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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MARCH ⠀⠀ 27, 1936,
Small Town Girl
(FROM "WHICH-METRO-GOLDWIN-MAYER HAS MADE A MOTION FIOTVARĮ
An' exalting womanatee by
„the popular auther
WEN AWES
WILLIAMS
THE STORY THUS FAR
Kay Brangan, late of Welles- ley, clopes with Bob Dakin, ma¬ dical doctor. He is drunk, but noter again, is horrified because of Priscilla, his finneco. Priscilla openly insuits Key so Bah re- luctantly consents to Kay's plea that he wait until Spring for a divorce. As the months park Bob becomea engrossed in his medi eat work and he and Kay achievo anort of strained companionship, Priscilla visity Kay one day and Bob drincs her home. Hours inter he returns from a success- ful operation highly jubilant. The hospital had located him at Priscilla's. But in the hours of waiting Kay has aufered. She knows now that she loves Bob and that he loven Priscilla Next
Kay cried: "She is? 1 didn't the most matter-of-course, fashion, know Sho hasn't told me. I'll botį waiting for Kay to go on. George is proud!"
"I used to take a drink, sometimes, "George is a good man," Mrs. Mother," Kay confessed. "I'd had too Brannan said, gently. "He is do-ranny that night! I wasn't drunk;
but things weren't real. Ing well, Kay!"
And when And Kay asked about other. I had to get away from Dane, a bont townsfolk. Mrs. Brannan patiently came along past where we were an- told her all the nows. Nancy Towne, chored, and I asked them to put me had come home from Holyoke with-annore, I meant to take a train for out faleting her course there, "I Boston."
think she found it hard to keen up "Bot Bub was in the bont; and he with her studies," Mrs. Brannan ex- was drunk tao. Ho wanted to drive. plained. "Naney was always a little me back to Boston, and I let him, unstable. People scom to think she and we got lost, and he asked me will marry Ethan
Sho Frame." Sue to marry him. And I did." Clemons, she said, had left the Post looked at Mira. Brannan appealingly.
"I'd never mot him before. He was Ofice and gone to Concord as assist engaged, and I knew it. Oh, there's ant at the State Library. A political no excuse for mo appointment. Lilian Radford still teaching in the Carvel
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"Sho says she's stopped strup 200la. know, of course, that it was sudden, day the leaves for Carvel, tire, Brannan added, with a little because you hadn't mentioned him in
rling no one god-bye hut Bob's father.
CHAPTER XXVIII
chuckle of mirth. "Lillian's a
nica
your letters before. And of course Emily knew his reputation." girl. Lots of fur. Emily's very Kay nodded. "So the girl he was fond of her." Quck Wobster's fil-engaged to was menn to me, na- Hond ling station had become a garage turally," she explained. "lis people and then an agency for one of the were ao nice I was ashamed of my he was this Pris- charge of the Power Plant. Ile furiated me, and I told Bob he'd have was not very well, had had a ner to stay married to me for a while. YOUR
breakdown. He and George That I wouldn't let him divorce me were good friends, and Ned saw a till I got ready. Bob and of course good deal of George and Emily, he would do whatever I wanted. He Charley Radford's shingle mill Fad felt he'd treated me hudly; and he burned down, and Churley was dead. wanted to make it as easy for me as "How is Eimert" Kay prompted, possible. And I took advantage of smiling at many memories.
I just hung on, and hung on, "He's still, working for the Comlike a dog in the manger."
She hesitated, made a movement of pany," Mrs. Brannan replied. "You'll ind him changed, too."
Anality with her hand. "But now I'm till her lung reticence began to be fluished.
She asked Kay no questiona at n!]; [going to let him divorce me" conspicuous and disquieting, and Kay sold at last ruefully:
Kay did not announce her home-pering. Ned Pastor was bor in ella Hyde-sald something that in comifig in advance. Once her decl. sion was made, there was no time for it letter, and nothing to be said in a letter that could not be better said July 14 first hand. She left no letter of July. 27 1 Aug. 12 Aug. 24
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farewell for Bob.
