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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAP
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BY MABEL McELLIOTT
BEGIN HERE TO-DAY. Sun Carey, pretty secretary marclage frum Young nutrien. Jealous Rod MATTAL
ta marry
Des whit Kure
who is in Jove with Hali Danbar, Ins a proposal of
Ren 1mm, pennile She refuses hit.
toplayer.
Hen. Ben's
Ben weeks inter when an Ernest Jonth, her then ni Brath.
himmelf. Mean time Depl Ackroyd la Informed Bob that Sun is stoltes to marry editions in seriona and Susan I distress. Jack Waring, leath'a safiant, tells Hob that Sand in free. Bob tries to On ber but ran hot Susan's aunt who fa 1 gone Math and So stay with friends. She does not art Bob's message. Ben beglas to slow signs of reuvering and B, tries in
tell Heath she en not murry high herause
wh to not love in.
CHAPTER XXXVII
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she had known that at that instant Bob Dunbar was disconsolately quitting u pay station in the loop, her heart would have leapt for joy. But Susan hnd no way of knowing that. Everyone seemed to push her toward this marringe-Heath-who Mrs. wished to give her so much. Milton whose sound common senso and innate worldliness rejoiced in a good match, Aunt Jesale who was so helpless.
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"It's too late to back out now." the girl told herself recklessly. must go through with it."
10
Ileath was taking her to dinner After wavering in the balance and to the theatre that evening. How different for several days Ben, Lampman's Listlessly the girl tubbed and condition suddenly improved. The arrayed herself. doctor announced that Ben would it was, she thought, to be going recover. Susan did not make an-out with one man and with the She took no pleasure From only man! other trip to the hospital. Ernest Heath site heard the details-night in her appearance although As soon her mirror gave back the image of of Ben's convalescence.
was strong a slim, glowing girl in a simple She knew she looked young mRN as the enough to travel he would go to white frock.
job in an well but she didn't care. It didn't The thought of California where a
seem to matter. orchestra awaited him.
Pour Ben! There was something that telephone call remained per- pitiful about him, even about his sistently in the back of her mind. magniflcently foolish behaviour. Sa. Of course it might have been
It might have been a wrong san was delighted to know that his one. recovery was certain but the in-number but there was always the
She chance- evitable reaction had set in.
Mrs. Milton appeared at the door was annoyed with Ben for having
She felt of the bedroom, beaming at her. sho conspicuous.
but you do look fine," made her
"Guess what I've got for "My.
Susan widened her eyes. "I never could. Did you baké a devil's food Cake ?"
he had placed her in a false and
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Before the shooting her course had seemed so simple and so plain. It had seemed both generous and of her to accept Ernest Wise
leath's name and protection. Now she saw that love was never wise bat always irrational, wild and pas- sionate. It was Ben who had made that clear to her. She knew he had accomplished it just the same.
She procrastinated. She let the days pass without coming to a de- eision. She even wore, nowadays, on the third finger of her left hand a ring with a single, shining stone.
said. you!"
no
Mra. Milton snorted. "Llaten to the girl, she implored the celling. "No, it's nothing like that. you think of something better?"
Can't
She
Susan said she could not. was brushing her hair, pressing it into sleek waves around her face. Mrs. Milton with the air of a con- jurer produced a huge green dress- maker's box.
"There must be a mistake," Su- "It must be something sun anid. for Rose. I didn't buy a thing." "Your name is on it, large as life," Mrs. Milton told her trium-
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Excitedly the two cut the strings and folded back the tissue.
was
"My great glory!" muttered Mrs. Milton, almost reverently. it out, child." She "Lift
Susan oboyed, frankly impatient.
soft, urm the draping over her rich coat of leaf brown fur.
tell Ernest Heath on the morrow of her change of heart but always at the last minute her courage Then, too, she had to would fail.
She had think of Aunt Jessie. promised herself she would take Care of Aunt Jessie always.
She tried to talk to Rose about
"It doesn't look like mink," mut- I but there was not much help from this quarter since she did not tered. Mra. Miltor "I don't know Bob Dunbur. as I ever anw sable at close range dare to speak of After all, what was there to tell? but I believe that's what this ls."
a few She gazed at the girl with awe. She and Bob had shared
of perfect glorious moments mutual comprehension. Once in a life time, fools and. wise men say, Whether this ane meets his mate. be true or not, Susan thought she had found hers in this tall, fair, sunburned young man whose world why," was so different from hers.
•
Susan stammered, "I can't take So this was what it from him." Heath had meant the night before when he spoke of a surprise.
"Can't take it? I'd like to know Milton demanded Mrs. But roundly. "Aren't you, going to be to married in two weeks?It's perfect- Deposits in local and Rose? and Fixed Deposits to how could she explain all that
Practical Rose would ask,ly proper. Anyhow you'll have to foreign currencies taken at rates that Did he ever say anything? I wear it to-night or he'll be dis Men," concluded Mra. mean did he ask you to marry appointed. may be ascertained on application t
him?" And Rose would be sure to Milton sugely, "don't like to be dis- shake her head sadly over the ad-appointed."
Italf fearfully Susan slipped into not. Rose that he had mission
She the sumptuous wrap. Above the far and her face rose clear and pale approved of Ernest Heath. said and thought that Susan was a
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"You look stunning,"
ran her Milton whispered. She hands over the velvet-soft surface of the fur and Suson did likewine. The girl thought she knew why women were enthralled by the
of riches. There promise something insidious about such a cont.
now
and So the days slipped by nearer came the date set for the wedding. Aunt Jesale wrote glow. Jag letters from Florida. She was feeling ever so much better, she said. She would be home soon.
Oro afternoon when Segan went over to the little house to see if all was well there she met Mr. Schultz, the next door neighbour.
"Young feller's been around ask-ments Inter his eyes shone with ing about you," he told her.
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When Heath arrived a few mo-
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"It's much too fine for me," Su- san told him shyly.
with "My dear," said the man
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Almost as if he divined her her thoughts, the man looked at shrewdly, smiled, and let her go.
"There, we shall be late if we don't hurry.
Simon smiled at her as he helped Her disappointment was keen. "Iher into the car. Was this all true, guess maybe he was one of those." Sudan wondered, or was she dream- Mr. Schultz said, feeling he had ing? Was she soon to be mistress failed her but not quite knowing of so much grandeur?
shabby through They rode why.
"I suppose so," Susan answered. streets where children pelted each When she went into the house she other with snow balls and tired heard the telephone bell ringing workmon plodded home through the and sped for it but just before she dark. Susan shivered, pulling the the bell fur closer around her throat. Why renched the dining room gave a final gasp and stopped. Su-was she here when her heart be san picked up the receiver with longed somewhere else?
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