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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1931.

The Melody Girl,

By RUTH DEWEY GROVES.

Author of "The Innocent Cheat,” etc.

wwwwwwwwATENT

BEGIN HERE TO-DAY.

"I've a fever," Beryl answered Beryl Borden erstly in love with Tommy, firmly.

attempted elopement Irene bridled,' "I'm," she snort- Winter Scene Everett, by klifur.

with her

Ink him with the stance of her "ned in disgust, "If you're no alck

VIPER IN A BAG.

OWNER'S "GUESS WHAT I HAVE!"

Berlin. June 5. Mr. Churles Manchau, an Eng- Hahman here on business, and a German named Schoettler, who said he was a student, were chatting in Berlin tavern last night when Schouttler asked Manchan to

to guess what he had in

in his

attache CARC.

in a

Manchan guessed that It

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Canton Ins., $1435 n.

WIS

Union Ins., $550 h.

Failing to convince him of his duty to shit's funny you wouldn't have a doc-replying to eat but. Seltacitleri

roller and sat lappaint ha aunt, Deryl Jew Tammy return to Irene wit, enraged as the strlay, refuses to elope with him.)

Irene receive the offer of an audition over ll, and male refure to marry Tommy. She condescends to ten llery) necompany her to the studio. While waliing in an ant

planu and crwona" Heryl Alte down a nelles while thinking of her dead father.

Dow of the

baki

it

Was

something that for. I don't believe there's any much more interesting, opened the thing the matter with you."

his hand Manehan then

put Irene

incerised because inside and was bitten by a snake. WRH she'd had to wash dishes for two He fell to the ground unconscious. days and her father had dared to

and He was rushed to hospital Insist that she help at the store, given an injection of atropine,

presence is at present too weak to make any

statement, though the doctors be lieve his life is not in

private or bears ber and given het After an hour of her

He likes the velvety tones

of bez wotes and aures her of contract with Mr. Halyard, Irene falli and is furious when we that Bery! has had a test. the misrepresenta facta in home folks and

ape Beryl has made a fool of herself.

The narrastie Latine of Irene make er nsferabile, especially as time goes by and she hent uthtag as the studio.

CHAPTER XII

there he had sent her home, glad to be rid of her.

For once Beryl's mother took her part. "Well, she must be sick when she can't eat," she said. "Beryl's always had a healthy appetite and she's no call to reduce."

“She's stalling," Irene sneered. Beryl no longer showed any pår

"For heaven's sake, stop talking Beryl exclaimed, Irene deular interest in the daily mails. about me!" She had asked the postman who was hitting too near the mark for delivered at both the afore and the comfort. Not that she was exactly hoitse

to leave all her mail at the stalling but she was avoiding over-

Whe Calling Suto Irene's hands. ther letter from Mr. would be opened and read by her which sister was a question on

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"Yes, let's talk about something i pleasant," Irene agreed, "I hear they've had a revolution in Santh America."

And so it went until Beryl left was sorting out the store mall she (for New York. She told her mother told him he needn't bother abou! she felt better and would run

He could over to the store for a little while her personat letters. leave them at the house as before,.That was precisely what she did.

"All right,” he said, but here's but there she told her stepfather one for you now,"

that she was going to the efty. Hery accepted the letter listless.

"I'm taking a day off for some

H

Schoettler's ninke in 4 South European viper, and the police are now anxious to ascertain how he obtained it. Schoettler, however, has vanished, and Inquiries at the university have ascertained that ho is not a student there,

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don't know, Johnny," Beryl teplied, rapidly tearing open envelope.

"Well, you're zuristering pleas tre, sure enough."

From the store she walked to the local railroad station carrying her best pair of shoes-which she had hidden in the store beforehand to change at the station. The sta

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in

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on mistress was an old friend. need money.

lot of money.

She would look after the nutch- She laughed at herself. Besides, sufest every day sandals until hadn't Beryl returned.

every

she heard that such} thoughts sprang from an inferiority Well, she wasn't in- complex? inferior! And she wasn't going to be scared into fallure. talent she would demonstrate it this afternoon.

If she had

fer!

yait

a minute, and maybe tell you, she promised. Eagerly she unfolded the sheet of writing paper and scanned its contents,

That solved the shoe problem but skipplag the salulation and getting

Beryl was forced to go to town in at once to the message it carried.

