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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1935.
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DEGIN' HERR TO-DAY
BARRETT COLVIN, back in. Hew Yo after four years, mais 10-year-old ELINOR STAFFORD and talls in love with her. Bar rett b 85, wraithy and has made a name for himmelt nap archaeologist.
Elinor's beautiful mother, LIDA STAF- FORD, he kept the girl in the background, wanting attention for. herself, Llda li entry- Ingration with VANCE CARTER and la constantly scheming to keep in the good Raat MIRS ELLA BEXTON, her hug tand aunt, in order to inherit a share of bater thin the Sezion fortune. Elinor hypocrlay.
Barrett's half-sister, MARCIA RAUNOR, is terried for fear her husband will learn of an unfortunate episode le. her past Year before Harrell ahlelded Marcia when a south- fut romance ended disastrously, Marcin had son whom Barrett adopted. The boy la nine years old now. Marcia inakis that if her husband learns the truth he will nevet Lorgian her.
HAROLD DEXTER
the boy's tutor,
threatens Blackmail. Barrett, hinting... ab knowledge of Dexter's past fall of which is bice), frightens the man' into promising he wit not make trouble
At Miss Ella Sexton's home Barrett vele Elinor Afford again and taken her for drive.
CHAPTER IX
A few moments later Barrett tucked Elinor into the green roadster which he bad had the foresight earlier! to, order left before his door.
"What a nice car!" she murmured. He was absurdly pleased that she liked it. He settled beside her say- ing, "Must take
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or can we have a short traight home |
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"I'd love to ro
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Elinor she it made answered. The Barrett want to put his hand over: hers; wanted to do this with a new and shaken intensity. He had found his anesthetic, he realized. troubles of the past few days that had been haunting him were already growing din.
The
"Do you like to drive?" he asked, "Yes, I do but not in a glass cage," she answered. "I like open cars in which you seem close to the earth and can feel the wind on your
face
"So do I." Barrett agreed.
Elinor wondered what to say next;!
by KATHARINE HAVILAND-TAYLOR
"Can't we go again?" Barrett naked na casually as he could.
she never did know. Barrett, too, was the thickening twilight by holding its suddenly as a lightning flash that wondering whether she considered him unsteady mirror to the lights.
a dull, middle-aged bore. Ile wished "I've never been here at this hour.
he had learned more about women I think it's beautifull" she said softly.
"I know thought. Barrett from any one of them he had known.
you
suddenly flares to reveal a landscapi hidden by darkness.
He had had many interests to which he had given generously of his auperb energy. He had thought sometimes,
She admitted falteringly a moment would." later, "I'm afraid you'll be bored be-know he did not need to. He had working with his crew and sustained cause I never know what to any
He did not speak and he
never
was as it should be. He had ash of misty memory; the
by the hope of discovering a valuable
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He laughed delightedly. "That's thin et su completely that every and, that he could hover know such
WAN
afrait
same absorption in any other way. Now he good to hear," he said, because
knew that old
old hopes had been frall the feeling that had been his'an a vertit all past interests would be paled you'd be wearled on
his same score."
boy with his face against anther's shoulder. That phase had he had the chanos to care for this Lo eyes She raised big, amazed hin. For a second he ignored the been shart. She had died just after girl. to give her
"Better go slowly thing he had, he warned him- Helf. Aloud he said, "Are traffle to look down and his heart told his tenth birthday and within tim that she was a darling child and years bis stepmother, Rita, had begun fortably warm, Miss Stafford?" that he was not so old na, he had her rule. Rita had never grown quite "Yes, thank you," she responded in
accustomed northern
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com-
She didn't know why it was. Elinor heat climate and had remained Here beside her was a man who
nc ver
an undertone and not quite steadily. would not lie, who was strong and gentia and kind. As a child she had adored him. Now she was doing it ngain; willingly, humbly and with all her heart.
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the thought. And then all at once they
to the chills of were talking.
Spanish to the end. She lud admitted, that she always felt con- coqueted or ignored but had strained at her aunt's. Did he ko seen him as a child. "I've been loue Miss Smythe? She thought she didn't ly" Barrett realized with surprise, quite undersinnd Miss Smythe. No, and never even know it!" Ilo was not Barrett said. he didn't understand Misa fuels now. Smythe either. And Craven, she said, tunde her feel embarrassed too. The anyone way he called out her name when she wonderingly,
rough the words were close to Ella There were a lot of older entered the drawing room. Did he know the picture of the frog in Alice his lips Barrett did not speak them. people there and you came in and In Wonderland"? Craven looked po. "I love you?" his heart was crying found me sitting on a stool turping The DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP_Co., Ltd.
out. "I love you!"
much like that frog?
