· ENGLISH FOLK DANCING FESTIVAL.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1931.
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zay if she were to ask him about should go to bed if she were 80 CDR. HOLE RETURNS.
tired.
this.
Over the mixing of the cooll Beryl wanted to answer: "And drinks she smiled suddenly and leave you alone with Prentiss 7"-In- said to herself: "Beryl, don't be stead she said: "We're all going a cynic. There must be men in the to bed. Prentiss, get your hat. work somewhere who don't care This is an old-fashioned household for baby dolls at any stage of the and not a speakeasy. You may game. Maybe Irene is just clever sleep until noon to-morrow but we
can't." enough to pick her men.'
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SIMLA CONFERENCE.
Among the passengers who arrived Hongkong yesterday afternoon on the B.I, steamer Tilawa was the Har- bour Master of Hongkong, the Hon. Commår, G. F. Hole, RN, who headed the Hongkong delegation to Simila where a Round-Table Conference has been held to formulate a set of rules
Then elle remembered having Irene sat up in anger. "How can heard someone say that youth is you be so rude?" she flamed. intolerant but that its earnestness: Preniles laughed. "Beryl'a_right," "I only but even as she put a silencing is necessary to the movement of he said apologetically. Bery) Derden, secretly in love with Tomay finger to her own lips Irene stirred the world. Well, maybe she could came in for a drink, but Wilson, delays in elopement with her landfi and opened her eyes.
reget a jump on life by practicing His voice drifted away while his applicable to construction and life. Seeing Pren-
grew old eyes lingered on Irene's, face na him that it his duty to Buash colleger, Liss standing there staring at her tolerance before she
Irene sat up in pretended embar May she wasn't justified in set-though to say its beauty could be saving appliances on ships in Eastern Securing an audition whe Permits Berg) to rassment. There was no reason for ting her own standarde for other blamed for his delay.
stater. Irene Everett, at Twit
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singer.
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Accompanying Commdr. Hole were
Irene pouted. "I'm awfully sorry Her cos- people to follow. Maybe Tommy tume was complete with its yellow wasn't weak in loving Irene. It not to hear the rest of that story Messrs. G. Swan and W. O. Lambert, lle promise, a runtract later. Irene falls vont and she knew her sister would wasn't Prentiss, it was Tommy she about the time you were robbed of of the Government Marine Surveyors
when he hears of bery understand that if she had not; was judging.
your father's payroll," she said re-omce, who also attended the Confer hoped to be caught in the pyjamna
"How about it, Partner?" she retfully. "Weren't you just scar- interview, she would not have worn the coat sald softly aloud. "If I were 10 ed to death?"
would I be able to admit that pos- Idiot! Beryl thought. Irene had only to look at Prentiss to know ho of But she wasn't 40, and when she wouldn't be "scared to death"
access. Timo prasen bar2 30 word from the studio. At last
arrives Jetleri
and fiery slip away fur the
ebe is elated when presented with a contrael on a hot summer night.
Ker victory is bittersweet for her family
ritarna bona inden with oral sributes,
MKZTIAKO.
accepta invitations fem Young Prentu waiting when they return that sight.
said
to
ence.
and Irene's
Trying her love for Tomery, Hery dry. She wasn't going to have thoug Her disgust welled up that story? Well she wouldn't Where would it take them?
CHAPTER XX.
And so it did. The throat felt
and Tommy belleve she rabbed treas of her Irene had learned through pain-sibly I'm wrong?" chance. Deryl's debut in surceas and sful experience not to face Beryl's
Burning with envy, "terne dreider to tharry cool grey eyes when she was en- went back to the living room and anything. But then, of course, her confused to think logically. What Tonny immediately, but his sunt alles and gaged in tricks. There was some-saw Irene curled up in a pictur- question would give him a chance would all this lead to her secret w the i again Dustponed, Mr. Hoffman, Taming's uncle, want n
thing about Beryl which made esque pose in one corner of the to declare himself on the subject love for Tommy, Prentiss Gaylord's keeper and offers inducements for an ear tricks, even the most commonly sofa while Prentiss sat beside her What more could a man want? coming into the aftuntion, his ad-
practiced one
to be a cynic," ahe miration for Irene, oles, seem chenp and (likea charmed bird. Beryl
"I'm elf. ht), all her philosophizing Gaylord, who takes her to a party. Irene her plans spoiled by Beryl so she
vanished.
