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Michael drank some of the coffee
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CHAPTER XLI Miss Daisy didn't know much about the route the Millards had taken but
So they lunched in the long, cool undoubtedly Mrs. Houghton would. If Kremwhat was it, Heatheros!-f room open on two sides. Michael and ate a few of the sandwiches Mr. HeathSTOP would wait until scarcely knew what he ate. While Margarita had prepared. He might lunchson Mrs. Houghton would be Miss Daisy and Miss Rozana
bave packed to go all the way to the back from Santa Fe and could give daintily at their salads Mrs. Houghton mountains, in the event the Millards him the direction.
took two helpings of everything, had delayed their start. He must be "At least I think she may be able drank great cups of tes, and leaned ready for that. His eyes were blur to," added Man Daisy conscientious back in her chair for cigarette red from searching the hor FIRST CLASS
Michael would have cheerfully killed Once some Mexicans passed him in a
rickety chariot. And there was her.
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Michael had to be content with that
No one went out in the heat of shabby car with a California licenco, Margarita showed him to a narrow mid-day here if he could possibly with some bedraggled children in the TOURIST CLASS
it; he knew that. But the in- back seat and shiftless looking room and he wasbed his hands and
the couple in front. Typical drifters, brushed his hair and tried to control trepid Mrs. Houghton put on the raging impatience that tore at monstrous old straw hat again and, him. When he came down, the cool while Miss Dalay and Misa Roxana Long past noon ho came in sight salon was empty and he was left to went delicately away to enjoy siestas of three or four dots on the desert smuss himself with the books and the she and Michael Heatheroe climbed floor straight ahead and his heart parret, hopping from his winging into the roadster and took the road lesped. But he reminded himself that it was idiotle to suppose that glass perch and jeering openly at that led to the Millard place,
of life he saw meant Michael He stroiled
This is really very kind of you," every out into the patio. In the shade of a popper tree
Michael
party. el said with some compunction. Katharine's
ho drew nearer, he Besides, a Miss Daisy worked at ber crocheting "Not at all," wheezed Mrs. Hough-
could
sta- seo that the dots woro on. Was young m'self once." and gave him a welcoming smile.
"The Millards have been so interest- The Chineas boy had been asleep tionary. There was a car, but it was OPEN ed in Miss Katharine," Bhe
ald and came frowally to the door at their not moving. And there was a tent No seasoned travellers pitched camp cheerfully. She has real talent, they summons.
Frank has been Yes, he knew the way. But he in the desert during the day. say. And
Mr. And young
But the car was
a gray touring so charmed with her. She's lovely, could not leave the place. He was
in charge. we all think."
with green
of brakes. A Houghton patiently. The gentleman middle-aged woman in camp clothes, only wants you to tell him how to go." with signs of agitation in her face, came around the corner of the ear and stared at him.
***Is this Mr. Millard's camp?"
Michael scowled at the thought of young Mr. Frank, whoever he might be, and Miss Daisy looked frightened. This handsome young man could be quito fierco. Perhaps she shouldn't have said that, but it was true and she meant no harm. And Miss Vin cent had told her explicitly that Miss Strykhurst was not engaged to ang-
ono.
car
"We know that. 'Li," said Mrs. up "with a screech... Michael drow
•
and the boy, with many noda and Michael had a map in his pocket profound head-shaking, finally agrood on a route.
troman
"It is Amazement in her voice, "Is Miss Strykhurst here?" MI- You did that very well," said the chael's voice sounded cracked and wait and make left. "I can never get a sensible
admiringly to Michael as they harsh Michael had to
"Miss Strykhurst Is-Hilda, come polito conversation until fat Mrs. word out of him. Not that I'm at all here" called Evelyn Vincent. Michael foughton, in dotted linen with a
paled. What mystery was this?
woman of 40 with her big, old-fashioned straw bat on her certain the road is right. They'll blond
admit anything just to be agreeable. Hair in the wildest disorder, her head, arrived,
I do think you're being rather foolish. They'll be back day after to-morrow smart riding breeches torn and stain- ed, appeared from the shadow of the in wait here for
Michael shook his head stubbornly we're nearly distracted" she
Katharino? Ho
"Katherine must couldn't live through another day, not have wandered off while we slept.
began volubly. knowing how he stood with her.
