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ORCHID
BY ELEANOR EARLY.
CHAPTER XXIX.
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Hollis was looking at her so ro-Bers verently that she was profoundly
"I think," Hollis Hart told her touched. "Darling untouched- grimly, "I'd murder him."
1
Ashtoreth shivered. "Not really?" she cried,, and laughed a litle, nervously.
ness". thought.
Woll, it was a sweet
"You say the nicest things," she'
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approved. "I believe, I'll miss an- 3. D.F. Ball, De W. Z. Fattenden, Isa "Yes, really," he assured her. [other. boat, so that you can go on. Compton, Esq. FlammMT,
p. Lander Lewis, Is...T. G. Well, E. "And that, my dear, is why a man saying them." liko mu should never marry a girl She darted a quick glance at like you."
him, to see the effect of her sug Her colour mounted. She saw gestion. If only he would urge his eyes on her satin jacket. And her to stay! With a little more gathered the dressing gown across time a little more "starlight-a her chest, clutching it with one little more of being so madden- hand;
ingly close to each other-then she could
"I--I think," she said, "that Ashtoreth, believed my clothes are dry now. I'll go wring from him the declaration
for which she longed. and dress."
"I'll walk up with you," he offered.
But Hollis shook his head. She Iripped on the root of a
"Heavon," he said, "kan let me great tree that ran across the dream for a whole week. Now It ground like a big grey enako.. He is time to wake." caught her arm and held her for a moment against him.
"But why wake?" who cried "We pay for our dreams in wak-1 "I am afraid," he said, "that.1ing out of them. Why can't we am beginning to love you very go on dreaming? much, Orchid.".
He smiled ruefully.
more."
"Well, it's been lovely," she
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She was silent, not knowing "Life," he told her gently, isn't what to say. Fearful, perhaps, of like that. Dreams are only inter apoiting the magle of the moment.ludes." She felt him tremble, as his arm closed across her shoulders. sighed. "But it's going to be per- HONGKONG SAVINGS' BANK.
"One more kiss," he begged. fectly hideous, trying to put it all; "One Hulle kiss,, and nothing behind me. To go or being a stenographer. And live in a pokey She raised her lips. And won-ttle fint. And Lake dictation dered if he was going to ask to and pound a typewriter all day. marry her.
And go to bed all night. And never see the stars except over the He left her on the gallery. And top of the buildinga.".
"Poor working girl!" he taunt- when she had gone to her roomed. "With nothing ahead. but] he called for a whisky and soda. After he had finished it he went! to the garden, She could see him from her window, as she dressed, walking restlessly about.
life."
""Life" the scorned. "What's life, when you spend it the way 1 have to?"
"Oh, you'll find your stars," he iconsoled her. "And love, in other gardens. You're very
"It has been a perfect weck," she told herself. "I wonder this is the end."
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“Why, Orchid!" he cried. "It's nothing," she insisted, and
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gether. Then the groom would
so sorry for myself sometimes bring the horses around and they that's all." would ride down the mountain "Sorry! he echoed, "Why, sido to the little village that
adorable you
little simpleton,
nestled at the foot of the hills don't you know that you ought, to The cruise ship would be riding go around singing pscans of joy, the waves, They would put out just because you're alive, with all in little native boat. And life stretching, like a great Hollis would ясе her
aboard:
safely venture, ahead of you”
Or if he would
She wondered if he would go aboard with her. leave her to face the women who
"There's no adventure," told him, "in being poor."
ad-
she
"Well, there's a lot more than in being rich," he maintained." had snubbed her and Mona Being rich now is an awful bore. eruelly. Well, they'd have some-When you can have everything thing to talk about now-those you want, you know, you women! She'd spent a week with want things.
don't
a man in a house on the top of the "And have you everything you mountain. His house. She had
gone there of her own free will. And stayed there. And now she'd. flatul her fully in their faces!
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"Orchid! Oh, Orchl4!" Halls was calling her.. "Coming she cried.
He had gathered an armful of butterfly orchids and was waiting for her in the garden, She no- ticed how gently he bundled them, and with what care he touched their tender petals.
want?" she asked.
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He looked at her quietly. "Everything," he said, "that money can buy."
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"I suppose," she mused, "money Alexandria has absolute purchasing power:Batavia With money you cahay, now). Buon Arts Los Ange position, leisure, engment: Love, Calenta even,"
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"I shall never see, another or-agine." chid," he said, "without being re- miled, my dear, of you."
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"Now you're looking for com- you meant it. But I know you're Hongkong, 111, March, 1929.. pilments," he told her. "But, altogether too idealistic. to believe seriously, every, adjective that I that sort of thing. Love, Orchid, should think of applying to an is the one commodity that cannot orchild I should apply also to your be bartered and sold." charming self.".
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"Oh, my goodness!" she cricu. their poor, shabby bodies."
"Orchid!" he cried. "My dear, "You're funny, Holly! I'm not any more like an orchid than I'm I can't bear to hear you say such like a sunflower, or a modest little violet. Or a skunk cabbage, for that matter,"
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"Oh, please, Holly" she begged. browsing bee has bruised, its little heart, Norgipsy wind caressed "You don't mean it. Don't talk its charms.
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