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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 9,

1935.

THE

BLUE FUNNEL

LINE

REGULAR AND FAST

FREIGHT AND

PASSENGER SERVICES |

LONDON SERVICE

AENEAS

for alle 17 Dr.

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for Havre, Liverpool &

NEW YORK SERVICE

axite & Feb. for Banten, GLAUOUS

Bromborough

N.Y., Philadelphia and Baltimore. via Manila Batavia, Htraits & Caps

of Good Hope.

PACIFIC SERVICE (in Kobe, Nagoya & Yokohamaa) mails 12 Doc. for Vistoria, Vancouver & Seattle

IXION INWARD SERVICE

TROILUS CALOHAN

DEUDALION

Duo 11 Dec.

From New York vin Manila

Duo 16 Dec.

From U. K. vin Straits

Due 22 Dec.

From D. K. via Straits

Specially reduced faros are'qualed for cargo steamers with

limited passenger accommulation.

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Tel. 30333.

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San Francisco via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.

Tatsula Maru

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Hiye Maru (starts from Kobe) Wed., 26th Dec. Helen Maru (Starts from Kobe). Mon., 20th Jan. London, Marseilles, Antwerp & Rotterdam.

Hakusan Maru

Haruna Maru

.Sat., 21st Dec.

..Sat., 4th Jan.

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,Wed., 18th Dec.

.Sat., 28th Dec. Sat., 25th Jan.

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Wed., 11th Doc. Sat., 28th Dec.

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New York via Panama.

*Rakuyo Maru

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Mon., 30th Dec.

.Tuca., 17th Dec.

.Fri., 27th Dec.

Tuesday, 14th Jan.

Wed., 11th Dec.

Liverpool via Port Said, Beyrouth. Istanbul, Piraeus.

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*Dakar Maru

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Calcutta via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.

Shanghai, Kobo & Yokohama,

Sun, 15th Dec.

.Sun., 29th Dec.

Kamo Maru (N'saki direct)..Fri., 20th Dec.

.Sat., 21st Dec. Kashima Maru

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SERIAL STORY

BARGAIN

Chapter 1.

Barrett Colvin, bronzed by aun baked miles of rand, sat forward.xo

Life windows D that he might see

Fifth Avenue. It was a bit earlier than mid-afternoon but many windows were warm with the yellow glow that is a glare by night. The skies were xullenly low and there was a drizzle in Barrett

the chilly air. The Engliabdity

reflected, would call it "a dirty

it wua New Yorker the average "rotten weather."

To

Those folks upon

whom he had recently turned his broad back would call it "the will of Allah." Well, the faith of the East was the most comfortabic but Barrett didn't Haare it.

He moved unensily and lit a cign- rette. It was always unsatisfactory to coma back. Memories that scared his embors; λ mind would leap from corner of An uptown street or an old 10 brush away building would

make him Reo Blarcia, his

tempestuous little daughter of his father's second wife. in her trap, Marela Marica, violent crying, "Barry, you must help me; I've no one elke!”

years to

sister, the

He had intended to help her, but with the passing of sears he had been less and less certain about what he done by putting himself between | had her and the storm. He had made t without meaning to, for her to ovade her responsibility and to live a lie.

And now Marcia was married. She had written Barrett, "Of course Dick doesn't know." And here, from her ovasion, was another problem and one of the oldest

anea a problem

ed often in "Advice to the cur

columns in answers to letters usually beginning, "Shall I tell the man I am going to marry, etc." Almost always the description of the unfortunate af fair ended with a wistful, "I was so young"

•

"

his half- Barrett Colvin tone! smoked cigarette from the lowered ta- xicab window to lean back, already wearled of civilization which is not always an ordered as it seems.

BRIDE

KATHARINE HAVILAND-TAYLOR

BARRETT COLVIN

frightfully happy," she 26 perfect her at Miss Ella's house-the gealdon "I'm so shrine for all those relatives who felt admitted. "Dick's such they, should be remembered in the husband! And to think you haven't even met him! Darling-may, I have He hoped Dick Radnor deserved the Sexion will.

from Marcin. devotion he had won

The hall and Higgins shutting then cocktail?"

