NEW AMERICAN SERIAL
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1928.
GIRL ALONE
SYNOPSIS.
The summer she is 16, SALLY FORD leaves the state orphanage to be "farmed out" to CLEM CAR- SON, a farmer. Sally knows no other home than the orphanage from the time she is four, when a woman leaves her there and dis- CATCH appears. Sher forgeta her when she meets DAVID NASH, handsome young student of scienti fic farming who is working on the Carson farm for the summer. David is genuinely fond of Sally, arousing the anger of both PEARL, Clem's daughter, and of Clem him self, who hopes David and Pearl will marry.
David begs the little orphan to confide in him if life on the farm becomes unbearable and Assures her he is her friend. She Foca with him for a walk in the field by moonlight and confides in m that she fears Carson will soon take her back to the Home be- cause of Pearl's hatred for her.
The next day Sally is left alone at the farm with Clem. David terrified disappears, and who is because she believes that, Clem will try to take her back to the orphanage while his wife, who likes Sally, is away. Sally bun- dles a few things together and hidon them, for she knows she will run away before she will re- turn to the orphans' home. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY, CHAPTER XI.
As the afternoon,wore on, and still Carson did not appear, Sally's gratitude for Mrs. Carson's inarticulate kindness sent her on flying trip to the orchard to gather enough hard, sour apples to make ples for supper. Carson, she began to hope, was so busy net
By ANNE AUSTIN,
Author of "Säitt and Slanor."
Sally, nking to one knee, heard the big body sliding down the roof.
"Come on in," he invited houpl- "Can you hear" me, Sally?" tably. "Wouldn't you like to seeo | David's voice, a little tremulous my books? Some of them are with awe at that which he had fascinating-full of pictures of done, came like a series of loud prize stock and model chicken farms einpa in her ears.
and champion egg-laying hens and She clung to him weakly, her ting up the cider mill that he things Bire that. Look," he cum eyes glancing fearfully from the would have no time to take her back to the orphanage, even if hemanded, snatching up a book as if window to his set, pale young face. wanted to. Maybe she was safe for eager to detain her. "Here's a Then she nodded slowly, like a a while; she would not run away picture of a cow, that my grandchild awakening from a nightmare. father owns. She holds the stale "I think I've killed him, Sally. record for butter-fat production. He hasn't nude a sound since he crashed to the ground.". David's Her namo's Beauty Bess-look "
just yet, for if she ran away she
would never see David again-
It was fun to have the whole big
Sally, without thought an to hazel eyes were as wide as hers, kitchen to herself. Humming under the impropriety of being in a man's and almost as frightened. her breath, she cut chilled lard bedroom, slipped into the chair he "You did-that--for me?" Sally into well-aifted flour, using the full amount that Mrs. Carson's pie was holding for her and bent her whispered. "Oh, David, what are érunt called' for. At the orphanage little braid-crowned head gravely we going to do?" She began to cry then, in little, frightened the pie crust was tough and
"I'm going to stock the farm whimpers, but her blue eyes, swim- leathery, because the matron would not permit the cook to use enough with nothing but pedigreed animals ming in tears, never left his face. The boy squared his shoulders lard. What joy it was to cook on when it's mine," David told her,
over her boole
11.text-book:
I knew I'd have to run away. I'm
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a prosperous farm, where there enthusiastically. "Look, here's the as if to prepare them for a great was an abundance of every good kind." And he bent low over her, burden, and in that instant he thing to eat! If only she could no that his arm was about her seemed to grow older, Colour came as he rifled the pages lowly back to his bronzed cheeks, a little as he stay the whole summer through! shoulder She could stand the hard work...of the book, secking the picture be but his lips shook
answered: A5 she piled sliced apples wanted her to see.
"We've got to run away, Sally, A sudden gust of wind, presaging thickly into the crimped pie crust,
the before the family comes home. I
Panama City, Apr. 18. she thought wistfully of Mrs. Cara summer shower, slammed
"I'm awfully glad you did, son, who was kind to her although door shut, but the two were so hate to leave him-down there-if
There is a possibility that the she was a hard taskmistress.. absorbed that they did not hear he's only hurt. But Ell be damned
"Maybe," Sally reflected sadly, the faint click of the lock. Nor if I stay here and get us both sent David. It was like you. Shall we first international highway to connect the Atlantic and Pacific David looked down at her in across Panana may be built by a dusting around nutmeg over the did they hear, a little later, the to jail just to case a pain that that go now?" thickly sugared apples, if I could sound of the stealthy, futile turn-beast, if he isn't dead, may be hav- stay on here, Mrs. Carson would ing of the knob, the retreat of Oh, God, I hope I didn't kill wonder, and his eyes and lips were British Company according to a
him! I just went crazy, when he very tender. "What a brave kid mining firm which is developing sailings from Canton-Dally at 8 a.m. want to adopt me. But of course carefully muted footsteps.
