THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
LOVE or MONEY?
DEGIN HERE TO-DAY
BY H. W CORLEY
I
"Sh" Mone whispered. They had not told Steve that they had met at Garretson's.
do! I'll use my pull at the office drowsily.
"Gee, Min, it's been great to see MONA MORAN, revezikult in a way to get the day off her for you!" Street law effire, gore with her ellihood
you." sweetheart, STEVE BACCARELLI, to piylar supper resort, the internn Club on supporta har Invaild father, mother. tie sister, KITTY, and ne'er-skwell brather, That's right," muttered Barry. three-year, He has turned, weil dressed He and Monn both smiled. This you seem to think so."
Se aroused herself long enough to answer this. "I observe that "Because I talked a lot to Lot-
FIUD, Aleve has been mysterkmaly absent for
and pro
With no thought_of_fm|| wOR the second accret they had tic? How could anyone escape? propriety, ho ha ordered a gown and wrap
For both of them knew Oh, Monn-that isn't like you." went to Mona which, witor much indeclaton, shared.
She patted his hand as it lay on the wheel and his fingers caught
she wente,
her own.
At the office that day Mona has met that, of the two, Mona's influence HARRY TOWNBENI, rich and anclally pront Garretson's office was greater minent, but refund he invllation to dine than the young man's. with him.
In the front seat of the ear, her
"You see," Stove explained naive. Dud Moran come to the Halcyon Club trare BUCK HARKING. the proprietor, who goldon head frankly on Steve'sly, "I wanted old Towny to have has underworld connexions, Mens are her ahoulder, Lottie opened her eyes to the best."
olating with beather and fears he is
announce that old Pilgrim himself gozatere. Bieve tries to gulet her fears.
couldn't get her to appear on duty her recort and loins Mora'and stove. Then
at his shop before 3 p.m.
LOTTIE CARR, fashion, model, diemiace Hlove's businma partner arrives. Here
CHAPTER XI
to be Barry Townsend, Harry tell Muna "And maybe I won't be thore how Have, years before, had befriended him, i how ingether they sailed for fouth Amerles then!" she added. "They'll think and have been operating a lemond mine I'm at the fashion show and the that Townsend inherited.
fashion show will think I'm at the shop. Al's well for Little Lottle!" "Of course they wouldn't think of telephoning.", suggested Steve, good-natured giving her head push. "They couldn't check up on you, I suppose?"
For the rest of the evening Mona WILS all gaiety. She had deter mined to put her worries aaide and not spoil Steve's party. During a dance with him she slipped away to telephone her home. Bud an swered and his voice was casual, satisfying,
"I'll take that chance." Lottie answered,
Mona noted, not without a pang, Yes, he'd been working. Sure, that Steve und Lottle had reached he was in now for the night. a state of complete camaraderie. What? Oh, enling kandwich. "You're good, Lottie," she mur Yeah. Be home a tle later, mured. would she? Well, that was okay. He'd leave a light,
Mona turned away from the tele- phone relieved. Budivas home and apparently staying there. His voice hind seemed as innocent a Kitty's might have.
"Good?" echoed the other girl, settling her wrap about her. I've got to be good! There hasn't been a figure like miso at Pilgrim's since Mona left us."
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MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1933.
funny part. He's offering It on the open market and we've got to Het it
Clifte stood up, stretching his huge length with a spread-eagle motion that filled the room.
"How we going to get it? How we going to get rid of It, if we lay our hands on it? Ever think of that
Buck Harkins awung his chair around and eyed Chile. "Say, for. half a million I could get rid of the City Hall, wrapped up in tissuo paper, with a red ribbon on it."
Chile returned his glance specuin- tively. "I believe you," he decided quietly. "Well, guess I'll be moving on." He reached the door.
"Chile "Yeah 7"
|
ute accounting- He glanced about to add, "Sooner or later Stove will show the diamond to this girl of his. Women love diamonds. Savvy?"
