THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1929.
THE SHINING TALENT.
By Eleanor Early.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
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With her hands on his chest, i Molly held him from her.
"Go on, Bób," she commanded. "I'd like to know exactly what you're driving at
most
And so I dreamed and wondered What next year's love would
be,
Until one Spring there came no
birdi
To any blossoming tree."
"You're different from
"It's pretty," she said, shivering girls," he loundered. "You've got delicately. I suppose it's true moro sense. That's what experi- too."
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ence does-gives a woman sense, "Of course it's true," he As I was saying-if you'd been an her. "Here's Blta now Innocent little kid, Red Flynn would Think over what I had to say, have given you such a thrill you'd fwon't you? You might go fur- have thought he was the only man. ther, you know, and fure worse. But you know better than that. Suppose you married Flynn. Your You know enough to discount this children would have carrot-tops- thrill business. I-don't mean that and.. freckles. Look it. ms"
I think you're anything but the daughter!, Did you ever see any. straightest girl that ever lived. If thing prettier in your life?"
I didn't know that, I wouldn't ask.
you to marry me. I'm only trying!
* *
Rita was wearing a cashmere of
to any well, you know what it's lilac colour, sprigged with pink all about, Molly. You're not an in-iose and forget-me-nots. Her genue model, if you know what lines slippers were gay with m [broidery, and her wide-brimmed "No." she conceded, "I'm no in-hat was loaded with tiny flannel venue. Go on."
flowers. They fluttered from the
mean,"
Bob cleared his throat with evi-lends of her sash, and were caught dent embarrassment.
in a perky noseguy un her
"I know I don't give you much shoulder.
of a kick," he admitted.
"No,"
she interrupted coolly. "You don't."
"Hello, mama! Hello daddy!"
She kissed them impartially,
"But that doesn't make any dif-} "Oh, daddy 1 know some new ference," he insisted. "When a girl words. Nancy's nurse told us. marries, it's because the man hasFermez la bouche." It means
'shut your mouth,' daddy." something she wants. You know,
as well as I do, the transitorines "I told her it was haughty to of passionate love. You know it's say that." déclared Nurse Marie not worth building on, don't you? primly, "Nancy's nurse is a very I may not have any particular common person, Miss Burnham. I physical attraction for you. But I shan't allow Rita to talk with her have something infinitely more im again." portant. I have Rita."
Molly stepped back." "You're not trying to bribe me with Rita, are you?" she asked.
"Why, yes," he admitted, "I sup- pose am-if you want to put it like that. You see, I know that you don't love me, Molly. I have
"Oh, that's all right." declared. Molly gayly. "It's time Rita got tough. Don't you, adoro her ac- cent, Rob I run along now, and not bother you. Be a good girl, Precious."
She stopped to kiss, Rita, and Bob said again, "Think over what to advance some reason to argue had to say, won't you?" my plea."
"Fermez in bouche," she toki "But it's ghastly to talk of mar-hira over Rita's head, and laughed ringe without love!" she protested. because he seemed annoyed.
"No," he contradleted calmly. "I She went from the nursery to don't think it is. There's a chapher bedroom, and threw herself on named Collins-a. doctor-who has the chaise longue. Bob had
written some pretty sensible things threatened to take Rita away, if about love. He says it's a sort of she did not do as he wished. He disease, that lasts about two years. was stubborn enough to do it, too. Now, you've seen a lot of life, Molly Molly knew that he had been more What's the use of looking for To- successful lately. He could hire a mantic love, when you know it capable woman to care for the won't last?"
child, and do the housework also, "But I don't know anything of Rita did not need constant super- the kind!" she contradicted Indig vision any more. She was "L' nantly. "I'm an incurable roman-healthy, intelligent child. As ticist."
Molly frequently remarked, having her about was almost like having grown person in the house. She was such a dependable Jittle creti; ture.
He smiled cynically. "Crying eternally for love, I suppose? No, you can't make mej believe that. Molly. Some women
If marriage with Bob was, un are that way, I know: But you're thinkable, so was life without Itita. different."
Lots of people marry without love.
are
. “I'm not!""she dusked. "I shall and are happier than the roman- never be loved enough for my, hapticists. So fany romances ¡piness."
failures.
Expeditious marriages "But I love you!" he cried,wear better, and last longer. Sen- "Molly, I'm crazy about you! You Bible people bring to matrimony know that, don't you? I'll love the same sound reasoning with you, dear. I swear it."
She tried to laugh.
which they consider any other con- tract. Well, why not be practical?
"But you're not romantic, Bob-Molly sighed wearily.
not really. You make beautiful, "That's the trouble!" she moan- grand protestations. But you're ed. "I'm not practical. I'm ro- not a bit my kind of a 'sweetheart. mantic." You'd never do all the silly, sweet
If only she could banish Jack things I'd adore. Why, you'd sim-from her mind! She had heure ply laugh at my adolescent no- from him once, since. he sailed for tions!"
England with Mrs. Bulwer-Eaton, "What kind of nations?" he de. He had sent her a coloured postcard manded. "What do you mean?" of Ponte Vecchio, where she had
"Silly things," she floundered. bought the Borgin ring. There "I'd love a husband who'd write was no message on it. Only his me love notes every day, and pick name. But she had told him about me nosegays. And buy me things finding his ring there, in the old And like lollipops and peanuts, because silver-smith's on the corner. I like them 80. And play the guitar he had probably gone, seeking nights, and sing me love songs, something for Mrs. Bulwer-Eston. And kiss me before and after every Something costly, to suit the wo meal."
man's flamboyant tastes. Molly "That sounds like
had torn up the postal furiously. prescription."
