THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY FEBRUARY
Forgotten Sweetheart by MARY RAYMOND
DECIN HERE TO-DAY.
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Memphis in connection with construct.on of a od barn branch of his father's mills,
Bob speaks to Joan bat, thinking he
starting Hirtation, she zebulfe hins
actes the initiais.. W. on her travelling
case and at the stailon hears members of her
family call her "Joan." He focu tight of a burem drawer. *be le ditem.ped to find her.
her but tela friend, DUKE TURNER that Basmuss of the family's difficulties Joan HINE TAT, 18 74ar-old, has gone to work. vaild and BILL, the elder brother, works in
DENNY, brother. In an in
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escape
Joan was dressed now, looking very smart in her tweed suit with I small, dark hat hugging her cloudy hair.
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bridges and helped build them." mother's letter lind come, reveallug for her children. It was all wrong. walked along Madison. The im-
diMculties. "Atho
Mrs. Waring Mother had had so little happi-portant thing, looming larger than "Imagine!" scoffed Pat: BOH WESTON, son of lionaire, And
had writtes: "Bill and Sara have nese. Marrying father had been a bung to just toen, was find- JOAN WARING, Memphis Bir are superman!":
Aunt Maude had tolding a job. June, mistake. attracted to vach other on the train, "No more like a knight come decided to be married in
WAB The woman at the business ex- route to Memplis. Joan has left lege be riding," Joan said slowly; And fear, which means Bill must save Joan all about it when she for arcuation to Kenai her family in
saver panty Mer had been, chango listoned to. Joan's brief, ra- financial emergency, Bob is coming to then, youthfully, "Oh, Pat, I'll pennies. He is 28 now, you know,[*~..
Fund Sara is 26. And they're wait-and happy, in the little Misissip citat of accomplishments with never see him again!"
"Well, don't lose any alcoped a long time. Bill is afraid he'll pl town where she sang in the speculative look in her
choir. Father, passing then shoved an application blank over it!" Pat was out of bed now, lose her if he walts any longer. church
"r that out in the waiting hastily sorting out lingerie from He's helped so long and it's only trough the town, nud come to the in front of her.
right that he should have his church: One of the few times in happiness now. The place lan't his life, Aunt Mailde had guessed. room, please," she auid cripply. rented yet of course it will be He fell in love with mother and "And leave it with the girl at the eventually. We had to take what they were very happy for a short deck." She added slowly, "I'm we could get for the cotton because while until he began drinking going to be frank, Miss Waring. "Now," she said, "I'm going out we couldn't wait. Pat has finished again. Mother had known about think you're wasting your time PRAT-loving Pat declares her Intention
her businese course and found a father's drinking and gambling, looking for clerical work. There the to got a job."
but had thought she could reformare so many others trained for it marrying for money to
. This confidence carried her small job, typing."
and there privations and hardship of her mother's life.
are so many places him.. She asks Jown if she has most any man who through the morning, but by avon When she finished the next
No girl, now, would over think you'd fit better? Interes her. Joan, remembering the at- sractive young man on the train, answers, much of her assurance was gone. paragraph Joan had put the let
Ifer tone was firm, but friend- **Weil, ne
At lunch time als wat in the Litter aside for a moment and walked that. Girl who married such men the Tex Shop. It had been a die-to the window. Without really to-day did it because they expectedly, and there was a smile in her
to change things,“
eyen: CHAPTER II
couraging morning. Professor mooing it, she stared at the campuk,
"You'll find something. I'm They had lived in the big, old sure," she said. Pat cried, "Oh, Joan, tell me Jayne was speaking at a principals' white with snow.
Her mother had written "Ben-Waring place after father's Joan had understood what sho about him! Are we going to conference and both Professor have a wedding in our family 7" Harston and Professor Wilson ny's trouble, whatever It is, doesn't parents died. The older Warings meant when she stared down at
were attending it,
get any better. I'm afraid he had never been very cordial to the questions on the blank form: "Not if you're waiting for me?".
needs treatment. He is looking mother, but she hadn't talked "State experience, comptomster Pat, he was one of those conceited
Joan had driven downtown, very thin and the doctor advised about it. And their pictures, in machine, bookkeeping machine, men. Well, maybe not conceited parked the battered old family taking him out of school, in- massive, old frames, were still adding machine. Have you ever -just handsome and impudent car near Cossitt library and walked | definitely."
hanging in the gloomy old room boon bonded "
They went. and used to having his own way over to a business exchange,
It was then Joan decided to re- which had once been the family down the length of two pages. You know the kind."
Just as well have several irone turn home. She had packed that library, "What are you trying to tell in the fire. Any kind of work night.
Joan could scarcely remember
Joan had come to the tea room, me? Have you really met some-would be preferable to going back Things must have been hard for the time when they had not lived more expensive than some places body?"
home and reporting failure. Of mother ever to write that letter. in the old house. And she had she could have chosen, because met him on the train. That course, they wouldn't expect her She. had been doing things for only a dim recollection of the he felt weary and discouraged. ia-I didn't really meet him. We to find work Immediately. But them all their lives, sacrificing to tragic, terrible time when father it helped to see smart, prosper just talked and I ran away from how much nicer it would be to go make the two years at Miss Bar-was brought home to them, dead.ous people. Made you forget for him when I saw you all coming home with a job tucked away in rington's possible for Joan. She He had shot himself, but it was You see, he was so perfectly sure hot coat pocket-so to speak- had wanted har to meet the right not until later that mother had as you personally were concerned. he had attached me. But he was and see the anxious look leave people, And worrying through] learned about the money he had had turned topsy-turvy. really wonderful. Pati Handsome her mother's eyes, if only tempor- somehow while Joan was at Hol- taken.
She finished her sandwich and and sort of rugged, like he had arily.
brook Hall. Mother's face had ' After that the few people in hot tea and drew on her gloves. planned played football .or
big
few days before her grown old and tired, sacrificing the neighbourhood who had been People were coming In larger friendly stopped coming. Then the numbers now that the noon hour "best families were moving off had arrived. She recognized a the street and building beautiful group in one corner of the room. homes in suburban section. Now, Marion Conuer, Lillian West, Va- with the exception of the Warings. lerle Robertson. Two young men the entire block was filled with entered and took a table not far. boarding houSCA.
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moment that the world, as far
from her. The inan facing her: But her mother had managed, was Duke Turner. She had been somehow, to give them music and in his class years ago in Bruce dancing lessons and they had school. He couldn't have been kept up an appearance of com-more than 12 then.. Of course, he' fortable living on the rental from had long since forgotten. The the farm. People had forgotten other man-
about fathar after a while and No, it couldn't be! Yes, it was they had had some happy times at the audacious young man of the school.
train. He was not five feet away, his back turned to her. Joun
"I'm going to make up. to mother for everything as much as I can." Jonn thought as sho
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