THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1929.
THE SHINING TALENT.
By Eleanor Early.
'THIS HAS HAPPENED.
'quartel. beyond all reason, Zuck has bought
day, and telephoned every night:
A tragedy ha befallen Molly Burnham and She was a very happy woman.. Jack Wells, who love each other devotadly and his awehaart an engagement ring, and be cause Molly seems besitant about wearing it she is ashamed of the size of the tiny stand Familated and heart-broken, he drops the little shining stone into the lake, where they are rowing.
to work the next morning, he imagtoan that
Nart morning Jack to going to New Yorky: to work in the home office of a larar chitectură Arm. And Molly...le to report for the frst time to a newspaper ofee, bare
the city dior has promised har e tryout.
Molly has recantly inherited $10,000 of which Jách- taluses to borrow a penny... They "will be tarried as soon as he has enough money of his own, Mully you with him to his room to help him pack, and then goes to the Y. W. C. A., where she has taken a room A few days later her father sends her a cheque, and she determines to find new and more luxurious, quartere.
And, from continued observation, Molly concluded that there was a sort of aura about greatly beloved women. An inettable radiance that distinguished them from their leas fortunate sistors.
On the other hand, there was something piteous, she thought, about those unfortunate wives who give infinitely more than they re- ceive.
Before long Molly was keeping a notebook, and perciling her 'ob- servations of love and life. She had some rather, hazy notion of writing a book. Something about a Woman's Soul. She thought of Love as a Flaming Passion that suffused humdrum lives. And she Molly found an attractive apart envisaged women 08 creatures ment on Peterboro street, sub-made for either pain or love.
CAPTER VIII.
latting from an artist, who had Unrequited affection was the done amazing things with packing curse, she decided, of the unloved boxes and a paint brush. There sisterhood. And the blessedness of was scarcely a piece of real furni-being beloved was, of all things. ture in the place. But the walls the sweetest and most satisfying. were hung with gay, moth-eaten ( Molly thought she was learning a damask, and there were great gay great deal about life. She had cushions instead of chairs.
studied. in college, Pope's "Essay
Molly's bed was a feather mat-jon Man," and she remembered the tress on a box spring, with a plece quotation, proclaimed by the pro- of red velvet thrown over it. And tessor of English literature: "The Instead of tables there
were proper study of mankind is man." Oriental tea trays that stood a mere it was a pleasant study, and Molly six inches from the floor. There was an earnest student. · were hardly two pieces of china The Inquiring Reporter column
that matched. Peasant crockery had not lasted very long, and for from southern Europe, amusing that Molly was devoutly thankful, and colourful. A samovar from The first question she propounded Russia, and tall brass candle sticks. was this: "Should an aviator, Molly brought her own kitchen when he is married, give up hazard- things in buttercup yellow enamel,ous flying?" and made
a gingham curtain of The first person she approached bright blue checks for the kitchen was a portly gentleman, who hap window. She painted the wood-puned to be very deaf. Curious work ivory. And bribed the janitor passersby stopped to listen, and to put down a piece of linoleum. prosently Molly and the deaf gen- It was all quite charming. But teman were the centre," of an Molly began to feel like a widow. amused group. : She wanted Jack fearfully,
After that Molly tried a young Bob and Rita lived down the girl, who declared her mother street a block, and Melly hud would have n fit if she posed for loaned them most of the furnish the newspapers. Then a youth who ings from her room at college. Bob apparently had never heard of the a little work, but Inquiring Reporter. Ele seemed was doing not earning nearly so much as Rita, not particularly interested, in avia- who had a part-time social job, and tors and their wives, but tried to a gymnasium class four afternoons make a date with Molly.
who
a week at Miss Mayhew's School Finally, utterly discouraged, she for Girls, As if that weren't called the photographer, enough, Rita gave swimming les-toitered across the street while she sons on Wednesday and Saturday manoeuvred for victims. nights at the Y. W. C.. A. And "I never felt so silly in my life," tutored two of Miss Mayhew's back-she lanfented.. "Someone's goine to ward little girls in First Year call a policeman, and have me sent Latin.
to the paychopathic. They all
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"Bob is so dissatisfied," she told think I'm crazy." Molly, "because I happen to be earning more mone than he is. Ha
The photographer grinned un- seems to consider "it a personal feelingly. "Sure, they do. Why affront. He acts us if I'd crucified) wouldn't they?" Then, seeing her his pride."
evident distress, he relented. "You Molly, notice that Bob was ex-were so cocksure of yourself," Sis- travagant, where Rita was thrifty ter. I let you strut your stuff. Now and frugal. He bought, for in-I'll show you the ropes." stance, an electric radio, on which He hailed a taxi, explaining as Rita was contriving to meet the he helped her in; "Taxis don't go payments. And he purchased any so hot on the old swindle sheet, number of books, which he never but if we want to grab a factory seemed to find time to rend."
