They're York stock market have been received working on here at the garage, through Mesars. Swan, Culbertson & The Wall Street Journal Some people came along and towed Fritz:

me this far. It's going to take hours port on yesterday's markets: Stocks Rails and hours before the car's ready were, slightly upward, but dull, due maybe not to-night. What I want to to the nonetary uncertainty. ket meth

"I wonder," he asked himself for the dozenth time, "what her name know, Brian, Is can you come aut and declined slightly, owing to the speech

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is 7"

Jot Senator Eastman in the New York Chamber of Commerce, who said that "Of course." There were ways to find out, of

Federal operation of railroads may be Angell But don't say anything to the only alternative, unless railway course. There must be. Why couldn't Father about it. He'd be terribly companies co-operated with each other he just go up to that big fellow in the unreasonable. How

Bar silver in cun you and the Government. room where she worked and 293. get hero?"

both New York and London reached "That girl there—yes, the second one

Brian looked at his watch, "I'm a fits highest point, la-day for more than from the aisle. What's her unre?"

That would be the simple, direct working man now," he reminded her. six years. Bonds declined under the

"It's a little after 4 o'clock-"

lendership of United States Govern- way, but he couldn't do it. He "Now don't tell me you're doingment issues, duo to a lack of support couldn't because he was Brian West- anything sa important you can't get in spite of reassurances that there more, whose father had built the mill away! This is a terrible place-cold would be no further Dollar devalua- who would one day own it, and she and dirty and dismal. Please come tion. Stocks on the Curb Exchange was a mill girl.

ruled

stendy. Brokers' right away, Briant". He could scarcely believe it, even He looked at the bare desk before reosed by 503,000,000, yet. There

of mod him, the blank memorandum pad, the were dozens crately well-to-do familles in the spotless blotter.

New York and Chicago commudity town. They lived in attractive homes

received through Messrs. out on Wells Avenue or Livingston hesitantly. "Re right out."

"I guess I can leave," he said reports

Swan, Culbertson and Fritz:- Street. Brinu know many of these

Cotton: Textile denmad is poor at It took almost an hour to find the

talk of young people the sons and daughters garage on the Surrey Road. Vicky, Concession There is more af shop-keepers, real, catate dealers, wrapped in her brown fur coat, n inil curtailnient. hankers, lawyers, insurance sales. green hat slanting over one eye,was Grains: The importation of wheat, feet, when Briant strode into the place. Exchange uncertainty will probably sitting on a high bench, swingling her a restricted demand and the continued

causo small reactions on short-cover-

men.

Flo had supposed the girl skating on the river that night was one of them. Sooner or later, he'd been sure he'd run. Into her at the Country Club or

She jumped down, smiling. "My ing.

Juana In-

on a downtown street, or out with here!" she said. "What would I ever Rubber: The market was steadier some crowd. He hadn't, dreamed he'd do without you? They're sending the on Trade short-covering, foreign buy- find her here in the mill,

car in to-morrow; it won't be ready ing and lower shipments. Was that why she'd run away to-night. And, Brian, I'm simply

"Well, then, 1 guess you'd better

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Cotton Mile

REUTER QUOTATIONS

Mar. 6. Mar: 7.

100.22

101.17

28.01

20.07

16.20

15,50 06.08 DG,84,

- 57.97

Mar

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534

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S'haf Cottons,. (now), Sh. $40

76

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20%

Zoong Sings, $9.80 n.

13%

Wing On Textiles, Sb. $55 p.

31%

the other night before he got back starved!" with the car?

Brian wandered about that. And have something to eat, hadn't you? Dow Jones - Avernges: again he wondered what her nams Where'll wo go?" wasthi girl with the gray eyes "There's a place up the road," shej20 Industriale and dark brows and the bend set no told him.. "It's just a barbecue. And 20 Hails proudly on her shoulder. She'd been there's that nico little place near 20 Utilition

lucky, Kept her head and her nervo Millerville__="_

10 Bonds. or he'd never been able to keep her The nice little place near Miller-11 Commodity Index 67.08 from going under the len 103, she'd ville wins," Brian announced. “But

10 Leading Stocks been game.

hadn't you better enll first and (ex-| She was out there now, in that, plain that you won't be home 7"- huge, gray red with the roaring,

| Amer, Swelting Oh, I did that a while ago." groaning machines and the whirling They drove to their roadside rox-Auburn spindles and the girls whose arms taurant. Vicky was in gay spirits Case, J. moved like machines, too-up and an excellent antidote for the long, un- El. Bo, & Sh down, up and down, Brian had seen eventful afternoon Brian had "pen Int. Tel. & Tel.

