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ROOF GARDEN
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SATURDAY
27th October
9 p.m.
ult
2 a.m. Dinner $7:00
per person
After dinner
admission $2.00
、with
LYNN COWAN
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AND
Doing Monkey-tricks
"Ole Banjo".
BILL BAILEY
оп his
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1994,
BEACH CLUB GIRL
By MABEL MCELLIOTT
Miss Florida” came to the
THE
BLUE FUNNE
LINE
REGULAR AND FAST FREIGHT AND
CHAPTER XXXVIII. felt not crisply on her fair head so hoart, smote her very being,
that the curla on one aldo were fully "I should have come before," she For Boots the world had become a exposed. She looked nothing at nil said Inter Miss Florida, helping the beautiful place. Colours, sounds,ake the proverbial prodigal daughter, lutter with the evening meal. sents all charmed hot. She had The bag in her hand was of real "Well, yea. Your mother's been walked to a senso of lightness and pigskin Edward's birthday gift to carrying a heavy load," Miss Florida happiness. That night at the theatro ner. She had been sending part of admitted. "She's warried more than with Edward she had been so sweather salary home each week since her he will sny. I know that." no infinitely gentle and womanly and mother's visit and against Mira. Bit by bit, when the invalid had i Interexied that the big fellow And Raeburn's protest. Burt Masterson been settled for the night and the been enchanted with her. She seemed was a generous employer, and Francres two women wore downstairs in the to burn with an inner light,
tawtryo's report of Boots had been shabby Hving room, Boots draw from. "You've grown up,since met you," Battoring. She had had a ralse since her mother the truth about the family ho narveiled. "You were just a kid coming to the Bay Tree that rainy finances. Taxes had gone up fright last spring.
summer morning.
fully, Airs, Raeburn anid, twisting her "I'm 20 now," she reminded him.
door, thin fingers, nervously: The endow "I've earned my living for more than welcoming her with embarrassed ment policy had practically been eaten a year. I've had a serious Hinesa. Tusion, "You dear child! How well You're noticing the scars”
you look." "Oh, that!"* They were in hla big, whining car now, homeward bound, It was true He took her hand. "You've been There would be critical eyes to gaze could leave Frances, come out here. and Boots was gind. on the back of an envelope. She putting me off for some time now at her from behind the chinte draperies Thirty-five dollars How about marrying me in Decem-all along the streets of the village. a great deal, with commutation and
aweek was ber?"
But she could not answer Edward! "Raeburn's girl who married badly, lunches taken
out, but the residue just then. True, Deals had walked her head up proudly. Well, she lind
and whose husband died," She threw would help.
"How much do we owe, exactly?" out of her life last night with Kay escaped from this narrowness and Her mother looked at her with sur me on his lips. He had said, in pettiner. She had done something, prise. This was A how daughter, effect, that he belonged to Kay and made something of herself. They resourceful, businesslike. She went Kay to him. But Boots ignored this wouldn't recognize this probably beto her desk. The She had the memory of that moment cause working in a bookshop didn't she explained, but there was a coal | taxes were paid, { in Denis arms. That, she argued, sound impressive. But she could bill. She had run up accounts at the had "meant something". No, she was wave Edward Van Selver's name in Fernwood Market. She just couldn't LIVERPOOL SERVICE not ranily grown up a Denia and front of them any day now if he help it.
existed between them.
up. She didn't know whether sho would be able to hold on to the house ur not. Boots figured swiftly, wildly
not
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Edward suspected. She had been wanted to and that would impress Books felt a constriction' of the ATREUS singularly untouched by her brlof them. Larchneck had heard of the throat. All the time she had felt experience with marringe. The very Van Scivers and their big, blank-faced so courageous and a resourceful, on NEW YORK SERVICE fact that Denia had crushed her to white stone house on upper. Fifth her own in New York. Back here him she believed indicated some bond avenue. Boots had gone there for leg they had been actually struggling for
the day before and Edward's corpu their lives, She went about in a sort of dream lent, didactle mother had been polite Well, things would be different In which objects, prople, places and to her; his sisters frankly curious and now. She would throw herself vall. time were only half-real. The only interested.
antly into this new adventure. She reality was a tall young man with a Meantime here was Miss Florida, would be the man of the house. Oh, mocking smile on his lips. One of her lank loops of ally hair these days, she told herself, he would back in the well remembered manner,These parents of hers were in a sense
pinned if only she were clever, were older! INWARD SERVICE walk into her life to stay. Everything greeting her.
her very children now. She had them would be straightened out. Any "Your mother's upstairs with your in her charge. If only she moment now she might pass him on father. The furnace s been acting rich! the street; that man stepping out of up," Miss Florida expinined. "They The thought flashed across a taxi might be he. That tall person have a Bttle oil stove lighted in blind with lightning quickness. Ed- with his back turned to her in the room."
ward! She had been staving him restaurant night face suddenly about, Boots had not remembered that the off, fighting for time, not wishing to revealing Deyin' heart-breakingly stair carpet was no shabby, Where come to any decision. beautiful eyes.
Wero
her
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the brass rods fitted it had frayed "What did you say, Mother!" almost completely away. The wall- Mrs. Raeburn was weeping openly, Strantime it was pleasant to have paper in the hall, too, was spotted frankly. "It's a shario, irl BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE. Edward about, to Beton to his con- am in places had pulled away fromage, ought not to have the responal- versation, to lean on his arm, to smile the plaster. There were evidences of bility.”
1 him. It was pleasant to be ad-decent poverty everywhere in the Roots straightened her shouldera. mired. to be wanted; but presently she menuded curtains, in couch springs that She had failed them before, had hurt would have to explain to Edward Justnggis to the floor. Hoots' heart their pride. Now she was going to how things were with her. Henk Insensibly as she mounted the make amends. Edward wouldn't mind. He would be sure to dozen stairs comprising the second ward, she would see them through.
ir fin 17-
understand.
lf of the flight.
(To Be Continued.)
It was in this mood that she listened She hadn't knowri, hadn't' dreamed In his questions about an early marr- that things were like this! The sure, December 1 No, she didn't) house smelled of conl gas and dust, Think so. She smiled at him mislily The room in which she stepped was and the square shouldered man smiled wide and bare and shabby. The mat back at her protectively. Poor little sitting in the rocker, a bright afghan kid, he thought. She mustn't be over hịp knees, differed in almost all rushed into this. He must be patient. respects from the heavy-jowled, ruddy
father she had left behind a yearį. One blowy November week-end and a half ngo. He was smaller, Boots went up 10 this house in thinner. He had a gray stubble- ofi Larchneck to see her parents. Her beard on his cltiu and his voice faltered mother had written to any that her when he spoke.. father was anxious to see her, al- There was no awkwardness. That though he wouldn't admit it for the "Daddy' was "different" Bool was world. Rather nervous about her ready to acknowledge. The ald reception, she had walked down to thundering nccents were gone; the old the big. shabby, shingled house, truculence had vanished. In its placo The foraythin whips drooped bare and was a new weakness, a humility which disconsolate below the porch. There hurt her more than the other over had. were a few scarlet barberries on the It was terrible to see the gaunt, gray,
hedge, lining the walk. How strange thin man-a pathetle shadow of his "Tell Yu Mummy To Get|
it was to return and find everything former well-deferring to everyone. just the same when one had been It was pitlable beyond words. away longt
She was a amarg little figure in Boots had not known things were her brown tweed sult, a small brown like this. A terrible pity filled her
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