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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1991.

NAVY WEEK AT CHATHAM.

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Heart of Liane

by MABEL MCELLIOTT

BEGIN HERE TO-DAY.

arfett, daughter of Cass

her, too." thought Liane with www.affectionate amusement. She was Jell, a neten, porn with her mother a very proud old woman. She was Wow Strewn, . . Jus The warmer. Her what the girls at the convent had

mother 11 lay

stock. At 30 653ow

theatre.

Stream, Lisse mota Cire Cugh, so called "bossy." Bossiness general. of the wealiby patrons of the

rly went dutifully to the head. The Kake Mister, thegenta, attives Clive's laterent Lin's

An has more one's underlings submitted to

been ensnared by a handsome stranger who dictates the more ብር ordered Ck334 her tay name night at the theatre. She meets him later at a party at them

around. "That boy's no

the home of Mariel Landit. debutante who fool," decided Liane, thinking of

Just before landing at La Havre, our photo shows five of 90 students from 35 American col- leges and universities who will study for one year at the famous Sorbonne in Paris under the foreign study plan of the University of Delaware.

sliste x are duties with her. I am

love with Clive, and wondered why Elsic the scandal sheets on the correct tell me. I didn't know you'd ever would be at once and forover." She

Van bare for fall in

Ilm. C, hearing his name, aska Liane had thought he was. "He has a tongue of Mrs. Cleespaugh was

never to see him again without giving

Pekinis,

backbone. She liked

Mr. Clenech nake Llane to stay with better for it. her are companion in the fail. Chunk

Desmonsthewspaper ensmester, take Muriel dancing one night, and Mrs.

lim the disconcerting.

Iraised her shining eyes, deep and met the man."

long lashed, to the older woman's. Liane wanted to Liane flushed.

don't smile but dare not.

"He came along," she said with "I believe in lasting love, Linne saw little of the young "She'r-fascinating," she ven-n show of reluctance, "one night you?"

Mrs. Cleesphugh regarded her she Ladded man. Qcensionally

hadatured, anent the dashing Muriel.

when a man

at the theatre was Sulard after the swir. thinking they skelmpse of Clive

with fondness. She said very firm- in is turtle- "Oh, fascinating!" Mrs. Cleus. being-unpleasant." eloped. Lune goes with Rohard and ha makre

stained and

"My dear child, that sounds terly. "I certainly do. Not a doubt Love to her. One night she couragely necked sweater, in repels robbers the thesten 1x oleo.

sheer disgust. "I fail to see why rifically thrilling," said the old lady, to it."

Neither of the two had heard a lighting, Feline tha1 Robardskeative Worn brown riding breeches gal-Pugh's tone expressed nothin- but

soft

it was nothing. But he was light step on the threshold of the "Oh, uflibbertygibbet."

really rather knightly about it." morning room where they eat with Janid the young girl, dimpling at the accounts. A vibrant voice with

the recollection.

an undercurront of mirth in It In- Once and only once Llane saw

"Well, I

aald at the time and I terrupted: say now Adele Ladd might've done "Interesting to hear two women

th Muriel's mother and the girt is crushed. loping down the lane of a that word should be applied to auch

When Casa a parking Llang dacorers September morning. He would plelure in her mother's trunk and a told

of Cam's dead later, Rules. Cais nod to her in a friendly yet distant mpsterious shoat her. Liane grows to atar manner, swinging off his soft hat

11.

with Mr. Cleepaugh and find that Cile in salutation. She would tramp

and his mother do not get along.

CHAPTER XIL

through the fallen pine needles,

Then she set her lips and refused to say another word.

kicking the tiny neorns with her Muriel flash by in her streamline

car. Her gypsy scarf had been dis-worse with her daughter," declared talking of love in the early hours."

sturdy brown shoes, thinking how

. • •

Llane, startled, looked full Into The problem of Clive's attitude fortunate she was to live in such carded. She wore the more sober Mrs. Cleespaugh with relish. From

but still dashing habliments of toward his mother remained for a beautiful and luxurious world, on Little brown hat. Beautiful-what one hears Muriel would be the deep-act eyes of Van Robard. the moment unsolved. Lane while her mother weat wandering. ly cat tweeds. A fur scarf, the cost better off safely married than the She gave one startled movement, the country, tumbling the cheque book and the went dutifully to lunch with the Liane was saving her money now. of which would have bought Liane is running about.

of bills, Almost they fell old lady on the day of the flare She was living quietly and de- Barrett shoes for five years. Mu-heaven knows where, at all hours sheaf

into the fire from which the screen The harly-burly, amus- up.Outwardly there was no ruffi- muroly.

