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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1933.

SPOTLIGHT

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met her at the door. Miss Doro- thy, he said, was in the swim- ming pool where the other guests were, Sheila was to join them there.

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H.W.CORLEY

1933

hope Heuri was nice about letting you come."

"Oh, yes."

"Oh. Dick" she cried, "wait a minute! Honesty I don't swim very well. And I can't dive."

lle seemed not to hear. The Dorothy smiled. "He should have been. Everyone here will others hailed them with shouts of aamue you and your clothes and jaenght Ali at once Sheila under- Henri will profit by it. Of course stood. She was one of them. It I wanted you for yourself but I was all a game and she had ex- knew I had to appeal to Henri's etly as muen part in it as any of business sense. And I'm so glad the others. you're here! Oh, look-there's Dick!"

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His voice, ao low that even near

At the diving board, however, Dick dropped her wrist suddenly. "Didn't mean to rough-house She sprang to meet him and two you," he said, lowering his voice. other young men with him. We won'ts wim if you'd rather per photogravure sections. Pic Dick was already in his bathing not. I wouldn't let anything hurt. tures of Mary Chariton at the suit "A moment later Dorothy you for the world!"" horse show and tennis matches. was introducing the newcomers to Peggy Raymond strolling along Sheila. Other guests joined. theat hand no one else could hear, Fifth Avenue. All of these girls group and those who were swim-struck Sheila with its deep note of sincerity. Two girls and a were deeply tatined. They looked ming waved gay greetings.

For a brief instant Sheila feltman, rushing past them, pushed like slim young athletes in their brief, brightly coloured bathing ill at ease and out of the fun. "If then to one side. The trio plung- green and black suite.

I were playing in a showed off the diving board and caught bathing slippers to go with the Only two men had arrived-wouldn't feel this way she told the attention of the suit. When Shella was ready the Wade and Tommy Doran. The herself. "But I'm only a model. Sheila and Dick were forgotten. maid showed her the way to the others would come a little later.I don't belong with all these pro-

Mrs. Atwood, Dorothy's compan-ple. I don't even know how t pool.

attractive talk to them." ion, proved to be an

But the self-consciousness woman whose youthful eyes com- pletely belied her gray hair. She passed away after a few moments. were blue pajamas and a wide Then she saw Dick making hi sun hat that was most becoming. way toward her."

CHAPTER XLIV Dorothy's summer home faced the water on the south side of Long Island. The estate had formerly bolonged to a family A maid led the way to Sheila's prominent in New York society. root, a spacious apartment over- When they removed to the more looking the shore and the ocean exclusive porth shore Dorothy had beyond The maid busied herself bought the place.

The house stood about a

with Sheila's luggage, opening it and hanging away the gowns. back from the road. It was sur She helped Shella into the bathing rounded by trees that concealed stables for riding horses and ken-suit of delicate green jersey that Dorothy had had laid out for her. nels housing several aristocratic There was a snug little black car fox terriers It would have been and cunning lonely spot for a girl of 21 had she remained there alone, but Dorothy did not. She employed a com- panion and chaperon whose name was Mrs. Atwood. Scarcely a week-end passed at Trevorwood, as Dorothy called the place, with out a number of guests. Dorothy's parties were always popular.

Though the sea was so close at hand a swimming pool had been built at the rear of the house. Across the glade smooth meadows had been converted into a golf

There .course.

Half a dozen brightly garbed water sprites lolled about the rim of the pool or flashed from the diving board high over, the clear blue-green water. Dorothy rose from a chair at the farther end of the pool and came toward Sheila, waving, gayly.

"Darling!" she cried. "I would were carefully have come myself if I hadn't had landscaped gardens. A little to stay at the last minute. How brook ambled through the estate are you? Not tired, 1-hope, after and on its surface placid swans the drive?" *

glided lazily A barn had been transformed into recreation

3 house with poot and billiard tables, a card room and gymna- sium. There was everything at Trevorwood to provide a delight ful holiday

There were introductions to the other guests as they emerged, dripping, from the pool. There were

Mary Charlton, Cecelia Hoyt, Peggy Raymond, and others whose names Sheila did not re- re- Sheila arrived late Friday aft-member. Two of them she ernoon, making the trip in Doro- cognized as girls whose pictures thy's huge town car. The.. butler were seen frequently in newspa-

"Sheith" he said" "I'm so glad you're here. We'll have a "rea. time together."

Sheila could swim but she real- ized with a pang that these young people were experts They dived and raced through the water with He eyed her approvingly, Dkk the skill one might expect. from himself looked handsome. Straight professionals. That, of course, limbed, well built, he was like th was because they devoted them-statue of a Greek athlete. Shella. selves day after day to play, and feeling the approval in his glance, play in these daya is largely, hard smiled. shyly. They stood at the work at sports.

edge of the pool. making an at- tractive picture.

Sheila could not compete with them but she could enjoy the neauty of the place, the scent of the woods, the roll of the sea, the white sails fluttering so far away against the deep blue water.

"Shall we swim," Dorothy was asking, "or, git here and talk? 1

Overcoming the emergency. Motorists solva a difficulty during the Thames floods. (Planet Naws).

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"I' race you to the other end." Dick proposed suddenly.

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crowd.

The two stood in the midst of the splashing, shrieking throng and to Shella it seemed as though they were on a desert island. Dick was looking at her. His yes held hers so that she could not look away.

"Shella!" "he whispered her name softly.

A girl in a scarlet sult called ut. "Gangway!" and came run- ning toward the spring board. "Are you two going to dive or aren't you?" she cried.

"Sheila and Dick stepped to one side. "Let's get out of this," he said. "I want to talk to you about so many things.",

They moved off toward two beach chairs at the other end of the pool The chairs were shaded by a gigantic orange and black, umbrella, Behind (Continued on Page 10.).

"I don't swim very well," Shella told him, but the protest was lost. Laughing, struggling. she felt herself borne along to- | striped sun ward the diving board.

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