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SERIAL STORY
Summer Sweethearts
CHAPTER XXIX
Sally said furlovely, "I don't under stand it. I simply don't get it at all" She glared at the inoffensive Tips and at Clarence, stooped and Kraying, in the background.
"You say he said he was going| to the city?" Sally demanded."
Clarence, nodded. They had been over the ground several times before but if the young lady wanted to ask the same questions over and over ho I had no choice but to answer them.
"Ile
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| baro chamber did not afford many out ភព oficial-looking paper and hiding places. A bed, tidily made up chuckled over it. with amended white spread, a com- "Here's somethin' than big-inikia' mon oak chest of drawers, a ward-young lady - ain't goin' to And." robe with one of the old-fashioned Clarence said to himself. "Cause I doors swinging wido -- she went got it first. An' it's Mlst' flchnel's through them all.
private business,"
It was the marringe certificate of Michael Heatheroe und Katharino Strykhurst.
Thero was little enough. There was pitifully tie. A handful of the postmark of a old letters with thick, clumsy old gold watch. A little town in western state. A
button box..
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Bally rushed to
her room And opened the letters she had found in Michael's bureau. “They were Sally rifled through the letters, very interesting letters. There were any he goin to the city," The stable boy came to the door to several notes from the bank about the mortgage. There was a bill of Clarence elaborated, with aalde.stare at her, long roll of chocolate oyen in "You go away, Tips," she said sale for a mare. There were one or
erosely
"Don't you bother
nie. two brief and badly written, personal dark face. "Io say fo' me to lock
letiors from
In Amazi
anamɑ | HONGKONG TO:- Montana-a This is my business."
"Ain't nobody Rot any right an who signed himself
nothing But he to point the way Michael had
grono,
day #
And that was day before yester buttin' into Mister Michael's private "Bill." Nothing incr quite simply
things," he said stubbornly.
not interfere. After all, she Sally stood staring at the letters
"Yes'm. In the evenin". We ain't heard nothing from him since." Sally waved an afternoon
nows
paper,
in his eyes. "Ilave you seen this?"
"No'm, Ain't
Reen nothin'," Clarence's eyes executed a sudden roll of apprehension. "They ain't nothin' in it bout Mies' Michael, they 7"
Sally laughed an unpleasant laugh, drawing back the corners of her lips from small predatory teeth,
"Read it."
Tips bent over. "Pa can't read, he said. "Lessen he has a magnify- ing glass. His eyes is bad."
ed to know.
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tem- was the girl he employer had been in bafflement and anger. Her
perament demanded that she expend engaged to marry
So she dresse had shuffled out into the energy on someone. You could hear him rattling herself in plain dark silk and boarded and pans and setting down the train for the city. The clipping YOKOHAMA and RETURN with angry
about Michael's inheritance lay in the guste. Sally paid no Sup attention to all this. She had come smart dark blue handbag. with a determination.
She went straight to Mr. Down- to go through could find any clue to his disappear-her. He as a lean, elderly English- Michael's belongings, to see if she rigg's hotel and that gentleman ame down to the foyer to meet ance. She Bouneed into the living
+
room after a busy five minutes, a man with a stoop and a courteous, Ured voice. No, he hadn't had any small bundle in her hand.
communication from Mr. Heatheroo as yet. And that was odd becnase Tips watched her go, open-mouthed. Messrs. Malles & Gerhardt had as- "What do it any?" Clarence want-Ha father came out of the kitchensured him Michael was easily to be to ask him, "That her cAT goin' found. All his telephone calls On away?"
the day before had been fruitlegs. Tips bent
"That's it." Tips sniffed, going Mr. Heatheroe, the servante the newspaper.
*aid. reading slowly. "It says how Mister into Michael's room and picking up was
would return. Michael is a lord or something," he a cushion Sally had dropped in her he away and it was not known when sabl slowly. "It says how his daddy haste. "She sure made a meas of this "Something's happened then," Sally was a son of a lard in England or here place. She sure is a big-talking announced firmly. "Something hap Ireland-and
Mister Michael, young lady, Miss Moon.".
pened
to Michael the night he came "Her!" Clarence uttered contemptu-into New York." She raw it all now. seems he comes into the business,"
"Exactly." Sally Moon, with Lously. "Ain't no Moons even goin' She had been stupid to be so frighten- sound that was more like a snort to come high-tonin me. I know ed and angry. .. Of course Michael had than the sarcastic laugh she harl
been hurt. He had no reason on Intended. slipped down Into the "She taken away a lot of stuff earth to run away on the eve of this shabby porch chair. Over her link of Blist Michael'." Tips offered triumph.
