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TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1931.
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Mr. Arthur Henderson's dreams of residence at No. 10, Dewaing Street were rudely shattered.
GUILTY LIPS
Y LAURA LOU BROOKMAN". "Author of "MAD MARRIAGE"
DEIN HERE TODAY
Pretty Nezipa Kent. Thegrar-alik
retary
ide, a me Mark Leavers for the
"So this is married life! Terriblo' - terrible!"
A little beyond reach atood the
Arst time when together they rescue a breakfast table. It had been aban- Irom downlawn traffe. Its Maritur, 203h00%
western methigale. Horma deltaks to tell TTARCIE ker name he
where be can see her
NEKIÐ.
duned some time since and was lit-
cored with crumpled napkins and -16h. Farrell, young lawyer, naka Nanox to soiled dishes, There were pink marry him and the entirsen, though kind in him a frictal, Norms take theen in a silver vase in the centre JARZ tes the shally apertinent the where for Bila disarray.
fasing in love with her gunesled employer.
wilk Chelatine Baunders, the fonte Carlo in Norma drew herself away. "It Bradley Hert, proprietor of Adentiaing really is terrible!" she agreed. Izeney. Norma inerta adrement "Goodness, it must be--why, look!
about
kret
the pupy
hews:per
found column end the trut bers to newer Mark Travers
He tries to make a date but are kla inltations. A wing cumem to clai the pop and take it home.
Notina gore fur & drive with Bob Farrell and he tell her he is Saving Matti Tea
days later the meria Travers on the street and Kur lunch with Dia, Etive in t
nearly 11 o'clock! Oh, Mark, doing! They won't have any iden think of all the things we should be at the office what's become of me. Mr. Brooks will be furious"
"Let 'em worry. You're never
beginning of a whirl-wind nourish. Normal going back there again."
ftude betself bendoves-heels in love but thinbow) she must arnd Travern away huwenken of kome secret of the past, Chria delates it Nurcan loves Travers all else ja unimportant.
Mark
Achie
arrivie.
tanner
I l
the
ble on shall cut the midst of a beat
Mark If he Dersler NOFOLL The chter
kim at one and after mot betation
The reuple eles to the town Woodbury with Chris and Itradley Hart, Norsia, and Bark cursilence and are married. Then Mark takes him beide to We paleliai Matei Marinaro,
"But, Mark, don't you think—”
A knock at the door interrupted. I was the waiter who had come
Sir Samuel Hoare, who goes back to Parliament and office with his majority increased by 10,000.
Sir Auston Chamberlain and Sie P. Cunliffe Lister. The latter polled 66,305 votes and had a majority of
51,000.
apdrument. Nutre la shers alone when 14 take away the breakfast Lable. Mark's father and demands her affair with his wallet and stuffed a bill into her The. As he was leaving Mark took out
wh speech Kinek szponzM. Father wad won the man's hand. The waiter bow- Ancel and the Tasher threatsba Te land, murmured thanks and departed. Tentera departe. Mark hogs Nurma to marry Mark not replace the wallet.
Instead he opened it again, drew out a collection of coins and green- backs and looked at then. A rueful smile sprend over his face, le lucky guy your husband is! Well, eratehed his chin meditatively, The realizes it! Not much of a prize Just a dub, but "There was exactly $96 in that plage perhaps. wallet yesterday." he announced, he's muunged to get himself the The Flowing arb ̃of moften gold "Ninety-six duliars." Suddenly the prettiest, entest, sweetest little stirred greatly and moved to the bright grin returned. "Madame bride in all the world-!" right Out of the sunlight I was he declared with dramatic cl not glowing metal at all but a mines (quence, “with all my wordly goods of tangled and unruly eurla. Noen 1 three endowi
Thirteen dollars shook her head and the bobbing and forty-five senta! Count 'em. tendril that had been obscuring the Thirteen dollars!" Ite flung the vision her left eye fell back into contents of the purse into the girl's pince,
CHAPTER XIII
lap.
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Somehow It took much longer than might Beem neceMary for that' firewell. It was thrilling to hear the ridiculous things ark said., It was difficult for the youth to tear himself from blue eyes filled
Curled us in the hure rose tamps.
He was laughing and Norma with adoration, from lips and try chair the girl neemed a tiny laughed, too. This was evidently at as that would restrain him. erature. She wore a nodigon of 2080. She gathered the money to blue. It was akimpily cut, machs of | gether.
The door closed and Norma was alone. She could not even hear
she
chean matrial but na gloriously "But you don't really mean it!" azure as the heavens on a perfect the proteated, "Not- $00! You Mark's fontsteps going down the Jute maroine, A wise black satin couldn't have spent all that In one carpeted hall. Desperately mule flopped back from one bared day, Why it's more than three wanted to call him back but what good would that do? He would font. Norma's Joone dva fell woks' salary away almost to the shoulder, revent. Mark reversed the wallet, held it only go away a second time. ing arms of creamy whiteness, Like up, shaking it. "Must have spent
The luxuriousness of the room
the rest of Norma's body the arms it," he said. "It was here! You about her suddenly impressed Nor- were exquisitely formet, slender know," he went on frowning asm. She ran to the door leading but rounded..
though in deep thought, "that's the into the bedroom. The rich ivory,
"Have I noticed it?
restrained. Staying in such a place
Norma turned. There on the table in the sitting roun were the paper bills and colne Mark had Thirteen dot- assed into her lap. lars and forty-five cents-
wished Sharply the girl
for
all
The Grenadier Gunnds, stand watch pre- the famous strong rooms where John Bull hoarde his dwindling gold stock.......... Thu arrival of this contingent of the 1:tacó la implment to go un duty at the Bank of England, was ona of the scenes which ne. companied the recent suspension of the gold standard.
