A FIRST NOVEL!
WHIRLWIND
CHAPTER I.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
By Eleanor. Early.
on the sands, and the moon scuttled behind a cloud. The When Sybil Thorne was night was fearsomely beautiful. younger, and hor picture appeared
And Sybil was fearfully lovely, every day or two in the social She stood with her face to the aca, columns, it was usually captioned while the wind whipped her dress "Boston's Fairest Bud."
of misty stuff about her and blew Society, editors houped praise her hair to John's check. Then and compliments upon her. One he took her in his arms and klased of them declared her to be "the her. most popular and the most beautf- After that Sybil braved parental ful" debutante of the Benson displeasure And motored to Another pronounced her the best Devens every day. Her father, by dancer, and a third the most permitting her to take the car, accomplished sportswoman.
Have the affair half-hearted acquiescence. Her mother, though she admitted John "seemed like a nice young man," frowned on the
But Sybil isn't exnetly a girl any
more. She was 30 last month.
Her first triumphs date back to
the war.
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It was then sho grew momance, up; falling in love, after the fashion of adolescents, with a The roads about Devens and into Holdier. Shortly afterward ale Ayer were dusty and not con- proceeded to the enjoyment of ducive to romance, but beyond the those reckless pursuits which re-camp an orchard stretched where formers and professors write about leafy apple trees made welcome with great feeling.
shadows. A little away from the The youth of the land" was rest stand i gurled old tree with becoming subject for tirade and twisted limit and a crotch where tears, Worthy citizena formed two could sit and love. Beneath vigilance committees and wrote its shute the lovers clung, articles. Some of them have been "Darling, darling, . . ." When supporting themselves that way he kissed her, he felt her tears in over, since.
his Hp--salty, tangy-bitter- iswert,
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"How old are yod Sybll?" "Eighteen." she told him. "So young," he whispered. "So little, and so young."
Sybil was 18 when she first got herself talked about. It was part ly because she was so unusually pretty. People can believe almost anything of a girl with beautiful lega, particularly if she posscases,
"Old enough." Her lips against also, a certain symmetry of form his ear were saying it. and lovelinean, of fenture. Sybil's "No, no, I can't." He held her eyes are beautiful pools of velvety fram him. "I might come back softness, flecked with little darts jail shot up. I mightn't come back of coppery stuff. Her skin has an at all." ivory pallor, and she makes up her ps so they look like a bleeding gash In her pale face.
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hair.
"heritages." He gave her a bit of verse of Alfred Noyes' that ho had clipped from an Engilar paper in
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1928.
MACAO RACES.
MISTY EVE.
[BY "RINGTAIL"] Backers had a bad day at the meating which was arranged for the special benefit of the crowd who went over to Macao to see the opening of the Industrial Fair yesterday afternoon,
Paris, and Sybil carried it in' her MA KAU SIAC PUTS IT OVER purae until it crumbled to pieces.
He looked so handsome. In uniform, with his swagger English cap and his silver shoulder bars. Tad had come home a captain with a Croix de Guerre and two wound stripes. His mother was tremen- dously proud of him, and wanted him to go everywhere with her, She hated to have him get back to civics, but the second day home he went to his tailor for some new clothes.
"If you know how I hate the sight of the damn things!" he said of his beautiful whipcord breeches and his gorgeous tunic.
Sybil wanted to wear mourning for John, but the family dissuaded her.
"Since your engagement was over announced, 'dear," conxed her mother, "I really think it taste. would be rather poor Nobody really knows, you see, that you were actually planning to be married."
"But I want them to!" cried Sybil. "I'm so proud of having been his sweetheart. I want everybody to know.
She took John's picture and crossed two little Bags above it, and kept it on her dressing table with flowers in front of it. read his letters constantly, and abandoned herself to a frenzy of extravagant grief.
Sho
"Can't you try to snap out of it, Sis?" begged Tad. "It isn't doing John any good, you know. And you're too darn anart to go dragging 'round like an old woman. It's a good old world, after all, And we're only young once."
He urged her to make up parties. "We're a girl short, Sybil," he bar to any. "Dick's girl went back on him. Won't you fill in liko a good sport? Dick Wright you know. He's a prince of a fellow." Of course, she saw through Tad, but to please him, she went some times.
"Then," she told him bravely, "I'd never forgive myself if I'd
The Eighteenth Amendment had heen passed, and drinking was let you go like this."
