THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MAY 1, 1933.
LOVE or MONEY?
'ARGIN HERE TO-DAY
MONA MORAN, receptorchst In
BY H. W. CORLEY
benpoko years of tradition, years of employee. In her 25 years of ser- culture and caro, Monn could ple- vies Mrs. Faxon had been govor tura the small Barry straggling nose, secretary and now "hostess" about that lawn in white rompers, was probably the word to express awimming in the pool or jogging her position. As Stove put it inter along the country roadside on his she ran the place" even when his
uncle was there. pony.
thought
comic
She thought of him returning
Barry introduced them, standing here from school bringing his friends. At the time she and with his arm about Mrs. Fuxon's a charming Steve had been swinging along shoulders. She was frown Third avenue on the backs of ico woman, somewhat over 50, with Lottle was pulling out too. Her road ahead, a speculative
wagons, and being shooed from soft white hair and a face far wan omployer had raised her salary touching kls forehead.
"This is glorious!" Luttle call the neighbour's steps with their younger than her, yearn. Lottie, refrained Street law office, le aurprised when her child three times in the face of offers
tops and jackstones, Barry had been with great restraint, food retinart, STEVE BACCARELLI from competitors. And Mona was fed to them.
Hving In this beautiful place. from mentioning the rather oh- torns to New York after the years determined to pull away from Suddenly they reached a rider,
"Barry should appreciate his Ivious resemblance Mrs. Faxon bore sterlen stence, Moza contributes largely
overlooking one of many broad,
Lottie declared. Kood fortune!"
to a motion picture duchess, to the support of her mother, invalid father, Third avenue povorty.
no'er-do-well brother, inter, KITTY, and
shallow valloys on the highway, The fortunate young man met; She grooted the girls charming- A lacework of bare tres attempted them just within the gate, emerg-ly. "You would have to hide the village beyond, Its few ing from the shrubbery as the car Barry had never had guests be- spires pricking into the sunshine whirlod inside. Steve jammed ou fore," she and. "I WAR afraid
ke gleaming bayonets.
the brakes swiftly. Barry was he'd walk half way to White Plains Further still, near the broad reheaded, a dog nosing at his to meet you if you didn't summit at the north, was an estate. heels. He was dressed in heavy anon On a terraced hill, above lawns boots, riding breeches and a swea- and shrubberies, there towered ter that was not now. huge house. A copy of a Franch "It's great to see you!" he ex- chateau of the last century.
A claimed, springing on the running was away but that they would golf course had been laid out be-board and pushing the dog aside try to do the honours in his absence. Mona caught the solemn wink Bar- yond the buildings. The terraced with one largo brown hand. walls dropped to a stream below Drive on Steve. We'll have an-ry cast in Steve's direction, and where in summor ducks, swans and
other breakfast. If you can stand smiled.
"The boy has every replace in coffee. Then peacocks would sun themselves.
I've only had St. "That's Twilanda," Steve nu-
The we'll take a tramp or something." the house blazing high Mrs.
crossed the gravet Faxon Hald, leading the the house.
atretch and halted under the porta through the panelled half to
Here a cosy fire was the living room. cochere where Mrs. Fuxon, Townsend's housekeeper, met them, burning. There was a plane, com-
(Continued on Page 10.) smiling. The girls understood at fortable chairs, tables, reading once that she was more than an
eing engagements. Mong's brother. Hud,
It had been Lottle who had found love he been in South America where, the blue aport dress Mona wore to. largely by ck see, he has berase calent day, "Get it," she advised. "It's with BARRY TOWNSEND, rich and socially suminent, who owns a diamond mine. To bargain and a real buy!" ether they have made the mine, believed
Mona had bought it. Girls in worthless, pay handsomely. Store owna Mrge diamond called The Empress of Peru." the stratum of society to which she BOTTIE CARI, fashion model, folna konspired bought their sport suits by Barry and Bhere on atzera dinner and in the dozen. For Mona it took under obligations So BUCK HARKINA, nicht scheming and saving to buy one. stab proprietor and gangster, who plot ta "But there isn't a debutante Steve suspects this. One night when Mans who'd look as much a queen in that shit bottle am Bev's Nesta, il telephones outit as you do," Lottie had said thak his mother is 19. He comes to take Mons home. Later he returns and is forcet warmly. to confess to meant to steal the diamond. Knowing the gangsters may will the boy fur his fallure, Aleve decides to send him South America to work at the mine. The drive to Boston where Bud berda
n boat. Store explains this to Mone next day, warning her she must tell no one.
alon the hose diamond.
At 65th street Steve halted the fear to wall for Lottie. Twenty minutes passed before she appear- ed. Then indeed she was a vision,
dressed in maroon to set off Mona's
Mo Beveral days Jater fiarry invites
hible. Bunky Lotte at liters to penil uncle's palatial country home. Monn is fall.. ing in love with Barry.
CHAPTER XVII
The air was sharp and glowing. Nestling at Steve'n side, warm m her woollen sport auit, Mona con- aldered the world about her.
"I suppose I draw the rumble soat!" Lottie exclaimed. "All right" (waving a hand toward Monn), "I wouldn't rob you for the world"
nounced briefly, nodding toward
before,
here "You've been Steve?" Mona asked.
"Several times." "Why it's like the movies erowed Lattic, in ecstacy. "I've al Steve started the car again and ways wanted to go inside one of they plunged into the park. Past these big houses where you have the mall, the pond, out again into to send out a searching party to
On either aide in the Fifth ave-110th street and finally, leaving the locate guests atraying from the nue traffle wore other expensive mo-city behind, on to Westchester. room without a guide. I've always tor cara. The women in those enra Roads dipped and swayed toward wanted to semaphore a person sit- were dressed beautifully. The them. They drove through wood-ting opposite me at dinner-1"
"It's a fine old place," Steve in- men looked confident, distinguished plots, through brown fields.
ed. No suggestion of poverty or Hare and there they ducked into terrupted. hardship here. Nothing of the life villages, were delayed by strax- Monn herself had known.
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gling, dressed-up Sunday crowds. Indeed it was a fine old place. Steve had pulled out of that life, Steve drove with his eyes on the Twilands, even from
Competitors lined up with their machines before the Start of the
London Ladies Motor Cycle trial run over the Kent and Surrey hills from Croydon. (Planet News),
a distance,
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