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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31. 1934.
BEACH CLUB GIRL
CHAPTER XLIV -
By MABEL McELLIOTT'
If Verity won, said Miss Florida, Awed, the lottery ticket would be worth something "in the neighbour- hood" of $100,000.
| great nows of the winning horse was
anned over the wire. boots saw i in newspaper headlines over a man's shouder in the subway:
Verity Wins.".
12 hnu
earnestly, "that's the shocrest non- senso."
"Lot you know about (tf”
She flushed and was ailent. He duvo ner gaived"hand n contrive pat,
"Sorry. Dian's mean to be rude.
"Yes, cu acu that."
Sho caught her breath, at first un- "Not that I think there's a slight beaving. This-this was surely the chance, even, of his winning," mars, most extraordinary thing that i'm on my feed Raeburn put in with a smile. Shoover happened to anyoner It mean. had a wire from some totally unknown freedom, security, for all of them to people at Bay Shore, Long Island, who
She stared acraigne ahead, winking the real of their liyan. wanted to buy a half shore in her happened a few years ago how differ back the tears. Why do we have to interest for $1,500. It all seemed on things might have beent Sho
ny out at each other like this, like fainuy preposterous. The ticket, just might have ties Donis on a different ed herself,
two badly bengved children? ano nak an it stood, had already netted them onats, lle might have come to know $3,500.
her wall before he'd ever seen Kay for Lens
"Sine, do!" he bogged in what The old shingled house was electric she sighed....
was a posively abject tong, with expectation these
Bhe rowarded him with an Apri "What's days. Old friends dropped in to congratulate the Gawtreye wanted to know. "1 should merriment were oddly ended.
wrong with you?" Frances
HD in which hair-dried tears and Raeburns. Boots' mother fairy glow. think you'd Do throwing your "You're ed. She had lost years, it seemed, has up in the air."
the worst crosspatch, with the stroke of luck which had befallen them.
"Ob,
I am! It's too marvellous. honestly. I never know when you're I keep plnening myself to
going to snap at me."
"I'm a bear and you're an angel," certain it is true."
mako
"I guess 30," Tho
of
No more worrying about billa nowthe conceded. "Now is everything all No more shabby hints for her mother | right again?" or frayed sheets and pillow cases un the wide, flat old-fashioned beds. homegoing commuters, Never, thought
train Jogged along, full There would be little luxurice for her Boots, had the sky seemed bluer, the budding gross more delicately green. The whole world had a glaze of new- ness upon it.
Denis came
over to congratulate them and he and Boots had a few unsatisfactory moments together alone in the living room while the girl's mother was cailed to the telephone.
"What are their plans 7" She smiled, shrugging. "They're parents, little pleasure to smooth over trying to rent the house. Mather illness and approaching age. There says she will have ning on the would be frean flowers and little far $3,600 no matter what comes. She of honey and jam on the breakfast wants to
California. We've table. There would be acanted soaps go to bad people streaming through all and bath salts by her mother's tub, wook, telling us what's wrong with
"It's a break at last," Boots told the house. It's a very, humbling ex-
Frances. "I'd given up belleving in 'perience,'
luck but here it is on our necks at laat."
He was staring at her oddly, in tently,
"What on earth's the matter?" "Sorry, I didn't mean to be rude, Do you know you've grown up to be a very grand young woman there daya?"
She flushed,
"Must you always poke fun met"
at
"On your necks is right!" Frances crowded. "Wish it would land that way on mine."
She bought freenia and Jonquila at the florist's shop in the station arcade that night. She added a box of hot. house grapes. When she slipped into sut I'm not. I'm deadly serious." the empty seat on the 6:26 she saw ilis dark brows were drawn together. Denis staring at her from: ncross the He was ap close to her that nha conta | way. Ifis face lightened. see the nervous pulse beating in his lean brown thraut, She longed to say, "Why can't we really be friends? Why must there always be this armett,
truce between 157" But she silent.
"Book going well"?
"Celebrating 7"
"I say! I didn't have time to buy hat, though. On every important scension in a woman's life she requires
wain now hnt."
This one is all right." There was | something warm and intimate in the
This ok thing?" She touched the
He threw his band in a chnr-Kaze he bent upon her. aeteristic, impatient geture. "Rat-
Denis had his ear at the station and drove her home. Helping her the held her hand an instant longer. than was absolutely necessary.
"I'm forgivon?" "Of course!"
"Glad of that. It's something I' want to remember." She was puzzled by the look he gave her, driving away. She gave herself a little shake at her fancifulness. One might almost think she'd never see him again the way he hehaved.
our newa
She's almost forgotten the marvell- Now she made up for this by ruzli- about the sweepstakes. ing into the house and flinging berself upon the excited trio.
"Darlings. Isn't it too wonderful?" been angry with her the news would And yet and yet—If Denia" hed have lost its thrill, would have gone completely fint,
(To Be Continued.)
ten. Haven't had an idea for weeks, brim of the brown straw disparaging-In This Orphanage In China
I'm going to revil"
"Why do you sing on here then 7") she questioned holly.
"Oh, I'm comfortable. Besiden="" "Besides what?"
His dark eyes narrowed, laughing nt her.
"Oh, anthing!”
their polite comments on the size of closets and storeroomя. She wanhed out suize organdie cuifs and mendea a blouse and read spasmodically some she had been saving. But
by
"Very good looking hat."
"You're telling me?" She felt illy,| felt light-hearted and school girlish, Denis h not seen her in this mued before.
"Going down to see Ed to-night?” "No. ile doesn't expect me. The Ridings and Harrises, his cousins, are driving out. Why?"
"Juel thought you might want hitch."
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Mrs. Raeburn came back in then, flushed and voluble, and the girl was let with that oddiy unsutusfied, rest- "Oh, why wasn't I going?" she lose feasing- Denis went away pre-thought. "Just to have the drive with. sently, saying he had work to ano, him would be happiness enough!"
"I ought to work, anyway." He hovyer states: "We are very grate- and tools occupied herseli about the house, finding mad, unimportant had rammed his hands in his pockets ful for Baby's Own Tablets which wo things to do. It was a mud, rainy and was staring out of the window are using with excellent results among spring Saturday. Sas turned out a mopdity. "Masterson had seerfuled the children of this Orphanage. Not bureau drawer, ushered two maiden or Indies through the house, Hstening to bi, e spring lists and I fell down on only are we finding these tablets of great value for the prevention and "Oh, Denis, you didn't!" She was correction of the children's stomach frankly shocked.
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