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BV JOAN CLAYTON
ing one with bia name and 49. Elen Romaiter. innutiful 20-year-old, loves dress printed in queer, crude let- Gerry Harnowgate, young artist. When hters, hesitated and the withdrew becomes engaged to knuller girl Ellen hurees
to lately,
to marry Steven Barclay, 67 year old that envelope from the others. wealthy. Her impoverished family is indebted Ellen, looking up, surprised an
Barelay s been married before. Benda! odd expression on his
face and accompanied his Bexlean dire Imm tela was diverted from her own prob- Grayw dancer. To avoid * publicity
Ehen Jem. marclay nee - sperrily married. They Orfer to 2155 Long Jaland biome, detettel "Do you mind if I open this ?"
trept for Fergus, the butler. There are he asked, still frowning faintly. Barclay's lawyer, arrives with doctors actul. "Certainly not.”
Play
a beart Attack, la Bynum,
Barclay dllen
# dawn. 03
Puzzled,
litt apprehensive,
Birou teita Etten her marriage is the watched as he tore open ire envelope, Larry read the mes
because
papers proving Har Jay' divorce have been stofen. Ellen yields all Cefalma on Darelay's fortune la avolž sencial.
clay's
لية
تم
عليا
في
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Elen distriata Peran
She returns work at her oki Jats a hostess at Dream ind Inne hall Larry comes there, tell her he loves her, Ellen Jacks the ecuraje Ito well him of her marrings Barclay,
Larry go to buy the engagement ring
no
ini.
Then she earns Larry Hacrowgato je na snge, tore the cheap printed pa- nephew. Heartlaken. the returas per once. across and glanced
around for a wastebasket.
"What is it, Larry?" "It's nothing." With a sudden, secondary 5
pulse he fitted the torn page to- gether and smoothed it out on the table. "Well, darling," he said doubtfully, hesitantly, "since your're so soon to be a member of the family I guess you might ጎዛ the family well have a look at #keleton."
CHAPTER XLIV
At luncheon which they ate in a sutet. candle-lighted sinurant Larry began to tease Ellen about the wedding ring.
do belleye you selected that plain ring to save me money. You felt guilty
over this one.'
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He flicked the solitaire with hia thumb-nail.
"Skeleton ?"
"Have a look at this."
*
"I do feel sort of guilty," she glanced down at the paper admitted timidly. "You're
good to me."
"What a whopper I"
"It's true."
"
Wondering, she joined him and frag- 100ments pieced together on the
table.
This is the second warning." read the erado lettering. "There will be no more. If yout
don't send $1000 to p. o. box 33, City Hall Station, in the next three days I'll go to the newspapers and I don't mean maybe. I know one would be glad enough to print the facts."
hend,
for drar-
"Get that out of your darlinstand instantly_Do_410 could be too good to you or
You're the sweetest, jest, most honest—”
you.
"You might not know." He laughed at such foolishness. "What are you thinking about, aweet, with your eyes so big and your fare so solemn ?"
he asked after a while.
Ellen put down her coffee very enrefully. "I was thinking that I'm not early By Kul # think I am. she faltered. "I was thinking that I don't want you to feel that way about me. isn't right. It would brenk heart to fail you."
You
She ILEX-
"What does it mean, Larry?" she inquired, raising frightened eyes.
Ellen knew what it meant. prayed desperately that his we would prove her wrong.
"Blackmal," he repiled briefly. "It's Uncle Steven. Something about his death. thi-this person clains, do know,
It The worst of it is," Larry myaished, "that I'm not sure
it's not true. Ordinarity I'd tear up an anonymous letter without a thought. I did tear up the first and hoped it would be the end. As you Red it wasn't.
"I suppose you're hinting nt that dark past, of yours," Larry "Well, I'm willing to
teased. risk it."
"Are you?" she asked 80 ear- nestly that he was sobered.
"What are you driving at?" he demanded, "What do you mean 7" "I don't mean anything." Ellen said suddenly and felt a little sick at seeing the relief which lighted
his face.
"Girls are that way," she ex- plained. "They can't be happy and not be analytical, and pretty on they're unhappy wondering if things are too perfect to last Sily, isn't it?"
"Darn silly."
"It's simply this," Larry went on in a troubled way. The first letter said flatly that Uncle Steven didn't die at St. Agatha's from an ordinary heart attack as 1-as we all-thought.
It said he died
at his Long Island place as the result of a night of wild carousal. He was moved to the hospital afterwards, so the letter said. Ac cording to the writer his feminine companion-there
was one of course—was there at the time of his death and did not leave until Presently after the melon
had early morning. No use going, on been served and the
(with the details though- mints and
Ellen was conscious of the ter fingerbowls had come and disap- poured they arose and left the rific pounding of her heart; con- place.
voice Larry was looking tall and Feious that her face. her handsonie. Ellen was so near to must reveal nothing. Above all him that the mingled sweetness of she felt a cold, frantic des- her youth and freshness and the pair If the opening of that let- indefinite perfume she wore merger could have been delayed a lit
tle while! ed delightfully' with the' sharp.
Five minutes. 10 min spley smell of the big flower at her tesi---how much easier everything would have În ett. I was too late
shoulder.
They were to stop at his studio. to see an apartment next doors which Larry thought might "d" for them. Chen was deliciously thrilled at such concrete evidence nd soon they were to be married spl have a home of their She was thrilled at Larry's desire for her advice though she knew anything he liked she, too, would
like.
part to her, too.
consultation
now!"
Presently they were sitting on the divan, discussing the matter. Ellen was pale and heartsick, Larty too troubled for the moment. to notice her preoccupation.
"You see my position," he said. A scandal like this would simply kill mother. On the other hand, the idea of parting with $1000 "I don't like he added ruefully,
with no guarantee at 3 that that
I wouldn't care.
