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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1936.
SERIAL STORY—
BARGAIN BRIDE
CHAPTER XXXIII
Lida, on her way home from the de- Lectivo's culce, decided to drop in at Cleo's and try on the blue sports frock she had admired. If Her sus pielens about Barratt Colvin were correct and they couldn't be wrong ho could buy the frock and a hat too. She would add them to her
KATHARINE HAYILAND-TAYLOR
road, the giving a hall to the voyager | jewels on her arms. She thought of who would probably disappear and the man's glittering eyes and warmed
(To Be Continued)
nover reappear.
"I'm sorry," Barrett said. "You'va taken the wrong turn. You're miles out of the way, I'm afraid! I'm not certain myself of the spot where you cut cast."
bo
house as the stranger murmured a Gerald came running from the
"1'}} perplexed, distressed, damned!" He studied Geraid sa a me
might who is thinking backward to find the tum he didn't take. Itis
tation, but within him he was tri.
charge account and tell Cleg that in short while she would suttio for everything and make more purchases. She would be able to have every thing she wanted, unce ahe discovered Barrett'a aceret. The thought that' Barrelt might refuse to pay her eye seemed filmed by worry and irri- for keeping silent ald not even enter umphant. "The kid in a Calvin," he her mind.
Clre, the proprietor of the fashion-chin, eyes, sandy hair"
thought. "No doubt of that! Same able 57th street altop, was none to cordial in weleeming Lida but after A few
wards her slightly frigid smile! became warm. Cleo herself was soon ordering saleswomen to bring out the newest imports.
Wan the woman, who now stood in the doorway the boy's mother?
"Maybe your wife could tell mej about the ronde," said the driver of the small car as he nodded to the the house and to the porta. woman who had now stepped from
at the memory.
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Not my wife," said Barrett, smil For VESTA'S Long Life/Jan The day was fine and he
It happened that Barrett decided he would drive to Conneclleet that afternoon. had to disappoint Gerald on Saturday because of work at the office. The boy had come to depend upon seeing Barrett once wook and Barrett felt he had a right to depend upon this He ordered "Hutten to bring around the roadster which ho sald be would drive himself.
He wanted to be alone that after- noon. He wanted to be able to think of Elinor without feeling that some one might steal a sly side glance and read his thoughts. Barrett felt that he must have an understanding with Elinor, He wanted to ask her to help keep the year without that taint that starta gossip.
ing. "But that won't keep her from tening you and she doubtless knows. Mrs. Phillipal" he called "Can you tell us the shortest road to Benton?" She came hurrying down the steps toward them. that way," she confessed, "and I hear "It's been a good while since I took
there's a new road--"
Maybe your husband can tell me," nald
the young man.
She flushed and paled. Barrett said quickly, "Mrs. Phillips. is a widow. He was thinking of the short time she had been one and re- gretting the brutal reminder:
"A widow' echoed In the stranger's mind. It was the old tale! And the big guy looked no straight, ton!
iny I use your telephone?" asked the driver of the small ear,
Marcin had told him the day before that Bob Telfare had gone to Alken. The casual information had made him stiffen with anger. It wasn't fair of Elinor, he decided. It was not fair! She had promised outward; if not in-ness. ward, Adelity for a year.
Why, surely Mrs. Philips an- swered with pleasant, rural hearti
He called a blind number to toll The apring day moant nothing to "Lucy" that he would be late for hin, driving swiftly and carefully dinner. Done with the telephone, he and considering how he could talk it asked for a glass of water, drank it through with her. He felt that he slowly and chatted with the must keep from becoming angry and picious woman. Yes, she took care of
นก S for some reason which he did not the little boy for Mr. Colvin. The boy fathom the Idea of Elinor Birting with was Mr. Calvin's adopted
2430. A nice, pleasant little fellow, the boy was. She was that fond of him! Mr. Colvin came up once a week. The boy was to have a new tutor *7p0. Ile hadn't liked the old tutor. His name was Dexter, she thought It seemed "kind of hard" to get good tutors to stay In the country.
Bob Telfare made him. red. He
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wanted to be ne kind about the ritun tlon as a nun end be. Elinor was very young. Iler upbringing had given her no chance of knowing right from wrong.
•
He thought suddenly how sweet she had looked that night when she called him to her bedside after their Arst quarrel
and because this memory warmed him he felt a shame that he was learning we'l. He could not love her as he lind came to, and yet the faintest thought of her made his heart plunge and filled him with a deep and cometimes torturing hunger,
if he
The sleek person with whom Lida had had a talk early that morning called her by telephone as she est it her lonely dinner. Lida had been able to locale no one who would dine with her and Carra Woodbridge on being naked had been so ley as to be 'nsultingi
"I've good news for you!" she heard. over the wire. "It was pretty smart work to nail it down so quick-"
"Oh, indeed yes," Lida
murmured.
Easy enough, he mused, weren't the sort to demand ac much. If he could love a woman he could not honour, if he could feed his hunger Letween moments of, understanding Thes
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and scorn. But he could not do that we sharpening "What is the OF THE YEAR!
A small car passed him. On a riss She heard the man cloar his thront,
of the next hill he passed it. There Then he raid, "It would be better. fter it kept rather close to him, some- Mrs. Stafred, if I ran up to your times passing, sometimes lagging bo- place to tell you. It ain't it isn't hind. It Kave Barrett a rather jo matter сли азу so easy by pleasantly companionable feeling. He phone waved at the driver who grinned "I shall instruct my buller to admit ano'ogetically as he returned the you." the drawled. salute. The
"Yes, mam-yes-3h, Mrs. Stafford. driver of the small car rether I'll be right along!" wished Barrett were not such
"nice She hung up, triumphant. She Jonkin', friendly chap," However, held the whip now and Barrett would business was business. And maybe he cower! She would show him that had it
It coming to him! You never she, Lida Stafford, was not the woman
tell.
to forget such rebuffs as he had given When Barrett alighted before the her. tway of Gerald's new home, the
cota
Smiling, she left the telephone to
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Barrett again saluted him. He would be quite frankly overcome by enjoyed the casual friendships of the her dress, cut daringly low, and the
Mon., 27th Jan.
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