"Do you remember giving me a box to "I've never talked this way
Elinor admitted of cardy years ago?" she asked.
"No, I don't." "well. one
The
bufore,"
day I was at
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the pages--I suppose rather wearily of "The Lives of the Saints. You girl
was entirely unconscious dropped to the floor beside me to make Barrel had healed the car down
rode beside him, the most amusing comments on some! lown Into the narrow streets that are of all this. She silent and open to echoes on Sundays, drinking in the beauty of the fading of the pictures. I'm sure you must
shocked Aunt Ella torribly. people well), made her tense, the sanio streets that hum on working day. Across the bridge in Brooklyn have
They passed a corner of the street days. Here and there in windows Barrett set his his car to a speed in Then you went away and half an hour were lights, muted by the late after-strecta. He had always been certain desful box of candy. For me! A Bessie," the girl thought, "I must go ter kouping with the sedate hush of the later Higgins appeared with a won-where the Thropes lived, "Dear Aunt The tenderness noon to pale lemon, but most of the that successful marriages were made pink box with a ribbon on it. I've to see her soon."
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as he was at that moment. He felt was beside him and yet he wanted Elinor Ant back agalust, the seat;n little girl fooking lonely and rather
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that was within her was spreading rushing buildings, slept. The after a calm consideration and solcc-never forgotten it!"
stillness made Barrett tion. He Had thought often, "If I "I'm glad to hear you say so," he over wide area. Perhaps she feel alone with the girl. He doubled ever marry it will not be because i murmured.
never have such an afternoon as this (the thought coming to him in ush) have been swept off my feet."
"I've never forgotten it," she as again. Well, she could remember it and as also bad that rosy box of candy whether most men in the throes of an Now ho realized that he know no-sured him, "and I never shall!" intense love affair could be as happy thing of the mind of the girl who
Ita donor, a young man who had seen The Motor Vessel,
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as he'd never wanted anything-to smiling. The relaxation she felt was
are boing mood that bad informed that all Goods He turned the car to a bridge below have her by him for the stretch of his so good. Usually people, unless she It was a strange which the river proclaimed itself in life. The conviction had come as know them well (and she knew few come over her one she did not under. landed at their risk into the hazardous sland. Perhaps, she reminded her-and/or extra hazarious Godowns of self, she should be talking. Her com- The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf panion might be bored by hor silence, & Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or She turned toward him. "My aunt from the wharves delivery may be and uncle live in Brooklyn," she said. obtained. Then she flushed. That
Na claims will be admitted after must have
the Goods have left the Godowns, Aounded silly.
But he did not seem to think so. and all Goods remaining undelivered "The Thropes?" he asked.
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"I like women of Mrs. Thrope's
he stated. ty's really wonderful! I love her. She's been very kind to me."
"They have boys?"
"Yes, three of them. Getting along
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to collego age. You'll see them at must have Aunt Ella's some day, I presume."
put
Again Elinor hoped as she had a aro examined." thousand times that Aunt Ella would All brokon, chafed, and damaged the Thrope boys through college. Goods are to bo left in the Godowns, Uncle Jim never seemed to have any where they will be examined on the luck. Everything seemed to her Blessrs. Goddard and Douglas
und 21st December, 1935, at 10 a.m.; by for him. Sometimes Elinor, in young way, felt that she couldn't en- No Fire Insurance has been effected, dure it if Aunt Ella didn't give the Bills of Lading will, bo counter- Thropes the holp they so deserved.
signed by. They were so good, so kind, all of
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Another bridge. That meant not so many moments before they would reach the yawning, canopled door that would admit her to the apart ment building she called home and nover felt to be a home,
enjoyed the drive so much!" sho said as
As the
rondater nosed its way
up Park Avenuo.
"Really?" He asked probingly.
"Oh, yos. Really!”
“Then can't we go again?" he ask-
`od, is casually as he could..
img
you
like."
"I do like!" he assured her almost sharply, "I'd like nothing so much
as to be one of your friends."
"n" she said, "that is so kind of
You
He put his hand on hers; he coula
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not help the gesture. Eliner return To Christmas!
od the pressure frankly and warmly.
Barrett's heart turned over,
(To Be Continued).