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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY,
SERIAL STORY-
JULY
19, 1935.
Summer Sweethearts
CHAPTER XXV
30
1935, NEA Service, Inc.
docan't mean anything."
know," he said. "Tips won't know a "Katharine darling, ho sald, thing." Michael said quietly, "Tricked you?"don't be like this. You wero The miles flow by. The rain pejled sweet a while back... I thought down wildly, a storm of drops against windshield. Brown puddles "But, you dll" Katharino insisted. I had never known such sweetness, the Her eyes were wide with a sort of You were a statue come to life at gathered along the rond. There was horror. "Oh, if you knew you'd nu- last," thing to fear why did you make me come off with you like this? You said you wouldn't go unless I went with you."
"Because," the man said with de liberation, "I loved you"
"Ah, that!" She struck one palm against another, as if in fury.
is a queer sort of love that doesn't trust isn't open and aboveboard,"
"This is," persisted Michael Hen. theroe. "Ah, don't let anything come between us now
"But why the detectives?" pursued that bewildered tone. Katharine, "Why should they be looking for you,' without reason 7"
in
B
"I wish I were dead," she choked. in rage. "I'd better be."
an oak leaf pasted against the glass—. Michaal had to reach out and brush it off. The afternoon darkened. The day. Did What a strange wedding day! The afternon of her wedding sun had been out, but now the clouds ever any girl have a stranger one?
Her mind
was confused. Could wore lowering. Thunder in the air!
ho asked, "the Michael be sure these men meant no Do you remember day the rain drove us into the cabin?" to him? He seemed so confident. She could not toil. Mutinously she refused to answer. Was it bravado! The drawling voice went on. "You She was conscious, at the very core wero no high and mighty," Michael of her being, of a sick feeling of Heatheroe said. "I longed to teach apprehension. She would hav
much to explain to Bertine-to her you a lesson. Little wildcat!"
And she was a poor lar, "But you didn't." tuunted the girl.father,
Would some local correspondent for a "You didn't dare."
"That was it," he told her. "I New York paper pick up her name from the marriage license record of was afraid of you."
that obscure town? You could never tell
She had kept her eyes resolutely ahead, but now almost against her will, aho whirled and stared at him. The emotion that fared between them was at white heat
anger fused with love. Her composure broke, She was in his arms, half-sobbing, half-taughing.
"We can go back." the man said quietly,
"and find out what it's all about."
It has been different when she had thought she was racing off with a vagabond, fugitive. The whole Affair had worn a sort of brave air. Now what could who say to her stepmother, to all the others? She ust" had married Sully Moon's fiance. Katharine Strykhurst, the girl who inspired a
a jill
I hate you!" sho cried wildly; striking at the hand she had caressed five minutes before
"No, you don't, Katharine." She thrust him away. swear it."
not let them came.
"I do, I
She was clore to tears-perilous, angry, choking tears. But she would
"What they'
Any of me!" she
"Does it matter?"
we
ca
No good to worry, sang the tires; no good to worry. For better. for worne she had taken this man beside her. Fate had been too strong for them both. "Michael, Michael, why do Innicock's church spires came late How horrible of view below a rise of drenched wood- quarrel like this?
land. The pin oaks on the old Rogers place swept in the wind, like curtsey- ing maldens in darkgreen draperes, na the little car drew up. There was no one about.
"I don't know. Let's stop it."
Sho straightened, dabbing at wet eyes with his big handkerchief. "It doesn't matter what you've done, Some power brought us together. ask But one thing I've got to
"What's that?" "We mustn't riage now."
you
announce
Michael-dear,"
"Goodbye, He was out of the car, standing hatless in the rain beside her. "Goud- | bye, my darling?
She gave one swift look about. our nar. She slippedchnet, you must keep ring from her finger.
His eyes darkered. Quietly he this for me. I are not.
he true. Aug. "And it will | sniti. “Very well. That's for you to
decide,
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"Look,
rowning
n
little, he sipped the the pocket-of-hla-coat. "I you're sure it's all right for you wish you needn't take it off.” She did not deign to look at him. to go back-and you must be sure, Her glanco Rew to the porch. Tho
Michael come along with "Of course, it does."
now. two men who hadi aver in the village, "That, my dear Katharine," sahl We'll go on as if nothing had hap-now hatless, apparently at home, the man beside her, in a coolly con- poned. Meantime you can break your were emerging from the screened
doorway. versational tone. "is your trouble.engagement with Sally as painlessly You have a picture of yourself as possible. Then
It "There they are, Michael." reemed to her they could hear the You are continually plans altering that picture to suit your "It would," and Michael thought-wild pounding of her heart. "I told nudience, living up to it. It's too fully, the easier in some ways. But you-" hard. Snap out of i
Be yourself" don't like it." "Oh, oh" she choked with rage. "We've "How dare you talk like this to me?
others see you.
