LEAP YEAR BRIDE
Laura Lou BROOKMAN
CHAPTER I
The green rondster cutting, it way, Aleck and ribbon-like, down the boulevard came to an abrupt, jolting stop at the intersection with Twenty-fourth street.
ajstible.
THE
was going and with whom if the notion to take a drive at midday happened to strike her?
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1932.
It was 20 minutes after Cherry Except for the brown hat and coral Dixon'a arrival that a tall young scarf" Cherry was entirely. In bolge man atrodo Into the Wellington-beige sult and awenter, beige lobby. He wore a grey ault and pumps and cobweb hose, gloves and carried a topcoat. His grey felt even a purse of the same shade. was tipped at an angle just slightly The tone suited her perfectly, rakish. Brond shoulders, rather
angular. Not a handsome young Dan Phillips pulled the nearest man but an attractive one.
chair nearer and swung into it.
dim
In a dozen strides he had reached "A thousand pardons If I'm the stairway. Someone sang out, late!" he began. "I had
three The roadster reached the viaduct. "Ii! Phillips!" just before he clocks und a watch and I set'em and was swept into the slow stream rounded the bend of the stairs. all—”
"But you're not late. You're. Cherry Dixon's chin rose to meet of enct-bound travel. A Twellth The young man turned, waved in
salute and continued on his way. five minutes ahead of time. Sea?" Винісні Wellington's the aweop of the cold wind. Flut-street-
Cherry held up Blender wrint tering ends of a coral neurf escaped thoroughfare, boasting three build-i
The mezzanine floor of the Hotel banded with platinum. The tiny from her, throat to do a mad dance ings 20 stories high-the final of Wellington was a rather narrow oblong dial on the platinum band over one shoulder. It was one of green was almost lost in the crush gallery running the length of the recorded 25 minutes past one. "I- those days in early April who of taxicabs, trucies, limousines and Twelfth street side of the balld- I came in early for some errands brilliant shine showered down amall, wheezing vehicles,
ling. It was thieldy carpeted and and finished them sooner than I un the work without warming it.
There was no time now to try to furnished in shades of wood green, expected," she added. Prevarica- The pale gold radiance seemed al-)
Groups of over- tion No. II for Miss Cherry Dixon mout to make the air more biting. Justify her disception, no time for bronze and ivory. But it was spring sunshine, spring day dreams. The shrill, authorite stuffed chairs, benches and four that day, but surely she must keep air and the combination was irre- tive blast of an oflicer's whistle sent high-backed lounges were arranged him from guessing at her eager-
the swarming muss abend. The near the iron work railing to over-mens,
Small desks "Then it's all right. Of course Cherry crooked her wrist for a girl, in the green car managed ex- look the first floor. quick glance at a watch dial. Only Vertly to keep abreast of the cur-jand chairs stood beside the wall the three clucka cach keep different
rent. Three blocks more and the The lighting was
because time and I couldn't be sure--ex- 1: 10 now. She was not due for rondster swerved to the curb be heavy draperies shut out the day-cuse me, Miss Dixon, but I've got 20 minutes. There was plenty of Fore the Hotel Wellington.
light and only small desk lamps to stop right here and tell you that time-oh plenty to rench the
of all God's fairest creatures you Wellington for her 1:30, engage the car to a doorman and entered
Cherry stepped out, surrendered supplemented it.
The young man in grey gained are the prettiest, the most utterly the grey stone building.
the top step and looked about. None devastating- She She had known all along there crowned the lobby and mounted the of the persons in sight seemed to
Mr. Phillips!" The was time enough. Little danger broad stairway leading
interest him. There was a stout checks were crimson but the girl'a that to-day of all days she would
in dark-rimmed spectacles eyes were laughing. be latel
writing at the nearest desk. Far- "Mr. Phillipa? I thought it was Mazie Chasidy, whose glowingther on two matrons engaged in going to be Dan" from now on?" titing curls and blue eyes made the conversation,
of thent Fes- "Well then, Dun, stop it. You're a highly decorative ticulating emphatically. At the ex-making fun of me!” sigur stand
rner of the lobby, tapped the arm treme end of the gallery a small "If I ever heard blasphemy---- ! of her friend, Joe Kampschmidt, by surface of the counter.
