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DANCING

CORALIK STANTON.

CHAPTER XXIV.

Let's do something nice,

said

JUDITH

and

HEATH HOSKEM,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1930,

"I can't help it. Doesn't it mat- Alanter to you that I'm in hell?"

"Not a bit! It's all those years. Chummy, when Steyne I saw ber-I lived with her. She called for her, shortly before seven had no life at all. You took her o'clock that evening.

life away with you. Now you've

She had telephoned to him, mean-got to make up for it." while, that Judy had accepted an invitation to dine with them.

He turned so that he faced her.

"I've arranged to go back to my "I'm always hoping against hope place," he answered. "We'll pick that you'll see reason, and let me up Dumont, and I've asked Hylton tell her the truth.”

to look in-he's my old school "Never-never-never!" She chum. You'll like him. He's just stamped her foot. "And I'll tell back from Persia, where he's build-you another thing-I can't afford ing a railway. You haven't seen my room since, the piano came in."to let anything get on my nerves now. I've got to think of nothing but October. I can't let old Guar- venius down after what he's done for me."

That will be perfectly lovely, Alan," the girl sald. "Judy has never seen your place at all. I'm sure it's the nicest in New York!"

"And where shall You're looking Clarissa!"

wa

dine?

"Or. Mr. Gideon!" exclaimed Steyne bitterly. awfully smart, Or Mr. Gideon," she repeated. She looked about her a little wild- rest. "But where are the others? what is keeping them? They ought to have been here long ago.'

"What about that little taurant you took me to lunch at the other day?" she suggested..

"The Rochemont? Yes, it's nice

there.

The silence in the big room was

Her voice broke in a helpless sob. The young man looked down into

and quiet, and good food. We'll go oppressive. Suddenly Judy caught hold of Steyne's arm and shook it They called for Judy, who apas if in violent anger. peared all in yellow, with a bril-1 "Oh, do be decent!" she said. liant orange sash and stockings,Don't make it so hard-so terribly and gold-tirisel shoes. She was in

Ihard!" wild spirits, and the meal was a desperately merry one.

Afterward they went to fetch her upturned face. His eyes had Bastien at the Cafe Ture. The girls neither laughter nor passion waited outside in the cab while them. They were like a burned-out Alan went in. He came back notfire. Without a word he turned and only with Dumont, but with walked out of the room.

At the same moment Judy's strained cars caught the sound of a taxicab stopping in the street be- low, and laughing voices were wafted up through the summer air.

in

were

Michael Stone and Tony Leigh, whom Judy greeted with exuberant affection. She affirmed that the charapagne had gone to her head but Chummy declared that she had only drunk one glass, so it was im

They all came tumbling up the possible.

Jody told them that if Bastien stairs. No one could be dull or de pressed for a moment when Tony would go and fetch his fiddle she Leigh and Michael Stone would dance for them at the studio. about. Bastien had his violin case. She said she had never felt so muchAt the door they had met Frank like dancing in her life. This neces Hylton, Alan's school chum, a thin sitated two cabs. and as another giant with a keen face, whose ma- was called, Chummy got out of the hogany tan made his eyes, eyebrowa first one and said. to Steyne:

and hair lock almost white. He "You go on with Judy and Tony was introduced to Judy, who pro Michael and I will drive with Bas.... tien to get his violin, and we'll fol-mptly attached him to herself in her perfectly open and unashamed low you."

way.

to dance," al "Judy is going Steyne seemed to hesitate for anounced Chummy, beaming with moment; then he got into the pride. "Judy, did Alan show you cab. The driver, mistaking the in the other rooms, and his kitchen. tentions of the others, drove off at and his garden?" once before Tony Leigh had time "No." Judy answered, tossing her to enter the vehicle. Alar leaned bright head, as Dumont tuned up out of the window to stop the man.is vielin. "I wanted to stay here. but Leigh gesticulated to the effect This room is lovely. I'll see the that he would follow with thethers later. You were a long time athers, so Judy and Alan

were coming. What happened?" alone.

"Bastien had forgotten his key, When they reached his abode, he land we had to roase his landlady." did not touch her hand to help her

"So like Bastien!" said Judy eare-

yut. In silence they mounted the lessly. “We thought you'd broken stairs. Steyne was breathing heavi-down."

ly as if with exertion. Judy stood She was skimming about the like a little statue while he opened room, while the others leisurely the door.

dispused Themselves to watch her

"Here is my room," he said. She stepped in and looked around.

dance.