After all, I
The words almost flew out. "After all, I am your wife." But she check- ed them.
We спл
inke
He glanced coolly at the intrudera. "Michael, perhaps I'd better walt "So they are. Well, what of it?"
F terribly afraid." He shook his head, "You mustn't. I'll telephone you
She had to be content with that. They parted without another word. Katharine hacked the car out of the trare she followed the
"I the only thing." girl and fat to do it this way," the She started the ear. The air was full of a soft, fine blowing dust now. The thunder started, in n lang roll,
Katharine spoke seldom during the drive. Once she allowed her hand to "I dare," said Michael Heatheroe, slip into Michael's lean brown one, renuse love you. Don't shake and at a stoplight her eyes sought lung; in
He smiled. What rooli rond toward home. your hend. It's true. I've loved you his.
this girl was She had Bertine to face. She had since the first day I saw that ina-restrained creature tinous red mouth and those co- The man who won her love and con-an endless tissue of fire before her but she was not thinking of tradictory, con eyer of yours. Ifidence could be proud of himself.
this as she turned into her own drive- knew you were my girl...the only one I'd ever seen and wanted."
way. She was thinking of Michael Heatherneta kis upon her lips. What lay before them both she could not guess.
Some dangerus softness touched her heart but she steeled it against him.
"Good talk" the scoffed,
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but
Tips will have said I went off with you." she paid once, musingly, during the drive,
But Michael said Tips was far too elever for that. "Ife can play dumb ever anyone you its beautifully as
The following is the list of local share quotations issued this morning.
Banks.
II.K. Banke, $1025 b. ·
H.K. Banks, (Lon, Reg.), £1111⁄2
B.
Chartered Bank, £13% n. Mercantile Bank, A. and B.
£31.
Mercantile Bank C., £1845 1. East Asia Bank, $70% n.
Insurances.
Canton ins. $203 n. Union Ins., $370 n. China Underwriters, 10 cts, n. China Fire, $382 . H.K Fire Ins., $200 n. Internat'l Assce., Sh. $4 n.
Shipping.
Douglas, 836 u.
H.K. Steamboats, $4 n. Indo-Chinas, (Pref.), $30 n. Indo-Chinas (Def.), $12 n. Shell (Bearer), 71/10% n. Union Waterboats, $11 n.
Mining.
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Gold River 5 cls. n. Ipo Mining, 90 cts. n. Itogons, 36 cts. n. Salacot, 12 cts, n. Kailan. 14/6 n.
Langkata (Single), $14 n.
Shui Explorations, Sh. $41⁄2 ¤. S'hai Loana, Sh. $5% n. Raube, $7 BR.
Venz: Goldfield $2.30 n.
Docks etc.
H.K. Wharves (old), $771⁄2 n. H.K. Wharves (now), 74% n. H.K. Docks, 86% n. Providents (old), 85 cts. n. Providents (new), 20 cts. n. Hongkews (old), Sh. $240 n New Engineerings, Sh. $4 n. Shanghal Docks, Sh. $80 n.
Cotton Mills.
Ewo Cottona, Sh. $7 n. S'hal Cottons" (old), S. $65.n.
S'hal Cottons (new), Sh. $40 n. Zoung Sings, $8% n. Wig On Textiles, Sh. $28 1.
Tands, Hotels, etc.
H. and S. Hotels, $3.90 s. H.K. Lands. $33 .
H.K. Land 4%
$100 p.
debentures,
S'hai Lands, Sh. $201⁄22 n. Metropolitan Lands, Sh. $10 a. Humphreys, $8 n.
H.K. Realties, $4 n. Chinese Estates, $88 n. China Realtics, Sh. $4 n, China Debentures Sh. $123 n.
Public Utilities.
HI.K. Tramways, 313 8. Peak Trams, (old). $7 n. Peak Trams, (new), $5% n. Star Ferries, $76 b.
Yaumati Ferries, Cold),
HAL
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(To Be Continued).
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China Lights, $8.75 . II.K. Electric, $58 s. Macao Electric, $22 Sandakan Lights. $3 8. Telephone (old), $21 b. Telephone (new), $8.30 n.. China Buses. Sh. $111⁄2 n. Singapore Tractions, 10/6 h. Singapore- Prof. 22/6.b.
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Wm. Powelle, 70 cta. n. Wing On (II.K.), $70 n.
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July 17. July 18.. 122.01 123.41 33.81 33.04
REUTER QUOTATIONS Ch. Govt. 5% 1925 G. & Bonda
Dow Jones Averages: 93% n. H.K. Govt. 4% Loan 6% prem. 30 Industria's - "b.
20 Roils H.K. Govt. 34% Loan 14% 20 Utilities
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11 Commodity Index 04.67.
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