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SPOTLIGHT

CHAPTER XXIX

Jerry, wearing a dinner cost looking assured and elegant, sai at a table close to the

equare'

angry. She had, engagements, that was all. He should have let her krdw when he was coming.

"You are being, silly," Jerry told not a

cleared for the dancers. At higher laughing. It side was a young girl in a frothy yellow dress. A very pretty girl.j Shella could scarcely believe her eyes. Jerry here in New York! He knew her address yet he bad.not tried to reach her. Of course he had no way of knowing that she would be dancing at this

crious matter to him. "Why not have dinner with me to-night?".

"You mean with you and your sisters?"

club.

She tried to think. Had Jerry recognized her? There was not time to speculate. The master of ceremonies was nodding to the orchestra, raising one hand to quiet the applause. Again the spotlight crossed the floor to find Ted and Sheila. Again they were: dancing.

Hardly! How on earth could we talk with them around?"

want to ?"

"

"When am I going to meet them?" she asked in a voice she scarcely recognized as her own.

"I don't know. Do you really

"Of course." "Well, then I'll fix it up some time, but that's not the point. I want to know if you're dining with me to-nignt?"

H.W.CORLEY C1933

mised that if the girls would let him act as their agent they could They would never have to begin go on the stage as headliners.

on a lower rung of the ladder.

DIOCESAN, SCHOOL. OLD BOYS:

ASSOCIATION FORMED · AND RULES FRAMED

The Diocesan School Old Boys* Association has been formed, of which the Bishop of Victoria, Rt. Rev. Ronald Hall, is the Patron. and Mr. Chau Yue-teng the Pre- atitution was adopted at a tea sident. The Association's con-

ant yesterday afternoon when party at the Exchange Restaur

several old boys enrolled as mem-

first in a musical show, a fast

They appeared on Broadway bers. moving, nautical piece in which

Mr. Chan Yue-teng presided they were, an instant hit, Mother and was supported by Mr. W. A. Samper, in a-hired car. escorted Zimmern them to and from the theatre. Messrs. C. B. R. Sargent, J. M. (Hon. Secretary), Thus they seldom met other stage Wong, R. Drude, and W. N. folk

The five girls crooned in close harmony but only four signed

Thomas Tam.

"Call me at 6," Shella told him. with Jake. This left the fifth for stitution, namely that 20 and 12 Two amendments to the con- At 6.30 she slipped into a movie fill-in dates Any one of the girls members, form a quorum at the theatre, feeling very forlorn in- could take a night off without deed. Thus she missed Jerry's even asking permission. The annual general meeting and the call and wept because she missed fifth took her place and no one extraordinary meeting respective-

could tell the difference.

ly, were approved. Shella roomed with Eve, the

The "encore Was an Apache number, requiring only the swift caught up a hat and Sheila ait. est change of costume. Ted had

handkerchief which she tied about

Sheila found that living with her waist. They circled the floor the Sampers was pleasant. The youngest and prettiest Samper. Mr. J. D. Bush moved that a in perfect unison. Ted bent over girls father and mother were old- She liked the neighbourhood, the fee of $30 be made payable for Sheila menacingly but without fashioned parents. They had liv- friendliness and the homelike Life Members. The motion was touching her. Shella

evated ed in the same spacious apartment atmosphere in which she found carried. gracefully.

for years. Mr. Samper at one herself. Suddenly Ted scized her, swung time had had holdings of consid- Jim Blaine, back in town, came

One member queried whether a her roughly this way and that erable value on New York's lower to She slid across the floor, crumpled East Side. Recently these had dropped in frequently.

see Sheila and after that boy who had attended the Dio- easily and waited. He caught her shrunk. He had retired and with believe he likes Tillie," Eve hour, could claim to be an old cegan Boys' School for even, one up again and they danced to the salary the girls earned the confided. Jim admitted as much boy. The Association, he said,, gether. She swayed past the family lived as comfortably as be- to Sheila, He told her that he should be confined only to D.B.S. Lable where Jerry sat; paused, fore." could have touched him but did

had asked Tillie to marry him and not meet his eyes. Did he recog-ful but all were attractive. They girls would carry on in the show other old school associations..