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CLUBBED LETTERS.
QUESTION RAISED IN CHINESE
CHAMBER
Mr. Quo Tal-chi, Chinese dele-
The question of club-packeting of gate at the Shanghai conferences, letters was mentioned at the month- when interviewed by Renter toy meeting of the Chinese Chamber day, made it clear that China will
of Commerce yesterday afternoon, be unable to attend any round- table conference dealing exclusively presided over by Mr. Wong Kwong- with the safety of the Intermitional tin, who WES supported by the Settlement at Shanghai.
| Secretury, Mr. Lee Wen-kun, "What Chins wants is & con- ference at which both the Shang-
The Secrotary said that guine Manchurian questions, time ago the Chamber received a which are inter-related and incomplaint from Mr. Chan Ki-yat, separable, can be discussed, but the Chairman of the Chinese Cham- her refusal to allow others to have since Japan has repeatedly avowed ber of Commerce in Cuba, who say in Manchurian affairs, auch complained that instances had been
a conference seems impracticable," brought to his notice where no an he declared.-Reuter.
club exactly three hours before my uncle died."
Ellen's Iteart planged dizzily. The pulses pounded in her ears and she could feet the palms of her hands Krawing ies. But Larry, staring at the rosy shadows on the hearth stone, did not notice how pale she had become.
"Poor Uncle Steven-to be mixed;
swars had been received to letters
| sent to China, Canton and Hong- kong when these letters were posted leved that a new rule had been by the club-packet method. He be promulgated by the Postal thorities here prohibiting such
methoda.
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The superintendent was not to will be end of it-particularly now be found when they reached the when I need every cent I can lay there with this girl. They left the building. After they decided to wait in the studio.my hands on.. I'm not a rich man. Larry drew the vivid curtains in "Did you think. I was rich,
honey?" he asked after a moment. the cheerful, slip-covered room, lighted cantes-and- knelt to lay a
"I don't know what I thought,"
The writer of the same letter also fire. The room so dear to Ellen, Ellen answered thickly. "It doesn't
matter anyhow, so full of memories, was
stated that such a rule might bring to-day
hardship to Chinese desirous of especially dear. In this room she you hadn't a dime."
"It won't be so bad as that," he
sending letters and money to China. had begun to love the tall, hand- some man she was to marry; in replied with a smile at her vehe-
The Secretary told the meeting this room she had felt so desolate take care of my wife all right."
mence. "I guess I'll be able to up in a mess like that," he sighed, that since receipt of this letter he that she had lost him. Always
Postmaster before the studio had belonged to lips and showed a disposition, to
He brushed her hair with highis voice a mixture of pity and dis had enquired of the
Juste.
General here who in his answer Larry, but to-day It belonged in abandon the topic for one more per-wrong?" the girl cried incolerent-Paragraph 4, of the London Postal "How do you know it was all so pointed out that by Article 23, As the leaned back against the herself from his arms.
Bonal. Ellen gently allsengaged
ly. "I knew Stoven Harclay. He Convention of 1929, it is forbidden deep-cushioned divan, no for back
why don't you go to Mr. Symes, who ever lived."
was a fine man, one of the finest to enclose in one cover several that the tips of her shoes did not
variously addressed letters. not touch the floor, and watched your uncle's lawyer, and axle his
Her foot were on the brink of the Larry lay the fire, Ellen feit an advice?" she asked Inn natural
chaam; she would not falter now. almost blinding happiness.
Sho
"I forget that you knew him at thought of Larry in days to come Larry's brow clouded. "I'll at work in this room, of herself you why not," he said. "It's be still not looking at her. "It was at the store," Larry said absently. belping him. She thought of aft- cause I don't trust him."
"Don't trust him?"
the store you knew him, wasn't it?" ting at breakfast with hin dis-
"It was at the store," aho whit- cussing his plans and her plans when he died," Larry responded ture of despair. She did not have Chinese Chamber of Commerce also "Bymes was with Uncle Steven pered. Her hand dropped in a ges The Secretary of the Hongkong for the day, of sharing his prob- lers, his thoughts, his dreams.
"I'm sure he hasn't told the courage to go on. slowly. She knew suddenly and quite the truth, about it. He's hiding
wrote to the Canton Postmaster "Don't get the idea I'm apologiz-General who replied in similar simply that the dream she
something." Was building would have to bo built what makes you so sure that the
"What makes you think so?ing for him, honey." Larry went on sense.
reproachfully. "I knew him, too, on a foundation of truth, of abso- Inte truth. Why she must tell person who wrote this note la tell- and loved him. That's why I'd go
to any lengths to protect his mem Larry everything. There nothing else to do. There would His face-reidend. "For one thing,"
It was Larry's turn to hesitate.ory from the tongues of people not be no doubts now, no hesitations, he said reluctantly, "I know that
worth his little finger." no evasions.
on the night of his death Uncle
"Do I don't know. I know well Steven was out on Long Island with enough what I'd do if I could find
voice.
ing the truth?"
Was
"Larry" she called. "Larry!" "Just a minute, darling."
A small pile of mail lay on the lant oak table by the fire,
He
+
a very young girl."
tell
"What are you going to do, Larry ?"
Ellen's lips were dry. "Who told gut who wrote this thing "
Who could have writton it? Who you?" she whispered.
"The proprietor of the Ra Ta Taut Fergus? All at once Ellen felt frowned at a cheap, greasy-look- Steven spent the entire evening
He club," said Larry. "He swore Uncle was the author of the evil message. a desperate conviction that Forgun
had paused there and was ruling through the envelopes.
(To be Continued).
The Postmaster General also added that he was not aware of any letters from Cuba addressed to destroyed by the Hongkong Post Hongkong having been retained or
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