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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,⠀⠀ FEBRUARY 22, 1934.

Forgotten Sweetheart by MAY RAYMOND GOLD!

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to receive a car cutting through things, and afterward they would of the newspaper

into wind and mud. move the rain and

small, attractive fresh wound b, reading Bob's Clarksdale, seen through a blurį apartment.

Then the wrong with you," she said loyally. { BON WESTON, son of a millionaire, kas "Barbara Courtney can't hold fallen in love with JOAN WARING, per candle to you, Oh, forget the Memphis giri. 1ob has come to Memphis in connection

textile plant under " construction for his father's company.

with

-him away from Jown,'

Through arbarn. Joan house party, Barbata coullion Juan will be

hopes Bob will be diellusoned

"What's a few million more or BARBARA COURTNEY, society girl whom lens, Pat continued. "Maybe he knew in New York, is scheming to take we'll develop a rich uncle or 1x Invited 10 something. Anyway, I still have til at esad among so many strangers and Jerry."

as she said She was thinking The other guests all masume that tob in in that about Claire Williams, the love with Barlearn. Ikealta 1 Joan's mind.

woman who Was Unbanor because of turbata povecalve vivid married attitude toward Bob and 100 proud to show always appearing, no matter where that she is hurt, down serepta the site Pat and Jerry happened to be

• JIM WARPIELD. During

"There's something awfully party Joan takes

funny about it,"

told she and Jerry. "Maybe she's psychic. Or is it that your telephone is in good working order?"

drating

drive with Jim. The

ana in hela cur gibes out and they are oblige to walk back. Hearior CAROL HERIDAN and others criticing her behaviour, Joan de termines to return to Memphis early next morning with Jim.

CHAPTER XV, ·

"Lay off Claire, will you, Pat?" Jerry had replied angrily. "I've Mrs. Waring, sitting near the known her all my life. Isn't it window after Sunday dinner, saw natural we should have the same the automobile drive up. "Thoro's frienda?"

Jerry had been busy a lot late- Joan and her young man," she said complacently. It gave her a sense of ly but he always had a plausible satisfaction to speak of this favour-julibi.

the

I'm glad you're "Pretty well.

Have a good time?" back, Joan.

"Oh, swell," said Joan, "That's good. How's Bob?" "Fine !"

ed son of fortune as "Joan's young Joan went upstairs to see Benny, mon." Already vague dreams of "Well, old timer, how goes affluence for her two girls were battle?" She stooped and kissed crystallizing into definite shape. him. The hard years of struggle and scrimping would soon be behind. For the mother the lean years hut for these children something endless vista of better than the problems and hardship.

Pat came to the window and looked

isn't out. That

Bob's car," she said. "And that isn't Bob with Joan."

"I guess I'll be seeing him soon,” Beany paid.

of line rain: Tunica, Robinson- Sometimes it would be Jerry. ns often as in ville, Walls. And on until the fa- He did not come

Were sure miliar Parkway was reached. And the past. When men now back home.

they grew careless, Joan thougnt. This was a new cynicism.

She would never see Bob again. to It nad been a mistake ever

Or it might be Jim Warfeld, Imagine she could hold him with who would have taken, more

of

a world full of girls to chose Joan's time If she had encouraged from-gay, careless, lovely girls him. Dick Thorton, still devoted, who knew men's moods and how though Joan was much too honest to please them,

to pretend what she could never feel, called occasionally.

Joan told herself she would for- get him. She would never again

She was steeling herself against let herself think of Bob's teasing the telephone these days, Oghting gray eyes, his deep voice, the the impulse to search the crowd clipped sentences, of his dear, on the street for a beloved face. blond head and his face tanned or to turn to the social columns by exposure.

. It was all over with Rob. He had proved It conclusively. He could not have made it clearer if he had said, "I've watched you two girls and I've chosen Bar- bara. She has the things I want, the things I'm used to-back- ground, ensy manners'

The days dragged on. Joan was saying to herself. "Two weeks since I've seen him." And again. "Three weeks," And then, "It's been a month."

