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CHEVALIER ARRIVES HOME.

THE

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1931.

NO ROOM, NOT EVEN TO DROWN.

A happy picture of Maurice Chevalier, with Madame Chevalier.. when the couple arrived at Cherbourg recently, on their return from the United States.

The Melody Girl.

By RUTH DEWEY GROVES.

Author of "The Innocent Cheat," etc.

VERIN HERE TOLDAY

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"How is Gaylord!" Deryl ankerh rae did not answer and Beryl sensed tension in the atmosphere.

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the other, but no one gave her any

aformation about Gaylord,

Suddenly Irene broke the silence

telin drear wind she breaks the engage by jumping to her feet and crying. When Penting her to marry him whe; to her mother in broken accents, "I auren. It denganta Tammy deiniks hens Hy

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When the heat-wave travailed from Chicago to New York, Coney Island became the Macea for swaltering throngs, to such an extent that they were far worse off than they were before. Drown- ing, much less swimming, was impossible.

Here are the man who, at the Paris conference for a suspanion of reparations payments, resched "a complete baris for agreement between the United States and France." Left to right arar M. Petri, Minister of the Interior; M, Pierre Laval; Mr. Andrew Mallon; Mr. Walter Edge, U. S. Ambassador to France, M. Briand, Foreign Minister Pisers Flandin, Minister of Finance.

everything there. There'll be threa

winter's coming.. People "But won't buy please food then and the

Women in the house As long as Beryl turned back to her mother, Irene stays. We can do the cook- whose expression was a mixture of ing. Demand is beginning to grow. enterrasme and dismay Her you know."

tepfather too looked restless.

Beryl al down in the chair that atthes togeter tene had vaented, pushing the women won't mind cooking at home:

empty plate before her aside, Irene so much. Besides, the summer peu- rall heimsly had been able to enjoy ple are going

the ourlet her mother haul pre- pared. "Well what is 11 Bery ashed,

Her mother made a fretful move ment.

"Now don't take that tone," she will, But Shit must have known, he began, but her husband, who I'd never amount to much. That's and decided to enlighten Berg), cut the reason she threw me aver prob. her short.

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CHAPTER XXXVIH

Toanty nochded in "Yes," he said “writly.

agrenni. * gove

I've done.

her.

"You will be licked if you worry Let's try, anyway, Irene can tako. over all that," Beryl protested. my place la the store and I'll help. "Mother at home."

The prospect of having rene in

the store did not please Mr. Everett but he said nothing against it, Tell her! Tell her!" he saved himself Never amount to much?" Bert lined usiferously set her take breath, for freue refused to tuke flashed ungrily. Yough for you to encourage the

anyway she wants to. It's bad Beryl's place there.

The thought of facing the local Through and that's what counte,"

her," Tonny disagreed. "You're re little tost, but you can't expect public "simply annihilated

everyone else to sympathize with and her mother stood by her. Irene. for what sponsible

she said, told her things about her car't take any erodit."

The poor child had suffered estly simply naked you to make at him. good

Yes, and I'm not so proud of to her in the extreme. He had neg. debt I felt you owed me, i on a

lected her and his jealousy was un- and you did it. You deserve all the that," Mr. Everett retorted. credit for that

Beryl endurable. But I hope you

"For heaven's sake,"

Beryl listened to this recital with

In don't feel it's necessary to your pleaded. "What is the matter"

Mc. her cheek. "I'll tell you," her stepfather de her tongue self-respect to have anyone's" ap-. proval,

"That feather-Everett was made to feel a brutei dared excitedly. brained Irene has left her husband. when he dared to question it. To "No," Tommy said slowly. "It

quiet him his wife told him in pri- isn't that" Beryl, tremulous and That's what's the nutter!"

"Left him," Beryl

forgive Gaylord "just the same," fori panion besitated for words.

"That's something she hasn't tim. And what could they do He went on then to talk of other things and did not mention Irene deigned to tell us, Mr. Everett Turk her out of the house? again. Beryl could not know what replied with an accusing look at his No, they couldn't do that.

Bery shook her head in denial. j Mrs. Everett flushed angrily.life with Gaylord that she couldn't "Don't believe that." she said earn. Your own daughter!" she shrilled repeat.* Gaylord had been crud

ruger, felt hope die as her com-eredulously repeated in-vale that she thought Irene would

So

Mr. Andrew Malion here is shown, left, with M. Finndin, Finance Minister, at the entrance to the Ministry of the Interior in Paris.

