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100 yards Breast Stroke--Cham- pionship of the Colony,
Diving Championship
Dash Free
50 yanda Baya' Race="Handicap- Open to the Colony
alley Darade aduaior from cobra that 19 the unhappfest Colony.
over heels in love with Yount Jack Wells, Harvard man, handsame, and poor as a church mansa, On Commencement day the Dean, sonda for her, to discuss her
future Molly has a decade, Slack, and has
But wanta' to "marry 'that, will be a bois lot aweeter than trying to Wallias in the Dean's oner, the idly picks up the morning paper, and thars, on the di- torial part, she sees a bit of verse about a girl whose ambition was thwarted þr mar-
De a novulet or a port
Molly tears the vérve from the paper, and sticks it in har vanity. Then, confusedly. she discussen her future with the Dean. Firet
to
the Dean offers hell splendid position in the be married shortly, but she supposes she could litery world folly says that the also try bar hand at writing.
The Dean alles. “Oh, noy” sha anys. cannot mix love and a caTMT."
"You
Then the Dean ruthar abruptis diamkan har. Jack arrives to take her to the President's
0g," she persisted.
yards
feel-
the Colony Baya
"Psych yourself out of it," he counselled "Start thinking about how much we love each other, And how wonderful it's going to be. If you make up your mind you'll never stop loving me, why nothing" can happen, dear."
"Well if that's all there is to it," she conceded, "we'll be all what my favourite little prayor 187 right, because you know, honey,
I say it all the time. I mean I sing It..
.....
And sitting up, Molly began to
Low. That evening they paddle about on Cosing. Her voice was throaty, and lege lake, and Jack makes love madden she sang with a sort of dusky ten
derness:
"Fish got to swim and birds got
to fly,
Josly.
"Oh, Jack," begs Molly, "let's get married now. I love you so. And I don't care how poor we are
CHAPTER II.
"Molly darling,"ck protested, "don't you know, dear, that I want to take care of my little girl? I want to have money to buy you pretty things. Fur coats, and dresses, and, and .. things... all kinde of things. I couldn't let you serimp and save, and worry about billa. I want to do things for you. And buy you things. I want to give you just everything in the world.'!
He kissed her forehand, "You see, dear," he told her alm- ply, "I love you so.”
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You simply it's the miserablest little prairie grass that's all. couldn't understand. Why, honey, town you ever laid your two eyės on. Talk about good times for en- Kgaged girls! Well, maybe you think bemming dish towels is having a good time. And going to horrible kitchen showers. :- And playing bridge. And drinking tea. My dear, I give you my word, my blood runs cold every time I think about it Can't help lovin' dat man of I did hope." she concluded plaintively, you'd marry me, and rescue me. Listen, Jack!"
I got to love one man till I die, Can't help lovin' dat man of mine, Tell me he's lazy, tell me he's
slow;
Tell me I'm crazy, maybe, I
know,
mine....
She was sitting up now, with her arms crossed on the pillow beneath her head, and her head flung back, so that her neck gleamed Blender and white in the moonlight. Jack had begun to paddle.
You're the beautifulest girl in the world," he whispered.
And you're the stubbornest man!" she flashed.
She freed herself from his arms, and propped herself on her elbow.
She trailed her fingers in the "But, Jack," she cried, "that's water, and shaking them free of just it. Stupid! You love me so the drops that sparkled like pears And I love you so. And then you in the starlight, spoke softly. go and talk about things. Stupid
"Maybe I'm awfully silly, Jack old things... Crazy old fur coats, But I tell you, dear, I feel very and dresses...and things; What seriously about this. And I'm do I care about things? I want warning you that you'd better marry you?"
me quick as the Lord will let you. Suddenly she was crying. "It's no good," she sobbed, "talk-let you."
Or maybe, by and by, He won't ing like that. Waiting, and wait- Jack laughed. ing, and waiting. If you loved me, "Oh, I'll have a raise pretty Jack Wells, half as much as I love soon," he predicted. "And I don't you, you wouldn't think so darn believe the Lord does much meas much about things. You'd marrying, round with marriages, honey."
You know you would!"
Molly shrugged her aboulders
me.
He drew her closer, muffling her eloquently. voice on his shoulder.
"You can never tell she prophe Most anything
"Sweetheart! That's not fair. sled gloomily. You know It isn't. It's because I might happen." love you, Molly, that I can't marry you. You know that, don't you
· dear?"
"What?" he demanded. "What could happen. Molly?"
"Oh, I don't know." She spread
thing."
He turned her face, and kissed her hands vaguely. "Most any- her streaming eyes.
"Look at me, Molly Burnham."
The canoe travelled swiftly down
She wiped her tears away. child-the silver road that the moon had ishly, with the back of her hand. made. And the paddle cleft the "Yes sir," she answered meekly. waters like a burnished blade, Jack "Ani. Jack... I'm an awful liar. sat very straight. dear. I know you love me more "Don't talk like that, darling!" than anything."
he pleaded. "If anything ever hap-
"A million times more than any-pened that you didn't want to thing," he supplemented. "More marry me!" than anybody ever loved anybody before."
