THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY OCTOBER
1029.
THE SHINING TALENT.
By Eleanor Early.
THIS HAS HAPPENED.
Molly Harem, graduating from collage, inherit $10,000. And it comme destined. bring her nothing but relser, In the fret place, Molly is desperately in love with Jack Walls, a handsome, boy without any couNIRTĮ Jack loves her but fatly declines to marry Der grikik he can take care of her,
looks for work.
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[sparkle.
"Do you like it? Honest?" "Like it!" she exclaimed: "I'm Crazy about it?"
"It's sort of small," he offered apologetically
of
Thay quarrel when abe offers him her ta
"Why, it isn't either. Besides, heritance. They spend a miserable evening. bickering over, money, And Kelly, In teses, hate great big stones. It's the Announces that the is going to ani a job, and very loveliest thing I ever saw." ・Ura dax own, ito. Her newly acquired for
Jack smiled. A great load was tuna wilt mars it possible for her to take JEST apartment", "and", ilya" semfortably while the lifted. "You'll wear it to work in
Ebe a list she had rather do that than the morning?" return to the mean, ittle' prairie lawn where Molly hesitated. A shaft
After Molly has gone, in tears, to her room, moonlight caught the diamond, ↑ Jack taken from his pocket a little diemand making it sparkle like a little
ring. He had meant to give it to her that nigha, but suddenly it seems very small and stone alive. And Molly with her hair gleaming like a halo, turned the ring around and around on her finger, and never såld a word.
she lives.
cheap to blow,
He drops Il mournfully back in his pocket. and departs for the last train. Next morning Molbe gone Job-hunting with her dearest friend, Bts Melnatis, Rita is brilliant. "You don't want to wear if
do you, Molly?" #
syalon! your thing who is experimenting dia astrously with companionate marriage.
Eventually Molly is promised x chance on a newspaper, She meets Jack for dinner, and to tell him her big new. He la maddeningis | unenthusiatke, and dampona har ardor kone
siderably. Then he remarks that he some
naw himself.
· CHAPTER VI
Suddenly the lovely night was She bent filled with tragedy. toward him, and the little creep- ing scent of her perfume was wafted softly.
"Why, darling!" "She held out her hand. What do you mean? You see it's too large, dear. I'd lose it."
"Well, Sweetheart," Jack told her, "the old man called me in to day, and asked me how I'd like to work in the New York office.
"No." He shock
head. hle It's a big chance. Now if you'd
"No, that's
it, Molly. not
You only go home, Sweetheart, like a
because it's little. good girl, and wait a little while don't like it
can tell. You're disappointed. I six months, maybe. How'd you like to live in New York? Take Never mind. I'll get you another Claudia an uparmetnt in the Village, per.one. A big
Cabot's." He boasted arrogantly. haps"
"But Jack, I want a career, too!" "I have a raise pretty quick, "A career! Molly, what's this and get you a knock-out stone. bug you've got?"
"Oh, Jack, you're so unreason-
one, like
I'm sorry I bought that thing. "Jack Wells, are you crazy?"
luminously.
able: You expect me to get alli Molly's eyes were full of shining excited about your work. Of tears. She smiled course I am awfully glad. I think And, bending, kissed him softly. it's wonderful. But I should low could she say that it might think you'd know, I'd like a little not be wise to wear an engage- enthuisaam myself."
ment ring to work the first morn- "Toll me about it, Molly," he ing? Like telling everyone you said flatly. "I suppose I am very were just about married.... A gelfish. I was thinking pretty girl without any romantic entan- much about myself. Have you Elements got along better in busi- ness. Men aren't interested in en- honestly a job?"
aged girls.
"Have I!" she cried. "I should say I had! Guess what I'm go ing to do." ""
"Oh, lord, I don't know. What
Then, suddenly, Molly was sorry she had hesitated. What did she care about newspaper men? Didn't
do girls do in newspaper offices?he love Jack with all her heart? Write things about cooking and And now she'd hurt his feelings! clothes? Is that what you're go- ing to do, dear?"
Molly preened herself proudly. Cooking and clothes indeed!
"I'm going to be the Inquiring
* "Sweetheart!" she cried, and held the little ring toward him. And I'll "Wish it on for me.
nover take it off til you put a wedding ring beneath it."
Reporter" she announced "pom-| But her lover was filled with pously. "I'm going around with shame and humiliation, and a sort heart-breaking anger: He reached, and taking the ring, drop- ped it overboard.
a photographer, and ask people of questions."
"What!"
*
If she had said she was going "Oh! Molly's startled around with a gunman, and hold, broke on a sob. "Jack!" people up, Jack could scarcely You didn't want: it,” he said. ́ have sounded more horrified.
"You're going to do nothing of the kind!"
