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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1934.
BEACH CLUB GIRL
BEGIN WERE TO-DAY HTLVIA RIVERS roles the younger anti of Larchneck, fashionable New York suburb She like BOOTH RAEBURN we family line alle uney.
CTe night at the Yacht Club Death be put
la an embarrassing situation by HARDY WHITMORE, the of Sylvia's guests, who had been drinking. Sylvių mažtekousty can Feires le furce Hosts' resikonilon from the Suntur. Humiliated, Roots withdraws fros the crowd, Khe goes
By MABEL MCELLIOTT
want to begin to live. It's terrible young and bottled, up. What shall I do?“
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thing we could dig up for you. Library work... a book shop.
"Olt, if you could!" she told him, Ah, abe knew what he would say, passionately. She got to her feet. what any inteligent, dispassionate 1 most be getting back," she told person would any-Wait-carve out his with a nervous laught. "It's past sme sort of career for yourself seven. They'll think I've been kid- be brave, patient. Life won't powk; noped." yon pl
"I'll call you," he told her, erect abet with RUNK It was easy to say that-ensy to beside her. "I'll let you know. LUND, the awning Instructor. Bu falis counsel patience, courage, Moon Something may turn up... In love with her and announces, he's going while Russ waited, with his dogged | She didn't dare to say to him: Away. He here these for chape will like and look if devotion, his calm, dattering if I don't run away and marry with
Stre, Rachurn returns from a visit and need of her, Buote felt what every in a week I'll take you up on that. Houts dreads having her mother hear about girl blossoming into rosy womanhood But her sin fingers lost themselves her resignations from the eigh. Out for An feclu-the urgent need of being want- in his big clasp and the amlie that early morning walk, knit sets DENIS cd. Ignorant of the forces working she gave him was conipounded of
why man for ilme tu tilak it over.
PENWAY, young auther.
CHAPTER XV
Bouts swallowed hard. Denis Fen. way, in old gray flannels with a bluck. thorn stick in his hand, stund gazing nt her, frankly embarrassed, frankly at a loss. Boots was the more com posed. She crumpled the damp ball
within her, she was conscious only of a great desire to do things, to be all that was lovely and desirable, adequate in any situation, however difficult.
She could, the thought, have been longer woman, gallant in danger, resourceful in dimeuitics. Why, her great grandmother, at her age,
many things-gratitude, the dawn of liking, hopefulness,
Denis Fenway stood looking after her before resuming his walk.
"Pretty little thing," he said to himself. striking at the rocks with his stick. "Wonder what she's wor-
about. Some fool kid ried other wondered why the thought
had been married for two years-- Ile
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handkerchief in her had bad a child! As it was, every vaguely annoyed him. Why shouldn't
that had been band and smiled wanly at him.
"Don't pay any attention to me," abe and quickly and lightly. "I've got the early morning luck. One of my Irish ancestors is stalking me to-day. We all like a good cry, you know,
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one treated her like a chill. still. this golden-haired child with the on- She was told to run away and play ormous eyes and the sweet husky when she spoke of anything more
volee be interested in ono of the cubs "I'm going home next serious than a sorority tea. It was roundabout? humiliating, anddening. Russ would week, it's none of my affair," he told free her from that sort of thing. All himself hardly. He would be in this raced through le mind as she Carmel this time next week, deep at. down beside her, stretching his long Fenway renehing for a cigarette in the of his beach house there. He would NEW YORK SERVICE
pocket of his Bonnel cont. watched the lean brown hand of Denis work in the big raftered living room
Surprisingly, the young man sat legs out on the cobwebbed gra starred and spangled with globules of dew.
He looked up at her, a keen, obser- vant glanco. "Don't want to tell me,
"Cry away," he said briefly. have in good shoulder."
Boots put her bandkerchief resuch?" lutely away in the pocket of her white woolly sweater and smiled again.
