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KING'S

THEATRE.

TO-MORROW

"A GRAND DOUBLE

ATTRACTION!

BETH BERI

DANSEUSE

Miss Beri will appear with usual picture programme Sunday, 26th and at 5,10, 7.15 and 9.30 pm only from Monday. 27th inst.

ALSO

"THE

MAGNIFICENT

LIE"

with

RUTH CHATTERTON

RALPH BELLAMY

and

STUART ERWIN

A Paramount Picture.

Prices as Usual.

PLANS NOW OPEN.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JUNE 25. 1932.

MAN HUNTERS

BY MABEL MCELLIOTT

Ikon secretarial coured t downtown

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aware of the darn in her stocking' denly galvanized into life.

and the fact that her blomme was | "Tell Hannah to cut some flowers faded. "Women like that," thought for Miss Carey directly," he or- Suman hotly and resentfully, "what dered. "A heap of roses and some Rood are they? What do they do of the tall cosmos. Hurry!" in return for all the luxuries that

"Shan'i 1 miss my train?' Susan BELA | surround them?"

Inquired, delighted yet fearful.. BEGIN BERE TODAY

might have scratched the glossy

She had to abandon this line of.

"Not a bit of it." Heath WILN Subku Carey, 19. uretly sout an orphan, surface, Suann leaned back thought with alacrity when her em his old, erlap, didhetic self. "Simon ys with her Aunt desale la Chicago and against the cushions and sighed.ployer entered the room. He looked can cut corners with the best of

leave!!.

Susan fell a twinge of mater-them. business schul. There and meets Bob Bun However could Mr. Hloath

Can't you, my Ind? Hop but, heir to a fortune, the secures soal- the paradise onch morning and nal concern. They sat down after out there and have the engine run- lunarretury to Ernest Heath, archlinet, Jack Waring. Heath's assistant, tries to come into town to the soot and business-like greeting. Sunan at ning so no time will be lost." start iration, but in rebuffet. Mr. smoka and noiso that made the onken table and the man in the teach anube Quan. Ilen Lamyman young

There was a great scurry for a Chicago's loop? Men were strange, big chair. She had taken off her few minutes. The maid

she hat and the jacket of her serge rushing in with an armful of blos- knew, she would never, never leave suit. Susan forgot herself and her some and Susun made her adicus it. There was a gleam of white Huroundings as she worked. The in an informal whirt of good through an ambush of pine trees man coughed once or twice, harshly mour

and deeply, and she looked up.

"Aren't you tired? Perhaps we might to stop now."

musicfan, takes Busan to a studio paris in the alpen not enjoy Is Dunbar takes her lunch and tells her he is going abread. Summo's supt departs on a visit And me Milion winy with Somme. Lonely, the store for drive with Wend

[I

Hay

to marry him and sell not accept her refusal The Ass) Worlag apologizes for the radish

bhoy tour,

Bewanger goals can Susina read thank Bob Dunbar te to in mer. ried. She works uvertime at the office sue lgbt Atul Beath for the flea tran pendlies

smuth and beauty.

!

If she lived in such a place

nagnificent

Heath frowned. "I want to get this off my mind."

•

came

hu-

Flannery, employed in the next office, War ing kitam bee and the resolves never gond Simon made a with him agales. Ben Lampman suka kusinzi

Sweep into a circular drive. The

Heath went slowly back up the house, completely hidden from the

He sat at road, sprang into view. It was

the window of his dressing room where he Jung, low affair of whitewashed brick with a roof of black sinte..

could glimpse the blue water of When at last they had finished which Susan had dreamed. Below The blinds were blue. There was the girl atipped her book and him the lawn sloped, a clipped, CHAPTER XIX

about it an air of cool, disarming pers back into the dispatch cide

green miracle, to the vegetable, Susan, her heart beat and said shyly, simplicity.

"It's so beautiful

garden and the tennis courts be When Suann alighted from the ing rapidly, alighted. Simon drove here I wonder you ever leave.”

yond. He rested his head on his train at the suburban station slowly away to some retreat of his Heath's eyes lighted, "You like hand and afghed. she looked about for Bir. Heath's own, Thus abandoned, there was it?" She had touched on his one Wonderful to be young like man, Simon. His smiling, black nothing for Suman to do but to hobby.

" wonder if you have time the girl who had just left, he re- face gave her a heartening sense sound the knocker. This she did. to see the garden?" he said eagerly.flected. How the colour had come of being at home in all this in- The maid who admitted her was in "Of course it's not at Its heat now and gone in her checks when she timidating splendor. A battery ale green. She had a rosy, in there are still some roses and spoke of the flowers! How her of smart motors were drawn up in passive face and cockney accent.

