THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1933.
SPOTLIGHT
CHAPTER XXXVII
money.
I'm getting along all right,"
Sheila liked dancing at Club sho insisted. "I'll get a job Volens, but presently the
en soon." gagement came to an end. A night club prefers to vary its
Lane studied her, "What you entertainment and it had been need is a change." he announced.
"Look here; how about a different
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1933
that. But everyone writes, Tre- Eve set the empty glass on the vor. You know that. It isn't like table, snapped out the light above being an artist or an actor. Any her head, and went on talking. one can set words down on paper Sheila answered in reluctant, and believe they are clever words. sleepy murmura. But she could Not nearly so many try the stage not check Eve. The Samper girls unless they have at least a little had never had many beaus and in talent. They can't get past the meditating on another's conquests. agents and managers. As for art Eve was gaining a vicarious feel-..
that's too expensive, too dia- ing of popularity. couraging. It's easier to see that Trevor got me a job," Shella you can't paint than it is to secanid finally. "I'm sleepy, Eve, you can't write."
Let's call it a day. I have to get "As a matter of fact" said the up early, man slowly, "I think Dick can
jence in your feeling toward him Trevor Lane telephoned to Henri.if you thought he could?" He returned to tell Sheila he had
"I feel that Dick is wasting made an apointment for her to see time. He should be in business. the famous designer at 10 next morning. "And you'll get the job," at home as his father wants him he assured her. "New we can have to be. Oh, dear, I can't dinner in peace, with that off our plain-"
understood that Shella's work ind of job for a while? How'd Sampers if she did not begin writa Would it make any differ there was temporary: In two wecks she was out of a job again. you like to model dresses in a carning something. Meanwhile Johnny Harrell'e pro-smart shop?" mise to find a place for her, în aj Sheila shook her head. Those stage production had not ma-jobs aren't so easy to get and be sides it might hurt me with the Sheila went to Mandrake's agents. They'd think I couldn't office, bearing that he was cast-get a job dancing. Which har ing a show. The role of the pena, just now, to be true!" featured dancer in the production "Couldn't you sprain an ankle
terialized.
called for a girl who was small, or something-just as an' ex- petite and blond. Sheila, by no cusa?"
stretch of the imagination, could "I've only two ankles and I be said to answer that description. can't spare one. Besides how Plenty of girls did, however. could a girl model clothes with Vera Dale got the part
sprained ankle? And how could I Harrell wouldn't let Sheila do get such a job?" 'n specialty dance in the new "Fri- volitics of 1933." "You're not a "beauty, you know, Sheila," he told her. "Not the way they rate 'em. You have talent and talent is something that would be com- pletely lost in the Frivolities","
Dick's a regular slave these days. minds. Please do! I'm lonely.
Won't even take time off to cat.'
Across town two young men were sitting before a fireplace. One of them was talking, the other lighting a pipe..
"Why dont you go' home?”
Trevor Lane asked. I have a EX- hunch Sheila might feel different- "Then don't try," aald Trevor. if you weren't here. She's used to wealthy young men They parted an hour later at following In her wake. She's asked. Showered Lane awfully good to help me," Shella can write. She'a—"
"Is the really working?" Sheila the Sampera door, "You've been used to young men who think they "Is she accustomed to young knew that Dick had asked her to told him. "I mean, about the job marry him. She did not think so. at Heari's." They shook hands men who write masterpieces for Actually Trevor Lane knew that solemnly and the girl watched as her to star in?" asked Dick his cousin had never relinquished Lane swung into his ear and coolly. "I could easily arrange, that, the idea of winning Sheila. He started toward Broadway.
Trevor laughed. "Is that your At Henri's.”
knew the goal he had set for him- Eve. who occupied the other ambition?'.. "You" mean Heuri really needs self-financial independence for twin bed in Sheila's room, Was "It's been done by less persist- models? "It wouldn't be-just Sheila's sake. He knew that alone still awake. She demanded food fent men than I. charity?
was the explanation of Dick's and Sheila agreed to raid the ice
Lane nodded soberly. "It's an industry.
box, She brushed her hair,! Lane Jaughed. "Charity!" he "There'll be a job for you any exclaimed. "Wait
"Working like the devil," Lane creamed her face, and went to the add thing about that girl," he natil you've told her. "Black coffee at night, kitchen, her little turned-up Chient and it doesn't mean a thing to said. "She has remarkable tal- time now, I'm sure." Tilfle Sam-seen Henry. He's a devil to work stuffed telephone bell, doorbell cut nese slippers padding softly along her except as a means of earning per encouraged Sheila. The other for but he likes tall, aloof off and all that sort of thing. the hall. four Sampers agreed. They had brunettes. Thinks they show off I never see him any more."
a living. Bread and butter until Presently she returned with a invited her to stay on as long as his creations best. You'd suit
glass of milk and sandwich. Eve he marries and settles down in she liked with them and pay when ¡him' perfectly."
was not afraid of encroaching her own home to forget the stage." she could.
"Do you really think so? I'd
pounds. "You are a love, Sheila," Trevor Lane heard that Sheila be terribly glad if I could get the
she said. "I don't see why some was looking for a job and tele-job.” In her purse was her last
nice young millionaire doesn't phoned to invite her to tea. She five dollars. In a few days she refused to let him lend her would have to borrow from the Shella coloured. "I didn't mean
come along and marry you."
A picture of beauty painted by a blizzard which swept across Canada recently, showing the famous Horseshoe Falls at Niagara in a mantle of
ice and snow.
Sheila said soberly, "It seems a shame. So much midnight oil burned, so much good white paper wasted in this town."
"Then you have no faith in Dick?"
"I guess they're all married." Sheila slid. her slippers under the bed and tucked herself in with
elaborate care.
"Trevor Lane isn't married," Eve objected.
"No."
Dick moved wearily. "I want to offer her something besides what other people have given me," he said. "Lord knows, I've offered her myself, my future, everything! That's not much, though, if you count the family out. She just doesn't give a darn about me, Trevor."
"You'll make her change her mind yet," Lane assured him, "I "Doesn't he want to marry wish I could think of some- you?" the other girl asked blunt thing-"
ly with the air of having wänted Dick rose, moved toward his
to ask this question for some that. "I'll be going," he said. He time.
"held out a hand impulsively.
"If he does he knows how keep a secret."
to "You're a good scout, Trav. No. body knows it better than I do. re-But this is something I have to
manage myself,"
"You are so fascinating," sumed Eve, "that I don't see how any man resists you.”
"You'd be surprised!"
The door slammed behind him.
(To be continued.)
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