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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1928.

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A FIRST NOVEL!

WHIRLWIND

CHAPTER XL

The photographer grinned good- naturedly.

"It's all in the day's work, Mr Nowhall. It's my bread and butter, popping off celebrities and crim- inals and such. But the job's not worth the chance in a case like this I should have taken you from across the street, and asked questions afterward. I'm John Dumb for

Hure."

He shifted his camera to the other hand, raised his hat pleas- antly, and took himself off. Then he skirted around back ways, op proached the house from the side, und succeeded in getting a picture that was aubarquently "emptioned: "Thorne Home Where Lovely Brido Remains Virtual Prisoner"

Tad brought home more panora when he came to dinner, and the

By Eleador Early,

tears, were glazed and dreadful looking.

"Tad! Mothor's Ill."

Sybli flung her arm about her mother. "There, there, darling. It doesn't make a bit of difference. It's simply comical! Honestly, dear, think it's funny. I don't mind a bit...Tad carry mother into the drawing-room....The big red chair, Tad... And we'll give you a nice cup of good strong cot- fee, darling ... and you'll be all right iu a minute.

Tad lifted her as though she were a child and Valerie brought pillows, and a foot stool, and when they had made her comfortable. they tried to make her laugh.

"Can't you see what a joke it is?” demanded Sybil. "The man never saw me in his life. He doesn't know a thing about me, really. Let me read it to

family council that evening was ply a scream gear. It's sim-

divided between wrath and mouns.

But Mrs. Thorne waved away the Sybil put her mother to bed with lurid sheet with her little flutter-

a sedative, and Craig mixed cock-ing, blue-veined hands. talls for medicinal purposes,

SO14 please," she begged, "You shouldn't have started it,"please. That dreadful, dreadful Sib," complained Tad,

man! What can I do?"

Tad atood on the hearth, rug with his feet wide apart, and his

"She's been right-all through," defended Valerie, stoutly,

And Craig, his face flushed dark-hands plunged in his pockets. ly, was ominously silent.

In the nursery, when she crept in to kiss Teddy good night, Sybil found her mother, crying softly.

"Thank God," she sobbed bro- kenly, "your poor father didn't live to see this day."

"I guess, · Ma," he predicted gloomily, "you'll have to, take up church-going. Ministers are a good, safe lot-though they may be a bit. dull,

Valerie drew the purple afghan The injustice of it hurt Sybil closer about her mother-in-law's more than any of them knew. Bit-row shoulders.

"Poor Mother Thorne!" she whis-

est. Tada joking, dearest."

Sybil glanced at the watch on her wrist.

terly resentful, she scorned defence,pered, and kissed the soft grey hair "If they weren't blind as bats," where the part lay pink and brond- she told herself fiercely, "if they weren't ton selfish to think of any one but themselves, they couldn't blume me po.. Infatuation len't à nin. It lan't wrong to marry a man. I didn't do anything wicked ;.. and you'd think I was a moral lepert"

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Florcely she crushed and tore the newspapers and ground them on the

floor beneath her heels,

"Oh, it Jan't fair. It isn't fair

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Next morning there were more stories, and an entire page in the Boston Morning Telegraph devoted- to pictures... Sybll in a swimming suit. Sybil in a ball gown. Sybil at the Horse Show in a riding Banit. ... An old photograph of Craig from the Harvard Year Book.... Richard Eustis "especially posed for the Boston Morning Telegraph." ... And a pleture of Valerie, sweet and lovely in her wedding gown. ...There were photographs of the "palatial home of the Thornes," and their summer place at Winnno."

"Olry God" proane! Tad. Vak le surveyed the heap of pa- pers distastefully.

#wealda't lock at them," she said, and pushed them away.

Then the Gazette's red headlines eught her eye.

"Crandon" she cried. "Gh, Sib, look!"

