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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1936.
An exciting romance by
the popular author
DEM ANCI
WILLIAMS
Small Town Girl
(FEDM WHICH METRO-GOLDWYN-KAYER HAS MADE A MOTION FICTURE)
THE STORY THUS FAR
Quiet
Kay Brannan, late of Wellea- ley, leaves a wild yachting party in a passing rowboat inamned by Paricións Bob Dakin, medical doc- Lur. Motoring her to Boston he drunkenly insists that they mar- ru. Sober again however, he sa horrified for he is engaged to Priscilla Blyde. The Dukins are unexpectedly kind and
to scandalous gossips, a
innial that Kay stay for few weeks. Esit at a tea, Priscilla inaulty Kay and she accenta Pat Norrin pj fer of his bont for a honeymDÓN. On the cruise Bob and Kay are friendly, but after a week's anil- turn back. Kay ing he iviakén gains his reluctant consent to wait until Spring for a divorce hat he warns her that he laven Priscilla and has been thinking of her all the time.
CHAPTER XXII
"You haven't tried very hard," Kay suggested, her eyes twinkling mischievously.
they descended to the water's edge, i can't understand the tide had left the tender high and dry; and she lent Kand at the lask of dragging it down to the water. He ghored her, tugging at the bow of the little bout while Kay puslied And
your father and mother, I don't know what they want us to do."
Bob nodded. They are that way,” ho assentod unhappily. They have. boon, more or less, ever, since I was When it boy. Father has left me to make was afloat at the stern.
he left it with the bow in my own decisions. He's never driven the mud and went up the bank for me, or urged ute. I knew he wanted their belongings, and Kay at his me to a surgeon; but I care heels carried her share of the load. that's why I started in the direc
The fog was so thick that they Hon. Then the work did interest me,
.some dimculty in finding the so I kept on." He shook his hent
at her anchorage, Bob looked "I remember, when I started medical over his shoulder at last, and saw school, saying to him one day that I the little craft just ahend of them wanted to do well, and he asked Kay in the stern and facing forward, why, and I said to please him. He must have seen it long before; and led me not to
consider
him. Bo he demanded angrily.
said, that day: I've done my part, Why didn't you speak up? Want Bob; given you what opportunities 1 could. You make what you like aut me to run into it, did you?!
of them, but if medicine isn't where you belong, don't stick to it on my account. What you da with your fe
for you to decko."
"I thought we weren't speaking to each other any more," Kay told him in malicious amusement, "You
were so
A
"They've made you stand on your own feet," Kay agreed.
He grinned rudfully. "Ivé wab- bled pretty badly, sometimes," he confessed,
wak! Kobe bama cuoiulu
Leave Arrive Leave Leave Leave Leave Arrive
April 11 April 15 April 24 To San
we're not!" ho anid F'cisco
savagely; and they came alongside. April 8 Apell 10 April 17| April 22
When they were aboard, and the tender had been swung in over the E/Russia
May 4 April 17 April 19 April 21 April 23 Apell 25
rall-Kay tugged at n fall without May
uncovered 0 May
Kay neither assented nor denied. E/Japan
8 May 14 May 19
suggestion from him-he May
1 May
"Did you want me to?" he asked the engine and after some
difficulty
He and Kay settled that summer June 1 E/Asia May 15, May 17 May 19 May 21 May 23
grimly. "I told you, the Brat night, started it. He left it idling and went into a routine for the most part un
and eventful. Most of the people they Juno
6 June 12 June 17 the way I felt about-not making forward to get the anelior 8 Juna E/Canada | May 20 May at
love to you. Maybe I was a fool. I when it was clear of the
knew were out of bown. at the shore mud, its E/Russia Juno 12 June 14Jane 10 June 18 June 20
June 29 felt like one. It sounded-foolish, weight, all hanging on the chain, he or in the mountains or in Europe; in so there were not many social de-
the July
July 14 even to me! Quixotic. And yet I came aft again, and let 1 July 3 July
felt
as if i were acting pretty declutch, and with an eye on the com- Genevieve often. She said to Bob ane mands upon their late. They saw
pass set a course. 16 July 181
He July 27 cently, too,"
slowed the
night: engine, drapped a loop around one
Genevieve's like your father and July 29 July 81 Aug.