It was impossible even to write without self-betrayal.
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Mrs. Bronhan was sitting in B rocking-chair. She had been motion,
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You see that, Mother? What hussy I am?"
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She took the train to Dexter. The better trains rag to Newfield, and a motor bus service would bring her to Cik
Carvel from either town; but if whe went home by way of Newfield, bus must pass through Carvel village to rench Cap'n Somes's place, and she dreaded the recognitions she must 1 "I expect you've wondering how Iless; but now she selected a sock from Thre
the speculations her arrival happened to burst in on you with Se chose to come by way of out, any warning or anything."
Mrs. Brannan smiled. "I never Dexter; and for the last hour of quarrel with good luck, Kay," she the northward ride. while
thesaid, with as much affection as she Weare meandered in wide easy was ever likely to show. "I'm too curves within sight of the train, gind to have you here, afraid If she alled her eyes with the familiar touch you, you'll vanlah again. We've contours of the it, and the pleas-missed you!". ant green of the bright countryside.
Mrs. Brannan "I know." Kay assented. She and why, I always rather liked you, When she alighted at Dexter, she thoughtfully: should have Come met no one whom she know. Even home when I left college. This is Kay, she admitted,
For the driver of the bas was a young
Kay course, you would," man she had never seen before. "Places don't matter s0 much."agreed, choking, trying to laugh.
mean... She could not It was, she reflected, more than Mes. Brannan suggested, "It's what two years since she went away, and people do in then."
"Bob acems to have-behaved well," many things might in the interval: 've done some wild things," Kay Mrs. Brannan suggested. "Once the have
chungel. Yet nie smiled admitted, laughing a litle reckless-
She looked at Kay faintly at the thought. Carvel didly. "I might as well tell all about it?han was done."
briety. Don't tell me anything you "Oh, he's been great," Kay stam. The bus rocketed along the wind- shouldn't," Mrs. Brannan advised. ing road, lurching around the cur- She hesitated for a moment, then ves; and suddenly she saw her home, | Maid, wisely: "I expect there half hidden by encircling trees, and trouble, between you and Bob, But Her eyes filled blindingly; but as the Kny, it's a mistake to tell your family bus slowed to drop her at her own gate, her heart leaped with a thrilling and ingredible happiness; and she alighted falling. She almost ran across the wide lawn to the side door; and a moment later, weeping like a child, she was in her mother's armas. Kay hnd an hour alone with her mother, for Will Brannan would not come from the store till suppertime, and Emily was of course at her home, college, I was desperately afraid the same place," she declared. "On LONDON SERVICE taking care of the baby, preparing have to came back to Carvel. I ex- Kay. I've darned it half a dozen his little toe. Just look at this one, supper for George.
For a few minutes after her ar pect I net my cap for every man I times in this one spot already; and
met. I was ready to marry almost rival, Kay was full of questions. anyone, as long as I didn't have to the rest of it, except in that one
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She nodded dumbly, “I do love him," she said. "But I couldn't hang on to him, ruin everything for Kay smiled, shook her head. "Nocilla." And she admitted bravely: He's still in love with Pria- quarrel at all, Mother" she insisted If I didn't care for him, I could. "Bob's fine!" She hesitated, her face
"Of course," Mrs. Brannan assented. twisting in a grimace of pain. "The She was busy with the sock for a only way to tell it is in plain words,"
"Your hurts for a minute. After I she said bravely, "Then its only while; chuckled to herself.
left father always wears out his socks in
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Afterward, in the late dusk, they consciously had expected to find her Kay seems to have settled down all walked over to Emily's, and raw sister faded, a little weary, begin into the routine of Carvel" Will sho the baby put to bed, and Kay found ng to scem older. But Emily, turn back to her childhood sweat- George: astonishingly younger, more blooming, with the approach of ma- heart, Elmer Radford for love and amusing, and with a calm dignity ternity, wore a wise and gracious contentment! Look for to-morrowed) born of anocces which became him beauty, the beauty of one who has revealing instalment, well. Emily was rudiant.. Kay un- found the life, she loves,
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