THE HONGKONG TELEGRAP!!
LOVE or MONEY?
CHAPTER
Mona raised "When you
peated.
Her gently,
BY H: W. CORLEY
XXIX
[“Monn.". "One thing at a time," ja little fact they had succeeded he repeated, "To-day let's drop admirably in presenting a picture started pyesin to eat on your family,"
of completely happy married life. gok?" she res
He moved forward to give the Even Ma's sharp' eyes fatles, to order to the chauffeur but Moun detect any variance from the surveyed
stopped him. "Maybe I'd better naual picture of domestic har telephone Grai," she said, trying mony.
her
"Why, of course. We'll tele- Phone Arst." He spoke to the chauffeur then. "Jackson, will you stop at the next corner?"
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MONDAY. MAY 15, 1933.
from the 'Townsends,
Her Volec
EGYPTIAN
CUSTOMS
MODIFICATION OF DUES ON COTTON GOODS
“You are so good!” Mona muur- murod as she moved about her sit- ting room one prowy mid-December| bons and cords and nddresølug afternoon, tying gifts with guy rib- Christons carda, "Anybody who las money could order gifts for
Cairo, May 14, The Council of Ministers has people but you select them! You even sit here helping the them up the customs dues on cotton goods. approved of the modification of and plan to deliver them.your-
Details are not yet available solf.""
but it is understood that the dues faltered slightly, generally have been increased by Yes, her husband was, as she had 35 per cent.-Reuter. told Mu long before, a good man. There was only one thing he had
Mona looked at him in amaze- failed to do and that was to make up his quarrel with Barry,
ment. "I'd like it, of course. ""All this is fun," Mr. Townsend She swallowed with difficulty: was "But don't do it for me. "Do it for replied. "I like it." He seated by the fire and moved a Barry. For yourself. I've really froth of liasue and scarlet cord nothing to do with it as I see i from the table as the maid brought "As you see it," murmured Mr. In ten. It was cozy sitting there Townsend. Then he turned in his
and before the firelight with the snow path. He had risen
WAR falling outside the window, pacing the floor. "My dear, F
"We have shoes, a dress, à cloak do as you wish, I'll release the Garretson wet, nearly a whole outfit for boy's funds. I'll see
on. checking right after Christmas." Kitty," Mona went over her list and touching several packages as she spoke. “You pour ten, will you, Anna?" she sald to the maid.
husband
"My dear, do you believe for an in- stant that I think 1 shall live for
Lo hide her confusion. “You Ma. in fact, was deeply impres ever?" His tone was light balke it will be a great event fored by Moun's "ne man." She for all that Mona knew be
Mother."
would scurry about, serving the WEB Aware of that which had been con-
inevitable ten-in thin caps now, sealed from him so carefully. He
at Mona's gentle insistence-with knew he had been given only a
delicate slices of lemon. Once the year to live,
Tommends stayed to dinner and Mona was pleased and oven touch Mona was to discover that her led to observe her husband's case husband fitted in with the life of in the stuffy little dining room the Morn household beyond her where the obviously "company
optimistie most
expectations.dhiner" of hot and heavy foods After that first visit when Ma had was spread before him. hurried into her new all own nod, with a single sweep, cleared
Then came the "grand day" as
"Let's get her a purse and put up that trash of Kittya" from the Mrs. Moran expressed it when the dining room table, when Dad had family piled into the big ear and some change in it," Mr. Townsend apologized for his lack of a shave was whisked away to Long Island suggested. "'ll get tickets for a and Mona herself had tried not to for a shore dinner because Mr.musical comedy, too, and she can show her nervousness, the Town- Moran had, in a conversation with Lake her gung- Of
asked Iler the Third his sends came often to
son-in-law, mentioned ta juvenue fat.
fondness for clams such as those puzzled. served in the old days at City Island.