Tot entre the zinnias

eyes had glowed. He tried a circle and the high, shrill voices

remember when, if ever, things of young girls and matrons wear

Susan oturmured faintly that she had seemed as important to him Ing perfect sport clothes pierced

Thought she should entch the 11:10 train. Simon had said som-was youth. he supposed, that en- as they seemed to this child. It the Friday morning calm.

thing about bringing the car around veloped everything with that in- for her then. The familiar markcredibly rosy glamour. I never slipped down once alore over frame again. once vou lost it. Ernest Heath's face.

Then he wondered if it were pos!

carefully down a

"Yes, Misa. From the 'office, ! Mis? Mr. Heath is expecting you,”

She led Susan into

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POITI

Put

There were steps in the hall and then a blur of the maid's

vnice speaking.

Susan

arro

*

bud

"No wonder," thought Susan, "this particular section of the Lake panelled in soft, old wood, Michigan shore is called the Gold time down her dispatela case the Coast."

Every one seemed fabu- xiri looked shyly around hur. Great | iously rich, There was an air of windows gave out on a garden riot.

Of course, he thought, this girisible to recapture it ja some meas-1 luxury about the houses which they ing with September colour. Susan's wasn't interested in his garden. ure through the eyes of another.

from the Chinese Neither was Ituth. She hated talkThat, girl, for instance. the passed, Simon driving slowly and glance rovel

For a avenue painting over the mantlepiece of delphinium and cosmos and tulip moment, when great onlined with beech trees at the end the subdued chintzes of the hang beds, Ruth thought it was stuffy garden, he had felt almost trans- she spoke of the of which could be seen the shining ing. It was all too beautiful. She living there. She would have pre-figured. blue of the Inke. Susan was dla luxuriated in it.

ferred J villo in the south of Perbup if he and Ruth France, He rose. appointed when Simon turned off

had a child things would have this rond and followed a countri-

"I'm sorry you haven't time to different. That was the way fed-looking by-path. She had

se he said formally. "Some man might live again-through hoped the Heath home would be "Ah. how do you do."

other day. perhaps." He was his

children. Another ou the very fringe of the lake. That freed Mrs. Heath, cool and

amazed at the light that glowed in escaped him.

sight Heath fell old, would have been perfect. But pre-gant in fawn-coloured, twood.

the girl's umbent eyes.

which was absurd because he was "Good morning.** sently she forgot her disappoint.

"Oh, I should loved it," she said only 45 and a man of that age is ment in the beauty of the road they The brisk, superior voice went eagerly, "I've always loved flowers in his prime, were traversing. It might have, olt. "Mr. Heath will be down so much but we have such a tiny "It must be this wretched flu." been the very thick of the north | directly. I'm very much annoyed inck yard and it's too shady for he argued. whods. White birches leaned out at his working at all and the doctor anything to grow except a few vio-

There was something about Su like ghostly figures, birds Bang forbade it. But he insists. Helets in the spring. Nothing." she s Carey that get her apart from gaily and the young pine trees left has a very, bad thront." She gave finished softly, "could be more won the crowd. Henth didn't quite! a carpet of needles where the grass the impression that the entire affair derful than to have a home like know what it was. Why had Buth; would not grow. She gasped for was Susan's inult.

this and to be able to stay in it. disliked her 30. he wondered? sheer pleasure.

He stared-ut her. feel that?" he said incredulously. (to mean anything in Ruth's life.

"You really Surely she was too unimportant! Susan nodded.

Heath sighed again and tried to "envy you," she said with a settle himself for the rest the simplicity which had the ring of doctor had ordered but somehow truth.

sleep would not come. library and announend the car was wavereit between him and his

Simon came to the door of the. The pearl-pale. face of

a girl

ready to duke Miss Carey to the dream. station. The sick man wa such

·To Be Civitoaned a

"But Simon, this is beautifull I hadn't expected anything half lovely." She could see his great eyes rolling delightedly at her in

the mirror,

"It is, Minn," he agreed. He was tooling the car carefully through narray Inne, avoiding the shary branches that reached out and

|

"I'm sorry." There seemed be nothing else for Susan to say Mrs, Heath's nod disposed of the girl once and for all. Her large, disdainful eyes flickered a montent as if in Saint amusement. Then she was gone. Susan knew exactly how a microbe must feel when ob served through a microscope. Mrs, eath's glane un readily made her

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