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THE HONGKONG.

TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1932.

GOETHE CENTENARY PLAY FOR HONGKONG: THE LINDBERGH OUTRAGE.

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BEGIN HERE TO-DAY.

BV JOAN CLAYTON

with no preliminaries, he asked,

Beautifal Ellen Rosetter, a axlragir? in Bar. "What are you doing here?"

clay's Department Blore, 21ven with har mother, Molly Rower, her elder alater,

apenda money anved to pay the rent. Ellen

Myra, and her young brother, Mike. The two! Ellen experienced R lightness support the family, Molly foolishly and buoyancy of spirit as though triem to get a job as a dares hall hostean mi something she feared had been Dremprid and learns that she must have an passed. All at once she was able

Yoning

Steven to laugh at herself. Telny." ker employer,

What a mad

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ing and offers totalve her a dress. Ellen fool who had become. All of her proudly refuses but agrees to borme a invely values seemed changed. So much Ellen ders with Barclay and he driver her depended to-night upon so ifttle.. Dreamland where he let her. Tuay. She saw that Larry was watching another of the bustessen, befriends Anda.

laen Ellen, Ellen hates the cheapness of the her face as ho waited for her to:

She gestured toward

dance hall, haten inking 10-cent ticket to dance with all comers, he alegs a man who kines her, dumb Batumen, the innyazer, is about to discharge her when a handsome young man aake to be Introduced to her. He says his same la Larry Smith. 1a mom to buy tickets and while she waits for him. Ette forvals that she hated Dreamland. forgerk Harclay's kindmus, forgets everything except

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CHAPTER VI.

answer.

Bign on the wall.

They had to dance through the crowd and to the outskirts so that te could rend. His own grey eyes lighted when he rend that has- tesses when dancing were limited) in conversation to "yes" and "no." "Do you like me a lot?" he in- quired promptly.

Larry had bought a string of tickets, each marked "good for one

Ellen feared that he would dis- dance." There were dozens. He cern the swift hammering, of herl dropped the ribbon of bright green

heart. She felt the colour creep-| over Ellen's bare arm so that it into her fac. curled almost to the floor.

"That's for all evening," he told her. "No one cisų is to dance

with you."

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"I believe you've made mis- take," Ellen said, trying to temper the bubbling joyousness in her voice. "I think they sold you railroad ticket to California."

"It does look like that."

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Tony, gliding past, sunimed up the incident with approving, in- terested eyes. The 17-year-old plainly considered the older girl to be her protege.

"I knew you'd be lucky, Ellen," sbe called over her shoulder and

was gone.

menn?"

"Now what did whe Larry demanded.

"She meant I was lucky to find such a good-customer" Ellen ad- vised him demurely.

"No. It's the customer who's Jucky."

"Go on, tell me," he urged. "Yes or no?"

So he thought he would tease) her!

"Yes," Ellen responded, but very dubiously indeed.

he added sheepishly, "Well that

He looked disconcerted and then-

one seems to have been on nie. 'So you think I'm taking an unfair ad-f vantage?"

"Yes!"

The second "yes" was emphatic and pointed. Their laughter rang out again.

mate

"Well, what do you say," he sug- dancing to those as likes it mute? gested, "if we leave the

I want to talk.”

They were at a table and bare- ly seated before he asked the second time, "What are you doing here?"

"Earning my living."

"Do you really mean that?" Their laughter rang out. Larry had on the tip of her tongue a He was plainly sturtled. She swept Ellen into his arms and they tart retort and she observed that were caught into the emotion-luden atmosphere of the room. Boya and he was studying her dress. Sho

had forgotten Stoven Barclay until

Seated in his little chair, with his dog under the table, little Chariss Augustus Lindbergh was photographed by his proud parents on the occasion of his first birthday, as childish ayas and hands Investigated the birthday cake with its one candie. Now, the child is the object of a world wide search, his parents frantically hoping that masting the ransom demands of his kidnappers will speedily restore him, unharmed.

