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Denise snatched up her fan, allowed Sun Carey, 20 and beautiful, as become the wrap to be adjusted around her Ingaged to Ernest lenk, 45, er former slim shoulders, and hurried down-i playen, She hits dote a partly to provide
trabu rely
Loven. Hub
Dunbar.
Dr. Salm, the Mayor of Borlin, An asbestos dress, and gas-masked horse, tried with success by the leaving the Presidential palace after
a their conference the German Reichswehr in
unemployment. There are 500,000 jobless in Berlin.
manoeuvres.
with sarcastic intonation.
on
The King and Queen at the Wimbledon Tournament watching play on the Centre Court.
COOLIE SHOT BY DETECTIVE.
END TO BAMBOO FIGHT IN WANCHAI
like a blow. The scene was one and "Aren't I just?" She blew auf incredibly brilliant colour
The shifting patterns cloud of smoke in his direction. movement. "Let me tell you one thing, young which the dancers wove reminded Tellow-my-lad. Daddy and your her of scenes peered at through the father have been getting together lens of a kaleidoscope. She was and they've decided they don't like thankful for the mask which had the way you're behaving."
been sent with her costume. Thus
A fracas in Wanchal yester- "So what?" the young man want- | furnished with anonymity, she felt ed to know.
braver, stronger. Why had Ernest day evening, when two gangs of It was coolies fought with bamboo poles, insisted on her coming?
detective odd. She had not expected to brave resulted in a Chinese the terrors of his neighbourhood on being hit over the head with the north shore until she was safe bamboo, and his shooting the re- by his wife. But Jack Waring, in fractory coolle in the leg.
Kee, aged 23, The man, Taui Heath's absence, had informed her that the message had come over the was taken to the hospital, where tekphone from New York. Heath his condition is not regarded as had not been able to reach her be- serious.
The commotion between rival fore going into Maine on that land business. He had said he wished gangs occurred in Tai Yung Street,
to the little before 7- o'clock, Waring to escort Susan George Washington ball. Her cos-large numbers of men armed with bamboo poles fought pitched tame would be delivered to her.
Susan ran her fingers over the battle in the street.
"It was distinctly understood." Denise told him with dignity, "that we were engaged last summer. Oh, I know it wasn't announced or any thing like that but you knew and Daddy did and--well, everybody."
The boy moved restlessly. "Last summer is a long time ago." he re- minded her.
"Oh, yes?" Denise's voice took on a tinge of shrewishness, "Well, you can't get away with what you've We Ackroyds," heen doing Intely. (here she tossed her head with that familiar gesture), "we have our pride."
pale apricot of her spreading skirt. A Chinese detective, who assist- "Come along. We're late," the What's all this got to do with She knew the colour became her ut- ed in dispersing the mob, was turn- terly. Waring had come dressed ed upon by Tsui Kee who resist- The well- me?' Bob muttered rebelliously,
Denise's manner changed. Into as an Indian tribal chief. He was ed arrest. He struck the detec and this awakens uk terseries. Lenke tells rudelted lips of the young courtier
Susan is gold-digger curved in what seemed to be her tone crept the cooing note of magnificent with his headdress of tive over the head with his pole,
Jack Waring. Heuth's
"What's the feathers, the glaring colours of his the policeman's helmet alone sav- the mourning dove. "Whose fault is that?" he do-us of quarrelling the way we do?" blanket. Yet it was odd he had him from injury.
"I've been waiting for she asked. "You can be nice and chosen to dress this way, escorting
The detective straightway pull- so can I. We team well together a dy in powdered wig.
for the future of her munt who it and stairs. There a young grandee in Partly because she desire of ever winning biscuit coloured satin breeches and Denise Ackroyd, a debutante, likes Susun Waistcoat of the same colour with
blace Frills at his wrists and buckl and causes trouble between her and Ben Lampman, a former trurer of Suned shoes on his feet awaited her. shots tenth and then turns the gu
immelf. He recore and the nit i He, too, was masked. hushed up. Susp realires vir domen's love Heath enough to marry his bat cats L
tell him no. She sees Bob at the theatre girl said petulantly,
lah that becomes very angry.
Trac
esistant, wars Susah not to marry without humour.
CHAPTER XL
Denise sat before ber taffeta-
manded. hours."
*
now.
"But how
man through the right leg.
all is. I'm pind eas
when
The cavalier in biscuit-coloured
Sho satin untled Susan's mask with strong, purposeful fingers. dared not-Indeed, she never even dreamed of opposing him.
"Ah!"
