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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1936.
An exelting romance by
the popular anthar
BEN AMEKA
WILLIAMS
Small Town Girl
(PROM WEIN METRO-GOLOWYN-MATER WAS MADE A MOTION PICTURDĮ
THE STORY THUS FAR
Kay Brannan, petite and beau tiful, has awaited four long years for her sister Emily to praduate from Wellesley so that she can horself enter and thus escape the dull, uneventful town of Curvel." Finally, her great day arrives and she departs for college. There, she meets Helen Ripley, sister of Dane, with whom Emily had secretly been in love. Dane hard promised to visit the Dran- nans but had sent only apologe- tie letters instead. At first, Kay is wholly engrossed in her asdies, She hears.
dral of reckless, handsome, Bob Du kin, a medical doctor, but never werna to encounter him, One day, she yields to Helen's en- treatics and consents to meet Chick Rantoul, who has been prained to her in glowing terms. Chick is immediately interested in her.
-a great
CHAPTER VI.
"Mother, what do you mean?"
"She isn't the stuff spinsters are made of, Kay,"
And Helen laughod at her, But toward
the first of June, a letter from Mre.. Brannan made Kay "But who, Mother," Kay de- remember those faint fears, Wil mauled. "Ned Pastor? She doesn't Brannan, her mother wrote, had just peak
of him as though....
[been through particularly bad time; "They were good friends," Mre.fand the superintendent of the Power Brannan agreed. "But I was think- Plant, a new man who supplanted ing of George!"
Ned Pastor, had discharget him. Mrs. Kay cried mirthfully: "George? Brannan concluded: "I don't quite Mother, don't be silly!" And she knew what your father will do. Ho laughed aloud,
pretty old to find other work, Of Yet when she returned to college course, he can make a garden, and in the fall, this possibility that Eily, with Emily's salary, this year, we're n whom she adored, night marry Gear Ilitie ahead,
go lurked always in dis back of her, But Kay, you mustn't count on mind, ke an
ominous clund. She Wellesley next year," forgot it for weeks on tail. In the Kay read in a curious calm, ni pressure of her work, of her wideningnast as though this were expected activities, of her occasional contacts news, as though it were merely con- with Chick Rantoul and others; but firmation of what she had suspected always it was likely to return to long ago. She wrote loyally:
"Don't worry, Mother And tell perturb hor. Onco when she was with Chicit, he had been discussing a two weeks now-and Emily and I will ad- Father it's all right 'bo home in vertising campaign which at the moment engrossed him. Ele was take care of you. It's time we did. puzzled as to how to treat the sub- You've taken care of us so long... Ject; and Kay made a suggestion which appealed to him so strongly that
ho cried:
sho could show д
But though rave face in her letters home, she tok Ilelen what had happened. Helen was quick with sympathy; and Chick nodded, chuckling. "Why, I'm Charley Rantoul, better known that!" He was a moment silent; then:
"Say, there might be something in Kay sald honestly
"It's hideous, Helen! as Chick," he asstired her. "Gradu.
You know "I think you've hit something! Kay, the way I feel. I've-counted on ated from Yale eight years ago; then three years at the Business School. You've got an idea!" And abruptly Wellesley for so long. But of course I write advertising copy for Bure slapped his fist into his palm. 1 shall go back to Carvel smiling, it can work out something along that can try and comfort Father and line," he declared. "You know, You There's nothing else for me to do!"
care of them. Mother, and rate a commission for that, young woman. A bonus!"
minded him, "unless they're on the "People can't get bonuses," she re- payroll. A bonus is something extra, it; something besides what's
nett and Gould."
Just what does that mean you
do??
to
certain
curt
take
Helen nodded, gravely. "But it's a rotten shame!"
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"Why, n manufacturer comes us and says he wants to advertise his product and spend a amount of money. We plan the campaign; that is, plan where the advertisements shall be run. And we plan the advertisements them- Felves, the flustrations, And the reading matter. I write the things you read in advertisements,""
She considered this. That means you have to know a lot about what-whirled back, as they were apt to do, probably. Chick Rantoul might give
Kay insisted, arguing with her- "It's all right; it's not so bad," self. "But I'll probably be stuck in Carvel, for the rest of my life," she nald hopelessly, and laughed in bit- "If you can knock the ball over the terness. "I'll probably teach school. fence like that, once in a while, I'd
Can
imagine me teaching school? you I might even start a like to have you on any payroll,"
kindergarten!" assured her. If you're ever looking and wor. "You might get a job in | how.