"Augel!"
lamentably He was kissing her becoming
smart. Flasks had come in; and a really daring present for a man to give for her bag. Giels had begun to smoke, too. Men were saying you never knew whether a girl. would be insulted if you offered her a elgarette or offended if you didn't.
One day Sybil went to Y.M.C.A. headquarters and volunteered for Then she took the pins out of oversena service, but there was her payche, and shook it down, toja girl was an enamelled flaconette ruling that no relative of soldiers please him. So that he took it would be accepted, and Sybil re-in his hands, and let it slip through signed herself to the inevitable. his fingers, caressingly. And the "I tried," she told herself next year, when Sybil had it savagely. "God knows I don't bobbed, she saved all that was ent want to play with gauze while Tad away, in memory of John's kisses; and the rest of them--"
on it.
She choked on the very thought. Before she went they had Often at night she saw Tad lyingplanned to be married that week. Sybil drove home with her head in a pool of blood, His face was blown away sometimes. "Or there in a whirl and her heart full of was a great hole, in his chest. wurn gladness. John would get a And, if he wasn't quite dead, he furlongh Perhaps the family was asping-trying to say some-would let them have the place at Winnno for a few days. That thing.
She and Tad were such pals. It would be lots more fun than a was hard on a girl to cut bandagedel, or travelling. There would back in 1918 and do nothing more he wonderful days on the beach. Valiant than knit like an old And nights, grlovingly long. They woman. Particularly if a girl and would swim in the moonlight, and her brother at the front meant use on the amis afterward. much to each other as Tad and Sybil had a private conviction Sybil Thorne.
"DRUMS OF LOVE.”:
SPECTACULAR SCENES IN BIG PICTURE,
D. W. Griffith's "Drums of Love" which will bo prosented at the Queen's Theatre from Wednesday to Saturday next, according to a special advertisement in this fasue, is the story of two brothers who solemnly swear to uphold each other's honour, and tells of how they are brought to a grave crisis when they both fall in love with a beautiful girl held by them is a hostage. The theme is based on the historical incident of Francesca da Rimini.
Several upsets occurred which, however, did not damp the en- thusfam of the happy throng who had collected to enjoy the meeting no matter what happened, Misty Evé who had given him a epic of fatherly love, so "Drums of Macao Siac had his revenge on Ae "Sorrell and Son" was an trouncing at the last meeting. Ace Love" is an outstanding work in Of Spades, the certainty for the the seldom-attempted field of mile and a half event, failed miser-brotherly love. The production is. ably and also failed again when he spoken of as being one of D. W. was sent out in this last race to Griffith's greatest pictures and the himself compares it recover his lost laurels. The Duke director of Nieblang was the next favourite favourably with "Intolerance," to be licked and in the next race the "Broken Blossoms" and "Tho not Birth of a Nation." No pains favourite, Ploughman, did even get a place and backers must have been at their wits end when the favourite, Cheral, was beaten by an ordinary entrant in the second last race of the day,
were spared in making the picture one of the most luviah yet turned out by. United Artists. More than eight thousand extrns were em- ployed from time to time when the picture was being filmed. Mary Philbin, Lionel Barrymore, Don Alvarado and Tully Marshall are among the principal players.
His Excellency the Governor of Macao was amongst the hucky owners, as his pony, Veloz, was re- apopsible for the upsetting of one of the good things of the day. The Eve stable did föt meet with their accustomed luck na they only had one win at the meeting, their best Hon. Mr. A. C. Hynes & Mr. C. G. candidate having to take third place
Mackie's Perpetual Motion
(Mr. Clark) a in the main event of the meet. Mr.
Also ran: Ace of Spades (Mr. Har Wong won two races Mr. Roza to, riman); Black Pearl (Mr. T. L and Mr. Charles, Mr. Clark, Mr. Wong) Silver Mine (Mr. Fontes); MacCartney and Major Wolfe Mur-Skipper (Mr. Stanton). ray each secured a win.
Time: 3.30 2/5 min. A neck. 3 Sunday's meeting was a lesson to lengths. some of the disgruntled owners of Parl-mutuel: Winner $194. Places, ponies, who are ever ready to criti- $17.50, $0.40, $14.50. cise the work of the Handicapper.
The manner in which some of the ponies were brought together proves that they know their job and are never satisfied, no matter how their ponies are handicapped.
