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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1932.
THREE KINDS
of LOVE
BEGIN HERE TO-DAY,
Ann and Crelly Fenwick have for years supported themesltes, their younger sister, MAT-France, and their grandparents, o A Rosalie" and "Grand, Because of the financial responsibility, Ann, wie le 28, in unable to marry, Phit Erroyd. young lawyer to whom she has been engaged for eight years. Cecly, 22. loven Barry Meked, an enzlivar, but when he propose the Triune tone Qir wedding dinle for the same zenMON,
Mary-Frances, 15, and atfi in school, be Have herself in lavn with Earl De Armount, rudeville rior whom she has met wit out the knowledge of her statera. He urges ber to leave me and become ha stage partner.
gry-and
by KAY CLEAVER STRAHAN
didn't have corfare. How odd that she didn't have a of money, It is a good thing, after all, that we didn't straight to the police.
for.
gu
Another have to thank the Hills Phil, is that it? Yes-there it comes. I have to get myself in hand. I have to be calm. I have to be calm. I can't have hysterica nor anything. Phil-hold nio
You
Ann and Phil quarrot when she hears Lety tight. I feel so funny and shaky King, who work in Phil's office building all. Phil, let me go. wildress him with endearmenia. A tre to help me, dear. Phil, you help forget Phli by going about with Kenny. L bnuth, rich and attentive, but when Hauth Kaka her is marry him she refuses.
Mary-Francis RUTE.A in go away with be Armount. They not out in his car. The same any Cecily quadres with her armar. due cours home with news That rive atsch) Bars are to be married that evenleg. Ans) kenen Mary-Fruiseco in to learn wh
me"
"That's all I want, all the rest of my life, Ann. Just to help you --and love you.” '
Mary-Frances said,
"Oh, hello,
bus exard with the Armount. In Phil. Ann. I must say Pity's me. You're Annimary frantic unta visakes! Course it's * Mary-Frances
choking me. Ann, you got to pay The man. I told him. You got to pay the man,”
CHAPTER XLV
"Yes, darling. Where are you?"! Ann asked anticatly,
"I'm down here at the Union Station. I haven't any money for carfare nor anything. The lady here is letting me use the tele- phone her desk."
"Are you-ntone, dear?" "Course I'm alone. But I can't walk home, and I haven't any
The lady-" money for carfare.
"Mary-FranceN, аге you-are you all right?"
"No. I'm not. I'm hungry. I'm
And just naturally starved, haven't any money, and
"Listen, honey. You go right outside the station there, and you'll Re some taxicabs. Get into one of them, and tell the driver your address-"
cent at
"Ann, I haven't a moncy"
"Thot docan't matter. Do just as slater tells you. Get into the
Across the safe sweetness of Phil'e Mary-Frances' shoulder, voice, “I've attended to it Ann. Don't bother."
"Did Closy come homo all right? flow's Grand? I thought
if Cissy could come home alter pushing Grand over, I could, after Yes, making just a big mistake. I'll tell you all about that in a minute. But you said, Apa, that nothing I'd do would make япу difference. I-Ann, do you think tay will be awfully mad? I left It was her bag at Mendel Springs. in the hotel lobby. I guess I broke a promise. I don't know. But, anyway, Ann. I couldn't starve, could I? I'd of died. The dining room was closed for repairs. And something was just opening and shutting like a trapdoor inside of let- me. I 'spect if we'd write ter we'd get the bag sent back home all right. I hardly think Earl would take it."
n
anything of
eab and tell the man your ad. "This Earl.. dear? Ho wasn't dresa. I'll be waiting on the porch.rude to you nor and I'll pay him when he gets here that sort, was he?" with you."
"I hardly think he'll do it."
"Of course he will. That's the way to do. People never pay taxi- cabs until the end of the ride. You do that, right away, now, Will you?"
"No, he wasn't rude. Just in- considerate. All he thinks about is his old stomach. He wasn't hun- gry. Inconsiderate. I don't think real true love would let another person starve."
ani- She ate like a little wild mal, tearing the cold chops from "It is, dear. That is the way the bones, gulping great swallows people always do. And-dar. lins-"
"Yes, if it is all right."
"What?"
"Are you are you-" "What?"
"Well, you might. tell the man to drive rather fast. Not too fast. dear. Just rather fast."
and
Ann hung up the receiver leaned against the wall and closed
her eyes.
of milk, her eyes glaring at the food on the table before her. Colour began to ebb into her checks and into Ann's at about the same Lime.