Safe after a harrowing week' upon a slowly sinking fand plane in the Allan'is, the dyers of the ill fated Esa are akowa here as they boarded the passenger liner_Stavangerfjord bound for New York--the-original-destination- of-their-attempted-flight -- from Portugal They wars being transferred at sea from the motor ship Bolmaira, which racund them, thirsty and starving, from the wrackage of their plane off Nowfoundland, Willy Rody, owner
co pilot of the fallan planej is ascanding the ladder.
She was smiling. Not at the queerest thing about money, vegese and mulberry of walls and before. Amazing furnishings, doors that were mir. bangles, sleek, beautiful walnu young man across the room. His thought of it hack was towards her. Norma smiled thing! One moment you have it at the reflection in the mirror of the next it's gone.
Have you
and beyond her the glow of rors, the dressing table, # showed a eve noticed it?"
sunlight on a peach-tiled bath-she young man, coaliess, energetically
Not oftener seemed to have mated none of these brushing a shock of brown hair than every third day after pay ay details before. The rooms repre- back from his forehead. He was for the last three years! Ever sented elegance that was tasteful, an unusually good-looking youth since I've been working" even when he frowned, as he did Travers was not listening. With must be frightfully expensive. just then, and threw down the resolution he suddenly made for brush to tug at his necktle. Sud- the coat draped on a chair across denly he caught Norma's eyes the room, thrust his arms into the watching him in the mirror. The place. In a flash he had become frown beame a grin. Mark whirled. | businesslike.
"See here, Mrs. Trovers!" he The girl jumped to her feet, said. "Do you call yourself a help- "Where are you going?" she Mark. There was no use pretend- ful wife? Sitting there taking my asked.
ing this rogy baze of happiness mind of everything I try to do? Mark came to her and put a hand could go on endlessly. The work-a- Can't even the my tle decently! See on each of her shoulders. He day world was there just as it had here, what kind of conduct do you smiled carelessly. "Promise to been. This glorious balloon bubble call that "
miss me horribly!" he demanded, must burst and ample warnings had In three strides he was across "Promise every minute I'm away Deen sounded in Norma's deliber the room, perched on the arm of will scem an hour! Will you do ately unlistening
cars that Norma's chale and touselling her that "
might not be so joynus then. curls,
"Oh, but I don't want to be alone There had been the scene with The girl laughed and tried to de- here, Mark! Can't I come, too?" Mark's father. Where was Mark fend herscif. A moment more and Apparently this was not to be now? Where would be get money Mark had routed her from the thought of. It was absolutely es- to pay for this handsome suite of chair, appropriated it himself. He sential for Mark Travers to depart rooms? They couldn't stay on here. held Norma, protesting gaily, in alone. But he would not be gone Where would they HO? Mark's hia arma and the game becaine along. There was business to attend work in the real estate office had spirited contest. Much rubbing of to and as soon as it had been set- been in his father's employ and blonde curts the wrong way,
It was led he would come hurrying back. would end now. What would ha
How she loved him! That was bath with its burnished nickel taps exciting fun-half-play, half-en- Norma's chagrin at this turn of do? What would she do?
the tremendous, unquestioned fact and fittings. She let cold water dearment. Flushed and breathless, events did not seem to displease
A thousand practical questions of her existence now. How she loved run tid plashed her cheeks with. at last Mark claimed undleputed young tried once more to speak of she nor Mark had mentioned any
Travara.
waited to be. discussed. Neither this handsome husband! victory. At last he placed a long She
it until they coloured dooply. Sha Norma dropped to the wide, deep brushed her hair and made the office where she had been due of them. Again Norma thought cushions of the davenport. She waves glisten. She saw the allm kins squarely on the girl's lipa.
Norma lay back and looked at at 880. Mark scoffed. him from beneath the dark fringes Right here in this room! And really had not been right to leave all what was there for her to do in grateful she could bring her beauty restlessly of her job in the office of was happy again In memories. For whiteness of herself in the door "You're to stay here," he insisted. Brooks, Welliver and Brooks! It long minutes the lay there. After length mirror and admired it, of her lashes.
"Look at your tie now," she sug- honestly I won't be long. Why, without notier. Of course 24 hours this now whirlwind of living but in tribute to Mark. There seemed gcated demurely,
darling, don't you realize this is
·ele that she had It was worse-oh, so very much the first day of our honeymoon she herself hadn't the faintest to wait for Mark? Mark would little
notion that this morning she was make everything come right. Mark him, h worse than it had been! Travers Don't think about jobs and offices. to be Mark's wife. She treasured was so wonderful.
Norma did not dawdly as grimaced in the mock dismay. He all that is past for you. You're hose words; repeated them alowly. She arose, wont through the bed-powdered, zoured her lips and
Mrs. Mark Travers and a dovil of
room into the rosaate, sun-lighted
(Continued on Pays 10.)
sbook his head,
Mark's witei
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Willy Rody' (left) and Capt. Chrisilan Johansson, two of the 'three flyers of the lil fated Esa, are shown happy and safe aboard the liner Stavangerfjord.
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