"Oh, the shower's wer," she told him. "It was nothing,"
If this handstine, Indolent young man thought she was going to tell hin her troubles he was vastly min-1 taken. Probably he would try to use her for what did writers call it 7-
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He was going to be disappoint If that was his aim
She threw him a side glance. How hluck, how absurdly long and sweep- ing his ashes were, over eyes of darkest bluel And how extraordin- arily tall he was. If he weren't so
bviously self-satisfied and conceited! phe might have liked him a little. Ait was she put on her usual mask
casual interest.
to
all about Boots have forgotten Raeburn and the way her velvety dark eyes looked, spangled with fresh; tears.
He told himself his interest in her "No," she stammered, all confusion, was purely aendemfe. When he went "I don't think so." She looked to town for lunch he would ask Abbot away, struck by some flash of insight Fairman if there were any openings n bright In his offlee the seemed in those narrow dark blue eyes.
"How-how old are you?" she child. She had a pleasant person. blurted out suddenly, scarcely realiz-ality lag what she said.
Russ Lund watched him from a "I'm 27." he told her gravely, ledge of rock. binck hatred in his "Why?"
"I just wondered." Just a few years older than Russ, she was musing, "You've done a lot, been successful, haven't you?"
Ite shrugged, modestly disclaiming thin view. "I've been lucky. I finish el college earlier than most people. I hnd-brenks. A first novel at 24. It happened to sell. I met the right crowd in New York, my stuff began 10 да well."
Boots cupped her chin in her hands, thought you'd gone back Her heart-shaped face, framed in its iler very serious. California," she said by way of mak-gilt hale, was ing conversation.
flecked with brown eyes, faintly amber, stored straight past him.
We drow a pattern on the wet earth with the stick. "Presently." he drawled.
Boots flushed. If he thought she was interested-if he only remotely know how unimportant his comings and goings were to her!. She began to scramble to her feet, feeling she liated this hand-oine, well-drenrod young man who was so definitely certain of himself and his place in the world.
He put out a lean brown hand to detain her. Even through her an- noyance she was conscious of the strength of those warm brown fingers with their well-cared-for nails, their look of leashed power.
"Ah, don't go," he said, on a note of penitence. There I was, thinking you'd talk to me for a minute. You're forever on the wing!"
"Am I?" Boots wanted to know, arrested by this-view of her.-
"Yes. You're always scrambling in or nut of a car or rushing to swim or something," he complained in his agreeable deep volee. "I stopped by 1 ask you to come and have ter with me the other day. You were out the bench or someplace, the coloured woman maid."
Linda had never told her. Not that it mattered.
So he had "stopped by," had he?
"Do you honestly think that breaky t pre what count?" she demanded, i "Do you think life is mapped out for¦ us or that we make our own de cision ?".
Age-ok question, age-old problem! The young man, thus gravely chini- lenged, gave her a fleeting glance.
"I don't honestly know," he said. "I think luck has a lot to do with F. You meet me this morning, we have a talk-maybe the whole course of your life is changed. If you hadn't waked early perhaps would be different"
everything
"Ah, but we haven't said anything that matters, really," Boots offered shyly. "I haven't asked advice. You haven't gives any. So what?"
He shrugged his shoulders.
"I meant if you had asked met Then I should have told you precisely what I thought, pulling on my old gray beard, and you would have gone home strengthened, conforted...." His eyes and the girest of a twinkle in them.
"You're laughing at me," enid, alfronted.
"Oh. but I'm not. Honestly?"
Beols
A silence fell between them. The blue waters Inpped the shore. Far out gulls wheeled and swooped. On the deck of a trig little launch, riding at anchor just beyond the point. a sailor in blue jeans appeared holsting a flag. It was very quiet and peace- ful. Life and its troublen seemed for away.
heart.
What had Boots been talking about And for so long to that writer bird? why had she come out to meet him? (To Be Continued.)
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Suddenly Boots. warmed by his friendliness, his obvious desire to please, was conscious of a desire to confide in him. He was the perfect confidant,
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No, she couldn't do that. She demanded abruptly. "I'm ignorant. daren't tell him or anyone Stated I haven't any training. But I'm baldly, it sounded too fantastle,
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