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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1929.

THE SHINING TALENT.

By Eleanor Early.

CHAPTER XLII.

Red Flynn's mother died that night. Someone telephoned from the office, and told Molly.

Red lived away from town, and his telephone was out of order. Molly was not sure that he would want her to go tỏ him, so she sent a note by messenger, asking if there was anything she could do. When he received her letter, Red telephoned to any that he had to go to the office. After that, if it was not too fate, he would drop in and see her.

She guessed that he was going "to the office for money.

"Please come," she urged. "It won't be too late, whatever time it ia. It will do you good to talk with someone. Fromise me you'll come." "It may be pretty late. You're sure you won't mind?"

"Not a bit," she assured him. "They said at the office that she didn't suffer, Red. I'm so glad."

"No," he said. "Sho went very quietly. In her sleep,"

That was beautiful," she con- soled. "You mustn's feel too badly, my dear. You were so good to her. The tears people shed over their dead are almost always for their own thoughtlessness. We don't cry so often for the things we did, as for the things we didn't do. You'll never have to reproach yourself, Red. You were the best boy to your mother that ever lived...

"I tried to be decent," he said brokenly, "A sick woman has an awful lot to put up with.”

mun do, when their mothers die."

"Bob" Molly fald her hand on his arm. "I don't know whether you've been drinking or not, but you mustn't make a scene here to- I tell you that Red's night. mather has just died."

Red had risen unsteadily to his feet.

"Let him say whatever is on his mind, Molly," he commanded."

"The things that are on my mind aren't fit to say " sneered Bob.

Red, spoke slowly, measuring every word,

before,

"You came here once. Newton, and I'd have thrown you out. if Molly hadn't begged me not to. Now I think I'll murder you."

"Red!"

Molly threw herself against him.

"Red dear, you're all upset. You don't know what you're saying. Bob, can't you see that Red is not himself? Get out of here, before something dreadful happens. You shouldn't talk like that. You know you shouldn't. I don't blame Red

bit for being angry. It would serve you right, whatever he did to you."

She was pushing Red toward the cloth-of-gold sofa..

"Sit down. please. Don't let yourself get so excited. Listen, | Red. Bob's insanely jealous. He didn't mean to be insulting. Bob asked me tonight to marry him."

Bob advanced menacingly.

That's more than you ever

a decent

"I know. And you were wonder-asked her!" he cried. "You come fully patient, dear. Well, come in, when you can. We'll have collee here at an hour when together, like we used to: 'ra all alone."

man wouldn't dream of compromis-

ing a girl. And you put out, the light

17

"That's enough!" ordered Red

It was hours before Red arrived. Molly had gone to sleep waiting for him, He came apologetically. Havagely, "What do you think this There were things to do at the is? You're the hero, are you? And house, he said. Lots of things. He I'm the villain, I suppose? And shuddered.

poor Nell here is fighting for her "My God, Molly, death's a dread-honour? Bah! Run along, little Boy fol thing

Scout. We don't want to play with you. We don't like your looks."

She kissed him gently, and made him sit on her cloth-of-gold sofa, while she rubbed his head.

"Will you go with me tomorrow to choose a casket?" he asked. "It I never seems they've all kinds. thought about them before. I sup- posed they were all alike. I'd like

He turned contemptuously his heel, and lit a clgarette..

on

"Tell him to "go chase himself, Molly," he instructed over his shoulder..

"You've been seeing naughty tuo movies, Newton. They're

to get something sort of soff-look- | strong fodder for a guy like you.”

Ing.

"I've

seen plenty tonight," Why surely," she promised, snarled Bob. "I've seen enough to "We'll find one that's dark and take my child, away from this lovely, like wood violets," with a limitse." soft, sweet Hning."

"They make blankets of flowers, don't they?" he asked, "Something to throw over the damn hardness. of the boards?";

"Yes, beautiful things," she told him. Let me buy it, Red. I'll get une of pale pink roses."

"She liked roses," he murmured. The sweet-smelling ones. Will you get that kind, Molly 2"

She smiled tenderly, and prom- Ised us though she were numouring a child.

"The very sweetest ones that

· grow."

:│

"You're awfully good." he whis pered, and drew her hands from his head. to kiss her fingers, one by one. "You're just about the only friend I have. Did you know that, Molly There wasn't anybody else

I wanted to see, but you.' "I'd have gone to you. If I'd been sure," she told him. "But I was afraid I might be intruding. I thought there might be relatiyes around. There usually, are, when people are dying."

Molly was trembling nervously. "Don't provoke.him, Red," who whispered.

But Red was not to be silenced. "That's the egg that had the nerve to ask you to marry him!" The jibed.

"I want to do the right thing." blustered Bob defensively. "I want Rita to have a decent home."

"If Molly wants to get married." announced Red. "she doesn't have to marry a sup like you. She ean marry a regular guy.” ~

"Sh. Red," besought Molly.

"I mean it," he said. "You kn marry me. You don't think Rita's the only cute kid that's ever going to get born, do you? Shucks! Rita's a nice little girl, and all that. But you can't tell how she's going to turn out. My God, she might take after her father! Then what would you do?"

