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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY,
LOVE or MONEY?
"It's the redhead. But get up this early!"
Seven-thirty.
BY H. W. CORLEY
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[APRIL 11, 1933.
supplement the alarm, until eight-her support fifteen the dark, tiany little gas- Most of the baby's finery had lit bathroom down the hall was been bought by Ma from dimes Mona's solo property. Ma know and quarters saved painstakingly it Kitty knew it. Even Bud- out of the house-keeping money. the overlord of the radio, the Monn suspected that Ma's movie sasiest chair and the newspaper-money found its way into the acquiesced
same fund.
There was orango jules for and breakfast, scrambled eggs It had been Alice's rather un- golden toast liberally buttered fortunate.marriage which had set CHAPTER I
rejected them . To marry a ficantly, recalling the malodor- The delicious scent of coffee had Mona against marrying a poor stage electrician (more chorus oun 67th street fat, "I say you been filling the halls for half an man: Her sister, once so smart. The alarm whirred-as alarms, girls did, you know, then landed do! But do you know the arti- hour. Ma poured a steaming cup looking, skipping off to work every carefully 'set and wound, have a millionaires) had no part in Mona chokes ?"
and set it beside Mona's plate. morning, so proud of her ability of doing whirred and Moran's plans.
As it happened Mena was not In a clean print house gown, to help with the family expenses, strangled through the dark 67th
So she had taken a job as re-acquainted-then-with arti Mrs. Moran was taking her com-was now, after two years of mar street flat, reverberated In the
house areaway, punctuated by a slam ceptionist for the exclusive law chokes. Her answer was a shrug, fortable way between table and ried life, a changed being. Mona knew that, for some time stove, chatting busily, neither Dressed sloppily in ming of windows and the sound firm of Garretson, Lawton and of voices.
at least, she could not think of waiting for nor expecting rea- dresses, her hair straggling about Amesbury.
the ponse. She announced that Kitty's her neck, her face guiltless of "Aw, tum that alarm off, will see people here," Mona con- marrying. It was out of ya?"
half-heartedly ided to her friend, Lottie Carr. question. Not with Bud acting as marks at school were better this colour and her skin uupowdered, "Hey, you Moran-1"
"I get to know them without he did, in and out of a job, absent month. "You see "Min what Alice struggled don't parading half dressed behind the for days on end, home idling, little interest in them teachers through her day's work in a badly furnished, rather malodorous little footlights. I learn to walk, to begging small sums for carfare does for a child-?"!
For Ma swathed in her best fat. And Mona talk, to dress and how to act." cigarets..
black, had bustled over to have 4). There were always, no matter at (nee Misaic) Moran stirred,
Not with her father in the talk with Kitty's principal. what time of day one might call, nestled cozily for a moment, then Lottic, tall, blond and languor-hospital. Mona couldn't go to a
Mona smiled. She knew that dishes soaking in the sink, babies lifted a slender arm from the ous, was a model at Pilgrim's. husband saddled with these family
most likely Miss Preston, with clothes draping the radiator, some. coverlot and snapped off the shrill "That Carr girl is no better cares.
hundreds of children to deal with thing stewing on the stove and a noiao. She turned over again, than she should be,” Ma would de- Her father Mona's patient, did not know Kitty Moran byl
broom to be stumbled over in the placed a palm beneath her check clare after one of Lottle's visits to kindly, hard-working
father, sight. !
dark hallway. and closed her eyes.
the Moran home. "Perfume, $20 stricken suddenly with that ob Mrs. Callahan bad new linoleum
The baby was always ailing, Mona long ago had decided that an ouncel Handkerchiefs, $25 a scure, powerful malady which no for the kitchen. About time Joe always whimpering in apologetic the last half hour of sleep caught dozen or I'm a liar. No good doctor named definitely, of which did something for his mother xttle moans. Jim, the rather dis- this way-stolen really from the working gir—”
no doctor would predict the out cept bring his girl in for dinner lusioned young husband, usually workaday world was the most
Donahue "Oh, sho's all right, Mother!" come!
