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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1938.

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JEZEBEL

THE STORY THUS FAR: During the Mardi Gras of 1850. Miss Julle disturbing smile, "You've made it up Livingstone! Marsden, beautiful and wilful ward of General Bogardus, invites society for me!" to a reception at which she means to announce her engagement to Pres Dillard, banker. She comes late to her party, and in a riding habit which said, trying desperately to be casual. "Well, then, goodbye Pres!" she shocks the crowd, and later quarrels with Pres because he lets a bank As he was about to take her extended directors' meeting delay him. Buck Cantrail, a former suitor, has a duet, hand she struck him across the face. on account of Aliss Julie. To taunt her flance, she buys ir against custom, to wear to the Proteus Ball, which ends the Mardi Gras red dress which festivities. Prea commands her to wear the white dress. She writes to Buck Cantrell telling him to come to her at once. After the duel he duen zo,"

CHAPTER IN

Hot

CHAPTER IV

"Run after him, Julie, and call him back! Please, please

ways

Saya he's bringin' North! What could it be, I wonder!" Gomethin' rare and precious from the

grinned Buck.

"A stern-windta watch maybe!" A disturbance at the other end of the bar claimed their, attention. A chan had slumped to the flour, suf- stricken with the plague. Dr. Livingstone called at the home him and Aunt Belle further of General Bogardus to discuss with and means of

of coping with the epide- mic. Julle seemed but faintly aware of the impending tragerly, so enrap- tured was the with the new Pres Dillard was on his way home.

WH

that

"I knew he'd she cried, her eyes bright with

tune, Aunt Belle!" He couldn't help himself! And I'm citement. "He had to come-to

me! going to tell him how I've hated my- "He'll come back, Aunt

self for being like I was! Oh, Fil you'll see! He'll come back to-night humble myself before him. Aunt the And when he comes!" She was on Belle" She laid her head wearily

her way upstales

against the shoulder of hide the sobbing Bank

the older "Tell him I've retired! she could not control much longer, Woman. "All that ever slood be-

Tell him to tween us will be Bone come-to-murrow!"

me in his arms!" But Pres Dillard dirt

"I know it will dear child, "Oh, I've a wonderful idea! We'l People said he hard

North to the plantation! It's the only

place

for our meeting! We'll give was party, Aunt Belle! Invite every

bully! A huge party to celebrate!"

"Oh, but Miss Julie," protest- his daddy than ever I've seen him!" do!" ed Buck, "Pres isn't goin' to like Then he added with quiet emphasis, "Never, Aunt Belle" mo takin' you to the ball! You "And I never saw Tom Dillard look must have had a set-to with him, killed"

He that without somebody

For a moment a strange fear or you wouldn't be askin' me!"

possessed Julle, making her long "You're afraid to take me!" she Julie on his

Pres paused before the group with to go after him and ask his for retorted mockingly.

arm. His handsome giveness, but the next, pride "Afrald Pres face was ashen, "You all have the forbade it. will call you out! That's it. isn't privilege of Miss Marsden's acquain- 1172

Fance, I thluk gentlement" be sule, "Oh, he'd do that naturally," sald bowing low. There were courteous Buck, smiling down at her

murmurs of recognition but good- "Coultn naturedly.

blame him group soon began to melt away. much! Where do I stand, carryin' his lady?

Iwo

were

dancing

Dark,

not

Delle,

come

Kone on business for the bank. During the year that followed Julie

never seen abroad except on horse

mitted to her presence-tol even back. None of her friends were ad- Buck Cantrell.

CX-

when he

the negroes sang at their work and She called Unele Cato. Zette, and the uther

servants to begin packing. Julie sang with them:

"Oh, shoo, my love

turtle-dove

In

The music was in glamorous sway now and Pres and Julie dancing with "If I ask you Isn't that enough?" the crowd. The floor became more, "Not this time. Miss Julie and inore deserted till the walls were think too much of you to help you lled with the black of men's sults do something you're goin' to regret!" and the shining white of the erino

"I know exactly what I'm doing!" lines. "Most likely you do, Miss Julie- Finally the but you're wrong! That fool red alone. dress of yours can cause no und of The music stopped but Pres ma- trouble! Folks'd keenly resent your toned the leader to ng on.

the Na in it?" min' to the

"Let me Let them! They're just petty and breath, "Let me go •

go." Julie was pleating under her

Then again--the scourge of yellow narrow-minded?”

if you don't fever in New Orleans! Holding her in a vischke "No, ma'am. It's just that they've grip he forced her to dance.

Buck Cantrell, in the St. Charles got rules, and they go by em-same through her anger and mortification advised straight Bourbon as a sure

And bar,

listened as 1441 acquaintance: na you and I,"

she was conselous of the delicious preventive for the disease. "And you prefer to go by your own thy of his mastery of her. rules?**

She now." drawled Buck, blowing a ring loved and hated him for it.

from his cigar, "I got me another ment. Pres would be driving up the After Aunt Belle and the General as you do, Mister-mean drunk--and was upstairs with Zette, putting on They drove home in stience, Idea. The bugs get liquored up same long lane any moment now. Julle went in. he lingered behind.