It meant to him to think of meet-wife. "She said she couldn't talk Irene stayed to become a pour, piti-worth-while sucrifice.

ing his sweetheart

Guesses were und

mon's wife. but she hazarded' a few. She not help this, for under the calm

do

store,

What was

MUTINY ON SHIP.

GERMANS HAVE TROULE WITH CHINESE.

voice compared a young another about it and your mother upheldful, heart-broken child, too tired to

but rest from

the her You could give her time," Mra. "awful ordeal" she'd been through man's whole Hfe? Now she rebelied

Mrs.

Everett insisted when Beryl against seeing that ascrifice turned Everett whimpered.

Yet it seemed this must be her "Time! I've a right to know-questioned her that. Irene helped to vain account. that had descended upon Tommy

"Mother's right, Dad." Beryl said with the housework and the cook- she sensed a tremendous agitation.

certainty,

Bremen, Aug. 4. The unfathomable ex- her time at the

Pollee had to be called in to When he said goodbye to her be soothingly. "There are things you ing. But Beryl, who spent most of cross, Reluctant suspicion grew to

suspected certain fore taking a subway train at Long can't talk about."

Well,"

Mr. Everett Bustered, the truth, for Irene always looked pression in Irene's eyes when she Ialand City for upper New York his

turn hnd puzzled Beryl. After three mon on the steamer Platz. words were commonplace but thera subsiding a trifle, "I won't have her dainty and refreshed in the eve- and Tommy first met after her as-quell a mutiny of 25 Chinese fire-

Wweeks of uncertainty the situation

The first officer drew his led on in any silly quarrel between jning while her mother grew her and her husband. You find out and always seemed

and was much clearer.

volver, and was knocked down before long what she left him for," Still she did not complain,

Beryl could not even get her to Irene wanted Tommy. There he added, addressing his wife.

leave the house for a ride with her could be no doubt of it. And in with an iron bar,

a short while, she said, she would Seventeen Chinese have been and Tommy on

Sundays.

bo divorced from Gaylord. This arrested. Reuter.. newa had stunned Mr. Everett, but

was a look in his eyes that caused hier uneasiness.

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wan

to look tired.

of goa Mrs. Everett, aware

it did more to Boryl. It sent top.

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It was a lovely pose, this crushed. innocence, this air of gentle sorerw nobly borne which Irene had adopted. It was impressive to all

She worried over Tommy ali the way home, forgetting to prepare herself for hor meeting with her sister. The family were still at the Mrs. Everett got up to go to dinner table when she arrived. Irene, but the expresion on her Irene did not rise to greet her. tear-strained face was not sub-sipy speculation concerning Ironer pling, spinning away in shattered ment, was admission of a great Beryl hesitated an instant, then missive. Mr. Evett followed her was staunchly loyal to

the radiant pence she had mistake. said cnually, "Hello. How are retreating figure, with anxious eyes, favourite, Denied the round of par- bits,

face It," Beryl said to him ties she had planned in honour of found in achieving Tommy's salva- Irene know then that Beryl had wearly when he turned back to her daughter (she and Irene had tion. It tortured her and made not wanted her to come home her. "If it's a serious break be agreed it was better to refuse all every thought an aching burden in "And I think," she said to herself, tween Irene and Gaylord we can't such invitations) she was staying her tired mind. "that I can guess the reason." help. Mother will uphold her in stubbornly away from those who

of Tommy to understand as she through a pane of cles" glass." "Mama tells me you drove anything. And we've got to think might question her.

Beryl's attempts to make things knew Ireno would have him under- Irene knew her sister saw. Tommy to school," she remarked of conditions at the atore."

"It's no uso." Everett said help-casior for her mother were nullified stand, to read the welcoming smile through it. She knew that Beryl sweetly and sighed, "Poor Tommy

by this attitude...

on. Irene's lips as Irene would have was aware of her real feelings to ...I'm so glad he stopped ass-lessly: "I'm licked!

"No, you're not," Beryl Insisted. Beryl had accepted a caroor in him read it, to realize, an Irene ward Tommy. She knew this, and "I think we can make something lieu of love, the lose of that career would have him realice, that the pho knew more something that of the delicatessen end of the bust for love, and lastly, contentment in westaoes, the gentleness, that Beryl'did not know.

Styles (2.0, be Continued.). Individual effort counts for service in the knowledge of a clung about her like a sort gar

cinting with those horrid Larkin

born.

Beryl looked at her mother bat Mrs. Everett avoided the glance.

ness,

She waited in an agony of dread save Baryl who saw through it as

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