Advantage was taken of the wonderful improvements which inve been undertaken since the last meet ing, and altogether it was a very pleasant afternoon's enjoyment' to all concerned.
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The Results. The following were the results of the various events:
Club women wore beginning to 1.The November Novices Race: gei excited, and talk reforms. One and a Quarter Miles. For a crime wave hit the coun- Major B. C. Lake's As You Like It (Mr. W. Murray) .. And even the girls were try going crazy. They rolled their Mrs. R. J. Paterson's Boukra
(Mr. Morgan) stockings. Cosmeties sprang into favour, and women began to make. C. W. P. Richardson's
Movanagher (Mr. Richardson) up like Jezeheh.
Also ran: The Zebra (Mr. Mc- Cartney); Walchow (Mr. Ip).
1
2
3
Time: 2,54 375 min, 11⁄2" lengths. Many Lengths.
Pari-mutuel: Winner $9.70, Places, $5.20, $6.10.
Cash Sweepa. lut-Ticket No. 23- $120.00 2nd-Ticket No. 33-$34.00; 3rd-Ticket No. 12-$17.30.
2.-The Monte Stakes: One and a
The evils of the war" became sort of slogan. People talked despairingly of "the youth of the land." and wondered what they were going to do about it. Impor- tant persons were interviewed on what they thought of the Modern Girl. Destring to be broadminded, they eulogized her not knowing
Half Mes. that a week of love in June was what it was all about. And, mean- Mr. S. W, Hee's Ching Hoi
(Mr. McCartney) Then something happened that worth a whole month of it in the line, she went from bad to worse, raade it even even harder.
winter-tinu. She hugged herself
Someone had cuined the word Mr. S. W. Cheng's Westlake Suddenly, inexplicably, Sybil feil, inwardly with little anticipatory Flapper. And the Flappers, took
(Mr. Charles) They In love. She went one day tushivors,
her dressing exactly alike. presently
(Continued on Next Column.) Devens with her mother to take a stacy was shadowed by grim wore coloured skirts of homespun, box to boy in Mr. Throne's forebodings, nil the fears of a frayed about the bottom, instead of employ.
wamun for her beloved who is in hemmed. Brilliant little sweaters And that they called slip-ons. danger.
crowns large hats clapped on the sides of their heads, They cut their hair, and called it Castle Cips, for Irene, Castle, who had lost her own after a fever, and wore what she had left short of necessity,
The boy was a private in infin- try, a fail, alim youth, with chest- nat hair, bleached like gold from the sun that shone on Devens, and blue eyes with black lashes. They had taken his books, from him and given him a gun with which to kill other boys full of promise, and a trench knife, in case he met a youth in hand-to-hand encounter and could not use his gun.
But
"But I will be brave," she vowel, "And i will make him very happy. Then, if he should have to go, I will send him with a smile."
Poor Sybil, playing with dreams, That night John Lawrence's regi- ment entrained for Hoboken, and sailed the next midnight.
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Be left a note for her with a At the moment Sybil experi-boy at camp. A heart-broken little eneed only one reaction to the note, scribbled with a stubby blonde beauty of him. He thrilled pencil on a sheet of Y.M.C.A.
was hiper. John Lawrence her.
name. And it was plain that he She carried it for months down was a private through accident the front of her dress next her only. Obviously he had antece-henit.
with flats
Girls beenme
People knew of Colonel Bixby's infatuation. But they knew, too, that Sybil, when he kissed her nne night, slapped his face, and told him to go home to his wife. The colonel told it himself, in his cups.
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Cash Sweeps: Jat-Ticket No. 60- $186.30; 2nd-Ticket No. 96-$59.40; 3rd-Ticket No. 45-$26.70.
The Tap Sinc Handicap: "A" Class: One Mile. Dr. C. M. Leitao's Ma Kati Stac
(Mr. G. Roza) 1 Mr. N. Hashim's My Lady
(Mr. Clark) 2 Mr. Evo's Misty Eve
(Mr. T. L. Wong) 3 Also ran: V`Un II (Mr. Proulx); Wuchang (Mr. Ip).
Time: 2.07 4/5 min. A neck. 1 lengths,
Pari-mutuel: Winner $20.70. Places, $13.00, $9.60,
Cash Sweeps: Ist-Tickel No. 14- $228.00; 2nd-Ticket No. 81-$05.20; 3rd-Ticket No. 120-$32.60.
