1933-05-03 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

LOVE or MONEY?

BY H. W. CORLEY

DECIN HERE TO-DAY MONA MORAN, receptionist In Street law office, is in love with BARRY TOWNSEND, rich and socially prominent. She starry through STEVE BACCA-

returned to New York after three years BELLI, her childhood sweetheart, who has abrenes. Elere had been in South Amarles where largely by chance, he has become associated with Barry, owner of a diamJul main long believed worthless. Together the have made the mine 27 and are now using partners. Steve owns a huge and rulled "The Empresa of Peru." LOTTIE CARE, fuation model, joins Mons, Derry and Stars

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chuckles, punctuated by Lottle's ; down.

Mons In the front sent

WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1933.

trifle

"Everyone was excited about the me at first at the office, did you?" Junar rainbow, remember. Barry went on. Stove and I had gone to bed. That Mona drew her hand away gon- night was lighted by the whiteattly. "Of course I like you," she moonlight I had over seen and sald promptly though a after a while it began raining. Ishaklly, awoke, heard a noise in the hotel court, got out of bed and saw two alone. The moment was here now She had wanted to see Barry natives knifing each other down and she hardly knew how to meet below. Beyond, above the houses it, across the street, was the rainbow:

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Want

"Hope?" the girl's face WnB scarlet,

- faint are of colour. When 1 Moua," Barry

"I want to ask you something, mentioned it next morning every asked

on. "I've wan high-pitched chatter, reached When they had finished eating body was much more excited about loquacious little friend, too, and Stavo. I've asked your they turned on the radio and that than they had been about the now I'm going to ask you. They've The car ran smoothly along the danced. Mona, puzzled at first, urder. Killings were frequent both encouraged mo a little in the rising again amid rows of oaks her. highway, dipping with the hills, decided that Barry was avoiding enough but lunar rainbows were hope" and maples. It glided past the seemed to keep the conversation

When he addressed her he rare!" carefully checkered meadows that on a general note. The servants As Mona drew on her hat be- made up the well-groomed estates departed carrying the of the rich.

emptied fere the mirror she thought with | hampers and Mra, Faxon, from her a pang that in a seant quarter of

little party approvingly, crotonne fire-sent, beamed on the an hour she would leave this de. lightful place. How easy her "She liken un" Mona thought. entrance had been and how simple And she was right. Mrs. Faxon hor departure! Anoller thought Mona exquisite and her minutes and then an exit through amusing. friend, Lottie, refreshing and the door. She might never onter

Barry's life again!

She left Lottie buay bofore the stairs just in time to hear Jimmy call Barry to the phone.

several dinner and ducing engagements, brother. But, becomes involved with gengsters who plan to sleat the bir diamond. Biere etaprets this, traps Bud and when bu confess helps him cape to South

America where be la to have Job at the flome time later Barry invites Mona. Lattle and Biere to spend Bunday mi lila uncle's palatial country bome. They make the tele Мода ATO

towns of tiny houses, no glaring Here all was luxury-no huddled billboards, no small shops.

"Barry should have more good

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"The hope that I'm not intrud- it. That the situation between You and old Stove fan't serious. If I hang around a bit-dine with you take you out once in a while Am I butting in? Hang It! are you in love with Steve?"

Mona rulsed her eyes and looked at him aquarely.

In Steve' roadeter, Barry a delghtf pleasant game of "hide and seek times like this," Mrs. Faxon was dressing table and, descended Barry," she said. ·

hart However, when bo and together he falki to propose.

CHAPTER XIX

Mr. Faxon joined the young people at luncheon. Elizabeth, Barry's sister, had telephoned, she said. Elizabeth, marrying early, was the mother of four frolicsome children and kept in daily touch with the Townsend monuge yet Mrs. Faxon mentioned her call as if it were an occasion,

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An the road twisted and turned the sinking Run reddened, danced then the right again and Anally ahead of them, danced to the left, disappeared, as if to terminate the they had been playing. Almost Immediately they were back at Twilands, returning by a new rond. Dusk was settling in the trees.

The girls ran upstairs, Imughing and ebatting.

telling herself. Loyal to ench, the dissension between Barry and his uncle worried her. She did her beat to help each of them arrive at a more complete understanding.

"Miss Dower calling," he said. Presently Barry reappeared and caught Mona's hand in his own. At last all of them left the little There was no one else in the hall camp wrapped in darkress anajand he drow her into the drawing silence. Mona thought, as the room took Steve's arm, that the wholo "Does it make any difference to al-day had been over too avon.you that Steve is my friend?" he

Lottie walked with Barry and he asked. "I mean, do you like m told her of the southern cross, of any better because of that?" ho tropics, and the lunar rainbow His eyes, looking into here. he had seen once in Port-of-Spain, were troubled.

"You didn't like

"Hey you!" Barry called. "That's for me," explained Lottle. "Didn't I tell you he ways calls me that?" She turned and said, "What?"

"Hey you! Dinner is broiling. Come on!"

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Want anything?" Barry in- quired.

"Just to say hello. And to aug. gest that you might like to drive

Mrs. Faxon had gone ahead over for dinner this evening."

with Jimmy and Jean and the "That reminds me" Barry ex huge basket of supplies. Mona claimed. "I thought it might be a and Lottie. Steve and Barry, ser Rood stunt to have dinner at the out to follow over the gently camp. There are steaks around freezing road, then struck out somewhere, aron't there? Jean crosslots for the camp. could makemi”

On the verandah the appetising "Splendid!" Mrs. Faxon said jodour of brolling steak greeted delightedly and took the reins of them. Jimmy, kneeling before the proparation out of Barry's hands, flame, was guarding the plece de "I' aond Jimmy down to get the resistance tenderly but relinquish. place warm and dusted."

ed his place immediately to Barry. Jean, smiling from the kitchen door, was mixing salad dressing, The camp now was warm, cosy and delightful.

Turning to Mona she went on, "You should feel duly intterad, Barry shows the camp only to his closest friends. I've known of people to hint for weeks-"

"It's my private thinking place," Barry admitted.

After luncheon the four piled into Barry's roadster and runde a tour of the countryside. They stopped for tea at a small inn and when they returned to the moter car Barry drove with Mona boside him. Steve and Lottie, l the rumble sent. were apparently deep in

gay secret. Steve's

Bome

Mrs. Faxon, busying herself at the table, called them at last to sit

"Steve has never asked me that,

Steve were engaged to a giri "You see," he went on earnestly.

dinner he would cheerfully postpone and wanted to take her out to the wedding ceremony and persuade her to go with me! That's Steve!" "ie thinks a great deal of you, I know,"

"And he thinks a great dent of you, Mona, too!" Barry grasped her hand eagerly,

Onco more "Wouldn't the giri's feeling in the affair matter to Steve at all, Barry?" Mona gently naked. (Continued on Page 10.)

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TO-DAY AT THE CENTRAL.

A GREAT STAR IN A GREAT STORY.

I'm Judy Carroll.

I've been around.

The men I've known have all had one idea. I'us no salat, that's true, but where do they

get off 10 brand me with the past they wished on me? Where they get off to take away my baby?

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