re-spoke of the wheel, and weat for mother, Bob. I mean, she's-neutral!" ward again to finish raising the an-She smiled at him. "It's as if they 11 Aug. 13 Aug. 16
chor. Kay watched him with a se-
flacht this
E/Japan | Jums 20 June 28 E/Aais July 10 July 12 July E/Caned. July 24 July 20 E/Russia
Auk. Ang. E/Japan Aug. 21 Aug. 23 E/Asla
14 July
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lieved," he told her. "It seemed me you were."
1 Aug. 12
"You were," she said softly. "I gathered that you were
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whispered. "I cret smile, but she did not touch the were all bound to let us Inter- didn't want Priscilla ever to have | wheel or interfere with his arrange-ference her, without any
"Oh, I wan" Kay the least chance to believe she said that day."
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"What did she say to your sently, beginning to under- tanil.
" I have to draw a diagram? Kay demanded, almost angrily. "Oh," she said in the politest pos- sible way, "af course."
He attered a low ejaculation. "I'm mighty sorry" he declared. "Shy was always like that, surrustic, and -malicious. She's done it to
me.
"I don't intend to fight you, Kay," He returned in
in a
silence to stony take the wheel again and once they hold her. He hesitated, said then were outside the cove he changed slowly: "I was pretty wore, when we eume hack from Maine. But- their course to the southward. They plodded blindly through the fog, and ing to be the way you want them, I'll play the game. Things are gon Bob sat leaning forward, staring at
I that nothing, glancing now and then a fair?"
And when you want them.
the compass. Kay beside him, only the wheel between them, kept her "Fair and Fine!"
"Fair and fine, Bob," she agreed. zilence too.
Sometimes I've wanted to wrine her just then lamation of furious on-had guests here, their demennour was i
tered an
This was one of the few oceARİONS Outside Camden Harbour they ran when they had any personal talk hard aground on a half-lide ledge together that summer. When they submerged; and Bob ut met others, when they went abroad or "ger. He werk below to appraise the natural and apparently, unrestrained. "} damage
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"Surel" Fe agrood. He looked at her in an awkward embarrassment. "But that's why you want to wait till spring?"
Kay nodded slowly. "Partly," she¦ sal. Then she faced him honestly. "But Bob, I'm never going to let her have you, even then. Not if I can help
Somebody else. maybe; but He looked at her curiously. "See here," he asked, "are you in love with me?"
"No," she said. "But I hate her! And I like you too well to see you
Bher, She's not good for you,
He was amused. "Why not?" "Why hasn't she morried you be
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Naturally,' he salt
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But when they were alone, there was a barrier between them, gour- only maintained, relaxed, not at all. Bob harl ordinarily to be early at the hospital. Ile rase at seven nad was of course I'm coming." Kay gone by
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Kay touched her ann. "You and
I have to straighten you out first!" was still grinning; but he fell silent, looking straight ahead.
Kay saw his face mettle by slow his father aren't outside influences.” degrees into a sullen mask. She "It has sometimes #comed thought him amusingly like a sulk- though we were," There was in direz ing little boy; was not at all aur. Dakin's glance toward Bob no reproof, prised when he shook his head an- but merely an acceptance of the fact. grily and rose.
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he said, "Sorry I can't rangement she had made. He and oblige. I'm afraid you'll have to let me Apartment by the river; and Mrs. handle my own affairs. Come on. Dakja heiped them, and at Kay's In- vitation she and Doctor Dakin stayed Let's go!" word to gether their gear together. pared. Kay watched them thought
Kay in an equal silence helped fully, seeking to discover what their him, working in her own province after they were gone, she said
atlitudo might be toward her; and while ho rolled the blanketa. When
Bob:
And he began without another to the dinner which Kay herself pro-
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