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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1928,

A: FIRST NOVEL!-

WHIRLWIND

"

By Eleanor Early.

bustling upstairs with the aspirin and an ico bag,

But Tad was at the boat with a corsage for each of the girls and. a great box of candy.

THIS HAS HAPPENED. SYBIL THORNE, beautiful and reckless, became engaged. to CRAIG NEWHALL, who is quite all that a young man should be, in order to please her father whom she worshipped. But Mr. down." Thorne died before she could tell him. Shortly afterward June brother, TAD, married VALERIE

"From Val," he said. "She was awfully sorry she couldn't get

"Liar," said Sybil, and kissed him affectionately.

Craig had filled their stateroom WEST, sclilsh and frivolous but with roses, and came bearing ex- "Inordinately pretty,

otle fruits.

Sybil goes to Wlanno to open The girls at the society where the family's summer place for the Mabel worked had given her a homecoming of the newlyweds.camera and a portmanteau.

And at night she wanders alone) "Saints above!" cried Sybil to the beach where JOHN LAW-when she saw them. "Now every- RENCE, the man she still loves, body'll know we're a couple of old first kissed her. It was shortly maida?"

after that glorious night that There was a great deal of klas- John went away to war and never ing. and a little weeping. Mrs. returned.

Thorne, fussing with last-minute

Craig finds, her there, trysting regrets, was afraid it wasn't just with the dead. They talk of love right letting Sybil go off like and life, and Craig urges her to this." Mabel Blake's aunt" warned marry him. She tells him she them to beware of strangera and cannot make any decision because Cuban lotteries. her life is full of perplexities,

"Goodbye. Goodliye,... Be good. and she asks if he would mind if

Don't forgot my perfume. she went away with MABELack narcissus, you know.. BLAKE, to think things over Be sure you look for linens, They have planned to go to Cuba Goodbye. Goodbye." together, but Sybil assures Craig that she will not go unless he in willing.

"Eraigte, darting-hurry!" Mab was on deck, calling to the others from the rail. Excitedly, The devil you won't!" he re-they were clamouring for Craig. torta. "You'll do whatever you

"Where is that boy1 Sakes

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want--and you darn well know alive, he'll get taken away. sure as you're a foot high. Craig! Crady!"

CHAPTER X

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"A real one, dearest,

Don't buy a stitch," counselled Ah!"

There, old sweetheart! And a Mabel. The shops in Havana'are next to Paris. You can buy im-flock of them when I get home again. Now run, "you crazy nut. portations, for a song."

Their facetious friends besieged Craigie, you look ne if you'd lost them with Importunities to "bring your last friend!" home some liquer."

"Do you believe in hunches, Sih?": Vaterie wanted a Spanish shawl. "No, darling. I don't. But I've "White, or cream-coloured, splotch-got a powerful good one that you'll ed all over with roses, and awfully be on your way to Havana if you vampy looking." And "a pair of don't clear out of here." Spanish pumpa with red heels."

"I've a dreadful feeling that this

Mra. West had heard that Cuba is really goodbye, Sybil, look at me. WOB 籍 wonderful plec to buy You know I'm crazy about you. linens. She hinted largely for And that goes, whatever banners, luncheon cover, and suggested that Don't forget, Sib." Valerie's collection be supplement- ed by a few pieces that Sybil could] surely pick up reasonably,

Tnd shoved a handful of bills in his. sister's bag. -For-Val's shawl-and-things," he

explained.

Reo here, Tad," exploded Sybil, "you can't afford to 'trick that wife of yours out like a eircus rider. Lord, the girl got clothes enough In Paris to last her a year."

F

"My dear," Mab told her later, "Craig made that dock by half un inch. I never saw anything like it in all my life. The prettiest jump you ever laid your eyes on. That boy sure is an athlete. Some girls have all the luck."

She looked at Sybil appraisingly. "I don't believe you're a bit in love with him, either. And I know girls who'd give their right eye for him. It's a funny old world"

"You said it," conceded Sybil,

"Gosh, Sib, you don't think I'm going to be a piker with Val, do you? What's a couple of hundred | laconically. dollars, for Pete's sake!"

"It's 'n couple of hundred you can't afford to spend. Thorne and you know it."

