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THE SHINING TALENT.
By Eleanor Early.
CHAPTER XXV (Cont.) live to grow old, and see my daugh- Her turn away from me, 3 Molly was not prepared for the you've turned from your mother I development which followed her re-swear I'd rather die than chance it.' turn to Boston.
"But - I didn't turn away from She made it her first duty to her!" protested Molly, "You know visit Rita Newton, a College class perfectly well, Rita Melnotte, that mate, who tells her that she had if she wore a normal parent, she'd been married secretly seven months be proud of me, instead of despia- betere she graduated from Cilleging me."
Marriage is an awful gamble,”
she
was
Rita smiled. "Parents are old- she declared. Children are all fashioned," she declared. "You'd that make it worth while. Oh, call
me modern, wouldn't you? Molly I'm so anxious to have you Well, I'd be sorry if Rita, when she see little Ritu. I suppose aft moth-
10, should turn her ers think their babies are, beautiful, adolescent attention to crime. You but honestly, it is a most an were pretty younk, you know, when usual child. She's extraordinarily you get through college. I intelligent for her age. And she understand the way your mother has the dearest little ways. She fets."
can
I'm a bad
looks rather like me, I think-ex- "Oh, all right," interrupted Molly. eupt that she's ever so much pret-"Have it your own way. tien And gayer than I was when and ungrateful child. And my I was little. She's like a falry, and pour mother is simply pining for, a just as good as gold. I know you'll little love and attention. Well, I'll love her, Molly,"
ask her to gu,broad with me then. There was something sad in 11 tell her I'd rather go with her Rita's voice, and wistful "You than anyone. And we'll see what couldn't help loving my baby." she she has to say." said.
霹
"Fine approved Rita. "Of "Why if course I couldn't," lejeourse she'll go, and sho'll be clared Molly warmly. "I'd love her tickled to death." because shi's yours, Rita, if she was the homeliest little thing that ever lived."
But Bita was wrong.
A few days Hater Mrs. Burnham's reply to
how.
a vulgar
"Oh, she's beautiful," murmured Rita. "Absolutely beautiful. "Teololly's warm invitation arrived, "Dear Daughter," she wrote, ple stop on the street to look at
You are a generous girl, and 1 her Molly-perfect strangers."
Other girls
came then to join regret that i cannot accept your then, and they were not alone kind invitation. It would, again until that evening in titi's ver, be impossible for me to share apartment. The baby soft and the monetary gains of
play. ink ad benutiful, slept redly in
"God's ways are strange, and past- her smail pink bed. Bob had come home for dinner, taut left shortly all understanding. For 30 years your father-a good, God-fearing afterward to keep an appointment man-ha laboured to provide life's i with a client. Rita was smoking
cigarettes and making animatedates for his family. Yet we are still poor people. While, almost ennversation.
over night, our daughter acquires
"
smoke
"You oughtn't de mneh." protested Molly. "It makes riches as though with a fairy wand, Oh my dear child. if you had only you cough."
turn your talents in some other drrection
Rita Rughed unpleasantly. "Tobaven won't - hurt me any." she declared.
There was more. But" Molly scarcely read it. It was all alike.
Then, nervously, she scuffed out
On Wednesday night the crowd the cigarette she had just lighted.
"It's 1. b." she said abruptly in the office gave her a party, and "That's why I wanted to see you a fitted travelling bag. Red made the presentation, and acted quite "A couple of yours ago 1 lad at N-ray. The doctor said if I stayed as though nothing had happened. His farewell kiss' was so casual in bed. I might be able to arrest that Molly wondered if his gayety it. Bat, lord, who wants to say actually covered a breaking heart. bed! It's no fon living, if you have
She sailed from New York, and. to enresul all the time.
"So I kept on working, and expected duck to be-at the boat to He must have known never told Bob or anyone. And 1y goodbye. was kidding myself that i wasn't he was sailing, because it was in getting any worse. Then I began the papers, Mr. and Mrs. Durbin feeling better. By and by Rita was were there, and most of the east Birm. I started getting worse af-11m the play,
The twin beds in Molly's cabin were piled high with baskets of st week I went to see the fruit and long boxes of flowers. doctor again. It's in the other lung And there were many gifta-books, nuw, And that.. that's cur-
and a travelling case, and a small tains,"
writing cabinet.
terward.
