THE SHINING TALENT.
By Eleanor Early.
CHAPTER XXVIL
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1929.
other order of Crime, with a little Sex on the aide? And give it to Servants came running when em lot, dear. Hot and medium Signorina. Benveuti called. Sigaw. And make 'em love it!" norina chafed Molly's cold hands,
Reading a letter from Red was and pressed brandy between her like talking to him. He had good Hips. And, when she could not be leas too. His insistence upon revived, they carried her to a divan holding the public, when she had in the living room; and the con- theni. Now was the time, she clerge went on his bicycle for knew, to keep her place in the sun.She had a reputation, and she must keep it. Before very long she would be forgotten. And, after that, she would have to start all over again.
doctor.
Then Signorina Benvenuti re trieved the cable that had fluttered from Molly's stiff fingers.
"RITA DEAD." it read. "In SISTED DURING" CONSCIOUS- NESS THAT YOU BE NOTIFIED IMMEDIATELY, BOB."
Mr. Durbin had written, urging that she belin work on another play. "The Death of Delphine Tears came to the Italian lady's Darrows" had proved the sustain- eyes. Her sympathetic Latined hit of the season. He seemed nature responded readily to the willing to take a chance on almost grief of any living thing, and for anything Molly might write. the little American girl travelling alone she wept sincerely.
"But don't turn sweaty-pke on me." he warned. "The public has
Molly stirred, and her, eyelids you tagged as a girl who knows Aluttered.
her crime. You can't pull any
"I have great sorrow for you, love-among-the daisies stuff on them Signoring," murmured the mistress... How about a "nice, juicy mur of the pension. "I have rend der?"
your message, and weep my grief."
Molly stared with unseeing eyes,
with the doctor.
ed.
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Molly had torn up his letter
The concierge land returned impatiently. She did not want And the murmur to be tagged as a girl who knew of anxious voices penetrated ae: her crime. Better love-among-the- consciousness. She raised herself daisies than a "nice juicy murder!" on her elbow. Everything was Now, crushed with grief by clear now. She remembered the Hit's death. confronted with the calle, and realized she had faint-prespect of a long and unbearably lonely voyage, she, decided to de- vote the entire trip to the task bt writing another play For 'some time she had revolved in her mind the dramatic possibilities of a tragedy of young love-the sympathetic study of a modern thrill-seeker,
"My best friend is dend," she said, "and I must go home imme diately, to take care of her baby. 1. I hope I didn't frighten yout was dreadful shock."
Signorina nodded understand ingly.
To be sure," she murmural.
Life had furnished all the
"A dreadful shock. I shed tears characters.. The tragedy had
myself."
She wiped her eyes.
"The bambino?"
"You will be muma
bambino?"
taken place while Molly was
in' 'college. In real - life.
she ask the inglorious hero hnd been
to the little murdered.
For the purposes of a play, she
"I promised my friend." ex- would have him commit suicide-- claimed Molly, "that if she died, I in a sacrifici to honour and would take her little girl. She chivalry. But, until the last was ill then. But I never realized moment, the audience must believ the end was so near. She did not him murdered. Even the defen- sebni very sick. I never dreamed dants, and his sweetheart, must
"Molly's voice broke
I believe him murdered. "Sometimes it is better;" con- The plot should revolve about i soled the older woman, "when the love of mother and daughter-" death comes quickly. God knows, dich ready to give her life, to save best. May Hd have mercy on her the other--cach bojieving the other sonl."
uilty of murder.
Molly nodded through her tears, A treshman in college had "Yes. Bila wouldn't have want el fallon de love with a man, whom
Lo suffer and be it 11 know that,"
She was comitent, "maybe, tu dio when she know you would he muma to the little bambir," declared Six- norina. "And now.""if you" will have a glass of my wine "
I
bar parents considered unworthy. Į warning of the romance, heri
ther had gone to the boy. There was a stormy stasina, during which the youth declared that the girl was pursuing him, Shu profered a goblet of purple that she had thrown herself at his i liquid. The sun, slanting through head, and that whatevershapesaed, the shutters, filled it with light, was her own fault. "that it was amethyst and ruby, like the sweet ropes from which, it
rame.
"It will revive you." she said.
Molly drank t gratefully.
