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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1931.

GUILTY LIPS

/ LAURA LOU BROOKMAN” “Author of "MAD MARRIAGE"

BEGIN HERE TODAY

versally appealing, the, pictures ap- Pretty Norma Kent, 20-year-old aromtery | poured in newspapers from coast to in law office, marries Mark Traver, son of coast.

. M. Tevere, mitionale real rulate denier. 'n to eut Mark off

without a penny the

The

There was no suite in the fash-

KL the welding, Unflays, are witnesses | test: for serilled.

this Norms has to

~

after the father has Artlaxe takes place, 1 ionable Blue Springs Inn more cle- Norma has known Mark only a few gant than the one Mark had

ld not know during the courtship that he was a millionaire's wh

Kaged, Norma, living in a world lary open to Mariboro, middle of luxurious comforts for the first western metropolis. Christine Saunders, with whom Norma shared an apartment, anime, soon came to take such mat- Hendry art, Chris'

Slark, who was at home in such aurroundings, who new luxuries, waved aside questions was constantly introducin her to

about money.

It was Narma to adopt the same attitude.

natural

a for She left every declalon to

Binrk. la response to a telegram to his mother Mark's luggage arrived. The couple went to a smart shop and

seatedly pefused to marry Bob Ferrell, young Inwyer of whom the Condo a friend.

Mark nella bi expensive roadsier to get Cry for the honeymoon tris. fa and Verma depart for Brings, fashionable Test the trash suits Mark

there amething he has to

CHAPTER XV

Mark dug one hand down into his waistenat

spoke again. ife drew out a box A very tiny box of dazzziing white ness. He snapped the lid back and gleaming circlet of diamonds ap- peared. They were set in of platinum.

A band "Almost forgot about this," he said. "Let's see if it fits,"

He slipped

the jewelled band over the third finger of Norma's left hand. The ring twinkled up at her like star-cust. The tiny dia monds became a dise of fire. They tashed white heat into the dusky train compartment. Or were they tear drops frozen and strung like

pocket before he shot bats clothes for Norma..

bends?

"How-how beautiful...!” Words were such useless things. They

falled Norma completely. Something hot, and choking anth tered in her thront. She could not

speak. Almost she could breathe. Never had she dreamed anyone could be so frighteningly, restatically happy.

not

And so because she could not find the words to answer the girl raised her two hands, une to either of Mark's cheeks, held his face clone ly for a long instant, and then pressed her lips to his.

Oh, these two were so young, so very much in love!

"But the ring dues it! Set just right!" she was insisting little later.

Mark disagrved. He held up the enetreed finger to prove the bind dipped alt too loosely, There was the possibility of losing the ring. He had not realized what stender,, delicate fingers his bride, hind.

now.

reas which Mark said made her bought an ivory lace dance look like a dainty porcelain_figu- rine on a Dresden lamp. There were pink roses artfuly caught ja the lace.

The first night Norma wore this to refuse dances own she had to three youths Mark had intre- duced. She couldn't think of danc ing with anyone except her hus- band!

Mark was tactful. It was due to this tactfulness and Norma's blind. that she did not feel out of place in ness to everyone else about them

Her new surroundings. It did not oceur to her that she was alnost

the only feminine guest at the Blue Springs lan who did not play golf. or tennis, She gave no thought to the fact that a dozen young women, clad in smart habits and boots and ecompanied by escorts, rode regu!- larly on the bridal trafis.

She di I dance beautifully and the ball room at the Inn, opening on a sky-roofed terrace, was to remain in Norma's memory as a fairyland.

all this which was so new and won- Not sure did it occur to her that

tertul was to Mark an 'olel.

old story.

Mark had visited Bluc Springs many times before. Days of idleness, tramping and motoring, were no novelty to him. Norma should have thought of these things.

She sent off a hurried postcard Chris, There was no time to waste at letter-writing. Mark did not even bother with postcards.

Four perfect golden days were followed by dark clouds and "We can have it made smaller drenching torrent. Norma and at Blue Springs," he suggested. Mark broakfusted late-in

their Fear that she might lose the wed-rooms. They dawdled about, pat ding ring made Norma agree at ofT dressing until nearly lunch once. Words came easily

Lime.

