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THE

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 193L

THE WEAKER SEX?

JUST ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY.

Beside her own

Trixie, has gone in for family life on grand sċain, as this på eturn shows. puppy, she has adopted 13 baby 'ponam and three raccoons, and above they are seen living con- ten indly together in their New York home.

Heart of Liane

by MABEL MCELLIOTT

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"Newspaper talk?" Tressa asked, her curiosity sharpened by an evasive qually in her sister's voice, "What about It wasn't a terribly unconventional match, wie it ?"

"Oh, no Millicent was a Brad- 230/1:018

Baltimore society- the fin- i Fanny! pianed at the dour uneasily. " A Phate to talk about it. Evu night Brume in. She often does for a intr

1. I saw more than you thought Lite Barrett, 18 and Pevely, a kod This may und finish and all that leave New York when her ruther recebut surt of wanted in protect you. To be running Steam. I.. 1. What Mersilk, mint aller You're the preity offray, comes to will Linne that the mint who around love, Goblins' get you. apenkoney braut at which That's why this engagement of ours whe wan mit innowen! with wire cover, At a parts stiven by Maciel dd, would lie fi shield, it protection." debutant, Lingo on Vans Robart, whom she had encountered

before, C-n Jarrett egy lane maker Bhim ngalḥ,

Van pak Linne night

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Chuck Murie) met Ikestand, reporter, believed to have eh.

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Elk Minter, the company

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The girl at his side was allent. "Don't you

She was thinking *** dark, trandled face. Of strong hands ingene | tuusehing her with a touch that

Wash

cluat,"

"Don't

FLED idiot." Tresen snapped. "She'll knock and then you can change the subject. Ang-1 how, why should Eva mind?”

"Dirk and she were great friends and Millie was a distant cousin. You know how she is about h friend and innily. Touchy na tive desce."

"Well, tell me anyhow," persisted Tressa. "I'm dying of curiosity."

Fanny leaned forward. “Ŭlrk

Diane that Dear Rundt hout Robard trembled into flame, Protection of tolard had been married a few

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wanted"

Yes, at couver, you're right," she said after an instant,

**Let me tell mother_tu-morrow,

of her dend later, Lafan, Mn, sp Ulive urged. He put his foot on the tem f'nan to her hann to nga ere, starter, The engine mured, sputtered

In enme only ander in suish the dome into life.

his fathers will. At Best all as ullendend "That

Look Inter Recepts For fur matter's

stakes.

years before,” she said solemnly. all came out in the newspapers when he married Mille."

"Well, what of 117

wanted t

Tresan

to know. "What bad hap

| pened?"

"The girl was beautiful everyone.

Paney Almetou and her stater. From led, saistgirl will hate n." Lianu said," Frommy explained. "I never

Lovit Mrs. Gengah, Teren in

mado Linze Rubwed on the, and

by ko kauns

Clive.

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Ble well- Prem

CHAPTER XX.

"There's just one thing I like

le ask you." Llany said suddenly,

suddenly with apparent ir-saw her but Aunt Addie did aun ༤ད་་་་

said sh relevance.

was a raving, tearing Oh, TressTM Clive beauty. Then suddenly she dropped "What girl? laughest. "Does she matter? out of sight. No one knew where

"I don't know. Your mother mayor why, Dirk went abroad for 2 think so..

Your mother may have year. The rumour was that she had!

માં bhut then [phans - Line paused."

he married Millie She may, Clive agreed grimly, Bradshaw the papers unearthed a

divorce, Divorces were less new back in 1913."

"They still are," Tressa

The car was running along smooth-but my plans and Mother's sole los match. You may have noticed that

ly under the wot olas. The damp, autumnal wind blew her bronze hair

in little ringlets arross her cheeks, The lights of Wildacres glegmed]

In the tful light of the road lamps i now through the trees in the lane. her young fare liked strain.! sombre.

"

from the car.

"Het better?" he asked, helping

drily.

more or

said

"Anyhow Van came into a good thing," Fanny went on with relish.

"He is sole heir to that enormous "What's that?" Clive Clesspaugh ! With the clasp of that firm, lean fortune. Millie died in 1920, a year wanted to know. He took a packet of hand Liane felt a suklyn and un-after Dirk. They left him every- cigarettes from his pocket with his secountable lightening of heart. thing." free hand, reached for the patent She could not have said why but lighter which, among other he was somehow happier, more Tressa sat down at the dressing ments and gadgets, bestrode the in-assured than she had been 10 min-able concentrating on

skin. Little rose-coloured jara and battles yielded up their contents to supplementer benuts,

strument iMurd .I the ure utes ago."

he

Blane's eyes sought his face as drew in a draught of fragrant smoke and expelled it gratefully.

"Much better," she said.

She rushed past the little out without a glance. She would not "L'e about Elsie Minter," Liane | give Tresa Lord the satisfaction explained. "I thought somehow→ of thinking she cared!

last summer I got the impression--"

her sleek

story." she observed, pat- ting in some creamy coloured an-

guent

"And Muriel Ladd who doesn't

She was, embarrassial. She coulsi Trussn yawned indolently, need la penny of it is going to step nol formulate the words.

i stretching her lovely arus in into all that money," Funny mur-

Clive turned toward her, his gesture purely feline. The live fellnured.

teeth flashing whitely in his still away from her shoulders. Her "Do you think so, really 7′′ Tressa fanned face.

green eyes opened wide. closed asked cryptically. "That Elsie and I had a case on again. She looked like a lovely. Fanny stared. each other?" be finished for her.sicepy cat.