Her manner ed, gloved hands she regarded the hesitantly. "Letters and such."
softened perceptibly. shabby men.
Clarence grinnert, an old man's She had met Mr. Downrleg with an believe you two know
niore wide, aly grin.. His lips were stretch-air of challenge, thinking he knew nbout this than
માં you pretend,to,' Incongruously wide. "She did, something about the absent Michael, she said on n not of angry
huh
thinking, perhaps, he had alded and Yes, suhi" The stable boy was abetted him in his escape. picion. "I believe you perfectly well know
emphatic. "Looks like Mist Michaeli You must help me," she said, nel (H." ichael ook his head, run away from her while the runnin' her valco taking on its cooing note.
I'm going to find
#ald swiftly. Before
#
one of them could stop her she had flung herself
Michael's
search bla
om
was good. What you think about "We ntist search the hospitals-the
VOTAUCH
fla father lifted his shoulders In "My dear young woman!" shudder-| the door of an eloquent shrug. "Boy, I ain'ted Mr. Downrigg. "Surely you don't "I'm going
to mindin' nobody's burinean
think "You think we better stay on
She was she said. "And
firm, but to show him how deeply she was affected by the don't either of you interfere!"
while?" Tips said. "Where'd Wo WAR inside the room
anyways?" thought of Michael injured or dead which
she wept a little, quite protilly and convincingly.
She
go,
had served Michael as a bedroom Clarence demanded. "You talk crazy, before either one could say a word: nonny-boy. Course wo're stayin' Tips looked at his father, and the And, case that girl comes back here we goin' to lock older man looked back apprehensive in some moren
up this hore "She ain't got a bit o' business in there," the boy sad humbly.
AUTOW we goin' to stop her?" Clarence wanted to know,
Sally went through bureau drawers like a whirlwind. The most, plain,
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NOTES FROM THE THEATRES
"We must," she said. "We dare not do otherwise. After all" she reminded him, with a liquid glance of turned his folrurely puttering pramined wife, you know," He the key in the lock and those dark, opaque "I'm his
She could see herself telling the among the ketties. Tips wandered out into the stableyard, fed the story to newspaper reporters. Dead horses and idly swept up some seat or alive, Michael should unt escape tered hay. In the kitchen, behind the her.
red checked curtains, an old man took
(To Be Continued);
Girl" and "New Yorkers" as weli na ponsibility. To Josephine Spiggins, ather revues, Durante made his the brother's fiancee he was a de- motion picture debut in "Rendhouse
Night" with Helen Morgan and lightful companion. This is the gist Charles Buggles. "Carnival" in the of the riotously funny plot of "Vnga- story of puppeteer, played by bond Lady" the Hal Roach-M-G-M Tracy, who tries to bring up his son production, terminating its local en- without a mother. This human story "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" author of those famous hits, "Lady Theatre. The elder Spear is the mil- the Queen's was written by Robert Riskin, the agement to-day at the most mystifying, of mystery for a Day," "It Happened One Night' stories, has been booked for show-and "Broadway Bill."
Honaire owner of a department store, ing at the King's Theatre on Friday, directed.
Walter Lang whose motto is "Dignity-Always.
Josephine's father, an irresponsible Claude Rains, the famous "Invisible
character, In Head Janitor of the Man" has the leading role, that of
store and a former college mate of his boss, John, in planning his mar- the most riage to Josephine, has stressed the
a sinister choir master. Those who
have seen this film declare it to be
themi
are
.. "CarnivalTM
"The Woman in Red"
Barbara Stanwyck has
.
