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TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1832.

GOETHE CENTENARY PLAY FOR HONGKONG: THE LINDBERGH OUTRAGE.

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BEGIN BERE TO-DAY

BV JOAN tron CLAVTON

with no preliminaries, he asked,

Beautiful Ellen Rossiter, a newgirl in tie-"What are you doing here?”

clay's Department

lver with her Storr. other, Stally omiter, Her exter Hats, and her young brother, Mike. The twis

trien et à Job no n dance hall honteram mi

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sinler, Ellen experienced à lightness Klappent the emily, Molly foolishly and buoyancy of spirit as though i opende Monet saved to pay the rent, something she feared had been Breamland and learn that she must have passed. All'at once she was able

escraver, Merril

to laugh at herself. What a mad Barciny. her employer My ter rry. ing and offers to give her Arena. ties fool she had become. All of her proudly refuses but agrees to borrow a lovely white frock.

Bhe

Elfen dines with Barclay and he drives her Dreamind where he eaves her. Tony. anther of the hostruses, befriende and ad vine Ellen. Ellen hates the cheapness of the dance hall, haten taking 10-cent ticket to Entren with all camera. She slaps a man wh

values aeemed changed. So much depended to-night upon so little. She saw that Larry was watching her fare as he waited for her to answer. She gestured toward

kiss her. Jacob Salomon, the manager, sign on the wall. about in iúlacharge her when #handsome young man anka tu tu intracred to her. Jie

daye his name a Larry Smith. He goes to

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They had to dance through the crowd and to the outskirts so that

buy tickets and while alie walte for him, Elies he could read, His own grey eyes forgets that a hate Drenakan. forgets Barclay's khulness, forgets everything except

Ingry my?i.

CHAPTER VI.

Larry had bought a string of tickets, each marked "good for one dance.' There were dozens. He dropped the ribbon of bright green over Ellen's bare arm so that it curled almost to the floor.

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

believe you've made a mis take," Ellen sid, trying to temper

hos- Lesses when dancing were limited Ţin conversation to "yes" and "no" "Do you like me a lot?" he in- quired promptly.

lighted when he read that

eern the swift hammering of her Ellon feared that he would dis- heart. She felt the colour creep- ing into her fat.

"Go on, tell me," he urged. "Yes or ?"

So he thought he would tense liert

very dubiously indeed.

"Yes," Ellen responded, but

He looked disconcerted and then

the bubbling joyousness in her {he added sheepishly. "Well that voice. "I think they sold you # (ond seems to have been on me. So

railroad ticket to California.”

"It does look like that."

Tony, gliding past, ́summed up! the incident with approving, in- terested eyes. The 17-year-old'

you think I'm taking an unfair ad- vantage?"

"Yes!"*

The second "yes" was emphatic

plainly considered the older girl to and printed. Their laughter rang

be her protege.

"I know you'd be lucky, Ellen," she called over her shoulder and

was gone,

"Now what did she, mean?" 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 lucky."

out again.

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

I want to talk."

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

"Earning my living." "Do you really mean that?"

ed at broad shoulders. There was a thrilling and rose-hued miracle.

no sound except the muted whine

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Seated in his little chair, with his dog under the table, little Charles Augustus Lindbergh was photographed by his proud parente on the occasion of his Grat birthday, ma childish eyes and hands investigated the birthday cake with its ons candle. Now, the child is the object of a world wide search, his parents frantically hoping that meeting the ransom demands of his kidnappers will spaadily restore him, unharmed.

manager my name was Smith?"

me?"

have to eat half of mine."

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Their laughter rang out. Larry had on the tip of her tongue a He was plainly startled. She awept Ellen into his arms and they tart retort and she observed that were caught into the emotion-laden atmosphère of the room. Boys and he was studying her dress. She girls were dancing closely in the had forgotten Steven Barclay until semi-darkness, cheek to check, then-forgotton why she was at heart to heart. Light frocks blur- | Dreamland, forgotten everything "If you say it's Smith," Ellen "Seriously," she answered duti

it fully, although she still bubbled But when the food arrived, red against the darker clothes of except that she was 20 years old observed irrelevantly, "then the men; white, bare arms clutch- and that life had become for her must be Smith."

with excitement and laughter. "I sandwiches and cakes and a bowl of steaming chow mein, decorated do." "Certainly I mean it," the re-j 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 to There was no reason why she young man's turn to flush.

with all the preliminaries. Now dance again and again, to dance dancing feet, and, from outside, through the open windows, the should explain to

this young

"I'm afraid you won't under wo can settle down and really get forever or until they dropped from exhustion. Like children On B aubdued uproar of a never resting stranger how it happened that she stand," he began uncomfortable to know each other." Broadway.

a holiday they skylarked about the was able to wear a Paris gown. It before that lucid gaze, "but any- They were interrupted by

order. floor. Again and again they dis- their My Boys and girls, in the artificial was impossible for her to do so, how I must explain.

name waiter demanding 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 petite and not avon Ellen's warn exclamations how woll their stops ly at a little moment of tawdry he should know nothing of her re- hadn't decided—”

thrilling. to "Whether or not you'd trust me ing that the food might be bad fitted. Amazing, ronuince, leat it pass them by: sponsibilities, of the care and

him from selecting change quickly from the langorous snatching at a moment of forget-fretting troublo which had with the socret," Ellen supplied prevented

almost everything on the bill of grace of the tango to the rowdy fulness of daily taska while the shadowed her youth. She wanted smoothly.

only to laugh and to forgat every: Sho was saxophones moaned.

not offended. Larry fare. When the waiter withdrew breathless complications of the

ho began to rally her.

outmoded Charleston-amazing to Ellen and Larry bumped into a thing else. To him she must drew a breath of relief.

"What's wrong with you?" he dance with someone

who moved couple who had stopped for a passtand for gayety, for careless and "You're being darn nice about

it," he said. "Well, anyhow my Inquired solicitquely. "Are you a almost na you moved. sionato embrace. Eilen folt again irresponsible fun,

(Continued on Page 11.) that she would weep. She did not He was not Steven Barclay. How name is Larry. Larry Harrow-canary bird? I never saw a girl know quite why. But she knew did eho know how quickly ahe gate, age 27, occupation artist of before who wouldn't cat that if Larry Smith attempted to might, by any hasty or misjudged sorts, prospects nothing!" embrace her in that furtivo dark-attempt to precipitate him into her noss something shining and young life, turn that eager look into the that she and beautiful would be gone for-oxpression of boredom over. At the same time she know had seen before.

She did not amplify her bare that if he drew her closo, close to

statement.

He was checked.

him she could not realat.:

"I don't seem to care much for this," he ventured at length, un-

"Did you believe me," be asked comfortably. And then abruptly, after a pause, "when I told the

way,"

slightest provocation."

on the

"I'm to take that as a warning?" "I didn't want to order any- "If you

want to tako it that thing," Ellen confessed in grow- ing embarrassment, "because I got They both laughed ecstatically, a percentago on what you pay. "No, but seriously," ho presently "You foolish youngster! resumed in a voice which he tried wouldn't think you were a pro- hard to make brisk and sensible, fiteer even if you'd ordered

I couldn't "did you mean what you said-out diamond necklace. on the floor? Do you really like have paid for it but then-you'll

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