THE HONGKONG
CROSS-COUNTRY RUNNER TAKES A BATH.
TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1931
RICHEST GIRL IN LONDON.
Many are the pitfalls that heat the paths of cross-country runners in England, and this pic. ture shows how one of them fared when he tripped in a hurdle and foal head long into a good during the junior athletic championships at Stamford Bridge. The competitor shown at eight had better luck and won the rea.
A tennis championship may have slipped out of F. X. Shield's grasp when the young Ameri- can took this tumble on the courts at Wimbledon. Through he got up again to defeat Joan Boro. tre in the semi-final « leg injury made it impossible for Shields to play in the finals.
The Melody Girl.
By RUTH DEWEY GROVES.
Author of "The Innocent Cheal," etc.
BEGIN HERE TODAY
Tory Borden Laura that a radio career whi help her forget her heels have for Tony
telegram might
own feelings in order to renesure her but she was incapable of mak- ing an effort to offer him comfort In rolurn.
After he was gone she wondered if comfort wouldn't have been superfluous, for on reading Gay- lord's wire a Beend time she sensedi a coldness, almost an indifference to Irene's plight. It was almost like ja message a stranger would send us
a duty.
Had Tommy noticed this? Would
be the fulfilment he concluule from it that Gaylord wish-word of and Irene were still estranged? H of her grentest Frene's reconciliation with Gaylord, that were so Tommy couldn't be ter- Tr, She read it hastily. Suddenly ribly upset over Irene's injuries Iyer. She paint with treaties Cinslarl
which Gaylord called "slight." Be- until Irene learn this be a rich not matinees Mr. Everett shrieked.
Barringe they depart for Gaylord's western
Wam was in
At hp
to win de way from Beryl After bestr Everyone came ranning, even toing assured of a chance to win her Tommy drink emity, ener its job the mesenger boy. Beryl caught for himself would be the big thing And all companions
Meral
A picture of the richest girl in the world. Miss Doris Duke, right, is abown with her mother, Mrs. James B. Duke, lanving their hotel in London. Miss Duke, who inherited in her own right between £20,000,000 and £30,000,000 from the vast Duke tobacco a tate, always has been guarded from photographers and anldom has been taken.
Unable to control her car after it had hit curbing, Mr. Lewis Stralloy, just learning to drive, and her husband lost their lives in a reservoie at Pittsburgh, when her big sedan crashed through arniting. Rescurers are shown here dragging the car, with the victims inside, to the surface.
old while trying in Bid his to a bees mother in her prins as she cal- to Tommy. Irene could rerover
"Betasport hit she could not have sup-from slight Injuries bat Tommy relieved of a burden, for she did be
give th bf sitalorosame
aniel. When To the th
at har made for him, he reforms at p
dirt #fected and her winging days led her for hittar Jch mor Mr. was sure to feel he enatal never re- not know where funds could
cover from losing for a second time. raised to pay her sister's expenses. Evett me to her nid.
Tommy halted near the hond of
So one would receive the best of the stairs, just behind the messet; } SIM
Beryl, went to talk with her anything unleas the expense was
back to užter
I reeks with E entiss me up nifas with Berry Mende myl comun kinitial
regalo his line. Irene plus a aceret kurtis
that Tommy has showed aid weke ger bay, and stond waiting nutilmother, but she said nothing of her guaranteed by a reputable person. Mr. Everett and Horyt tail got the impression of Gaylord's message. She felt confident that Gaylord was "Oh, my poor baby," Mrs. Ever-looking after Irene as far as money "Gee, do you suppose somebody's jett waited over and uver. "Out was concerned. The Ben Agh, and Trear tries to flew be Derry's dend the messenger boy whis-here in a hospital without her
with Berry frut ene ng 'pentina" (riends poroge hits her and teleptatos da Prentiss wh drive to in refuder your Jerry demone Imbrarts gotd-digger,
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into her room.
trene is spomal spered. "I know it was, bad news-- | mother!" James Bechlert,
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CHAPTER XLVI
the
him
felt she wild be sind when all had not made clear what news it she excialmed. "Yours and Beryl's. " he got well she would have i
had
They did not hear from was told to wait for an answer She's got her husband," Mr.again for several days: Those days but, pov, 1 late deliveria' chem Everett, whe had come back from were terrible for
Beryl. Her Ideath noffees!"
getting himself a drink of some mother kept to her bed and refused Bend started with surprize. Į
thing, declared. "Now don't you to see anyone for Irene had written Tommy did nôt answer. Present-] begiù meddling!"
them a pitiful letter in which she spilling a fow drops of
to pick up chocolate on her party dress, They Beryl reappeared
Mrs. Everett turned upon him, declared she had done her best to accident did not distress her. Bert the telegram, Her mother's outeries ferociously. "It's all your fault" moke up with Gaylord but he was the same toward her," and contained to Tommy, and then She | You didn't want Irene here, either when the things the Velvetan Girl bought were gone. They reminded wanted to laugh.
one of you. You made her humble to come home. She repeated that obscure Beryl too painfully of past The inpulse horrified her. How herself to go back there. If you'd she would try not to be any trouble priories.
could she laugh when her sister let her alone Gaylord would have to them because they'd all been so Her nervousness was a different was hart?
rome for her. Oh, my poor baby! good to her. She'd work hard and to "Bury), don't!" Tommy Huid Maybe Gaylord'a matter. She was distressed over it
lying. Maybe help with the cooking and try for it was growing so noticeable | sharply. le could not stand the she's hurt badly! Maybe she's dy- forget how she was suffering now. The letter broke her mother's people were beginning to comment sounds of her crying-erying that ing!" Beryl felt she enuld not stand the was prompted by a desire to laugh. Mrs. Everett kept it up until she heart and Beryl and Mr. Everett To Tommy who had never wit-had her husband thoroughly fright suffered in consequence. Mrs. prying eyes tha: followed her.