"Can't toll you a thing about it, my dear boy,"
Houghton Mrs. wheezed,
ed, looking benignly at him
not wait here until they re- We'll make you comfortable." Michael said that she was kind; he apprecinted it a great deal but his business was urgent,
you
"Well then, after lunch I'll
They found a car for him. Mar- My husband and his brother have brother had an ancient sedan looked and looked. It seems hope- Karita's which would go. Michael knew the
Michael said sharply. "Lost! it before. Since when?" No one bothered to
over to the Milliard's place." make of car. He had driven Mce of ask who he was or why he was there.
said his hostess, fixing her dark on him shrewdly. "They've a Chinese bay there who's made the trip and perhaps he can tell you something about the roads. That is, if you can got anything out of a Chinese boy
"I've known a lot of 'em," Michael wald.
"Oh, really 7"
*
He started out In the full mid-afternoon with his stout mentor Thoy told him all they know. to him from the courtyard. Katharine had been gone since sun- Wwd goono èhase, Margarita," Frank and Dirk had wandered
marmured Mrs. Houghton,
sinking in about calling
"Good God!" he repeated. “Wo mert do something, A plane-1"
to. A a basket chair and fanning herself "My God." Michael struck his vigorously. "But that's what it is to hands together. If he had only my dear, Bring me some started sooner this dreadful thing limrade there's a good girl."
would not have happened. Ho Many times during that afternoon thought. In an
agony, of his. hour Michael, pressed, told her about the did Michael stop in order to let the et luncheon on the day before, of ranch and what he remembered of his burning engine cool off slightly. Is the enforcal walls during the after- father,
raged at
the delay, but there was no noon as the engine cooled, "Heatheros?" mused Mrs. Hough- helping matters. When night fell he ton. "There was a Francis Heatheroe kept on His Montana daya stood at San Diego bout 1906. Charmin' him in good stead at this igncture. "That's what I said," "Miss Vincent felis. Know him well. Good family." He was used to empty roads and began, "but Frank wouldn't consent "That was my father," Michael Cold coyotes howling and the arched toneli- to going off with the car. He said ness of the far-away sky. The desert she might come back and would think really Mrs. Houghton held no terrors for this man.
she'd been deserted- beamed. "How very interestin'" Toward morning he rested a Sittle! "Poor child. I hate to say it, but The man fairly ached to be on his so as to be frosk for the new day.. L'in very muca ile Millard. She fread we shan't see way, but there was no hurrying this As yet he had not passed a single her again, capable woman with the assured air car. The Millards did not travel at began hopelessly to cry. and the twinkling eyes. Besides, he night, Mrs. Houghton had assured Michael shook her arm. “Where Was more or less at her mercy. If him, so be stas certain not to lose can I get a plane?" he asked harshly. she chose to drive him to the Millard them thus. By day he would have "I mast and one at once."
to interrogate their Chinese to be abnormally alert to strutinīgs,
he Not
rench
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"Folies Bergere" is released through United Artists).
"Only Yesterday"
The most absorbing love drama shown on our seroan for many years This remarkable picture is the Univer
(To Be Continued).