"Jack Wells, what do you mean, I'm going to do nothing of the kind"
cry
"But, I did! Oh, Jack. Jack*** She leaned over the side of the boat. "It's gone," she said, and her voice was flat and empty. "It was so white and shining and now it's gone." She put her white fingers to her face.
"But. see here, Molly, do you think any man's going to stand for "Yes, he answered dully. And having his sweetheart run around.he wondered if there was anything accosting a lot of bums, Asking symbolic in her words. If ther fool questions. Getting herself love, which was also white and insulted. Whut in blazes are you shining, had also gone? going to say to people?"
It had been a long day, and a Molly was crying softly. nerve-wracking day, and sudden "My poor dear little ring!" she ly Molly began, to cry. "Oh, sobbed. "I loved it so much. And Jack! It's awful to quarrel this now I'll never see it again. It's way. I love you so, it simply down in all that awful mud! Way down at the bottom of the pond. breaks my heart."
"Oh, Molly sweetheart! I'm And all that money thrown away! jealous, that's all. I don't want Oh, Jack, how could you!". you working with a lot of men. "That's nothing," he bragged. You're such a little thing, Molly. "Money isn't going to count with We'll take a boat on the pond in me much longer. I'll have enough the Public Gardens. And, listen, of it to buy you any thing darling, the more I think about your little heart wants. By the it. Well, gosh, I haven't anyway, "darling, did I tell you I'm right to ask you to sit around and going to New York first thing in wait for me. If I was any darn the morning?" good, you wouldn't have to any- how."
It was lovely on the pond. The moon hid behind the clouds. And
"Jack Wells! You're not either!" "Yes, I am. I report for work Wednesday."
"And I'll be in Boston all alone," "Oh no" He corrected her the dark was soft and sweet, and gently. "You'll have Rita and fragrant with the moist oder "of Bob, and Ruth Woods and her hus flowers that bloom in the star light.
"And you honestly don't mind if
I go to work?" she asked him.
"Not a bit," he lied gallantly. "I want you to."
band. And there's your new job.
You won't be lonely,"
"But I want you!" she cried, "Never anybody but you."
Jack's mouth, looked drawn. You've made your choice," be re- "I promise never to accost aminded her. "You'd never be 'bum," she vowed. And he kissed satisfied unless you'd found some- her laughing lips. "You know, thing to do. It's better, you said, honestly, dear, I think this is sim-than sitting around, hemming dish ply a golden opportunity. I've towels and playing bridge." been so awfully hedged in all my "Have you packed yet?" life. Now, you see, I've a chance' "No it won't take long. Throw to learn about life, and love, and a few shirts in a bag: Only thing. men
I have that's worth anything is ."Hey!" Jack looked rather my sweetheart's picture, and the alarmed, "Lay off this life, and beautiful cuff links and the cigarette love and men 'stuff”
She patted his arm lovingly, He smiled. From his pocket, he drew the little white box that held
lighter she gave me."
"I'll help you pack,” she offered. "What!" Jack pretended to be shocked.
the solitaire that sparkled "so "Don't be silly," she admonish-
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And Jack, It happened, was wrong about Mre. Maloney. She had gone to the second show at the movies. And there was nobody in Anthod. Capital the house, excepting Miss Binked-Up F "She'll have a fit," he predicted “You wouldn't get a kick out of used fo
violet toilet, soap. And who lived on the first floor front, BEANCEM darkly.
visiting my room," observed Molly, sweet pea perfume, nod, baby's and was deaf as a poet. The "Maybe she won't be home."
"But I will out of seeing yours." talcum powder. He knew that her place was in pitch darkness, ex-on, New York and back. Fade "Oh, she'll be home all right.. And she reflected that Jack favourite colour was orchid. And sept for a light in Miss, Blake's LONDON BANKERS brassed, and trying to make light "Mrs. Maloney would be shock- She's always home. She hasn't know so many little personal that she had an taffeta, coverlet room. She always sat up late,
· of: a- momentous occasion,
ed to death. Gee, she might put any place else to go."
things about her that there would that she bought second-hand from reading Home and Fireside What is it?" demanded Molly.
Molly had never been to Jack's be, nothing particularly revealing a girl at college for $20, because They tiptoed up the stairs. And "Oh, Jack, quick, let me dea iti
Molly consulted her watch.
quarters before, and every girl is about her room. He knew, more she had told him about it the stairs croaked, as stairs al Oh, Jack, It's beautifull It's love- "It's exactly 10 minutes past curious about the sort of a place than a more bedroom could ever Yes, after all a man knows ways do Jack stumbled, and
Molly giggled ly Lovely C
10," she said. "And I'm not a man lives In Particularly when tell him, ale
pretty much about a girl Hutra. She slipped it on her finger and bit afraid of Mrs. Maloney. Come she loves that man.
He knew, for instance, that she girl doesn't know much of any-
(To Be Conthed). held up her hand and watched it on. Start rowing. S
amall and so brave. He was em ed
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