Why hadn't Prentiss told her greedy grasping at his interest? smiled sweetly and apologetically stronger than ever, and she was at Prentiss.
that she had brought a third "scared to death" of anything her- "Better to live on the surface, SUTFY 1 wanted to hear about the glass for Irene.
self. Maybe it's not fun to tell a she whispered in the dark, holding Irene, waiting up for her? Beryinderella who had no parties in and put to bed if she got what sho Maybe. It's only. Interesting with with her father. "Life gets measy
party, looked at her sister, a lovely
she said, in the voice of a The little minx should be spanked person like herself a hero story one of her one-sided conversations
creature in (the nerve of her!) sen- her own life.
deserved, Beryl thought. But someone who will say, "Oh, oh!" when you dig too deep, doesn't it, shell plak lounging pyjamas that
"Do you want a drink, Prentias ?" Irene was years too old for that with wide, round eyes and a round, Pater? Unless you're very, very were Boryl's. The flood of soft Beryi asked in a mallor-of-fact and one had to treat her as a rosebud mouth.
wise. And I'm not wise. I'm ‚... light
that
come from
Maybe that was why--because I'm... crying. My throat hurts." shado was flattering to Trene
golden tone.
grownup. Prentiss answered vaguely, "A Prentiss drank the lemon-mint she didn't have wide, round eyes Beryl turned to Prentiss with a
drink? Oh yes, yes of course. I and ate the thin, brown cookies. and a round, rosebud mouth-that feeling that she ought to shout a was thirsty, wasn't I?"
Beryl knew that it might as well Prentiss had not gone.on with his tight and hot and queer.. Neither warning to him. could see
for himself, but he Irene p I have something lost or have been cider and doughnuts for story after abo came back with the it nor her thoughts would let Beryl pouted, still the little stater all the difference he'd have known, refreshment tray. Oh well, she sleep. She tossed in a hot bed until couldn't read the signals as Beryl who'd be suppressed if other people! She wished he would go for she cared only because Tommy was like long after day light arrived. Then, did. He would see only the
had their way. golden
That
really alarmed at last, she got up was the idon was very
had that too. tired. The party hair
shining in the soft light, the she hoped Freniles would get. Irene been a strenuous one. for her.
and gargled with an antiseptic. The gleam of a
a satiny
the had learned that most men enjoy Other guests had walked by twas shoulder, the
Beryl said good-night to Pron-thought of a cool shower appealed
to her... pose of innocent
sleep.
being protectors, or imagining on the adjacent beach ar sat ini dim ties with a detachment of mind "Prenties wouldn't know that the is to look helpless and ap-fronted the ocean, but she had been was due to pique. Then she went when Irene banged on the bath
themselves such.
She was young corners of the big porch that that pleased Irene who thought it She was onjoying the shower lounging ault was taken without permission from Ila owner and that
pealing.
kept indoors singing and dancing. directly to her own room, refusing room door and said: "For Pete's wearer had walted
to gossip with Irene up for her
about the sake, will you please stop ranking sister for the express purpose of
party and Prentiss Gaylord. so much noise and let people sleep? meeting him or, failing that, to Irene should know so much more Her success, professional and Thank heaven, there was one real talk about him.
about mon than her brainier sister. social, was In no wise boresome blossing the old house afforded. Beryl turned off the shower and Of course, Beryl realised, she Was it instinctive knowledge that to Boryl. She liked people and on That was a room of one's own. Irene started to go back to her korzelf could only guess at what comes only to primitive minds? Or joyed being in a crowd because in Beryl thought, as she closed the room. few paces away ho was in Irene's mind, but she knew was if that much talked of woman's spite of her directness, she main door behind her, that she'd turn stopped and listened From the her sister very well. She felt she intuition? Beryl wondered as she Lained a protecting resérve, tiger cat if forced to share a room bathroom had come a sound Her had made a fair guess.
mads her way to the kitchen for the She sighed audibly and Irena with Irene.
that of a falling body, Beryl wanted to lot Irene sleep refreshments what Prentiss would had the, impudence to tell her nkei Alone, she found that she was too
(To de Continued.
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