When they Onally arrived Over and over she told Mark how down stairs a log fire was blazing beautiful the diamonds were. in the lounge. Bridge games were She ment this, yet it was not the in progress. beauty of the stones and their set. A matron with grey hair whom ting which awed her. It was the Norma had chatted with the day significance of the ring. This band before bustied up to the couple na on her finger was the symbol of they stood in the doorway.

It told the world she

was

You'll

marriage Travers wife.

"Good Lord-it In late! be starved!" Mark made a lunge at the electric button which moned the porter. Within 15 min- utes they were being served din-

nex

"Happy, kid?"

"Oh of course!”

•

"Oh, do join out table, yu two!" she trilled. "Mr. Clark's disap- peared and Madge and I must have a third and fourth."

"Shall we?" Mark asked heal- tating.

"I suppose it's contract." "But don't play contract, Mark."

"Really? My dear child, how quaint!"

Mark grinned. "Afraid you'll

At Blue Springs there began a have to count us out!" he said. world of only Yorrea and Mark "Good thing. I guess. I never have

rode, they

with dialy visionary strangers - luck on a stormy day." casionally drifting in and out of the The woman left them. background--waiters who served "You can play, Mark.. I—I don't their meals, chauffeurs who drove mind. I can amuse myself," said the motor cars in which

Norma. golf caddies, an orchestra, other! IIe shook her arm playfully. dancers who might have been miles "Nonsense. Did I sny I wanted to

L**WG away for all their presence on the play bridge? Well, I don't. Some dance flour meant to these two,

of these days, though, you'll have Blue Springs was completely per- to have some lessons. Everybody fect and it was completely theirs. plays contract! Half the women I It was nearly noon when they know eat, drink and breathe it. arrived. True to Mark's predic-Young ones as bad as the old-" tion the sun was shining. Great They wandered through the lobby fleecy clouds, moving so slowly that into a reading room. Norma could they seemed stationary, darkened ace that Mark was restless. the azure sky by their whiteness. had been so contented that this die. It had been crisp October in Marl- turbed her. boro. Blue Springs Was cool enough for light wraps, warm enough that seasoned bathers were still taking their daily dips.

She

new magazine-one Mark liked particularly-saved the day. Не sighted it on newsstand, turned moment inter with the The arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Mark gaudy-covered periodical. Travers had not been unheralded. "Look, Norma look at Brad. Clicking cameras were the first in-well's habent!"

ite.

Newspaper

secured inhotographers i

dication of the welcoming commit- Bardwell's latest was a drawing in highly satirical vein, Having having

photo-shared this prize Mark Bank back graphs, asked the newly married into a huge club chair and forgot couple to pos€. While Norma heal everything else. The girl found a inted Mark gave cheerful assent. book she had glanced through the There was a giri reporter on hand, day before and settled down to read

to ask

10

detalls of the romance. also.

Mark's replies to her questions

were sketchy, satisfactory because

It was past mid-afternoon before

about them the young woman was the young man

roused himself.

able to weave a glowing, modern He discovered the rain had ceased. Cinderella story about the beautiful "Like to take a run out and see stenographer who married a mil-what the day is like?" he demand lionairo's son.

ed.

"And do

the

ringeur parents approve f

Norma threw aside her book. the reporter asked. From some усв Certainly!!!

mysterious source allckers were produced. They were

The other side of this story yellow, voluminous, exactly alike ranched telographic press services excent that Norma's was a trifle shortly after F. M. Travers, in smaller.

Sho pulled her old brown

Marlboro, daw reproductions of the beret over her head.

Blue

You look

-Springs' photographs in his Mark laughed at her. morning newspaper.. Pungent and like a brown-eyed susan!" he do brief were F. M. Travers remarks.clared, "you know those big yel- Neither Mark nor Norma read low wild flowers with brown cen these comments.

Thay

posed for the photographera Again the second

trend you

look like 4. лит day because the young men had flower" the rallied. proved friendly and it soomed a They went out on the portle simple favour to grant. And since and down the steps. The breeze Norma's blonde beauty happened to was cool and ahary, invigorating. be the sort which photographs ideal. The trees were dripping from the |ly, and young love is 'a subject unl. Continued on Pape-18):

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