THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
LOVE or MONEY?
DEGIN HERE TO-DAY
BY H. W· CORLEY
for wealth and position, he is reception-
Axpires.
though Monk never believed this.
friends."
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not
TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1933.
luxury Indeed to ride thus in costly klas hor. No, she had morely en- furs, beside a handsome young man dured those caresses., Steve'n sin- In such a cari
cority was unmistakable. It would want to take you where we have been cheap to take offense. can havo dinner and dance. He was her childhood friend and, want to take you to the beat night as in the old days he had brought club In town. I'm so sick of lone-har apples or oranges, now he was liness and heat I can't sco straight.shuring his good fortune with her, {"
Still it wasn't to be thought that "Now York is full of girls, this could lead to anything more Steve." Mona tried to make her serious. She wouldn't spoil his eye- ning by telling him that ΠΟΛΥ voice discouraging.
"It's not full of girls like you!" though.
Steve's eyes were fastened on the Suddenly he put his arm about strip of asphalt ahead, the glitter- # deserted ing panorama of the city, the pyra- her they were in
the
section of the park-and drew her mids of lighted dots reaching into to him. He kissed her, kissed her the sky. The car swerved, veered again, and plunged down another "When I think of you working so highway toward Columbus Circle. again and again, hard, and that brother of your not voice Was helping" Steve's
Dexterously Stove swung trembling. "Lord, Min, I've been ent between a pile of cobble stones making money! Let me stand be-land a rope hung with red lights. hind you if you need me. It must Then" Broadway, gloomy in the tough going, Min, lots of times.automobile section but bright and
garish in the lower fortics. Most of the time!"
Mona thought of the rent, the He sad, "I am going to take you inrurance, her father's small feo to the Halcyon Club." fat the hospital, the quarters Bud Mona knew the Halcyon Club. It
borrowed and the bills handed every
her head smartly smooth, her high; "It so happened," Mona went on MONA HORAN who supports her, mother, fur collar white ns drifted snow, precisely as though he had
apoken, "that Mother had sent my Invalid father. Hittle sister, KITTY, and ne'er-her carriage gracious. do-well brother, BUD, is determined to marry Monn, moving toward him in one and only evening gown to Alice. at for Wall Eitrost law firm and in the that silent street, might have been She married Jim Halliday, you asses men of the world to which whoa young queen. "Get out of sight know, and lives up in the Dyckman Mona's brother announces that her chlid and ear shot," she whispered when section. I wore these because hood sweetheart, STEVE BACCARELLI Krauseon of the ire nad coal dealer, h Stove was about to swing out of had to, but they'll go back tomor- returned home. Blare disappeared three year his sent to assist her. She climbed row."
"After you've worn them earlier and it was rumored he was in prison swiftly in beside him.
"Now drive like the fiend you are Steve asked, a twinkle-in his eye
Caseys I'm yet with mock severity." She meets him on her way to work m moralna. Bere handsome, well dred and nd let's cheat the well mannered. Mens does not wish to re-planning to tell you what I think new the fritidship but aryeple his lavilation of a young man who sends articles
Mona smiled geronely. "You to dinner. Later in the day sho
his young
women should ace the prayer books and BARRY TOWNSEND, rich and socially proof attire to minent.
theatro programs we've pulled out The truth about leve i that he had The car gilded forward but of "unworn" returns at Pligrim's." been involved with gangsters like your earlier but broke with them and has gone Steve's eyes were on Mona. He she averred. straight alnice, With no thought of my approved of her. Three years be- Steve did not reply immediately.
lest, he buys her a gown and wran She
ber own and spoke softly.
somehow to last through the week. moment one of New York's most
advertised Anally decides to wear them.
clubs. Tho upper "Listen, Hon. Remember the She thought of days when she had you?" Steve asked. "You looked Christmases when all I gave you gone without lunch, pretending sho/music was the best, the dance floor excellent, and the food (incrediblo Steve had pressed the bell three ilke. A million dollars as you came was a candy box with holly on it had gained two pounds the week for a night clubl) appetizing, times, paused and then twice more. through that door. "Stove, 1.says or some 10 cent atore perfume? before and was fasting to keep slim.