over the glass mechanical toy. who was leaning
The young man stepped forward Mazie whispered in a tone that be sight of a beige shoulder nearly blew in" uncertainly. All at once he caught
hidden by the vides of a Kampschmidt concentrated on backed chair. He made for that been accounted for by the April the slim figure ascending the stair-chair.
way. "Some baby!" he said
ment.
Another halt for trafic lights and then on again. Cherry's im- patience was gone. What a day it was to be 19, to know the beige suit, was as becoming as it was new, to be on her way to meet an exciting young man and to know-at least
to know almost that he cared much about tim meeting as she did!
Warm colour that cold not live
mezzanine.
"Well-look what
lied her indifferent gaze.
wind crept into Cherry Dixon's casually. "Who is she?"
checks. A chance observer, feminine, would have been almost
to the
man
"Some baby's right!" Mazie com.
sure to think "Lucky'girl!" at sight mented. "What I wouldn't give for)
wing
"Please,
bobbing about after a Coyotes and cuttlefish! Why, my dear young woman, I'd as soon cut off my right arm. What I really girl in the world is looking prettier meant to say was that the prettiest
than she has any right
to look. What's going to come of thin 7 You can't keep it up, you know. These old eyes won't stand it. You can't keep geting more beautiful every time I see you!"
"So there you are!" "Oh, Dan-1" "Cherry"
Brown eyes' laughed up at grey
Cherry rose meet the teasing. Air. of Cherry, so pretty, so youthful, the dough her old man's got! ones. The girl was prettier when She and demurely, "Sorry,
name. she smiled. The green 'velour of You can always look away, you at the wheel of her expensive Cherry Dixon-that's ber roadster. A chance observer, mas- Lives out in Sherwood Heights in the chair was a perfect background know."
The small, "But that's just what I can't do culine, would have been almost sure one of those swell houses with a for her colouring.
a farm. rather oval Ince was creamy ivory |—and don't want to. Say, are you) to think. "Lucky break to know a yard around it as big as
I've seen her picture on the society except where tinges of rose burned jas hungry na I am?" girl like that!"
pages. Most of the time she's through on ench cheek. Curling The abrupt change of subject Well, Cherry thought that sheaway--in Europe or at some swell lashes made the dark eyes darker. made the girl laugh. "Perish- | was lucky. For none of the school or something. Gosh-one, Her lips were crimson, possibly ex-fing," ahe suld. "Positively reasons chance observers might people have all the luck!"
plained by the silver vanity case perishing!" have cited, however.
"How about me, Mazie? Do 1she held. Nature had designed Then let's find food!" Phillips It had been the greatest luck inget a break this trip or are you those lips a trille wido but the snapped two fingers together with the world, surely, that for the going to another of your sixteenth effect was charming.
a resuanding crack und was on his second time in a week she was to cousins' weddings?"
Any expert would have said, too, feet. Cherry arose and for an in- see Dan Phillips. Oh it had been Mazie grinned. "You can call that. Cherry Dixon's nose was a stant they stood there, the girl's simple to manage, telling Mother me," she said. "About eight fraction short of classic standards, head only a little above the youth's about the Guild committee meeting o'clock. There's a new orchestra Somehow the defect increased in shoulder. Her eyes held a danc- and to drive lato towb alone. There at the Crystal Ballroom."
Blead of detracted from the Ing light of happiness. The young had been n committee meeting---| Whereupon Miss Cassidy and her piquant total.
man's face sobered. He touched until Gretchen postponed it. For friend forgot their interest in The tilted brim of her close her arm and together they moved that matter, what other girl of 19 Cherry Dixon for more personal fitting brown hat revealed a cres-toward the stairs. would have to explain where she subjects,
cent of dark hair over one temple.
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