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DANCING

by'

CORALIE STANTON.

CHAPTER XIII Bastien was a little late. Judy sut down at her accustomed table,! and ordered what she wanted. As she looked up into Dan's Jean fice, her smile' faded..

Why, Dan, you look sad! What's the matter? And you aren't sing ing tonight."

The Tanky, clown-like figure had acquired dignity.

"It's bad news, miss," he said. "My old mother's dead. She died all alone in Italy-Como, that's where she lived; and haven't the money, to go and bring her body back to be buried beside my father. He lies in Calvary Cemetery.!!

"Oh, Dan!" said Judy softly, a she saw the nist gather in his keen

JUDITH

and

HEATH HOSKEN.

made the heart of a Neapolitan ache with longing.

seen you for apes

"I haven't Judy," Bastien said.

"I have been busy," she answered. "You've had no dine for me, Judy." There was something asin to madness under the ardor of his splendid eyes. "That rich man has taken up all your time."

Dan hoe brought her food and coffee, and Bastien had to give his order.

"Bastien. have you any news?" Judy asked, when he had finished. i have, as it happens--the first bit of luck for years. I've sold The Dream of the Apache. "

"Splendid!" She clapped her

picture."

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"My meetings with Mr. Gideon are purely of a business nature," she said felly. "I am taking up dancing as a career, and he is ad- vising me."

WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1930.

with a catch in her husky voice:

"Bastien, you are a good sort! You're the best friend of them all!**

And she meant it.

Judy did not go into Chummy's Thus did Judy' burn her boats.room when she got home. It was She would not allow Bastien to almost the first time that she ha discuss the matter further. Her gone to bed without ascertaining mind was made up, she told him. whether her friend was awake or She was tired of a model's life.asleep, and whether she could do It was such hard work, and one de- anything for her. She was pretty pended entirely on one's looks and late herself, so she was sure that one's health and the decency of Chummy was at home. one's employer. She was going to take up dancing. She didn't mind working hard, and there might be something in it. Mr. Gideon knew a lot about such things, and he was introducing her to a teacher.

ing.

She had a small lamp in her room, which was burning, so she knew that Chummy had lit it. Without taking her things off, abe sat down to think.

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It was in anger that she had That was all the information she burned her boats; but the deed was City Service Common vouchsafed. She ended by asking done. A myriad thoughs flashed Curtis Wright Commen belligerently if Bastien wished to through her brain. She had a queer Eastman Kodak deny that she had talent for dane-way of thinking in pictures so that Electric Bond & Share

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Railway Signal Gold Dust tien-that was, a very simple und complete picture. She saw herself Goodyear Tire & Rubber on some vast stage, dancing on air.

Of course, Bastien was forced to admit that she could dance like an angel, and that no doubt, given a chance, she would make a tremen- dous success. It was plainly Bruce

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She saw her auger against Bas. Motors Gideon he could not get over; but amid the plaudits of a multitude.onal Cement

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eyes. "I understand why you're hands. I always said it was a fine Judy would hear no word against She saw Bruce Gideon, the typical Montconsolidated Copper

It costs a

not singing tonight. I am so sorry! Couldn't we do something-all of as so that you could go to Italy ?"

Dan shook his head. "I'm afraid not, miss. heap of money to get to Italy."

"Was your mother Italian. Dan?! "Yes. miss, but my father was a Londoner-born within sound of Bow Bells, as they say. They had an organ first, and then they did bytter, and got to be quite pros- perous; but when my father caught chill, and died of it, my mother took me to Ttaly. When I was 15) I came to America. There wasn't

"What's the good?" he asked bit- terly. "What does it matter to me? I never see you now, Judy."

"Butt Bastion, I have to work. 1 have to live."

do.

"Need you see so much of that brute in order to live. July 2"

I don't understand you!" she ex- claimed furiously. "Oh, yes, you

1 mean the man you brought to the Lemon Gee, the man you have didaer and hunckeon with in expensive restaurants.”

"Bastion, I don't like your tone," much of a living to be made in she said frigidly. Italy. I was always saying shef "And I don't like your goings must come ever and live with me, Judy. They are hateful Hes when could save a bit."

Bet a mun you ought to go about with. I've been hearing things "You mean you've been spying on me she interrupted.

"Oh. Dan, and she never came "But there, miss. it's no good talking. And I haven't fold any

else. What'll bring miss?" he asked.

one

you.

But Judy's appetite was gone iler loving, impulsive heart was planning how she could possibly get the money to send Dan to Haly, and bring him back with his moth er's body.

When Bastien came in, eager, fulli

"Judy, don't look at nie like that! He's a millionaire. You're a poor girl. He hasn't a good reputation. What can he want with you? Don't be angry. I'm a man, and I under- stand the world better. Judy"

He gazed at her in miserable ap- peal.

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him. It was purely a business mat-financier, delighted with his specu- Nerada

ter, she told Dumont. Gideon was lation, but quite oblivious to her- Radio Corporation very kind in giving her advice-self as a human being.