Horrified, Molly tooked at her.
She opened them all hurriedly, Hut, darling, have you been tooking far something from Jack nly he actor Maybe he's wrong With a great bunch of Parma vio-
"Oh, no, he's not wrong. X-rays) don't lie..... But it's about my lets she found his card, and with baby I want to talk to you. When die," Molly, will
you take her?"
ไป
it hook of Oscar Wilde's love verse-a slim, small volume, bound in violet vellum: it was the same The bomb shell laughed. "Ritak from which they had read the lake, during the together an ught Moly's eyes.. "It's no use asking anyone else," mud, lovely days of their courtship. in her shy continued. "Bob couldn't, lle's Jack had it re-bound
name favourite colour, with her
ju helpless. He can't help it, etched in alender golden letters. don't blame him in the first place. She found the marked passages Bob wasn't the marrying kinst. He they had read together, and her isn't a family sort of mau. Bes-
eyes filled with tears, and her heart ponsibility smpthers him.
with longing. "They've given me 12 months ta
There was one verse heavily pen- Bew, Molly. There's no danger to
ciled. it had not been marked be Bittle Rita. I've had her under eor įstant obsérvation ever since she was born. She's 100 per cent. per fect. Rita has a'chance, she'll be all right.
so Jack must have marked it for her to read. And this was it: "But surely it is something to have
bren
The best beloved for a little while.
"It's a question of environment with children. When I was little, To have walked hand in hand withi
Mally, there were Limes when I "didn't get enough to eat. No milk, no egg-those are the things chil-i dren need. That's why I'm asking you to take my baby
my dear."
1
to
Love, and Reuni
His purple wings dit once wzross
thy smile."
ADORABLE idiot! She ran out. "My dear
find the wireless office, and delirious radiogram: Molly's arms were around her sent him a friend. "I'll do anything in the "YOU ARE DREADFULLY. world you want me to. But you DUMB BUT STILL BEST BE- mustn't talk about dying. Rita! LOVED WHITE HOTEL - EX- You need a rest, A complete CELSIOR ROME* change. Come to Italy with me." The trip over was delightful, but
Rita laughed mirthlessly.
uneventful. There were princesses "Gad love you, you haven't the abound, and countesses, and any sense you were born with. If it's number of dukes. They travelled impedimenta you're after, why with malls and various servants. don't you take your mother.
And the women looked weary and wore countless jewels "She wouldn't go. You've no tired, and idea how she disapproves of me." with supreme indifference..
Rita chuckled.
The Conte Biancamang was a "It's marvellous how, a few doating palace, and presently Molly cabarets and a good, dressmaker began to feel as if she had been can change a woman's point of born to a life of ease and luxury. view. Paris would do your mother flur, bath was bigger than her own alat of good. It was outrageous kitchenette and hall and bathroom the way she acted the night your put together. Her room had two play opened-but honestly, Molly, beds, and a dressing table with a it's a shame about middle-aged full-length mirror. The stewardess women sometimes, They're just brought her fresh flowers every too respectable to be human.” day, and waited upon her so assidu "That's exactly what I think," pusly that it was almost like hav agreed Molly. "I've decided there ing a maid of her own. must be something redeeming about Molly spent the mornings in the sin. Something that inclines sin gymnasium, because the instructor, ners to pity and understanding."who hid volunteered. to teach her "It's lucky for you," observed fencing, was the best looking man Rita, "your mother never guessed on board.
"T!! what a precocioua child she had.
ase him in a story some.. It's dreadful the way mothers and time," she decided.
1 know daughters drift apart.
After luncheon she wrote each more about this mother stuff than day for two hours. Then it was you do, Molly. I know what it tea-time, and tea on deck means to have a child. If I should served from silver services, Ices
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and pastries, and champagne cup. Afterward she went to the movies, or played deck gaines.
At dinner time there were many are dishes, Pheasants in gleam- ing panoply were carried into the dining room, with their heads high and their tails sweeping "proudly, When their feathers were whisked away, their tender Bttle bodies, grilled to perfection, répased on tousted brend.,
Molly sat nione in the dining room, but afterwards, in the music room. She drank coffee while the others had liqueurs. And, because she was young and pretty and alone, she received a great deal of attention, and many invitations to dance in the grand Italian ball- ream, or to stroll about the quiet. white deck.
(To be Continued.)
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