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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, JULY
SERIAL" STORY-
1935.
Summer Sweethearts
BEGIN HERE TO-DAY KATHARINE STRYKHURST, beaui!ful, 20, In reales and daruntented with the uerlewa round of sovela) activities that make up her H. She HEATHEROE, who runs a riding club.
rides daily with MICHAEL SALLY MOON, ea coquette, also enrolls
at the club for riding Jennoisa.
ZGE PARKER, Katharine's friend, sent Bunge to forces, live affale with 010 BARKIN, returns. She versate is seeing
ible in spite of her parente* bijectiona
Katherine, rhling with Wichsel, is thrown
from ber horse, shocked but not werlously injured, the is taken to the home of Viola Katharina's father, Mr. Herver feels drawn
MERBER who rear before was in love with
to the girl,
CHAPTER XII
Isabel, the manicurist at Mas Betsy's Beauty Shoppe, bent solicit ously over Katharine's hand.
"Want them a little aborter, don't you
Katharine nodded. Sally Moon was In the next tooth, with its rose coloured curtains swinging between painted white posts. Katharine could hear Sally's laughter as she gossiped with Miss Betay.
the wheel of her walling car. "But that cost aplenty. That's what I al- ways say, No wonder these, girls have all the breaks, clothes and cars and all--tearing around like nobody's business. I don't mean you, of course, Miss Strykhurst," she finished briskly, at a warning nod from her employer who was putting the stopper on a wasnoth battle of liquid shampoo,
"Hear you took a tumble lant wook," Isabel went on after an in- terval during which polish was applied doftly to the nalls of Katharine's left hand. "Read it in the paper, Gosh, I was all upset, believe it or not. I enid to myself, Mias Strykhurst is the nicest one of the whole bunch in town. It'll just be a shame if she's going to be bully hurt.
"It wasn't anything," Katharine alt
"But that tall fellow who comes down from the riding club, he sure in one good-looking chap, Isabel "I said to Miss Betsy just chattered. the other day, believe you me, if I had the money and the outfit I'd be taking lessons from him myself. He "Why have you got that string tied reminds me of Gary Cooper-port of around your finger?" Katharine ask-only younger." ed the little manicurist idly. Isabel,
Katharine Bald, "He's really very
"Sally Moon thinks so,"
who had waved brown hair, plucked nice." eyebrows and a confiding air, glanced
dimpled and smiled.
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time, she had lifted her valce in pru-. test.
"I don't thitic Violet Merser wante to get in with' anyone," she said indignantly. "Why, she knows all sorts of people, in the city who do important things-acciptors and wri- ters and that sort of thing, Why on earth should shy want to know" any of us?"
"Thank you, Katharine, thank you very much," Bertine had said stiffly. "We all know what you think of Inni- rock. And yet I must remind you that some of the most splendid people, the finest names in the county, are here."
Bertine had gone on in this vein for some little time, and Katharine had listened with a mutinous face. It was always like this, she reminded herself angrily. Whenever she found a friend of her own, whose pedigres to had not been investigated from a Izzard, Bertine would be sure to put in a medling finger.
hate her," the girl declded, whirling her ear recklessly around the corner of the Rivor Road. She would go to see Mrs. Merser agala, no mat- Ler what her stepmother said!' She | had decided that,
The barns and outbuildings of Isabel Michael's place were now in view, over her and Katharine's heart began to beat
Bill put it there ou my birthday," murmured with a since
shoulder. "She came in here one day thickly, furiously. How stupid of
Merser house.
sho confded. “Bill Chance-you last week for a set: she was just her! Sho had been keeping at bay, know him, Mies Strykhurst. lle drives the express track. Big fellow going on at a great rate about him. all the week, the memory of Michne drives the express told him I'd and right have been entirely She had been try
I call it.
visit in
upper room at the trying keep it there till he put a sure enough absorbed in examining her nails, for
that his muttered, "My ring on it. I say the craziest things,
all her expression told.
been the
the inerest
Agment the finished with an innocent, upwn: d
"They look lovely. Thank you, of her
But the Imagination. sweep o
She tipped
generously.
