1934-03-02 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MARCH

1934

by

Forgotten Sweetheart ↳ MARY RAYMOND

CHAPTER XXII

made mo.

Huld. “Are you planning to involve, know how me lu a jewel robbery 7"" Joan looked at the night club

"Hardly. I've built my business manager without replying. Hen unexpected things. I am pro- went on, whimsically but with a paring to offer you a chanco now current of seriousness boltind the anuse I believe we can put over worda. "Don't mind me, Misson Idea I've had in mind for four Waring. I'm always jumping years, I'm taking you on as one fences instead of atopping to open of my singers and you will sing gates. It's just my way of getting in mask. Other cabarets inve past a lot of preliminaries which tried the same thing, but I mean ara really unimportant. We move to do it differently."" fast in this business, What I mean is that it isn't going to be dimcult for us to understand ench other," he concluded.

anved it.

one man,

Jane, who had' worked her way conscious of the admiring gaze of up to a supervisory position, put or head in the door. There's a gang of buyers waiting to see those evening gowns. More speed,

They want you in the mana- ger's office, Jano said, adding kindly, "I'm sure it's nothing to worry about."

by bold, black headlines and the level-headed little Pat. Oh, If a college but didn't want to practice und despair of some of the others, asked

happy your telegram I guess you do know,

It made Pat nervous--the half because all the anxiety and fear must have fallen from you when

smile on the lips of the stockily Pat's letter came. It was just

built man. It was almost a delib

carefully orate stare. He was like that with me. I was so happy | girta !"

I have been nearly fran- cried.

Laureen was modelling a green dressed, his thinning hair brushed tie with fear for three weeks but satin Vionnet. Jessie's white chif until every hair lay smoothly in I didn't want you to know that. fon was a copy of a Chanel. Ruth place. He sat forward in his seat, will write Fat tonight, care of wore black valvet and Mabel, the one hand gripping his cane, den General Delivery, and bog her to other girl, a coral crepe. Pat, alvouring Pat with his eyes.

ready dressed, stood watching the She did not latow why she dis- tell me whore aho in staying •

Laureen was grumbling, liked him so much or why sho "I am going to stay, in Now others. When Joun reached the hotel she York as long as Pat docs. I have this thing fits me like the paper found his appraisal so disconcert- the wall. It's back to the ing. After all, she was there to found a telegram waiting for her. a job singing at a night club. on It read, "Roceived long letter from Don't be shocked about It It orange juice diet for mo, or. I'll be looked at. She sighed with re- He smiled then and Joan smiled Pat. She has job and in living really is a nice pince and the mana-be out of a job! And how I hate lief, however, when she was back

in the dressing room. back. People instinctively liked with another girl. Gave no address ger isn't at all what you'd expect.orange juice!"

Sho had slipped into her street Ruth said, "Never mind, honey. Barney

Infectious but promised one soon. Blake. His

Am writ-He looks just like any young bual- amile and boyfshness won them ing tonight. Mother.

nena man and he is a nice as can They say the Mae West figure's clothes and was tucking her curls conicly.

Joan sat down and cried over be. They say he's just a amart going to be the rage and then you under a white knitted hat when shifting papers in the telegram, the burden of anx Yankea who's made a lot of modey can have all the steak dinners Jane came in. desk drawer, frowning a little.fety slipping from her with her because he manages to out-guess and French pastry, you want."

"All right, Jessie," Jane said "Here it is. Just luck that I tears. Now she could boar look the crowd that comes to his club-

He smoothed outing out of the window at the mil-always giving them some new or from the door.

Jessie, with her slender wrist newspaper clipping and handed it one of lights. Pat was safe. Pat different sort of entertainment.

"What in the world can the One of crooked against her hip in the In- to Joan. Her eyes were caught had found work. Clever, efficient. Barney Blake is his name.

the girls told me he went to imitable manner that was the envy manager want with me?" Pat picture of a masked woman.

could only see her tonight!

Jane did not answer and Pat' "Europeans have a flair for the

It was a long while before Joan law and somehow he turned out moved into the big room where

opened the door. Her heart was the buyers were gathered. unusual," Blake was saying, "They could think of her own new job, to be a night clubs manager.

Mabel, looking leo a glowing beating nervously. Then she stifled do things beautifully that we Sho had been vnguely troubled at would be afraid to attempt. We the idea of singing in a night club maalt and I'm never to take it off flame in the coral dress, was next. her fears. What could there be to Americans are always putting a but had pushed aside her scruples. until I return home at night. Of It was Mabel whe whispered to worry about?

