1929-10-15 — Page 9

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1929.

THE SHINING TALENT.

By Eleanor Early.

CHAPTER XVI,

"There!" she said "The maga- zines are on the floor, and I've Ruth was buried in her wedding some new books on the lowest shelf. gown, with her lips touched They come into the office, to be re- with scarlet. Molly thought she viewed, and I've been begging them looked like Isolde, with her white to let me do some reviewing myself, face and her white eyelids, and her Next Saturday I'm to have a col- little white hands folded so chaste-umn on the book page.".

ly.

She bent to kiss the soft cloud of her hair, and thought of what it was that Tristam hud whispered to his Isolde ".

..your gold hair That is not gold. Only God knows,

who made it,'

What colour it is exactly."

F

"You're too darn smart," he re- proved lovingly, "No wonder you don't want to marry me.'

"But I do!" she cried, and kissed him swiftly.

She surveyed the luxury of her little apartment complacently.

!

Bob and Rita, and Molly and "And I love nice things!" she Jack had bought a blanket made of breathed. "Really Jack, I couldn't roses, to throw over the casket. bear to be poor. Could you? It's And Zip had filled her arms with too severe a strain on love, I think. sweetheart roses.

You see I know lots more about life and love than I used to."

"You and Life!" He bantered. child, and buy your

The people from upstairs came down, and a few curious neighbours called. Their faces were long, and "Run along, their words were right. And the banquet.""

Fr

woman from upstairs wrung her First she went to the market on hands, and 'called Ruth "the poor the corner. A pound and half of dear," and said how awful it was. sirloin, with the bone cut out- The neighbour's brought in a cold Jack must be starved. Mushrooms ham and some potato salad, and and tomatoes, and some big Ber their voices quivered with the muda onions. A bunch of celery, wiht a package of cream cheese, a proper degree of feeling..

And Molly, though she despised bit of roquefort and taste of Endives for herself for the thought, wondered camembert, to stuff it.

salad. Oh yes-and a jar of

if people felt an exhilaration in others' troubles. Those people, for] instance, who brought the ham, and "the woman from upstairs, also...

She turned fiercely to Jäck. "Look!" she whispered. That woman is fingering Ruth's gown! She's indecent."

cream.

L

"

There was a man standing on the corner, when Molly left the store. She had noticed him before, when she came out of the apartment. A short, dark, dirty-looking person, with pock marks on his face.

On the corner was a woman's ex- "Sh", he admonished. "She means change, where they sold little warm well, poor soul. She doesn't know rolls, and delicious sweets. Molly seldom went there, since fresh any better."

"Poor dear!" murriured the bread and pastries, as everybody woman at the bier. And, putting knows, are awfully "fattening.

"I tell Jack I made them my- her hunderchief to her streaming eyes, learned a little closer to the self." she thought. "He'll never dead giri.

know the difference."

Smiling, she hurried up the They buried Ruth in a lonely street. The dirty-looking person

that spit generously, and trotted along. graveyard, beneath a pine

dropped its needles softly above

"Now I get some flowers for her head. Everything was quiet the table," she decided. "It will and still. And only a little broak be nice to have everything very laughed as it ran over the atones companyish."

..and moss.

The man with the pack marks After the funeral, Bob and Rita was surely following her. "Out of took Zip home with them. And the corner of her eye, she saw him Molly and Jack returned together shift his position, lounging awk-

wardly, his hands in his pockets. to her apartment.

She darted into a drug store and He put his armis about her very gently, and brushed her forehead slipped into a telephone booth near lightly with his lips. One didn't the door. From there she could somehow want to kiss, after that watch through the window. She open grave, with only roses to cover opened her bag, and pretended to the brown earth that would go thud- be fumbling for change.

ding down on Ruth. Ruth in har.. wedding gown, with her arms full

of sweetheart roses.

A

The man had stopped stupidly. and was looking about.

Yes,

For

You must be hungry," remarked surely he was fallowing her. Jack when they had sat in silence the moment he seemed to have lost for a long time. "Let's go out her. "

somewhere and eat. Make you feel better.

She roused herself then, shaking off the apathetic melancholy that

Kad smothered her all day,

"I'll telephone the apartment,"

she thought, "and ask Jack to come and meet me."

She found a nickel and dropped

it in the slot. But when the op-

"I thought it would be nicer tolerator said, "Number please," ehe) stay here," she said. "I'd love to hung up the receiver. She had re- cook something, to show you what membered an old serial movie a smart little wife I'm going to be. called "Perils of Pauline." that pic- What do you feel like, juicy steak, tured the lurid and impossible ex- big lamb chopa, nice fresh lobster?" plofts of a girl reporter.

"You sound like a butcher," he "I'm acting like a kiri in teased. "I don't want you bother- movie," she told herself sternly. Ing. Let's go somewhere."

"It's broad daylight, and there's be afraid of. That nothing to man's just feeble-minded.".

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"But I want to bother," she in- sisted. "I don't pretend to be do "mestic, when I'm alone. But it's He had turned now, and was lovely, neting up to a man in the walking back toward the apart- house. You stay here, and I'll go ment, peering from left to right. out and buy some things. I like like a silly person. shopping, honestly. "It won't take Molly left the drug store, and long. I've almost everything here. hurried toward the florist's, decid- How would steak and mushrooming to return on the farther side ko?".

of the street. If the man had not "Fine" he applauded, "Here, let passed the apartment by that time. me pay for the stuff." He tried to she would run as fast as she could. put come bills in her hand.

Then surely she would have gained "Oh, this is my party," she de- the entrance before he could ap- creed.. "You've bought me a mil-proach her.

lion meals, honey. Now I'm enter-"But of course I'm being idiotic," taining,

she reasoned. "He won't try to "Now Molly," he protested, "you speak to me, I know. And, even can't buy groceries when around."

I'm

if he should, it wouldn't hurt me any. Probably he's a hophead." (Hophead was a word Molly had He took her hand, and forced a recently added to her vocabulary. note between her fingors. "You It was one of the words that made may be rolling in wealth, but you her think she was learning a great can't buy your old hetu his grp deal about life.) eeries. Say, Molly, how much do

She chose her flowers, thinking

you suppose I've saved since I'vel been in New York?" He grinned of her colour scheme. She would ruefully "Honcat there's no such showed off the buttercup yellow use her groen, linen cover, that thing as saving."

china no effectively. Calendulas "Oh, I don't know. Five hun-with mignonette would be lovely in dred?" she guessed.

her low black bowl,'Besides, she "A hundred and twenty," he con- could scarcely stand the odor of feaaed.

roses or carnations to-day. They were so fearfully funereal. Sho

"That's exactly what Claudia wondered if the smell of them Cabot's wedding bouquet coat,"

Fe would always remind her of Ruth, marked Molly.

and that ghastly brown-earth

Jack flushed. But he did not grave. '

add that he had also met the last

installment on the white and ship she told the florist. "I can carry "Never mind doing them up," ing little diamond that was lest in them that way." the mud and slime of the pond in

the Gardens, Molly, he reflected. She shifted the boxes, and took seemed to have forgotten. She was the nosegay, in her hand. bustling about prettily. Heaping cushions on the sofa for his com fort. Drawing up a lamp and a smoking stand.

Down the street lingered the short sinister figure. Now Molly was thoroughly frightened. She returned to the flower shop, deter-

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"Oh, yes, I know: Thank you. It might use the phone. When ho with her. But in a second she had wasn't important, though, I guess seemed upset, he said. He direct told her it was out of order, 'she discarded the idea. He would I won't bother.". think she was awfully silly. Be-

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