Barrett rang for Higgins, at the The facts might so easily come out in world away with a closed door. How

studying Marcia. She and unless it was te be home! The same same time

hai grown lean, hungry-looking, time, Barrett reflected,

Marcin thought dimmed, lovely tapestry. The same an

He lindn't remembered Dick were the men him to be there would be the devil to cient hat rack that Barrett kept be- nervous.

pause, looking at it, he could some those sudden, angular mannerisms.

"You're pretty stringy, Marcla," he fe must ge up to see the boy, Martimes fancy he saw his father's hat

perplexedly. cin's boy, Barrelt decided, as soon as on the binck marble surface, his moth-sald

"Darling, everyone la! You'll notice he could manage to get away fromer's small gloves and card case,

"It's good to be here again, Hig-it. May I have & cigarette? Thank town. Marcia did not care for him as

you so much. I've been tearing all Barrett enw that Higgins eyes held dropped to a chair as Higgins appear-

Will

bring you four years-n broad four years-since tears and he Inld a strong hand on ed at the doorway, "Good afternoon, he had seen the child whom Marcia the old

Higgins murmured greeting, bowed had implored Whoan had

beckoned too many weak mortals his

hur chair. Barrett Colvin felt a little tingle way, Barrett asked, "I hope you've and departed. Marcin mat forward on

Higgins 7" when the taxicab turned into a Redate been well,

"Yes, Mr. Barrett, Now and again old street where brawn-alone-fronted houses told of other times and other a bit lonely-not that 1 mean to com- manners. This was getting home. No plain, sir. I think you'll find every mattor how far one wandered or how thing as you want it, Mr. Harrest." insistent the call of distant countried,

sho should and it wasn't fair to the gnd it's good to have you, sair" day. Always so much to do" She

1 ilo must have grown youngster. good deal, Barrett reflected. It was

ho

to "adopt" and that, with his strength,

arm. With a gentlenesa | Jigton 7

Ine

A

"I want to talk to you about a lot |

too of things, Barrett, Are you

"Not at all," ho answered and tried frightfully tired?"

to stifle the conviction that

answer. his

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"The harbour was foggy, I presume, what The door was opened as the taxicab sir?" Higgins asked as he took Bar- camo to a sudden halt, Higgins, the ratt's coats, weighted by the wet in the

obviously excited to day's air. hutler, Barrett" home again. The

ME chauffeur swung several scarred, bul- bags from the car to the walk. fixed upon his his voice almost tremulous.

cross the street Bar- window rett saw the imperious head of Mies Ella Sexton, saw her nad stifly

In a

and

wave a hankerchief dured!

as to suggest a death of

Barrett, after bowing

"Pretty thick "Quite four hours late, you are, sir: I've been watching by the window."

"Lucky to get in, at all."

"I presume so. You've lunched sirt" "Yes; thought I'd better. By the by, are there any letters?"

"A number, sir. On your

desk-"

"Well, in the first place," she be gan, and then paused. She drew a deep, unsteady breath, sat forward and continued. "I've been-uncom fortable lately about what happened before you went away. It's bothered. more than ever before. Mare even than when I realised"

·Again she paused. Barrett's eyes Krew sympathetic. He knew what it must cost her to

this, Say all Marcia went on again. "When I

me

A few minutes later when Barrett renilsed," she repented, moistening

went was poking through his mail-frankly her full, scarlet-tinted lips, “about--

up the brown stone steps of his home. and unively surprised at its bulk-Lon Moore what a fool I'd been-

To Be Continued).

So little was changed. The glimpse of Murcia came hurrying in. "Darling!" everything!" Miss Ella, the characteristic tilt of her the called from the doorway of the aristocratic nose, told him that she big, dark room. He turned, rose und still ruled sternly and coldly over all she was in his arms, crying, laughing.

him those who waited her death.

clinging to

"The son

huge thing." she ex-

open, Barrett turned again and as he and so did so saw a girl burrying up the steps know what

of Miss Ella's house. A pretty pie. been to a ture she made with. her young grace someone and energy.

At the door, which Higgins held claimed 23 Standing away,

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"No, Mr. Barrett, That is Miss anyone so brainy. Oh, it is good to Elinor Stafford. She's grown a denses you, dear!"

She pressed close again and for a these four years, sir.”

Barrett nodded. His smile widened. moment hid her face against the top He remembered Elinor Staford dimly button of his waistcoat. Then she as a gawky youngster with a brace on drew away and raised her face to let her teeth, a youngster with an especial him see her smile and her mistede talent for stumbling. He had met eyes.

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Including To-Day

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