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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, ` THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1931.

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For Ginger's Sake.

By ETHEL HUESTON.

CHAPTER I (Continued).

ter experience that plans only half perfected may be easily pre- "A bil mixed," said Ehly Jack vented. Patly Sears, for all her eon, "but on the whole, true. I love and loyalty, was ausceptible „Kui pose you're grousing because to friendly overtures, and the sun- you had to nurae Helen's baby pieleur nature of Eddy Jackson through the last strawberry festi- rendered him dangerously adept at val."

ferreting out Ginger's Intentions.

"I'd rather пигве anybody's When she went to Ben and Jenky baby thun attend the best straw- Brooks, on the other hand, it was berry festival in the world!" cried not to confide a secret, but mere Ginger. I never want to see an- ly to place it in a private and prae- other atrawberry festival. The tical repository all her own. next person that offers me a straw-Neither the sweetly sympathetic berry '-'~"

Patty nor the Insidiously sły Eddy

"Yeh, but you're lucky," gald Jackson could pay a secret of Chi Westey drearily. "Lok at me.ger's from that faithful pair. I've got to go. Your Father's

Ginger's mind was apt to leap Superintendent. You 'TJA make kangaroo-like from crag to crag excuses and cut off somewhere in of high accomplishment. She the car. Us--we got to go! We've never bothered to blaze a trial for jusi sot to, No cutting away for herself through the studied [対峙す。 1LA."

leys of detaff that hy between the mountain peaks of inspiration.

From her sadden grand ed with the strange far-away In- cept of a Home for the tentness that from her early child- | Youth of Red Thrush, i was bat hood had been #warning signal one Bylag five-mile leap to an old, that she was up to something, "I've neglerteil, run-down farmhouse on

gol-an-idea. lat's have

wonded

of the Rabbit river, a house which had barne a

"'WISE." Ginger stood up and denly. "Wait." Her eyes darken-

Home - "

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con- Hored

it

"For the Blind," suggested Baldy For Sale sign so many years Jackson brightly.

wins all but obliterated by time this aban- and weather. From Ginger did not smile. "Bor the doned house on the Rabbit, in n- Bared," she said dreamily. "Wait."other deep breath she was back She struck off briskly across the the Sve miles talking it over with Jawn in the direction of the street. Ben and Jenky Brooks. And as "Ginger," called Patty Stars this punk was more physically re- plaintively. "are you gutuk home? cessible to her at that moment, be Aren't you going to take me withing right nerns the street. she you you brought me hare?

was practical mugh to turn to first things frat.

"Wait." Ginger forsed burk ayon her shoulder without turning. "I'm just going up to denky's a minute."

Shi tore breathlessty

up the stairs and bounded through the open door of their cheery sitting Whe tearing old In the village of Red Thrush, rooms. Jenky Ginger Ella Tolliver had two tothes into long thin rags and staunch and untailing allies, poor, tying them together end to end la seemingly eternal chain for the faithful, blind old Benny Bronks, and his wife, the former Miss Jen-small rug Benny was weaving.

kina. Of these two Ginger was "Darlings," Ginger began ex- more sure than of her very self. [plosively, what in the world are Her plans might be wild, her hopes you going to do all summer when intangible, even her intentiona hot school is out 7"

above reproach, but they two saw never a flaw in them or her.

Miss Jenkins had served ne doling, gratuitons, companion to the four Talliver girla during the hectic years of their growth from

"Finish this rug," said Benny. |with an apologetic little rough.

"What have you thought of?" inquired Jenky, who knew Ginger much better than Benny did.

"Well," said Ginger impressives troubled motherless childhood Think you ought to go out in to a romantic young maturity; had the country and get a lot of fred indeed, an Ginger Ella stoutly air and exerrise and sunshine and lieved, hoped one day to otliciate in place of a parent, as the wire build up rosy checks and back-

of their reverend father,

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BORUA and what-have-you.

thought maybe you would like to

But coming, and largely by thêjnet as caretakers for my little machinations at that same Ginger { place ont in the country!" Ella, to realize the futility of her

fond and foolish faney, in a final

Ginger's Big Iden.

desperation at the prospect of the "1idn't know you had a pláve Areadful and futile lonelines which in the country," said Jenky breath- threatened her declining years, inlessly, dropping the pile of rugs | a sudden accession of great sweet in a great heap at her feet. courage, she had become the wife

and al a instigation Tut ber own!-ol pour, blind

Benny Brooks,

| said Gingri. "A hrinking

During nine months of the year she continued her work in the kin-1

"Well, I've practically got it." sart of yet-to- ther ground for the Junior Country Club."

