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LOVE or MONEY?
BEGIN HERE TO-DAY-
— user-do well brother.” BUD.-
BY H. W CORLEY
well dressed and prosperous, With no sought
decision, abe decides to wear.
qvar she cannot diamin Berry from her
"You dance a wonderfully as ever, don't you?" he said softly
"You're a wonderful partner,
Been dancing much?" Steve.
"Not at all. Except in my mind'
how I punched the guy who took the prizo cup home!"
"The Judges gave it to him though, Steve."
"Then the judges were blind." "Oh well" She smiled and was again lost in the spell of the
dance.
APRIL 20, 1933.
in
curled. "Ko said he'd be BOWLING SHOES
Fordham!"
"Bud-here?" Steve gently per- suaded her to dance again for people were watching them. "Aro you sure it was Bad? Yes, that's the office of the club owner. I bo- Hleve. Maybe Bud's job brought
him here."
"From Fordham?". Beyond the tables there was a
These fellows have a hundred by panelled wall, half conconled palms, Mone and Steve danced Interests. Bud might have come delivery. They arin of her escort-"Hello, Mona, juald abruptly.
Mona rone gratefully. She re-neroas the tiny floor: nearer this on an errand or MONA_MORAN, receptionist in Wen darling. And Stove! Why, where
that she had always wall. Suddenly the panelling re-aren't the aort to trust things to
messenger boys." Street law office, zoes with her childhood-when in the world did you get membered zweetheart, BTEVE BACCAHELLI, to a poin-or out?"
ilked to dance with Steve. In the solved itself into a door. It must the mails
Mona stiffened. "What thinga?" pular supper resort, the Halcyon Club. Mens Mona stiffened, her face fuel- three years of absence his feet had lead to a private room-the man- she asked, her lips tight. Bron Third avenue, supports her Inveild
"Oh, Monal" Stove laughed help. father, mother. Stilo slater, KITTY, anding. How could Lottle behave not lost nothing of their skill. Their ager's office, most likely.
Bere the horn mysteriously absent from The innuendo in the other girl's steps fitted as perfectly as they As Mons watched carelessly the lessly. "How should I know? door opened. A dim gure, sil-Anything! It might be a pound New York for three years. How be appear voice meant that Lottie belloved, had in times gone by.
cheese. honcited agafast the light withila, of a favourite kind of of Impropriety, he has ordered a gown and or protended to bellove, that old
for a Night club owners never ent the WAD MER! to Mona which, after much story that Steve had been in pri-
appeared in sharp relief brief instant, Monu Rasped.
food from their own kitchens, you At the nice that day Mon had met Ron. It was gossip that had died
It was Bud!
know. Suppose it was Bud--what BARRY TOWNSEND, rich and socially pro away three years ago. Perhaps minent, but refused to dine with him. LoLottle thought it rather cute to
The boy slid almost furtively of that? Why are you so worri across the carpeted space whilehed, dear?" mind. Mons is pissed at the improvement protend that she believed it. with you." in flave's appearance and manner but does Privately Mona knew Lottie was They were, duncing dreamily led to the outer door. His t
as Mona
horself and rather perfectly, swaying was in his hand. His almost The girl's lip quivered. "I-I that the gossip was not true. slowly, dipping In unison. They stealthly steps made it plain to am worried about him. Terribly might have been the only couple observers.that he was an intruder worried. Steve. He doesn't work The evening, begun ao pleasant on the floor. The leader of the rather than a participant in the
He is so mysterious. regularly. of that gay Always broke, too, and we need ly, was ruined. How could Lottic orchestra watched them admiring expensive frivolity
the money. I can't help worry- any such a thing? She was rarely, followed their steps with care-room.
I don't like Bud's "Why, why" Monn cried,ing about him, ly thoughtless and never malici- ful attention. Mona and Steve ous! Why was she here at all, might have been professionals paling and startled. She stopped being here.. Aren't clubs of this run by gangsters, Steve? with so many other places in Now who had practised together for short, bringing Steve up to the sort
Their faces were rapt,side of the tiny floor in dismay.
