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Van Elm (left) shaking hands with Burke after the result had been attled.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1931.

AMERIC ́N ́ OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP

Fifteen hundred fans comprised.the gallery that followed Tommy Armour, left; who wan the British Open, and Henry Cotton in the U. 3. Open Golf champions sip at Toledo. Armour scored

75, Cotton, popular choice, shot away most of his chances with 80.

Bows in- straight or thistle shapes.

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This picture shows Von Elm making the remarkable 18-foot putt which earned him the right

to meet Billy Burke a second time. In the second play-off Burke won by a stroke.

The Melody Girl.

By RUTH DEWEY GROVES.

Author of "The Innocent Cheat," etc.

CHAPTER XXXIX

be faking a mistake in leaving Gaylord like this? You know i isat 90, easy to do without nier things ones you've grown accus- tomed to them."

irene funga silken bit of lin gerie impatiently into a drawer.

You wouldn't have had me stay! and be treated like

a dog, wouk)

on.

yuu." she supers. Everett hesi

"No, but heitated, then plunged boldly

"Gaylord might so his mistake and make it up to you if you'd go back. 1 nean he might ask you to come

woll

You

excited as he hand fearedi

fly did not know that he Tenny was in love with Beryl, would be. trune saw it, with eyes shurpad outgrown ali bit the memory. oned by jealousy. In Cora she se jof a youthful passion for Irene er cretly raged and mocked at this that he was and always had been back, and

she situation, called Tommy fee and the true lover of another girl. The ought to do anything that would laughed scornfully at his blindness bomlage of love that held him and keep hit from asking you.

ended lamely been of such gradual.

Irene stared haughtily Tammy in these beat weeks had Beryl bad beenme a far more interesting and andramatic growth that Tominy desirable Tommy than the callow was entirely anaware of it as love. What in the world are you driv

at her.

boy she had clidmed as her own Their quarrels, their reconciliations,ing at?" she asked, but she knew to him just incidents of well enough, for Mrs. Everett Had

since

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friendship.

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für

frowned on her interest in Tommy:

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George Van Elm (left) and Billy Burke, who twice tied for the

title, are seen with the trophy.

they were children. There were was a subtle dignity, a seriousTICAS

And Beryl, watching in despair divorced yet and Gaylord might not

mean, dear, that you aren't ¦ about him that commanded respect |

the return of his infatimtion and liking.

right do Moodiness had dropped from him Frene, was determined not to inter consider that you have a

go around with other boys."

"Huh." Irene sniffed. discarded gurment. Trene fere. She av frene make herself lovely whenever Tommy was ex- Could not understand the new Toramy, it was clear enough to herpeted at the house, saw her wipe other boys am I going around with? that he did not understand himself the petulant expression from her flere stay at home like a recluse. either, and that he accepted the face on several occasions as though minding my own business and try.

my without question. But it with a cloth, and sofistitute a nussing to forget how shamefully I've change

She saw that created and now

mother begins to lecture me be angoyed her to realize that she, smiling charm.

muse an old friend feels sorry for remarked the change. rould Tommy sometimes looked at Irene' who not analyze it. What was it that as he had boked at her when there and is nice about it!"

were sweethearts, cluded her??

She started to sob into a pale That was thuring the first week. Beryl grew hitter. If treme could The second she, sensed that some win Tommy back then she, Deryl, Kreen nightdress and her mother's thing of the old Tommy was stir-did not want him. If he could so protests were stilled. But she did ring in him, breaking through the easily be called back by a girl who not win her parent over to her own detached mood that possessed him. had led him thinTammy had, point of view. In fact, Mrs. Everett Touching this spark gave her un- as she had feared in the beginning, worked against her where Tammy

was concerned. Himited satisfaction for she'd been a fundamental weakness he could For several successive Sundays

the alarming ever face to face with

following Irene's return Tommy į She must love him always, she went out with Beryl as usual, And thought that she'd lost her appeal

felt.

but if she could not respectra. Everett it was who told Bery! for him.

The discovery that Tommy cared hing she did. not want him.

not-to

mind coming back in time I want you to be careful unt!! it's (receive the letters, but after a few days she showed the beginning for Beryl had stung. Consciously Dene was thankful that Bery!! she strove to exert the old enchant- took this attitude although she did to help prepare dinner or do up the all settled."

dishes.