Dut there was no outward sign! to betray the inner upheaval the pounding of her heart when the telephone rang. the tenseness when automobile brakes ground

outside her home at night or the doorbell rang.

She Joan went into her room. was glad the trip was behind her. The whole affair had begun to "I wonder where the young seen like a dream and the hurts

phoning. humiliations ke fantastic man is," said Mrs. Waring in a and

figures in a nightmare.

vaguely troubled tone,

Jann entered a moment

Inter.

It was hard to realize that only She tossed her small hat aside this morning she had slipped into and crossed the room to kiss her her clothes while Barbara was still

sleeping anindly, with the mother.

rain "It's good to be back home," washing against the windows. Joan sold.

Jonn had gone into the dark hall "Well, that's a nice way to be- and knocked at the door lending xin a glowing account of a three-inta Carol's room.

lay visit In the home of the rich

Carol's amazed eyes hnd met

and playful}" said Pat. "You here. "I'm going back to Mem- don't look as though you had phis with Jim," Joun bad stated done much playing. You look as simply. merryus though you had washed

dishes for a month."

"Oh, you are!"

"It was lovely of you to include

It's been won-

"She's had too much playing. me on the party. Now she can rest," said Mrs. War-derful. Please say a goodby to ing, gathering up Joan's coat and Mrs. Sheridan for me." hat. Half across the room, she turned. "Where is your young go."

man?"

sorry you

must

"I'm terribly

Polite Hes piling on top of ench Joan's eyes

met her mother's other.. What if people were hon- false and insincere for a moment blankly. "Oh.est? How Bub!" she said finally. "I didn't they were. smiling and saying come back with him, molher. He's pleasant things while dislike and coming back this afternoon with contempt were exposed in their the others." She answered the eyes. Picking up her light bags,

down the cir-i question in her mother's eyes, Jon had walked "We he doesn't like TH any cular stair into the gray gulf that

was the hall, "Well, well" Pat said, "This

more."

is cheerful news. There go the Jim had come to meet her, mak-

Ing it easy

for her with his family millions!"

"Pat," reproved Mrs. Waring.light. "Going with me? This is The deep line between her eyes, Brent!-Not-afraid-of-getting-a-bit- so pronounced when she was trou-wet?"

Joan thinking, "I'd rather drown "Barbara Courtney's work, I than stay!" миррове." said Pat shrewdly.

bled, had appeared again.

"Well, you can't compete without

clothes."

"It wasn't the clothes; it was me." Joan dropped into the care- less grammar, childishly, forlorn- ly.

•

Pat stared at Joan, sitting there so quietly, so unsure of herself. "Well, I'm sure there's

nothing

NEUHEITEN

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The famous Opera House at Covent Gerden is now baing, thoroughly rebuilt and venovated, as indicated in our picture above.

Prince Carnival making his speech during the recent festivities

Cologne.

Varkostom

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A new bus apparatus introduced in Britain and Europe, which autos, Batically shows the point at which

the vehicle has arrived,

The-Silver-Bullet, with her new driver, Jack Fleid, at Epsam. Field te planning an attack on the world record in the Spring.

Home

Often It would be Sara tele-

consulting about detail of her wedding plans. Sara and Bl were to be married in June. It would be a quiet wed- ding but Sara would have pretty

Mi Lite Lotte Landbecke, who caused sensation in the Austrian akating championships, by beating Miss Fritzl Burger, winner for many years. At Davos, Miss Landbecka tol up a new record for 500 metres.

A Jamicous signal for the hiind soldier in England. It consists of a lamp on a shaft for use at night. Three bixck dots appear when it is illuminated, Indicating that

boarar is blind.

the

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The Japanese cruiser, Misaka, on 'which Admiral Togo led the Japanese Fleet in the Russo-Japanese War, which has been converted as Japan's national naval monument, after the British precedent of H.M.S. Victory.

Tommy Loughran, who is shortly to meet Carnera for the world heavy. weight title, shown in training on a farm in Florida.

