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CHAPTER XXIV.
By MABEL McELLIOTT. .
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till was swallowed up forever in the to 10 minutes past 10. Stupid, be Mary had sald to Boots, "The enormous maw of Lacy's change aya-fogged with sleep, she struggled to
tem.
her feet in response to a loud knock- worst they can do is to take it out
In spite of a heavy heart and a ing at the door. of your pay, quite as if $10 weren't sense of impending disaster loots "Oh, yes, Mr. Mooney," she said. A small fortune when you worked at discovered she was hungry. There "Coming." Lucy's and were paid $18 a week as a bakery shop on lower Sixth "It's a telegram, Miss Raeburn,
The landindy, broad, comfort Ah, but was that the worst of 1
ayune not far from Mrs. Mooney's dear." really? Might not the management where she could have a hot, filling ably untidy, stood in the aperture. sect her of dishonesty, suspect her meal for 40 cents. A slab of pot "I didn't hear you come in so I didn't
with that of having done away particular $19 bilt? Boets, walking URL with red cabbage cooked Ger- know you were home or not. I just
minn style. A crisp poppy-seed voli. thought I'd ave. Ain't you feelin' s to the soda fountain un leaden fert. A cup of steaming coffee with cream, woll? You look feverish." had visions of an ignominious search, The tables were bare white slaba " "I do feel a littlellte hot," she Of course they would not find the The scarred linoleum floor was chip- agreed, swallowing hard. Her throat Oh, well, that wan beenuse money, simply because she hadn't ped by the phanage of many feet hurt. stolen lt. But she felt that she would The air was steamy with the odour of she'd slept so hard without any air
the woollen clothing, in cooking and wet
room, Naturally she felt nover be quite the same again after
No, she would feel Boots was too utterly weary Lo enre groggy. She felt Mrs. Mooney's ruch an ordeal. definitely amirched.
to-night. Her natural fastidiousness; bright, curious but not unfriendly There was no use trying to cat was submerged in a deep sense of stare upon her. Somehow she swallowed the scalding, fatigue and discouragement.
"I guess I'll take an aspirin," she bitter tea with the horrid little musin
maid, her hand on the knob. bag floating around in the thick cup.
When she had finished the warm, thank you so much, Mrs. Mooney," Somewhere, the thought drearily, at
the Perhaps this was the end this very moinent girls her own age satisfying meal sire found she was were sitting in softly lighted and for hintothecario y me nightmare, for her. Rusa wiring to LONDON SERVICE
Kay, "Here's a check, darling. Come scented restaurants, sipping a bever-self forth into the rain again. Ah,
i: woul heaven, she told herself by the next train." She could go to. uge totally unlike this. Thero would dianly to fall asleep then and there... Incy's in the morning, straighten out bi faint music pinying behind a screen of greenery and waiters would be not to wake again for hours. But the affair of the lost money, leave slipping back and forth deferentially of course that was madness. She for Florida and her husband on the
must get home, strip off these Wetmorrow with aliver dishes.
Boaking Meantime the revolving door of the draggled clothes, dry her stda-fountain swung inward with
Mr. Mooney's flat was reached by monotonous regularity and a mindden-
means of two long flights of staire. log whooth-whoosh. Everyone who came in, borne on the wings of the The carpets smelled of dust; the old, raw November wind, looked cold, darkly painted balustrade. must once looked shabby. A fast mounting have been part of a house with rome puddle of water formed under the pretensions to elegance.
Bouts had her key all ready to fit ledge of the counter where umbrellas
Into the lock but as she bent to And dripped and a discouraging, appetite, in the half-light cast by the dim destroying adour of stale dishwater hovered over all. Oh, it was so use, bulb, the door swung open and it was simply no use trying to buck young rann brushed post her with a She did not tile game, the girl thought in utter muttered "Bug pardon. despair, lu the mirror beyond the even glance up at him, so sunk was concoction of "chocolate milks" she she in her apathy. All in the world how of cold storage eggs used in the she wanted at that moment was to concoction of "chocolate milks" she seek the soluce of her tiny room, shut could see her own pole countenance. the door on the world outside. The tip of her small nose was ever sa slightly reddened. Her hat which
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But the sheet Buttered from her She sank lax fingers as she read. to her knees beside the bed.
