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At

"He--he's breathing, Ellen. Wo have to hope and pray."

Their Angers closed together tightly; their terrifled eyes met and failed of reassurance.

Beautiful

employed Eller Rotter Barclay's Broeriment Stars, works nights na A dance hall boaters. She lives with ber

#lder mather, inlis Rossiter, her Myra, and ber brother, Mik

Steven Barclay, 7 and owner of turclar'a.. la in love with Ellen. Twice she refuses to

loves bandem marry him, because she Larry Harrowgate, an artist, she has met at the dance hall. he loves him despite the fact that hu shergament to Filsabel Bowes debutante. has been announced. Kilen asress in pose for Lives. One night at h studio the aree photograph of Elizabeth Bowes. Larry Baye enxuntly that she from play.

friend

Ellen derides So break with Larry but he comes in the dance hali and asks her to tunch with him and his mother next day. Yor the first time he kisses her. Next day Elion receler & note from Larry, anying be cannot keep the date.

In a newspaper she reads that Ellenbeth Dowes a back from Europe Benken-hearted the girl flags herself into her work at the store and at Dreamland to forget. Gradually she comes to think less of Larry and more of Blaven Barclay.

CHAPTER XXVI

The morning at the store. had been a happy one for Ellen. The pleasantness of the evening before lingered through the opening hours

of the day,

Noon came.

Ellen and Lorene

yawned, looked at each other in- terrogatively and began tidying up for lunch. Lorene tentatively suggested a newly discovered ten 26 bangup 75-cent room with luncheon. They set off and talked shop through the lazy, unhurried bour. Eleen found it pleasant to lunch in such a comfortable fish- Afterwards when they wore strolling back to the store, Lorene said suddenly:

jon.

tearless,

Molly sat motionlcas.

Myrn tried to make speechless. her leave but she would not. Ellen knelt beside the bed, not daring to touch Mike except to take one of his stubby nailed hands, still grimy She hardly knew what She was not went on about her, aware that Myra had at last sUC- coeded in getting Molly into her own bedroom. She was aware only of Mike and his death-like pallor and his death-like stillness,

ex-

Dr. Ellis camo. Another doctor Ellen hardly understood Came. that they had forced her from the room so they could make the amination. After a long while-it was dark outside now the doctors reluctantly announced they still could not say how gravely the boy was injured. Internal injuries un doubtedly-the peralatent coma dua to that one log broken, perhaps

apine his

affected. The child should be in a hospital. They wanted another opinion before mov- ing him.

"How soon will we know the best

the worst?"

It was the ghost of Molly's volco "Well," Dr. Ellis hesitated, “If to move him by he holds out through the night we should be able morning. An immediate operation would be too dangerous."

"I've decided to let you try

Ellen returned to her vigil bo- thin after- Blumstein's yourself noon. I hear they have some cute side Mike. Myra moved in and who tearless. sports dresses at $9.10-a new out, but most of the time she stayed line. Carney & Co. has a whole in the next room with Molly

lay sleepless, staring, Sometimes Mike's breathing grew window display from there."

"Oh!" said Ellen, flushed and heavy and the strange, stertorous sound filled the watcher with panic. thrilled.

"Get three or four. Green is a Yet never would Ellen allow her Toward morning good bet, I think. And nothing hopes to flag.

Use your own judg-Mike stirred for the first time and too fancy. ment. Afterwards, if you want to, murmured something incoherent Ellen looked you can go on home and not bother about a bicycle.

quickly toward Dr. Ellis at the coming back till tomorrow.

other side of the bed.

Your

loot won't be delivered till morn- ing anyhow."

"That's good," he said.

Presently the doctor gave a deep sigh. "You can tell your 'mother and Myra ye'll be moving the down hard young man to tho hospital in an I think you hour or so."

"You don't know how proud---” | Ellen began inarticulately.

"Forget it! If you make any bloomera I'll come enough! Not that will."

He bent and fumbled for Mike's

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The ambulance came for Mike. pur-There was a crowd on the street She reviewed the chases she had made and found when they carried him out into the them good. Underneath lay the morning sunshine.

Ellen and Myra THREATENING NOTES, pleased consciousness that she was the ambulance. through with Barclay'a for the followed in a cab and told ench with courageous lips and

DEMANDS MADE FROM MR. day. Myra should be home from other

LI YAU-TSUN the library. Tea and muffins In frightened eyes that everything Dr. Ellis had the kitchen, perhaps. Ellen's steps would be all right.

said.

The Police Court hearing of the hastened.

They reached the hospital and

cuse against Yuen Ning, charged She entered the dusky hallway!

two threatening In with sending wheeled away. the stairs saw Mike had started up and when Myra, wearing an old faded long, white, brightly lighted hall letters demanding the sum of apron and bedroom slippers, her heavy with the smell of ether and $2,500 from Mr. Li Yau-tsun," a head wrapped in a towel, came lodoform, the three women waited. prominent Hongkong merchant, concluded before Mr. Wynne-Jones| flying down. Ellen saw disaster Again and again Myrn or

at the Central Magistracy yester- In her sister's eyes.

any afternoon.