The response of the crocodile at Regent's Park when the word "Loch Ness" was mentioned to him recently,

The problem of the, gipslas: fo| agatud causing some

Little Ruth Slenczynski, aged eight, Europe. These famous rovers Are who is giving Bach concerts, in being refused admission inte- many America. She began her public spe... countries and the situation for some pearances at the age of four and is is becoming serious. Photo shows a considered ons. of the most romark- typical Spanish gipsy girl with typical

hair-dressing. ́able of infant' musical prodigies.

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nume.

Pat kept her in touch with what ahe termed

with "Bob's affair Barbara."

"Guess she really has Hooked him,”

the luck Pat said. "Oh, Aome girls have! Think of Dar- bara walking into all that monoy. Won't she have fun spending It? That girl has a mania for clothes, I saw her in the swellest new out- At yesterday. She was coming out of the Junior League place Union and Bob was waiting out- side in his car. I didn't give them the satisfaction of knowing I saw them."

on

And again, "Barbara certainly was dolled up at this party, Will you listen to the way they de scribe her dress! Miss Barbara Courtney, wearing an imported model of delicate green,, with dia mond shoulder clips and diamond hair ornament. Her flowers were orchids and les of the valley. Escort, Mr. Robert Weston."

was

Pat's voice was careless. Only Joan knew how avidly Pat reveling in the details, getting a vicarious pleasure in the descrip- tion of clothes she could not af ford and gay affairs she could not attend,.

Joan tried to shut out the ple- ture from her mind. The picture of Barbara smiling triumphantly.

"Well, I guess the next time it will be an announcement of her

Pat wedding."

said kloomily. "And won't that be something!"

Joan plunged more deeply in- work und the days, if not happy, were at least filled.

to

Between hours of tutoring she energetically cleaned house, ar- ranged trays for Benny, and nired and sheeted the sick bed while he was being "aunned" on the up- stairs porch."

Often she was out in the yard with garden tools about, capably sprinkling seed and covering them with damp, rich earth. This was the way, she assured herself. Keep busy, leaving no time to think of things that hurt so ter- ribly.

One afternoon in May Joan drove the old car downtown to select some books for Benny, the search keeping her occupied un- til closing hour at the library,

She had parked the car on Third, near Union. Now, with the books under her arm, she walked rapidly along Union.

As she neared the entrance to the Carlton a car drove up and two men and a girl stepped out. Joan was almost beside them before she recognized Bob and Barbara,

(To be Continued.)

FASCIST ARMY

RAPIDLY GROWING IN BRITAIN

London, Feb 21. The recent rapid growth of the Fascist party in Great Britain has been attracting wide atten- tion. One phase of the investiga- tion of the political area has dis- closed that there are seven differ- ent colours in shirts being worn by the adherents. of different

groups.

This particular investigation commenced following a statement in the House of Commons by Sir John Gilmour, Home Secretary, in connection with the wearing of uniforms by political parties. He said that since the parties had

of adopted this method

dis. |tinguishing their members, street disturbances had increased very considerably.

re-

The seven different colours of shirts in England actually repre- sent eight organisations. Com- munists are wearing, khaki; the Greenshirts demund financial forms; the Whiteshirts appear to be mainly religious.

Then there

Bro the Fasciato, divided into four groups. Black- shirts, Blueshirts and Greyskirta fare the chief, Sir Oswald Mosley's. British Union of Fascists is the most important body and has re- cruiting offices in London, Man- cheater, Liverpool, Birmingham, Nowcastle, Plymouth and Kings | Lynn. Estimates of the strength of this organisation vary from tens to hundreds of thousands. .

The Daily Mail recently came out whole-heartedly for Fascism, describing it as a revival in a now age, and a force almed against elderly statesmen. The Fascist watchword is "Discipline and. Ore. ganisation....

The Importance of Fascism is easily exaggerated. The accusa- tion that the National Government !lacks decision, the Hon. Sir Richard Stafford Crippa prediction of a

· Bocialists dictatorship, and tho exciting events in Germany' recont

produced an unusual ferment

In the youth of the country,

Last week 145 notables la church, politics, universities, art and science issued a manifesto demanding a new load for Liberty against Fascism and Communism. -Our Own Correspondent.

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