"I somehow don't think marriage, stood a little aside. Van stoop ing of the calm waters bat the ing life of town, of scrambled riel threw a careless greeting at of the day or night."

her erstwhile co-worker. young girl sensed a resentment so meals and hand-me-down frocks,

"She's forgotten me," Liane would change Muriel very greatly," ed, still smiling. to retrieve them as Mrs. Cloespaugh, not alto- deep her patron could not bring became a sort of dim dream.

thought with a little pain at her Llano ventured.

Interrup gether pleased at the horself to apenk of it. And yet,

heart. Linne wanted desperately Liane thought, Clive had been in Sometimes at night when she

The old lady looked solemn. "It tion, greeted him. who someone

was young and

"Well, I must shy-" she began the right. His mother had spoken had gone to bed early and could frivolous in whom to confide. Mu- changes us all, my dear," she

her. Bakd with gravity. "Ona to him as if he were the veriest) not sleep she would shut her eycariol obviously had no time for he dignity. Or rather, one should "rather crossly. "This is a great

to keep out the picture that camo "I wonder." said Mrs. Cleespaugh,

Van, handhonte in ble travelling girl shrewdly, "but she must have his blue uniform, his eyes shining subject, "what has happened to that faction tapping her morning news tweeds, leaned over and kissed

"She's kind," reflected the young to her, Shane McDermid, big suddenly one morning resuming the She frowned as if in deen disent aurprise for all of us." her own way.” Perhaps Clive had sternly at her. Van Robard

young newspaper man-wasn't his paper. Not that one would be-

"Not vory gracious, Eva, aro been letting her have it for yours his dinner clothes, bending over name Desmond?-whom Muriel leve in dignity after reading the hor audaciously on the cheek.

you?" he inquired. in matters large and small and her hand. No, she would not was supposed to be so fond of? I list of divorce cases these days," now at 24, was coming to see that think of Van! She had heard heard Adel Ladd was terrified for she added bitterly

"I'm delighted to ace you, nat- he could bear this state of affairs Clive any over the hall telephone fear they would elopa luat summer. "Marriage means less than noth-

day, Van? Oh, ho's at The girl is a will-o'-the-wiep, that's ing, prica Mrs. Clesspaugh we must you walk in

to the daughters of turally," protested Mrs. Clees no longer. "It doesn't matter to one

paugh not too convincingly. "But hermy

friends." me," thought Liane rather wistful Burlingame I believe. Be back certain. One would respect

"If Clive should ly. I'm hor guest, her protege, about Christmas time."

If her

her affections were more sighed sharply. and naturally I must respect all Nor did she catch glimpses of

permanent."

over make such a mess of his life nounced? Why not use the telo- ane had wondered, too, about her wishes. But for a man grown Muriel any more. Mrs. Clees-

schoolboy,

moro

lang

unan-

-to-knuckle-under-and-din-exactly_aspaugh "thoroughly disapproved” Chuck Deamond. Occasionally don't know what I should phone? You young people are so

she commands him that would be of Muriel Ladd. shameful."

now

ow that she had seon him "staud latest up" to his mother.

Tho

aaw

were printed.

frowned again.in

sho

went

Casual, so imperative."

Van appealed to Liano who,

"She calls me a young person,"

he mocked. "And I'll never peo

He "But that's an unpleasant sub-crimson and pata, by turns-had- "Have you heard," she asked jing R Paper in which his "Rov Yes, Llane respectod Clive more Llane in shocked volce. "of her wrote with a bright frony which ject," she said, dismissing it. Look-resumed her place at the desk.

Rossip acomed to her excessively brilliant. ing at Llano shrewdly and kindly conquest? papers say she is that way' She remembered gratefully his.pro-

"You're very young, my dear, 80 again. I'm deeply flattered." If Mrs. Clebspaugh's white head about Curtis Blue. Such a charm-tection on the, alght the Danish

But Llane refused to smile at was hold a trifle higher, if her ing person I thought him. What electrician had roughly ombraced but somehow I think you would take

marriage in a more serious way him. She gathered up her papers after luncheon, Mrs. Cleespaugh quaintance. Was ho really?" Mrs. Clees "Oh, if I loved, murmurod said more affably. Van stood at

(Continued on Page Ugl To hear the gub expressions of paugh enjoyed a good gossip. "De Liane confusedly. "It: I loved It

tene that day, addressing the can ho soo in that hobbledchoy? he was rather nice," Llane than most, of the girls of my ac-to leave. Wyll got back to all this

maida, grow sharper and more Muriel is an extremely indiscreet autocratic, her manner toward young woman and I disapprove said. Llane at least was not affected of her.

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