THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
LOVE or MONEY?
BEGIN HERA TO-DAY
BY H. W CORLEY
MONA MORAN, receptionist in Wall
sweetheart, STEVE BACCARELLI. 10
and n'endo-well brobter, BUD.
futility.
Buck
was
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1933.
minutes. Hio's letting out 'n damo, įsteady guy, good to your family, Blond Annie tried to double cross You sleep thero, ent there and hlm."
stick around when we don't want
"I heard so," Bud replied sig-you. Kid your sister along" nificantly, Their eyes met.
"Well, don't find out by experi- Jence, Kid
"Okay."
"I borrowed a quarter from har today," Bud sald, grinning.
"Fine! Pay her back Saturday. Mako them thi you are on the up and up. A boy's alater in a good friend if he gets in a jam. Family stuff. That's goos down deep with a jury."
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Buck went back to his figuring, breathing loudly, wetting the tip of his pencil between moist red youth known as Slim Dugan lips. Ha manner was awkward, The older man motioned him tont this instant in Sing Sing clumsy but his figures were sure, Etreat law officou com with her childhood a chair and with a sudden slump nerving a sentence for Puck. Bud, watching, knew the In- If Bud's eyebrows heightened, Bud rose and went to the open- advisability of trying to put any. Buck went on toolly. "Don't let popular supper resort, the 11aleron Cattho boy. sat down, He drew Mons Hire on Zbird Arew, supports her package of cigarettes from his ing for a moment.
thing over on auch a power, on that you seen her tonight. If invalid fiber, mother, little water. KITTY pocket and lighted one.
"Look, Buck," he said as the
she anys anything net Innocent Stery has been myileriously absent from (watched with amusement, Somusic suddenly stopped, "There's At last the line of figures seem-and surprised.. Show her this pears, well dressed and prosperous. With no young and so much to learn! But my sister, the girl in green. Red-jed to satisfy, Buck folded it, receipt and stop worrying."
can't miss
The waiter returned with a teny, thought of Impropriety, he has ordered excellent material for the gang's headed. You
her. jerked open a small drawer before Eown and wrap sent to Mons which, after
She's gone to that table just be him and laid the sheet carefully a bottle of ginger ale, glass and purposeя. much indecision, she decides to wOLT,
inside. Then he wiped, bla foren huge eandwich. "Chef say yond that post. There."
The pride in Bud's voice head as though a difficult job and geeve you decs, soir."
to his side. been completed, and pressed a "Okay." brought the other Buck, Harkins was interested in button at the side of his desk. pretty girls. He applied his eye diligently and drow in his breath with a low whistle.
New York or three years. Now he p
At the office that day Mona has met DARRY TOWNSEND, rich and socially prominent. bot refused to dine with him. However, she cannot dismiss Barry from her raind Hona in pleased at the improvement to state's appearance and manner but does not exclaime,
think abe lo in love with him.
They flad a table "Look who's here!"
MAS BIOTE
CHAPTER VII
"She didn't trall you, did she?" Buck naked seriously as if this were the one calamity that could befall his gang. "Your sister got here first, didn't she? Well, what are you kicking about? Maybe she didn't oven spot you."
"Whew! Classy dame,
There was a silence. Buck Harkins looked at his watch and spoke softly. "Twenty minutes is up, Kid. Chile's waiting. You'll
your Jake. Or beat
red-headed sister home."
A wafter appeared promptly. "Ginger ale," Buck said." He looked at Bud. "Have some, Kid? Just Not Make it one, the kind of a get-up we like to see wait! Make it two-one glass." In this place. They dress up. the "Now kid," Buck went on im. Bud picked up his hat with responded Buck signi-act, Kid." He turned a long.pressively. Don't get sore. You alacrity.
"And give Tony this, Kid." eraftly smile on Bud, his Hds ain't drinking when you string
along with this outft, nee? We Bud's hand was already on the lowering slowly.
ain't drinkers and We nin't door. He had opened it narrowly. killers." Perhaps, he thought of "Okay." Blond Annie for he added hastily, "Not you 'n me, anyway.”