1.The Tap Star Handicap: "B" Class: One Mile.
Mr. Eve's Gala Eve (Mr. Charles) 1 Menars, Chang and Ng's Glory
(Mr. Clark) 2 Mr. N. Hashim's Sunning
(Mr. G. Roza) 3 Also ran: Beatco (Mr. Harriman); Caesar (Mr., Backhouse); Caviaro (Mr. Roldy),
Time: 2.10-2/5 min. 3 lengths, 2 lengths.
Pari-mutuel: Winner $8.50. Pinces,
$6.20, $7.50, $7.10,
Cash Sweeps: Ist-Ticket No. 115- $270.00; 2nd-Ticket No. 104-$79.00; Brd-Ticket No. 147-$39.80.
Class: One Mile.
5.-The Tap Sac Handicap: "C"
1
11. E.'s Véloz
2
(Mr. G. Roza) 1 Mesra, K. C. Lau and H. C. Lec's
Duke of Nieblung
2
(Mr. Harriman) Dr. S. To Weng's Grey Eyes
(Mr. T. L. Wong) 3 Also ran: Man-of-war (Mr. Clark); Six Hundred (Mr. Morgan); Suther Jand (Mr. Backhouse); Westlake (Mr. Charles).
Time: 2.12-2/5. min. 4 lengths. lengths.
$18.00.
Winner
Parl-mutuel: Places, $6.30, $7.50, $7.50.
Cash Sweepa: 1st-Ticket No. 20- $257.30; 2nd-Ticket No. 98-$73.40;. 3rd-Ticket No. 31-$36.70.
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Then there was the party where Trixie Belle, from the Midnight| Brothers of the ex-service men Follies, impersonated statuary in bigan to grow up. They were, the nude. The newspapers oblain-
6 The Top Siac Handicap: "D"} for the most part, a decadent lot, ed the names of "those present," their deficiencies emphasized by and lo, Sybil Thorne's led all the Class: One Mile.
Dr. S. To Wong's Ullswater They were called rest. contrast.
(Mr. T. L. Wong) 1 Parlor Sunkes, Cake Eaters and Lounge Lizards. At first they
Girls of her old crowth and Mr. E. L. Hosie's The Haugh
(Mr. Proulx) 2 went in for skimpy, pinch-backed become the Younger Married Set. Dr. F. Pierce Grove's Slang River.
(Mr. Reidy) 3 suits with high waist lines. They A few years later they were the
Also ran: Black Pearl (Mr. Ho Sai cultivated a carriage that rivalled Younger Divorced Set. Tad and
Man); Kwong Chow (Mr. Fontes); dents. Family, traditions, breed- Whenever she was alone she the popular Debutante Slouch, and Sybil were drifting apart. ing all that sort of thing. Herend again and again.
"We're a couple of eggs," she Little Darling (Mr. Clark); Little By beenme "dancing foola" with long
River (Mr. Morgan); Mavanagher talked casily. Présently it Christmas, with kisses and with hair. When the Prince of Wales told him affably one day. developed that he had been atfleara, it was worn so thin it was visited America, they changed And stretching himself lazily, Mr. Richardson) Ploughinan (Mr. (Mr. Back- Harriman); Shingle Yale-a second-year
Be falling apart. Thea Sybil put it their sartorial effects, and em- he retorted good naturedly? belonged to Tad's fraternity. the box where she kept her braced aggy garments,
"You are making a bit of a fool house): Spring Day. (Mr. Charles).
Time: 2.14-9/5. min, 2% lengths. 31rs. Thorne became interested. trinkets, under the puffy blue satin
independent. of yourself, old girl. Why don't
3 lengths.
Part-mutue!: Winner $22.10. Perhaps her husband-he knew pad that lined the cover. And Women, who had found work for you marry Craig Newhall?" Mr. Lawrence's colonol-perhaps when she slipped it there, a crush the duration of the war," discover- People that summer had come Pinces, $0.00, $9.50, $0.60.
Crab Sweeps: 1st-Ticket No. 74- he could help him. Offfeurs' ing sense of finality'eame over her. ed that they liked it. Their to regard young Newhall as Training School, or something? As if that was the end. As If incomes often doubled, and some Sybil's particular property. Most $210.00; 2nd-Ticket No. 13-500,00;
John Lawrence protested. Oh, John Lawrence had perished with times tripled the family budgeta. irls would have been delighted 3rd-Ticket No. 32-$80.00.