"I savvy."
"Fine. Keep the Kid occupied with any phoney job you can think of and pay him 50 smackers a week, Toss in a present of some clothes, Supply him with theatre tickets and Introduce him to some good-look ing dames. Sooner or later he's going to tell us where the little old. Empress hides out. See?"
"Well," Chilo emiled broadly, "now that you mention it, Buck 1. do see. A 60-50 split, Buck eh?"
"Fifty-fifty, Chilei" Buck nodded. · "Like always.
Outside the door Chilo lighted a "Saccarelll's crazy about the Kid's cigaretta meditatively. "Like al siater."
ways Yeah p
"Young Moran?" "Young Moran. I seen them dancing. He's almost in love with of accuse him her. 1 wouldn't The car glided carefully out of being entirely in love with anyone the way of a taxicab, appearing though-except the Empress of suddenly from nowhere, and turned Peru!" into East 67th street. It settled quietly, a tour or so away from the entrance to the Moran apartment. Stove valked with Mond to the entrance. She stood for a moment and looked at him gravely,
in
"Don't worry about Bud," Stevo whispered. "I'll take a hand that. Forget it!"
He tipped her face gently up ward, his gloved fingers beneath the quaintly pointed chin. "Remember how I used to call you 'little pointy face
Mona remembered.
"Bye. See you some more. I'll call you this afternoon at the offlee. Maybe you'll let me drive you home or something.
"Maybe."
Steve returned to the car, paused, a moment lighting a cigarette and
"And there won't be until she slipped beneath the wheel. Mona, goes back!" Steve agreed firmly. watching, knew that he would wali The four young people danced at: Mona's heart leaped. Instantly until she had had time to climb the Club Morgan, exchanging part-she was ashamed of begrudging the three flights so that the creak- nera with gay, flattering banter Lottie a conquest. Certainly Lot-ing of her door and the starting of the motor car would not be simul- that made each gir feel certain tie was generous enough.
in the 50's She tried not to worry about Bud
that secretly each man would have They dropped Lottie in front of tancous. preferred her to the other. Then her apartment house they drove swiftly through the park amid effusive Interchange of ban-as she saw,.gratefully, that he was in Steve's car to the latest and ter, telephone numbers and good-usleep in his room. Sho reflected that Steve's interest in the matter smartest club in Harlem and danced | nights,
Barry left them at the Park ave- would help her a lot. again.
"More like home, eh?" Barry nuc address. He was spending the laughed over his shoulder at Steve, night at the apartment to which As a gorgeous cafe au init-dancer both young men referred as "Steve's in pink, althe, arresting figure, swung by.
They ate again---cotfeo, golden brown, with toast and scrambled exga. Suddenly Barry looked np to exclaim, "This is too late for you!" He was gazing at Mona for Lottle, apparently, did not strike him as n martyr to the nine o'clock appear ance at work. "Tell you what 11
place." Mona was sitting beside Steve now. Her own address was hardly 18 blocks away and he drove slowly.
"Stove, I'm sending these things back to-morrow."
Back at the Halcyon Club, Buck Harkins was finishing a long talk with Chile.
"Yeah. Saccarelli offered a dia- mond for sale. Diamond of the first water, Chile. Blue as steel. Bigger than the Regent of Portu- gal. Bigger than the Star of the "We'll talk that over later. South. Two hundred twenty car- honey. What you need now is aats, Chile! What a stone!"
Where'd he get it?" few hours of sleep."
"Well, later then," she answered |
"Came by it honesty-that's the
Chile stared. "Empress 7 Going in for high life is he? The son of
gun!"
Buck swaved a hand explanator- ily. "That's the name he gave the diamond, Chile. Empress of Peru. Peru ain't had no Empress, see? Well the trade ain't never had no diamond like this one. That's how I figure it."
Chile nodded. "I sec."
"Well!" Buck turned briskly.to his desic once more for a last min-
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