"Why Tressa Lord, whatever are with a note of amused incredulity. "That Barrett girl's up to some-you driving at?"

"Yes. That was it." Now that thing, mind you,” she said to Fan- Tressa laughed. the thing was said Linne felt smally Amberton who reclined on the "Van's had affairs before," the and school-girlish. After all, chaise longue.

countered evasively. "You're sure-

il

was one of her business. Just "Your imagination works overly not so naive as to believe that that she didn't want anyone hurt time, darling," Fanny answered just because his engagement to Elsic, least of all. She ww brus lazily. "She's a mere child and Mariel has been announced they'll que, but she was above all, kind. rather well-behaved one, I think, go through with it?

ing you!

"Oh, she must have been string At least who doesn't shout and "Adele had better marry that girl'

Clive said, still amused.

the way Muriel did to-off and quickly, too," Fanny replied. know--surely you most

"She's one of the naughty postsur that she and Vernon

"Did

have!

You

k

scream

nights

*I don't like her." Tressi's green children these dreadful young men to be married as soon as he gets eyes narrowed. "Muriel's all right. | are always writing books about." his decree?" He reached over and She belongs. at any rate. Clever Tressa

yawned. patted her hand. "I was the old little buggage to have snagged Van "Well, if anyone writes a book smoke screen, I suppose," he added, Robard for her own. He's filthy about Muriel Ladd don't nek me to dryly. "Vernon's wife was snooping with money."

read it, please. I'd be bored to around for evidence. Elsie thought.

The weaker sex? Possibly once, but hardly to-day. Above i striking action picture of a new feminine hurdler, Miss Mildred Didrikson, who recently did the 80 yards in 12 seconds drad.

Q

Miss Joan Shiley, of Philadelphia, a spectacular high jumper. Lower right, inset, a woman athlete putting the shot.

a

There is power in ovary line of the porn of Miss Evalys Forcars, who recently achieved a discus throw of 108 feet, 11 inches.

it smart to protend a flirtation with teal's mother was a fascinating death. These bad brats who think her siden.

mo."

cently.

you're too

PLEA FOR SUPPORT.

HUSBAND REFUSES TO TELL EARNINGS

Funny sighed, reminis-up, shocking things to say weary Fanny attempted to kend off the tantrum which threatened. You're "I saw her at Newport me." "Oh!" Llane fait suddenly an im-when I was in pigtails. Beautiful "You were born seven years too beautiful enough." she said, "to mense distaste for all this intrigue.creature she was. All the men were curly for that. sort of thing." Fauny land anybody. But She wanted to go some place where mad about her. She was Robards (obzerved with satisfaction.

clever, I think. You say things people lived simply and frankly.secund wife, you know. Van wasn't Tressi stood up, winding the that wound a man's pride, You

(Our Own Correspondent,) where there were no plots or under- his son."

leck folds of her robu about her never lose a chance to be biting.", hand affairs.

"Oh, I

that!" Tras lovely figure with an impatit mean didn't

Tresn frowned "You niwoyn

Shanghai, Sept. 9., Clive turned the cur into a little, shrugging out of her frock, movement.

Bay that You're milk and water

Edward B. Ifowe to-day refused- Lane. Stopped the engine.

paused, looking Interested,

"Don't remind me of my senior and I'm vinegar. Is that what you tell the Magistrate, Mr. Haines, "Look, child," he auld, "Let's talk

adopted Van legally. Van'a ity," she urged, i rasp in her voice, men?" this thing out. You find the world father was a nobody. Artist "You know I didn't mean to do

Fanny refused to be annoyed, liis monthly earnings and declared rather a rotten place, don't you?"something of the sort. He left that," Fanny said amiably.

I'm

tired of this conversation, upon. faintly,

married Dirk Robard within the ror over the full-skirted dressing You're young enough anyway not to

or

"Sometimes," agreed the young Millie without a penny and sho Tressn leaned nearer to the air they said softly. "And that he had barely enough to live

girl,

little because you were thrown sud-

denly among sophisticated people before you'd actually grown up. I could sco that, first off."

on the

He was summoned in connexion

concession in Luna Park

02

Well, I in and It isn't. Your year. Clever girl." Fanny yawned, table, her eyes opened v wide, "Well, look like a hag after late hours so with his wife's tica for support. sense of balanca has been upset a All this happened when Van was I'm reminded of it entirely tour of clear out and let me get my beauty The court granted hor 350 a month,

Her husband deserted her I suppose?" Treasa sald ten," she said with bitterness. "I'm sleep baby n

block and Muriel has Tressa was mollified. Her mer-Augurt 14. Ho is the owner of a ibit of it. Van was in prep has a bidder. Don't rub it in”. curial temper abated.

I' school. Mille's people put him Her sister

"Stop worrying, old lady. had ald, "You've murmured through I believe. But they were chances. It isn't as

get off in style one of these days," young stoney most of the time. Dirk and With an inpatient gesture Tressa the prophesied as she kissed her on a friendly note. "That's simply "I never thought Millio were married just before the interrupted. "Oh, I know, I know! sister goodnight. "I may have marvellous, chick," she said. "Tall

wain 1918, I believe. You were You've given me every advantage some ideas you don't even suspect me what you're plotting." His short laugh sounded rather ber. But there was a lot of news Her beautiful mouth was twisted. She was glad to part for the night

too young. You wouldn't remem- Let's not go over all that again" on this marriage business."

Fanny affected pleased surprise. "Wait and soo!" offended. I notleed," he anld grim-paper talk. She stopped, w

(To Be Continued.)

"You saw-what?” Liane, astonished at the

man's perception,

you noticed me."

Her-long hands were clenched at

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