girls were dancing closely in the then-forgotton why she was at manager my name was Smith ?" semi-darkness, cheek to cheek, heart to heart. Light frocks blur Dreamland, forgotten everything "If you say it's

mo?"

rod against the darker clothes of oxcept that she was 20 years old observed irrelevantly, "then it fully, although she stili bubbled the men; white, bare arms clutch-and that life had become for her must be Smith." ed at broad shoulders. There was a thrilling and rose-hued miracle.

no sound except the muted whine

do."

have to eat half of mine.”

to

to

Smith," Ellen "Seriously," she answered dutt-

But when the food arrived, with excitement and laughter. "I sandwiches and cakes and a bowl "Certainly I mean it,"

of steaming chow mein, decorated sho re-

Her tone was clear, her eyes "Then that's that," he observed with slivers of chicken, neither of the orchestra and the swish of plied.

lucid and Innocent. It was the in satisfaction. "We're through wanted to eat. They wanted dancing feet, and, from outside, There was no reason why she young man's turn to flush.

with all the preliminarles. Now dance again and again, to dance through the open windows, the should explain to this young "I'm afraid you won't under-we can settle down and really get forever or until they dropped from subdued uproar of a nover resting stranger how it happened that she stand," he began uncomfortable to know each other."

axhuation. Like children on a Broadway.

was able to wear a Paris gown. It before that lucid gaze, "but any- They were interrupted by a holiday they skylarked about the Boys and girla, in the artificial was impossible for her to do so. how I must explain. My name waiter demanding their order. floor. Again and again they dis- darkness, were snatching feverish-She had a passionate desire that isn't Smith. When I said it was Larry confessed to a ravenous ap-covered with pleased and excited ly at a little moment of tawdry he should know nothing of her re-I hadn't decided-”

petite and not even Ellen's wara- exclamations how well their stops romance, lest it pass them. by;sponsiblities, of the care and "Whether or not you'd trust me ing that the food might be bad fitted. Amazing, thrilling snatching at a moment of forget-fretting troublo which had with the secret," Ellen supplied provontod him from selecting change quickly from the langerous fulness of daily tasks while the shadowed her youth. She wanted smoothly.

almost everything on the bill of grace of the tango to the rowdy saxophones moaned.

jonly to laugh and to forget every- She was not offended. Larry faro. When the waiter withdrew breathless complications of the Ellen and Larry bumped into a thing elso. To him she must drew a breath of relief.

ho began to rally her.

outmoded Charleston-amazing to couple who had stopped for a pas- stand for gayely, for caroleas and "You're being darn nice about "What's wrong with you?" he dance with someone who moved sionate embrace. Ellen felt again irresponsible fun.

it,” he said, "Well, anyhow my Inquired solicitously. "Are you almost as you moved. that she would weep. She did not Ha was not Steven Barclay. How name is Larry. Larry Harrow canary bird? I never saw a girl (Continued on Page II.) know julto why. But she knew did she know how quickly she gate, age 27, occupation artist of before who wouldn't eat on the that if Larry Smith attempted to might, by any hasty or misjudged sorts, prospects nothing!" alightest provocation." embrace her in that furtive dark- attempt to precipitate him into her "I'm to take that as a warning?". "I didn't want to order any. noas something shining and young life, turn that enger look into the "If you want to take it that and beautiful would be gone for-expression of boredom that she way." over. At the same time she know had seen before. that if he draw her close, close to She did not amplify hor· bare him she could not resist.

statement. "I don't seem to care much for He was chocked.. this," he ventured at longth, un- "Did you believe me," he naked comfortably, And then abruptly, after a pause, "when I told the

thing," Ellen confessed in grow- ing embarrassment, "because I got They both laughed ecstatically. a percentage on what you pay." "No, but seriously," he presentir "You foolish youngstert I rosumed in a voice which he tried) wouldn't think you wore a pro- hard to make brisk and sensible. tear even if you'd ordered "did you mean what you said-out diamond necklaco,

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