Molly tried to laugh, "You're acting like a couple of children," she scolded. "Stop! your nonsense."

ex-

"We haven't any relatives," he said. "Besides, it was very sudden. The ductors said her heart was get- "Nonsense nothing!" he ting weaker. But when the end claimed. "I'm asking you to marry came, it was sudden. Thank God I me. I'd do more than that to save happened to be there. I went home you from a thump like Newton. early, with some port I'd found for You know how it was, when mother her. We talked for a while. Then was alive. I couldn't ask you she grew droway, and dropped off then." to sleep. She never opened her eyes, Molly."

That was a lovely way to die, Red."

"Yes," he sa, "I suppose it was."

They were quiet then for a little, and Molly soothed his head again with her cool finger tips.

"That light is in your eyes," she murmured. "I'll put it out, and light the candies. Have you some matches?"!

She reached for the switch. Ked was fumbling in his pockets for matches. The room was in dark-I ness.

4,

"But, Red, you funny thing "Funny! There's nothing funny about a man asking a girl to marry him, is there? Maybe Newton thinks there is. I guess he thinks guys in my league never ask a girl things like that."

"Molly is already considering n proposal from me," injected Bob stiffly.

"Yes? Well, give him his an swer now, Molly. Give it to him plenty, dear!"

"Oh. Red, don't talk like that!" Molly put her fingers to her ears, "Please don't say any more. You you you're awfully m-mn- Suddenly there was a knocking mean, b-b-bboth of you!"

She was crying now. "F-f-fighting -just like d-dogs.

at the door. A venomous Knocking

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"Don't let me make you that way. "I suppose I wouldn't," he ad- You don't have to marry me, just mitted. "But, heavens, you can't to get rid of Newton you know," have everything, Molly. A hand- You do whatever you want, honey" some, gentle guy like me. Pure

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"You're so funny," she declared. caught his shoulders, and made smiling mistily. "What if I said him face her squarely. "You don't I'd marry you, Red Flynn? What really truly want to get married. would you do then?"

Honest now-do you?" "Gosh, what do you think?" he He grinned unabashed

tickled demanded. "I'd be

"Well, that guy drove me to it."

He was brought up in the Police "I know, old dear. I'm awfully Court this morning, and was er- death,"

cbliged. But you won't mind if I turn you down, will you?"

"Honest ?"

"Honest-to-God."

hand.

to

dered to be confined in gaol for a "You're the doctor," he declared, week until the arrival of the She stroked his check with her. "But I meant all I said about being original warrant, which a detec- crazy about you, honey. I'd marry tive from Hongkong, is bringing to G-go home, b-b-both of you! I...me. You look like a young man I'd be awful good to you."

"Get up, darlin'. Sit here beside you to-morrow, if you wanted. And Shanghai-Reuter.

I h-hate you!"

"I know you would."

tightened, and he did not answer. propostag, down on your knees, Oh, The door slammed on Bob's un-Red, you're a peach! I don't know She leaned, against him confld- "Do you mind," she went on, "if She reached again for the ceremonious departure, and Molly what I'd do without you. It would ingly.

I talk to you like this? You're such switch, and flooded the room with fell back on her cloth-of-gold soft, be sort of wonderful to have you "It's funny, how many kinds of a wonderful friend. It's good to be crying as though her heart would for a husband. I mean for a little love there are,' she pondered. able, to say things you really, truly break. Red knelt then, beside her, while it would. But, In the long "Now, I love you, Red. And you think. I don't suppose I'll ever and put his arms around her, run, you'd make a perfectly awful love me. But it's not the wonder- get over loving Jack Wells as long cradling her gently.

husband, Red. You're simply not ful forever-and-ever sort.

"It's Bob," she whispered.

light.

"Yes?" she called. "Come in."

The door was flung violently open. Bob, disheveled and furious, stood on the threshold.

"I knew it!" he cried. "I knew I'd find him here."

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It's as I live. But this sounds like an

"Poor little kid. Poor little Molly, the marrying sort. You were made awfully nice and satisfying and awful thing to say-I think, maybe, I'm as bad as he is, dear. We're a to be a bachelor. You're fearfully friendly, and everything. Only Red, I'l marry Bob Newton. couple of eggs. Ought to be shot, improvident, and irresponsible. when you're just simply crazy about Would you mind very much? You "Red's mother is dead, Bob." both of us."

You've all the gay traits that make someone, it's different. It's agoniz. see there's Rita.... Molly Spoke quietly. "He came "I'm so unhappy," she moaned. bachelors fascinating. But you ing then. And terrifying. It sort Someone at the door interrupted, to nok me to help him choose a "I'm the unhappiest girl in the know yourself you wouldn't make of takes your breath away. Did before Rted had time to answer. casket. She died tonight, Bob" whole wide world.”

a very good husband."

you ever love anyone like that, Mally went herself to open it. And "He looks as if his mother; Just He patted her hair with his big,

Red seemed to consider the in- Red?"

there stood Bob, with a. policeman. died!" scoffed Bob. "If that's what tender hands,

dictment ruefully.

His arm around her shoulder,

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