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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY – 20,

Forgotten Sweetheart 6, MARY RAYMOND

URGIN HERS TO-DAY

HOD WESTON, son of a millionaire, hus Fallen in love with JOAN. WARUNG, pretty Memphis girl. Bob had tree to Memphis in banection with a textile plant under cou atraction for his father's company.

BARDARA COURTNEY, ■ society girl, le scheming to win dim away, from Joan.

PAT, Joan's younger sister Infatuated with JERRY TOMRESTE, son of hit s ployer. M. WAHINU, bopeful that her and well MAITY daughters will two

werpe the drudgery that has been her lot, benda avery effort to give her daughters adeantages.

Jown invited to a bouse party through

babe as to be to

rei Jown will

anse among tasty and will therefore appear at a disadvantage before

Bob. Joan, offended by

Inte Barbara's hands by driving to R bar

beene supper with J bare draws Joan late discovering that she

Bob' neglects plays WARFIELD. B bridge wame after novice and Joan,

Dob's Barber, show up badly `among the experienced players.

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NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XIII

takon a beating..

On the way upstairs to got her purso she passed the table where Jim was playing with Enid, Charlie and Curol.

"How'd you come out?" Jim naked,

"We lost," said Joan. "You'll always lose to Barbara," Jim and dryly, "She knows her ganie."

Bob heard Charlie saying to "Why," Joan thought, with aby Barbara. Joon and Jim are

Sally, "Our little friend hasn't flash of intuition. "She's afraid over there."

"I'm toasting the best looking learned how to hold her liquor."

A coloured orchestra in the al- or me!"

Barbara was, wearing a black girl at the table," Jim whispered frock with a cape of goal sequins, to Joan, "Will you drink it with cove under the stairs began playing. Joan, awept from the arms of ono sno was a picture of sophistication me?" with her hignly coloured finger

Joan was about to say, "I don't man to another, felt as if she were nails and amoon, perfectly waved drink," but stopped. Across the in a different world. Fred was cut- hair. No detail of her tølled had table Barbara had touched Boh's ting in frequently. Charlie was

glass with her own, aaying, "Here's bringing up new men and introduc... boon overlooked.

"We are like two fightors gird-to a good girl but not too good, Ing them. Tim seemed always just

," Joan thought. Yes, Joan admitted to herself, ing for battle,"

she had ever been in her life, yet hate a dead one." She would always load to Barbara. There was a touch of high comedy for the good die young and I do at her elbow. She felt gayer than

"Bridge is a fool pastime, but about it all. She studied her re-

"Barbara, my child, where did paradoxically, there was a tight- I'll teach you more about it if you'd flection for a roment, then un-you resurrect that ancient toast?" ness about her heart, a pain some care to learn," Jim Bald. "I'm cut-clasped the antique necklace that ting out of the game after this had been her grandmother's, lifted | Fred gibed. "That was my grand- "I just happened to think of it." rubber. If you like I'll give you a it from her slender throat and laid mother's favourite."

it aside.

said Barbara, *****

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"Jim's going to give Joan leg. sons," Barbara said.

"Jim knows lots of games," Fred agreed. "Wine, women and song." The line was written about that fellow."

way.

change

whore.

"All I needed was to be like the others," she thought. But the thought did not bring happiness. Only that tight feeling agnín about her heart.

Bob, standing with the stag line against the wall, was trying to keep his eyes away from the alen- der figure in white, the long skirt swirling about as she danced. He had never seon Joan looking love. lier, more vivid, more shining. It was as though all the light in the room was concentrated on the slim form.

"Ah, Barbara that dress la gor-i Joan accepted. She was grate-

Joan's thoughts were travelling ful to him. She felt caay and nageous!" cried Sally from the door-

a new path. "If I had been more tural with Jim.

"Barbara's out for more scalps.like them he would have liked me As if the blond scalp she's flaunt-better," she told herself.

She lifted her glasa, smiling at Joan was determined not to show trying to her embarrassment,

ing shouldn't be enough for any Jim.

"I thought you were a young think sensibly, conscious of her

girl!" said Carol. "Shades of strained voice and stiff smile.

Helen of Troy, Cleopatra and the woman with idens about life," he Queen of Sheba!" Queer how anything so unimpor.

"The girl has glamour," said said. "What made you "Better warn your friend, Bob,"

your mind?" tant as a bridge game could seem

He added, when she did not so terribly important, as though it said Barbara. "She seems to be Sally.

"Jean, you're lovely," Carol said. answer, "It's sensible to let the might affect the rest of one's life, railing for Jim's line."

Bob said nothing. He was thor-"I like your pale look. It's mys-stuff alone." Aa Joan put down Sho wished she had refused to

the goblet her feeling of depression play. She would never have al-oughly annoyed. He had been so terious and alluring."

Bob was in the hali when the lowed herself to be drawn into a proud to bring Joan hore but some-

great light-hearted, laughing a tennis game, knowing she was a thing had certainly gone wrong. four girls descended. The sight of lifted. Later she was even more poor player, or gone to a dance if Joan didn't seem to be the same Joan stirred him. There was some-del

girl he had known in Memphis at thing forlorn about her, despite the It was this young, clear laughter she danced badly.

gatlant set to her head and shoul-that caused Bob to frown down at "The little girl from Memphis all..

ders. He thought she looked beau- his plate. People were smiling at

thia too-gay Joan. What was the, tiful and a tritte sad..

matter with her? Attracting at tontion so boldly!

Barbara was playing an un- usually good game. She seemed to make impossible contracts by some psychic bid or lucky play. Twice Bob praised hor with a brief, "Good work, Barbara!"

The second rubber ended. Bar- bara suggested another rubber, since she and Fred were winners. "I'm afraid we're not lucky to day." Bob said. "How much do we owe you?”

"It's a 30 rubber. That's $1.50 ench. We'll have to take you and Joan on again."

Joan was thinking passionately; "Never again with me!" She felt sick, bruised, as though she had

Upstairs they were dressing for dinner. Joan, looking through her menger wardrobe, inspected Pat's red chiffon, loaned for the house party. She had brought, also, the white dress she had worn the night she sang at the Junior League benefit. Joan finally decide on the white." It was simpler but smarter than the chiffon.

She slipped into the dress, dusted clear skin with powder and added more rouge than usual to her lips. in the mirror she saw Barbara watching her. Their eyes met and held.

"Hello," he said to Joan. "Hello." Her voice was not quite steady, husky.

"Will you go in to dinner with

me. What he wanted to say was, "What's happened, Joan? You've had me on pins and needles."

"Why, of course," Joan told him.

The table was contred by a sil ver basket of roses and jonquils. cards marked the Dainty place places of the guests.

"Sally you and Fred there." Carol was saying. "Bob, you here

Dinner was over and Joan rose from the table. She stumbled

slightly and stooped to untangle fold of her dress from the chair. Jim put a steadying hand on her

arm.

He would cut in the next time her exactly what he thought of her ale danced past and he would tell strange behaviour. Then a voice spoke behind him.

seems to be waking up, Guess it takes old Jim." Bob'did not hear the rest of the sentence. He had walked away from the group, Joan floated by and he met her eyes, nodding coldly.

He had the next dance with Barbara. She welcomed him with a radiant smile, pressed his hand, (Continued on Page 10.)

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