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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY

THE UNKNOWN BLONDE

(All Rights Reserved),

"Oh, anything

BY LAURA LOU BROOKMAN

DECEMBER 29, 1933.

what he wanted was equally disor- dered. Old letters, pages of manu“ script and alippings. from news- papers fell to the floor. Banulator picked them up, jammed them back. Into the drawer and tried another. For several minutes, the search. "David, I think Miss France is preceded unprofitably," Buddenly Inwfully sweet. Where did you say the drow forth An oblong blt of

you know her: Was it in New cardboard, York?"

CHAPTER XXX

sidered negligible,

"I'll be glad to the girl told "Yes?" She turned, resting one arm on her. "What would you like to Bannister stopped backward..

tho plano, and for the first time hear " There was no change in his ex- he noted the exquisite lines of the pression except that his lips tight girl's throat. Greamy while, round-music."

just so It's ened. "So I'm not devolving, you." od. Her checks were creamy white, Jullet Franco turned agafa to he Bald. "You moan you know- too. That, Bannister felt, should the piano. She played a waltz with The girl laughed. "I've known be remedied. A little colour would a gay Spanish rhythm and then ber that day we talked at the girl, he forgot that they wore talkingly and and sweet. all along, sho told him. "Remembe an improvement. Studying the something in slower tempo, baunt hotel? You told me your name was ing about literature.

"That's lovely," Mrs. Hewlett David Bannister. Somehow the Her question brought him said. "Just lovely! I don't know Dame Acomed familiar. I couldn't promptly from his reverie. "What how long it's been since anyone's remember at first where I'd heard are you going to write about next?" touched that plano. It does sound It. Then when I was in the depart she asked.

so good-

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mont store that afternoon I wan dered into the book department,

Bannister agreed with her. But Bannister stirred unensily, “Oh, it wasn't fair to keep their guest There was a picture of you on ar don't know" he said. "I haven't at the pinng all evening. He asked table with some of your books. been thinking much about writing Juliet if she would Then of course I know right away. Intely."

care to play | What did you mean by telling mo

bridge. He couldn't tell her for the last': "I'm sorry," the girl apologized, you were nobody of importance" two months writing had become a "but I'm awfully stupid at bridge. "Oh!" Bannister didn't say any nightmare. He couldn't tell her I always have been. If you don't more-Just "oh!" After a moment that when he sat down at desk | mind I think I'd like to go to my he went on slowly, "When you said a vision of Adelo Allen cam be room. That was such a huge meal I wasn't deceiving you, what youfore him, driving away overy Inte." She turned to Mrs. How meant was that you knew I write thought of work. He couldn't teil lett, smiling, "I'm afraid I'm after hours of desperation, swear- hor of the times he had given up, sleepy."

"Then of course you'll go to your ing nover again to touch-a type-room, my dear," the older woman writer. Write? Even the word said, "I hope you get a good was hateful to him.

night's rest."

"Yes," Bannister told her. "In It was the photograph he had New York." He returned to his found on the floor of Tracy King's magasine. A minute later he put apartment, the wedding picture of it aside. "Aunt Kate, ho anid, 30 years ago. Bannister gisheed "thoro'a one thing. I wanted to at the bride in her ruffled wedding speak to you about. I want you finery and the bridegroom with his to be careful not to say anything | impressive mustacho, Ho turned about this murder. to Mias France. the picture over and studied the She's-well, the fact is thore's been back of the card minutely, but nions In her family recently. A there was nothing to be found close relative. Very sad. That's there. why I don't think wo should say Bannister gave it up. He placeit anything to her about such a grue- the photograph on the desk before somo aubject.”

him, propping it against a pile of His aunt eyed him for an in-books. Then he sat back and looked atant without speaking. Then sho at it. said, "Very well, David. I won't After a while he reached for the mention it."

picture and held it to the light. Thanks. Ho-hum! Believo I'll | Bannister frowned. There were go upstairs and turn in. Little something familiar about that sloep might do me good."

bridegroom. Why hadn't he "I agree with you," his, sunt noticed it before? It was some- said térocly.

thing that just escaped remem- Bannister sald good night and brance. He had seen the man- mounted the stairs. He entered or had ho? Thirty years could his room but seemed in no hurry make great changes. If the man "Oh, but they are! They seem

about going to bed. For a long in the photograph were dressed in "I'm knocking off,” he explained.

time ho sat, sunk far back in a com-modern clothes if the mustacho -60 real. The characters, I mean. "For a while at least. That's why Maggie and Philip and Sammie.I came to Tremont."

A few moments later Juliet left fortable old chair. He was looking were missing, how would ho Sammle especially I think I like

them Kate Howlett had taken at the picture of his grandfather look7 him best. You write so

Bannister tried to imagine the He was spared further explana-up her basket of knitting from the on the opposite wall but he did not beauti- fully even the ugly parts are the doorway.. "I heard some music no sound except the clicking of the

tions as Kale Hewlett appeared in table. For 20 minutes thoro was seem to be seeing it.

rosult but it was difficult. Who Then he wont to the desk and could say what tho years-30 beautiful!"

lovely! You're going to play some lett sald, "David!" in here," she said, "and It was knitting needles. Then Mrs. Hew-rummaged through its drawers. years could do? The man looked They were in. a disordered state much older than the woman in the nore, aren't you, Miss France 7"

He looked up from his magazine. and his method of searching for (Continued on Page 6.)

books

"Of course! And I've read your books, Mr. Bannister. Both of them. I think they're wonderful"

"Hardly that."

"Well," said Bannister, smiling, "I'm certainly glad to know I have such an enthusiastic roader"

"I should think all your readers, would be enthusiastic.

"They're not," he told her. "Far from it! You should have Bean what some of the critics said about 'Far Candle. They panned it plenty."

"But," the girl defended, "they couldn't have understood It. Why,

́ ́thought---**

For several minutes they dia- cussed the merits of Bannister's nowest book. Ho could not help being impressed by her sound literary standards. It added Im- measurably to the girl's praise, to know that she had read widely, admired many of his favourites among the modern writers, criti- cized others whose work he con-

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