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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER
BEACH CLUB GIRL
DEGIN RERS TODAY
BYLVIA RIVERS, Richest all in werk, fathlonsbis New York suburis, BOOTH RAEBURN. Bus to Bylele's ršnom nossly, Hoots la naked to, emulgen The Juniors,
By MABEL MCELLIOTT
and her love, it was a cruel, blow, with her bargain of the day. She'd Larchuss as a lifeguard had been a roman go over to New York and see if there tikete unough figure, Invented with all wasn't something anything sho mall- the glamour of the out-of-doors, could do. from windswept blue sen and yellow sand.
Huss as
If only she didn't meet anyone bakery-truck helper-se from home! That was the fear which Burt weeklons, Hosta Korepla the shuddered at the thought. But she plagued her most of the time. Would instructor. The ass her to marry Jim Tutad put her, hand to the plough now;
there was no turning back,
allentions of RUBS LUND, imag
Iki wants time to think it over.
When Mr. Raeburn returns from a trip ma of town Doota direnils her mother's lostḥ-
They are married and
Rust laker bla
CHAPTER XXI
*
A fow
they cut hor, thro-away-hair eyes? She put on her. Inst year's foli tweed, still smart. She had pressed it herself. (llow casy it had been in the old days to telephone the tailor! to come around!) She darned her.
gloves.
1934.
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Ing about her withdrawal from the club. Sometimes, in the dead of night, Botta goes to New York osbonlee trip she thought of her mother and her $0.35 on the train herunter Boan who guars fell thick and fast. She never
her to marry him next day, the agters. 35 taseme to spend the night with his famir, jet Russ see her cry. It made his lovce.
Fearing Boots at a hotel,
angry. He hated, he said, “squaling! On the street, her spirits lifted. women. But sually he was kind. It was so bright and blue a day: 70 ride to its brother's apartment. It is in a thoroughly unimaginative way the air had a sort
cheap and solid place and Ruan's brother To this girl who had been babled and fifted her chin and stopped along!
tonie in it. She 17 and his wife, GLOBIA, renting petted all her life the experience of with animation. She left the mean 1.30
living na a member of this householt street with its occasional pallid tree was a devastating and maturing ons behind her. Ahead, In the dazzling The old life, scen. from this vantage, clearness of the distant horizon, she As the days melted into weeks seemed now unbelievably soft and could see the city's towers and spires. Boots' realization of what she had easy. What had she done with her New York! She wasn't terrified by done, the seriousness of the step ahe time, her money? Why, oven her ollit, its vastness and indifference, be- and taken that August morning scanty allowance now seemed pro- cause she had known it all her life almost overwhelmed her. She would igni, have died rather than admit that her "We've got to get out of this place, friendly place to which one went marriage Russ had been a mis- We've simply got to," she murmured and rostaurants. Of course it WAN on happy Jaunta to theatre and shops take; but there it was. Nature, for one warm morning in late Septem- not the same now. She was one of her own purposes, had thrown a veil hor. Sho was alone in ths flnk. of glamour over this particular young Gloria had left the house
a vast army, struggling for a foot- man. Moonlit nights, scent of roses moments before on one of her as the train rushed over the bridge, hold. She stared out of the window in the hedges, the spell of physical periodical "shopping" orgies. Gloria her hands clenched in her monded nearness had blinded her to his was perfectly happy atrolling down imperfections. Now, quita suddenly, Manhattan's Fourteenth street, star- she saw him with clear eyes. He was in at the wax mannequins in the herself. "I simply must."
"I must find something," she told NEW YORK SERVICE ne physical specimen, he was sun- windows, sipping a hot chocolate and
PREMIUS dailu Ó Oct. für Boaten, New York, Philadelphin browned, he had excellent teeth and swallowing a double-decker sandwich She had the newspaper want ad
& Baltimore vio Binnila, Straits & Bure an agrecable smile. Beyond that, at a crowded soda fountain counter. column in her purse. There would beyond the lovemaking which had Lou and Gloria never managed to be the agengles first. Experience?
