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LOVE or MONEY?
pursued the doctor.
Club.
young
BY H. W. CORLEY
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TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1933.
"What's this, what's this?" ank ed the captain, appearing from the crew's quarters Ruddenly. "Why Maria, What's up!"
Lottle said, unheeding. "How did you get in here!"
The girl pointed toward the win-
dow.
.
Maria, her gold earrings jang ling, was hastily climbing the coin- Lottio nodded. "And they told panion ladder. Her long skirt us no one could do that!" was carefully held so that her bent. tifully trimmed underskirt would show.
merara,
that?"
What's
wrong with
trople chills. She pointed to the bathroom.
"Go In there and strip that off.
lend you sqme clothing."
The interloper noded. "No one could ordinarily. I climbed the CHAPTER XXXVI
"Mademoiselle, she come aboard!"rall easily, but natives could not. diving. There were three of them, Presently an agitated parade tho woman explained clad in bathing suits
angrily. The po-lice"-(she pronounced the "Are you going to marry nie or lavender, and green. Each
of scarlet, reached the jetty, headed by a tiny. "She ran away. I could not stop word quaintly-would keep them;
was half-naked, black boy. They aren't you?" asked
H-her!"
off. Pronto!" Dr.sented in a small bont with her own lected a boatsman, jumped in the Allen bese chingly.
flock of boy divern.
boat he proffered and were after tain broke into hearty laughter know," Lottie said uneasily. An
"I Celeste aboard?" The cap- "The jury is still out," Lottie an-
"But you can't stay here, you "Do you divo?" called Lottio, the xirl. She turned her head, swered. They were standing at the holding forth an American quarter, apled them and redoubled her "Her father and mother are aboard, iden occurred to her. "Hore, you'll rall in Bridgetown Harbour, look-The girl in blue looked up and efforts, splashing through the water you know. They are going to Do- take a chill." Lottle had heard of ing across the stretch of water to folded her arms.
!frantically. the shore. The deck was deserted,
"Sure," alie said scornfully, with- | As she reached the flotilla of na- Mona had gone to the Aquatic Club aut moving.
tive boats it was clear that she was It appeared there, was a great with an attractive passenger who "Two shilling, mistress! Two an alien. The natives refused to deal wrong with It. Mademoiselle had come aboard at Martinique.
"Going to the dance to-night 7illing!" one of her escorLA
ex-make way for her and, tossing aside had left her home in Martinique for plained.
her paddle, the girl rose, pained and the purpose of spending n few "Mademoiselle ees very-r-y kind!" cleft the water sharply. Abruptly months in Barbados to learn Eng. Celeste returned, shyness coming Lottie phrugged. The Miranda The doctor produced two silllings she came to the surface again and lish. "And to forget the American, suddenly upon her. She rose and was to remain until midnight and flung them toward the girl, swam toward the companion ladder. Monsieur. You recall the Ameri-walked gracefully to the bath. that passengera and crew could at-who arose and dived gracefully She extended a hand, caught the
Jean?"
Through the half-shut door she be- tend the weekly hop at the Beach from the boat. She emerged in chain and pulled herself aboard. Captain Lang recalled him, ap-gan an explanation. "My fam-ee-
"Perhaps." Her eyes ignored the and striking out for her hout with termaler and running up the ind-
ly." she told Lottie, "they breeng me noment, holding the money aloft pushing aside the perplexed quar-parently, for he nodded.
Mademoiselle had hoodwinked the from Franco to Martinique- darnest young man at her elbow swift, clent-cut strokes.
der.
household. They had hidden her and nought little hobbing speeks. "She doesn't swim as well as the
The girl stepped back in the on the water which were growing boys," remarked the doctor.
clothes that she might not board cabin cind in Lottie's underthings, the bunt, so here she was in her Lottic, motioning toward farger.
a comb bathing suit. The native boy bud and brush, rummaged in a suitcase shell and he had not liked that. been rudely shoved out of his little for a frock.
"Has Mademoiselle ever been la Lottie watched the boy guide his love?" the girl repeated. buat back to shore, richer by Gov-tot-r-ific! I have been in love cral shillings donated by the sympa- twice. Once in Par-r-is.. These thetic Maria. "I wonder what will time, with an American." happen to the girl?" she asked the doctor amusedly. "I think I'll go
For all her amusement Lottie was touched, "Does he love you? "See you at tea?" asked Dr. Allen Americans have a way of getting as she moved away from the rail. what they wish, you know, Ho
"Very likely."
may find
way to override your The bout had reached the ship
father's objections." now and the old lady in it did
As she sang the cabin door indeed "look wild." Probably she pen Lottie suddenly caught
breath Celeste, still In her was not very old. She wore the na-bathing suit was curled up in tive costume of Martinique and an- tie'n rattan chair. nounced that she was nurse for
"Diving boys" she exclaimed, Though the Miranda had been met in the same way in every port Lot- tie never tired of watching them, "There are girls too," said Dr.
Allca.
"Girls? It's the first port where I've seen women diving!"
There were girls in the boats, sure enough.
"Maybe they won't dive," aug gested the doctor. "Maybe the lads just brought them along for seen try."
The girls at the moment were not
,
Want your money back tie's voice was ingenuously curious. "Look who's here?"
"Hey, come back! No girls al Lot-lawed aboard!" he expostulated.
The girl paused to thrust a tongue at him and waved a browned a toward Lottle. Just as she gained the deck the pursuers reached car- alot and the girl ducked through the smoking room, disappearing down the stairs.
She pointed toward the ahore where a tiny boat, urged forth by small shingles held in the bands of its occupant, was leaving the quay. The tiny figure in the portious bark was another girl, her head flaunting "More power to her!" laughed a magnificent landanna of hinck Lottie. wonder what's happen- and white. The girl was driving ed? Look--the old lady looka her boat rapidly toward the Mir-wild? anda. She was a novice at handling the bark apparently, but there could be no doubt about her eagerness to reach the steamer.
"Il ces-
her Delight shone in the enger little wot face before Lottle. The girl tossed Lot-aside her comb and moved toward her hostess. "You th-cenk w-cee-l?"
Mademoiselic, who had stolen a boat | "You will not betray me?" from a native boy and climbed asked pleadingly. aboard the bont.
"You'll take a chill in that sult,"
It has besa found that children can be taught the correct method of vocalising easier with the aid of a mirror, and this is an illustration
of the theory being put into practice in an open air class at Augusta
Georgia. (Planet Nows),
ho
Neither noticed that Mona, hay ing returned from the Aquatic Club, stood in the doorway,
"I am sure of it, Celeste," said Lottie softly. Celente apparently did not hear. Her eyes were fixed on something just over Lottie's shoulder.
"Why,, what is that picture doing here?" she asked.
She rushed toward Mona's ward- robe trunk, on top of which leather folder stood containing two portralia. One was of a blond young munI. A darker man, older, looked gravely out of the other frame.
But Celeste was not looking at the darker man. The blond youth absorbed her attention.
"You have h-cem here! You know he-eem!" Celeste covered the portrait with kisses, crooning soft- }ly.
"Who Is this girl" asked Monn. her face very pale.
Celeste, unmindful, clasped the portrait to her heart. "My Barry. My Barry !"
(To Be Continued.)
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