R
A picture that has you sitting on dynamic role of her career in her importance of dignity, culture and the very edge of your chair from new First National production, "The noise. But when Tony, his brother, the opening scene to the dramatic Woman in Red," which is showing arrives on the scene, after a round. and spectacular ending when the for its first time to-day at the Al-the-world cruise in an ancient wall- mystery is solved. Four of Holly. hambra Theatre. This talented staring vessel, he tells "Jo" that "to- wood's best-known writers, Leopold has an unusually strong vehicle in morrow" in a long way off so "En- Atlas, Bradley King, John Balderston "The Woman in Red," and makes the day should be enjoyed to the full- and Gladys Unger, did the screen-most of every scene. The picture, est. The result of the two conflict- piny, and one of the most success-based on the popular novel, "North ing philosophies is humorous-and at ful directors In pictures, Stuart Shore," by Wallace Irwin,
is filled times dramatic, Walker, directed. The film has been with thrills and intense dramatiticsults in complications. Further when At any rate, it re- produced on a grand and spectacular action set in the luxurioux atinos-"Jo" and Tony discover that they scale with some of the largest sets phere of Long Island country estates. love each other, things take a rapid that have ever been constructed for Miss Stanwyck appears in the char-turn. There are grief results when a pleture. Supporting Claude Rains acter of a Kentucky girl thoroughly some
boisterous is a cast of film notables such as is versed in horse lare who, when the Tony's drunken Man Friday, a sailor companiona and rarely seen in one picture. Among family fortunes are reversed, becomes named Corky,
upset the applecart for a wealthy and put Tony in a bad light with Douglass Montgomery, a professional rider Heather Angel, David Manners, New York society woman. Through "Jo". The situation is Valerie Hobson, Francis L. Sullivan, her akili as a ridor she brings one strightened out when "Jo's" habit of finally E. E. Clive, Forrester Harvey and blue ribbon after another to the own-chewing gum upseta the wedding Walter Kingsford.
er, whose gratitude turna to hate ceremony, driving John frantic, when she wins the man they both Tony finds it easy to talk John out Jove. Mina Stanwyck is charraing of the marriage idea and then pro- the lighter moments and the roman-ceeds to annet "Jo" for himself. Three honest-to-goodiness troupers the situations, but she rises to sew Featured in head the cast of "Carnival”, the heights of emotional acting in the Robert Young, Evelyn Venable, Re- the production Are Columbia production, opening to-intense dramatic sequences, especial-ginald Denny, while the supporting morrow at the Queen's Theatre.ly in a sensational court trial in the cast includes such players as Berton They are Leo Tracy, fast-talking smashing.climax, in which she is Churchill as Mr. Spear, Frank Craven star of more than twenty pictures, willing to sacrifice love and honour as 31r. Spiggins and others of note. Sally Bilers and Jimmy Durante, in order to save a man she knows Mr. Young famous professor of the schnozzola. to be innocent from conviction on a "Tony" makes himself delightful. as the irresponsible Tracy trained years in small stock murder charge. Gene Raymond, in Miss Venable makes
before be ever set foot the role of an impoverished young and likeable "Jo" while Denny does companien upon a Broadway stage. He play-aristocrat who sweeps the Kentucky the exceptionally fine work ed vaudeville, hoofing it and speak- beauty off her feet in a whirlwind dignifled "John". ing in the category of the profes courtship, proven himself a magnetic alonals, "ho knows the ropea. His lover; as well as an accomplished first big role came in "Broadway horseman. Genevieve Tobin, always on the New York stage. Later the finished actress, gives th un- The question of whether a Photion picture studie bought the pro-usually fine portrayal of the wealthy and Woman
have incurred 18. "CONTE VERDE” ....1st Aug. 1.1. “CONTE VERDE ..9th Aug.the same part he enacted
duction and Tracy was signed to play society woman who employs Mis society's disfavour have a right to
each other's love is daringly answer 1.6. "CONTE ROSSO" 1st Sept us. "CONTE ROSSO"..9th Sept blando actress, first began in pictures herself has lost out. She brings out ture, Woman in the Dark," show
Sally stage,
Ellers, beautiful Stanwyck and does everything to
break up her love match after she ed in Dashiell Hammett's latest pic- us. "CONTE VERDE" 3rd Oct.la.s. “CONTE VERDE” 11th Oct with Mack Bennett,
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