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BEACH CLUB GIRL
BEGIN HERE TO-DAY
BOOTH RAEBURN, 18 and pretty, tries nat the raline if the other members of her crowd at Larchineck, fashionable New York suburb SYLVIA RIVER, richest girl town, like Houts and fail party at the Yathi Club. inst mute Invitaton from
to nuk her to s lots acrepis
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quite nocently, Hoola is thrown into an emberreine, aituation by HARDY WHIT. MOE une of fylvis's guests, who had been drinking. He tries to induce Boots Mo salling with him and when she runs away. Kons of in a boat lobe and falls overboari. Je prazue causes considerable excitement and Rylvia is furious, the maliciously repeats the w MRS, FEINELL, who miks Boota to ign from the Juniors.
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CHAPTER Y
Sylvin flicked the ash from her cigarette. The hand holding it trem bled a little. Sylvin wore a huge uzorak on her third finger; against the sunburned skin. It burned like an evil CyT.
"I don't know what you're talking alon," she said inngruidly. Innbel face her squarely. The crisp red curls an Isabel's snini! head fairly crackled,
"I think you do," Isabel Maid sturdily, "Mrs. Fernéll saw you that day. She sent for Boots. And now Boots in qut," she finished, sprend. ing her smali lagers apart in an expressive gesture.
"And so what does that make me?" Sylvia wanted to know, with inso- fence,
You know as well as I do, Sylvin Rivers, ani. Isabel hotly, that Boots Raeburn hadn't a thing in the world to do with Hardy's Leing tight that night. He'd had a lot before he arrived at your table. He had some, mure ther
By MABEL MCELLIOTT
"We simply must patch the whole thing up." Isaboi insisted.
"Am I denying that?" Sylvia in- sinoke, quired, squinting through Emiling ever se faintly. "No, my,
"Really!" she raid, disporing of suburban interior. Boots ked to go dear, your little girl friend's ble mis- Boots and cousin Marion all in one there. take was in going but on the last breath. with him-getting herself talked
"And I think Hardy is terribly alnut. I, sald Sylvin coldly and atolly, "hat nothing to do with that interested in her if you ask me
"She didn't go with him and you intet flared, annoyed at the others
the air. "Why wouldn't he be
"Well, that's perfectly sweet
kh It. They went porch."
out
on
"Hello, there." Francen put down the story she had been reading and beckoned to her. I hear you're housekeeper. Come and have lunch with us to-day. We'd love it."
Boots perched on the arm of the uffattered wicker armchair. "I'd attore
"And after that," Sylvia finished you, dear," murmured Sylvia with to. Sure you want me?"
the tolerant air of one humouring a There was something challenging
with a laugh that was like the flick lunatic. So Isabel went away, wound-about her tone and France George of a a whip, after that she remented and puzzled and worried. If Boots elevated
no
Inquiring eyebrow.
red nothing. Oh, I know that gag had gone to the Barn with Hardy, What d'you mean? Of course, we
I've heard it before."
Isabel sprang to her feet, flushing on the heels of being asked to resign
the Juniors, that from
legity
"You're perfectly hateful. Hardy adults Boots, wouldn't go with him the boat. He grabbed her and she got away
"And she didn't turn up at the party again that night," interrupted know. I know." She Sylvia. "I enst up her eyes in assumed inno
LENCE.
"If you let Boots suffer for thin you and I are through as friends," She knew when she wIH
Isabel said.
"I don't believe it." Isabel know what Mrs. Raeburn thought about the Bare. Not that anything shocking and ever happened there-only, well, the nicest girls in Larchneck didn't go there, usually,
was the
Bouts shrugged her pretty shoul rupreme gesture of detinnes. All the dors. The aid indies are after my Juniors knew Mrx, Fernell's attitude scalp. I'm no longer a member of on the subject of the Barn. It was the Larchneck Juniors." all right, of course, for John Pernell, 2 and dissipated, to go there: ut the girls under Mrs. Fornell's leader ship in the Juniors understood the inelt ban on the place.
Bouts attitude, when isabel saw her, puzzied her father. This was
"Oh, that!" Frances laughed cheer- fully "Well, I don't see how you stand it as long as you did. You'll he dead long enough."
"You don't
Boots understand," went on with a sort of gay defiance. "I was asked to resign."
Bunts smiled a furaway smile and later. Chow at one."
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The young woman in the blue print frock frowned. "What do you sup n tew Boots, cool, unigmatic, un- pose I care? she domanded. "Tell benten. There was no ne trying to touchable. It was funny, resigning me about it if you want to, but le from the club, wasn't it? she wanted] doesn't matter in the lenst." She appen to Sylvin.
"Dear, dear, how melodramatic the to know. Silly outfit, anyway. She rose from her chair at a shriek from
Sylvia elitd is murmured
softly had never liked it. Everybody was one of the small red-suited figures. "Come around some day when these stuffy...
The boy-child was belabouring the weather isn't No
"But next year's dances," Isabel | girl-child with a shovel. hot and perhaps you'll feel differently." She dropped turgan, appalled. "Why slapis "Imust rescue Gwen frum...the her ate of studied insolence and now must patch the whole thing up! It's Fiend," she said casually, to the utter spoke almost comingly to the other all so stupid. You want to go to the scandal of two Indies nearby, gossip- girl Snap out of it, Ianbel. Thanksgiving dance, don't you?" ing over their needlepoint. "See you haven't a thing to do with this affair. If Boots has been inlisertet that's aid she hadn't the faintest iton Boots went toward the bathhouses her business. Why, I'd be glad to where she would be by Thanksgiving. with her head held high. It gave
Agenta: lift to have the matter of her talk to Mrs. Fernell about it-ank Isabel, repulsed by the other girl's hur her to give Buots another chunee" coldness and disinterest, refrained disgrace taken so casually. Maybe
from saying anything out Sylvia, she wasn't outside the pale complete "You would? Honestly?" "Yes, only that only that Boots the Barn, or any of the other topiesty, after ait.
