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the music.
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"Let me smell!". Gigi demanded shrilly, snatching the heavy crys- tal bottle from hor mother's hands. even as they tightened convulsively upon it. Before anyone could stop her, Gig had poured the. OVAN poweringly strong perfume into her cupped hands and was dashing wildly from person to person, springling dinner conts and evening frocks with terrible prodigality.
"Stop, Gigil Stop, I tell you!" Authorized Capital ... Gutler 250,000,000. You're a Mrs. Berkeley commanded frantl-
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BANKERS.
ESTADLISHED 1834, Hongkong Odvoz 11, Coren's Road, Centrál.
Detective Bonnie Dundee, ascretly a mess-Wow of a dancer Bonnie Dun- cally. ber of the Hamilton Homicide Squad,, acceptadeo!"
"Do you realize what you're Pak-Up Capital an invitation from a former Yale classmate.
doing? That's Fleur d' Amour, and Dick Berkeley, to spend the week-end at
"So you've found out my nick it costs $82 an ounce! George! Reserve Fund Hillcrest, the millionaire Berkeleys estate name!" Dundee groaned. "I sup-Stop her! She'll waste it all!"
It is rumoured that Clorizda Berkeley is en
raged to be married to Beymour Graby, New Pose Dick let the cat out of the York guess in the Berkeley home. For mos bag, to use nnother
son of his own. Dundee has a strong pro-simile?" fofonal curiosity to aco and study, Crosby.
But the mad outpouring continu- mossy ed. Even Wickett, the butler, did
not escape a dash of the costly
On Friday evening Dandoe meets Mr. and "And I thought I was so clever scent. Mrs. Berkeley, the latter an impossibly alzar-thinking that up all by my- Clorinds; 15-year-old Glei, who annoys her self" Gigi mourned.
and presentious womka; the beautiful daughter,
mother with her frankness; gracious, well- bred Mrs. Letitia Lambert, Mrs. Berkeley's
social secretary, formerly society leader in
"You've wasted at least, an ounce of my lovely perfume, you wick- Dundee was chivalrously devoted child!" Mrs. Berkely sobbed, himself to his hostess during as she panted, after. the flying New York and an old friend of Crosby's, -
Dinner is a rather dreadful, ordeal for mour Crosby joined them, apolo
the lull in the music when Sey-Gigi. Berkeley senior is angry over his daughter's engssement to Crosby. and Mrs. Berkeler gizing for the interruption with a is furious with her husband for haring limijerky little continental bow. ed her consumption of champagne. Unerally, Dundee feels that the evening has further ordeal in store for all concerned,
CHAPTER III.
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What happened in the next minute Bonnie Dundee would have London Bankers--National Provincial Bank, "I've just remembered that I given much not to have witnessed,
Correspondents all over the workl have a present for you, Mrs., and, later, a great deal more to ·BANKING BUSINESS OF EVERY Berkeley, and since
able to forget. For I'm rather have been
DESCRIPTION TRANSACTED, keen to see how you like it, will Mrs. Berkeley cornered her
P. K. ELBERG. "Run along, Gigi," Dick Berke-you pardon me
Manager. while I run up younger daughter, and, even as ley commanded, slumping to the stairs to get it?"
Hongkong, 28th May, 1929. Gigi laughed impudently up into couch beside Dundee as Wickett Mrs. Berkeley watched
her mother's rage-reddened face, him was serving coffee in the drawing leave the room, a pleased simper lifted a broad hand and slapped her room. "You've probably handed on her broad, over-rouged face.
cheek resoundingly. Dundee so many shocks already "Isn't he the most perfect expres- And she made no resistance when Capital (fully paid up) X 100,000,000 KOWLOON
"Oh" Gigi gasped incredulously, that he's as groggy as I am. Go sion of a dying era, Mr. Dundee?" cheer up Mrs. Lambert. She's she gushed.
"So suave,
her mother snatched the crystal, Beserve Fund looking rather low, no gentle, so polished, if you know little hand, before it could drop and 50 flask from her suddely relaxed wonder. Thanks, coffee what I mean! for me, Wickett. I don't want to is a very lucky girl. Aren't you, mother, and Dundee thought he had Batavia
Darling Clorinda take the edge off this jag I'm con- Clorinda?" she called teasingly, never seen such contemptuous hat-
shatter. Then she looked at her Alendria scientiously acquiring," and he but her daughter either did not red as paled the Puckish little appropriated two of the tiny hear or did not want to glasses filled with 4
golden for the tall, splendid beauty con- longer childish eyes.
brown face and distended the no- Calcutta liqueur.
tinued her restless, almost feline prowling about the room:
and no
T' bot Mr. Dundee would rather. I'd do the shocking thas, you!" Gigi retorted, thrusting out her tongue at her brother.
{ sweet," Dick
answer,
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In another moment George Ber- Changchun, koley was at his wife's side, and he Fengilen was saying in a low voice of con-
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Hongkong, 34th February, 1930.