Gen. Motora her, bending forward, doing something The restaurant was warm, pleasantly

Montgomery Ward with Jorking fingers. He lindn't been furnished and the food was well-

Nat. Distillers able to hear what Thatcher was say cooked. There were few other diners, NY. Central Ing because of the uproar in the room. Vicky and Brian had a corner table to ij.§..Steel. The air was too warm the whole themselves. niace a blur of gray and binck-dizzy, They lingered over coffee... and whirling motion and grating noise. cigaroties. Brian talked about Paris, The wedding took place at the Thatcher said all those girls were told amusing anecdotes. Vicky was Registrar's Office, Supreme Court, well-paid

an appreciative audience. At length yesterday morning of Sgt. Major Ed- Brian wished. suddenly, that he she said, "This has been fun, hasn't ward Stanley Itendell, LA, son of Mr. could talk to the girl with the gray it? But I suppose we'll have, to I. Rendell, and Mrs. Stone (nee eyes. She could tell him things ho go wanted to know.

Mildred Georgina Kimber). The bride, It was dark as they drove back to who hails from Aldershot, England, Westmore. Lights shane here and arrived in the Colony yesterday morn Meanwhile here: hữa was, in this there in farm house windows. Aheading by the P. and Ď. Cathay, Mr. shining now office with the door on the roadway stretched like an endices and Bira. A. E. Smith witnessed the which no one knocked, the memoran- | ribbon, straight, unwavering, Brian ceremony.

Ewo Cottons, Sh. $8.80 B,

S'hal Cottons, (old), Sh. $74 n.

Landa, Hotels, etc.

H. and S. Hotels, $5.05 m.

H.K. Lands, $44 80. H.K. Lands 4% debentures,

$102 n.

Shai Lands, Sh. $22 n. Metropolitan Lands, Bh: $12.20 n. Humphreys, 80% D Hongkong Realtion $5.10 n. Asia Realtics "A" Sh. $100 n. Asia Kenities "B" Sh. $17 n.

21 YEARS AGO

Extracts From the "Telegraph" Files.

The following extracts are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the jweek ended March 7, 1014, "

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The rate of dollar on demand was 18. 11.3/16d,

Sharchulders of the Hongkong Cotton Spinning, Weaving and Dyeing Co., Ltd, wero circularised on a proposal to transfer the business to Shanghal under a new company, to be known as the Yangt- azepoo Cotton Mills, Ltd.

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Mr. Lau Chu-pak was appointed to fill the vacancy on the Legisla- tive Counell caused by the retire- ment of the Hon. Sir Kal Ho-kal.

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Chinese Estates, 393 n. China Realties, Sh. $9.60 n. China Debenture, $123 n.

Public Utities.

H.K. Tramways, $18% n. Poak Trams (old), $81⁄2 n. Peak Trams (new), $6-n. Star Forries, $93 n. Yaumat! Ferries, (old), $22 ni China Lighte, $0.00 b. and so, H.K. Electrics, $69_88. Macao Electrica, 825 n. Sandakan Lights, 18 n. Telophone (old), $241⁄2 en, Telephone (new), $10.15 n. China Buses. Sh. $12.40 n. Singapore Tractions, 10/3 n. Singapore Prof. 20/6 n.

Industriala.

Malabon Sugars, $8.60 a. Cald: Mineg. (old), Sh. $16 n. Culd: Macg. (Prof.) Sh. $16 n. Canton Ices, $2.76 n. Cement (Converted 7/60 n. H. K. Nopes, $3.80 1.

Stores

Dairy Farms, $223⁄41⁄4 x. Watson, $3% n Lane Crawfords, $5,75 m. Mackintoshs, $21 a. Sincerce, $8 n.

47m, Powella, 70 ets, n Wing On (H.K.) $106 n.

Miscellaneous.

Amusements, $1.85 m.

H.K. Entertainments, 7 n.

8. C. Enterprise, $1.35.z.- Macao "Greyhounds. $2.11. Constructions (old), $1.70 n. Construction (new), 50 cts, n. Vibor Filing, 854 ¤.

Ch. Govt. 5% 1925 G.$,Banda

93%.

H.K. Gov. 4% Loan 6% % prem

b.

*H.K Govt. 81⁄21⁄2 Loan 2% prem, b.

Wallace Harpers 7 n.