"Sure, and it makes no differ
For a moment neither spoke. Then the man said cheerfully. "Since life is short and time is Heeting there are several things would like to do. The first is to see you as frequently as possible. I want to take you about, to show you off if you don't mind the phrase to provide you with gitta, I want to meet your family, too. I like to feel that this rather abrupt move of mine has benefitted them in somo way.
course." be added instily, "I know you are doing everything for them you can think of. Perhaps I can think of something more."
one
it seemed strange, indeed, to
"You are so kind," reolled Mona uncertainly, T
ence You promised to do the waut most. WIH you things for Barry?"
.
to the man because we aren't swells," Ma, stringgling with ber uw hat slightly askew on her graying hair, had told Mrs. Calla- han after the return from the
| Monk to learn that her husband, with his splendidly erect carriage haven't and distinguished air, was really thing little younger than her father, [arranze | The two men had, it seemed, skat
Jed on the sumie park pond long
Kitty admired her brother-in- revelry. "Everything you could jalmost tempted to call him “John." | A wlule bill for the waiter. And
He glanced sharply toward her. Iyears before, "Change my will, you mear?"
She nodded,
Townsend looked away. "One thing at a time, my dear," he said. It came into the girl's mind that not once had he ever called her
law and told Isabel Flynn she was think of, mind you, set before us.
That was the name by which such style!"
Mona addressed her husband in Christmas brought a bewilder- the presence of the family. With ing load of gifts to the
Here is the U. 3. sirdock and base built at Sunnyvale, Cailf,, to house the Macon, sistor ship of the Igal Akron. The dock and base buildings recently were complated. The Akron's home base
ialah st N. J.
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Mona,
her husband responded, amused. That's what she call them,"
"Miss Flynn. the Misses Gordon jand several uthers."
Mona knew babel Flynn bul the Alisses Gordon" were new to
ier.
"You mean you'll make every- thing all right?"
The man stopped and sighed. "Can anyone do that. Mona?" he replied in a low tone.
"No one
but you, I fancy. However this is my Iden
He sank into a chair again and, clasping his hands, looked at the blaze. "You recall," he began, "the terms of our bargain. At the to remain or go to Reno. Suppose end of a year you were to be free we leave it this way. You decide
oh, not to-day or to-morrow but take your time-which it shall be. Reno or-well, not Reno.
"In any case the terms shall I met quite a few of them en stand. In my will you are to route to the movies that Sunday receive your share with certain
to stipulatione. afternoon when I drove over
Whether It's Reno pick you up," he replied, accepting the tea cup the maid offered.
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or not you shall be heiress to the larger part of my-let's call them assets."
ife had met them indeed, Kity, "If you deciile, however, to pass Moransspring the big car, had iterally Reno by I will, as you put it, do
swarmed abroad, introducing him the right thing by Barry. Possib to the ather girls as her "brotherly even more than what might be John." "Brother John" there termed the right thing.” upos had responded nobly. "The Mona rose, her face flushing. xing" had been taken inside and "Yon menn," she began but did driven to the 80th strest motion not go 00. The meaning WIN picture house where the chauffeur clear enough,
Blad
been instructed to secure ller husband bowed.
precisely what I mean. {tickets.
:
"That is
Day derir. Monu, drinking ten now, gazed Take your time. At the end of at the Are. She remembered your reflection on the matter be Barry had told her that the one iny wife. Forsake the Rene plan. thing he missed most in the tropics We'll go to Europe, around the was the vler of an open fireplace world!" filled with slapping logs.
"Büt-but-" said Mona. still helpless.
"Barry always liked a good fire." her husband said unexpectedly. "Do I need to tell you," her hus- He had placed another package in band continued, "that I am fear- the basket which en Christmas fully, tremendously, deeply in Dve was to go to the Moran house- love with you? I have heen ever hold.
nince the day I first saw you at the Savarin. The day I was luuching with Garretson. But of course I thought you knew I love you!"
(To be Continued.)
Then he continued, "I suppose the gift you'd like most this Christmas is for me to do some thing about Barry, eh?"
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