THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1932:
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A terrific explosion which shattered a gas tank at the Public Service Corporation plant in Camden, N.J., had taken a toll of at least eight lives when this picture was taken, showing a crowd about the plant.
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A Communist demonstration in front of the no opportunity to assume menacing proportions. threatened to halt traffic on the busy throughfare, tion was made as protest against the killing of
pla
Its epire like a buge, flaming,match, the Baptist Church at Hampden, was being consumed by fire when this remarkable night photograph was taken.
Ford offices on Broadway, New York, was given A. LOON BE the growing number of pickets police broke up the gathering. The demonstra. four workman là a riot at the Ford automobile
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DEGIN HERE TO-DAY.
BV JOAN priko
CLAVTON
Bilen as she stual, shabby and beautiful, in the doorway sudden-;
understood everything. By her chance" Molly had meant. Steven Barclay. 16 was not the | Time --though her mother, to doj her justice, could not have known! that to invite Steven Barclay as ja guest. It was indeed not the
¡materiai duttered at the windows, place into which to introduce a Beautiful Ellen Baariter, a sadegård fo New pewter ash trays twinkled millionaire. The makeshifts, clay' Department Store, lives with her from the mantel cleared for once delightful to Molly, did ini ini-} mother. Mally itomiter, her older sister. Myra,i) and her young frulher, Mike Molly hy die of Mike's school books. A NCW|prove the down-al-heel apartment; sipated a fortune left by their father and bridge lamp bloomed beside the they succeeded only, in emphasiz- the wire part the family. Motty forinty
chair, Everywhere were ing the essential pende uney save to pay the rout. Een aay
poverty of its sccupants. But hospitality, deep Buster tatil the wam In me up. The What happened? As she ran ranted and instinctive, triumphed Kilen has none. Steven Harelay, at her into the dining room Ellen thought over lesser considerations in employer. Jenis her a dream, the forget confusedly that perhaps her Eng- Ellen's mind." soar tarrawals, an artist, Later lish grandfather had died and re-
deeldes to work nights at Dreaminad na n flowers.
homtesses must wear evening dres And
kindness witen at Dreamland abs moeta hand-
ried. Even though she thinks him a philan
Ellen stepped into the hall to
Ellen discovers Larry is engaged to be mar membered them in his will. Per warmly that he should never guess haps the dreams that coloured her that he was not a welcome one,
derer who tontinue rer him.
Myra and Molly openly favour Herrlar. Jehildhood had at last come true. Eilen urtels with them. Then Mr. Rondy,
a, store, izomaly, aprenda seandalous, startes
Molly teles In the dining room
of Barclay's nitentlang to Ellen and sho dạn termins to new blay no more.
dows not supply the name of this groet. Ellen
Manee.
CHAPTER XVI
He was leaning against the balus- trade exhausted by the long climb.
a coloured His face was so white that far a
would
phosen think a kurat in coming to dinner, hut mais polished heavy silver finger moment Ellen feared he
under- suppose it to be Hert Armstend. Her ster's bowls. The table, decked in new faint. She had enough
linen, flaunted a centrepiece made standing not to mention his pal- under- of Steven Barclay's roses, tail and able weariness; enough splendid in a silver vasc. New standing to keep silent until he That evening as Ellen entered rugs and curtain here, too. The made a gallant recovery.
"It's good of you to come," she the shabby Brooklyn apartment maid glanced at Ellen, exposed said at fast, extending her slender house she felt a great peace steal-white teeth. ing over her. The lobby was un-
"What are you doing here?" the brown hands.
Seeing him rally his forces for carpeted, the tiled floor was by no girl demanded in astonishment.
a reply, she had a sudden flashing means clean, the treads
stairs had been worn by many feet. As usual Mrs. Clancy pop-The kitchen ped open her door to see who had Molly turned
"I'm glad you think 40." Barany7 come in. Surely there was noth-stove and smiled at her. ing visible here to indure hap- "Were you surprised, honey?"jelay said. piness but the girl felt an odd lift she asked in a gate of merriment
she was
"I wak here."
of the Ellen dashed into the kitchen.memory of Larry leaping up the was not changed, Istairs and shouting breathless and
around from the foolish nonsenso.
It took
If it's "pignat" beauty that you most admire, your atten- tion is directed to dark haired Mile. Maria Kramar, above. She recently
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tu determine the most piquant beauty in France.
A Communist demonstration against the Japanese invasion of -Shanghai, resulted in this scene of violence in Chicago. The riot was staged in front of the Japanese consulate.
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A whirlwind recently swirled up the Atlantic seaboard, leaving widespread property damage in ita wake. This ploture shows how some of the famous trees near the Capitol building were uprooted and hurted to the now-blanketed ground while the storm ragedi It was Washington's fiercest gale in nearly ten years.