I'm afraid, it means that Bud's "I just saw Bud coming through
gone-or going-wrong!" their feet in perfect necord, their
that door!" Muna explained "I see!" Steve's own face be- bodies awaying.
swiftly. "It must be the office or came serious. Io thought a something. What business could minute. You've been seeing too Bud have here? He told me he many movies, Mona," ho was working to-night." Her lips nounced. "All that
not think she is in love with him,
Bud Mera comes to the Taleyon Club convinced
tơ mơR DUCK HARKINS, the proprietor, who handerworld connections. It appears that flud i becoming involved with gangsters.
CHAPTER VIII
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"Why, it's Lottle" Steve cinimed, directing Mana's xaze neroes the room.
It was indeed Lottie. She had
York to go? not seen her friends, apparently, for she was not looking at them. "Oh, I've been around for a Lottie sat at a wall table or a plat-week or so," Steve was replying form slightly raised above the rest cheerfully, unperturbed by the of the door so that she could watch implication in Lottie's greeting. the floor show (when it bogna) over the heads of the other diners. Just now she was eating busily
quite mercilessly.
"Yes? Mona didn't tell me." "Mona didn't know. I couldn't manage to get in touch with her until to-day."
and neglecting her companion Lottie raised her coffee cup to Her escort was a bored looking her lips smiling. "Then that's "Just youth with sandy hair, dinner-all right," she remarked.
dis- so long as she hasn't been holding conted, morose and rather
Meet the boy friend." tinguisbed. The evening was not out on me. pleasing him. But, looking him With a wave of her hand sho in- over, Moan observed that this dicated the young man opposite. young man belonged to that group "Perhaps you can help cheer him. of society that never ls-by tradi-I'm making no headway at all and tion and precept-pleased. Ile I'm keeping the bill very low."
Flushing, the young man rose lived to be bored and Lottio would serve for company as well stifly. 18 anyone else.
to join
"Mr. Parker, Mona. Jimmy, "Great Heavena, the girl In lay-Miss Moran, Mr. Saccarelli. We ing breakfast!" Mons added, thought Mr. Saccarelli was dead amused. But Monn was not real or something. Now all at once ly amused at finding Lottle hore, he comes to life again!” ready at any moment
Young Parker bowed distantly, them. Steve, interest in Lottia disinterestedly and sank again iu- rather irritated Mona. Half an to his chair. There had been dis- -four before he had been making sension between him and Lottie all evening. It was clear that love to her!
Steve, Lottie believed she had gained a humer point.
"Breakfast?" repented his eyes on Lottie and reflected in his tone.
"Jimmy is never very happy
Lottie had just finished a huge here," she went on coolly." "I like half grapefruit sunk in a silver this place though. Don't you, banin of ico and was about to at-Mona ?"
tack an omelet when she apied Mona and Steve.
She waved a fork gally at their table and called-much to the cha-
"Yes. But we've only been here.
a few minutes."
The orchestra began its low dance," Slove walling. "Let's
years.
"Remember that contest Cloverland?"
at
"We didn't win it, Steve!" "I didn't, but you did. And
Another view of the Potsdam Garrison Church, which wa utilised for the first meeting of the new Reichstag following the destruction by fire of the original Reichstag building. This is the Interior of the church. (Pianet News).
an-
ia screen stuff. Don't worry about it any more. We'll telephone to. Bud after a while and you'll see that have he's all right. You may been mistaken but if it really was Bud I'll take a hand in it." Steve spoke confidently. could he know that the plan he, was outlining was precisely whal Buck Harkins, in his tiny back room office.
scheming for Steve to do?
Was
How
Five minules at the telephone had given Buck "the dopo" on Steve. He had all the informa-
he tion
wanted Buck know where Steve Saccarell had been for the past three years, what his exactly interests wore, and in what way those interests might coincide with Buck's own.
Pl teach that double-crosser to take what's coming to fin!" Buck threatened as he explained to Chile what he had just hoard about Steve and his mission in New York.
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"You don't Bay!" Chile claimed, shaken from his usual lethargic mood to actual interest. "Saccarelli's in the legal end of the game, oh? And stepping out with the Kid's sister! Bay-it looks like a clean-up, don't it?"
(To Be Continued).
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