They had their deck chairs that moved under the awnings, and up- Tad prabed their fellow passengers in-

Įterestedly,

"What's the difference?" "Val's dreadfully spoiled, Tad, and you're pampering her like a baby. What does she think you are?"

"Anybody look good to you?” Mal wanted to know:

Sybil elicked them off on her fingers.

"Mrs. Jones and dauschter, Alice, "Lay off Valerie, will you, Sybil !" travelling, take it, for Alice's

Tad spoke sharply.

"Ob funeral."

Quick tears eyes.

right. It's

health Miss Jane Wikgins, fram your Wellesley, en route for the troples to gather material for something or other Borribly neademic. Mrs,

once Parkins on her way Pauma to visit her married daughter. Helen.

sprang to Syli's was so tragically easy to cry those days. When people!

It

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"She's knitting a baby's jacket were sharp with her, or very ten- jover there, next the minister. der, she felt the same absurd im That's Mr. Winsor, with the Roman pulso to weep. Now she stopped collar. There's

a priest aboard.

to the roses on the library table too- don't know his name. ashamed to lat Tad see her foolishi

"There are three sisters manied

tears. She was idiotically jealous Corrales, from Havana, They've of Valerie. Hurt, like. child, be- Cause Tad championed his bride been in the States at school and are

against her.

"Gee, Tad, I'm touchy, I didn't mean to pop off like that."

Ilis arm across her shoukier mado things right,

1

going home for vacation. Beautiful girls. The missing ones are probably having a, drink, take it we're three miles out. One of them's sort of fat. He had a "You're shot to pieces, Sis. All cap on when I saw him, but I tired out. This trip's going to be could tell to look at him he's get-

just the thing for you. Wish to the Lord I was going along."

Ling ld. He wears a diamond stickpin,, and he has high blood

"You could if you weren't mar-pressure. The other one is tall ried

The

She could have bitten her tongue off when the words were out. door had opened and Valerie was with them.

and thin."

Mabel sighed. "It looks," she upined, "like an uneventful irip."

"That's all right for me." Sybil stretched comfortably. I'm not hungering for excitement,"

"Well, I am. How old are you, Sybil?"

"So that's the way you feel about it, is it! I always knew you didn't like me, Sybil Thorne. I knew from the beginning that you were a hateful old thing., Nice to my face-Oh, of all the mean, horrid things! Trying to come between you were older." Tad and me. Oh! Oh!"

"Almost 23,"

"Oh, you're young yet, I thought "I am, Inside. I look older,' I

"Well, I'm 84."

Valerie's voice broke on high,know." and she ran, crying wildly, from the room.

"And you, too, Tud Thorne! You're just as bad ng she is. Oh

oh-I want my mother!" Tad was after her in a bound. "Baby.. Baby. Sybil could hear him as he caught her on the stairs. "Well well, you poor little thing..."

it."

"Honestly, Mab? You don't look "You know darn well I am. Marion Forbes told you laat week at Claire's bridge. And I happened to hear you say I looked older than that.

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"I'm a man-hunting female. And the only difference between me and "My job's wracking, Sybil, And, the rest of them is I'm honeet- upon my word, social workers are and they're not. And time you see Valerie's sobs were smothered in the darndest pack of sour old a good-looking man glancing my We way, clear the docks for action. his arms.. . "Poor little baby," hens I ever laid my eyes on.

Ife carried her to his room, the talk a lot about independence and For Mabel'll get him if he don't Groom they shared together now." pretend we pity the married ones. watch out."

"Damnation!" sald Sybil,

It was quite exciting, getting away. Valeria pleaded a headache and stayed at home,

But belleve me, there isn't one of us Sybil yawned luxuriantly. "You wouldn't be there ourselves if we got the chance.

make me tired, Mab. I'm going to sleep."

But Mab would not be silenced. "Living In furnished rooms,

"Look, Sib," she whispered, hanging onto car straps, eating in cafeterias, doing our faundry in "over there by the rail! Is that God is good," murmured Sybil, the bathroom, And we say we man looking at me or am I having piously, when she saw Mrs. Thorne wouldn't "swap our Independence hallucinations?"

(To Be Continued.)

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