This Denise ignored. "It's going Everyone's always suid so. We like "I don't understand it at all," ed out his revolver and shot the skirted dressing table, intent on to be a poisonous party anyhow. the same things and run with the Susan said to herself. the arduous business of making I'm sure of that," she rattled on, same gang. The way I look at it, beautiful it up. Her costume for the George fluttering down the steps and man-it all boils down to this. We have came." Washington ball foamed·
She felt exclted and happy. Some of the melee of flushed and laugh- over a aging with difficulty to insert her better chance of making things
As one in a dream chair and her powdered wig lay on beruilled self within the confines of go than most of the people we, dancers awayed in a minuet at the ing revellers.
How Susan went with him. the brocaded bed spread. Her the waiting motor car.
know.
Daddy's awfully keen for end of the great ballroom.
lovely it was to watch the men-
"Now, then!" "Everything's poisonous," mut-it and so is your father." mother's English maid, pressed
hidden fron the They were "As if I didn't know that," sured, stately steps, the curving to duty for the occasion, hovered tered her escort. slamming the
and pirouetting. growled the boy. behind. Presently Denise stood up, door.
She forgot her- throng by the plush curtains of a little alcove. The music came to satisfied at last with the effect sho "What did you say?" She eyed "Well then, why not let's be self completely as she watched.
sensible about It? Let's please! Then a jazz piece broke this in- them muted and wraithlike. had produced, and, slim and supple him auspiciously. in her single, diaphanous garment, He growled, "Nothing at all." jeverybody and surprise theii, and terlude into fragments and the permitted herself to be arrayed in and subsided into his corner.
stop this ridiculous rowing we've guests were ordered to swing about Susan looked the pale blue freck with huge pan- "You haven't a cigarette hidden been doing all winter." She was in a "Paul Jones." niers and Incy underskirt. This about in all that lingerie, I sup- enjoying her role of peacemaker about, bewildered, for Jack Waring, He was nowhere to be seen. As done, she adjusted the wig over her pose?" Denise wanted to know. own shining tressen. The effect
"I'm willing to bury the hatchet the orchestra stopped abruptly she
The monosyllable roused her to was marvelous. Instantly her gamin), For answer the boy reached into if you are," Denise went on. "If found herself facing a cavalier in
pocket of a coonskin cont you like we needn't have n big wed- biscuit coloured jacket and bree-realization of what was happening. prettiness was transformed into the spectacular beauty, She was as stung over the back of the unit. Ileding but just gallop way some ches. Tall he was and very erect. Rich colour flooded her pale checks. dignified as a lady in an ancient was an incongruous figure at the place and have a justice marry us. Without a word, she slipped into She clasped her hands in a sudden
tragic gesture. portrait.
Wheel of the big car, with his pow-That, would be fun."
"You!" she cried. She tried the effect of an in-dered wig and trappings of a blood The man shrugged. "You've got finitesimal patch near the
The tempo of the music quick- corner of the late eighteenth century. It Jt all worked out, haven't you?". of one eye and liked it.
the girl's heart beats Then she was strange to see him guiding this "That's because I know what's ened and seized an atomizer and sprayed her-devil-machine of the twentieth con- best for both of us," said Denise with it. This was magic-dancing self casually with scent.
tury through the dark night. They with sweet reasonableness"I'm like this. Her partner was a com- "I think it's stupid the club com- should have had a couch and four. willing to overlook all the times plate stranger, someone she would mittee Insists on everyone wearing No stranger was the sight Denise you've been nasty to me and start never see again probably. She gave herself up to the enjoyment of tho masks," complained Mrs. Ackroyd, offered presently, a cigarette hang-with a clean slate." watching the performance with in- ing limply from one corner of her "I guess you're the detor," Bob moment. terest. Stevens. the maid, slipped elaborately roured mouth.
sald, compressing hips. The When the music ended she mur- Denise's black mask Into the pocket
Involuntarily, "Oh, I'm "Why did you say everything is girl's cigarette descried a wide are mured of her white fur wrap.
poisonous nowadays?" she demand-an she fùng it fro her. "No, not there. Give it to me ed.
were curving into fe drive of the bont a bright, searching gaze upon now," the girl demanded impatient- The man in the driver's seat country club now She reached her.
"Say that again." ly. "I may as well put it on be-throw her an annoyed glance. "I over and patted s shoulder pos- fore I start." She tied and adivat-thought you missed that,” he mut sessively.
She stared at him through thone ed it with care." The effect of the | tered.
"That's my aya sweet boy," she small slits in the wisp of
cambric. mask added piquancy to the whole "Mo? I novor miss anything," cooed, holding Ap her lips for a
"What did you say?" costume.
Denise told him airily. "I think I kiss.
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