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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1933.

SPOTLIGHT

CHAPTER XXV

"Coming to walk?" she asked Jappy one morning, as she emerg- There were signs of spring ined from the bathroom and began the air when the "Heigh-ho" company arrived in the small city rummaging in a suitcase for clean underthings. Jappy, wrapped in of Spencer. It was to be a full a brilliant coolie coat, was catch- week's engagement and Sheila

ing a run in a stocking. She and Jappy were glad. They could looked up and thrust back a unpack some of the things in their trunks and make their little cloud of dark hair from her face. "Can't. I have to see Fletcher hotel room seem more homelike,

at 11."

"Spencer was a factory tower but It had its social e albo. The factories, it seemed, were owned by aristocratic familles. Sons married and brought their wives back to Spencer as a matter of course. Daughters went away to attend finishing schools, travelled, but when their fashionable wedd Ings took place they and their husbands always returned to take their places in the family circle.

Spencer's leading citizens drew striet lines of social prestige, They were rather snobbish. They made ceremonies of every public gathering and they particularly enjoyed the theatre. Busincas, was good that week for the "Heigh-ho" company.

was

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tial break ast in the dining room would have cost.

By the time cuclla had dressed the waiter appeared with a tray.

thoroughfare. The buses ran wants to enjoy all this, just as I every 20 minutes, the driver said. do.”.

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"I think I'll get of here," Sheiln decided. The lane" was Further investigation assured flanked by a brook on one side her that the young man had and a baseball field on the other. come from the factory. He was It was a picturesque spot. The clad in overalls. blue shirt and trees were budding and the grass wore no necktie. His arms were was a fresh new green. Long- amonthly tanned as if work kept legued bugs fitted over the water him a great deal in the open, and sunshine shimmered through the branches of the trees. Sheila loved spring even in New York, but she had never seen anything quite like this..

She decided to stay a while and enjoy it all. Sheila sat down be a tree, setting back against

Sheila wished that she could sco his free but he was lying with his

end toward her. His blond hair,. which was almost gold coloured, was the only part of his head that was visible.

Presently, without moving, the nung man drew a package of

some bus rides." The girls ate, discussing plans for it. her hat in her lap, the breeze unch from his overall pocket and the day, Half an hour later playing with the tendrils of her began eating. Shella considered. "And spring Sheila boarded a bright yellow hair. Yes. spring was definitely seems to be in the air. I think bus and was soon skimming along in the air. Oh, it was good to be 1 take a ride and see if I can

a road that appeared to lead to the alive on such a dayl find anything interesting."..

"You could have taken a ride country. It was a sort of adven- with us laat night," Jappy obture, taking this bus with no She had clear idea where it might take her. served reproachfully. invited Sheila on a blind date and Of course she would inquire when the invitation had been refused, she left it how to get back to the

"But I couldn't have looked hotel.

around much. This seeing Amer

ca by moonlight--"

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came to bat

The baseball game was evident- ly a good one. Shouts arose fre.. It was late morning. Presently quently and dying figures sped a whistle blew and from the around the diamond in whirls af brick factory far across the field Just. Then there was a lull and men in overall uniforms emerged.nother player though Sheila did not know it, mpact of the hat and the ball, a Some walked to a building which. There was the sharp sound of the Others settled "ar, and then a black apeck A new residence section of tiny was a lunch room. homes, side by side and all alike, beneath trees to open lunch box-gainst the sky. The ball drop. eaught her attention. "They were 8. Still others ran immediately ed sharply within a dozen yards

smiled; Jappy wrinkled her nose in dis attractive houses. Instead of be to the ball field and began a game. Shella's feet. It bounded and sighed an. tropped again in a tangle of reen vines. The crowd rushed dain. "You're not going Garing monotonous the street with Sheila

its uniform dwellings was pleas-watched them lazdy. These signs bo on us, are you?" she queried.

pof brisk activity only served to across the field to the roadside, Ing.

Sheila was wondering if she indolence increase "Blue glasses wouldn't be becom

hould find the ball and toss it ing to a girl like you."

Sheila was told by the oblig-Presently she discovered that she ing bus driver that these houses was not alone. A few yards down back, thus protecting her solitude the had been built by one of the large the brook a young man was lying rom interruption, when manufacturing companies as re- full length on the grass, his clasp young man rose to his elbow and,

ed hands pillowing him head, his turning, faced her." sidences for their employees.

"The driver added that the bus" eyes staring at the branches abova returning to Spencer did not fol- him low the route they had covered but that Sheila could hall it by walking a short distance through a lane leading to another main

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Shella soon found herself br

"Well, I don't care to be picked coming something of a celebrity up," Sheila's tone was definite. here. Her dancing was applaud-) Jappy laughed. "My dear, we ed nignty. When she left they didn't pick those boys up. We did

with McKee's them service.

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They'll talk theatre--usually protecting presence-it was she about knowing girls from the and not the comedian who receiv show for montba." ed the acclaim. McKee took this "That's what I mean-"

"And they bought us a grand good-naturedly. It mattered little

was starved-hadn't to him that Sheila

re- supper. "I gistering a hit in this inland com-chten since breakfast." munity.

*Sheila moved toward the tele- By the middle of the week pee-phone." "Shall I order something ple recognized "her on the street, sent up now?" turned and atared as she passed. "That's Sheila Shayne in the show at the Capitol." she would hear them say. "She's the girl who dances in that feather outfit, you know."

Shells, with her years in the theatre. didn't mind being stared at. She knew it was the price of

success.

"Do.

They had found that by buying their fruit and bringing it to room they could order breakfast sent up as cheaply as it was served in the dining room downstairs. Toast and coffee for two with oranges or grapefruit from dresser drawer came to about the same price as a more substan-

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"Probably one of the factory workers," Sheila thought to her- he hasn't the self. "Maybe money to buy lunch or maybe he

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"Did that ball strike you?" he asked.

She hook her head. "No, but I wish you'd find it. I like it here and I Pon't want all those men (Continued on Page 10.)

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