New Serial.
ORCHID.
BY ELEANOR EARLY.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
Getting married to a famous man Isn't half as nice as it abunds, That is, it's a dreadful atrain,"
A regular nightmare, Ashtoreth said. Only worse. Oh, auch, much worse. With reporters asking a girl how many nightgowns she lund, and if it was a love match., And would sho please tell them the story of her romance, and how Mr. And where they Kart proposed? were going to live? And did she mean to have a family?
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
A retreat at Dominica la alleged to have been visited by Miss Ashe, who left the boat at the Island, while the other passengers went on to Trinidad,
"Upon the return voyage of the S. S. Juanita, Mias Asho reappeared with Mr. Hart.
"Passengers, who viewed the ro→ mance with considerable interest, declare that the devotion of the milionaire to the beautiful stonog- rapher was the talk of the bont.
"Mr. Hart, well known man about I wonder, my dear Miss Ashe," town, has already figured. In many purred Miss Fannie Drown, sob affairs of the heart. His engage- ristor of the Trumpet, "If you willment has been frequently rumoured, tell all the little slenographers in and as many times denied.
"The Hart fortune is estimated the city how to win a husband.
$20,000,000. The Through the pages of the Trumpet, as oxceeding you know. On the Woman's Pase. family has been foremost in Bos- There were photographers, with ton society for many generations, the steps and dates its American ancestry to big black cameras, on And movie men,, who set up tripods the early Huguenot settlers. Mr.. on the sidewalk. There were re-Hart is à sportsman of note. Ho porters from every paper in town. is well known for his philanthro And several from New York be-pies, and has often been called the most eligible bachelor in America. "Eforts to reach the Ashe family in Bosion had failed at a
sides,
The telephone rang Incessantly, i Messengera arrived in droves.
And Sadie had disappeared. Maizie wrung plump hands, and called DIL heaven to witness a mother's grief.
Ashtoreth wanted to be married in ivory satin, with a wimple like anun's. to swathe her throat and
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*Missing,
she
up, or
late hour this, afternoon. Follow- "It's a shamol" ing their departure from the boat, "My heart goes out to Monty Mr. Hart registered at the Ritz, That's why he was coming to Bos but checked out shortly. Ho and ton, Aaltoreth-he'd read that his fair companion are believed to story in the paper."
"Yes, he told me ao," continued be en route to Boston."
see, Orchid, hel Hollis had torn the story from Hollis. "You face. She wanted to carry apare the paper, and stuffed it in his couldn't know, my darling, how white Easter Hly, with a long stent pocket. Shortly Monty returned much I loved you. He was com
All her life she had dreamed about it. All she had to do was with help, and the injured piloting, I think, to beat mo close her eyes, and hear the organ conveyed to a hospital. By shoot me, or something of the music roll. She could see herself, a that time, wires across the nation sort. He thought...." vision in filmy white, standing on were humming with news of the a red carpet, before a great while celdent, and the remarkable es- altar, with candies so lofty they cape of the two passengers. Names seemed half lost in the darkness. were ascertained, and the story of Standing before a man of God, im-Hollis' return from the Carribbean parlant in ecclesiastical robes and linked with the news of the crash. the trappings of churchly office. While a golden, tenor, trembling passionately should sing O Promise Me.
Probably every girl dreams of such a wedding. And sume nee their dreams come true,
peace,
silenced
"Poor dear Monty!" murmur- ed Ashtoreth.
Malzie sat up straight, and looked suspicious.
"He was with you when you The Ashes — mother and phoned," the anld. "But he'd gone daughter-locked the door of their by the time I get to the tele-
the phone." apartment. And electric buzzer, - and stuffed the
Mrs. telephone bell, to hear from Hollis nodded. "Yes, Hollis lips the story of his ad-Ashe. He told me, after the con- vonture with Monty English, nexion was broken, that he had former sweetheart of the girl he decided he would rather not talk. He was pretty much broken up poor chup."
loved,
Ashtoreth was deeply distressed. "But you told him, Holly, that everything was all right? And that we were going to be
mar-
I
Anybody would think that Ash-
Malife had met her future son- toreth, engaged to one of the rich- est men in the country, could have in-law atiffly. He was, she reflect been married in any fashion shed sourly, old enough to be her chose. As a matter of fact, she elder brother. He had, moreover, joined hands with Hollis in the ef- involved Ashloreth in an unpleas- fice of Mr. Harvey Higginbottom, aut scandal. She looked on him ried ?"
He smiled at her eagerness, who was his attorney. And hap with distrust, and shook his hand pened, also, to be a justice of the coldly, colouring with displeasure." assured him, my dear, that
His case and assurance put her worshipped you beyond life and She wore a black crope satin, at a disadvantage. So that she death, and that I mean to inaks six months old. A small velvet hat, was awkward, and
more un- you the happlest girl In the world, and a pointed fox scarf.
gracious perhaps than she meant told him we were going to be
married in the morning......" In her earn were large single to be..
She was jealous when he touch-
"And then what did he say?"* pearls, and about her neck u grad-1 unted string. On the third fingered Ashtareth, and angry. Shu interrupted Maizie. of her left hand she wore another could have cried, when he took her monstrous pearl, gleaming from a child in his arms, and kissed her. gorgeous melting of diamonds. Hol- Her mother instincts were untam- Is had bought them in New York, ed as a tiger's, and she wanted to after, she had taken the train for strike his arms away, and tear his Boston,
hands from Ashtoreth's shoulders.
