THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1928.
A, FIRST NOVEL!
WHIRLWIND
CHAPTER LXV
By Eleanor. Early,
she had to resurrect their romance. Now, if Kitty
Kitty Burna was a strangrapher
He ground his heel into the soft- in the office of the Allled Shooness of an Oriental rug and pared Machinery Company. The gir restlessly about, Sybil was won- all thought she looked Bike Clara derful-no doubt about it. He re Bow, with her bly, brown eyes that membered now every detail of their flashed and rolled like a first-class youthful passion. The way she movie vamp!
lifted her lips to his. The way her Frivolity was sort, of venter soft arms erept. about his khaki with Kitty. Beneath her raspberry shoulders until her fingers elnaped rouge, she was sweet and guileless behind his neck, and she drew his as a little plaster saint,
fuce to her. The agony of their
One morning, Roger Caldwell, partingand the way she cried. dropping In, leaned over Kitty's God bless her darling heart! They'd desk and naked if he might wanted so fearfully to be married. her that evening. For six weeks What a different story life' would that nume young man had been have beeni No use philosophizing Kitty's "intention," and to win his about that. notice she had prayed that God might make him look her way.
It was
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Different, too, if they had found
a very quiet little re each other six months ago. "Now mance. Roger had been baptized there was Kitty; gentle little Kitty. and confirmed, and taken the He was the luckiest fellow in the pledge, before Kitty accepted the world to have her. Sweet. Inno dazzling solitaire he chose. Then cent. 'she gave two weeks' notice, and the girls gave her a
Sybil was, different. She'd been shower and a mahogany butterfly through the table. The bats were published, woman and Rodger bought the wedding Somehow, beside Kitty,
looked hard and ॥ ring.
Freshness
miscellaneous
The wonder of the thing never weary. dimmed.
"Oh, why," they asked each other, "why did you ever love me?"
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It was seven o'clock, and Kitty In
mill. A married
now, with
A
baby. Sybil little some-
WELK
thing to worship. There was a bit of the spiritual in Kitty's untouched charm. It set her apa. 1 from all the other jaded little girls.
The discordant note of the tele- her little room at the Franklin phone Interrupted his meditations. "Hello!--Oh, hello, Sybil. I'll be
Square House was getting worried.
"Are you sure, girls, there right down." wasn't a message before I came in t
"For heaven's sake! No! How many more times ur, you going to ask? He's gone back on you, Kitty, He's too handsome to be truet Poor Kitty!" But she laughed at their humour,
A
She was sitting in a big chair in the foyer, one alim knee thrown over the other, and a dainty foot. swinging nervously. Pale with the sophisticated paller smart women affect, with lips painted vividly. Her cosutnie was smartly black, re- "There's the phone now! What lieved by pearls about her throat do you bet it's not for me?"
She raced down the hall, and aid in her ears, they heard her before the unth doar
"John!" She rose to meet him.
closed: "Hello.helle,exterling her hand.
"Sybil! My dear!"
dear. You can't? Oh, that's tool bad. No, I don't care-not rently. It doesn't make
tenderness. The darling child who ference.
"You're a sweet child," the voles brought him fudge at Devens, and at the other end was saying. "knit the socks that didn't fit. The wlah to the Lord this other thing weeping angel who cried on his hadn't come up, but I can't get ont shoulder, and blew her little nose "of it very well. And we'll see Har-tronky's cotton handkerchief, breaking her heart with grief he old Lloyd tomorrow night.....
The little girl for whom his heart a bit of difba ached in throes of crucifying
Aa business woman Kyuse she loved him so,
Burns prided herself on being ret;| sonable.
had changed-thin How she carming suphisticate! This pale. 1 understand," she svelte erenture, with hands as cold told him. "Any how, I've a million as ice, and eyes like liquid puuls of
"OL CORTSE,
things to do,"
K
wisdom.
“I love you, Catherine Agnes," he He took her arm as they walked interrupted solemnly.
toward the elevator, and felt her
尊
Kitty hated the name she had tremble. When they reached the taken in confirmation. The sisters rooms she exclaimed delightfully made her do it, because Agnes was at the open fire, and chafed her her patron saint. But now hands before its blaze.
ignored Roger's teasing
"Me, too," she told him.
IL was their little signal.
" was too excited for dinner,"
she explained. "Couldn't you have some caffee sent up? I'm simply
there was no one near, Kitty would frozen."
whisper over the wires such pight; He accepted the suggestion eager- "I love you, sweetheart." But fly, supplementing it with hors there were girls in the corridor, d'oeuvres and chicken in a chang waiting for the booth, then Killy, dish.
when Roger repented the holy "The very thing," he insisted, ritual of lovers, would reply so that "for a cold night,"
he might know there were listeners
While they waited they sat in
about, and the conversation was constrained silence, making conver- shortly concluded.
"Phone me in the morning?"
sation with effort that was almost Indlerous. Until finally Sybil shat.
"You bet. Good night, Killy-tered the polite discourse.
-girl."
He hung up the receiver wearly, and sat dejectedly on the bed, atur ing blankly..
"Oh, God, what a iness!"
•
4
Way.
"Ten years," she cried; "and we were lovers!"
She leaned toward him, and she was very lovely in the firelight. She looked younger with her hat off, and more girlish pow that her Kitty's fiance had succeeded re-fuce was Bushed.
"And we're talking like a couple markably in business The girls agreed that Kitty had of mididle-aged fogies," he coun- tered lightly. "We've grown old, done pretty well for herself.
"Now if you can only hold him," Sybil." they told her, and warned her out of their hard young wisdom. "The more he has known of the many, the less he will settle to one."
"haven't!" she cried, and her eyes and checks were flaming.
"You're extremely provocative," he remarked evenly." "Tremendous-
For Caldwell had been as notoly desirable, my dear." riously successful with women as with real estate.
The suite he occupied at the Fair-1 more was indicative of his mone- tary achievements. Sybil would be impressed with the luxury of hia surroundings.
He poked the fire vigorously. "I'm absolutely crazy about you." "Yes?".
Now she was angry.
"I never would have dreamed it. Anybody'd think you considered me quite beneath your interest."
He rose to light a cigarette, and
A small glow of satisfaction in- truded upon his misery. Belter stood, when he had done it, with that she found him this way than his back to the blaze, his hands
a broken wreck of a thing in that deep in his pockets. hospital ward in Washington. He
"Sybil, I hate evasions. What do
didn't want her pity-not by a dern you want me to do?" aight. He hoped she wouldn't think
1
(To Be Continued.)
"THE DIVINE WOMAN" French theatrical actress, who,
GRETA GARBO IN AN UNUSUAL FILM.
tired of the wealth and luxury showered upon her by her many admirers, returns to her first love 1-a private soldier and deserter from the French Army. It is sald that Miss Garbo carries her role The alluring blonde screen star, magnificently from the opening Greta Garbo, and Lars Hanson scenes as a peasant girl to the heights which she achieves as the
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If Mather turns her back a minute, David's off again. But Mother doesn't really mind. When David's in mischief sho knows that David's well.
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