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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER
BEACH CLUB GIRL
By MABEL McELLIOTT
L
1934
CHAPTER XXXIX
was not the way oul-marriage., zhabbiness. Sylvia's eyes ticked her Boots went back to the little apart means of escape from life that she direct,.
She had slipped into it before as ance, raced past her;. It was the cut. ment she shared with Frances, and hated. She was more mature, more which Frances had occupied alone besturdy now; she would not make that blood racing. It was allly, it was Boots turned away quickly, her fore. her coming. Brietly she explain: mistake again. ed the situation: Frauces was all
stupki to
hurt by the incident, she So she put him off. Not just now, assured herself. Sylvia-was ignor sympathy, all understanding. urally Boots wanted to be with her he said. And Edward had to be ant, crass and cruel. Itat the blow people if they needed her.
content with that.
stung, none the less, and all the way The coal bit, the light bill, groin to the city she read her paper with glanced around the gay and colourful ceries-it cost so much to live! The unesing eyes, her heart burning roon in which she had been so happy old house absorbed her small stipend angrily within her. By contrast with the shabby heure
Nat-
Boota
·
In Larchneck I wore a particularly greedily while her mother bewalled inviting air.
All the soft hued lampa On the last day of November the Oregonian was announced in
the necessity dally almost hourly.
Sylvia's
engagement to some young were lighted. Frances, in vivided boiler collapsed and Boots, pajamas of vari-coloured silk, toasted despair, summoned the local furnace of "functions" followed in the on- in village paper that week and a score brend before the fire.
nothing else to
Frances cocked her bird-like-dark head up at her.
the
"Tin sorry, honey. I guess there's hond now red tinem nuncentent's wuku Sylvia's picture, He spent an hour in the basement Battering one showing the Rivers during, considering. A new miter heiress in an evening gown of dating would be $200,
cut with the inevitabic orchids on her shoulter, smiled forth from the mociety pages. The day Boots saw this particular picture she paid the first instalment on the new furnace and had her brown sheen half soled. "It lon't that I mind the grind,"
Boots and her bags packel. The furniture alt belonged to Frances, There was a flower print on the bed- room wall, one Bonts had aduired and Edward had bought for her.
"I take this," she said. "It'll remind me af our good times,"
"We can't pay it," Boots sald with the calmness of utter despair. "I'll take your note, Miss Boots," said Mr. Derringer who knew the family well.
The furnace was repaired and Her old room with its wide win-n lunches. She mended her worn can't see my way ahend." It was Boots signed the note. She cut down she whispered to herself, "only that dows looked sparse and shabby now, stockings painstakingly, She raged becoming increasingly evident that hat it had a welcoming nir Florida had put an ivy plant on the frall mother travelled over
Miss inwardly at the knowledge that her her salary would not, could not, keep the the old house going indefinitely. Funging shelf and Mrs. Raeburn and Exchange with the dozens of rolls in Every day some new need manifested put up clean curtains. They wore so trays. How did people get money? Itself. The plumbing was old: the glad to ser Boots that it hurt. She She marvelled. It seemed to her that roof leaked; the porch needed mend. was ashamed that anything the might they had never had enough, really,
ing and. painting. do would so affect anyone. Her but things had never been so bad as father turned in his chair to see her this. She looked about her at the come in. She kissed his thin, faded people they knew. No wonder most cheek. Presently, the doctor said, he of the husbands and fathers looked might try to take a few steps but tired and harried with the strain of for the moment his post was here by it. the front window, watching the world! go by.
Her mother grew thinner and more gaunt and more determinedly cherr. ful. Boots watched the gallant figure. narrowly, fearfully.