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(To Be Continued.)
THE BOOKSHELF
"A MANCHU MONARCH" In "A Manchu Monarch: An Interpretation of Chia Ch'ing.", pubished by George Allen
and
The apartment was part of a made ver brownstone front. in the front Unwin, London, at 78. Cd., A. E. hich of the house, looking over the street. Grantham gives an engrossing had been last season a dashing enough Mrs. Mooney had her own quarter study of the Emperor of China to "sports model" brown felt wilted by the rain. The brim drooped a bed-sitting room and a kitchenette.
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She swallowed the last of the bitter A narrow corridor Bisected the length whom Lord Amherst, the head of
narrow doors opened off either side. fused to kowtow. her stool, giving place to a pale, thin. Boots' room was one of those on the tiens and idiosyncrasies of this spectacled girl who had been im. left It was tiny, not more than old-time ruler, the great-great patiently waiting for her to do just that thing. The counter by exilet right fee square. There was a for- grandfather of Emperor Kang Teh horn brass bed and a bureau which had of Manchukuo, are brought into #Another ham with the special....." Bouts drifted out into the rain again. ner been painted Ivory but whose relief in this work, which is based former costs of paint--some green. That afternoon was torture. Mrom faintly lemon coloured--now on documentary evidence of con- howed through in patches. A knol temporary memoirs and the affi- elal Court anuals, to which the Bliss questioned her again. She was
was missing. sure she had put the bill in the con Upon this hed Repts now collapsed, author adds a personal knowledge Lainer? Well, they would check up kicking off her sodden shoes with the of the old Imperial painees, gain- on the day's recripts, Of course she rubbers still clinging to them. Sheed as the result of a thirteen-year Is of quite understood that if they had apdashed through so many puddles stay in China. The book the did not turn up she would be held that the rulibers had been sorry pro interest not only because
Boots nodded mutely. responsible 7
tretors,
Later, she told herself, light it throws on Chia Ch'ing's She was at the stage now where single klad word would have brought when she was rosted she would get life and policies, but also by rea- upon a spell of bitter weeping. Por! up. stuff paper into those farlom son of the admirable study of the
tle oxfords and make certain of
Her period of his reign. funately she was no busy she did not their being dry by to-morrow. have time for this luxury. Ten only other pair, patent opera pumps, on the ill-starred Amherst Mis- dollars-why, that would wipe out
all her snill margin of savings and were at the shoemaker's and he closed take two other precious dollars out shop at N,
f her week's pay besides!
1. once.
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y?" Boots eyes lighted pillow. It was hard and unyielding ruler, he yet had the courage and so slightly of the strength to make himself sufli. with the first hope she had felt all and it smelled ever day, Perhaps her disgrace was not some nerid disinfectant. Boots shrank clently disagreeable to ensure from it. After a moment she stag- obedience to his commands. That, au deep after all.
"No kidding. I was only here agered to her feet. Belter hang this among men prone to slip into dis- week. ke to died," Miss Apfel cost up. Better get off her
working. assured her, reddening her lips. "It frock-it was the only one she had intregating Inxity, was in itself was only five. But it sure looked suitable for work at Lacy's, the pre- worth a great deal. In addition, like fortune to me." She sighed scribed black with white collar. It many of his decrees possess a full-
of that clear-sighted heavily at the memory.
was damp and wrinkled now. She measure
and press common неляз combined with "I don't understand it. Boots anid, would have to get up early on the edge of tears. "I put it right it. Her coat on a hanger, her hat on scrupulous attention to detail in and slammed it shut. Then we an improvised form of tissue paper, characteristle of the early Man- waited and waited.
she wrapped herself in her warm chua. Allowing for the imperfec- "This darn change system is years dressing gown and flung herself betions of a world far removed from lehind the times, that's what," Miss Iween the blankets. She was chilled Apfel stated firmly, adjusting a nose through. It seemed to her she would Paradise, and discounting the painful process of his apprentice. veil. "Just don't you worry. Maybe never be warm again, for hours. ship, his reign had finally matured I'll turn up yet." But her tone was She must have slept kind rather than encouraging. You When she awake the hands of the Into, deserving the, namo Ch'ien
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