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THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1935.
SERIAL STORY.
BARGAIN BRIDE
BEGIN HERE TO-DAY'
BARRETT COLVIN, 15, return to New York after four years almence. He la rich name for himself an an and made archeologist. The first to great hins la bia half-water. MARCIA HLADNOR, younger. solish and spallot Marcia la happily married now. Years before Bermett shielded her when youthful Miriation. endre masteily. Marela had a jon whom Barrett_adopted. Who Lay's tutur ha Ja worried because the threatened her with blackmal and declans her husband will never forgive her the learns the truth. Barrett agmes to deal with the tutor, HAHOLD. DEXTER
An Marcin learing the J ELINOR RTAPFORD. cross the street and offers in drive her home, Elinor, 20, has been calling on her wealthy Aunt, MIAS ELLA HESTON. All Sexton'a relatives (with the excope tion of Elinor) are rarerly death, hoping to Inhreit a share of the Hexton fortune. Ellor's mother
of the lot.
March ad Elinor in home Elinor go ment house, knocks at "It's 1. Paip!**
wwaiting. her
ta wort
depart. Inatend of
to a minbly apart. the dour and sys.
CHAPTER III
J
There was the sound of someone moving behind the closed door and a
voice called, "Just a moment!" instant later the door opened.
A young man stood Inside, smiled at Elinor a trifle
"Envoy
added
An
He
bitterly. from the land of plenty!" he
"Come harsh,
"Elinor crossed the
"Hello, pressed.
theshold,
Her cousin, Sexton, was often so difficult. lip mallness and thinness were
over
emphasized by the robe he wore his frayed clothing. It was not fair of him to treat her as he did, shey knew, but still Eliner loved him. He had been kind to her, a little girl
ler
er time ang spending most of servants who were not always kind. Elinor moved across the shabby ittle room and dropped upon a couch bed covered with a solled red blanket,
"I brought the money 1 could iso" ahe began. raise,"
"All you could raise?" he echoed, brows lifted upward, smiling pleasantly.
un-
Elinor's chin set. "I've told you."."
KATHARINE HAVILAND-TAYLOR
"I brought the money-all I could raise," Elinor said.
she confessed unsteadily, "a million, again into his roomt. If she married times how it is! We keep up this well, as a girl of her attractions "effect" "on="nothing. There are bills could, she would be able to do much for him-And she was not the sort to hero_!"
כן }
"Oh yes. Waiting for the old lady Elinor surged inck wearily. It was true in a way but it was not true of her. "Philip," she appealed, "can't you be reasonable?"
"Look around you," he invited bitterly, "and tell me whether you think these surroundings encourage turning the other cheki
people, how to talk to them or what will please them”.
Elinor believed this implicitly and, together with the clather-her-mother- chose for her, it eclipsed her for all except the most discerning. Most people saw her as quiet, ill-dressed and somewhat shy and immediately forgot her for the more assured, smartly altired sirls of her age.
forget early days nor kindresses dur- fing her childhood.
Elinor
a las, boarded it and settled down to ride uptown. The visits to Philip always depressed her. In an hour he would begin pounding a
and Elinor saw this, of course, piano in a cheap cafe. At the same moment she, her mother, and the other judged from it that she was a failure. relatives would begin dressing for Up to this day she had nccepted the dinner. Philip was wenk but he had fact and concluded there was nothing been helper to gain any to do but try to inako the best of it, She had no reason to look.. She never knew the room well-its appalling strength. The life he had known had Naw suddenly she wanted to attract
whom
she knew. Sie shabbiness and open revelation of drained his slight strength. Not like as did other giris poverty. The effect was cruelly em- Mr. Barreti. Colvin, she mused, whose wanted above all to have Mr. Barrett
Colvin
show some interest in her; to phasized by the silver-backed toilet muscles would have it WI or have him unable to keep away. things that Miss Ella Sexton had if circumstances pushed him down- given
her orphaned great-nephew but of course he was exceptional. She when he lived in her home and before rememberet with gentle amusement she had learned about his forging her her little-girl adoration of him.
out amusement she realized that, at seeing him again, the feeling had crept back to sweep over her in full foree, Ellinor watched Philip's nervous, He was not exactly handsome but slenderly feminate hands roll-oc-looking. Perhaps she would cigarelle. He lit it, dropped to meet him at Aunt Ella's. chair facing her and studied her quizzically
name on a check.
сал
*
hope
She nodded, smiled at the doorman outside the large building Inta which she turned, the building that held the Staforda' apartment.
"A wet night, Mles Stafford," the man said.
"Isn't it?" Elinor paused to add, "I Your little boy is better, Wil- "I think he is, thank you, (Miss." He heard her warm, "I'm so glad" you don't advertise Imagine you
Leaving the bun she realized that, and looked after her as she entered visits here to our esteemed great for the first time after a visit to the spacious, Loo ornately impressive your
Philip, she had forgotten him and the foyer. She was one of the best, he aunt," he hazarded,
llow
with mother and mood of depression that asually came roilected, as he'd said often to his wife.
chat with him.
He didn't see why she didn't have good father feeling as they do? I'm not as an aftermath to
"Of course," she thought, "a man times like the other young people. alone, Philip?" the protested.
Colvin would never even Always, coming and going, she was on "Oh, I know!" he agreed, his bitter-like Mr. ness sinking. And I know Im a think twice about me," and suddenly foot and alone. It didn't seem right. The doorman turned quickly as a brote. I shouldn't he-to you, the also felt the chill in the lato autumn one of all my beloved relatives will after and she had known, how to in the taxicab, escorted by the usual If things had been dif- motor slowed. That was her mother ing to acknowledge my existence!" ferent Again he
make herself aftractivo he might young man. The doorman stiffened anvered. She opened her purse, saying. have thought twice about her. But his face to guard a sneer, then "Twenty dollars is nit i could manage, plinor has no social seft, not the caferentially opened the door of the
gift; He took the bills with a dissatisfiel, slightest realization of what interests "Well", and a listless rise of the shoulders, folded them and slipped them into a pocket. She, sat, big, vielet eyes east down. She was al- ways shamed by these. transactions which turned him either debonair or petulant.
"How
work going?" she
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CALCUTTA days had been pleasant indeed, al- CANTON CHEFOO though he had rebelled against them
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Elinor, after glancing at an alarm Lotto clock on the bureau, rose. Philip tron went with her to the door.
"Goodbye, dear," he said, and kissed KOWLOON heGoodbye. I'll come next week if I
can.
***Please do!"
way
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Ife watched her down is dark, grimy stairs. She Krowing loveller each day. Her mother, of Was doing her best to conceal cours the fact by choosing the wrong clothes fur her; stiff, ugly things that never HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK, Hambur could belong to Elinor, but she was beautiful in spite of them. Her lot for her; stiff, ugly things that never atiy it would grow worse. Elinor was
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