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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH." WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1929.

THE SHINING TALENT.

By Eleanor Early.

CAPTER XI..

Once a reporter. they say, always reporter. And to good newspaper woman everything is copy. Lite, and Denth, and Love, and Fiatu. Obviously, then, this Ingerul bay was copy. Rattling good copy, too.

#bling debis at the university, and

the kid was afraid of an expose.

Well, Bernice suld she'd marry him, and give him a few thousand besides, if he'd be a good little boy, and do exactly as she told him. And then she confessed that Bar- rows was beginning to tire of her. Not that she gave a hoot whether Molly leaned forward cagerly, the loved her or nut. Oh, no, Ber "And what she demanded, "arenies wasn't one of your senti you going to do with him. Red?" mental models. I don't suppose

Red shrugged narrow shoulders she'd ever given a snap eloquently,

"Darned if I know," he admitted.fingers for a man in her life.

there was a lot of money in the Barrows outfit.

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"There he lies-God's little gift to men. But you know, nicwapaper Molly, it seems a shame to tell the world."

"I don't know why." she retored. "If he's spilled a solution of the Bradford "murder, Red, it's your civic duty to tell the work

of her But

"Yo remember „Barrows" "dunt was supposed to have provided the defence fund. Well, that wasn't his own aunt. She was his wife's mint And for Mrs. Barrows' sake, the old lady would go through uny- "Maybe," he admitted. "Bat to thing. Barrows' wife's people tell the truth, dear, I haven't any wouldn't stand for any scandal. of that stif called civle prade." And Bernice knew the game from

"You're just soft-hearted," shen to z. accused."

"But this was to be high class small-time "Soft-hunted nothing!" he re- blackmail. Nothing joined Indignantly. "I'm practical, about Bernice. Barrows Was too that's al Arid, just now, I've got well known to have his private life an idea, Melly. A great big iden." concealed from anybody. It wouldn't Molly sighed. "Go on," she do Bernice any good to Ray whe arged. "I'm dying of curiosity, jdidn't know he had a wife, lled. Tell me about the Ingersoll

ilea."

kid, and never mind your beautiful) "That being that, our heroine'

reekaned a husband would be h Red lighted another cikarette. god bet. And this sight I'm tell Molly, darling, he informed her.ing you about how she laid her "le you and all that, but you're is on the table

a dreadful dumbbell. Can't you

Well get married, she told

see there's a plot for a play, or 4 young ingersoll, and then you'll

vel, in this Ingersall kid? Why

She Barrows Throw the thing away on a

lienation of my affections."

paper yarn? Why not collaborate

on something worth while? What's

threaten to

'far

"At first the kid didn't get it.

continue

a bonus from the old man, a mousley And then she tells hini she menas little $50, whun, we dun make afto

Barrows. to play fortune? I tell you, Moily, we can Petty'll have to come home sonie cap kirick Broadway dead with the night, and catch Harrows there, stuif that brat spilled tonight!" | He's just to be the boob, that's all "Perry'd have to make a scheme,

"But tell me!" shy besought.he said, and make off he wanted to "Bed, you're infuriating. You res. The Bernice was haven't told me a thing. You're to interfere, and try to patch simply talking your head T. things up. And in the end "they'd don't know what it's all about." -

[have Barrows promising them any- "Na? Listen, then. Selemanly thing they wantedi. He could get

"Perry Ingersol fell Bog began.

from his wife's money, yu HOU, in love with Bernice Bradford.". -

laust. There were two reasons why. the old lady would give it to him, and Bernier knew them both..

the way she loved her niece. Then there was the scandal end of it. It the thing thre-tened to become a court case, the ld lady'd peel off a hundred. then to save the family, honotr

"Yes, yes."

nodded -Molly "And because she was Kay and charming, and very, very wise, this younger Ingersoll found her capt vating. She was different from all the nice little girls he'd know The good girls, who smoke a lot and drink a little, and pretend to be very, very bat. Bernice didn't inve to pretend. She was just her self. Benutiful, and loving, and sinning. So Ingersoll tell in love with her, did he?"

thought he did."