PACIFIC SERVICE already begun to pall a little there save a penny. The installment collec- No, she hadn't any. But weren't
IXION was simply nothing; no bond between, tor was a familiar figure at the door there some things which didn't ro- them, They spoke different lan- of the fint. But Glarin came home quire experience ? gunges.
from these expeditions triumphant in She was not the first girl to come uptown shops," a sleazy pink silk her head pleasantly but firmly. The
bar spoils velvet hat "Just like the
The woman behind the desk shook alive to this difference after marriage. vest, a pair of gloves which would woods, who said to Boots, were full But who was young and the lesson shrink hopelessly in the first washing of college girls willing to do anything. was bitter ono. Her stole accep- Bargains were Gloria's very breath of find she tried the department stores ? tance the situation spoke bureau overflowed She heard it to she celebrated her 10th birthday early frayed scams. There were half In September she was years older dozen shoddy pairs of high-heeled handle clerical work-high-class stuff, said, lowering her voice, we only or felt it-in experience and wisdom. shoes tumbling about in gray curls you understand. But Lacy's-woll When she passed young girls on the of dust on street she glanced at them curiously, closet.
the floor of her clothes "Was I renity that stupid and un-i seeing last year?" she often said to Boots told herself, setting her ins
"I can't live this way. I won't herself.
atubbornly. This was the day Russ After that Black afternoon when had gone over to Jersey to see some she had received from her parents vague man "about a job." Boots had strapped and neatly addressed trunk rather lost faith in these nebulous and a brief, cold note advising her job. After she had hung the frayed that her father did not wish to hear towel beside the cracked dislipan she You made out a long form, peppered The personnel department of Lacy's. Iram her again she had had no further aprend the morning paper out on the word from Larchneek. She seldom drainboard, open at the "help wanted by half a hundred questions, moat of went over to New York now.
them sounding quite Irrelevant. You She pages. Girl wanted. had no money to spend and Gloria.)
girl wanted filed this. A serious young women ol, there were 20 jobsin but with a deep valce talked to you about discovering that Boots had a real she was eligible for none of them. talent for hotnework, was leaving
the aims and ideals of the big store more and more for her to do in the
and you went away, buoyed up by shabby int.
A new hope. Maybe this time next week you would be behind one of those busy counters. Lace or books or chintzes. Part time at $2.99 a day.
Four days of that, Boots
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When questioned about their plans Russ usually mumbled something
vague about starting for Florida a little Inter. Boots had learned now
that the car which he had driven about
the village that summer wns
.kanse.
"Steno, college grads dep't. store." "Stone: some coll, operate slide rule."
"Switchb. opr. mult, exp."
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はむも She opened her purse, the dark blug
really his, it had been taken back kidskin envelope she lind bought so by the company because of defaulted casually last opring. It was still payments. How they were to get to smert looking but the change purso Florida she had no least idea but for was Ump; she shook out its contents, a long time she trusted in Russ to Thirty cents. The quarter Russ had keup his word, against her better given her yesterday. The nickel. she dgment and need her common had saved. Russ had been shame
faced but blustering about it. The one thing she refused to do was "Stick with me, kid, and you'll to go to her parents for help. Russ wear diamonds," he had, sald. Ho little Job" now and then. remembered hearing his father say lind "a "Once he was requisitioned as a helper that to his mother,
on a bakery wagon, working for the
Thirty cents. Five cents for sub firm Lou drove for, and Boots cheeks way fare to the city, Five cents flamed scarlet as she heard the news, back. She could have lunch at soing It serbied perfectly reasonable to all counter. Maybe the basement of the the family to Gloria, Lou, and to dime store. She'd do it. She Russ himself that he should do this wouldn't wait around till Russ came sort of work. To Boots, in her pride' home, till Gloria came dawdling In
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thought ecstatically, would be almost
$12. Sylvin Rivers paid $12 for her sports shoes, but what did that signify?.
Lacy'al She had bought things here always. Blouses, gloves, pretty tailored underthings. Now her high- est hope was to be on the other side of the counter, a sales slip in her hand.
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She pitted all her strength against the stubborn glass door which swung cutward, colliding with-a-girl-who-Agents:- was entering the store,
"Isabel!" The name tumbled out before she had time to think.
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(To Be Continued..
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