7-The Macao Fair Stakes: 8ix no-really. He would make the his last crumbling protestations, Married women, in business and at the assumption, for Craig was
the most eligible Furlongs, grade all right. Expected, to tell and she would never see him again, the professions, retained their probably
Messrs. Luz and Leilao's Zircon II Either be
(Mr. T. L. Wong) 1 the truth, to be chosen for the next And that night a cable came: maiden numes. Miss Brown when bachelor in Boston. training school. He was very "Missing in action."
she became, legally speaking, Mrs. cause he was exceptionally clever, Messrs. Chan and Rafeck's Chemal Mightn't he
To Smith, remained Miss
(Mr. Harriman) 2 grateful, however.
They tried to buoy her up..
Brown. or because of his irreproachable show them around a bit? They sustain their own faltering hopes. Plain gold bands grow alimmer, social connexions, ho had been Messrs. Stanton and Reidy's Bloo
World
(Mr. Stanton) 3 made a tour of inspection, with "That doesn't mean he's dead, and about the time the jewellers admitted, following ble graduation.
Also ran: Little Sit Tang (Mr. Gr young officers glancing enviously Sybil, Probably he's in a hospt had succeeded in popularizing from Harvard, to membership in
Roza). from every barracks, and Sybil the til somewhere. Oh, my dear, you platinum, wedding rings were tem- the finest legal firm in the city.
Time: 1.35-4/6. min. 4 lengths. 2 target of all, admiring eyes.
He was long and thin, and mustn't take on like this! Don't porarily passe.
lengthis
Winner $82.00. Pari-mutuel: give up hope. Everything may be
brown like coffee with cream in it, And his eyes were amazingly blue. Places, $7.40, $5.50. Before they left she had pro-all right."
When he looked at her contem-
Cash Sweeps: 1st-Ticket No. 105- mised to write.. It was a girl's. But Sybil know her "He's'
platively, Sybil always thought of $100.50; 2nd-Ticket No. 76-$68.20; patriotic duty in those days. She dead!" she shrieked through her
3rd-Ticket No. 48-$28.10. promised also to send some fudge tears. "Dead, I tell you! I know,
a bit of a jingle:
8 The Consolation Plate: Bix Fur. longs. and a cake, and asked if he needed He came to me in a dream, all sweaters or socks.
blood. So I know, you see, that
Messrs, Cheng and Ng'a Glory
(Mr. Clark) 1 On Sunday the Thornes motored he is dead." again to Dovens, accompanied by
Mr. Chouk Suon Lo's U Un I
(Mr. Proulx) 2 Mr. Mancunian's Caesar
(Mr. Backhouse) a Also ran: Silver Mine (Mr. McCart noy); Ace of Spades (Mr. Harriman). Time: 1.30. min. A neck, Two lengths.
Parl-mutuel: Winner. $10.00, Places, 86.90, $14.20.
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There was much discussion About Free Lave,.
Tad became involved in an "affair." The girl threatened sult, and Mrs. Thorne had a nervous breakdown. The "Young Thornes" became the talk of the town. Everyone knew about. Sybil's in-
"Blue was the sky, blue as
your eye
Which is the torrible reason
why
It's easy-to live, and hard to Mr. Thorne, who handed around After the war life had been very discretions but her parents. They
dlo." cigarettes randly. He took a liking gay for Sybil's crowd. John Law-knew, for instance, that Mrs. Van
Now she glanced curiously" at to Lawrence and invited him down rence was 10 months missing then. Dusen had threatened to sue her for dinner. The following week "Presumably dead," the record for alienation of philandering Tad.
"Why, Taddy" she parried, Van's affections. the young man obtained a 24-hour said.
Sybil had laughed when she "nolwdy'd want to marry me. I'm Tad came home, bronzed, and leave and spent, most of it at
Something heard about it.
just a "different" looking.
How Thorne's place at Wianno,
"They have to prave very Irresolutely she paused.
much, after all, was it wise for the moon over the water and walk-that ran through his hair. He specific things in a suit like that," ed with him along the beach. was very sweat to Sybil, and talk she said,and I may be an egg, a girl to tell her brother?. Little waves splashed mournfully1ed to her of "death less glory" and but I'm not that kind of an egg?
In the evening Sybil showed him about his eyes, and the gray streak
(To Be Continued.)
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