"Why, I didn't know there was a

dergarten schools of Red Thrush, denier Country Club," profested

thus financing their modest raky

meunge, and saving evory pussihin

“Oh, of emarso there is a Junior

penny against the inevitable rainy Country Club - ne, practieudly so, years that lay ahead.

In a small, three-room Apart- ment on the gevand floor at the old

at any rate.

of it

What do you think

* like to finish this rug," said house neruse the street from the Benny modestly, parsonage, she made a happy hunte "You can finish it out in the for the lucky man, while he 45-muntay,” anid Ginger. "Right sisted in every way possible make out in the fresh air and sunshine ing baskets, weaving engs---to fur- with the kirts and bees all ther the financial good that plays around."

so large a part in spiritusi ron- "Where is it?" asked Jenky, tentment.

"It'a the old Mill Rusli Form out Upon the support of these twofan Hahhit river." said Ginger. Ginger could unfailingly count, and the occasions when she re-

"Why, I didn't know it had even

sold."

quired support were not infreren quent. In her young girlhood she had known no intimate friend ships.

"Well, it's just the same as solid. To tell the truth. you've practi- cally bought it." said Ginger, with

faint smile.

"I've bought it!" gasped the amazed woman.

The boundless enthusiasm with which she, the youngest of four, had assumed sective management of the parsonage and its inmates; "Yes. For me. of course. ! her feverish devotion to her father want you to go to old Jop West- and everything that concerned bury and get it on the best terms him; her passionate determination you can and I'll give you the money to marry off her sisters ag best he- La pay for it. Pay as little down came their separate charms and as you can and stretch the pay- values: her eagerness to enhance

imenta out as long as the family fortunes by means And then you can give me a bill gither fair or almost foul: all of sale for it or a note or what these interests had united to oc-ever you call it. Because I'm not cupy both all her time and her af- altogether sure that father would fection.:

he heartily in favour of my own. ing a road-house..

Ginger Gets into Action,

possible.

"A rond-house!" gasped Jenky. But with her sisters bipptly "How terrible! Ia Mill Rush a-n married-albeit not entirely to her roud-house?" She almost whisper own bent judgment; with her fathered the horrible words, comfortable in the companionship "Well, practically so," said Gin-

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We won't have to pay any rent. If we live out there, will we?".

"Not a cent! And we'll pay all

to." "The

Dido was the small. smart roadster Phil had given hor for her birthday.

of Phil Van Doorin; and with no ger. "Anyhow, it'll be a road-your living expenses, too, and may financial needs to egg her

house as soon as we get it fixed be give you something to bootly as she put on her hat. Gloger wanted a chum.

up, and you and Banny are run-if there's any money left over

1 was natural that of all the ning it for the Junior Country after we get it fixed up." girls in Red Thrush, her fancy Club. Why don't you run along "I'll go this very rainute," said should contra upon Patty Scars, uptown now and find out what old Jenky excitedly. pretty, ambitionless and un-Jop wants for it? You've got "And for goodness' anke, don't opinionated, a happy antellite to onough rags tied to carpoj half the say anything about it before Eddy ravalve around irrepressible Gin- Middle West. Pretond you want Jackson, or somebody'll put a stop ger. "Ginger's contral

it for yourself and don't mention to it before wa get started." Eddy Jackson called her.

me. And whatever he asks, you

"Are you sure you've got enough But Ginger had learned much. bring him down."

money to pay for it?" suggested Benny, with a meak cough.

"Well, practically," said Ginger,

moon,"

For one thing, she had discovered "I will," said Jonky, who loved that a socrot shared la not a secret to transact business for other peo- kept. And she had found by hit-'ple. "I'll go this very minate, "I can mortgage the Dido if I have

Jenky's hands tremblod nervous.

"I've always liked the country," she auid. "We'll can a lot of fruit and put up enough jelly to last all next winter. It'll be good for Benny. He doesn't get outdoors

raise enough. We'll

chickens, Benny."

"Be Aure

to argue Jis price down." cautioned Ginger. "Inlf. of what ho asked will be about right. And pretend you're buying it for yourself

(To be continued,)

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