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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1933.

LOVE or MONEY?

BY H. W. CORLEY

CHAPTER XL. Barry said the words over and over. "My dear, my dear! You are here!"

She looked up at him. Tall, bronzed, glowing with health and vitality. His eyes strangely blue In his browned face. His skin darker than his hair.

Stove strode forward. He, too, was brown and vigorous. In this oppressive heat! Monn wondered how they endured it. Steve was grinning broadly. "You?" criod

he

try." Loltle remarked demurely and there was a burst of laughter,

Sweet as love! come, Mona wondered miserably. Why had sho Outwardly she was calm enough, accepting the dainty service of the little maid, responding to Barry's casual remarks, smiling at Steve and regarding Lottie with quizz- ical affection.

Lottie, too, she could ace was not at ease. Why had they come?

* ·

Of course there was the plan to attempt to give Barry part of the the Miranda, had seemed an ade Townsend fortune. That, aboard aquate reason. In the presence of it seemed almost out of the ques- these two self-suficient young menj tion.

"Yes, we're here--both of us in person!" Lottie added in effort to break the tension.

"Not a motion picture?" teased Steve. "Well, you look handsome enough for one. Take my word for it" He tossed a napkin on the table and seized Lottie by the shoulders.

"Are you surprised?" Mona, laughing.

asked

offer? How could she speak of What explanation should she money to Barry?

"We were tired of New York and thought we'd take a trip down "Surprised? We're overhelmed! here," Monn found herself saying And delighted. too. How did you in one of the pauses, adding, un- get here? Bud brought you, of necessarily, "the West Indies, I course, but where in blazes did menn." you find him?"

Barry placed a chair for Mona, "Sit down.", he urged. "You must be tired. That air trip always nearly inishes us."

"It was only an hour." She sat down and tossed her hat into an empty seat, fluffing her hair with expert fingers,

"We must look like wrecks," Monn added ruefully.

"And we're starved!" announced Lottie frankly. "Do you suppose, Alister, you could spare IL poor girl andwich ?"

TIENTSIN PLANES.

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Peking, May 26. Tientsin messages state that this morning military aeroplanes visited Tien- three Japanese tsin and remained flying over the city proper and the suburbs at a low altitude for about 10 minutes. by another visitor about 9 o'clock. The three plance were reinforced

attempt

The Japanese planes made no to drop bombs or

observe the Chinese troop dis- The visit was apparently made to pamphlets as they did before.

positions at Tiontain.

Messages describe the plight of the 20,000 Chinese war refugees who have congregated in the open near the barracks in the French "Where did you run into Bud Concession. Chinesо charitable Barry asked without looking at institutions arc Anding accom- her. He lighted a pipe, cuppingmodation for them by erecting his hand over ita bowl, then turned temporary matsheds for them.- away as he hung the dead match Renska. out on the roadway,

n

Instantly two native boys made

dive for it. Steve laughed. ed. "They think it's a cigarette end," he told the girls. We give them a weekly supply of cigarettes, yet they always hang around for any thing they can pick up."

"Are they as poor as that?" anked Mona. Then she blushed

It had been so different from the way Mona, had hoped to meet Barry again. Here in the brassy glare of sun at midday with her hair rumpled, her nose needing be-powder, her frock wrinkled from Barry called and immediately cause the remark seemed a reflect the journey from Port of Spain. the little maid appeared in the ion on Barry's waje system. doorway.

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"Our natives aren't," Barry said ferent meeting. At evening, per-

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"Set two more places," Barry in-dryly, structed them.

.

•

She had dreamed of such a dif-

haps, in the moonlight. "What can be think of me?"should have worn a silver gown Mona thought miserably. "And and there should have been music The arrival of the young ladies why, oh why, did we come here? in the offing. She had dreamed had provided much speculation We might at least have cabled" of an adoring Barry whose heart In the kitchen. Maria, the old

The meal was finished and they brimmed with the same breathless cook, had waddled to the door rose, Barry, Bummoning Florlove which she herself felt! She about which alie peered with mise-ence, asked her to bring Josic, had dreamed of that moment in his placed confidence in its power to

"We'll give each of you a maid,"arms when all the misunderstand- conceal. Josic, another maid,

Barry added, turning to Mona, ings and cruelties of the past the counterpart of Florence, in a

"Here they are--Florence and Jo-j months would be swept away! red skirt and white blouse, was Take your choice."

sie." The little maids courtated. watching. Irankly absorbed. Un- der a convenient tree several To the native women he added barefoot native boys had gathered quickly, "The Madames will occupy in silent admiration of the new the two apartments overlooking the

Steve mentioned baggage. "I think Bud put it somewhere," Monn said.

arrivals.

harbour."

"The ladies will have coffee with American sugar, Florence. Paw- paw-do you like pawpaw, Mona? Steak and breadfruit. I'm glad you came to-day because we only have steak once in a blue moon. later." Ask Maria to toss together a salad Lou,"

"Heavens, I thought this was breakfast," exclaimed Lottie. "You certainly don't care what happens to your figures here!"

"This is the best coffee I've had in the south," Mona announced.

"Like it? I taught Marin how to make it," Barry said proudly. "The best coffee in the world is right here in the West Indies, but no one seems to know how to make it."

• • •

Barry nodded. "Then it's in the car. The boys will bring it up

"Where do we go from here?" asked Lottie, taking her hat and; purse from the chair.

Here she was and bere was Barry. As formally polite in his manner toward her as he would have been to any casual guest. There had not been oven a fleeting

glimpse of his earlier warmth of feeling.

Barry's voice, directing the maid who followed with an armful of soft towels, rose to them as Flor ence, bowing, opened a door.

Barry said, "Take Mrs. Town- send some hot water, Josie."

Mra. Townsend!

Well, why Hot? That was her name.

"Madame will kindly enter?"

"Well, mostly we sleep until three or so. Then we'll have tea. After; that it's cooler and we can walk, the mald said softly. Mona or drive around the place. It gets brought herself abruptly out of dark fairly early, you know, and her reverie.

we don't have dinner until It's tool Lottie suid, "What a lovely dark to do anything except cat and room! Well, do

you think the sleep.

boys were glad to see us?"

(To be Continued.) |

"But I thought you came here for a vacation!" Lottie exclaimed., "This is a vacation. There are "Your mother made pretty good lots of things to do here. Golf, for coffee, I remember," Steve said, instanco, and we're planning a turning to Mona. "What is that funding field--"

old proverb? Black as night. "We fish and ride horseback too," sweet as love, hot as-you know Barry put in. "Well-see you at the place!"

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