Helen let her talk out all her grief for
" a job.... And at that word her thoughts Boston," she suggested unce
over it is?"
"Yes," he assented. “We have
to
study it and try to pick out the selling points, the details that make it better than similar products in the same lines."
ne
But Kay shook her head. "I could,
But Mother reeds me
to Emily and George. "Do you hire of Emily.. I wish she could find same people?" she asked. "I was thinking me try out.
at home." work in Boston, to be near me, and
away from-Carvel.".
And now, after two years at cof- "Like Flaubert's prescription for fed. "It struck me
"Doesn't she like it there" hefash-eye, Kay will have to leave.
akc reth to Carvel and teuch being original?" Kay suggested. town."
Bs a fine little gehool us she has aid or is there "Or was it Ploubert? To look at a
by
remarked before "eryone, but never thoughts returning to his problem'
(To Be Continued.)
BANK REOPENING
Ire till you discovered something nice, yes. But-well, I think
Kay hopk her head. "Carvel's some other way out for her? Be sure to read to-morrow's cacting instal that distinguishes it from every would rather work in Boston."
Emily ment. other tree: Pomething instantly | He nodded abstractedly, ht Freognizable
nodded thoughtfully. "Some other; and by that discussion whiteh agal. They discussed it long to like that," he agreed and netol as a stimulant upon them both thing well Funched now, e inked on arrived at a complete design. When without much prompting, with only he salt goodbye to her, it was trium- ccasionat word from her. Till, phantly; and he told her again: when they came back to the campu
“You and I would make at last he said apologetically:
you're ever looking for a job, Rus; come airl *ttv
National Commercial and I can use you...Savings Bank Limited, of 88 She said uncertainly: "Emily.
Des But he ignored the word, Voeux Road Central, reojiened! for Keep noh "I like listening." he assured him. de repeated. "Any time at all."
on the hook for you," usines today, following the recent Then we might to get along fine,”
decision made at sophomore year passed for
the creditors' and she laughed and Kay swiftly. She was too busy to he declared; and
shareholders' meeting. maid:
take stock, to busy to appraise and གླུ¢r{¥*_
She did her work adequately;
"I'm afraid I've talked you blind." He grinned. "But I liked it, I like to talk shop, of course, when any one will listen."
"I think so too." She saw him
iown was
not
If
me.
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come and talk it of the bank suspended business during srith -her in order that inrrower,
difficulties should be all resolved.
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She went to one week-end party,
ber, which was precipitated by the pression within an hour; but when at Sally Hays' urgency, and was closure of the Bank of Canton Ltd. one day a car stopped at their gate kissed in an awkward and bungling and she saw Rantoul alighting, she fashion by ቢ
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Emily had smiling questions afterward; but Kay shook her head. "Nothing to tell" she insisted, "I like him, and he likes me, and we both enjoy bein
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As proparations are now being white and her lips trembling, she made for reaumption of business, the Their summer was quiet. Nedcried in quick contrition: "Oh, honey. Branch has sold preference shares Pastor was gone to Manchester to sorry. Forgive me. I was kidding, to the amount of $100,000 as a re-
of larger responsibility: honest1" a position but he drove up almost every week on business, and never falled to stop "Don't feel badly! You couldn't held by creditors who were willing to "It's all right," Kay told her. sorve fund. The perforenes shares are divided into two grades, 250,000 at the house, and between-times he know wrote occasionally. Yet Kay Baw with sort of pity
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In effect, the old creditors accopt B think I'll ever take another drink, as shares and new capital is subscribed We had a lot of good times to long 43 I live. Her eyes were in A shares, gether, lie and I," she said. "But grave. "I think I'll decide that, of course I knew he was too able right now. I'm glad you said that, a. man to
stay here in Carvel very Sally. It made me realize." In her tones, 192
May come heralding summer; and Kay thought her sister seemed Kay's days were very, full tired. "Teaching all winter must as if I had to hurry, hurry, hurry." have worn Emily out," she fold she told Holen Ripley. "As if there Mrs. Brannan. "She looks-older, weren't going to be time for every- Mother!" There was a deep die thing I want to do. I can't bear to tress in her tones. "I saw her with go to bed at night for fear of miss- Lillian to-day, and they almost ing something; and I wake at the look alike. Mother, she mustn't stay crack of dawn, no matter how late I here and just get dosty and worn stay up the night before." and old!"
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