The perturbation mingling with pride in Bud's face was real.
"Suppose she did see you!" Buck waddled back to his seat and began tapping the desk specu latively. "What could happen? The worst she could do was ask why you were spending money in a sucker's joint."
"She saw me come in here," Bul
arm
"She saw mo, all right! But I had the door half open, see? Bud Moran slid through the (couldn't turn back!" door of Buck Harkins private
"No," office at the Halcyon Club. Hficantly. "You couldn't turn back, closed the door softly and loaned Not now, Kid! But cheer up-she against it, his eyes travelling (can't hurt you." quickly over the room.
Bud lifted his feet to the sill of Buck, wearing full evening the window, get there apparently
Alone Buck Harkina réturned to aurvey the dance floor. The or- dress, bent over a cigarette-scurr for uniformity in architecture
"And I ain't a chauffeur, Buck, chestra was shimmering into 3 ed desk, his round face perspiring rather than the amount of sun and
melody and the floor was filling beneath the hanging electric light, air that might enter, and began to
I don't want to handle any ear." The green shade bathed him in a blow smoke rings. There was a
"Sab!" The older man patted with couples. The lights, chang- almost soothingly. Ing colour, alid over white tables, sickly huo. He looked up in-nonchalance in his manner which
Bud's "You ain't going to handle a car. gay gowns, austere dinner conts. quiringly, then applied himself to he did not feel.
"How
Buck You're all right, Kid. If you do The older man rose from his
they dance!" his task again in silence.
what we tell you, you're all right, shrugged. There was no Battery "Woll, Kid," he said at length. sent, went to the opening through ftold him. "How's tricka?"
which he could observe the crowd- "Tell her you came to complaia Even if they get you they can't In als tone. Ifis beady eyes dart- Buck's expert eyo surveyed Bud ed supper club and for a moment about your bill. Plenty do!" hang anything on you. Trust me, ed among the throng, searching Again faintly. The Now here he drew his chair out this or that habitue. for a brief instant, noting, the was last in the glamour of the Harkina
he saw Mona. lior green gown, boy's perturbation. "What's throng outside. Then he waddled telephone beside him rang. He closer.
"You're all wet on that stuff her reddish gold hair, gleaming wrong, Kid? Somebody take your back to his desk, smiling, rubbing pulled a watch from his pocket,
his hands together.
Bcowled at it and was about to about your sister, Kid. "You say against the black shoulder of her stick of candy?"
Bud throw out his hands with a "Lain of sisters out there. Kid," speak when the telephone chimed she's here. Suppose she did seo partner. Who was the man?
you-whnt of it? Toll her-what It was no one Buck and ever gosture of irritation. "I seen my he purred again. "Such pretty again.
Buck answered.
seen before. Wait-they "Yeah," he do you want to tell her, Kid?" girls! alster out front, Buck."
face Was "She thinks I've got a job in turning. The man's "Sister?" Buck Harkins' voice
grunted, nodding his head an
thrown into relief against the dropped to a purr. "Well, lots of Buck Harkins was not the man's though the gesture were visible Fordham."
"Yeah...
"Toll, her the boss sent you wall. Red, yellow, orange lights folks' sisters aro out front tonight, real name, Bud know. Once long across the wire.
.. I don't mean down with a note for me." Buck filtered over them. Buck chuckled Kid. We're doing a fine business. ago Buck had taken a "rap" for a What's that?
considered briefly. "Take $20 suddenly and slapped the wall Fine! What's wrong with that, gangster higher up and the title maybe; I mean yes, positively..
had descended to his shoulders. Not for 20 minutes? Okay" home to your mother every Satur-with a pudgy hand. Kid 7"
Again Bud made the gesture of The habit also had descended. A "Chile doesn't want you for 20 day. That'll fix her-makes you a "I'm a son of a gun!" he an- nounced and went back to his desk. As he finished the sand- wich Buck thought rapidly, 'etill chucking, "Why, that was Steve Saccarelli"
smiled
were
Let's scc, what had he been hearing about Steve? What did they have on that baby, anyhow? Almost immediately Buck re membered.
(To be continued.)
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