THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1834.
Forgotten Sweetheart ↳ MARY RAYMOND
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CHAPTER XXII
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She had slipped into her street clothes and was tucking hor curls under a white knitted hat when Jane came in.
They want you In the mana- ger's office,* Jane said, adding kindly, "I'm sure it's nothing to worry about."
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anid. "Are you planning to involve 'know how happy your telegram Jane, who had worked her way conscious of the admiring gaze of Joun looked at the night club me in a Jewel robbery 7"
"ilarday I've built my business because all the anxiety and fearer head in the door." "There's a
I guess you do know, up to a supervisory position, put one man. manager without replying. He an inexpected things. I am pre-must have fallen from you when gang of buyers waiting to see smile on the lips of the stockily It made/Pat nervous-the half went on, whimsically but with a paring to offer you a chance now Pat's letter came. It was just cause evening gowns. More speed, built max. current of seriousnean behind the because I believe we can put over like that with me. I was so happy
It was almost a dellb words. "Don't mind mo, Miss
idea I've had in mind for four cried. I have been nearly fran-
stare. He WOR Waring. I'm always jumping years. I'm taking you on as one the witit fear for three weeks but eatin Vionnet. Jessie's white chif- until every hair lay smoothly in Laureen was modelling a green dressed, his thinning hair brushed
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carefully fences instead of stopping to open of my singers and you will sing I didn't want you to know that. fon was a copy of a Chanel. Ruth place. Ile ant forward in his sent, gates. It's Just my way of setting in a musk. Other cabarets have will write Pat tonight, care of vore binck velvet and Mabel, the one hand gripping his cane, de- past a lot of preliminaries which tried the same thing, but I mean General Delivery, and beg her to ather girl, a coral crepe. Pat, al-vouring Pat with his eyes Are really unimportant. We move to do it differently," fast in this business. What I
tell me where she is staying. ready dressed, stood watching the She did not know why ahe dis- mean is that it isn't alue to be
"I am going to stay in Now others. Laureen Was grumbling, liked him so much or why she When Jonn reached the hotel she York as long as Pat does. I have "This thing fits me like the paper found his appraisal so disconcert- difficult for us to understand cach found a telegram waiting for her. a job ingang at a night club on the wall. It's back to the ing. After all, she was there to other," he concluded,
He smiled then and Jonn smiled It rend "Received long letter from Don't be shocked about it. It orange juice diet for me, or I be looked at. She sighed with re- back, People Instinctively liked with another girl. Gave no address ger isn't at all what you'd expect. orange juice!".
Pat. She has job and Ilving really is a nice place and the mann be out of a job! And how I hate lief, however, when she was back Burney Blake. His
Infectious but promised one soon.
Am writ-He looks just like any young busi-
in the dressing room. smile and boyishness won them
ing tonight. Mother."
Ruth said, "Never mind, boney. mess man and he is as nice as can They say the Mae West figure's completely.
He was shifting papers in a Joan sat down and tried over be. They say he's just a smart going to be the rage and then, you
the telegram, the burden of anx-Yankee who's made a lot of money can have desk drawer, frowning a little.lety slipping from: her with her because he manages to out-guess and French pastry you want."
all the steak dinners "Here it is. Just luck that I tears. Now she could bear lock-the crowd that comes to his club- suved it.”
"All right, Jessie," Jane said ing out of the window at the mil-always giving them aonic new or from the door. newspaper clipping and handed tons of lights. Pat was anfo. Pat different to Joan. Her eyes were caught had found work. Clever, efficient, Barney Blake is his name.
sort of entertainment. Jessie, with one slender wrist by bold, black headlines and the lovel-headed little Pat. Oh, if she the girls told me
One of crooked against, her tip in the la- picture of a masked woman.
he went to imitable manner, that was the cavy "Europeans have a flair for the could only see her tonight!""
college but didn't want to practice and despair of some of the otherd, unusual," Blake was saying. They could think of her own new job. to be a night club manager.
It was a long while before Joan Isw and somehow he turned out moved into the big room where do things beautifully that we She had been vaguely troubled at
the buyers were gathered. would be afraid to attempt. We the Ides of singing in a night club mask and I'm never to take it off fame in the coral dress, was next, "In my act I am to wear a Mabel, looking like a glowing Americans are always putting a curb on our enthusiasms because The melodramatic plan to have course in the day time I'm Just Pat when she returned, "The bos
but had pushed aside her scruples, until I return home at night. OfIt was. Mabul who whispered to we are so afraid of ridicule.".
her wear a mask changed all that. Jean Waring but at night I'll be is all a-twitter! Some of his best Jann waited, bewildered. She She could sing at the "Jigsaw" singing old was sure this was not the usual and no one would be wiser. Mask-Brings Gift of Roses," wearing from Indianapolis, Larry Brentford songs ke "Love buyers are in there-old Fosdick approach to a business arrange-ing seemed silly but it would make a lovely old-fashioned frock. And from Milwaukee and a man from ment. This young man was going the job much custer.
there's a gypsy song with a gor- Dallas. The rest are small fry all around the field instead of
Blake had terminated the inter-geous Kypsy costume. I think I who don't matter so much." jumping fences.
"When I was in Monte Carlohe $50 a week for you in it.
view little, abruptly. There'll like that best. Really the joh ini Pat, her golden curls caught several years ago," he went on,
Par-going to be fun--" "I was in one of the elaborate apa nore later on if the act goes
Bill grinned when his mother night clubs which had a large and
finished the letter. "Sounds like Jonn smiled, Fifty dollars our little Jonn sort of likes that wealthy patronage. The place was
werk AWIAM fortune! She went night club fellow. What do you packed every night principally be cause of a singer--an attractive the window and looked out at say, Mother 7
the brillant play of Bghts against woman who was always masked.the velvet background of the sky; B! Don't be foolish."
Ilia mother said, "Nonsense: People are really like children. the You must humour them in a lot of foolish notionsi
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over,"
dwarfing the stars. They seemed shining electrical display like shining pin points in a black canopy. That was illusion. Small things appearing big and vast and infinite things seeming little and unreal.
"Incidentally, the singer dis- appeared one night. At the same time an American woman missed a costly diamond necklace. Guests remembered afterward that the
aceted cheap to sing in singer had stopped
the night club" she Americans to untangle her scarf "but when I took the job I was was thinking. which had caught on chair.
The thinking of finding-Pat. Now it's police worked on the case, but only fair to go through with it. the woman was never found. She Lesides I won't leave Pat in New simply removed her mask and York. When I go home I want to escapo was simple."
take her with me."
Joan was becoming more be- wildered. "It sounds like the fie- tion, I was always encouraged to leave on the bookshelves, he
the corner of the room and wrote: Joan went to the small desk in "Darling Mother, you will never
was introduced to her work as a
The first morning when Pati model
house a girl named Jane Jolinson In the large wholesale prophesied. "You'll like wearing good clothes-and you'll get used to them."
Jane meant.
One month later Pat knew what When she slipped carelessly into an exquisite even- rosebuds on the bodice she enjoyed ing gown of white lace with pink the touch of the fragile flattering way in which the dress clung to her fruit, Pat turned the price tag was easy to learn to like beautiful: thoughtfully in her hand. Yes, it clothes.
Lael, looked young and graceful with the reses of her corsage matching colour in her soft, curved lips. Slowly ahe entered the big room, paraded before the men and women buyers, As she moved over the thick carpet, past the large, vumfortable chairs, she became
"What in the world manager want with me?" Pat asked.
Jane did not answer and Pat opened the door. Her heart was her fears. What could there be to beating nervously. Then she stifled worry about?
(To be Continued.).
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