יוון
The next day the mother of the girl bought a revolver. Two days later the boy's body was found. He had gone to a grove. sumably to keep a tryst-with the girl. There was a bullet through his head, and, beside his body, fas the revolver purchased by the girl's mother,
"I feel better already," she de- clarcl. “I'm sorry. I was weak and silly. I must have frightened you. Do you know, Signorina, when
Both parents were subsequently there is a boat for the States?" arrested, and tried for murder. Signorim did not know, but There was a tremendous furore, soon the concierge was busy with with the press screaming for con- smiling lists and steamship traets viction. The Conte Grande was sailing
Molly's sympathies were
with
from Naples on Thursday. He the parents. She saw them as two for wretched creatures, with hearts would arrange iminediately reservation. Did Signorina wish broken and minda crazed, con- to send a cable?
demned to witness the inevitable Molly dictated a message" off disgrace and misery of their sympathy to Bob. It was good to cherished child. have someone do her thinking for But the press saw, only two un-
relenting, maunderstanding par Bob's answer was delivered the ents, determined to sacrifice love's next day--the day of Rita's young dream on the altar of their funeral. Whatever Rita desired, solish ambition for their child. he said, should be done. "Molly Two fiends with no conception of was very kind. He would meet the idyll of romance.
her.
her in New York, and they should Molly knew better. The man talk things over, Thank God, he was an utterly unmoral person. added, little Rite was too young And the girl a susceptible and, for grieving.
willing creature. She could quite fuck cabled too. Bob had told understand how, the agonized | him that Molly knew of ilita's mother had been tormented beyond death, and that she had offered to reason.
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"Red!"
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They were standing together, Branches of the International. waiting for an inspector to affix Banking Corporation in San Fran- take the baby. He sent his syn- It was, of course, a sensational
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Molly saw Bob outside the gate. Islands, and also of The National generosity. But there was not a committed to an asylum, and the
She had complained a moment be-City Bank of New York (France) tvord of love, nor hope expressed | futher to prison, convicted of
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And then the dramatle scene could forget the haunting tragedy
"Look!" she exclaimed. "There's Red, exercising the privileges of
Hongkong, 2nd July, 1929. practically decided to give the
formed itself in Molly's mind- of Rita's death. Only by becom- the press, boarded the steamer Bob now. Lordy, Red, I don't Borgia ring to Red Flynn.
Mully decided to introduce her the mother, in the prisoner's cage ing physically and mentally ex- with the doctors at quarantine. know what to say to him!" Red had been wonderful about play with courtroom scene. would rise to her feet. And she hausted, could she sleep at all. He had heard, in the peculiar "Oh, just act natural," he ad-
of rised. "The poor sap's got trou- THE BANK OF CANTON, writing. Molly fancied that, be- The courtroom action in "The would turn to the jury, and impire Utterly weary, she would throw fashion of newspaper men.
LIMITED. on ble enough. That other thing will tween the lines, she could read a Death of Delphine Darrows" had them:.
herself across her bed at two or Rita's death, and had called great many loving expressions. But been an outstanding success? It "Don't believe her! It's not the three o'clock in the morning. At Bob, to express his sympathy, straighten itself out."
"Bob" she called.
ESTABLISHED' 1913, the letters themselves were chatty might be well to pattern a bit untruth. She's lying. It was I, her daylight, the deck hands, when From Bob he learned of Molly's
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plexed sort of fashion. He wore Pais-Up Fund Another play, perhaps. Or a book trial of the parents. And, in the as anything in Delphine Darrows get to work again. To keep her turning on the Conte Grande.
He greeted her in characteristie a mourning band on the sleeve of Reserve Fund fashion. Maybe she could do some short witness box, she would place the The curtain would come down on mind active, she drank a great
his grey suit, and a black tie. stories. She was still the child girl, grieving for the death of her the mother's denial. That would quantity of black coffee.
When the Conte Grande reached "Woman, what have you been do- He took her hand in both of his, wonder of Broadway. The in-sweetheart, ready to give testi- get the play off on a note of New York, the new play was ing to yourself? You look like hell." And she saw that there were tears genue prodigy. The red-haired mony against her mother.
mystery. The following acte finished. And Molly was an utter "That's the way I feel," she told In his mild blue eyes. Despite the baby girl who could call the tricks A suave prosecuting attorney would have to be worked up. The wreck. She had lost 10 pounds in him. "Wasn't it dreadful about frowe lady despite whatever he any 'old day.
would ask his damning questions idea had great possibilities. 3he aa many days, and looked 10 Rita!"
might have done she felt over- "They're eating out of your hand quietly. Suddenly the girl would was sure of that, Greater even years older. But the play, neatly "Tough," he sympathized. whelmina sorry for him '--the 'dear public,” wrote Red, shatter the breathless quiet of than "The Death of Delphine Dar typed, lay in her travelling case. Awful tough. What's this I hear "It's strange," he stammered. description transactad "but they're fickle is a flock of the courtroom.
She would send it, by messenger, about you taking the kid?" "Very strange. Jack was here Army rental of from 85 to $400 a woman. Keep 'em, while you got Thumping her cheat with her
Molly worked every day, and from the pier to Mr. Durbin He "I promised Rita," she explain moment aro. He seems to have "emand ride'em for a flock of clenched fists, she would cry. "I half the nights. It was only by could get in touch with her later, ed.
disappeared." suckers. Can't" you dish up an-ald it! II. I!"
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