"But I do!" she cried, "I'm giv. ing you your chance... now."
"And you know I can't take it," he groaned. "It's not enough, Bolly-this wanting you. I've got to be able to take care of you."
"And I love a," she told him, "a million times more than that." "You're a wonderful little sweet- heart," he approved, stroking her "But I'm not one who must have hair:
every thing," she told him gently. "It's only you I want, dear.'
"Then why won't you
mo?"
marry
PT.
He shot the canoe savagely
"Oh, Molly!" His voice was hurt. through the water.
"Don't let's start that again.",
"You know I haven't à cent." "All right. I won't."
"Neither has Dick Godfrey." ex- She found a button on his coat,ulted Molly. "And he's not trying and twisted it between her fingers. to make Claudia wait until she's an "Only Listen, Jack. I've old woman."
the dreadfulest feeling. Like a "But Claudia Cabot's worth a premonition, sort of. Do you ever fortune In her own right. You have premonitions, Jack? I do. I know there's no comparison," main- "feel things in my bones, and up tained Jack, "Incidentally, God- around my heart. Sort of pulsing frey's working with a bond house and breathing round my heart. where the Cabot connexions will Like I was frightened, or choking, assure his success. And the old or something. It's funny. I can't man's giving them their trip describe it very well. Only I do. abroad."
Rolls for Claudia to run round
in. It's not fair, ia it, Jack?"
"You're darn right, It isn't" he
I feel things. Oh, you needn't "To say nothing of a house on laugh. Lots of people do. Mus- Beacon street," added Molly. "And solini, for instance. Only the other day I was reading about how he feels things in his bones. Anyhow, he says he does. It's like a sixth agreed.
"Well, when do you think we can ведке, по заув.
Anyhow; Jack Wells, something be married?" persisted Molly. tells me that we ought to get mar-
"Next year." ried. Right straight off, I mean. "Oh, hut that's ages off!" she Something's going to happen if we protested. "Listen, Jack I'll get don't. I'm absolutely sure of it, job, and then we'll both save. Jack. You'll be sorry if you Insist And we can get married lots
sooner." upon waiting."
Sho, stopped speaking, and Jacks regarded her intently.
He laughed then, as though she
"It's thinking and believing that were a child, and he was humouring make things happen." he said. "If her.
you get thinking things like that, "What could you do?" ́ ́he de- Molly, maybe something will hapmanded. "You couldn't earn more pen. Don't you know that you can than enough to take care of your think yourself into almost any self. You wouldn't be able to save state? For instance, if you should a cent. And you'd have pretty start wondering if you actually tough sledding, besides. loved me, pretty soon you'd be "Anyhow, dear, you know your But wille mother and father expect you to Hlable not to love me. you're sure you love me Molly, go home. Why, they'd be heart-¦ there's nothing in heaven or earth broken if you didn't. You told me can keep us apart."
yourself your father was going to "But I've a premonition," she buy you a car. You'll have a good time. And we'll write each other "Premonition'!" he scoffed. "No- every day. A year isn't such a body has those things but old maids long time, honey. How'd you like * and nervous wrecks.”
to have your diamond before you'l "That isn't so." Molly defended go back? I guess I've got enough herself warmly. "Lots of mental to buy my girl a pretty grand little types do. Paychic people, I mean sparkler, What do you say, Mally? |
Jack picked up the paddles.
Engaged girls always have a good "800
here" he admonished. Ime, don't they? Showers and "Don't go paychie on me, Molly. parties and things... And stop thinking that we're going "On, Jack, you don't understand!" to be sorry if we don't get married Molly interrupted petulantly, right away, because we can't, dear. "You've just never lived in Snod-
faltered.
Messra, J. P. Patell Mr. D. H. Cooper Mr. G. P. Daswand A. Friend
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Grand Total
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$2,609.20
The Canton News Agency states that Mr. Fan Ki-mo, Commissioner of Finance and Special Officer for the Finance Ministry, while in the She put her fingers on his wrists, capital, tendered his resignation and leaned toward him, and the to the latter post, which was ac- fragrance of lilacs drifted from her being unable to find a suitable cepted; but recently, the Ministry hair across his face.
person to all the post, it has cabled | "Let's have a companionate marMr. Fan to zesume the post until rísge!"
Jack laughed. "Darling, you're it is understood that Mr. Fan has a successor has been appointed. cuckoo," he told her Indulgently.
temporarily acceded to the request,
LETTER GOLF SOLUTION.
"Oh, is that so!" she flared. of the Ministry. "Well, Rita Melnette and Bob got married that way-so there. I didn't mean to tell you. Nobody's supposed to know. But it's true just the same. They've been mar-
Here is the solution to the ried a year and a half.
puzzle on another page.
SHOUT, "And you know Bath Woods?
SHORT, SHORE, Well, she was secretly married too. SHARE, STARE, STARS, SEARS, she and Zip have been crazy about SEALS, SELLS, YELLS, each other for years and years.) But Zip was silly, just like you, always wanting to wait until he had some money. And poor Rath was simply eating her heart out, funking half her courses and everything.
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(To be Continu::...)
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