They left the car in the shadows His old signal. He sat in the lean, to myself; is it Gloria Swanson? Well, those days are over and I'm Then she thought of the ermine low-swung car, gloved fingers No. It's only that homely Moran making up for it. To-day (he cloak she was wearing. She of the side street into which Steve drumming on its wheel and hum-girl"
could not quite keep pride out of thought of what Mrs. Casey would had gulded it and walked the few med softly. His eyes were in- Mona laughed in spite of her his voice) those duds you're wear-jany to Mrs. Callahan if she caught yards to the supper club door. The tent on the dark, dingy little on-self. It had occurred to her that ing don't mean any more to me sight of it. And she thought of doorman recognized Steve and an-
swered since she was wearing the gown than the pound of candy did
his greeting trance of the apartment house.
In Steve's klaser,
swinging He had not parked immediately Steve had sont she could hardly be other days."
She could not admit-ever to her-springing to hold the in front of the door. Mrs. Casey's harsh with him. She should have "But it's the spirit of the thing, self-that she had wanted Steve to doors apart. window commanded too One a view sent them back with a reproving the spirit behind the box of candy, of the entrance. Too fino a view of noto.
Steve, It Isn't the cost." "that Wop, Steve in a big car, sit- "I feel like million,"
priety but wanting Hons to look her prefore she would have said "gentle-Then he Inid a gloved hand over Saturday to Ma who stretched them had opened recently and was at the
and
And them In her rozm that laht man" and "lady friends."
(Above) in a picture taken at the funeral of the Grand Dake Alexander of Russia, cousin and brother-in-law of the late Tar and cousin of King George. Left to right aro Princass Youssoupoft, daughter of the late Grand Duke, the King of Denmark, the Queen of Denmark and the Grand Duchas Xenia Alexandrovna, widow of the late Grand Duke (Planet News).
(Right) The "Igualada-New York -Expraxe which won the first prize st the annual Barcelona Carnival. It was meant to symbolien the railway crisis, and, the peculiar senza of humour of its sponsors captivated the judges and the thousands of spectators in the streets. (Planat Nowe).
ting there for all the wurrid like a awell."
There was a dim light in the tall. The door opened... closed saftly and swiftly. Steve could sec the narrowing crack of light vanish
above someone's head. Only
didn't "Well, you liked them,
บ
she
"Okay. Then it's the spirit be- hind that handful of clothes and İnot their value. So that's that"
It was not that at all but Mona (decided on allence. Sho'd take the
clothes back, to-morrow and with; Lottle's help see that they were re- ceived.
"I knew you'd feel-well, just right-in any rig Pilgrim picked for you. We almost had
every dress in the place on the model bo- fore I found just the right one
"You went yourself, Steve? Did you see Lottie ?"
But Lottie had not been in evi- dence. Probably she was resting, up for to-night's date: Frequently Lottie atrained her long connection with Pilgrim's to what Mona thought must be near the breaking point,
It was just as well that Steve hudn't seen her. Latife had liked Steve even when he was penniless. Now that he was apparently weal- thy she might make a play for him. Mona thought, smiling a Httle, that nothing would endear Steve to her quite ao much as Lottie's making that play,
A shaft of jealousy shot through her and she laughed again. Jealous! Did that mean she was
of
Moun's hair could gleum with such acknowledged. "Maybe looked falling for old Steve and abandon- a halo! He must learn to call her it, but the door didn't, Stevo.fing her plan to marry a man Mona now.
Nothing like it. And I belong bo-wealth and position? Someone As she came into view, the glowhind that door. I'm only playing like Barry Townsend? of the street light touching her Cluderella tonight because-well, They were moving through the gently, he almost gasped. This because I thought it would please park now, driving slowly, and Mona -childhood pal of his was beautiful!] you.”
She was more than that. The girl] "It does please me," returned walked (for lack of carfare), who came toward him was regal, Steve aincerely.
through that same park. It was
enjoyed it. Too often Bhe had
7.-YORA
IGUALADA
EXPRESS
effusively,
the
"Madame
Secretary" that's title Miss Frances Perkins, the new secretary of labour, has designted for herself. Here is the first woma cabinet member as she left her first
White cabinet, meeting. A
House gourd calls. "Madame Secretary's
car
down
Mona and Steve walked thickly carpeted steps into the tiny foyer lined with mirrors. Then through more swinging doors to- ward the insinuating murmurs of the orchestra,
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It was easy to see that Stove was delighted to be able to bring Monn here. The admiring glances of the men they passed, the speculative, |-- envious glances of the women were
no sew experience for Mona but
they gratified her escort.
Their table was near the space cleared for dancing. Mona tossed (Continued on Page 10.)
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