"Good bye, Juliet" he said coldly, selves, and they kill each other off, her mind to stay upstairs-till he then they begin fighila' among them the last touches. She had made up to like the Kilkenny cats! As a matter should come to her. o fact, ain't no more yellow fever see their meeting.

No one must than this time last year! Folks never think of it in racln' season!"

"I always have, Miss Julie, and

I reckon you'll faid Pres does, too"

Then I'm sorry

I troubled you. Mr. Control! Good night!"

She slammed the gate and turned

"IS

toward the house as he drove away. mod that all you've got to say

The next evening-the exciting evening of the Proteus Bail-

-Aunt Belle and the General waited below- stairs nervously Pres Dillard arrived. When Zetle, the mulatto girl, announced him, Julle threw her evening clook over her arin, and biting

her lps to make them more the colour of the gown she wore, bil- Jowed down the winding stairs to

the drawing room door.

"Shall we go, Pres?" she sweetly, curtseying.

asked

"Not," he answered sternly, "untü you are properly dressed.“

Why must everyone be so pro- ner?" She addressed the remark to Aunt Belle and her long-suffering guardian, then turned venomously toward Pres "Why don't you odmil. Mr. Dillard, that you're afraid- atraid some one will Insult me-and you'll And it necessary to defend

mcl"

There was a shocked silence after, her deliberate challenge to his cour- age which had cut him to the quick. He gained control of himself, how- ever, went to her silently and helped her on with her wrap.

When they reached the bail-room the foyer was already crowded and i more couples arriving through the street door. The men were taking the women's wraps und them with

checking their hats.

The red showed glaringly below Julie's cloak and when Pres asked her for it, she drew it about her more closely, be- ginning to

to realize the humillation she had brought on herself.

She let him have it later and when they were running the gauntlet of

, curious eyes in the ballroom she car- ried herself with high disdain. At the far end of the room Pres noted Buck Cantrell and Ted. With them was good old Dr. Livingstone who had suggested the tuning for the toming of Julle, La Cour was ask- ing him about the duel between Can- trell and De Lautrec, and the doctor reported that the Frenchman had cuffered only a leg wound.

Suddenly La Cour's face stiffened) with amazement. "Why, I res Dulard," he faltered, "Prey Dillard! and

sold Dr.

"Pres Dillard, yes," Livingstone, "and looking more like

You were wrong?"

"Me.

by black-plumed "Pres is comin' back, Buck!" cried

Good time come back Old time come back

Oh, shoo, my love

At the plantation all was excite-

There's nothing more to say!"

Below stairs there was serious talk evenly. "You're Julle forsden!"

couldn't be wrong" he said As he spoke, a conveyance passed "They might have had to wait for amont the guests about the delay. slowly-drawn "Ain I to go down on my knees horses.

the Sheriff lo pass them through the "It would be interesting..

but

Parish utterly useless!"

line." sald one. "Armed young Tud Dillard, hurrying up to for up as River lets the loads as

guards are "Evidently you've made up your his older erony, and speaking with "and they're stopping everybody mind?"

ስነ won attempt t "No. Julie," he answered with a heard this minute,. from ald

"Just

coming from the city! They're talk- Doc ing about sending everyone sick with it to Lazarette Island where the lep- ers are!"

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Suddenly Julie knew by the chorus greetings that he had come. She would stay out of sight. Ile would be asking for her. He would be exploring the old rooms that they had played in when they were chil- dren.

Yes, she was right, He was com ing up the stairs.

"Oli, Pres

you.

long

"But Julie

I've

I can't believe it's dreamed of it so

I..

11is face

was strangely drawn

"No, Pres, no! Don't say it yet! I put on this white dress-for you- to help me tell you how humbly I nsk you to forgive me. See, Pres, see, I'm kneeling to you I

must and love

make

you forgive me

1m 5 f love you...

please..

She read the agons

In his eyes. He was looking beyond her to the doorway. "Julic, this is.

this is Amy my wife!"

"Your wife?" She looked from one to the other, her face a blank, then her inherited grace came to her nid and she arose as though in com- pletion of a curtsey.

Julle?"

THE

The

YELLOW Hongkong Telegraph PERIL

THE Dominion of Canada is wor

ried about the "Yellow Perif" problem. And a very real problen it is. A recent Federal Inquiry re- vealed that a tenth of the Dominion is already falling Into Japanese | hands.

During the last few weeks the Canadians have shown [1] anti- Japanese fever such as they never exhibited in my previous "yellow peril" scare. The provocation is there, und 1 is receiving a lively response of temper. Along the en- tire seaboard of British Columbia and for scores of. miles inland the Japanese have carried out a pro- gramme of peaceful penetration akin to the system by which they first Altered Into China.

