THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SPOTLIGHT
CHAPTER XLİY Dorothy's summer home faced the water on the south side of Long Island. The estate had. formerly belonged to a family prominent in New York society. When they removed to the more exclusive north shore Dorothy had bought the place:
met her at the door. Miss Doro- thy, he said, was in the swim- ming pool where the other guests were. Shelln was to join them there...
H.W.CORLEY
1933
per, photogravure sections. Pic- tures of Mary Charlton at the horse, show and tennis matches. Perry Raymond strolling along Fifth Avenue. All of these girls were deeply tanned. They looked like alim young athletes in their brief, brightly coloured bathing suits.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1933.
hope Henri was nice about letting | you come." --
"Oh, yes."
Dorothy smiled. Be should have been. Everyone, here will admire you, and your clothes and Heart will profit by it. Of course I wanted you for yourself but I knew I had to appeal to Henri's business sense. "And I'm so glad you're here! Oh, look-there's Dick!"
"Oh, Dick," she cried, "wait a minute! Honestly I don't swim very well. And I can't die."
He seemed not to hear. The others hailed them with shouts of deught all at once Sheila under- stood. She was one of them. It was all a game and she had actly as much part in it as any of the others.".
Ex-
At the diving board, however, Dick dropped her wrist auddenly. "Didn't. menn to rough-house you," he said, lowering his voice. We won'ta wim if you'd rather not. I wouldn't let anything hurt you for the world!"
She sprang to meet him and two
with other "young men.
him. Dick was already in his bathing suit. A moment later Dorothy
His voice, so low that even near was introducing the newcomers to Shells. Other guests joined the at hand no one else could bear, group and those who were swim-struck Sheila with its deep note ming waved gay greetings. of sincerity. Two girls and a For a brief instant Shella felt man, rushing past them, pushed at case and out of the fun "If them to one side The trip plung- I were playing In a show 3d off the diving board and caught Only two men had arrived wouldn't feel this way she told the attention of the crowd. Wade and Tommy Doran. The herself. "But I'm only in model. Shella and Dick were forgotten, the others would come a little later. ¡I don't belong with all these peo- NET
Mrs, Atwood, Dorothy's compan-ple. I don't even know lipw to Half a dozen brightly garbod ion, proved to be an attractive talk to them."
But the self-consciousness water sprites" lolled about the rim woman whose youthful eyes com- of the pool or flashed from the pletely belied her gray hair. She passed away after a few moments, diving board high over the clear wore blue pajamas and a wide Then she saw Dick making his blue-green water Dorothy rose sun hat that was most becoming. way toward her. from a chair at the farther end of the pool and came toward Shella, waving gayly.
"A maid led the way to Shella's room, a spacious apartment over- looking the shore and the ocean beyond The muald busied herself with Sheila's luggage, opening, it The house stood about a mile
and hanging away the gowns. back from the road. It was sur she helped Shelia into the bathing rounded by trees that concealed suit of delicate green jersey that stables for riding horses and ken- Dorothy had had laid out for her. acle housing several aristocratic There was a sang little black cap fox terriers. It would have been a lonely spot for a girl of 21 had she and cunning green and black bathing slippers to go with the remained there alone, but Dorothy suit. When Sheila was ready the did not. She employed' a com- panion and chaperon whose name maid showed her the way
pool. Mrs. Atwood. Scarcely a week-end passed at Trevorwood, 33 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 a golf had been converted into course. There
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Sheila!" he said "I'm so glad you're here. We'll have £ area. time together."
Shella could swim but she real- Ized witha pang that these young people were experts. They dived and raced through the water with He eyed her approvingly Dick the skill one might expect from himself looked handsome. Straight professionals. That, of course, limbed, well bulit, he was like the was because they devoted them-statue of a Greek athlete. Sheila. selves day after day to play, and feeling the approval in his glance, play in these days is largely hard smiled shyly. They stood at the work at sports.
edge of the Dool, making an at- tractive picture.
The two stood in the midst of the splashing, shrieking throng and to Sheila 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.
"Sheila!" he whispered her name softly.
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Tun.
A girl in a scarlet sult called
ning toward the spring board. Are you two going to dive or aren't you?" she cried.
Sheila and, Dick stepped to one alde. "Let's get out of this," he Bald. "I want to talk to you about. so many things."
"Darling!" she cried. "I would carefully have come, myself if I hadn't had
out "Gangway!" and came were landscaped gardens. A little to stay at the last minute. How brook ambled through the estate are you? Not tired, I hope, after and on its surface placid awans the drive?”, glided lazily A barn had been
There were introductions to the recreation transformed into a
Shella could not compete with house with pool and billard other guests as they emerged, tables, a card room and gyna- dripping, from the pool. There them but she could enjoy the sium. There was everything at were Mary Charlton, Cecelia beauty of the place, the scent of Trevorwood to provide a delight Hoyt, Peggy Raymond, and others the woods, the roll of the sea, the ful holiday
whose names Shella did not re-white salls fluttering, so far away Sheila arrived late Friday aft-member. Two of them she re-against the deep blue water.
"Shall we swim," Dorothy was ernoon, making the trip in Doro-cognized as girls whose pictures thy's huge town car. The batler were seen-frequently in newapa asking, "or sit here and talk? I
coming the emergency. Motorista' solva a difficulty during the Thames floods. (Planet
News).
"I'l race you to the other end." Dick proposed suddenly.
"I don't swim very well," Sheila told him, but the protest was lost. Laughing, struggling, she felt herself borne along to ward the diving. board.
They moved off toward two beach chairs at the other end of the pool The chairs were shaded by a gigantic orange and"_black striped
umbrella. Bebind (Continued on Page 10.)
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