THE
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TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1932.
SNOW IN ROME: KENSINGTON GARDENS AT SUNSET: CLEMENCEAU STATUE.
Southern Italy has been experiencing severe winter weather and snow hai been general. A view of St. Peter's taken recently.--(Times copyright).
LORD TYRRELL, the British · Ambassador, shaking hands with the British Army football team before their match with the French Army,
Our picture shows M. Aristide Briand, who died on March 7 at his home in Paris, revealing * glimpse of his life away from the French and International political arena in which he was such a distinguished figure for a grant number of years-Times copyright).
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Gillia Crafstroom, the Swedish and world figure skating champion.
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EGIN BERE TO-WAY,
BY JOAN
CLAVTON;
Beautiful Ellen Render who works by day andesgirl in Barclay's Department are
tives with her muther, Mully Boiler, her elder aler. Myrn, and ber 12-year-tila frother, Mike Ellen's demit fulber, younger son Entitled English trinkly, left a cont fortable furtune to provide for his wife and child responsible Mally
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Rimalier went through the fortune and since then s
fore, too appalled. to attempt to draw any hope of a possible second chance from Steven Barclay's face or manner. But now, as she looked
"So you see it's really nothing," she concluded stifly. "Only the lack of an evening dress. I'm afraid I've drawn a dreadful picture. It's not a fair or truthful one. We have lots of fun. We love each other. Anyone would say that an evening dress wasn't important."
"I wasn't going to say that." Ellen felt suddenly annoyed with herself, annoyed with Barclay, as though he had taken advantage of a moment of weakness to force an
at him, she saw all at ee that she unwilling confidence. What real in- hart been wrong.
terest could a man who sailed for This man did not intend to dis-Europe to buy a single piece of jade support of the family has devolved gone miss her. He leaned forward, his feel in the petty, financial dificul-
line, lined free
Intern,
Molly Foullally spends the precious pathy. money to buy unnecessary clothes for Mike, At her mother's suggestions Ellen decides to work at night as a dance hall eatos nau the sum is meile. She goes to Dreamin
mother
he intends to discharge ber.
grave with gym-ties of one of his minor employees? |
Her checks grew hot.
Barclay noticed her restiveness and suspected her attitude.
"I hope," he began almost apolo- She remembered that Jenny getically, "that you won't think I'm Elkins below in the basement had interferring in something which promised to care for, her counter Bo Interviews Job Salomut who afters her a job, un rondition that she supply her does not concern me. I am, of only for 10 minutes. She glanced awn evening, dresses, Sla han no evening
course. But perhaps you'll forgive toward the door, longing to rush dren Bitterly appointed, she breaks, n store rule and telephones the news to her me when I tell you that I can not from the room.
Steven Harclay, owner of the detriment bear to see an employee-to see klore, seen her in the triephone both someone so young as you are-in saka her to rune to his office. Ellen ware such trouble without attempting to learn if there is something I can do. Some way that I can help."
Ellen had been prepared for dis- Ellen had her feet planted firm-missal. She was not prepared for ly in her small world by the sympathy. For a moment revulsion | Ellen quickly assured him she time she had Hosted herself. She of feeling mude her netually dizzy, was not., She felt again and un- had acen other girls pay the swift Her heart was suffocating her and willingly his quiet spell, felt his penalty for some inconsequential she felt she could hardly breathe. Jack of condescension, his simple fault. She was prepared to pay it But she forced herself to answer assumption that they were equals herself in dignity and in pride, him. She thought dimly that the im portant thing was to maintain her
CHAPTER III
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""No, I wasn't going to say that," he repeated. "I was going to tell you something about myself, some- thing that might help you, or I hope it will. Are you bored ?"
when $15 a week meant more than
She
and, as equals, could solve her prob- "It's-it's nothing important," Iem. But how? What possible help she managed at length.
could she accept from him? "I was afraid you'd say that. It "Don't think of mo as a rich Never before had she exchanged probably would be nothing to me. man," he was saying. "Think of me word with her employer. In her Obviously it's not that to you, But as I was at your age, trying to six years of service she had seon I do think it's nothing that can't support a young wife and a young him no more than half a dozen be solved. Won't you tell me?" baby on $15 a week in the days times. Stoven Barclay spent only two or three months a year in the At any other time_Ellen would it does now but not enough more. store which bore his name; the have withdrawn into the fastnesses My wife wanted a dress too. other months he wandered restless-of-the Rossiter pride. Just then wanted a pink dress with ribbons. ly about Europe adding to his col- she had such an overwhelming need She looked a little like you, had lection of jades. But Ellen had as for sympathy, such over that same quick way of turning her sumed, as her working mates had whelming need
ad-head. And they were wearing pink assumed, that he was responsible vice of someone older, someone res- and ribbons when she wanted the for the strictness of the store, the ponsible, that the whole story was dress." countless, fretting rules, the rigid out before she could check the rush discipline. She had youthfully of words. Myra and Bort; her Ellen forgot Jenny in the base- hinted him for that.
mother, and her disastrous shopping ment. She had not known Barclay left her sitting at the tours; Mike, dolightful baby Mike, Barclay had been poor. It was rosewood deak, long and flunked who should have his chance; the hard to imagine that distinguished, with thin, slender vases of roses, Brooklya apartment and the count-groying man who wore clother so while he turned to close the door less, harassing worries that beset carefully cut, so indicative of opening into his secretary's offico. two girls trying to balance on their wealth, in such a role. But sho Ellen's heart took another down-slim ahoulders the burden of a could visualize clearly the young ward dip. Her hands, folded in amily, all that and more she pour-wife who had wanted a pink dress her lap, ached from their tight grip|ed forth.
with pink ribbons, upon each other.
She stopped at last in consterna- "No one offered to give her that When Barclay sat down opposite tion. What had she said, lured by dress,” Barclay continued. “If any- her she raised her frightened eyes. this man's Intent interest? What one had I'm sure we both would have refused it. We were proud, She had been too really terrified bo- | had possessed her?
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that
The statue of Clemenceau by M. Cogne In the gardens of the Potit Palais, where it has just been unveiled. It will later be re- moved to more prominent position.-
(Times copyright). '
The mild weather in London last month attracted large numbere of visitors
to the parks and open spaces in and around London. Our picture was taken near the Round Pond, Kensington Gardens, at sunast.—(Times copyright).
you understand proud as you are proud. I was going to become a rich man-going to buy her dozens upon dozens of dresses." Ho heal. tated and added almost roughly, "She was dead dead with my young son before she ever had a pink dress."
Ellen gave a distressed little cry. "We had fun- too," he told her. "Much the same sort of. fun you and your brothor, Mike, and your sister, Myra, are having now. But if we'd only boon leas stiff-necked, less afraid of the motives of other people, how much easier it would have boen."
"Afraid?".
The heavy Rossiter brows rose in twin peaks.
"Young people haven't changed much in spite of all the shouting," Barclay
observed obliquely.
"Thoy're still afraid, aren't they, to accept a favour to do a greater favourt Thoy're just as auspici-. bus, just as conventional and every bit as proud. You, I'm sure, would never allow me to give you a lift. You wouldn't allow me, would you, to give you one dress from a store: Which 148 hundreds of them? You'd rather hug your troubles to yourself,
yourself sick, worry wouldn't you? You'd rather ho Belfish,"
;
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