The great trees of British Colum- bla's forests tall, cut down by Japa nese hands and destined for Japanese milis. British Columbia's mines are being explored for metal which may prove useful. in the Brst, Instance, against the Chinese. And ir. the second instaner?

A British Columbia M., summed up the situation when he cried: "The products of our mines and for- ests are going into weapons of

Wizr which may some day be turned against our youth. The only mines in the province are being operated by Japanese, and they are buying our base metals and loga!"

Japanese Penetration

the

In the ten years prior to the 1931 Census the

Japanese 121 British Columbia troubled their number. They never had to pay a head tax. For a few years they entered Canadia unrestricted. Then a "gentlemen's agreement" between Canada and the Japanese government limited number of Japanese immigrants to 400 a year, a gure later reduced to 150.

The chosen 150 are supposed to enter Canada as domestic servants or farm labourers, their livelihood guaranteed for three years by the prospective employer.

"

In the seven years since 1931 British Columbia's Japanese populi-: tion should have increased by 1030. Instead, is estimated, by adding registered

births and deducting deaths, that there has been an in- crease of 13,000, The Government schools are forced to cater for over 5000 Japanese children, and, thanks to the abnormally high Japanese birthrate, the number of scholars is zwelling. Contrast these Agures with the statistics relating to China. In the last seven years only three Chinese Immigrants arrived Canadu.

it)

On all the little islands near Van- couver o smuggling trade in Japanese is carried on. A month ago a minor regiment of forty Japanese were de- tected landing from a floating can- nery. Just before that incident seventy new faces appeared in the course of a month in a little fishing village.

living and their willingness to work Thanks to their low standard of unlimited hours, the Japanese_pros- per Anancially and white men are thrown out of work. "If there were fewer Japanese bere In British Columbia there would be no unem- ployment," declared one observer,

on,

Housewives are trying to retallate by refusing to buy Japanese goods, even a Japanese-grown lettuce.

Yet the tide of the yellow man sweeps The famous Ashing industry of the Fraser River is now dominated "And you are may I say-Cousin industry is falling to the yellow man.

by the Japanese. The Fraser frult,

A steady stream "You're Pres wifet "She took Japan helps to buy the most valuable of money from Amy's hand. "My felleltations, Prea

farms, factories, and forests in the province, Aunt Belle called and Julie ex- cused herself and "Julie, child." she began, "I am so

went to

her. Greedy Eyes on the Pacific sorry.

"For heaven

Still worse is the situation seaward sake, don't be gentle with me now." Julie erled fiercely. "Do you think I want

within the three-mile limit. Japan has turned greedy eyes to the rich to be wept over! I've got to think-

plekings on the eastern shores of the to plan how to get rid of that te

Pacific. She is one of the greatest washed-out Yankeet Pres.is mine-The introduction of cold storage

fish-eating countries in he's always bren mine!

the world. have him

If I can't (To be continued to-morrow)

PACIFIC

RAILWAYS - EXPRESS

BERTHING PLANS FOR 1939 ARE OPEN MAKE BOOKINGS EARLY

to secure accommodation desirod

ships made it possible for the Japa- nese to go far afekt for fish.

a covetous salmon, canning. and the

Nippon fishermen Ashrd Soviet waters so empty that Stalin called a halt. Then Japan cast eye on the Canadian cockeye the finest of all Ash for For many years Cutada United States have been nursing the salmon and the halibut, and restrain. ing their own nationals from taking too many fish. But Japanese poach- ers are stealing salmon which Brillsh Columbia's fishermen dare not touch.

Another three years of this ruth- less, uncontrolled fishing will wipe out both the salmon and the halibut.

TO CANADA, UNITED STATES and EUROPEA.£3,000,000 Canadien industry will

vla Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama EMPRESS OF RUSSIA EMPRESS OF JAPAN via Honoluła EMPRESS OF ASIA EMPRESS OF CANADĄ via Honolulu

Air-conditioned equipment Frequent

..7.00 a.m., Fri, Sept. 2. ......Noon, Fri, Sept. 16. .0.00 a.m., Fri, Sept. 30. .Noon, Fri., Och, 14:

on CPR. Trans-Continental. Trains Canadian Pacife Atlantis sailings to European Porta

0.00 p.m., Thurs., Aug, 25.

TO MANILA

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Agents.

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Telephone 28021.

Union Building

Canadian Pacific

Telephone 20752

close down and fishermen and thou- sands of workers engaged in canning and curing will be thrown out of their jobs.

an

Thousands of miles from Tokio- and at a hundred points where the Union Jack fles Japan's polley of pencenble invasion is proving ever-rising menace. In the Souffi Seas there are to-day, more Japanese than natives. Siamese Army and Navy

officers now go to Japan for their training, and a contract for twelve warships for Slam went to Japan last year.

Three years ago 90 per cent. of the rubber trade between Malaya and New York was carried in British ships, To-day Japon holds 10 per cent. of that trade.

These facts speak for themselves, and it is no small wonder that from all pars of the Empire the aid of the, Home Government is being sought.

Lealla T. Hamilton

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