Tommy hadn't rented to notice. nessed real bysterin-only Irene's ened and Beryl too began to won- Everett declared so frequently and
had He was too startled at the peremp-raging imitation of it-this was ader if Gaylord had held back
true report of Irene's condition cruel to irene that at lust Bery! Beryl went to answer the door! "They sometimes give 'em a good perhaps paving the way for more asked herself if it couldn't be possi bell and her hand hook visibly slap," the messenger boy advised serious news. But that would be be that they were. She looked when she took the telegram that him but Tommy was deaf to such silly. Why should he? He didn't back over the years in which she care enough about them to do auch had grown up with Irene and it was delivered to her by a young advice.
He took Beryl by the arms and a thing.
seemed to her, that she'd never man who said he'd wait to see it,
She hadn't- learned yet what his liked her sister. thore might be an answer.
shook her-Bot because he thought
ACTIVITY. Beryl asked him to come in out it was the best thing to do but be- trouble with Irene was but if it
"Perhaps I didn't try to see her of the bitter wind that was howling cause he wanted to make her listen were Irene's fault and not his then good quailties," Beryl told herself
Nanking, Aug, 13. eross the porch. The telegram was to him. Ifis netion was instinctive, Gaylord
the in a moment of self-analysis. "I
The Foreign Ministry is now for her mother. It would be from the force it is natural to exert in whole family. He couldn't be the have no right to judge her. No one carrying on the work for the ren- Irene, of
brute Irene said he was, but it was has said my standards are the only dition of the International Mixed course, and in all proba-a moment of desperation.
It quieted Beryl. After a minute conceivable that he wasn't a saint, standards." bility it was a commonplace mes--
wire or receive a
two she said, gasping, "I'm either,
She sage but who could
night sorry. Get me a glass of water.". Beryl could see no reason why
quor
Jory summons.
in the middle of a stormy
"It's
A
horrible thing.
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Court in Kulagay, which strove very earnestly to con-expected to be completed before her diske for Irene's charac- long. and not have premonitions of evil? Tommy got the water. Beryl Gaylord should concent from them, ter as a whole and to dwell upon the The Committes for the Rondi- Beryl told herself she was silly drank it in sips, as though her but to quiet for mother she pro- endearing traits that Irene possetion of Foreign Concessions will
about to feel this way
were choked. thelens she was reluctant to take the message to her mother who Tommy told her. "What made you
She got it off ns early as she from the general selfishness and for getting back the foreign con- was calling down the stairs to know do that?"
ould next morning and in due time self-will of her sister, there were cessions in Kulangau, Wuhu,
Chefoo, Soochow, ote-Rensha. what the matter wax-
Beryl bit her tongue to keep they had word confleming what bits of sweetness. a telegram Deryl said and from laughing again.
Gaylord had told them. Irene had "Perhaps I antagonized her, drew Finally the messenger boy re-suffered severe bruises and Incern-out the worst in her," Bory! re- Beryl had no business naking,her- handed the envelope over unopened, Her
mother, leaning down the minded them that he was waiting tions of the scalp and face but she flected "And perhaps I'm not even self these questions for she was in stairs, took it eagerly.
an answer and Beryl, with was la no danger of losing her life. now as honest as I think I am. If desperate need of quiet and rest, Tommy's help, composed one which Beryl, without mentioning it to it were not for Tommy I might feel of peace and forgetfulness. Hor toit they addressed to Irene at the hos-her another, also Inquired if Irene differently. I'm jealous and sel- condition was one in which sho good eyes and it was not necessary phal in Oakdale where Gaylord had was being given the best medical fish. I might have mothered Irene could come to any far-fetched con- for her to put on glasses before she said she would spend a few days care available in Oakdale. The in- if I hadn't always been icalous of clusion, do anything and make her
quity was made to ascertain for her hor. Oh Daddy!" she walled sud-self believe anything. could read the message. She was to recover from her injury.
to worry "Nothing not filled with foreboding, as was
To Bory!. at this critical time about," own satisfaction if Gaylord was as-denly, her excess of honesty having Boryl, but neither as she on the Tommy Baid to Beryl when he was suming the financial responsibilities brought her to bitter doubt of her-there came a poignant cry of dis-
of Irene's care. verge of nervous prostration. Be-taking his leave. sides she had reason to suppose the Beryl felt that he was hiding his in the affirmative and Beryl was self, have I always been a poor trees.
sport
it. Nevor-throat early scared me to death," authorities for further information. |
imised to send a wire to the hospitalized with, a shock that, sifted shortly meet to consider the stops
Beryl went up the few remain steps and waited. Her mother had
for
The answer was
(To Be Continued)
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