None of the sisters were beauti- she had agreed. The other four past pupils and not to members of

had found themselves on the while Jim took his bride on a Only when at last the dance stage by unusual_circumstances. | honeymoon.

Dr. Li Shu-fan urged that the was ended and she and Ted ran Tillie, Clara and Evelyna, riding

more who joined the O.B.A.. the forward to receive the burst of together on a Fifth avenue bus lie to the city hall for the mara boy's name was registered in Sheila drove with Jim and Til-merrier, and held that as long as applause was Shella sure that and thinking themselves the only riage licence. We're going to the school, he was an old boy, Jerry knew her. She sat at one of passengers, had been erooning to have a real home, too," Jim told the tables, Ted Rodney opposite.gether, blending their voices in Now the men and women who close harmony. It happened that had been watching them were Jake Tolman, a theatrical agent.

Tillie laid a tiny, ringed hand dancing. She saw Jerry excuse sitting a few seats behind, heard on Sheila's. "Of course we are. himself from the others at his them. It was not until the bus city. Even in show business, kong; President, Mr. Chau Yue

It can be done, honey, even in the table. He was making his way had reached Washington Heights wait and see!"

that he had convinced them be

niže her?

across the room toward her.

"But I did call you," he was insisting a few minutes later. "I called the minute I got in. They told me you were dancing here and that's way we came."

"Who is "we"?"

was not a masher bent on a cheap dirtation..

won

Even then they declined to give him their names. Cautiously he followed to their address, learned "My sisters and my brother-in-thair name and eventually law." He explained that Marcia, Mrs. Samper's favour. He pro- the older of his two sisters, was married and the other man in the party was her husband. The girl in yellow was his sister, Jean...

Jerry added that he had rear- ranged their plans for the eye- ning, insisting that they should come to the Club Volens in other to see Sheila dance.

The situation, was awkward: Then Ted Rodney saved the day.

Won't you sit down?" he said to Jerry. A few minutes, later Ted drifted away. He and Sheila had danced their last number for that evening.

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The girl looked across at Jerry, He had come to New York without (writing to her. This was the trip | that had been planned so that he might see her, yet here he was with a group of friends, talking to her only because chance had brought them together.

She could not believe that he

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"I don't want to keep you from your friends," Sheila said, haif-: rising to end the conversation.

Jerry rose too and stood beside: her. He seemed relieved. Wasn't he going to introduce her to his sisters?

Apparently he was not. It's been great to see you again, Sheila," he said. I'll call you to- morrow. What time?"

She told him any time in the morning would do. As she watch- ed him rejoin his party she was sure that he would not call. Well, she would save her face there. She would not be at home to miss the call!

Hurrying to the dressing room Sheila allpped a nickel in the coin telephone and gave the San-peru′ number.

up.

Tillie answered the call. Shella asked shakily, "May I come and stay all night? Something has happened. Oh, no-it isn't serious! I just don't want to be alone."

Tillie Samper said cheerily that] they would be glad to have her. Was she afraid to come to the Heights' alone? If so one of them would be glad to call for her.

"I'll take a taxi." Shella sald wearily. "I'm all in anyhow."

Two hours later she was crying herself to sleep in Tillie's bed.

"Why don't you stay here all the time, Sheila?" the sisters sug- gested. The suggestion seemed a good one. The following Saturday Sheila moved her trunk to the Sam. per apartment.

Jerry telephoned to Ma Lowell's rooming house twice. The second time Sheila was there and talked to him. No, she said, she wasn't

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The officials for 1933 have been appointed as follows:

Patron, the Bishop of Hong-

Teng; Vice-Presidents, Messrs. G.

the station from which, sur-meru; Hon. Treasurer Mr. T. S B. R. Sargent and J. M. Wong; Shellä left the happy pair at Hon. Secretary Mr. W. A. Zim- rounded by Sampers, they were tow, Chan; General Committee.-- start on their honeymoon. For Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotowall, G.M.G., some reason Sheila felt lonely. Dr. Arthur Woo, Messrs. Peter She was glad she was to have din-Sin, W. N. Thomas Tam, Robert ner with Dick Stanley.

Drude, Kenneth Chan, J. D. Bush and Kwok Chan.

(To Be Continued.)

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