1933-04-11 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1933,

LOVE or MONEY?

CHAPTER I

BY H. W. CORLEY

supplement the alarm, until eight-her support.

fifteen the dark, tiny little gas- Most of the baby's finery had lit bathroom down the hall was been bought by Ma from dimes Mona's sole property. Ma knew and quarters 'saved painstakingly it. Kitty knew it. Even Bud-out of the house-keeping money. the overlord of the radio, the Mona suspected that Ma's movie easiest chair and the newspaper money found its way into the acquiesced.

same fund.

There was orange juice for breakfast, scrambled eggs and It had been Alice's rather un- golden toast Iberally buttered fortunate marriage which had set a poor rejected them all. To marry a ficantly. recalling the malodor The delicious scent of coffee had Mona against marrying stage electrician (more chorus ous 67th street flat, "I'll say you been fitting the halls for half an man. Her sister, once so smart- The alarm whirred-as alarms, girls did, you know, than landed do! But do you know the arti hour. Me poured a steaming cup looking, skipping off to work every carefully set and wound, have a millionaires) had no part in Monachokes?"

and set it beside Mona's plate. morning, so proud of her ability way of doing--whirred and Moran's plans..

As it happened Mona was not

In a clean print house gown, to help with the family expenses, strangled through the dark 67th

art Mrs. Moran was taking her com-was now, after two years of mar- street fat, reverberated

So she had taken a job as reacquainted-then-with In the

Dreased 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.

house sloppily. in Mona knew that, for some time stove, chatting busily, neither ming of windows, and the sound firm of Garretson. Layton and

Amesbury.

at least, she could not think of waiting for nor expecting readresses, her hair straggling about of voices.

was out of the ponse. She announced that Kitty's her neck, her face guiltless of "Aw, turn that alarm off, will ace people here," Mona con- marrying. It YA7"

fided to her friend, Lottle. 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 a Alice struggled half-heartedly 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, loes for a child?"

For Ma. swathed in her best ant. talk, to dress and how to act,? cigarets.

There were always, no matter at black, had bustled over to have a

what time of day one might call, talk with Kitty's principal.

Mona smiled. She knew that dishes soaking in the sink, bables most likely Miss Freston, with clothes draping the radiator, some- hundreds of children to deal with. thing stowing on the stove and a Her father- Mona's patient, did not know Kitty Moran by broom to be stumbled over in the clare after one of Lottie's visits to kindly, hard-working father, sight.

dark hallway.

"It's the redhead. But

get up this early!"

Seven-thirty... And Mona stirred, (nee Minnie). Moran nestled cozily for a moment, then lifted a slender arm from the coverlet and snapped off the shrill noise. She turned over again, placed a palm beneath her check and closed her eyes.

Jaxation of another nap.

not have even when she is not,

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Lottle, tall, blond and languor ous, was a model at Pilgrim's,

That Carr. girl is no better than she should be.” Ma would de-

Not with her father in the hospital, Mona couldn't go to husband saddled with these carea

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the Moran home. "Perfume, $20 stricken suddenly with that ob- Mrs. Callahan had new linoleum

The baby was always ailing." Mona long ago had decided that an ounce! Handkerchiefs, 326 a scure, powerful malady which no for the kitchen. About time Jos always whimpering in apologetic the last half hour of sleep caught dozen or I'm a lidt. No good doctor named definitely, of which did something for his mother ex- little moans. Jim, the rather dis this way-stolen really from the working girl~~”

no docter would predict the out- cept bring his girl in for dinner illusioned young husband, usually workaday world-was the most

The Donahue "Oh, she's all right, Mother!" come!

every Sunday." delicious. Thirty more, droway Mona would protest. "It's just

twins were teething. The Caseys sought a pool room after the minutes to reflect on this and that that Lottie" She would The Morans had 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 rebreak off here for Mona could same fint for years, protesting new French telphones.

silk could hardly blame him. It was hardly finish as she had intended, against the gradual raise in rents If Min would leave her as young and lovely as Monda does to support." in would be hurt the apartment house Terrence would rub it out and press it,/ed, unkempt little crenture could' Mona had problems. What girl"It's just that Lottle has no family after the subway was opened. underwear out on a chair Ma amazing that this drab, uninterest- Moran had been something of a There was no sense to Min's tiring be the gay, chic Alice who had as Mona assuredly was the sun and rightly at that,

"Well," Ma would weaken, "I figure, his kindly philosophy herself out at night after work. gone off so confidently to marry port of her family? There were

"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,"

going His stokinged feet high on the father anyhow" Ma observed in the hospital and Bud, the cider house. I don't want you

probably. Just brother, away from home when ne out with her. My daughters are window sill, his eyes twinkling somewhat unnecessarily. Mana marriage had turned out so bad-

over his newspaper which he read was as likely to forget to go to ly? Nobody's; had a job and back home when good girls!" broke.

Mona was, and indeed. for that with laboriously moving lips, Dad, the office as to the hospital on the pressure of circumstances.

"Where'd you get the orange was Lottie. Mra. in his way, influenced the entire visiting night Seven-forty. Seven-ifty. 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 an Afty-five,

Then, as if another alarm had support of many rebuffed young for advice in matters of courtship Ma went on... She always said unprecedented extravagance in

and weddings, for condolence at that. " roast him a chicken. the Moran household. stirred again. mch as to that.

"Mr. Hart stopped to talk to sounded. Mona She patted a dainty yawn with Lottie, 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.

as Kitty ton street, Mother. You know glanced at the sleeping Kitty be model afforded her, would beg

Yee, Mona certainly owed it to for her husband, and alde her-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 res- wait until morning when the hotel elder people buy. Well, then Mr. Hart ness occaрying more than half the parties with

thoughts ponse. Alice was Mona's Until what? Mona's narrow bed and slid out careful-young clubmen to whom

referred as "the gang." ly.

"Sometimes, Lottle. But don't could get no further with the sister, married these two years wanted to buy something too. Mona stretched her arms again

However, after the deed had been couldn't take it home very well did.

(Continued on Page 9.) and took indifferent stock of her count on me for many of these problem but Lottie's could and and much against Ma's wishes. The crate was right there and he

"Marry a man who'll take care done a was the first to give Alica self in the mirror. She had be-affairs. I need my sleep. I have come used to the pleaant report to work."

you," was of your family for "Go to bed and never meet any that mirror gave.

amended Lottie's plan. There were those who wonder-nice people!" Loltie 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?" had not followed her first job as Mona shook her head. "Yes, I model at think of it. But you don't get errand girl and later

way, 1 know my Pilgrim's with a stage affiliation. them that

Lottle

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Such men are few and far be tween. So are girls like Mona, with trim figures, glowing bronze hair, hest of all an angelic dis- position.

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From eight o'clock, when Ma And Lottie had rejoined sivat- gently knocked on Mona's door to

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