THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1933.
LOVE or MONEY?
BY H. W CORLEY
BEGIN HEER TO-DAY, MONA MORAN who supporis her mother, }
invalid father, litzia bater, KITTY, and ne'er do-well brother, BUD, determines to many for wealth and position. She is receptioniss for a Wall Breet law firm and in the offies see men of the world to which she sepir
Mona's friend, LOTTIE CARR, fashion model at Pilgrim's kolusive bon, thlok
Son le foelich to work in an office when she could have a job as a modal or go on the clay. Formerly Mona was employed al
a
too.
bura would say. They hadn't sat Monn had been Minnie then. breathless on the odgo of their Steve was the grandson of Tony, seats watching Rudolph Valentino the cont and ice man around on make love for nothing! Steve' Third avenue. Olive-skinned, sub-eyes and grace
ness.
were too rc-
tle of expression and intent, lean, miniscent of compromising scenes imbued with charm and gracious. In 'the movies to be trusted.
It amused Mona to recall that Minnie had been spindle-shank-once she had been thrilled by considers it under youth daunted--or so. Bud had called her--Steve. Steve Sarcarelli, the bail In an boy of the 60's, inter a helper in As the is leaving the Third avenue flat one freckled, carrot-topped. the annousombent that BIEVE SACCA excusable Ansh of thought Monn his grandfather's business, and RELL, her childhood sweetheart, Brandon wondered what Steve would think then a taxi driver! of the coal and low dosler, has returned home of her now,
CHAPTER II
morning Mona's bretber surprison her with
Mona made her way down the three flights of dreary stairs. The Morans lived as high above the street as the house allorded so that Kitty would get better air.
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Three years ago Steve and Mona had been inauparable. 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's Stevie passed by.
Steve was driving a loan-flank-
toward Stove had not changed. She belloved in him, was fond of ed, expensive car-not a taxicab.
bim.
A soft brown hat was pulled over his eyes. Just the right hat. Ho
"Stove!"
Now Steve was back. What would that mean to her? What word a topcoat turned up about. would It mean to him, perhaps, if his neck and he wore gloves.
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 nights in his battered old car. trips to Coney. Dancing on an The blood rushed to her face, excuraton boat as it nosed coast-then receded as the young man's wise toward Atlantle Highlands. admiring eyes traveled from the brim of her smart little hat to her Movies. Dancing at Roseland.
Stove
Бес could
tho Roseland, Coney Island! Mana. shoes.
them for change in her, too, Mona know. hand't thought of months. She would have forgot-A change as Important, as subtle ten 67th street, too, If that had as the change that had come over
him. been possible.
Now she hurried toward the ele vated railroad, wondering when she would ace Stove, unaware that "Minnie" a voice called behind fato had decided on the moment. her. "Minnic, it's you, isn't it? What luck!"
Taxi driving was a respected of
It was Steve. He drew the low- cupation in their neighborhood. Il paid good money and a man was
However, the lung car along tho curb skillfully his own boss.
Ton and, hat in hand, swung out on the neighbors suspected Steve. many of these taxi chauffeura; street, his fine teeth gleaming in, were gaugstore. And suddenly, his olive face, his dark eyes dane- The old Steve and yet a new awooping down on Minnie as she ing with doilght. Mona dodged empty milk
returned from the shop one even Steve. Grinning, Tanned. Suave, ing, Steve had drawn his cab bottles and stepped over garbage cans into the gasoline laden street
Perhaps it was something deop near the curb, talked a moment Changed, too. Steve who had aken on somehow the manner of her heart was beating tumultuous-er. With the poundling of her and then disappeared.
heart Mona felt a sudden ex- were accounts of a jewel robbery that world to which Mona, at her the newspapere next day. work in the Wall Street law office, asperation. She had aspirations in above-well, above Tony's boy! Stovo vanished. No one ever bad Jnily aspired,
Her father had rather liked soon 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, cheerfelly The night of him would soon re-flched from the Grock's stand. vivo much of the old gossip. Gos-
ly.
Storo Saccarelli back! Back from where-and for what?
But Mona's mother, less simple
There
Nobody even heard of him ex cept Tony who relayed the word touSteve's mother, unable either to read or write. Tony, the ice and coal man, coming up from his
sip about Steve and about Mona. than Dad, knew what the neigh-cellar like a protesting gnome,
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insisted that the boy was "okay." Away, yes, but okay. Steve gent much money Isomo
them through a lawyer.
For the sophisticates that set- tled ft. 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 drab neighbor- hoods, it ran itself out, Mona nover spoke of Steve. Nor had she believed him a gangster. Steve's Inst bantering chat with her just before his cab careened around the corner and out of sight have Mona now understood to been farewell. Steve had plann ed then to go away.
The three years that followed had changed Mona but her feeling
Steve hadn't been in prison! Men. do not learn to speak, to Sing Singl dress, to look like Park avenne in
"I've thought about you a bun- dred times, Min. The first thing
I did after I got back was look for Bud to ask about you." Stevo grinned again. "I found hita in the second poolroom."
"You might have telephoned.". "Well, I did. But your mother Answered and I pretended I had the wrong number. I know sho didn't like me and I didn't want to "As if Mother could have kept run the chance of losing you."
"Then," Stevo went on, his hand your call a secret!"
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