whom Sim Goldwyn faimself has been so impresand that he far talos ber to Hbilywood! Jane and the other 40 "lovelies are pupils in girls finish ng school, genfally and amusingly against their gymamaalum
come to the Star Theatre to-day, deputy Headmistressi
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Barbara Stanwyck lives on the ocean, at Malibu Beach, California, al production, Only Yesterday," the (Bydney Howard). This was also Mr. large part of the year. But she went crowning achievement of John M. Howard's last role before he went to adopt twenty-five miles from the ocean, to Stahl, that master director of domes- Hollywood. In it he sings, the First National studios in North tie problem plays. Surging emotions feminine clothes to allay any possiblo Hollywood, to get a case of real sea bring to the story a tense quality suspicions of school visitors, and he which is admirably interpreted by a invents a shattering new cocktail. sickness. The sickness developed in real, all star cast of 78 principals, "GIF; Please was directed by Jack the production of the picture. Tho Woman in
Hed, which is now show headed by Margaret Sallavan, John Raymond, which re-establishes an old Billle Burke and Reginald and highly successful association. ing at the Alhambra. In one séquence Donny, and also includes Edna Mas The first talkie Raymond directed was Barbara appears on yacht off Long Dr Franklin Fangborn, Borton "Splinters" which was also
Sydney Island. The scene calls for quite a swell on the ocean, as one girl falls Churchill, Benitz Hume, Onslow Stev- Howard's film debut. Since then the have scored with "Up for the overboard and is drowned. Most of sne, June Clyde Barry Norton,
Natalie Moorhead, Walter Catlett and Cup. It
and "Night of King" the shots were taken on the Pacific at Betty Blythe. The story covers the the Garter Now comer Girls, Santa Monica, but close-ups were
exelling period between the entrance Please, which B. and D. confidently made in the studio on an improved of America into the World War and clatin to be Howard's best. yacht built on.
a.rollers so that it would
bilo the cataclysmie Stock Market crash rwal yacht It loas like working on, the dry land yacht that of November; 1829 Againak nort? feat romantle team in Am` Harding |
T Barbara developed san sickness. She panorama of American life
the rayed a vitally poignant LOTO had worked on the boat most of which has never been equalled for and Herbert Marahall.No two play- |
ers heretofore co-starred in a modern daily towards evening she
om. sheer emotional quality on the aff to her dressing room.
talents, In charm or in distinction. First aid was called and the doctor Even Stahl's own "Back Street" a drama have been so well matched, in reported, she had genuine and very unimportant beside the romance of No
or cheap claptrap mars bad case of sea sickness. She was Margaret Sullavan playing ive their fawless performances in the
adorable Southern bello and
John
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture: "The sent home to rest for two days.
Holes, the handsome thoughtless of Flame Within having final show- Falles BergarO" "Folies Bergere, with Century's cer Miss Bullastan, making her movie ings to-day at the Queen's Theatre.
debut straight
ight from "Dinner at
At 8" ak lavish musical extravaganza starring Broadway, WI make screen his Miss Harding is sent du'a noted Maurice Chavaller, comes to the King'story by her brilliant performance
the mental, disturbances Theatre on Friday. Taking its sot-
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character is an 'amaaling, Woman - Herbert Musable as the others, ties in the cup that choers, in one of deepsen kudivers: "Lovely da Florancs
| Biore. Fardin - and Münler 2 um
detective and solve crime they doctor of great" charm,; who "always" (on tish wereen-in many a day Panel thrash years turned down 25 screen.
Byron, Lamsden. Hare, Robert
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*from 8 ́screen-play| Scones in New York "pocieculari rish Burns, romance, of these two of the screen'a' mort swirlie / au 3" featured" ́rols;
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en the production or theateredyth and FaLoux, colour to the mystery sequences, and that (of utterly charming people
"OfCarioca", and Dave Gould o tinental” fame staged thei musical ensembles Chavaller
five new
"play, spota addance diverting comedy, an was: the case in
the Thin Man goes hand in hand professional man and profesional roman, that is entitaly believable with the mysterious moments in the from the beginning of the picture, to Shomari virid now melodrama
m the end. Maureen O'Sullivan.
of tha
world's richest girls, neurotic, B. and D's courageous challenge
nge to apolled, pampered, gives an amazing Samuel Goldwyn, the lovely sizle skin dramatic portrayalsy particularly;; “Girls Please" as opposed to the eile those scenes, here she suspecte
"Goldwyn Glue":7 is one of the relationship
one
to-morrow at the
It makes not?
kling" combina
Poke and Farrell 18
ers in the laun
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