called you that name Will you you are, Sally! What a darn nice saveral concessions in David was bending low over Pearl and Mr. Carson wouldn't let
you want to little thing you are! But I've The President of the Republic with me? been thinking hard, honey. We stated that though no definite her. They hate me because David Sally, his cheek almost touching come, Sally, or do
expounding the lay and face them likes me and won't marry Pearl.hers, excitedly
can't run away together-far, that agreement was signed with a Bri- And I like David better than any-merits of crop rotation, and point-Whatever's best for you-"
Sally Ford did not hesitate for is. I have to take you back to tish firm, conversations are pro- body in the world," she confessed ing out. text-book confirmation of
ceeding.Reuter's American Ser- to herself, as the pink in her his theories, when sudden, evil moment. Her blue eyes were full the Home" checks deepened. "But I would words shocked their attention from of trust and adoration as the an- love to have a mother, even if it the fascination of the agricultural swered: "I'll go with you. David. was unly a ready-made mother. wonder why some girls have every- "Caught you at last. Thought all packed."
All right" David spoke rapidly. thing, and others nothing? Why you was mighty slick, didn't you'll fix up a small bundle, too,
a good should Pearl have a mother wholocking the door! I've just spoils her past all enduring? mind to whip you every step of You get your things and leave the Pearl isn't gond-she isn't even the way back to the orphan asylum, house as quickly as possible, Cut you lying, nasty little Carson's cross the crchard to the corn field good to her mother."
When her three big apple plea voice, hourse with anger and exul- and wait for me where we were over his coming revenge sitting the other night. I'll join were in the oven, she washed the fation bread bowl in which she had mixed upon the girl who had dared you almost by the time you
But want you to leave her pie crust; washed and dried jeoparadize his daughter's happi-there. vigorously the big yellow pine news, stopped with a gasp upon the first, just in case they come back board and rolling pin, and restored evil word he had spat out, for before I can get away. Now, run!” Sally obeyed, somehow forcing then to their proper places. Then, shoulders, as he tried to wriggle feeling very useful and virtuous, inte the room from the small win-her muscles to carry out. David's ing so fast that she bumped un- Ahe set the table for supper, sing-dow; were stuck in the too-narrow commands, but the tears were com ing. Hittle scraps of popular songs frame.
If the wind had not been rouring seeingly into apple and peach trees run through the orchard, which she had heard over the radio
about the house, banging branches as she during her week on the farm.
By that time her pics were of shade trees against the sloping the brown paper parcel of clothes baked to a deep golden brown, roof upon which, David's window clutched tightly to her bosom. necessarily wien she dished the tears from with little glazed blisters across looked, they would their top crusta.
have heard his approach, but as it her eyes, glanced fearfully about, "If I do say it myself," she said, was they were totally unprepared and listened, but she saw and heard the sight of his head and othing. The sun was getting low in her little old-woman way, her for head cocked sideways as she sur-shoulders and breast, framed in in the west, slanting in golden, veyed her handiwork, "those are the window, his glittering black dust-laden beams through the rows real pies. I hope Mrs. Carson will eyes fixed upon them with evil of apple trees."
be surprised and pleased."
Then, because she was very tired: and the late afternoon sun was making an inferno of the kitchen, Sally climbed the steep back stairs to the garret, intending to take a cooling sponge bath and a nap before the family returned, hungry for supper. She was about to pass David's door when his voice halted her:
!
short
"That you, Bally? I've been en- joying your singing, even if I did apend more time listening than studying."
exultation.
get
When she reached the shelter of Sally struggled to her feet as the corn stalks she went more David Icaped toward the window. slowly, for her heart was pounding Sefore she She had a fleeting glimpse of his sickeningly. Just rage-distorted young fuce, his lips reached the end of the field, she:
paused, opened her bundle with snarled back from his teeth.
"David! Don't, David she shaking hands, drew out the dark' cried, her voice a high; thin wail blue linen dress and put it on over of terror-terror for David, not for the-blue-und-white gingham uni- form of the orphanage She was Carson.
"You're not fit to live, Carson!" re-tying her bundle when she David's young volce broke in Its enught the faint sound of foot- rage, but there was no faltering in steps running toward her between the power behind the blow which rows of corn. crashed into the farmer's face.
David was hatless, His eyes She went involuntarily toward Sally, sinking to her knees in were wide, unsmiling, but his lips heard the reading managed on upturning of the cor. 1:int. "I didn't know you were up her terror, here, David," she told him. "I'm sound of flimay timber giving way,ners to reassure her.
"Sorry to boso long," he sorry I interrupted your studying. then the more awful noine of a
I wouldn't have sung if I'd known big body sliding rapidly down the panted. "But I telephoned a doctor roof. She half fainted then, so that that Carson had been-hurt-and you were up here."
The boy was sented at a smanli when David tried to lift her to her asked him to come over, I didn't pino table, covered with books and feet she swayed dizzily against answer when he asked who Carson papers, but as she advanced heri- him, her eyes dazed; her ashen lips calling. Told him.
hanging slackly.
slipped from the roof." tatingly into the room bu rose.
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