THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1929.
THE SHINING TALENT.
By Eleanor Early.
TS HAS HAPPENDED.
wwwwwwwwww
ied mouth made for kisses. A girl
The trial of Lionel Barrows, secured of the with whito, twining hands. And a murder ut Bernice Bradford, has drawn to
glow. And little Mully. Buraham, covering slim body fashioned for love and
har Aret blir story, ls trembling with excites patri,
ment
Barrows was charged with polegning,
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many lavin, etapicion, centred in Barrows.
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tale.
suloriously Naht and beautiful women, whom Ulygges slid to the floor, he once had loved. Barsico Beadford was Molly began to plot her found dead in her bed. And, though she had The girl's name should be Magda- the petted darting of smart society, and a lène, and she should die for lova. The trial has forded Holly her blic chance A gorgeous, sinning siren, kneeling to do some real writing. She engaged to before the high white altar of a marry boy named Jack Wells, whom she pure passion... Suddenly, mad- jayes, devotedly. But she has dreams Rīga-ef | being an authores, or playweight, perhaps. deningly-the doorbell rang.
married man to boot.
She is a very ambitious kizi, and cläver ami
beautiful, besides. During this trial, she has
schieved a good deal" at leest fara.
CHARTER
"Yes?" Molly addressed herself', coldly through the mouthpiece. | Whoever it was, he could not come
up.
Molly? Hey, Molly,
it's Red Flynn
Yes-well, you can't come in, Red." she told him. "I'm all ready- for bed."
"Now
Through the long night there. porters waited in the court-room. They sent out for food, but Molly .was too excited to eat. As it grew late, the others slept, dropping Red was unimpressed. their heads on their arms across the pross table. While they rested Molly wrote sheet after sheet of
copy.
re-
Dawn found her bright-eyed and foverish She could scarcely member when she had eaten. when
But
listen, dear," he countered, "I'm not going to have a long distance argument, you know. I've some- thing to tell you And I'll wait just five minutes. If you don't let me in then, I'
go open my heart to Gracko Burns,"
messengers arrived with teaming coffee and toast, she wona dered how the rest could eat.
In the gaol across the street sut a man in agony awaiting the ver- dlet of the jury. By their word he lived or died. And in the court house those 12 men haggled the long night through. Some seeking to convict, and others, to free,
Molly had written two stories. One to be used if Burrows was found guilty. And the other if he was acquitted.
The first one began with two lines from "The Ballad of Reading
Gaol
"The man had killed the things he
loved.
"And so be had to die."
14
...Then, thinking of how the reporters had watched the accused. lynx-eyed, for 15 days, she quoted again;
Gracie Burns was sob sister on rival sheet, and not a particu- urly good friend of Molly's.
"What's it about?" she parried.. "I'm dreadfully tired, Red."
"It's about Bernice Bradford," he informed her. "And Gracie'll get a big kick out of it."
Molly gasped. And gasping. pressed the button.
She met him in the hall, apolo- gizing. "Please forgive me, Red. wasn't really ready for bed, you' I was only tenring my hair, trying to think of a plot. I felt sort of inspired, and exactly as though I was about to give birth to a perfectly wonderful iden.”
He grinned engagingly. "You're | very rude girl," he told her. "And, besides, you tell ties. I should punish you by using your telephone to make a date with "So with curious eyes and sick sar-Gracie. I should tell Gracie all I know, and collaborate with her on We watched him day by day,la erime play based on my newly And wondered if each one of us acquired information about
mise
+1
the
Would end the self-same way, Into lamented Miss Bradford."..
For none can tell to what red. Heli
"Red" she threatened. "Don't
His sightless soul_may‘stray." you dare. Here-sit down. Have a. Have a piece of ple? She wrote of Bernice Bradford, cigarette?
and described her in poet's terms're some cold chicken in the Ice "the poor dead woman
whom he box."
loved, and murdered in her bed. "Now you're talking," he ap- It was u good story, and Molly, was proud of it.
...
proved. Well, trot out your chicken, dear. And put some coffee. on like a good girl"
"And you'll tell me everything?"
The other she had written rather carelessly, since the consensus of opinion was that Barrows was un-she bargqinëd. deniably guilty. Betting around the press table was 5 to 3 that he would be convicted.
At 10 o'clock they brought the prisoner in. He walked slowly to his enge, a guard on "either side, His face looked like a death mask, and his long dark lashes swept his ashen cheeks. He seemed like a murderer going to the hangman's noose. And Molly shivered as he passed.
Gentlemen of the Jury, have you roached a decision?"
The foreman stood. "We have, your honour."
A guard in blue, with brass but tons on his uniform. pulled the prisoner to his feet.
Molly was praying silently. Sho believed the man guilty, but because a woman's heart is made of pity, rather than of jus- tice, she began, weakly to pray "Oh God, don't let him be guilty.) Please, God, don't let him he guilty."
