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The Melody Girl.

By RUTH DEWEY GROVES.

Author of "The Innocent Cheat," etc.

DECIN HERE TODAY Beryl Borden discovers that her half-shur, irene Everett, le planning to slope with Tommy Wilson be tries to prevent the

marriage by kidnapping Tommy, with awliance of her neighbourhood "gang."

They expturs Him on the eve of the elopement and drive hint nut to the country where Beryl urges him to continue in Callege Inal break the heart of hie #doring aunt, Miro, Huffmats, who le financing Mos. Palling Lo convince him of h folly, Deryt esila him "kap" and takes bim back to her alater, Irene, enraged at the long wali, refuses to Haten 10 Torming explanation and postpones tha elopement. Deepandanlir. Tommy, carries his aulicase home and hidṛt it on, the porch w his tent meet him at the door.

CHAPTER III

"Going fishing with your uncle?" Mrs. Hoffman asked Tommy.

"Not if I can help it," he said de terminedly. "Junt going down for

some ice water."

been

Tommy Wilson, you haven't

drinking!"

"Oh, Aunt Em, does everything

► always have to be according to rule?"

"I didn't really think you had," his aunt answered with a touch of abashment. "I'll go down and fix the ice water for you."

his uncle, said, gotting down from the car.

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Mr. Claude Hornby said Moslyn wont to the flat to try to see Mr.

"Don't sell him a dog." Tommy said suspiciously... His, uncle was acting "funny," and he couldn't un-Laughton. derstand it.

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Mr. Laughton said Mostyn came to him in the street and asked him Time passed and Tommy fidgeted to help him as he was down and

remained while his uncle

in- out. He nide the

garage. At this rate Intor ve him 28. 6d. and "I told him! I would try they'd never get back in time for to get him a job to get rid of him," him to see Irene before the day said Mr. Laughton. "On this was gone.

And he'd made mind since starting me up height I had been acting at St. he James's Theatro, and did not get must see her. Maybe she wouldn't home until late." be so stubborn after night of The magistrate (Mr. Mend): It thinking things over. And Itta very charitable on your part, would certainly suit his plans to but on the other hand it is most have their elopement over with. He Indiscriminate and undesirable in wanted plenty of time before col this instance. lege reopened to bring his nunt round to his point of view.

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He was about to go inside hnd urge his uncle to get along to their destination when Beryl and her Paris. gong came rattling down upon him. Geneva.

Mr. Hoffman, noting her arrival, | Berlin. quit his stalling much to the relief Oslo.. of the garage owner, and came out Helsingfors to tell her he was glad she'd got there.

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Tommy did not object, and she moved on, her heavy figure in the grey dressing gown grotesquely re- sembling a giant penguin. When plexity: then he saw light. This Stockholm.. he figured she had reached the was a cooked-up job. But he Vienna. kitchen he slipped quietly down couldn't see why-when his uncle Madrid.. the stairs and out to the front favoured his match with Irene-he Bucharest porch.

should drag him away from her on Montevideo He was on his way back to the Sunday and hand him over to lingkong front door, his suitense in his hand, Beryl.

Brussels. when a hull from the neighbouring

He wasn't left long in ignorance.Milan. garden brought him to a halt.

It was revealed that all his uncle Copenhagen. shrill voice wasted was to store his nice new labon

Prague. "Hey. Tommy," a called. "Goln' on our pienie?" car in the garage and have Beryl Rio

to hear drive him to the fishing grounds in Bombay Tommy did not stay more He hurried back

upstairs her music box, which could stand Yokohama.....2/0% and shoved the sultense ander the out in the blistering sun and salt Silver (spot)..134 bed. A few minutes later his aunt air for hours without harm to it's called up from the lower hall:

community-painted surface. Tommy. Michael's here and wants

I guess you don't know wh.t to know if you're going on the you've done. Tommy said darkly plenle

to his uncle when he bad him for Tommy stock als head out of a moment out of Beryl's hearing, ton often it was work. The water) "Follow the Lender," now appearinglish comedian, repents the title role his door and called back: "No, I'm "Irene will never forgive me for

was fun.

at the King's Theatre, is based on he created on the stage and adds this,"

He waded out until the water the Broadway stage hit, "Manhattan vastly to the hilarious enjoyment af- "You're going with me," his "is that so his uncle asked with

waist. Then he Mary." It was one of Wynn's own forded by the delightful screen offer: Capital (fully paid up) ....T. 134,000,000. was up to hist Uncle George put in, emerging para touch of real anxiety.

Forbes provides heart "Why started to swim. He wasn't a bad Rreatest successes on the stage when Ing. Ralph

Reserve Fund quantities to her mother was over swimmer for his age-eight--but produced by George White at the interest in sufficient

Apollo theatre, New York. The pro stimulate the plot to a swift pace. you're awake you've got no excuse to the

Included in the splendid supporting not to."

for you, stid she said Trane was rapidly coming nearer was what B. G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, Ray Hen cast are Guinn Williams, David Tor-Aluzandris Tommy had his choler, or going away for a while. I thought some people call a water kitty-derson, William K. Wells and George rence, Nena Quartaro, Ray Milland, Batavia thought he had, and he certainly it was all right when I met Beri."Undreaming of his danger,

he White.