crowd doing the noon hour, we haven't any time to lose. Get a Once he picked up a "small gang together, that's the idea, Oriental rug, with a dash
of Then they think it's a big lark. duaty scarlet that took his eye. Here's a tip for you. Phone a And again a bit of Chinese damask bunch of places, and get the fore- of an indescribably lovely, blue-man to line up some smooth-looking Sometimes he bought woodcuts. Janes for us, and a coupla alick "I think it's outrageous!" storm Johna. We can shoot the works ed Molly. "He hasn't any right to in 10 minutes. Give
chance to kill a little time on the
buy things he can't pay for."
But he does pay for them," pro-job." tested Rlta gently.
you a
It was, after all, the simplest
"Yes. And lets you pay the rent, thing to do. But Molly felt very and buy the groceries," declared uncomfortable about it. To protect Molly indignantly.
the photographer, who had a weak- "Why not?" retorted Rita. "I'm ness for shooting crap and liked to perfectly willing to Besides, I'm steal an hour or so, she was obliged glad he loves beautiful things."to waste that amount of time every Rita had grown very thin. "And day. To ease her conscience, she her red lips were like a bleeding devoted her time to observant little gash in her white face. They made strolls along the water front, or Molly think of blood in the snow, through the Public Gardens, and She tried to write a verse about along the Common. And she wrote them called "Rita's Mouth," but it pithy paragraphs about people and sounded, she was afraid, like an circumstances that seemed unusual autopsy.
or interesting to her. At the end
Molly was getting along famous- of the week, she submitted several ? ly. She had had twe raises, and was earning $30 a week.
Sometimes she saw Ruth Woods,
sheets of copy to the city editor,
"Good stuff," he approved. "I like your bit about the old man
who had lost her baby in July, and the little lame girl. And this Ruth was as pale and thin as Rita.
dog story's good. People like ani- and usually looked as though she mal stories. Keep it up." had been crying. She and Zip had On the following Monday Molly rented the lower half of a two-part was relieved of her Inquiring Re house in Merrymount. But Ruth porter assignment, and given the seemed to have lost all interest joyous privilege of compiling a column of her own. "About
In life.
Rita declared that she believed Town" they called It, and it proved Zip made his poor little wife feel a popular feature. like a stone about his neck. Ruth And, before long, she was doing had been ill for several
months, news stories. Stories with a and her doctor's bills were terrify-human interest slant. A boxing ingly large.
match, from the woman's point of There were times when Molly view. And then a wrestling match, wondered if she wanted to be mar-She talked with ball players and ried after all. Consider her two their wives. And finally she inter- "best friends. Rita might fool most viewed theatrical stars.
people, with her hysterical galety
SOME TIME AGO, WE ANNOUNCED THE IMPENDING CLOSING OF OUR SHANGHAI RETAIL STORE.
WE
NOW
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The looting was making fruit- OWES, AWES AWLS, AILS, DINS, DENS, ful progress when suddenly the AIMS, DIMS, train, which had been travelling DENT, DEBT. It was great fun, sitting down Inst alght in the Ventimiglia at 70 miles per hour, began to slow and her strident laughter. But front, on a press ticket, and meet Paris express, due here at 8.15 Molly knew.
ing the press agent in the lobby, this morning. The trouble, Molly decided, was between acts, to be taken to the Rita and Ruth both loved their star's dressing room. It was al- Shortly after the Rivierà train cap, put his head out of the van, husbands more than their husbands ways the nicest dressing room, and had left Loone, ita next stop and blew the trumpet signal to go loved them. It was ever so much it usually had a star painted on the being Dijon, where it should have on. But the driver called back more comfortable for a woman door. Usually the glamorous lady arrived at 8.26.a.m., the guard was that a serious engine defect had when the man loved her most. had a maid, and sometimes she had startled by a voice ordering him occurred, and that it was necessary
4 secretary. Her mald frequently to "put his hands up." Turning to telephone for assistance... Molly was doing an occasional helped her dress while she chatted round he found himself covered Thereupon the bandits took to theatrical Interview now. Once to Molly.
by the revolvers of two men, who fight across the fields. Their vic- she met a celebrated French actrest Mally loved, theatrical interviews. had come up behind him un- tim was soon discovered, and the without police were informed. An active who was marfled to an American But the biggest thrill of her life noticed. They were produced. The actress told Molly came on the day she was assigned, masks, but wore black gloves, as sourch is how being conducted in that her husband sent her a tele to cover a murder trial,
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