"And you're hoping it will be of an Indifference that grow, in ment over Tommy. Irene did this not understand it.

"One would think," Irene čum-jaettled by my going back to exact ratio to the interest Tommy even though she understood that Tommy's feeling for her was not elinad to let her have her own way.plained to her mother one lonely Oakdale," Irene declared. "But I'm was showing toward her.

hate that the letters appeared to annoy her. the gold of his love for her sister Mrs. Everett protested Gaylord's Sunday afternoon, "that you don't never going back, 1

gold that ing buried deep in suing for the divorce, for one thing, want me here. You won't let me place! And if Tommy Wilson loves She always read them alone but her mother discovered evidenca his heart. She thought Tommy was Irene had insisted with wistful move any fun at all. If you'd made me it's nobody's business!"

Beryl stay at home for change Mrs. Everett sighed, "Please that she destroyed them. like a man who sought to grow a resignation that it did not matter. Tommy would have taken me to don't say such things," she said This morning Beryl had told garden in the barren soll topping Later Mrs. Everett had spoken her the football game."

rich vein of pure ore.

mind on the subject of money. "Beryl needs to get out one day pleadingly, "your father might Mrs. Everett that Tommy

getting a car of his own, one that Well, if you never knew you hadWhat did Gaylord expect Irene ta

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a week," Mra. Everett retorted

"I'm not afraid of him," Irene he had picked up for "next to The shortly, and Irene said no more.

11.

the

you

rovercome.

She found her mother less in-

For the first time in 11 years, 'Bobby Jones was a spectator at the U. S. Open golf championship. The above photo, showe Jones, left, talking golf with Tommy Armour, British Open champion.

hear of it."

She had asked this question as. Her mother, she suspected, was be asserted, "I guess you've told nothing, at the garage.

these gowns.

Tommy.

Now

was'

a thing you couldn't miss it when do? lost it. And Irene wanted Tummy Tommy was hers. So she with troubled eyes, she watched inning to think she bush as he him a lot of things that aren't nows disturbed Mrs. Everett more

kéraelf to make his garden Irene unpack the lovely clothes turn

to Gaylord. Perhaps she so to keep him from, throwing me than she let Beryl see. She grow for him. She would have it that made up her now, wardrobe. feared a scandal, for she'd repeated out of the house. I know I'm not membered hearing, Irono Basa bloom with red roses and bright Irene's father would never be able what a neighbour had said about welcome here," she added sudden- Tommy that he ought to have a car. Now people would talk, the vivid papples, with flame and colour to provide her with anything like Irene's going to picture shows with ly and began to cry. und life

Her mother, defeated, mid no woman thought for the store and

Baryl departed "At first Tommy thd not know "Oh, Prentiss will have to give i "If you just knew how Prentiss more, but the next morning, when

waited for that her spell was upon him once me some

thoughts light-

while ahe more. They had met meeting divorce, Irene had answered he treated me, she walled, "you'd be she brought up Irone's mail to her Mrs. Everett, alone with her

she was again incliood to question nore sympathetic.

the state

Trane to me down to breakfast, of affairs. his fancy had been unable to etch ly. She did not wish her mother

Mrs. Everett could not defend in for him, so tremendous was its to inquire too closely into her

There was the mystery of the became increasingly apprehensive. and When the postman arrived Appearances import. He had aald with a cool financial affairs, for she was not Gaylord.

were daily lottere that Irena had bean ness that startled himself and in- disposed to share with her family against him for certainly he made receiving, for one thing. Irene left the daily letter for Irene along furiated Irene. "Did you have a the money her husband sent her no effort of which she was aware had never divulged the name of with one or two others she trudged pleasant trip?"

weekly.

her correspondent but the hand-up the stairs with a settled de- "Honey," her mother said ner- He did not know why he was not vously, "don't you think you might honey," the mother gay in, "but At first she had seemed gled. to

"Of course I'm sorry for you, writing was plainly masculine termination to ask Irene what the

letter meant.

(To Be Continued.)

to win Irene's forgiveness.

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