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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

October 12, 1940.

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By Walt Disney

MAGAZINE PAGE

WE ARE NOT ALONE

from the famous novel by James Hilton

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The tragedy began on the night the doctor was called to rare for had broken her actress tuho wrist. He came tipon her again in Sandmurth, The girl had tried to

He restred her commit suiciale and took her to her lodging house there she was refused admission

hotel He took the girl to a

He told her about his boy hgested that he bring the child on his next visit to Calder-

and put him in her charge Frutar. 扑 Caned money to the girl for her board The hotel clerk and

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"If you do know, you belong to a very small minority, I can tell And 1 hunk he ist feel Vou you do--that's why you got on 50 well with him."

The following Friday he took Gerak again.

Jessica was

shrewd womati and after Gerald's successive Fri- days at Sandmouth and his do- lighted chatter about them, it did not take her long to realise that whatever had happened there had been fortunate. "Who is this woman who looks after Gerald when you're in Sandmouth?" she asked David. “She's just a 'patient of mincshe broke her wrist?"

"Is she

a lady?" Numberless other questions.

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So Leni got a letter which offered her the job of looking after Gerald at a salary sixty pounds a year if she proved satisfactory after s trial.

Lent left for Calderbury at once. "You'd better meet the train," sald Jessica, "since you're the one who knows her""; and David said he would if he got through his visits in time; otherwise Susan would have to do the recognising as best she could.

But happened that he did reach the station: in time, though it was dusk when he reached, the place. And he began to think, really for the first, time in his life, about" Leni. Sho was coming to Calderbury. She was coming, to live in his house. It was odd the

May things happened

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"Oh, du kleine Doktor" They didn't know what else to On the suy to each other at Aust why down the steps to the street ¥ ༢༠」 The Naut "Geraks forward to your attivalm

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With the Ja Lei pricked its ear> Afterwards he reported "They didn't talk much, but when the doctor and something she answered

foreign Hugo and seemed to understand all right from Die way he sailed back id er

the

Life settled down at house in Shawgate and Gerald Was happy. It

was miru culous, the success she had in calming the boy's nervousness moods and brightening his whenever they darkened.

Jestia, freed from an irksome David was duty, seemed sutistled, saltafled too, One July day, he returned to Calderbury after his weekly visit to Sandmouth There had ten showers thuring the afternoon, but by evening the sky had totally cleared. 11 us very As David crossed the beautful. Close a lamplighter stopped near by, his face upturned to the glow Suddenly David met Lent. The

merging of twilight and lamplight gave him an impression of mishap that made him say: "Is anything the matter?" "Mrs. Newcine has told me 1 must go!"

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JESSICA was writing invite-

tions when he found her later in the drawing-room. The engraved cards, filled in with handwritten names, lay spread out on the writing desk beside her "Dr. and Mrs. Newcome, request, tho pleasure of.

"Jessie," he began, breathlessly and without preamble, "What's all this about getting rid of Leni?" "Yes, it's quite true. I told her she couldn't stay."

"But it's absurd

say we can't afford her wage! She's well worth it, Gerald likes her enomnously."

"That was only the reason I gave her. It wasn't the rent rea- son. Has it ever occurred to you that people aren't always what they seem? I might have guessed how little you really knew her. And I must say, too, that I didn't take to her, even from the first!"

"I don't quite know, Jessica,! what you're, driving -ut.?.

you don'17 I'm glad your

You don't know i sup- pose Qut this girl was on the stage a few months back, doing a dance- turn in iftti-rule shows? And you don't know that she was dismissed Tra laying to commit suicide!"

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Did you really think a strido) Lancer and foreigner, at that... was the kind of person to have in respectable household and look after vershus child. Right from

the fund mument 1 was sure there Was something queer about 20"

But there isn't "Well, I don't Want w argue She's got to go, that's all

"She east to before the end of 1 praatti You can't get suddenly like this and make her fad new works and new lodgings at a mo. inerals under

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for his as he left round of visits he behaved as if nothing particular had hap pened. When he returned after noon Leni told him that Jennica had taken Gerald away and that the boy had made a enc.

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Fall away freen school 11 was very strict and 1 hated EE. The Russian frontier wen quite chrise, Both away one night and went

to St. Petersburg the dance school there, but the police found

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David looked at her. He had never really wondered about her age, but now that he realised it he Was A9- tonished.