All this thought had be the sum of to make her you, Mink Strykhurst. Olt, extraordinarily self-conscious about
a nut.
o tell horne
of mascaraed laches. "I'm just to- really you shouldn't seeing Michael again. Now the, very
“You're going to merry kim then?”
Isabel years. Katharine felt almost
A}}
you
for a new
Kabhi hud been doing her nails for Although I want my two new dress the laughter wrinkles about the cor- lim and affection for the artless little crone for the picnic next week. Bill hasn'tners of his gray eyes seemed u
usked me yet but I'm sure he will far away. She must clung to her The Elks Club, He doesn't belong remnants of dignity. She must not, but his uncle does."
by any possible chance, lot Michael
Lure.
Well, yes, I guess no. We were playing with the ouija board last
Life, thought Katherine, was cont know she was attmcted to him. He week and I asked ouils; When i paratively simple for girls like Isabel would despise her. Hadn't she read I going to be married? Well, will Doubtless she would marry her Bill that, hadn't she been told by Bertine you believe it, Miss Strykhurst, that in due time and settle down to a illo and others that men hated being pur- thing ran around to October 47. of saving and babies and quarreling sued? Isabel, the little manicurist, was just about knocked silly. October and making up. Isabel was frank in could quite frankly suggest to her 4. Imagine that!"
Katharine smiled. From the booth her adoration for the hulking young Bill that the playful circlet of string Sally Moon's high laughter counded in who drove the express truck. be replaced by a plain band. But she Katharine knew that his reputation in was Katharine Strykkurat, cool and again.
Innicock was none too good. He had assured and self-sufficient. She could been in some sort of fight at one of never, never let a man know that sho the roadhouses the year before. He cared for him. Until, of course, ho was a swaggering, bold-eyed young spoke first
"She's a very popular girl, I hear," Isabel murmured with a sheug in Sally's direction. "The men just go running
man, handsome in a crude way. And Michael Heatheroe was a no- Katharine felt intly that little Isabel, body. Bertine would be sure to who lived in a shabby one story house designate him as “an upper serv. over on the wrong side of the tracks, ant deserved something distinctly better What was it John Kaye had saidT than that. But Isabel wantar le "Don't let Bertite get your so it was really none of any seen busi-But that was Bertine ha clo- ness, Katharine reminded herself. minated Katharine for years: It was hard to break the habit of obedience,
of Locit submission to the older wo- man's will.
"She's attractive," Katharine cun ceded, concealing her instinctive dis- like with an effort.
"Well, but about Bill and myself," Isabel pursued, getting back to her favourite topic.
know, when I told him about ouija he acted farny, kind of. Said he didn't belleve in monkeying with fate or something She drove past the Merser house like that. Men are so sort of queer.slowly, hoping one of the children It's like they had no intuition or some would be out in the yard. But the thing. Now take me, I always want car was not in the drive and Katha to know about the future. Why, rine could see the turbaned head of there was a fortune teller up at Play- the coloured maid at one of the upper land and she had me down to a Twindows; rugs were being vigorously Described my first beau and said I
She had to step on the brakes rather was going to get a letter and would shaken. you believe it
"I do like Mrs. Merser," she said suddenly. Michael rode up to the to herself. Wonder why Daddy was very side of the car.. so stiff about her Usually he maker |
Was there something quizzical in
Ille
Katharine caught her breath. A man had ridden out of the lane, crest of reddish hair gleamed in tha sunlight. He wore breeches and an old blue jersey.
There was a good deal more of a fuss about a pretty woman. the look he now bent upon her? She this, but Katharing did not hear it all.
Bertine had been inclined, as usual, strove for casualness and achieved Bally Moon, a riot of scalloped waves to discourage any comection with the it. and escaping sausage curls, emerged Mersers.
"The top of the morning to you," presently from the booth, in the cris They want to got in with the right Michael said gally. Thank the pest of yellow linens with flyaway crowd, that sort of people," Berting good Lord you're whole and safe after scarf. She met Katharine's eyes and had said in the assured tone that al-that spill," both girls bowed rather
WIVE irked
Katharine's heart settled down, Katherine. "Just be Isabel pollto but don't encourage them." like a homing bird in the nest, at the commented enviously an Sally fintiered Usually Katharine didn't bother to round of the words. out of the door to take her place at argue with her stepmother, but this
(To Be Continued).
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