There

Wils a wide, low divan against the wall, at a right angle It was still very bare, but it bad with the piano. Chummy sat on it pleasing colour, chiefly blue, in the between Tony Leigh and Hylton. curtains and the chair covers. There Michael Stone sat un the floor, on were heaps of books. The easels some cushions, at the other end of were at one end. From the pointed the room. Alan picked up the rugs

roof hung old brass lamps enland threw them into a corner. Then chains. The floor was polished and he came and sat down beside Hyl- waxed, and only a few small rugs ton.

lay on it.

"What's it going to be, Judy?"

It was still light, but Alan Michael Stone called out. switched on the bulbs in the old!

The girl, still wearing her shabby lamps, which gave an effect of black cloak, danced up to Bastien, blue-and-yellow twlight, mingling and, standing on tiptoe, whispered with the rosy glow that still lin-to him. He nodded, and Alan won- gered over the river in the west. dered if it were only he who saw

"Would you like to see my little the pain Dumont's eyes.. garden up on the roof?" he asked.

Judy shook her head.

Judy ran to the door and called

"Not now, I want to look at this out to ask Steyne where the -please let me! It's so-nice." switches were. He told her, and

She gazed around her. Steyne she extinguished two of the three went to a table standing against lamps, leaving the room in partial the wall. near the piano. Lifting darkness. uapkins, he inspected sandwiches

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Dumont burst into a gay, light, and cakes that were laid out florid melody, reminiscent of Mo- Judy did not speak. Her eyes zart in his most Italian style. "It took in everything in the big room.was clear and polished, like She did not aced to took at the string of gems. Dumont was quite igure behind her. Once before sheja violinist, and but for the fact had stood at the gate of the world's that one must be a veritable master garden with Alan. Now she had to succeed publicly, he might have lost the sky, but the garden was been heard of by the world. MC: Inere.

The musle went on for two or Her little face was solemn. The three minutes. Judy seemed to room held, everything that she have disappeared; then, suddenly, wanted in the world. It seemed to she leaped into the middle of the her that, gazing on it for the first room, like a firefly glittering time, she was also taking an eternal dark follage at the coming of night, farewell,

Alan shut his eyes every now and then during the dance. There was night, an orange grove under a hot

•

Steyne looked round, took a few steps, and was by her side.'

"Judy!"

want to cry."

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moon, and that little vivid figure, ly, swaying like a tired flower, she such a treat in my life l"--this from "Don't talk to me!" she implored. now a firefly, now half-human elf, moved toward the door to a magical Chummy. "It's so lovely here that I almost and again a joyous maiden picking waltz tune from Bastien's violin. Steyne didn't know what to say.

the golden fruit, reaching up, up,

Alan could bear no more. Chum-He lletened na his friend Hylton ex- "Judy, they'll be here in a min-up to the highest boughs. It was my pulled his sleeve and whispered pressed himself a little awkwardly, ute," Alan said breathlessly. "Iall there-all in those nimble feet, rapturous praise.

but with unbounded admiration. PRINTING PRESS must talk to you."

in those thin arms, in that bright "You want to lecture me again!" head.

The next moment Judy switched Then, to test his own voice, he

called out: Her voice was so patently forced He stared out of the open win on the lights, ran across the room,

"Dumont, I had no idea you could that it rang through the room like dows. The night was deepening, and landed with a lithesome bound

play like that!" some one playing a false note on an and it spread a curtain of deep blue. Tony's knees. There was Instrument. "You're still worried He looked back again, and there strain. Everybody cried out some him do it!"

burat of laughter-relief after the

"Neither had any of us," put in "It's Judy who makes Chummy. about poor Mr. Punch!".

was all the charm and wonder of "No," he said harshly, "No-I've the south. A

thing at once.

moder Dumont struck up a modern got beyond that. I've got to tell It was a very short dance. The "Wonderful! Judy, you've got waltz, and they all started dancing you, Judy—I can't do it. I can't golden fest began to move more them all beaten-every one of Hylton with Chummy, Tony marry Clarissa. It's no good!" slowly the daring leaps were no

them!"

Leigh and Michael Stone together. You've got tol" She was just amore; the orange and yellow of "Judy, we'll be proud of you Alan found himself beside Judy, by little bunch of fierce, resentful Judy's dress ceased to be an in- when you appear in public!'' one of the windows. anger. "Chummy's so happy!" Icarnate flame. Languorously, gent- "Judy darling, I've never had

(To be Continued.)

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