Pat when. abe returned, The base cur on our enthusiasme because The melodramatic plan to have course in the tiny time a just all a twitter! Some of his best we are an afraid of ridicule," her wear a mask changed all that. Joan Waring but at night I'll be

Joan waited, bewildered. She She could sing at the "Jigan" singing

old

80g like "Love buyers are in there-old Fosdick was sure this was not the usual and no one would be wiser. Mask Brings a Gift of Rosca," wearing from Indianapolis, Larry Brentford approach to

n business Arrangeing seemed ailly but, it would make a lovely old-fashioned frock. And from Milwaukeo and a man from mont. This young man was going the job, much easier.

there's a gypsy song with n gör Dallas. The rest are small fry all around the Beld instead of Blake had terminated the inter-geous Hypsy costume. I think. I who don't matter so much." Jumping fences.

view little abruptly. There'll like that best. Iteally the job fu, Pat. her, golden curls caught back, looked young and graceful "When I was in Monte Carlo be $50 a week for you in it. Per-going to be fun-"

Bill grinned when his mother with the roses of her corsage several years ago," he went on, hape more later on if the net ge finished the letter. "Sounds like matching colour in her soft, curved "I was in one of the elaborate ver night clubs which had a large and

our little Joan sort of likes that ins. Slowly she entered the big wealthy patronage. The place was

night club fellow. What do you room, paraded before the men and women buyers. As sho moved over packed every night principally be

say, Mother?" cause of a singer-an attractive

the thick carpet, past the large, comfortable chairs, she became woman who was always masked. People are really like children You must humour them in a lot of foolish notions!

"In my uct I am to wear a

His mother said, "Nonsense, Bill! Don't be foolish."

Joan smiled. Finly dollars a week was a fortune! She went to the window and looked out at the brilliant play of lights against the velvet background of the sky: the shining electrical display dwarfing the stars. They seemed The first morning when Pat like shining pin points in a black was introduced to her work as a "Incidentally, the singer die canopy. That was illusion. Small model in the large wholesale appeared one night. At the same things appearing big and vast and house a girl named Jane Johnson time an American woman missed inimte things seeming little and prophesied, "You'll like wearing u costly diamond necklace. Guests unrea

good clothes-and you'll get used remembered afterward that the "It seemed cheap to sing in a

to them." singer had stopped

the night club," she was thinking. Americans to untangle her scarf" when 1 took the job I was which had caught on a chair. The thinking of finding Pat. Now it's polles: worked on the case. but only fair to go through with it. the woman was never found. SheBesides I won't leave Pat, in New simply removed her mask and York. When I go home I want to escapo was simple,"

itake her with me."

near

Joan was becoming more be wildered. "It sounds like the fic- tion I was always encouraged to leave on the bookshelves," she

Joan went to the small desk in the corner of the room and wrote: "Darling Mother, you will never

One month later Pat know what June meant. When she slipped carelessly into an exquisito even ing gown of white lace with pink rosebuds on the bodice she enjoyed the touch of the fragile flattering way in which the dress clung to her. figure, Pat turned the price tag thoughtfully in her hand. Yes, it was easy to learn to like beautiful clothes.

(To be Continued.)

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A Hading figure in the Bayonne pawnshop scandal that upeet the Daladier Cabinet, Albert Dalimier (right), Minister of Colonies, is shown' with Daladier as they arrived at the Ministry of Interior in Paris for the fateful Cabinet meeting called because of the crisis.Dalamier resigned his post after the Cabinet axoner- ated him.

One sniff of Harlem after dark, and the Goody Girl of the Ipsie-Wipsie Radio Hour decided to learn more. about the facts of life!

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Á Dramatic episode in the downfall of the Gran San Martin regime in Caba was caught by the cameraman in this striking photo të front of the Presidential palace as crowds of Havanhimltiosks, shrinking in terror, dashed aerotë' Zayas Park to setupo the rain of muschine Fared. The body of uns of the Vittime' gun bullets fired from an armoured truck; ''In thly scans of wild confusion, four were killed K14

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Sárgo: Stavisky (the prominter who was behind the Bayonne fraud is shown at tops Slaviaky, who later committed suicide, was suspected of having backed the newspaper. La Volanie of which M. Dubarry (lower left) Is director. "Magistrato M O donneau (lawan right) to ou Costing the oflctal, invectigstidni of the case.

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