The scart he had also bought. She thought of Monty, and It was in the window of a nearby could not dismiss him from her shop, and impressed itself upon mind.
"If it was Monty," she thought, him as being soft and beautiful enough to warm the pale, im" should 'not mind losing Ash- throat of his lovely Orchid. The tareth to him. It wouldn't be like pearls he had carried in his pocket lasing her then." The scarf arrived, by messenger
She felt that Hollis would sep-
from New York, a few moments erate her forever from her adoreil | before the ceremony,
chlid. And the dreadful fear bo-
Ashtoreth carried an armful of came a horrible conviction, as she orchida. Hollis, she decided, must watched them together, have ordered them by the gross. They
vases, were in bowls and everywhere about Mr. Higginbot- tom's ofler. On the desk and the window sills, and the mantle.
"Tell me."......She interrupted their love making. "Tell me, Mr. Hart, about Monty."
"Oh, yes-young English!" Hol- in started. "A remarkably fine young man, Mrs. Aahe."
They were married at noon, na the heels of an incredible morning
Holl has arrived some Lime after midnight, with a terrible
"Yes," Mulzie agreed grimly. tale of the airplane accident, and "He's one fine boy, Monty is. I high praise of Monty.English... Hove him as if he was my
Own
It was very foggy, and they were son. They don't come any better fying low. Three hundred feet than Monty, Money or no money, or so, he thought, from the ground. you can't beat a fine, clean boy, Suddenly the motor died, and the Mr. Hart." plane went into a spin.
As she crashed through the trees, the wings were torn from the fuse lage. And the body, when they
"Oh, mother!" deprecated Ash- Loreth faintly."
"It's such a long story," apolo struck the ground, was twisted and gized Hollis. "I'm afraid I haven't battered into a shapeless mass,
woman,
been very conherent. I told you The pilot, Holla sald, was badly about seeing the story in the shaken up. The shock alone had paper, and thrusting it in my poc almost killed him. He and Monty ket. Well, when young English had clambered from the forward came back, he noticed it. I'd des- cockpit, and lifted the poor chap trayed the rest of the paper, do aut. He was bleeding, from the you see, and this was sticking out) nose and mouth, and crying like a of my pocket. He reached, and
pulled it out.
"Were you saving this?" he aaked. It happens to be some- Hollis stayed with him, while thing I wanted myself." Monty sought the open road, and! "Well, naturally, I was surpris help. There was a newspaper in ed. 'Is that so?" I said. Then I the plane, that Monty had carried, told him that I was Hollis Hart, Hollis was tearing it apart, and and that the young lady was my using it to staunch the flow of fancee. blood from the pilot's nose, when his own name, on the front page, caught his eyo.
"Holila Hart, prominent Boston-
"Do you happen to know her?' anked. Is that why you were Interested?"
"For a moment, the boy loaked
dan," It said, "returned today on the as though I had struck him in the S. 8. Juanita from a cruise to the face. He staggered a bit, and I West Indies. With Mr. Hart was thought he was going to fall. The a young lady of unusual beauty crash, had unnerved him a bit. enid to have been a stenographer "Do I know her!' he gasped. in his employ. Her name on they God, man, I love her!" passenger list was given as Ash-
Hollis looked directly at Ash- toreth Ashe, and her address Box.
toreth, tan.
"And then," he told her, "I knew "Miss Ashe is a striking brunette with beautiful eyes of a peculiar it must be Monty English-the boy grey-green. Her age was given who wanted to meet you at the pier. I think I put out, my hand as 28. She is tall; and alim.
"Mr. Hart is said to have ex-to him. I culled him by name, I pressed a particular preference for believe. It's all a little hazy." Malzle was wiping her eyes. the romantic leles of the Caribbean,
"That he thought he'd be get- ting back to New York," answered and Hellls. We shook hands, said goodbye. And he congratula- ted me, like a prince."
Ashtoreth swallowed a lump in her throat.
"Let's not talk about Monty," she said. "I don't want anything
TUESDAY, MARCH
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1929.
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BUNGALOW DESTROYED BY FIRE.
Foochow, Mar, 25. It is reported that a Communist force of 6,000 has invaded South West Fukien from Kiangai and
London, Mar, 2, captured Tingchow and Shangchang]
The picturesque bungalow real- after defeating Government troops
in Farthinghoe Park, near Brack-. under Kuo Feng-ming, who is re-dence, built in the Elizabeth style ported to have been killed.
Shangchang has been recaptured ley, Northampton, was burnt to by troops converging from Kianget, the ground yesterday, Kwangtung and Fukien for_the It is close to the manalon, and purpose of cutting off the Com was the home of Mr. William munists. Precautions against Com Beaumaurice Rush. munist risings are being taken throughout Fukien by the Pro- vincial Government. The situation appears to be in land-Reuter.
The fire originated from a spark from a drawing room chimney set- ting fire to the thatched roof.
Much of the valuable furnituro-
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to spoil my happiness this night." and pictures were removed in time, "Nothing will over spoil your but amongst the paintings destroy- happiness, my darling," Hollis told ed was a large portrait group of her gravely. "I've telephoned my the Heath family, who owned the lawyer, dearest, and he will make property before it descended to arrangements to have the law the Rush family by marriage.
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(To Be Continued.)
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