However, she her country clothes. "Good fortune-or bad?"

slims "Well?"

the postman pressed. looked attractive. She was Tell me quick. I've got it heavy and all-taller at any rate than Irene--and her skin looked: 19 load this morning."

Beryl was dancing around in though she put it on new circles, waving the letter over her morning. Her grey yes were litt succeed ensed the

Sometimes af description. head.

a sunny day at sva "Ob, Johnny, it's great!" she they were like

**Then she res "I'm crist

a blend of sen and sky, clear and Sometimes they were membered that she had sworn her sparkling.

it wouldn't be smudged with emotion---so that kang to sey. fair to tell now.

one couldn't say just what shade "It's a letter from Rudy Valle," they were. Her hair was not in

"No one will ever tune her out!" she laughed. "I tired of his itself crowning glory but it

his smelled faintly of verbena and he exclaimed, as highly pleased as work and wands, me to take

Bery! hadh a style of dressing though he had found her himself. that was distinctive. In colour it was just a plain dark brown.

place."

There is no doubt that the will

strain her but it was the actual posses- slem of an unusual talent that won her sincere praise from those who listened in on her second voice whose And Mr. Gaylord, test. opinion meant most, was most en- thusiastle over her singing.

to

"Aw, come out! Be a good fellow

There was even an "I dare you to contradict me" note in his voice and tell us what it's all about.**

which brought a subtle smile "Nope, I can't. But promise Beryl was rarely ever immacu-Barnhoff's lips. you'll be one of the first 1 tellate as to costume. She was ton

And then Beryl was offered a con- when it's all settled."

active and self-forgetful to look trust that dazzled her. Relatively When she said that Beryl's hopes for long as though she had just it wasn't dazzling-it just dazzled were high. On scrond thought she stepped from a fashion plate. But Beryl, who'd never had more than realized that what she had gained she was fastidions about frequent pin money in all her life. was only a chance to sing for a man changes. When she left the louere who might very likely with Mr. Barnhoff about

things, voies in particular.

She signed and put the

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disagree in a freshly laundered grey linen away in her grey bag na carefully

many skirt,

matching grey sweater, as though it were a tube of radium with dainty lingerie cuffs and col-she was taking home. lar, no one thought it an out of the

Home! Now she could tell them! With Now she could take her revenge, She was to appear at the studio ordinary outfit for the store,

the following Tulayant this grey stockings, a white hat and And she wasn't a bit ashamed of

as only Thursday! Her moods shoes, she was really well dressed. the pleasure the prospect afforded

began at once to SCENIW.

First.

Anyway, whether it was

what

of course, she would please Mr.she would have selected to wear if Gaylord-hadn't, Mr. Barnholt said she'd had a wider choice, she soon 20? Then it was just too good to forgot about her appearance and be true. Such Things never hap last herself in day dreaming. pened to her, and you didn't have to be a pessimist, either, to feel that way. Look at the girls who never had Cinderella's chance! adibeult She had a

time

keeping calm, especially at home where the desire to strut her triumph seizt her violently at times. It wasn' saintliness that held her back, but sense. Suppose she should fail and Mr. Gaylord should not want her? Wouldn't Irene 'crow then! Beryl admitted Inck of courage to face that contingency.

Suppose some day she becante fu- mous and rich and Tommy should]

When the urge to bust a little or the longing for encouragement became overmasterng she went to her gang. They were for her, ane and all. Without them Beryi wasi sure she'd have to let the cat out

of the bag of home.

the

On Saturday she worked late in store and didn't get her daily swim until after eight o'clock at night. Coming home from the banch she got alightly chilled and began to sneeze. She was worried about it, but she doctored herself well and on Sunday was as fit as usuai.

On Sunday and Monday she cared for herself as though she were al- ready a prima donun and on Tues- day morning she was affected only

by familyltement.

were

the

Her

cro sceptical of her claim to a headache--which claint had permitted her to rest in seclusion of her room and save her voice. Even Mr. Everett thought at dinner on Monday that she looked bloomin' well for a Bick Hirl"

her.

She wasn't ashamed, but before she got home she thought of some- thing that brought her out of the clouds and robbed her big moment of its highlights.

(To be Continued.)

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