After a fortnight had elapsed! the hotel management dropped di erect hints regarding their account, The problem was a borrowed $500, as to her being temporarily without funds. With this sum she paid her hotel bill. At a later date she: borrowed another $500 from the same lady. Several other people were victimized in the same way, willingly lending money to a lady whose father was a millionaire. She came up against an insurmountable obstacle in a certain British barrister, however. He asked to see her letter of credit before lending she was unable to produce this, politely but firmly refused to lend: her a cent, To account for their presence in Shanghai the women stated that they owned a house in Monte Carlo and were on their way to that town {in order to close the house up for the summer. They gave the names prominent citizens la America as references, and in the of one of Chicago's leading they not only claimed friendship but also. relationship. One gentleman in Shanghai to whom this story was told doubted it and was curious enough to send a cable to the gentleman in Chi He received a prompt reply knowledge of the two.
'They left Shanghai on June 21, having probably come to the con' delusion that too many questions were being asked and it would be as well to go while the going was good. Their stay had been quite profitable, for_with what they had borrowed' and obtained upon false pretences they had obtained from people here at least $4,000, if not more. Accordingly they booked Passage: on the str. Empress of Asia for Hongkong. Even on this short voyage the younger woman was unable to keep her mind from business and soon managed to get herself engaged to one of the ship's officers, enticing from him by various means the sum of some $300,
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