THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1934.
Forgotten Sweetheart ↳ MARY RAYMOND
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The telephone rang and she pan to answer it breathlessly. But it was only a reporter from a morni ing newspaper asking about Fat and Barney and about their mar ,riage,
He would come
by
"A ynclit cruise!" Joan atured her voice, Mrs. Waring was aure the spirit of the occasion. "They
to un
CHAPTER XXXIII
from the vicinity of that telephone.
At nine 'clock the living room at the telephone, not seeing it people in Memphis should know don't have real food in New York More than once Joan moved to which had worn such a way, expect clearly. Altera Wade
***Thint she went what wonderful things doan had, restaurants," Stoda said. ward the table where the telephone
chulds hungry." stood. It held a strange fascina- ant air drooped 1orforniy, like a into her bearoom, closed the door done.
e really felt that a civle re-i She added, "Mis' Waring, I was tion for her. Presently the tele- Woman dexerted by her lover. and began, mersaneatly;
committee with the mayor reading the cards to-day. The first bed she pressed her face spent they to the city rent to end phone would ring and she would Joan could not bear the thought the dress.
cards tr Live hear Bob's voice saying, "Jenu, I'm stience suggested. Bob must be
be too much for against the pillow. Fighting hard, wound Boč
hor queen of clubs-that's the light- coming! sorry."
Or perhaps it would be
bended young man who was hero the against the sobs that clutched at daughter. merely "Joan, I'm
Her heart pounded at coming for. you. Be ready, will you?"
thought. Of course he would her throat, smothering them in in the Waring home there was for dinner one night." There were never any evasions come. She couldn't, doubt that he her pillow. Aiter a while, she a bustie of excited preparations. with Bob. He scorned them. He loved her, remembering the light-Have herself over to her desolation, The embroidered bedspread which Mrs. Waring smiled, but shook would not any "Joan, may I come in his eyca, remembering his crying deeply, passionately, allow had been made when Mrs. Waring's her head. Stella meant Robert over?" when he knew that she was stormy response to her whisper. In the bitter tents to come un-eyes were younger and had been Weston. Mra. Waring had not
heeded.
used only for very special occasions thought of him for a long while. walting for him,
"You found me!"
Bob was not coming. Not ever! was brought !rom tho scented Bob had passed completay from She glanced down at her writ
yacht cruise. depths of an old-fashioned cedar the picture. Joan must have.for- watch. Eight o'clock.
He was
After a while Joan made a de-He had gone on a
Perhaps at that very moment hej chest. The floor of Joan's room gotten him a long time be.ore. just finishing dinner. There might cision bravely. She would telewas dancing on a brightly lighted was given an extra shine with the "It's train time, Bonny," Mrs. be guests. She mustn't be a nerphone Bab. Too much unhappiness
alled mop and the garden was Waring called. vous, Impatient. She must hat come about through pride and ship deck with Barbara Courtney.
shorn of most of the Inte summer "I'm ready." Benny put his walt!
say conventionally. She would
1 can't bear it Two amazing things had happen-blooms. A blue vase which Juan head in the door, his unruly hair "Bob, please come.
ed in the Waring home. A long prized was filled with blossoms and smoothed down by extra brushing. if you don't."
letter had come from Joan, telling placed on the table near the win- His mother smiled at him. Sho then and they
eyes fell upon Benny, looking so would talk over everything. All all about Pat's marriage to Barney dow. A mild, sweet wind stirred was eager to ace Joan when her At last, Mrs. Waring stepped much stronger, It would make the foolish little things of which And an hour later a telegram waw rufiled curtains. estrangement had been built would delivered which read, "Arrive to-
night. Meet me. Love. ·Joan.”* back, surveying the bedroom. "It Joan so happy to see Benny walk- Jonn heard her voice, hard with topple like a house of carda.
Mr. Waring was ready to ne looks sweet enough for anybody."ing toward her with his shoulders She found the number and dialed cept Joan's explanation about the she decided, satisfied. disappointment answering. "But
back, his face tanned from being there aren't any more facts. It's it. Somewhere in that big home romantic triangle. Jonn had writ
Downstairs she found Stella, out of doors. all been in the papers already."the ring of
They found Bill and Sara at the n telephone was shatter-
ten sketchily, briefly about her busy at cake-making, parspiration She was trembling when she puting, the stillness. A voico anawer- down the telephone.
ed and she heard her own voice own romance with Barney. The standing out on her good-natured, station, waiting for them. "You'll whole affair had lacked reality and brown face. A spicy aroma was never guess who just passed by," speaking, Then. "Mr. „Robert definiteness. Now all that was in the air.
Sara sald. "Dick Thornton and Weston has left New York."
changed. Mrs. Waring was glad to Stella, #1 Bitto awed by Mrs. his bride! They were married A dreadful pause. "How long think of her little Pat safely. Waring's tales of Joan's triumphs. this afternoon and are leaving on will he be away?"
"I couldn't say, miss. He has happily married! Pat had "done had undertaken to show the full two weeks' honeymoon,
"Dick married!" Mrs. Waring well," wonderfully well according to extent of her culinary talent in gone on a yacht cruise."
exclaimed. Joan's descriptions. Barney Blake honour of "Miss Joun." was a successful young business Stella had done the marketing "Yes, I told him Joan was com. man, attractive and well-educated. and the chicken Mrs. Waring hiding in on the New York train and Mr. Waring's eyes were suf-spoken of had miraculously become he said to give her his regards. fused with tenderness and pride, turkey, There were to be
five The girl he married is a cute little But what about Joan? Jonn was vegetables, a salad. homemade leething but really not in Joan's coming home after making such aeream, and as a final triumph-class"
Pat had huge white cake.
Mrs. Waring success with her singing.
was silent. Dick written all about that. Pat had As Stella enunjerated all this Thornton had been so constant, so said that Joan was a sensation, Mrs. Waring gasped. But she was devoted to Joan for years
(Continued on Page 10,1 that everyone was talking about pleased to have Stella enter Into;
At 8,30 Mr. Blake suggested that they go out to a movie. She spoke casually, as though happt. new wore not trembling in the balance for Joan. All the king'a horses could not have moved Joan
Some-
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