"First, there was

«Molly gasped. "You don't mean to toll me," she cried, "that Inger-

all agree to it?

1

Brd nodded contemptususly, “He did,” he aflirmied, "just that. "Well, he

"But alon't forget. Meily, that the amende Rod, "and that's pretty kid was absolutely infatuated with much the same thing, is near usher and after all he is a kid. can make out. She was just the And anyhow, he swears he had no glitteringest thing that had ever come into his life. And, when she intention of complying with her

schemes. After they were gave him a little attention, he dried, he never meant to leave her. like a load of bricks. Did tell The pour sup was going to make you he wrote poetry to her? Called her love him. That was what he her his golden girl, and all that thought.""" trash. His Glamarous, Golden

"Do you believe it?"

mar-

Girl. Doesn't it give you a pain,Oh, I don't know. The kid's no Molly?"

"No," she said. "I think it was Galahad. The point is, he pro- rather sweet of him. Red, and awfully pathetic."

Red chuckled. "Just a born little romanticist," he chided. "And

mized he'd go through.

"And Bernice went and bought a wedding dress. That girl sure had sense of humour. A wiile satin

you a newspaper woman, Molly dress and flock of talle."

"Go on!" she pleaded

"I know," murmured Molly, "and

a duchess' cap of seed pearls, with "Well, as I was saying. yong range blossoms tucked in her Perry Ingersoll got a poetic pasveil. It wasn't a sense of humour Mion for this woman, il pretty though. Rud. Women don't joke secn, he started glorifying her. abt things, like that. Pour soul Wanted to marry her. But Bernice-she was buried in it." knew how to play her cards better Eed nodded pnfeelingly. "Swell than that. Am adoring kid might boking corpse, wasn't she?". be some use to a girl in her pro fession, but what the heck could

"I didn't see her admitted Melly, "but I had a good line about the

she do with a sophomore husband way she "looked. I said hers was "You say he knew about Bar-'a beauty made Death' amorous." " rowa?" questioned Molly.

"Good!" approved Red. "You can"sure turn a pretty phrase, bld.

"Uh, Barrows darn, beur brok¢ | dear,"

the poor sap's heart," rejoined "I did write some good stuff on Red. The kid was so Jenlous he that case," confessed Mary delight couldn't acc straight. That's Why Jedly. "Emotional writing is what I he was ready to swallow Bernice's like." proposition. hook, line and sinker."

What proposition?".

,

¡

"And here's your chance," cut in Bed excitedly. "Don't you begin Don't be in such a hurry," he to see the thing, Molly? Say, this instructed. "Ain't I trying to tell has all those crime and sex plays you? First you see, the kid was boat a mile. Why, honey, you can imploring Bernice to marry him, give the best of them a run for and she was laughing at him. their money. Here you've got all Then, when he'd given up hope, and the ingredients for the best damn made up his mind she meant, it, she plot la history. Beautiful woman. suddenly turned the tables. One Quivering Passion. The calf love night she asked Perry to marry of Ingersoll. Play Ingersoll along- her! I can imagine the

poor side Barrows. And Bernice along- boob's heart busting. with joy side Mrs. Barrows. Sin versus re-t when Bernice promptly took all the spectability, with Sin all glamour. joy out of life.

ous and seductive. And Respecta "For a considoration,' she says.bility so damn proper that Sin calls And then she outlined her scheme. the tricks. And there's your Moral, "Now, Ingersoll's the sort of chap Every play has to have a Moral."

"And Mystery!" cried, Molly. that would cry, and carry on like a

But he's a welcher at "Why, Red, it's the most mysterious heart. If he wasn't, he'd never thing that ever was! Here's a wo- have consented to her proposal. man, preparing for her wedding day. All set to blackmail a wealthy And consent he did.

lover, and marry a boy who adored

woman.

"Bernice' knew he was infatuated her. Everything resy. Why-why with her, and that she could twist would she kill herself?" him right around her belewelled

"That's just it!" announced Red

little finger. She know, too, that triumphantly. "And the answer is he was broke and desperately in-she didn't."

need of money. There seems to "But who?" began Molly. have been something about gam-

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