"Ellen! Mike's been hurt. accident-P

Ellen

would importune a crisp, starched A nurse for news that did not come.

His Worship found that there They started at every ring of the

was sufficient evidence for tho telephone and then sank back look- ban-ing at each other with bleak eyes case to be sent before the jury. nister. Her heart seemed to stop. and faltering hearts.

"Mike!"

Ellen leaned against the

He had to consider whether there'

Her brain-everything seemed to The great hospital seemed to had been menaces, and found that stop for a terrible, timeless mohave swallowed up little Mike as

At such were contained in the two though he had never existed.

communications received by Mr. ment.

baggard and "He's unconscious. They car-11 o'clock Ellen, ried him in our bedroom."

heavy-eyed, remembered that she Li: the one suggesting the pay- Society on behalf of which the Myra was gone. Ellen ran up had not notified Lorene of her abment of the sum namol to the She whis- domand was made, and holding the stairs and into the shabby sence from the store. familiar living room filled with si-pered to Myra and slipped to the out the threat of dire consequences Jent people, women in dust caps Lelephone, haunted by a vision of

and aprons, a few contless spiring men. Mike's bicycle propped against the wall. were all looking at it.

per-Molly's face. If anything happen- in the alternative; and the other that reminding Mr. Li of the previous was ed to Mike she was afraid

demand and asking if he was wil They Molly..

fully looking for disaster.

Accused was committed for trial.

"It's the other sister," heard someone say.

"Poor thing! Let her through."

Lorene answered the call and Ellen Ellen tore her thoughts from the unthinkable future. She explain- ed what had happened and was bek Hours had on the bench again. Stirring moving uneasily, they never been so long or so empty.

It was 12 o'clock. Then 1, 2, and minde

all the a path for her, curious, kindly neighbours, but El nearly 3. Still no word. Dr. Ellis len did not notice. She ran past appeared but he could tell them them to the bedroom. Miko lay nothing. At 3 o'clock he approached

unconscious

on the bed, Mrs. again. Clancy, concerned and anxious, was leaning over him. Molly sat

This time Ellen read the news on

NURSES GRADUATE. HAPPY GATHERING AT THE TUNG WAH HOSPITAL There was a happy gathering of medical men and Directors and officials of the Tung Wah Hospital on the occasion of the annual

still and white in a chair drawn his weary face before he spoke.raduation ceremony for the nurses close. She did not move as Eilen Good news! She had not known entered.

"Oh, Ellen, it's you! I thought,

and Myra Mrs. Clancy turned spoke quietly.

Ellen's breath came in great

She could not speak. Kasps.

"Sit down."

The Irishwoman left the hed

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"He's going to pull through," the twenty-one nurses from the Tung

"We word doctor told them.

was the Hon. afraid for a while that he wouldn't Wah and 14 from the Kwong Wah.

Among the visitors rally from the operation."

Dr. AR. Wellington, D. M. S. S. "Oh!"

Mr. Chan Lim-pak thanked the COMING SOON. guests for their kind presence and mentioned the rapid progress in the nursing school maintained by the Tung Wah and Kwong Wah Hos- pitals since its formation years ago by Mr. Li Hoi-tung.

The Hon. Dr. Wellington also briefly congratulated the Directors of the Hospital and officials for tho useful training given to this largo "That will be impon- group of nurses. The little boy is very tired

Molly began to sob. She strug- and took her hands in an effort gled to her feet, tears raining down to force her to a chair. Ellen her faco, the first tears she had Her cold, leaned against her, spent,. ex-stred since the accident. haunted, her eyes on the little mo-desperate fingers tugged at the doc tionless figure on the high white tor's sloove.

"Whore is ho? Let me go to him -at once."

"What happened?”

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"I'm afraid you can't now," Dr. "It was the bicycle," said Mrs. Clancy patiently. "At Pino and Ellie said gravely. Chestnut. He was wheeling it! The nurse, standing at his elbow, across when a truck, a big truck-intervened.

he pushed the bicycle clear but-" alble.

"The doctor?”

"We've called him. Myra's gone

now and sick. He's in a ward with

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a number of other children who by himself, special nurses and all to Acc."

also cannot be disturbed. Our visit-those things?" she asked.

"I don't think it will be neces- Myra came in just then.

ing hours are on Tuesday and Dr. Ellie is on his way," ahe Thursday at 8 o'clock. In view of Bary," he answered slowly.

She knew that he was thinking the circumstances if you come carly

She stepped salu."

of their poverty. "I'll go

clear out the living to-morrow we might make an ex-

nearer, said in a low voice that room," Mrs. Clancy offered and loft. coption."

"Oh, Myra, Myral" Ellen whis- Ellon's oyce appealed to Dr. E. Mike must have every attention.

(To Be Continued.')

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