There was no denying that nothing of the sort. He was in- deed thinking that he had never Barclay seemed pleased.
"Well," he was saying, "I hope been in such a charming, such a of spirit. This was home. Sheland high'spirits.
Ellen noticed then, hesitating they were all nice things." friendly place. Molly's very wiles had loft the store behind. For 12 "What in the world has hap-lon the landing, a uniformed chau-
"Of course they were," Ellen re- were too transparent to |ffeur inden with florist boxes, plied a shade stifly.
[vicious or grasping. hours she need not think of it.pened anyhow?" She had stepped out of the uglyj "We're giving you your chance three of them. As he caught his
"You'll just have to make your "Darling, could you get vases and complicated life she led there-that's what's happened," Molly employer's eye he came forward for the flowers 7" Molly interpos- self at home." Molly urged, rising, to return to a life of her own. crowed. "I'd never have known "Oh, you shouldn't have." Ellen od, tossing aside layers of silky "We live so simply that I'm afraid She was tired and she was com- how to manage but Mrs. Clancy exclaimed helplessly. "We've so paper and filling her arms with I'll have to take my little girl away from you. She's the only good ing home. She was glad even that told me how to borrow money on many roses now-"
sweet, purple lilacs. She stopped suddenly. not that night to see the insurance. I've had the most
Ellen concoaled her reluctance cook in the house." "Yes, I know I shouldn't have," at leaving her mother and her om- Larry Harrowgate. To-night sho exhausting day.
u long
Audaciously Molly twined her wanted only Myra and her mother time to get the money and since Barclay agreed. "But ye i've no ployer together and left the room. and baby Mike with loyal, stodgy then I've spun like a top." idea how I enjoyed myself. There's When she returned she found Mol-arms about Ellen and drew the Ellen Bart serving #comfortable
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both gonn "Have we
crazy? a box for each of you--for your ly, he lap overflowing with flow-girl's rigid body close. background. A leisurely supper, What are you talking about?" elstor and your mother and the ors, chattoring like mad to Bar-knew her mother expected her to afterwards a bath and maybe a "You'll see." Molly was convul- pink roses are for you."
clay. She was talking about the say something pretty, something And then they entered the lly English Rossiters, "direct con-deprecatory and graceful. But she shampoo if she felt like ita dosed with mysterious laughter.
know." said nothing at all. lightful way to spend an evening, From downstairs the doorbelling room and Molly fluttered in nexions of
and began ex- Ellen understood now the reason. "Perhaps you'd like a magazine," thought Ellen,
rang imperatively. Ellen in a from the kitchen
dining Molly suggested hurriedly when' She reached the fifth floor, un-confused daze answered its sum-claiming over the boxes and reck- for the portrait in the
lessly tearing them open until the room. She was both annoyed and Ellen's stubborn silence was be locked the door and stopped into mons. the Rossiter living room. Sho "Go and see who it is," Molly room was a carnival of colour amused at her mother's childish ginning to be embarrassing. Then
There was a smudge of flour on vanity.
she cried out, relieved, "But stopped at the threshold, gasped. commanded mysteriously.
Although Steven was interested, there's a key! It must be my older What had happened to that belov As she ran back through the her pretty, tilted nose but she was
that far too excited to be conscious of Ellen was exceedingly cross. She daughter, Myra, and her fiance. ed, familiar room? Since morn-dining room Ellen noticed
startlingly the painting of her grandfather. her appearance.
relieved Molly of the fragrant bur- They'll keep you entertained.", ing it had changed miraculously. Everything about which had been stored since her "I feel as though I don't need den and arranged the lines, the Myra and Bert, dusty and hot, it had been changed. The worn father's death, was in place on the an introduction to you at all," she creamy camillias and the pink frame through the dining room and carpet was gone. The floor had wall. She reached the outer door bubbled, shaking hands with the roses in the already crowded room. Into the living room. Both were guest. "Ellen has told us so much What would Steven Barclay think plainly flabbergastod at Barclay's been polished and was covered and jerked it opon,
the stairs Coming up
was about you." now with summer senttor ruga.
of them? Surely he could see that prosence. There were Molly's eyes and her daughter's or mother was trying to Impress troductions. There The familiar contour of the fur-Steven Barclay.
I'm early," "I'm afraid
were flashed together. Ellan
ovor the niture was lost beneath amart slip
did not him; surely he could guess the exclamations covers in grey and orange. Cur Barclay's flrat
worda. "Your know what to do; she felt com-renson, Ellon was too young to There was more of Molly's bestatio
pletely helpless. What could she know that Steven was thinking (Continued on Page 11.) tains of the samo grey and orange mother said seven."
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moro in- moro flowers.
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