But us she passed a group of young went to the Barn last night with her mind had been, churning about.
her if she had known that, on her de-people at the showers several heads Hardy, and John Fernell saw there. It's all." finished Sylvin in a parture, Boots flung herself down on were turned aside casually. Judith tene of gentle regret, "all over town the living room couch and burst into Devlin, whom she had known rather frantic weeping she would have re well at school, looked straight through this morning."
turned quickly. As it was, they-looked beyond her.
"Come along," Judith said to some parted awith a distinct sense of re serve, almost unfriendliness. Bouts, unseen companion in her clear, plen- She gnored Boots.com- conscious of having been in errorant voice. when she had gone to the Barn with pletely.
Isabel, Hardy, wounded in her pride.
The girl went on to her cubicle, hurt to the quick, stung by her friend's her heart beating fast, her blood unresponsiveness and withdrawal. racing. So it was to be war to the
"I don't know what's getting into Knife, was it 7 She would "Well, my dear, ask her yourself." me these days," Hoots murmured at them how much-how little she cared!
(To Be Continued. Sylvia's manner was a judicious com-lust, struggling to a sitting position pound of sympathy and boredom. and mopping her streaming eyes. "1 "Even nowadays," whe went
on look n perfect fright. What if any. jodicially, "a girl has to be fairly one should come to the door!"
She inthed reddenexi eyes und Oh, 1 know, careful what she does. any dear, we all pet and smoke and straightened her tumbled locks. take a drink if the tubbies aren't could Isabel understand that looking but the Barn! Well, even adventure last night bad been I draw the line at that," said Sylvia gesture of deflance, directed at her virtuously, amitting to add that she enemies. Why, the 'Barn had been a had been there two or three times hurrit bore. Couples revolving slow- during the winter when fur collars ly in a smoke-laden room. Indiffer-1
It la learned in official circles that were rather in the nature of disent food, sandwiches with dry bread guises and when the Larchneck set and rancid meat. Hardy, bringing the Reds, who recently Invaded But a finsk, and running entirely true Southern Ilusan, have slipped into idn't go there much, anyhow.
"I admire you for your loyalty to form as the wild young man out Kweichow Province, apparently for
Boots had Sylvia said with suspicious sweet for n night's gaiety. ness and gentleness. Nobody knows hated all of it and had drawn a long the purpose of avoldhig pressure better than I what a true friend you breath of relief when at last she had from the combined Kwangtung and are. But, bellers rac, you're wasting been set down in her own driveway, Kwangal armies.
The Kwangsi military authorities your time on Boots. She is evidently But to-day everything was determined to be declansee. Some horrid alii. Instead of pouring out have ordered two divisions of girls are like that. You can't do the torrent of sympathy and Indignant Iwangsi troops, now stationed an Anything with them." She ground championship she had expected, Isabel the Kwangsi-Hunan border, her cigarette out in the huge pewter had come around with a stiff, wor move into Kweichow immediately ried air to ask if she didn't mind in order to assist the Kweichow tray,
don't believe it," Isabel sald. being left out of the autumn parties Government to suppress the Com-
Bouta made beds and washed dishes "Wo grow up together. Until they lost their money about five years ago with apathy. How different the munists--Central News Agency. Hoots was anked to everything. Her house looked with other away! family has lived here longer than Nothing seemed to go right. Even the window shades were at crazy anyone else's."
show
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HUNAN REDS CROSS TO KWEICHOW
Canton, Sept. 20.
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"Sylvin allowed herself to look pro-angles and no matter how she twitch SUMMER CONSTIPATION.
foundly bored. "I know," she offered ed at thom they didn't seem to lightly. "But where doos all that get respond. Oh, she would get out. of 187 There's no use kidding your here, go over to the club and swim less suif, Izzy darling. Boots has chosen and forgot her troubles.
a different line. She's probably de-
.
Luasitudo, debility, sick headache, of appetite, farrel tongue, mental depression, any of these troubles can arise from constipation, one of the commonest allments whichi
cided who's got to do something
Sho went along swiftly, swinging beset men and women. Thy host and spectacular to get notice nowadays. Not that I think Hardy would over her bathing bag, humming a tune surest remedy is Pinketter, the well- inko hor seriously. He's just amusing with an air of casualness she was known laxative. bimself."
far from feeling.. On the veranda, A vegetable compound containing | "Doots in beautiful enough for any a magazine in her lap, her eyes on nothing injurious, these little pilates rld way. They are non- man to take seriously," Isabel said, two small figures in the sand, not act in with heat. My cousin Marion-you young Mrs. Perry George, one of the jerine, and non-habit-forming Im know, the artist-Bald when she was ashurage neighbours. Boots liked mediately. you feel off-colour take here last year that Boots, has rue and admired the tall young woman w. or thrre. Pinkettes nt night classic beauty. Marion raved about with the fresh colour and the friendly before var o to pleant you will wake 9. Frances Georga hud boer nu te bright and cheerful in the morn Sylvin contented herself by moraly editor's insistant Durore interer ALTENSCHUSETT Kfting her finely arched brows over marriage. Iler house was a delicious Thor too-prominent, too-closely spaced tumble of books and magazines and usuat flowers, rather unlike the blue eyes
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