And then, unreasonably, she cried, und dropped the fragments in an cavelope, and sealed it, and put it
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a doctor's
"I know," she confessed.""It's aw. fully silly. But there you are! That's the sort of a husband way. want. I tell you I'm a born ro- She kept Jack's letters in u manticist. You didn't know that, secret drawer of her desk. They did you? You never guessed I was wore tied around with purple rib- one of those dreadful sentimental-bon. Once, when she was younger. ists who go round simply screech-she had scented the park with ing for love.".
sweet lavender. The Httle book of "You're a little liar," he told her Oscar Wilde's love verse he gave
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coolly. "You're cold as ice, and you her was there, too. She bought in her mind for some time.” Grad- and to heal. know it. You sent Jack Wella another copy, because she could unlly. Hazily. Like a furtive dream, it would be a difficult thing to of 'n tragic novel than Jale, because away, because he couldn't make not bear to handle the one in full of vague shapes and shadowy write. Difficult, because it would tragic heroines seldom suggest money enough to satisfy you. which Jack had marked the pas- Bubstance. The story of a woman he the baring of her own inner- dewdrops. Lalun had an intrigu
You're playing at love now with sages he loved. Inside the cover who had bartered romance for a most existence. No longer should ing sound that might mean almost Red Flynn."
she put the verse about love and a career and hated the career, and sho keep silence to oloak her anything. "That's not true!" she defended career, - that she clipped longed for love..
wounds. She would write her con- She had a hard time getting the Lalun must be introspective. She Molly loved introspective stuff. herself.
from L newspaper bhe day
It must be a beautiful book, beau- fession of failure, that all who first chapter started. It was differ- wondered if it would be plagiarism, But Bob shook his hend.
of graduation. It was a long time tifully written. The heart cry of a would might read.
ent than writing plays.. All you if she should begin, "Lalun was now since she had opened the lonely woman. She must find lovely
had to think of for a play was ac conscious of her own futility:| Love has come to you so often, it's drawer where her one-time treas- worde, and magnificent phrases. Fired with sudden determina- tion. Action and dialogue. grown a common thing." He was ures loy. She felt that she could And she must blend them exquis- tion, she began work with fervidi fumbling through his wallet.
never stand, to look at them again.itely, so the whole should be per- enthusiasm. Until dawn, the keys Desire" one must he whimsical.
But with a novel like "Asles of within and without her there was
emptiness. "I've something to show you. Red's letters cluttered her bureau fect. The delineation of a woman's of her little pink typewriter flew Tender. Profound. Molly went to then began, swiftly, to type. Before She considered a moment, and Clipped it out of a magazine yes-drawera. They were witty and en- life. A passionate woman, passion- up and down beneath her fingers. her book shelves, to see how other she stopped, Lalun had became a terday, because it made me think tertaining, and she hated to destroy ately seaking. Seeking the things
She would call her book "Ashes authors did. There was George living, breathing woman. of you. I was sure I stuck it in them. She was always meaning to of existence. The cheap, trumpery, of Desire." And her heroine should Moore's "Sister Teras," which was ture of fire and of promise, And, Astoried Capital
A crea- Head Office:-Hongkong. Oh, here gather them together, and put them tawdry things. Fame, and money, be named Lalun. When Molly was also, the study of a woman's life.because she was beautiful, she was Fald-Up Food
away somewhere, so she could and thrills. Satisfaction unt, quite a small girl, she had two
Molly turned to the opening beloved, of courso. He hold a torn piece of paper laugh over them when she was old, satiety.
favourite names. One was Lalun. page:: to her.
She wondered what Red would And when she was sated this 'And the other was Jale. She in- think of Bob's proposal. And she woman, who had turned her back tended, in those days, to have dolence: within and without her eyes to match. Laughing eyes LONDON BANKER
"She was conscious of her in-feet, one. He had dark hair and The man who loved her was six lay on her pretty chaise longue for on love, would be lonely, And, in twins, and named them Lalun and there was a strange, lifeless calm. And a very strong, determined chin, a long time, meditating.
her desolation, she would cry with Jale. Jale is a Turkish name, and a strange inactivity in the air and The trouble with me, she decided the prophet, "All is vanity and means Dewdrop. Molly never knew in her mind. In the landscape and His hair had a little wave in it, "is I've been idle too long. I ought vexation of spirit." to be ashamed of myself! I'll get
what Lalun meant, but it, didn't in her there seemed no before and and his chin had a dimple For Molly meant, in her book, make any differences It was a no hereafter. But a glance in Good, heavens she thought, to work on that book-that's what to show that the things of life are beautiful name, and, since she was wards revealed to her the zipple of And so she had. It was like a
"I've described Jack Wells Aas nothing." And only the white-hot never to have twins now, she might some hidden anticipation moving The thing had been taking shape name of love has power to comfort, as well use it somehow. It seemed under the sullen surface.
portrait.
(To Be Continued)
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it je."
"Read it," he said, "It's pro-
phetic."
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"Love came to me so many times
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