During the diminishing fortnight ne saw am munelizes during the afternoons, when she played the plano in the drawing-room; once he got out his violin and began a sonata with her, but in the middle af at he heard Jousiou enter the house, we made un excuse to dis- continue the performance.

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different, their ages were lives and languages were different,

these differences became yet all themselves absurd when measured against the flash of recognition that Than al every sprang between nearness.

(Continued on Monday)

Mr. PEPYS Telegraph Saturday Feature

in

HONGKONG

4th Oct.

This day to my great pleasure 1 find the aire- mayle is resumed though whether it may get through or no I know not.

Wrote at length to my wife, poor wretch, to whom I have sent no letter for a fortnight, as I was n a stunde to know how I might dis- patch one. But I believe that i have never let so long an Interval

ss in all the years puss

wee have been separated,

Took nuncheon at the Chubbe where I drink a glasse or two of Hollands wators with Major OTrigger and doe sell him the halfe of my through chance in the sweepstake. And at this wee are both pleased, for I have lost all faith in the number but dare not praetermit to take it as of a sure- ty in such case it would win a handsome prize.

a year ago, and now will ave to sure Rare meelings. Also it Wit somewhat strange to sit down a party of men only.

This day for some whim 1 de- kde to make it wuzer or two and doc pretty well in that I lose ines than five dollars, and but for back- g Bear Claw which I did noti advice and against my better judgement, I had been well in.

evacuation For all the

there seemed uplenty women there und I did speak to several whom I hase not seen these many days. Back to Mr. Caidbeck's box loter and there 1 lt falling for some time but leave about a halfe after six and drive straight home in molar hackney. Dined early and so to bed.

6th Oct.

Lord's Day. Lay late and when I www had bathed and trimmed myselfe to the garden where I inspect all with my Fa- Wong. The tomatoes аге all planted iz the lower garden after I had put down some ferti- lizer which Mr. D. Wilson did give me along with some of his humus. And I am minded this year to take more care of the fruit when it is set and wipe over each tomato that becomes specked, Though this, I doubt not, will be a heavy

ing This being a Race task. 5th Oct. day I am up very wwwman betimes though I find time to walk upon my leads and inspect my seed-boxes which are now sown At a halfe after twelve, to the Race Course and drank a glasse of wine in Mr. Dy.. nasty's box before I did go to Mr. Caldbeck's where I was to take my nuncheon.

And there wee did find much good cheer but I was adde at the thought of some who had been want to bee there but a litle over.

To my office where

7th Oct. I doe order: my

do but me papers netch a moment to speak with the Clover Flower Shop ordering Beeds for I had forgotten many flowers. But alas they have no Carnations and I am indeed at a stande, for where to find any know not.

This day I doe return to duty with the Train, Bands, being placed In the Veterans Company and wee hear an excellent lecture by Mr.

Jones which taught mee much. flome pretty betimes. my neigh- bour conveying mee in his conch and 1 gve in and drinke a glasse of Hollands with him and there- ufter ko my home und doing my And Lord! how garden accounts.

fust the money doth seem to gue out and I am sorry for it for in These sadde days I've at a stonde to know how I may live.

8th Oct.

Coming pretty be times to my office I dot find to my great joy a letter from my wife which shee did send off via Durbanı on the same day as one she sent via Clipper on the 20th August.

And 12th

this

last received upon September, so that there in the difference of a month. Yet this last letter has been delayed by the Indo China pother I doubt not.

But 1 am vexed that I got nu more than one letter as I had sup- posed two three would have come. One thing my wife's letter telin me is that our aire-mayle vin Durban has arrived-and all my letters up to the one I did write upon 20th July, so it seems that our mail doth take a few days over a month, or did. But now, the Lord and maybee Mr. Forrest alone know.

Walking upon my 9th Oct. leads this morning, I doe find that my Cosmos and Stock doe germinate already and 1 trust to have a brave other show of them. But my flowers will, I fear, bee late though. the violets which have been sept- ated and repotted promise well.

Come down in a friend's motor

coach this morning, but Lord how strange It was to see the Peake Road thronged with Chinese pedes- trians who goe up the Peake ot the beginning of the mid-Autumn Festival.

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