The first snow of December fell, ushering in actual winter. Boots figuratively tightened her heli, think- Life was quiet in the big house It was strange taking her place Occasionally Isabel ran over for an who facer a long selge. The invalid ing who must feel un a soldier does again in this old, familiar reelug the same faces; hearing the in, rather embarrassedly, to
world; evening's gossip. Once Johnny came upstairs occupied himself with his call, solitaire, his books. Man Florida same voices; realizing the old order But he was obviously awed by Boots" came
and went. of things st prevailed, no matter new status and went away.
She was giving Boots Music lessons now but they knew her what her personal earthquake had found, moreover, that she had little finances were low and reluctantly been. Showers were still given for to say to her contemporaries now. Recepted the small amount she gave engaged girls. Jealousles and rival They seemed to move in a different, them weekly. They could not have Kit's were strife in club and world.
managed without Miss Florida. She sorority. The Thanksgiving dance,; new impending, embraced a host of street one Sunday afternoon and the wife went to the Exchange morning She passed Mrs. Fernell on the stayed with Mr. Raeburn when hir small storms and quarrels and misolder woman bower cordially. She and afternoon. She was invaluable, givings. Isabel told her about it all. Izabel now belonged to "the old girls seemed to wish to stop and chatter th for her spirit and her physical dal Bouts went on her way coolly, ald. Boots, as a school girl, had been She was not to be drawn into con- mildly tolerant of the spare, angular Sylvin Rivers, Boots learned, had versation with her old enemy. With plater with the rather gushing been abroad, She would back sharpened vision and perceptions, she laugh. Now she thought the plain "any day now,"
The thought of realized there was nothing Mrs. Ferare actually beautiful and the thin Syfyls left Roots unmoved. It seemed well would have enjoyed so much as had held in them a kindness the t resume of the whole affair. She like of which she was not likely to, envied Sylvin, had hated and resented would have liked the girl to grovet! know again,
ng ago, centuries, that who havi
her. She
not
sent back and forth tof in spirit, saying. "You were perfectly) But it was not easy going for the the city every day, the train shejteht and I learned my lesson."
girl. She had her moments of black was absorbed in her newspaper and! If she thinks she's going to discouragement, difficult to concent. her lists. Sometimes Edward drove patronize my all over again she's It was in one of these that Edward, her home and was tender and In-nistaken," Boots told herself coldly, gliding up to the slaap in his big car terested and concerned all the way. She could catch the flash of laffle early winter twilight, found her. She didn't see Denis. Although she men and frustration lunged to have news of him
the other "Drop all this," he urged almost she wont's cye as she passed on,
angrily. "Let me take care of you, sedulously avoided ntention of his bome. That was
But if the encounter with Mes, of all of them. I want to do it. mavelgre she Fernel falled to hurt her, the return It was tempting. The snow fell assured herself, that she had put besof Sylvia Rivers did not leave her stendily outside. Boots dared hind her.
cumpletely untouched. Bonts was buy the warm things she needed ta "Why do you do this?" Edward waiting for her usual early mothing keep out the mounting cold. And complained one night when he found train on the crowded station platform Edward, murmuring in her ear, talked her particularly white and tired. It when she heard a higli, affected valce, of warmer climate for her father. had been a long, tiring day at the a gust of rippling moles of laughter. gulfstream currents, eternal sun Bay Tree. Frances had been kept Glancing up, she saw Sylvia, wrapped shine. at home with a sick headache and In the sleekest and softest of dark several special orders had come in wink coats, walking toward her. ut- along with a vally unusual press of Lended by two or three young men. business,
Sylvia's high-heeled shoes were shin- "Why not marry me and step right lase and elegant, setting off her nur- out of it ali7" Edward urged with raw feet to perfection. Her dark Impatience,
hair was crowned by a fez-like cap Boots could not-would not ex- of crushed golden brown petals. Aj main the situation at home. Her wave of expensive pride would not permit it. To have her. Boots, in her tweet coat which
scent preceded] Edward offering to uklize her had seen three scusons' wear, her parents would be most humiliating. sturdy brogues and stockings darned Besides, she felt definitely that this at the heel, was conscious of her awal
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