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"A business matter!" exclaimed poor Bastien, with a groan, “Judy, are you deceiving yourself, or are you playing with me? Was it on business that he came to the Lemon Grove and sat there and watched you dancing, and behaved as if you were his property, and we were all a set of queer animals who had nothing to do with you at all?”

"How could Mr. Gideon know whether I could dance unless be saw me?" was the cool reply. "You are prejudiced, Bustion. Mr. Gid- een was very nice to you all quite sport, I thought him that night, because he must have felt a bit out

of it."

She saw Bastien on his knees be- fore her. begging her forgiveness; but that, of course, she might have seen at any time.

Then she came to the more diffi. cult thoughts-the more clouded pictures.

withdrawn from the orbit of

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She saw herself hard at work, Newcastle Infirmary doctors, Chummy and Alan Steyne. She an afternoon trying to remove a electricians and engineers spent isaw her life as a straight grey

thread, like the worsted with which steel ring from the finger of an one darns thick stockings. The eight-year-old boy. Steel saws, the boy's lives of Alan and Chummy were a files and carborundum had no tangle of bright golden threads. effect. Eventually

and soon they began to weave them-uyer was laid on a 14b. sledge solves into a lovely fabric. It shone hammer, and the ring, on being cerned in it at last a little home same weight, split, leaving the with a beautiful light, and Judy dis- struck by another hammer of the among the hills and a happiness be boy's finger unhurt. fore which she veiled her face.

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SOLICITOR'S STORY OF

M.O. FRAUDS.

A strange story of what a soli citor described as a "series of most impudent frauds" was told at

Gerald Rogers, alias Stanley Marylebone Police Court.

Flack (39), appeared Lwo charges of obtaining £11 5s. 11d. and £G by means of forged Post Office money orders.

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"This man," said Mr. H. E, Gal- laher for the P.31.C., "has been go- ing about the country posing as Colonel Rogers, D.S.O., M.C., and by a skilful alteration af money orders, aided by a plausible man It ner, has perpetrated a series of

Next day she wrote to Gideon at his Park Avenue apartment. It was a guarded letter, dictated by her hard-won knowledge of men. said that she was willing to enter-

There was nothing more for Bas, tien to say. He could only grit his

That was her task-she saw it teeth and swear a violent oath that

get out of never see them. She resolved that if a hair of Judy's bright head quite clearly-to

much as she when, she was a great dancer-if were harmed, this meddlesome mil- Chummy's life as

could, This new work would take she ever was one she would see lionaire should reckon with him.

up all her time. Chummy, left more the whole wide world. For the rest of the evening Judy for less done, would con drift was a reformed character, as far away. She and Alan would marry, Her fiery spirit was in arms as he was concerned. She was nicer and they would live part of the of apologies, his ardent eyes de She could hardly think for rage.to him than she had ever bees be- time in Maine, and the rest of the vouring her with hopeless worship, So Bastien, her best friend, was fore. She allowed him to take her time in all the wonderful places she did not speak of Dan. It accusing her of philandering with to the Lemon Grove, she danced jabroad where people went to paint. seemed so useless; and Dan had Bruce Gideon because he was rich, every dance with him, and she Here Judy heaved a deep sigh. said that he had told nobody else. of laying herself open to blame, of walked slowly home with him. At She so longed to travel-she.who Already Dan had struck up his behaving like a girl who was no her door she finished his renewal had never been anywhere but to mandolin in response to some care-] better than she should be!

of enslavement by holding his hand Newark, where she was born, and less demand, and his gay. light) She went white and rigid, and in both her little ones, looking up to New York, where she lived. She voice was trilling out "Santa turned on him

annihilating into his face with her great pansy had posed to make So many pic Lucin" in a way that would have star,

eyes full of affection, and sayingture of places, and she might

tain his offer under certain condi tions.

He replied at once, asking her to come to lunch at his apartment, the following day, to meet M. Guar- venius, and named an hour.

(To be Continued)

frauds."

Altogether, said the solicitor there were 40 cases, relating to money orders issued between May and October, 1929.

for a money order for 5s. 13d. The order was then altered from 6s, 11d. to $11 5s, 11d.-the cancella- tion marks on the £ column being crased by chemicals-and a re- quest was made to Mr. Bertram Barney, an outfitter, of Kentish Town-rond, to cash it for him.

Mr. Barney knew him as a form- er customer, named Flack. and obliged him.

He paid the order into his bank. and ther found that the order had been sued for only 5s. 11d.

In the other case, the order was issued at the Piccadilly Post' Office for 128.-6d., was altered to £12 12a. Gd., and wis cushed by a lifelong acquaintance of the prisoner to the extent of £6

It was stated that when agreat- ed Flack said: "The reason I start- ed these frauds was to bring to the ctice of the Post Office how easy they could be done, in order to introduce them to accept my pre- ventive method."

Prisoner pleaded guilty to all the charges, and was committed The prisoner, he continued, for trial to the Central Crimiral- handed in a requisition form at Court, a charge of forging... and the Westbourne-grove Post Office uttering being added.

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