THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, APRIU 12, 1933.
LOVE or MONEY?
BY H. W CORLEY
BICIN HIKER TO-DAY,
KONA MORAN be supports her mother.
do-well heather, BUD, determines to marry
Invalid father, Kitle sister, K132, and we'er for walls and position. She is receptienter for a WA Brest law Arm and in the ore sees to which she aspires,
me of the world youK, CARF, labion modal at Pligrim's exclusive shop, this
Mona is foolah to work in an office when she could have a Sob`an a model or p on the atago. Formerly Mons was employed at
it a
"too.
Mona had been "Minnie then. Steve was the grandson of Tony, the coal add ice man around on Third avenue. Olive-skinned, sub- tie of expression and intent, lean, imbued with charm and gracious
ness.
Minnie had been spindle-shank- considers Rounder rate to discented-or so Bud had called her Morning Men's Brother surprise her with excusable flash of thought Mona As she is leaving the Third venue flat one freckled, carrot-topped. In an the examsonment the STEVE BACCA REAL, her childhood sweetheart, Tandon wondered what Steve would think of the con! and los desler, bas petturned home of her now.
toward Steve had not changed. Steve was driving a lean-flank- She believed in him, was fond of ed, expensive car-not a taxiðab."; him.
Now Steve was back. What would that mean to her? What would it mean to him, perhaps, if
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car,
A soft brown hat was pulled over his eyes. Just the right hat. He wore a topcoat turned up about his neck and he wore gloves.
e came back expecting to find "Min! Gee, it's great to find Mona as she had been three years you!" before? Little drives on hot "Steve" nights in his battered old Trips to Coney. Dancing on an The blood rushed to her face, excursion boat as it nosed coast then receded as the young man's bora would say. They hadn't sat wise toward Atlantic Highlands, admiring syes traveled from the breathless on the edge of their Movies. Dancing at Roseland.brim of her smart little hat to her seats watching Rudolph Valentino Roseland, Coney Island! Mona shoes. Steve could see the of them for change in her, too, Mona knew. make love for nothing! Steve's hand't thought eyes and grace were too remonths. She would have forgot-A change as important, as subtle miniscent of compromising scenes ten 67th street, too, if that had as the change that had come over
him. in the movies to be trusted.
been possible: It amused Mona to recall that.
Now she hurried toward the cle- Steve hadn't been in prison! once she had been thrilled by Steve. Steve Saccarelli, the bad vated railroad, wondering when len do not learn to speak, to
Sing Sing! his grandfather's business and fate had decided on the moment. boy of the 60's, later a helper in she would see Steve, unaware that dress, to look like Park avenue in "Minniel" a voice called behind" "I've thought about you a hun- then a taxi driver!
Taxi driving was a respected on her. "Minnie, it's you, isn't it? dred times, Min. "The first thing 1 did after I got back was look for eupation in their neighborhood: What luck!",
It was Steve. He drew the low-Bud to ask about you." Steve It paid good money and a man was slung car along the curb skillfully grinned again. "I found him in
boss. However, the Mona made her way down the.
his own
Tand, hat in hand, awung out on the the second poolroom." three lights of dreary stairs.
neighbors suspected.Steve. The Morans lived as high above
many of these taxi chauffeurs street, his fine teeth gleaming in the street as the Nouse afforded so
were gangsters. And suddenly, his olive face, his dark eyes dane- that Kitty would get better air.
swooping, down on Minnie as she ing with delight. Mona dodged empty milk
returned from the shop one even The old Steve and yet a new ing, Steve had drawn his cab Steve. Grinhing. Tanned. Suave, bottles and stepped over garbage "cana into the gasoline laden street
near the curb, talked a moment Changed, too. A Steve who had taken on somehow the manner of her heart was beating tumultuous-er. With the pounding of her and then disappeared. ly.
heart Mona felt a sudden ex-were accounts of a jewel robbery that world to which Moaa, at her asperation. She had aspirations in the newspapers, next day. work in the Wall Street law office, from where and for what? above-well, abere Tony's boy! Steve vanished. No one ever had daily aspired.
Her father had rather liked seen him again. She remembered Steve so well though in the three years of his Steve when, in his invalid's chair absence the nighborhood, rife with set close by the steps, the boy other gossip, had discarded him.stopped beside him, bringing him The girl smiled a little forlornly. an orange or a banana, cheerfully The sight of him would soon re-filched from the Greek's stand.
But Mona's mother, less simple vive much of the old gossip. Gos-
Ax
CHAPTER II
Steve Saccarelli back! Back
Three years ago Steve and Monu had been inseparable. Perhaps it was puppy love, perhaps it was the opposition of their elders, or it may have been just for the fun of hearing Mrs. Casey discourse on "that Moran girl and seeing Mrs. Callahan turn up her nose when Tony Stevie passed by.
Perhaps it was something deep
sip about Steve and about Mons. tlian Dad, knew what the neigh-
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Nobody even heard of him ex-1 cept Tony who relayed the word to Steve's mother, unable elther} to read or write. Tony, the ice and coal man, coming up from his cellar like a protesting gnome, insisted that the boy was "okay:" Away, yes, but okay. Steve sent much
them money home to through a lawyer,
For the sophisticates that set- tied it. Steve was in prison, "taking the rap" for someone higher up who was sending money to Tony until Steve could get out and take care of the family..
Then, like other highly colored! stories afloat in drah neighbor- hoods, it ran itself out. Mona never spoke of Steve, Nor had she believed him a gangster. Steve's last bantering that with her just before his cab careened Around the corner and out of sight Monn now understood to have been a farewell. Steve had plaan- ed then to go away,
The three years that followed had changed Monn but her feeling
NEA
"You might have telephoned."" "Well, I did. But your mother" anawered and I pretended I had the wrong number. I knew she didn't like me and I didn't want to "As if Mother could have kept run the chance of losing you."
"Then," Steve went on, his hand your call a secret???
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