The foreman of the jury squared
"Everything," he promised, Molly plugged in the percalator, and cut bread for the electric tonster. The little roast chicken looked tempting, and the big apple pie. Red lit a cigarette, and while they waited for the coffee to boil. began his story.
"There's
1 boy," he said, named Perry Ingersoll, a junior at the University. Perry got very, very drunk to-night, and talked his head off. I've parked him now in my own little bed, with Slim Boynton, to see that he doesn't wander off. Because, just between you and me. Molly, I don't know what we'd better do with the kid."
"Did he know Bernice Brad- ford?" she interrupted eagerly.
"Did he know her?" repeated Red dramatically, "Dear woman, he was going to marry her!"
"Red. He wasn't!"
"I've seen the marriage license." "But why didn't someone find out before? A marriage licensel Why, hi shoulders. "Not guilty, your it must have been taken out in her. honour."
name."
The prisonet closed his eyes, "It was," be interrupted dryly shivered convulsively, and slipped. "Only her name wasn't Bradford. like a woman, to the flour. There Our fair Bernice had been married was a great commotion at the press before. Her husband, since dead, table. Reporters dashed madly for was a man named Bones. the telephones in the corridor. Mes romantic name--Bones. And Ber- Nice, Henger boys ran from the room. nice's first name was Mary. Every- And then, in the midst of all the one always called her Bernice. It confusion, Molly fainted. Quietly-was her middle name. Naturally falling to the floor, in still hea the clerks at the register's officé like the defendant,"
widow, with the deceased! Bernice never connected Mary Bones, Braford."
They threw cold water on her, und made her drink coffee that was cold and bitter. And when they
"My heavens! Did the Ingersoll
had revived her, they laughed at bay know about Barrows?*** her. because reporters are not sup- Red nodded. Yes. But he was posed to be emulional, and a sob in love with her just the same. sister, they said, should be hard- Can you bent that Molly? Here's bolled.
proud old family, and all that sort a guy a handsome kid, too-
On the courthouse steps Molly bought a paper. Her story led the
of thing and he goes off his nut
sheet and across the top was about a woman old enough to be
his mother."
"Bernice was 34," Molly remind-
flarning banner line that exhorted the public. In scarlet type, to "Read Molly Burnham's Hearted him.
Throbs." Her picture was there. And there
"Well, anyhow," pursued Red,
were pictures, too, "this kid fell hend over heels in love with her. Used to write
of Bernice Bradford and "Lionel Barrows.
"Wouldn't mother have a fit!" poetry, and all that mush."
thought Molly.
"How do you know?"
me."
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The week was up, and Molly, one
"Ain't I telling you? He told Red looked hurt. "Here I evening, was reading James Joyce'a "Ulysses." Everything she read beat this side of the Rue Morgue. am, spfiling a story that hasn't a these days was carefully chosen. and you throw questions et me Books that dealt with naked emo-like a blooming prosecutor."
was alone. Slim and I were sitting What do you say, Red, if we take to babble. Kept talking about "that's no way to talk. We've been LONDON BANKERS ---- tions she read, avidly, having de-
"Go on," she besought. "I won't opposite him, and you know Slim's him for a walk?
Bernice. Naturally Slim and I darn white to that kid, me and •The Lloyd's - Bank," Limites. "Well, the proprietor was all set perked up our ears,
Slim. We've fed him black collée Correspondant to all-Prinsipat edilen of the portray the Soul of a woman,
ginning, Red. Where did you meet
"I gave Slim" the high sign, and and aspirin. And Slim's there, world
Foreign Exchange and Sasking Burtisan She could see, like a creature of this Great Lover?!"
good idea. Just a coupla nice boy we began to propel our fine young watching over him like a guardian every description pransarted, an flame, the girl she must imprison those so-called Bohemian dives.
- “No, it was Slim's," he insisted-scouts-one and Slim. We got himlad over to my room. Ho'd begun angol, until such time," amended | Safe Depśait- Boxe ́· (varkom, zime) në between the covers of her book. A The kid was crying like a fool. Ho
"Up on Beacon Hill. In one of«lim says. "There's a poor son of between us, and we walked down to sober off a little by the time we Red honestly, “as we decide what yearly rental of Econs #1 to #40, 12
a gun, making a fool of himself the Hill. And pretty soon he reached there. Not much, but we're going to do with him.”
cided to begin work scon on hor
own novel. The novel that was to say another word. Start at the be-big how yours," interrupted to kick him out, so it looked like a
heart."
Molly,
girl like Bernice Bradford, with a looked like a decent sort, and he over, some woman, most likely. I stopped his crying, and he began enough so he was half⠀⠀ rational..
To be Contintivd.)
SA LODE POONG EBANA
Hongkong, 18th February, 1107