Across the top in glaring bead- linea was ment for Gazette readers. "Sybil Thorne Paycho Analyzed," screamed the crimson type. -

And below, in smaller letters, "PRIMITIVE EGO

MAKES TROUBLE

"Eight-thirty!" she cried. "And mert begins at nine. We'll have to hurry. Do you feel up to it, mo- you rather stay

ther or had

here, and rest?""

"Up to it!" Mrs. Thorne put a hand on each arm of the big red chair. "My dear, I feel like a new woman. Do you know what. I'm going to do?"

She raised herself to her feet and suveyed her children with quiet dignity.

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"I'm going to sue that man, don't know exactly how it can be done, but I'll see a lawyer to-day. There must be some law for the protection of a client or patient in confidential consultation, Maybe he is practicing illegally. There will be some way of getting at him. I'll sue him for $100,000 and at- tach everything he's got! He thinksa I'm nothing but a neurotie, Billy

old woman. I'll show him, chil- dren!"

Laughing, they crowded about her, to pat her, shoulders and kiss her faded checks.

"Get my hat, "Vol" she rom- manded briskly. "It's up on my bed, dear. And hurry up or we'll all be late!"

Everybody, it seemed, was in court when they reached there. Dolly Weston rushed up and kissed Sybit effusively. The Moores' came to shake hands-Jack and Mabel- quietly confident,

Mrs. West, garrulous and excited,

FOR BOSTON GIRL put her arms about Sybil and peck-

ed Mrs. Thorne. Groups of smart- | ly-dressed womer bowed when they

Emotional Unrest

"Science Explains

Of Society Women

"Claude Crandon Contributes Searching Analysis of Mental Conflict

Then followed the story;

"Claude Crandon, Buston's fure

sational Eustis divorce case, Dr. Crandon, well versed in psycho, dis- cussed at length the so-called

ego.

passed. Girls with whom Sybil hnd

from across the room.

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·Hourkons, 18th February.. 227. folk next door, "Naughty but Nice" Larwood Valerie held the paper in both ed questions of one another cager- her trembling hands, and ready

of this popular star's successes, aloud in a high pitched voice. "Who's that shaking hands with folds of his robe. Glared belliger- takes its place among the very best Tate Shrill words tumbled, one over an her now Mra. Grayson? Dla ently at his watch. Restored it to you see the dame with the lorg- his pocket and settled his heavy other, from her horrified på.

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"Neither your husband nor his Sybill The obscene old trout! ... Hundred.......There's

Mrs. Thorne, before the great sil-coming in.......This may hurt attorney are here. The judge may girlishness, vivacity and ingenuous ver coffee service, cowered like ahim politically.....That's her uro-dismiss the case," frightened thing.

ther....Well, they're all giving "Did he say," she quavered pither the gland hand....Oh, no, cited whispers. Bomething had pantomimic gifts for which sho la D. R. Jardine, run out cously, "anything - anything they're not. She's been getting a happened. One felt it in the air so well known. Donald Reed is a E. Hendren, e Richardson, k

Blackie about-the-the-about Sybil's love fluck of ley staren. Plenty of of that stuffy courtroom when the new screen leading man whose love

Pretty tough, door swung open and a court off- Colleen almost loses no a result of A. P. F. Chapman, e Ryder, b life?"

snubs, I'd say Tad peanhed the column.

cer, fumbling at his brass buttons, her risky escapades. Other sup Isn't it?!"

hurried to the judge's bench. porting playere include Claudej H. Larwood, e Ryder, b Grim- "Love life'-well, I'll be- He certainly did. Say, Ma, how much Waiting. Waiting, What was The judge leaned forward, cup- Gillingwater, Kathryn McGuire, of this stuff did you split?” the delny? Where was the de- ping his car with his hand. Nod- Edythe Chapman, and Clarissa

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The judge-like an old woman "Mrs, Eustis, will you come Then the little hands were still.igging a handkerchief out of her here, please?" And the dim blue eyes, veiled in petticoat pocket-fished in the

(To Be Continued.)

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