every Sunday. The delicious. Thirty more drowsy Mona would protest. "It's just minutes to reflect on this and that that Lottic" She
twins were teething. The Caseys sought a pool room after would The Morans bad lived in the were going to have one of them casual, badly-cooked meal Alice would set out for him. Mona that or to forget it all in the re-break off here for Mona could same fiat for years, protesting new French telphones. laxation of another nap.
hardly finish as she had intended, against the gradual raise in rents
If Min would leave her silk could hardly blame him. It was Mona had problems, What girit's just that Lettie has no family after the subway was opened underwear out on chair Malamazing that this drab, uninterest a8, young and lovely as Monda dokaj
Įto support." Ma would be hurt 'n the apartment house Terrence would rub it out, and pressed, unkempt little creature could not have even when she is not,
Moran had been something of a There was no sense to Min's tiring be the gay, chic Alice who had as Mons assuredly was the sup and rightly at that. port of her family? There were! "Well," Ma would weaken, "figure, his kindly philosophy herself out at night after work gone off so confidently to marry
"It's "your day to visit your
Whose fault was it that their five in that family, counting Dad don't want that girl calling up the sought at all times. ..
observed His stokinged feet high on the father anyhow", lia in the hospital and Bud, the Lider house. I don't want you going
probably, Just brother, away from home when he out with her. My daughters are window sill, his eyes twinkling somewhat unnecessarily, Mora marriage bad turned out so bad-
over his newspaper which he read was as likely to forget to go, toy? Nebody's, had a job and back home when good girls!"
the hospital on the pressure of circumstances. Mona was, and indeed, for that with laboriously moving lips, Dad, the office as to
"Where'd you get the orange broke.
was Lottie. Mrs.in his way, influenced the entire visiting night. Seven-forty. Seven-ffty. Seven-matter, so
Moran might have had the rueful neighbourhood. They came to him "Tell him I'll be over Sunday," juice?" remarked Bud. It was in extravagance in fifty-five,
Then, as if another alarm had support of many rebuffed young for advice in matters of courtship Ma wept. on. She always said unprecedented
and weddings, for condolence at that. roast him a chicken the Moran household. again. men as to that.
"Mr. Hart stopped to talk to She patted a dainty yawn with Lottle, frivolous, gay, attractive the time of death, for encourage Kitty can go up to Alice's"
As Ma always cooked something one of the marketmen in Washing- the back of her rosetipped hand, in the costumes her position as ment in illness...
her husband, and as Kitty ton street, Mother. You know Yes, Mona certainly owed it to for glanced at the sleeping Kitty be model allorded her, would
res-wait until morning when the hotel side ber-Kitty's slim little girl Mona to join her on frequent Dad to stick by the family and always spent Sunday with Alice, they get there late at night and
that collection of not to think of marriage until this required no particular ness occupying more than half the parties with narrow bed and slid out careful young clubmen to whom Lottie Until what? Mona's thoughts ponse. Alice was Mona's elder people bay. Well, then Mr. Hart
referred as "the gang."
the sister. married these two years wanted to buy something too. could get no further with ly.
Mona stretched her arms again "Sometimes, Lottie. But don't
However, after the deed had been couldn't take it home very well
(Continued on Page 10.) and took indifferent stock of her count on me for many of these problem but Lottle's could-and and much-against Ma's wishes. The crate was right there and he self in the mirror. She had be- afairs. I need my sleep. I have
"Marry a man who'll take care done Ma res, the first to give Alice come used to the pleaant report to work"
of your family for you," was Lottie's plan.
sounded. Mona
that mirror gave.
stirred
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"Go to bed and never meet any amended There were those who wonder-nice people!" Lottle ed why, with such a figure, such here. "You might get yourself a creamy skin, such gray-green eyes husband if you'd step out more. and miraculous bronze hair, Mona Ever think of that?""
Mona shook her head. "Yes, I had not followed her first job as
But you don't get errand girl and later model at think of it. Pilgrim's with a stage affiliation. them that way. I know my
It was true that Mona had had onions,” several such offers but she had
did.
Such men are few and far be tween. So are girls like Mona, with trim figures, glowing bronze hair, best of all an angelie dis- position.
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From dight o'clock, when Ma And Lottie had rejoined signi- gently knocked on Mona's door to
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