"I don't know, just why I went, Ann. You keep interrupting ali the time. I don't know why--I just kind of did. But, anyway, ike I was telling you, he said, I drive the car around to the And
Phil said, "But I could have none for her. Ann, wherever she garage, and you wait here."
I said, 'You can't,' and I kept tell- is. I was trying to tell you. My ing him he couldn't, 'cause the car's right here."
Idining room was closed, He, unid missing one meal never hurt any- bedy. And, Aan, he never even offered to buy me salted nuts nor socolate bara nor anything, and
Ann opened her eyes.
Tears were dripping out of them, duwa her checks and off her chin and splashing to the front of her blouse. "Oh," she said. "Why of course. I forgot you were here I forgot all about it. I have to get my purse and wait on the porch for the taxicab "
*
"But, Ann," Phil questioned, "do you mean that I may not even sit here on the porch with you until the taxicab comes?"
I couldn't. ask him, hardly. It seemed funny for me to, when we weren't so very well acquainted.
I'd had his lunch, of course. hadn't had a bity nlf day. Not a bite. So then, when spite of all I said he went right stubbornly along to take the car to the ga rage, instead of driving only 10 miles on to the next town to eat,
I don't came over me. Ann, Burging
and all. He's killed my love, thought. "He's killed my love."
"There was a train stopped out
in front, and Earl had gone to
"No, dear, I guess not. care where you sit. I have to be atone with Mary-Frances when she gets here that's all. I wish there were some way I could get word to Cissy. Poor Cissy. Oh, my word! the garage, so I went and asked I forgot to telephone to Mrs. Hill." the man standing by the steps-a When Ann returned to the porch conductor, I thought he was, but Phil said, "Dearest, if you could he turned out to be a brakeman- listen, just a moment-"
if this train would take me home. They are so good," Ann said. ataybe it was just idle curiosity or "I don't know how we can ever something at Arnt. And he said thank them-the Hills, I mean- where was home? And I told him. for what they've done. If it had And thon I just went on and told been Ermintrude, Mrs. Hillim the truth, Ann. I don't know couldn't have been a bit happler.I just felt like telling him the She was so sweet-crying and all. truth. He was fat and nice, and And she in Bure that everything he was coming home and every- is all right or, Mary-Francea thing. I told him I'd eloped but wouldn't have come home. Surely changed my mind. He seemed the child couldn't have talked in ery much surprised, and he said, that matter-of-fact way about Judas priest! Are you married? being hungry, and so on, if she'd said, No. I changed my mind.
So he said, had a very unpleasant experience. I want to go home." Dear, do you think she could 'Hop on. So then I had to tell have?"
him how I didn't have any money. "Surely not. Surely not. I've But he said, 'Hop on. So then, told you over and over. Ann-later, in the train he came along you still call me 'dear.' You lot me and gave me his name and ad- put my arms around you. You dreas-it's in my pocket and ho can't have stopped loving me en-said that my folks could pay him, tirely, Ann. You must still love if they wanted to, 'cause he'd paid men little."
my fare personally out of his owni "Yes, I suppose so I must. I pocket. So you will, won't you,
Ann7
He was very obliging, and always have. But 1 don't wish to be bothertd about love right now. it zoems he has a couple of daugh- around about my age. Ho "Would it bother you, beauti- ters ful, if I told you how I felt when told me to take a taxicab home, I came in this evauing, tired and too. But I was afraid he didn't miserable and lonely; and the know, maybe, being A brakeman clork at the desk handed me that on a train. So thon the lady in slip of paper with your telephone the uniform at the station said to number on it?"
me, 'Have you friends In the city?' That's all right, dear. Poor So I told her I lived here, but I Mr. Hill and that sweet old Unelu didn't have any money for
any Chaney-out hunting for her. 1 faro, but could telephone wish I could got word to them. home-----" Mr. Hill couldn't have done. moro
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If it had been Ermintrude. Mury- "Darling! How did you bap Frances was just cross and funny pen to start off without any -not nervous nor anything. I money at all?. You always have a can't think what on earth is keep quarter or so, don't you?' ing that taxi.', There seemed_to „s "I got a low little things thin nothing the matter with Mary morning lipstick and', an eye- Frances except that she was hun- (Continued on Page 18.).
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