Doris Lloyd, Elizabeth Murray, Edgar | Derlin wasn't

on any picnic that "Where'd you meet her?” Tom-

Wynn, the timid chef in a restaur- Norton, Halliwell Habbes and James Bombar. swam straight for it. 134 Dart conducted by Beryl |

(To be Continued.)

ti ant hangout for

cars of the Gordon.

2

not. I'm.

tially from the bathroom. "Seeing though entre last night, looking what he hadn't seen, far out, and duction was the joint production of

Borden.

"I'm going with Uncle George,"

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asked aceptically "At the drug, store I went in for soda."

he shouted down to his nunt, and Must have

been pretty late,"

Flammed his door, which move pre-Tammy pursued: "She was at home vented him from hearing her ex- when I left there last night and clamation of bewilderment.

He dressed hurriedly. thinking he might escape both invita tions, but his unie, guessing his Intention, cornered him as he was trying to leave the house and

that wasn't early.

"Sure it was late. She was gut- her mother; ting something for said she had hysterics, but she looked like she needed something

for herself."

"If, she made a quick re

dragged him into the kitchen. covery," Tommy retorted, looking His aunt fed him with special over toward Beryl, who was herd- care. The poor boy looks aliing her picnic group into lesser fakged out." she remarked sympcould not see the shadows ander space in the old car. Of course he thetically to no one in particular her eyes, or that the colour which "Wouldn't you like some spiced pears, Tommy? I've got a jar or was usually hers naturally to-day was from the rouge pot. She was laughing, and bantering her gang

two left from last year.”

Spiced pears Tommy liked espe- with her customary light-heart- cially. All right," he said, con-

ness, which seemed to Tommy in ferring a favour apon her.

his present mood of bitterness to- especially vile

"Hurry up," his uncle urged award her like an he dawdled over a third helping of the fruit: "there's more important form of grossness.

things in life thao pears."

know?"

"Don't mourned.

I

"Come on," she called to them. My kids will be getting hungry Tommy before you've got your hooks balt-

"H'mp. it don't look like it. Come on; it's time to go."

Tommy got up with a

"

ed

·Beryl insisted upon driving and sigh, Tommy had to sit squeezed in be-

"Save the rest of them for dinner,”

he said to Aunt Emma, indicating tween her and his uncle.

the remainder of the pears.

Not worth bothering with," his uncle scoffed. "Come on, let's go." They went out and get into Mr. Hoffman's shiny new car, their fishing tackle

stowed in the tou neau, but no sign of a lunch bas- kel, thut Tommy could see.

"Don't we sat?" he worried, "Never mind," hts uncle

swered abruptly, "Start her

"If a cup sees you," he warned this overcrowding." hopefully, "you'll get a ticket for

"I know every cop an Long Is- Beryl Arst name," land by his boasted, and Tommy aald, “I dare say you do."

They arrived finally, somewhaj, confused as to the proper owner- ship of various assorted arms and "according to their respective fl- legs, at the beach, and piled out

They had gone about 10 miles on

A few state highway that traverses Beryl watched Tommy and his

a portion of Long Island from east uncle take off for their flahing to west when they passed Beryl with genuine longing in her and the members of her picnic shadowed eyes. She loved fishing, party. Tommy scowled darkly at but she couldn't leave her gang- them in answer to their shonts of that was her promine to their greeting and wild' hand waving.. mothers.

"What made you change your

They needed

her supervision. mind?", Michael shouted above the for they were "rarin' to go." na rest.

they informed her. tort kid's a post." Tommy mut-

Some unexpressed emotion moved

dig

"If you want to do something, Into the depths of Pride of the Sea and get that stove assem-

him to step on the gas and they bled," she directed them. "We're

flew along at a speed that left going to have fish."

Beryl's old car far in the rear. Mr.

Hoffman protested, but Tommy

"Maybe," Pigmy grunted. They busted themselves with

paid him no liced. He felt like get the steve and fuel, with digging

ting with

even

some one.

a deep hole in the sand to keep

In far less time than Mr. Hoff the watermelon and bottled drink- man expected they arrived at

ing water cool, with getting kites crossroads corner where they in working order, and various turned south to the fishing grounds. other occupations, until one of the There, reports had it, the blueflah number cut his foot on a piece of were running plentifully.

broken lass, Then they all stood "Stop here at this garage a mine around while Boryl gave first aid ute," Mr. Hoffman said to Tommy to the injured-all but Angie, the as he alowed up for the turn

"What for?"

youngest boy.

Angie, who had been eyeing the

"Never you mind. Do as I say water with infinite craving for its refreshing coolness, thought it a good time with everyone busy-

and stop.

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