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Dundee murmured But
a polite an-centrated fury, that was perfectly Hamburg she obyed, winging her way swer, and his hostess' caroling voice audible in the hushed room: across the enormous, too ror- gushed on. geous, too new room to where the
"Don't do that again, Abble! Hongkong "I do hope my bad little Gigi Never again, do you hear me?- social secretary sat quite alone. hasn't given you a false impres-or-"
"Funny kid, Gigi,' Dick com-sion of me, dear Mr. Dundee. mented. "She's the best of the child is incorrigible, and
At that moment the recuperated lot, of course. Half-baked yet, father aids and abets her in all"The Pagan Love Song," and the her orchestra, miles away, broke into and disgustingly frank, but heart her impertinences. of gold, and all that sort of thing. dear little thing at heart-really melody, superimposed upon quiver- But she's a room was filled with languorous I like Gigi!"
adores me. "So do
Dear Mrs. Lambert as-ing waves of anger, fear and hat- I" Dundee agreed sures me that Gigi will be a great red. cheerfully, his eyes taking in with success socially,
BANK OF CHINA. Of course pleasure the picture which
she As the paralysis lifted, Dundee, the will make her debut in New York, still dazed, still aceing red, was Reorganized October 26, 1323, under special golden-brown child and the sponsored by the Seymour Cros-aware that Dick Berkeley was charter of The Nailenal Government as an beautiful white-haired woman hys, though I am afraid Gigi is lunging drunkenly mude as they sat together in a still not properly impressed with wide-arched doorway that led intoj
toward the. INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE BANK. distant window seat.
what her dear sister will be able the front hall. Gigi, who "This stuf is too damned to do for her- Oh, you dear been cornered near the doorway,
decided suddenly.man!" she broke off to exclaim, backed blindly "Got to have something to take with a cry of delight, as Seymour) turned and ran, her rasping sobs a few steps, then the taste out of my mouth." And Crosby again presented himself loud above the music. he plunged, not too steadily.before her. towards the dining room.
"What is
it?"
Gigi shouted, about, saw the still white misery in and large connections in the important cum- As he was returning his father taking long, skating steps across Mrs. Lambert's delicate face, the mereal centres of the world, we are able to intercepted him, saying something the highly polished floor. sternly emphatic in a low voice when her own eyes had answered Clorinda was trying to dismiss the
But contemptous shrug with which extend to our clients special facilities for Then the older man strode deter her question, Dundee was amazed incident, and the shocked amaze- other Pubfle Funds of the Chinese Cover
We also handle the issue of Bonds and (North Benchuria) minedly into the dining room,
"Poor Dad!
to see them widen with something ment and disgust on the aristocrament both at home and abroa He has a hard remarkably like horror.
tic face of Seymour Crosby. time trying to keep the inebriates, "Oh, no!" she cried, then, with of this family from making holy a queer side glance toward Mrs. I wish to speak to Dick," Dundee "Will you excuse me a moment? shows of themselves." Dick told Lambert she clapped a hand upon mumbled to George Berkeley, who Dundee, as he slumped again upon her mouth. the couch. "But in case you're
gave no sign that he heard. feeling dry, old man, I had the the exquisite
There was certainly nothing in.
It was
no desire to speak to happy thought of filling my pocket which Mrs. Berkeley was seizing took Dundee out of the room. It cut-crystal flask Dick Berkeley, however, which flash on that trip."
Thanks, I've had more than horror in
with curious avidity to inspire was an urgent impulse to telephone enough," Dundee replied absently. thought, his brows knitting in A Homicide Squad.
the child, Dundee Captain Strawn of the Hamilton 2007 He was wondering just how many puzzled frown. "inebriates" the Berkeley family was cursed with, and just who they were.
his
"Rather Sir Galahadish, aren't you young Berkeley almost sncered. "So is Dad. He unlocks cellar only when pre-war Mother browbeats him into it, to celebrate some such auspicious occasion as this, Happy-looking love-birds, aren't they?" and his glance brooded upon his sister Clorinda and Seymour Crosby, who sat silently in an atrocious love-seat, each handsome face sombre with brooding, "God! I've got to do something to livenj up this party!"
י'
A minute later Dick's half-blind fumbling with the dials of an enormous radio cabinet released a flood of jazz music,
"Come on, Lily!" he shouted to his aunt. "Let's
show these corpses how to do the 'Break- away! 'Break away!
Get hot and break away!'"
"Dance with me, Mr. Dundee?" Gigi cried at the top of her voice, ns she slithered across the floor. "Dad, you make Tish dance! Come on!" she challenged Dundee and he willingly held out his arms.
And
Three other couples obeyed the compelling syncopation.. Dick harangued und scolded his giggling aunt; Clorinda Crosby, their steps matching per- fectly, proved that dancing was a fine art; and Mr. Berkeley guided the slender, gracious, figure of Mrs. Lambert with surprising expertness.
"Don't they look simply too mrvellous together?" Gigl whis- pered after she had blown a kiss to her adored "Tish.""Look at poor Abbie grinning like a Chessy cat. Oh, dear! Can't someone invent a new simile for that? Anyway, she thinks the party's going swell at last, and she's happy."
"Shall I ask her to dance?" Dundee smiled down into the vivid brownL face with its topaz eyes and babylahly-round white teeth
"Ask her, of course.. She'll be pleased, but she'll make an ex- Kommanded for FREE PARKE: by Checuse. The bitter truth is that poor
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Uncertainly, Dundee glanced
(To Be Continued.)
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Dancing:
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