THE SHINING TALENT.
By Eleanor Early.
CHAPTER XIV.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12 1929..
In the
bouse. As "she approched the building she was conscious of a The week and in New York concurious atmosphere of suppressed stituted two days of wretchedness.
excitement. Plainclothes men Molly had expected praise and en: lounged on the courthouse steps, couragement from Jack. And she while others, in uniform, kept curl received instead disparagement and ous pedestrians moving. censure. He disapproved strongly corridor she met Slim Boynton. of her work. He was jealously re-
There's hell to pay," he told her sentful of Red Flynn, and hated, ho
"And if you don't get grimly. admitted, the ways of all news-gucled for contempt of court, you're luckier than you deserve. One of the jurymen got hold of a story you wrote. Of course they're not sup posed to look at the newspapers,
paper.men.
"Why don't you write something worth while, Molly?" he pleaded.
"What would you suggest?" she had inquired, frigidly polite.
but this bird did. And now he But Jack was vague, "Oh, some-admits that he's all set to find Man- thing nice," he floundered, "You dinello guilty.
Attorneys for the used to write sweet little verses, defence have petitioned for a mis And I bet you could write pretty trial, and the judge is considering stories for children. Then there the evidence now. You'll probably are all the high class magazines. be called to his chambers any My beavers Molly, you don't have to minute. It's Wharton's fault. And write for such a screaming news- now the whole outfit's liable to go paper."
to gacl."
mered, can say.
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"There isn't anything I
I've no defence, no ex
.
Ho regarded her more kindly. "Allow
me to commend your chivalry, Miss Burnhum. It transcende your indiacretion. It is uncommonly gallant when person brought to account- ing declines to transfer, the] responsibility for the offence. have investigated the matter, more deeply than I had indicated, and have learned that your city editor ordered the articles."
Molly shook her head. "I write my own stories," she insisted. "Mr. Wharton is not responsible."
Judge Brewster rose, and his black robes billowed solemnly
about him.
"That is all," he said. "Except that I should advise you, Misa Burnham, for your own good, to be more careful in the future. Gun- men execute fearful reprisals,"
Slim was waiting when Mally left the judge's chambers.
It's all right," she said. I'm not going to gnol."
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But Slim was in a dark mood. "Maybe you'll get shot," he haz arded. "Maybe you'd be better off in goal. They couldn't get at you if you were behind the bars."
"Oh, Slim, stop! You make my "Slim! You don't mean it?" blood run cold. Have you phoned Molly experienced a dreadful the office? Julge Bregster is de- sinking feeling, and her knees be-claring a mistrial? came suddenly weak.
"But I want to earn money, Jack," she had defended herself. "Poetry doesn't pay anything. He sides, I'm no poet. As for chi dren's magazines" she fluttered "Sure I mean it. What do you her white little hands despairingly. think I am, a practical little joker7 "I tell you, dear, a steady job on a Ask any of the boys. Look in the newspaper is best. It assures an courtroom there. It's empty, isn't Income, you see, and doesn't pro-it? Wharton's been phoning all hibit class magazines. Or even try morning, Wants you to call him. ing my hand at a play." ́„
They may take a chance, and send you up to Canada, until the thing blows over."
Jack groaned. That play again! Of all the sordid, rotten themes, you picked the darnest. If you want to write a play, why don't you write about something decent?"
Molly wgenuinely frightened, She had visions of going to gaol, and wearing a striped dress like a
"Sure. I gave them that 10 min- utes ago. Wharton's up in the air. The publisher has been giving him the devil, I guess, And he say for you to keep uut of the office until he sends for you. Wants the thing to blow ever before you show up. gee, Talk about getting all the breaks! You pull a gag you might to get sent to goal for and what do you rate? A vacation!"
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feel like going out, anyhow. She couldn't imagine what had come over her lately. "Zip said she was like an old woman.
You sound so unhappy, dear!"
"It doesn't pay," she informed woman she had interviewed in the The dreadful cloud had lifted. The lamented Molly.
him tartly,
"How about Peter Pan?" "But that was ages ago, dear. Eugene O'Neill doesn't write fairy tales, nor Charlie McArthur and Ben Hecht. Take the outstanding successes. Crime plays, or sex plays, all of them."
"So that's what you want to do?" he demanded disagreeably. "Write crime and sex ?"
"I want to make money," she told him wearily, "to buy all the lovely things I dream about, and go all the lovely places I've read about. "But it isn't only money, that want. I want to be somebody. Not just little Molly Burnham who married that nlee young man, Jack Wells...
"Don't let me cramp your style," he injected bitterly."
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And so they quarrelled and bick- ered, and Jack never guessed that, womantike, Molly would have. for- aworn all her dreams of wealth and fame for a man who could dominate her. So he criticized and found fault, and adopted quite the wrong tactics, until Molly was glad when it was time to leave.
house of correction.
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A court oficer approached her kindiy
"Judge Brewster wishes to see you. Miss Burnham."
"Oh, my lord, Slim! What will I do?"
"Well, you can't very well run," observed Slim. "Go ahend and take your medicine."
Judge Brewster, formidable in his black robes, received her gently, explaining the situation with legal preciseness. He would be obliged, he said, to declare a mistrial. The so much hers, as fault was not the juryman's. He had warned the jury not to read the papers. There had been, it would appear, a serious misdemeanour. A friend of the ac- cused man had sent a newspaper containing a story of Molly's to this particular jurymän. Certain pas- sages of the story had been penciled.
"An unprejuleed person reading. that article would undoubtedly be nfluenced against the defendant," declared the judge. "As a news- paper, woman you have no right to be anything but impartial in what you write. It is u serious offence,' and frequently merits a fine, or a gaol sentence. In view, however, of the evident conspiracy among Man- dinello's friends, i am inclined to deal leniently with your DWA offence.
"It hasn't been a very nice week- end," she confessed penitently at parting, "and I feel as though it was pretty much my fault. I guess I'm awfully selfish. I love you with all my heart, Jack. But getting married; to cook pot roasts and "Whoever it was who sent the darn socks, and budget on 345 a paper containing your story to week, doesn't sound half so roman- Juryman Flagleg, communicated the tic as it used to. I've had my taste fact to attorneys for the defence. of independence, and found it They promptly demanded an in- "sweet. Do you hate me, darling,vestigation, and I have questioned for being modern and hardboiled, Mr. Flagler. He admits having and all the horrid things you abo-read the article, and declares that minate?"
he is now predisposed to find the "Hate you!" he cried. "On, Molly defendant guilty.” In view of his dear, if I were only good enough sworn statement, I must call a mís- for you, and clever, and rich!"
trial."
She put her fingers to his lips. "Sh! Honey, we're bath going to knock 'em dead!"
The judge stopped speaking, and Molly raised her flushed face to meet his judical gaze, fixed sternly
In the morning Molly went di-upon her.
rectly from the train to the court-4 "I'm fearfully sorry,” she stam-
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dark fear was all dispelled. She felt happy and gay.
"'ll have a little dinner party tonight," she thought. "Not any
"Maybe you'd sound unhappy," replied Ruth reproachfully, you'd lost your little baby." and Molly heard her gob before she
She felt as though she had been
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I'll see who it
He was gone for several minutes, and hearing strange noises in the hall, the girls went to investigate. Bob was propelling a man op the stairs man who waved his arms abdut and was making dreadful sounds.
"It's Zip!" cried Rita.
"Zip? But Zip daysn't drink." "What's the matter, Bob? What's Molly ran down to the landing.
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