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THE HONGKONG® TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, NOVEMBER
BEACH CLUB GIRL
CHAPTER XLVIII
By MABEL McELLIOTT
she thought privately, that the en- gagement hadn't been The three well-dressed people in people did gossip so. There were announced; new travelling clothes rode across the plenty of them, at that, who knew wide, Jangled streets of the city. Edward had been attentive to Barbara Airs. Raeburn, smart and flushed in and who would be only too willing to Not that they could say |ward to peer out of the taxi,
"Chicago" ele said triumphantly an heiress now. No one in Larch-
"You mean you mean you broke with Edward because of me?"
She nodded.
"Ob, my darling!".
-
her brown tailored suit, leaned fortolket jilted, though. She was things for her car only, Porters ran
she'd
Rachurns...
There was a long, murmurous inter- lude then during which the man said the length of tho cement strip of | "Why, it's just like New York--nole neck could look down his note at the platform; bells clanged and engines
and all. But amokier."
whistled; grimy men hung out of Mr. Raeburn glanceil about him
The porter came back Just then enginé - cals and shouted cryptic with interest, When be alighted and took charge of their bags. The nuthings to allors below. The train from the cab at the concourse of the elder people settled themselves com- moved. Two or three stald other station he dragged his bad leg fortably in their drawing room. The people with novels in their hands junt a Hittle. Otherwise he was train was to leave in 20 minutes and came to the door of the observation sturdy enough looking elderly man Mr. Raginir, according to habit, platform and looked curiously at the in neat grey, with a camera slung on settled himself comfortably for a nap. young people sitting so close together a leather strap over his shoulder. Boots, feeling that odil, stifled rest there. Boots and Dentis were oblivi- The slim girl in blue with the two leannons barning within-her, sought ous to all of this. Their train ran elder people was rather allont. She the platform af the observation car, past factories, past bridgen and smiled when they spoke to her, but her bright amber-flocked eyes had a far-away look about them.
Now that she was alone she could nignals. It Tan rhythmically paat give herself up unreservedly to her roundhouses and towers and clicked thoughts. The last week had been over the tles past shoddy houses She went off to buy magazines and crowded with tasks, with the excite-with chicken coops and metal roofed her mother sald, with some perplexity ment of packing and departure. garages. and dissatisfaction: "Well, I declare, Denis-Denis-Denis!
Boots and Denis were in He was some. Arcady; their hands linked, their I don't know what we're coming to where out in the great world, far arden: faces One minute she isn't coming with us from her. But he loved her.
clone togother, they She wandered in sweat scented field's and the next she is. I haven't yet was putting miles between them with where only bright-faced flower grow. got over the shock of having her every breath that she drew, but per- "And you're going to California, tell me she wasn't going to marry haps one day maybe not before she too," she marvelled after a long in- Edward Van Sciver."
was very old he would lift her eyes terval. "I can't believe it." and see him smiling down at her....
"We'll be married as soon as we Startled out of her dream, she get there," he said. "No good wast- ous undertone. heard her name spoken in an increduling more time. We've done enough
of that already."
"Oh etop fretting, mother. You know you're delighted she's with us, Instead of half way across the
| Atlantic."
"Of course, I am. Of course, I am. But I can't make the child out. She seems to be going around about half Awake
paper,
be dicakej
"*Boots! Or am I dreaming?"
He had a place near San Jose. Ecstasy, ecstasy! If I open my I was just a small ranch- mero eyen, khe thought, Boote return Interrupted this His voice has never been a reat in It had a comfortable old house on 60 acres, he told her, deprecatingly. colloquy. She had two bright-colour-a dream before. ed periodicals under her arm and the
I. They'd live there half the year But she was awake. morning edition of a New York news-rity dust and the smoke from puffing the rest of the time....
The smell of while he worked. Then New York engines, "Look, darlings, will wonders never sounded all about her.
the clangor of the city
Waveringly "I can't give you what Edward end?"
She showed then, the headlines her stood the man
she opened her eyes. There before would have," he told her. But she over a smiling, photograph of Edward. occupying her thoughts. Hie
who had been had her hand upon his lips, silencing "Scion of Wealth
was them. leaner than she remembered him. Marner Nurse His dark, oddly blue eyes wore that "S. S. Olymple, at Sea," the story | puzzled little boy frown she knew ao rend. "Edward Houghton Van Sciver, well. only son of H. B. Van Selver of Amalgamated Steel, was married to- geringly." really in you!"
"Bonts!" He said it again, In- tiny aboard ship to Mins Veronica
He had taken a fruit boat, he told Then he was in the little collapsible her, bound for San Domingo. But Mary Kerrigan, daughter of Mr. and chair beside hers and his lean, ner he'd been eaten by a fever of rent- Mrs. J. Kerrigan of Staten Island, vous fingers were braced around her Miss Kerrigan has been Mr. Van own. She was laughing shakily and and stayed there a few days, trying lesracas. He'd got off at Charleston Seiver's nurse ever since he was in-saying that of course it was. Jured in a serious motor accident two he think? months ago."
"Well, I never" Mrs. Raeburn Jooked indignant. "So that was what
he was up to!“
Boots laughed. A cheerful
snel
it was in the big vaulted roun. Twu or three peuple turned to watch her rosy young face with interest.
"Oh, Muma, you know it was nuth- ing of the kind," she protested. "You know we Just decided we weren't
suited to each other."
Her maternal parent sniffed in- credulously. "Looks like it."
"I'm terribly glad," the girl anused, haff in herself. "He's such a darling, and I know she was terribly fond of Jum. These rich men's sons never
What
"What I can't understand is how
ou happen to be on this train just now," she marvelled. "I thought you were on the South Seas--”
to play, trying to work. Nothing had
"I thought." he paused and steudied Kined right. He had taken a train himself, I thought you were on the for Chicago.. high sens now-and married,
"You haven't--haven't seen the papers ?"
"And now-thits!"
They stared at vach other, over- cone with the wonder of it ait.
"What? No, I haven't.”
Mrs. Raeburn. passing through the She had the chipping in her bag; last enr in a rather anxious search Edward's picture. She put it into for Boots. n deferential trainman in his band.
"But I don't nee
[her wake, paused as though sukdenly He isn'
struck dumb. "No, of cours«," Her etar laugh rang out joyously. "I didn't Jilt He only-only found a letter." "A letter
the.
prompted cheerfully.
"See the young lady 7" the official
жезеро "Yes, 1–1
her. Sorry 50 have bathered you. It's quite, all
"It was." săre added dumurely. "night." the pages of some book he was read- ing. The Murder of Maria one-the little baize-covered writing tables. The good Indy sat down at one of thing like that."
Altnost automatically she drew pen "Ah! He reddened, comprelien-and paper toward her and started to know whether they're being married sion lighting his eyes. He leaned write. "Dear Florida: for themselves alone. No, I mean closer. "You you little divvil, happy at inst. It." she finished, smiling again at her you!" mother's offended expression.
"Why didn't you" she stammered. "Well, I think you lack the preper overcome by the flood of exquisite į feelings in the matter, that's all."emation which threatened to engulf: Mrs. Raeburn said, mollified hat not her, "why distn't you mail it to me. wishing to show it. It was a mercy. Denis 7"
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