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New Serial.
ORCHID.
BY ELEANOR EARLY. ·
CHAPTER XIII.
Mademoiselle
stars.
considered
the
Ashtoreth shared her stateroom]
"The fat women," she said, with an Incredible woman of doubt-"and all the skinny ones they ful antecedents. Her name was make me angry. And so I am Mona do Musact, and she was warm." returning to her home in Gunde- She sighed profoundly.
loupe.
"I hate women," she remarked, She was a tall, dusky creature, and her voico had a curious with red lips and a luminous smile. Her hair was long and very black, quality. It was a deep, soft voice,
and vibrant with feeling. and she knotted it with beautiful She appraised Ashtoreth critic- simplicity at the back of her neck cally in the light of a brilliant
When the printed passenger moon. liste appeared, everybody began to
"You are very beautiful," she conjecturo about Mademoiselle de pronounced unexpectedly. Musset. It was л coincidence
And Ashtoreth suddenly folt that her first name was Mona, childish and very stupid, having because people thought immediate no answer to make,
ly of Mona Lisa, and declared that the two looked alike.
"The same mysterious smile,” they said.
་
Ashtoreth, who considered the original Mona absurdly overrated, thought her roommate exceeding- ly mare beautiful.
"So the women are also jealous of you, th?" pursued the other.
"Jealous? Oh no!”
"You are on the stage?" lu- quired Mademoisella.
"Why, no."
Ashtoreth hesitated. It seemed quite unnecessary. to tell this She wore long earringe. And dazzling creature that she was a her dinner gowns were the most stenographer and worked in an | during ever Been. They were office,
slashed in a narrow V'to her waist
"Mais oui." Mademoiselle
at the back. And the undulat-shrugged her eloquent shoulders. ing budice extended, surprisingly Beautiful women
make their
to a high neck, that swathed her living by exhibiting themselves, is slim throat like a bandage.
it not so? On the stage, may be, It was not until Mademoisella or they are the jewels of some raised her arms that one beheld rich men. It is the same thing, the triumph of those gowns. For And the others who can not suddenly she looked bare to her exhibit, because they are ugly— slim waist! It was as if Venus. they are jealous. But we will be pretending modesty, had tucked a friends, eh?" napkin under her chin,
She reached to touch Ashtoreth's
Her dress, that first evenlog.knee.
was cloth of gold. On her bare "I go," she said, "to my home' fect she wore green pumps. And in Guadeloupe, to see who Hivos. in her ears, barbaric jade, that The hurricane killed 600 people klased her sleek brown shoulders. there. And I have no word. So 1
come from Paris to see."
"Your people live there?" asked Ashtoreth, who had been read- ing on the boat deck, powdered Ashtoreth, quickly sympathetic. her nose when the dinner bugle "My friends," said Mademof- blew, and hurried to the dining selle; and, abruptly, changed the saloon. She was wearing the subject.
"It is your first trip? You will crepe de chine that had taken such a beautiful shade of brown.love it very much. But you should a man, Mademoiselle, to And, with it, Sadie's gamel's hair have coat and the little suede hat that make love beneath the moon. It is hugged her ears, '
too bad to be alone."
She found her place at the first officer's table. And beside her sat Mademoiselic de Musset.
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The very air was charged with excitement. Married women glar- ed at their husbands. Spinsters averted their pious gaze. And the| Mademoiselle sat-up quickly and room buzzed with the acrid com-lucked her long brown arms about ments and observations of the her knees. For a moment she, pure.
stared abross the dark water. Mademoiselle de Musset spoke Then, rousing herself, sprang cordially to Ashtoreth, and then quickly to her feet.. devoted herself to the first officer. "Shall we have a drink?" she When they left the dining room asked. "The bar is open. It will she slipped her arm through Ash-warm us" toreth's.
Ashtoreth had never been in a
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As they ascended the stairs shobar hefore. Afraid of seeming un- 26th and 27th instant, and close
remarked quite audibly, "You and Initiated, she agreed, a little at 12 noon.
1. Mademoiselle, are the only dublously. women in the room with beautiful To her surprise the "bar" was bodies, eh? The rest if they an informal lounge where the should lose their clothes they passengers sat about small tables. would be obscene."
Some of them were playing bridge,
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NOTICE is hereby given that Then, without waiting for an with tall glasses at their hands. answer, she continued in a throaty Everybody looked up when she and the Hongkong Sharebrokers' As- voice that carried embarrassingly: Mademoiselle enme in. And three sociation will be closed at Noon "They look like dumb-bells run portly females left the room. on Race Days, on Monday, 25th, Alzandrie
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Ashtoreth felt neutely uncom "Old maids!" she pronounced, fortable. She knew, with a horrid her glance following them through 'can always tell, certainty, that if she were friendly the door, "You with Mademoiselle, she would have ch? Because old maids are born, no other friends aboard. But how and not made." could she possibly snub the woman
She chuckled quietly at her littlo with whom she roomed? She joke, and Ashtoreth found her soft wished frantically that she had laugh delightfully thrilling. been able to afford a single state-
she observed "Most women,"
room. Maybe the purser would "are good because they never had let her have another cabin. If a chance to be anything else. And Maizie could only see her now! that makes them angry, ma cheric." Or Monty. Or Mr. Hart. Arm In
She called for whisky and soda, arm with Mademoiselle de and sandwiches. But Ashtoreth, remembering Malzie's parting ad- monition, declined. the proffered up 品 drink.
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Mademoiselle ed and gives cause for anxiety. crude jokes. But "Let us talk," proposed Made-laughed her pretty, throaty laugh, molsclie; and calling a deck stew- And, when all the respectable ard, had their deck chairs placed women had left, the first officer join in my country. It is pretty, eh?" together.
ed them at their table. It was then Ashtoreth regarded the first off- Sho settled herself languidly, that Ashtoreth excused Hornelf. cer superiorly. She was annoyed crossing her slim ankles and pil "I'm so sleepy," she begged, "you because he had not joined them lowing her dark head on her up-don't care if I go down?" while there were other passengers stretched arms. Ifer wrap had "Nen, Non, pauvre cherie." about. His arrival, she knew, had slipped from her shoulders and she Mademoiselle placed her two brown been discreetly timed. She hoped tossed it carelessly across her hands on Ashtoreth's slim white that Mademoiselle would not favour Batavia Angers. "Sweet dreams, mon petit him with her entrancing presence Bondag chou."
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